Chapter 16 Leaving: "You are not allowed to approach the Jade Kun Divine Palace even half a step further."...
The smiling deity reminded Hua Xun of the pure white snow lotus revealed after the snow and ice that had accumulated on the mountaintop for millions of years melted away.
Hua Xun stared blankly, carefully lowering her breathing.
My chest started pounding inexplicably again, and the Spirit Rhinoceros Gu became more active.
At one point, Hua Xun felt that the Divine Lord was like an elder who had been lonely for a long time and suddenly started joking with people, or a boy who had done something naughty.
"Hmm?" The deity had already stopped smiling and looked up at her.
Hua Xun snapped out of her daze and quickly focused her attention on the scriptures in front of her.
However, throughout the entire day, the Heart Sutra that Hua Xun was reading and the exercises she was practicing seemed to be filled with that smile from just now, which she couldn't shake off.
Is it because of the love potion?
Hua Xun was at a loss.
For the next period of time, as the deity had said, Hua Xun practiced the Heart Sutra in the morning to stabilize her mind and practiced magic in the afternoon to strengthen herself.
As night fell, she lay on the couch, repeatedly reciting the mantra in her mind.
He worked diligently every day without ever slacking off.
With the help of the pure immortal energy of White Mist Cliff, Hua Xun clearly felt that her body was much lighter.
Although he hasn't yet learned advanced spells like transformation or summoning wind and rain, he can gradually fly thousands of miles on the wind and even condense the immortal energy around him into a small, clear blue ball of light to create a barrier to protect himself or to use for attack.
Hua Xun would plant some of the peach branches he had found after finishing his homework every day. Over time, he planted them all over half the cliff.
Unfortunately, the peach branches are made of celestial peach wood, unlike the flowers of the human world, which grow and bloom overnight after being nourished by the five-colored soil.
It generally takes about six months for a peach tree to grow to maturity.
However, this is not a long time for a sect that has only lived for a hundred years.
During this period, Hua Xun did not deliberately abstain from food, but with the progress of her magic and the Heart Sutra, she was able to go without hunger for several days.
However, she couldn't change her cravings, so she would occasionally cook some food for herself and naturally send it to the deity.
The deity only ate congee.
Sometimes the deity sits regally on a high platform, and sometimes he stands quietly in front of a small patch of flowers.
If Hua Xun did not refuse when she brought the congee to the deity, it meant that the deity had accepted the food.
The deity never refused.
Every time Hua Xun watched the deity quietly drinking porridge with his jade-like hand holding a jade spoon, she felt an indescribable joy and satisfaction.
Until the afternoon of that day.
Just as Hua Xun was about to continue practicing her magic after a short rest, the deity who was flipping through ancient scrolls across from her desk suddenly stopped.
Hua Xun looked at him in confusion: "Divine Lord?"
The deity said gently, "There are unusual movements in the earth's veins around Duyue Mountain. I will go and investigate."
"You have been working very hard these days, take a good rest for a day."
The moment the words left his mouth, Hua Xun saw the divine figure before him transform into specks of golden light and vanish into thin air.
Hua Xun was stunned for a moment, then involuntarily reached out and caught a bit of golden light.
But soon, the golden light, like snowflakes, gradually dissipated.
Hua Xun did not rest, and continued to cultivate his skills just as when the Divine Lord was still alive.
But she never expected that the god told her to "cultivate for a day," but he did not return after a day.
Only a golden phantom appeared briefly on the second day, injecting a beam of divine light into her sea of consciousness, which then enveloped the Spirit Rhinoceros Gu in layers.
"With the power of divine intervention, the Spirit Rhinoceros Gu can be rendered unconscious for seven days," the divine lord said gently.
Hua Xun nodded hurriedly, but before she could ask when the God would return, the God left again.
Hua Xun lowered her eyes in disappointment.
The deity said that the Spirit Rhinoceros Gu would be in a coma for seven days. Does this mean that he will not return until seven days later?
In the past, when the God was alive, no matter how well she cultivated, whenever she asked the God, he would always say slowly, "Very good."
Hua Xun was shy and knew her own limitations, so she felt embarrassed when the deity said that.
But now that the God is not here, she feels that she has little interest in doing anything.
Just like the Spirit Rhinoceros Gu hypnotized by divine light in the sea of consciousness, it was listless and lacked any spirit.
