Chapter 37 037 Run Away, You Kid? Adult stuff, don't...

Fu Luo returned to the celestial realm from the mortal world, full of pride and high spirits.

After the pillar of heaven broke, life became difficult for the immortals. They could no longer live a life of ease and enjoy the fruits of others' labor as before, but instead had to work hard for the mortals who were once regarded as ants by them.

Whoever earns more prestige in the mortal world will have more worshippers, and the more popular the incense offerings, the stronger the divine power will become.

Fu Luo has always felt inferior because he is not a primordial god. In the past, this gap stemming from his birth was insurmountable, and he could never compete with primordial gods for resources. But now, it is an opportunity for him.

Therefore, he put in extra effort during his trip to the mortal realm and indeed gained many worshippers. When he returned to the celestial realm, his mood was not as gloomy as before, and he truly resembled a dignified and upright deity.

To Fu Luo's even greater surprise, when he came to see Yu Meng, he found that the stubborn mortal boy who had previously refused to submit was now obediently offering incense to Yu Meng's spirit tablet.

"My Lord, I have followed your instructions and offered incense to this spirit tablet. Please heal my legs." The little boy bowed and kowtowed to Fu Luo with great respect.

Fu Luo felt extremely comfortable, thinking to himself that such a hard rock really required swift and decisive action.

"Don't worry, as long as you are obedient and do as I say, you will get your reward."

Fu Luo then checked Yu Meng's divine essence, and as he expected, because of the incense offerings of this mortal boy, Yu Meng's divine essence was always suspended in a half-dead state, ensuring that it would neither be annihilated nor return to its normal strength.

He was very satisfied, and in a good mood, he casually reconnected the boy's severed Achilles tendon.

The boy bowed again, then raised his head, his eyes bright, and asked, "Does the deity also have a spirit tablet?"

Fu Luo raised an eyebrow: "What are you doing?"

The young man said sincerely, "If it weren't for the God, how could I have come to a place like the Heavenly Realm? I was ignorant and ungrateful before. Now that I know the God's identity and have been healed by him, I am willing to burn incense and pray for the God, adding a small contribution to his life."

You can never have too much incense, so Fu Luo was very happy. With a wave of his sleeve, he placed his own ancestral tablet next to Yu Meng's.

Seeing the two divine tablets paired up, he smiled contentedly again, until he sensed Yu Meng's cold gaze out of the corner of his eye. Only then did he stop smiling and flee as if escaping.

Yu Meng waited patiently until Fu Luo was no longer able to hear her before teasing the boy, "You acted really well."

The boy examined his legs and feet, and sure enough, they had fully recovered. The obsequious and respectful expression on his face when facing Fu Luo had completely disappeared.

He was a man of few words, and Yu Meng had been talking to him for the past few days, but he would ignore her nine times out of ten. She had long since gotten used to it, so she was not discouraged at all and continued, "If I had known this would happen, I should have acted when he brought me here, and I wouldn't have had to suffer so much."

This time, the boy didn't ignore her. He glanced at Yu Meng indifferently and asked, "Can this method really get me out of here?"

Yu Meng lay leisurely in the golden cage, her head resting on her arm, swinging one leg back and forth. She said nonchalantly, "Whether you can leave or not, at least you can walk upright now and don't have to crawl around on the ground anymore. That's a good thing."

The boy stared silently at the woman in the cage, his gaze following her constantly swaying feet, his eyes filled with distrust.

However, he was indeed very good at flattery and fawning. Fu Luo was always served and flattered so much that he removed the chains around Fu Luo's neck, cast a silencing spell on him so that he could not speak about anything related to lust and dreams, and then allowed him to walk freely in Fu Luo's temple.

Yu Meng sometimes observed coldly and even thought that this child was really scary, as he could hide his disgust for someone so well that even they, who had lived for thousands of years, could not tell.

When the boy returned home that day, he was different from usual. He leaned against the golden cage and looked at her with a probing gaze.

Yu Meng: "Child, what's wrong with you today?"

The boy said, "I've already told you, stop calling me a kid."

Yu Meng said lazily, "Okay, then tell me your name, and I won't call you 'kid' anymore."

The boy clearly didn't want to talk. After a moment of hesitation, he asked again, "Are you Yu Meng?"

Yu Meng was amused and laughed out loud. "How novel! You burn incense and kowtow to my shrine every day, and you only just find out who I am?"

"No." The boy was a little annoyed, and a blush spread across his fair face. "I only found out today from two fairy maidens talking that you ended up like this because you cut off the pillar of heaven."

Yu Meng praised, "That's impressive. In just a few days, you've already found out my background. You're truly a promising young man."

The boy fell silent again. Just when Yu Meng thought the conversation was over, he said softly, "The place I came from had been suffering from drought for three years. The people prayed to all the gods, but no one cared. Until recently, all the gods suddenly appeared one by one to relieve the people's suffering. The heavy rain that they had been begging for before finally came."

Yu Meng listened quietly, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

The boy looked at her with his beautiful peach blossom eyes, as if he wanted to remember her appearance carefully for the first time. He said earnestly, "Because you cut off the pillar of heaven, those gods were willing to go to the mortal world to do good deeds. You saved us. You are a good god and should not be locked up here."