On the fourth day after the God-King left, Hua Xun finished practicing the mental techniques he had taught her and reviewed them three or four times. Seeing that the God-King still showed no signs of returning and noticing that half of the peach trees on White Mist Cliff were missing, she decided to go to the peach grove one more time.
This time, without asking Liu Huo for help, Hua Xun stood on the cliff and flew down on her own.
At first, Hua Xun was a little nervous, but when she felt the magic power flowing smoothly through her meridians and flying as if on flat ground, her nervousness vanished instantly.
After circling in the air several times, Hua Xun finally landed in the peach grove.
Skillfully, she put the peach branches into her purse, and then found a few peach blossoms that had been blown down by the wind, thinking to herself that when the God returned, the first thing he would see was these peach blossoms.
Thinking this, Hua Xun couldn't help but smile.
Just then, several immortals flew overhead on the wind, not very fast, and their carefree laughter could be heard.
Hua Xun didn't care and planned to fly away after the immortal left.
"The earth veins in the Duyue Mountain area have also broken, and I heard that the gap is as wide as ten feet."
"Fortunately, the Divine Lord arrived in time and severed the pulse with his bare hands, thus saving the lives of the mortals in the village at the foot of the mountain. He is truly a peerless hero..."
"Why have there been so many disturbances in the earth's veins in recent years?"
"I don't know, but it's probably related to the demon and monster races..."
Hua Xun stopped in her tracks and looked toward the horizon where the immortals had disappeared.
The Divine Lord has already quelled the ruptured earth veins, doesn't that mean he's coming back?
Thinking of this, Hua Xun hurriedly took flight and flew towards White Mist Cliff.
Night had fallen inside White Mist Cliff.
As Hua Xun passed through the thick clouds and stepped into the cliff, he saw a sacred white figure standing in front of the flowers and peach trees, just as always, intently watching the flowers swaying slowly with the celestial mist.
It was as if they had never left.
"My Lord," Hua Xun called out.
The deity turned to look at her and said with a smile, "I'm back."
For a moment, Hua Xun couldn't tell whether he was talking about her or welcoming her.
Hua Xun blinked, then strode toward the Divine Lord, looking him intently from head to toe.
To God, this is an impolite look.
The deity, however, paid no attention and remained standing there gently.
"Has the Divine Lord closed up the broken Duyue Mountain?" Hua Xun asked.
The deity said, "It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it's closed."
Hua Xun gradually quieted down, and after a long while, she said softly, "I heard it from an immortal who was passing by when I was in the peach grove."
The deity looked at a patch of peach trees in the distance that were gradually growing branches and smiled: "The peach trees of White Mist Cliff are enough."
Hua Xun nodded, then shook his head: "They say the Divine Lord is incomparably brave and powerful."
The deity quieted down, smiled at her, and waited for her to finish speaking.
Hua Xun let out a soft breath and raised her head: "Will the Divine Lord be injured?"
The deity seemed somewhat puzzled: "Hmm?"
“The God-King said that gods are not omnipotent,” Hua Xun remembered that when he said with great admiration, “The God-King is all-powerful,” the God-King responded to him in this way: “Then, God-King, when you are in danger every time, do you get hurt?”
The deity lowered his eyes and quietly looked at the child who had asked those questions.
People praise God, venerate God, and make offerings to God in order to seek God's protection.
No one would think that God could be hurt.
Jiuqing withdrew her gaze and said with a smile, "I am a god."
This was the first time the deity had looked away.
Hua Xun thought quietly.
She didn't press further, and as before, stood quietly beside the God, asking a bunch of random questions out of curiosity: "God, why did the earth's veins break?"
The deity replied, "Whether one cultivates immortality or transforms into a demon, both are going against the will of Heaven. Cultivators and immortals absorb spiritual energy, while demons and monsters absorb turbid energy. In the process, they inevitably generate a lot of karma and inner demons."
"Greed, hatred, lust, tyranny... these karmic demons, when gathered together, are like a malignant sore that clings to the earth's veins."
"If the earth's veins are like the meridians of a person, then karmic forces and inner demons are like the blood stasis that blocks the meridians. Although the earth's veins have the power to heal themselves, when karmic forces and inner demons continue to accumulate, only by breaking them open and releasing them can the laws of heaven continue to operate."
Hua Xun, hearing these things for the first time, listened blankly for a while before asking, "Then where are the released karma and inner demons?"
The deity said slowly, "I will refine it."
Hua Xun asked in confusion, "Then why can't the Three Realms join you in merging the earth's veins and refining karmic demons?"
She felt it was unfair.
Those karmic demons and inner demons are clearly born from the beings of the Three Realms, but in the end, only the divine ruler deals with them.
If the God-King were to be injured one day, who could they rely on?
The deity paused for a few moments, then said, "I am a god, therefore I must act."
Hua Xun turned to look at him.
Golden light swayed gently in the celestial mist, and the divine lord's body was surrounded by a faint glow of Daoist energy, making him appear like an eternally tranquil moon in this moonless, misty cliff.
Hua Xun felt an urge to cry, and a faint sadness slowly rose in her heart.
She never imagined that one day, a little demon like her would feel sorry for a god.
It wasn't until the deity turned around that Hua Xun suddenly realized what was happening, looked away, and blurted out, "I also heard that the deity saved a whole village of mortals..."
The Divine Lord said, "The rupture of the earth's veins was caused by external forces. Those mortals should not have their lives cut off here."
Hua Xun paused slightly, as if remembering something. She moved her lips as if to speak, but ultimately lowered her head.
"Do you want to ask about the affairs of my Great River Village?" The God-King saw through her thoughts and spoke for her.
Hua Xun was surprised: "You knew?"
Only after saying that did he realize that there was a temple dedicated to the God in Wufang Town, so it wouldn't matter if the God knew.
As if remembering something, the deity pondered for a few moments before speaking calmly: "The lives of those people in Dahe Village were supposed to end thirty-eight years ago, on the 25th of the Heavenly Court."
Hua Xun was taken aback: "What did you say?"
May 25, thirty-eight years ago.
That is...
Hua Xun suddenly remembered that it was... the day the flood struck.
"You mean my omens disrupted those people's destinies?"
The deity smiled and said nothing more.
Hua Xun felt a sense of disorientation.
She had blamed herself countless times, wondering if the villagers of Dahe Village would not have died if she hadn't saved Baili Sheng.
Now the God says that the people of Dahe Village were destined to die in that flood.
So, should the villagers of Dahe Village not exist in the first place?
So, it was fate that made all the survivors of that fire to be newborn children.
"I need to go to Baiyujing tomorrow," the deity said leisurely.
Hua Xun snapped out of her daze, her eyes glazed over for a moment, then she gradually understood.
It seems he was going to inform Du Yueshan about the matter.
When will the Divine Lord return?
The deity raised his eyes and gazed into the distance: "Before the next night."
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Perhaps knowing that the God was in the front hall tonight, Hua Xun slept soundly for once.
When I woke up the next morning, the deity was already gone.
Hua Xun was in a daze for a while, but the thought of seeing the Divine Lord again before nightfall made her feel much more relaxed.
She reviewed the Heart Sutra mantra and planted the peach branch she had picked up the day before.
After finishing these tasks, he replaced the flower branches in the slender wine vessel in the Divine Lord's Hall.
Looking at the brightly blooming peach blossoms, and imagining the scene of asking the deity, "Are the peach blossoms blooming well?" and the deity saying "Very well," I couldn't help but smile.
As Hua Xun walked out of the temple and was about to return to her room, her waist suddenly tightened.
A vine wrapped in fiery red magic bound her waist, and she was uncontrollably lifted into the air by that force.
The boy in red, gripping the vine, sped towards the gate of immortals like lightning.
In just a few breaths, the scene before Hua Xun's eyes rushed past, the vine around her waist loosened, and she was thrown heavily to the ground.
Fortunately, the magic of the immortals came in very handy some time ago, and Hua Xun managed to resist the fall by controlling her qi, thus avoiding injury.
She looked up and saw a dark, dense forest all around her. The mist had thinned considerably, and a path that seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance…
The young immortal lord, dressed in red with his black hair tied up high, stood arrogantly in mid-air: "This immortal lord will not pursue your scheming."
"Now, leave the Immortal Realm immediately and never again approach the Jade Kun Divine Palace."
A note from the author:
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A certain naive immortal lord is like a "stick" that separates lovers.
A certain immortal lord says: Female cultivator, you two cannot be together!
A certain immortal lord in the future: God, you two cannot be together!
Ah Xun, the Divine Lord: [Question mark]
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