This was the first time Yu Meng had heard someone say she was a good person since the incident, and she couldn't help but feel a little sad. However, she pretended to be relaxed and said, "Didn't we agree before that we would work together to escape from here? Oh, so you were just lying to me all along?"

The boy lowered his eyes in silence. He hadn't had a good impression of the gods here before, and he did indeed intend to use Yu Meng, only wanting to escape from here himself. But now he genuinely wanted to help her get out of trouble.

Ever since learning that the boy would also offer incense to himself, Fu Luo has been very generous with the boy's incense supply. Every time the boy burns incense, he secretly saves some and hides it away.

Day after day, month after month, year after year, the boy's thin and small figure grew taller and taller, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. He went from being two heads shorter than Yu Meng to being almost taller than her, and the number of incense offerings he accumulated was also quite considerable.

In recent years, Yu Meng has not shown any particularly intense aversion. Sometimes, when Fu Luo travels to the mortal realm, he brings her back some interesting trinkets, which she accepts gladly. This gives Fu Luo hope, as he thinks her attitude towards him is softening, so he no longer keeps a close eye on her as before, often going to the mortal realm for months at a time without returning.

On this day, the boy learned that Fu Luo had once again gone to the mortal world to recruit pilgrims, and the two agreed to carry out their plan.

The boy avoided the celestial guards and maidens in the Fu Luo Temple and secretly brought the incense he had hidden in various places to the Golden Cage. Because Fu Luo had previously issued a strict order that no one in the temple except the boy was allowed to approach the area where Yu Meng was, it actually made things easier for them.

Yu Meng sat in the golden cage, watching the boy rummage back and forth like a puppy, and couldn't help but wonder: "Are you a dog? How come you're so good at hiding bones?"

The boy was going through puberty and was more taciturn than before. Upon hearing this, he paused in his action of holding the incense stick, and the tips of his ears turned red.

"If I were you, I would keep quiet so as not to anger my savior."

After spending several years together, Yu Meng had long since figured out the boy's arrogant temperament, so she coaxed him, "Okay, okay, I'll shut up. I'll wait for my savior to rescue me from here."

The boy blushed when he saw the smiling face of the woman in the cage.

Having stayed in the celestial realm for a long time, he learned more about the matter of desire and dreams, and naturally also heard the rumors about her in the mortal world about "a goddess turning into a prostitute".

Sometimes he would even think angrily that she was not wronged by the rumors that circulated about her; her eyes looked like they were seducing people when they smiled.

It took the boy a whole day to move all the incense he had accumulated over the years, and the pile was as high as a small mountain.

"If I burn all this incense in one go, will you be able to rush out of here?" the boy asked.

"Give it a try, I think it's about right." Yu Meng stood in the cage with her hands on her hips, rubbing her fists together eagerly.

The boy's face darkened. "What do you mean by 'almost'? What if it's just a little off? Wouldn't all these years of hard work have been for nothing?"

Yu Meng waved his hand and urged, "Burn it quickly, burn it quickly! A gentleman should only do good deeds and not worry about the future!"

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The young man felt depressed. His business partner was not very reliable, but he had no other choice but to work hard and set up the shrine for Yu Meng as quickly as possible and offer all the incense to her.

Such a small amount of incense power is certainly not enough to restore Yu Meng to her peak strength, but obtaining a large amount of incense power in a very short time can still allow her to boost her divine power to a certain level in a short period of time.

She was an exceptionally talented person; in the path of cultivation, if she claimed to be second in the Heavenly Court, no one would dare to claim to be first.

"How are you? Do you feel your divine power has increased?" The boy produced a fan from somewhere and fanned it vigorously to make the incense burn brighter and faster.

The power of incense flowed endlessly like a stream, washing into Yu Meng's body and nourishing her parched and cracked divine veins.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, both languid and alluring, like a greedy enchantress sucking the life force of the living, rather than a noble goddess.

The boy stared in disbelief.

Yu Meng finally opened her eyes, her gaze brimming with divine light. In that instant, she unleashed all her divine power to its fullest extent, summoning her natal magic weapon, the Vajra Pestle, hidden within her body, and smashing it fiercely against the golden cage.

The enormous sound was like thunder. The golden cage was twisted and deformed where it was struck by the vajra, revealing a huge gap.

Surrounded by fragrant mist, Yu Meng knew that it wouldn't be long before the temple's celestial guards arrived. Not daring to delay any longer, she picked up the boy like a little chick and rushed to the edge of the Fu Luo Temple, where she jumped off the bridge connecting the mortal and celestial realms.

"Desire for Dreams!!"

Fu Luo's voice followed closely behind; he didn't know why he had returned from the mortal realm so quickly.

The boy was held in Yu Meng's arms, but he smelled a strong stench of blood. He couldn't help but look up at Yu Meng's face and saw that there was blood seeping from the corner of her lips and her face was frighteningly pale.

He suddenly realized something, and grabbed Yu Meng's waist, asking in a trembling voice, "You...you can't escape by doing this, right? Your body will be seriously injured, so you...you did this just so I could escape?"

Yu Meng was barely able to hold on, and was on the verge of losing her flying and escaping techniques and falling straight down from the sky. She had no mind to deal with the boy.

Therefore, he simply said in a low voice, "You child, don't pry into adult matters."