Chapter 65 My Love, My Love, Ah Xun.
Because of the kiss last night, Hua Xun didn't close her eyes until the middle of the night.
When I woke up again, it was already past 9 AM, and the sky was already bright.
Since the deity's true form had descended to the mortal realm, Hua Xun naturally did not need to follow the agreement to "return to White Mist Cliff in three days." She stayed on the bed for a while longer before getting up.
The deity remained standing quietly before the flowers, smiling as he gazed at them.
The birds that used to chirp and fly in every morning are now obediently circling around the god, occasionally glancing at him expectantly.
The deity was completely unaware of the noise. Hearing the commotion, he turned around and smiled: "A-Xun."
As he spoke, he habitually raised his hand.
Hua Xun stepped forward, glanced at the bird on the wall with a smile, and said, "That bird wants you to touch it."
All things yearn for God's intimate touch; it is an innate desire.
The deity took her hand and said quietly, "A-Xun doesn't want to, does she?"
Hua Xun was taken aback, then blinked: "How did you know?"
Only after speaking did she realize that she had indirectly agreed with the God's words, and her ears felt slightly hot.
The deity chuckled softly.
"Ah Xun." Another gentle voice called out from behind.
Hua Xun paused, then turned around and saw the God Lord's avatar standing at the kitchen door, holding a bowl of almond and pear water, beckoning to her: "I've made some pear water, come and have a taste."
Hua Xun's eyes lit up. He smiled at the original God Lord, then released his hand and walked towards the clone God Lord.
The original owner looked at the girl's back, lowered his eyes to glance at his empty palm, and his smile became faint.
Hua Xun regarded the two gods as one god. He took the almond and pear water, intending to try it first. Unexpectedly, the taste was exceptionally sweet, and he couldn't help but drink it all in one gulp.
"Drink slowly," the clone god said leisurely.
"It's delicious, my lord." Hua Xun held up the empty bowl, his words unable to conceal his praise.
"Hmm," the clone god responded softly, his gaze falling on her lips, which were wet with water droplets. He raised his hand and wiped the droplet away.
Hua Xun was taken aback.
The clone god's hand did not leave immediately. As if remembering something, his eyes darkened, and his fingertips gently caressed her lips a few times.
"God?" Hua Xun called out hesitantly.
The clone snapped out of its daze, paused, withdrew its hand, and looked up to meet the gaze of the original body not far away.
He seemed to have seen through something, met his gaze, smiled slightly, and remained silent.
Hua Xun once again felt that inexplicable stagnation from last night, as if even time itself had been frozen, and she didn't know what to say to break the silence.
Fortunately, at that moment, a familiar voice came from outside the door: "Hua Xun, I just came down from the mountain and I heard you've returned?"
Jin Huan's loud voice rang out at the door, but stopped abruptly when he pushed open the door and saw a white figure in the courtyard, turning into a restrained and respectful tone: "Divine Lord."
After bowing, Jin Huan glared reproachfully at Hua Xun and forced a dry laugh, "Since you have a guest here, I won't..."
As he spoke, his gaze drifted to Hua Xun's side, and he froze once again.
Hua Xun only saw Jin Huan's gaze rapidly shift back and forth between the original form and the clone of the Divine Lord several times before hesitantly asking, "...Two Divine Lords?"
Looking at Jin Huan's bewildered, confused, surprised, and shocked expression, Hua Xun felt much more at peace.
It seems I'm not the only one who feels uncomfortable.
"Since the Divine Lord is here, I won't bother you any longer." Jin Huan said this and turned to leave.
"Hey, Jin Huan!" Hua Xun remembered something and quickly called out to him, "I have something to do today and want to see Miss Qingyan. Do you know where Miss Qingyan is?"
Jin Huan didn't turn his head: "It's a mountain stream about 500 miles west of the forest."
After saying those words, he left and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
No ambition.
Hua Xun muttered to herself as she closed the courtyard gate, when she suddenly heard Brother Li's voice from outside: "Miss Hua Xun, I still have the berries I picked last month for you. I brought them to you now that you're home."
As Hua Xun heard the footsteps getting closer, he panicked and turned to look at the two identical deities.
If Brother Li saw this, he would be shocked.
Thinking that the original form of the God-King had even greater magical power, Hua Xun looked at the original form with longing eyes: "God-King."
The original body's eyelashes twitched slightly, but it remained standing still.
The clone still smiled, remaining silent.
As Brother Li was about to approach, Hua Xun's brows furrowed with anxiety, and she called out to the Divine Lord again.
Finally, just before Brother Li knocked on the courtyard gate, the original body of the Divine Lord gradually became transparent and disappeared from the spot.
Hua Xun breathed a sigh of relief and opened the courtyard gate.
Brother Li was holding a delicate bamboo basket filled with bright red berries.
The berries were grown by Brother Li's family. Hua Xun and Sister-in-law Li mentioned it casually during a chat, and she didn't expect them to remember it.
"Thank you, Brother Li." Hua Xun accepted the berries and thanked him.
Brother Li waved his hands repeatedly, "Just a few berries," then he noticed there was another person in the yard, and paused, "And who is this...?"
Ah Xun opened her mouth, but before she could even fabricate the identity of the deity, Brother Li smiled teasingly and said, "Ah Xun left earlier to go find this young master, didn't she?"
That wasn't entirely wrong, Hua Xun nodded vaguely.
"I understand," Brother Li chuckled twice. "If Miss Xun has any happy events in the future, don't forget to inform our fellow villagers."
Hua Xun's ears burned, and she quickly waved her hand, saying, "It's not what you think..."
“I understand, I understand,” Brother Li said with an expression that said “no explanation needed.” “Although Miss Xun can live for hundreds or thousands of years, there is no rush to get married. But if you can find a soulmate, we will all be happy for you.”
After saying this cheerfully, Brother Li turned and left.
Hua Xun was left standing there, her face flushed, before finally closing the courtyard gate tightly, as if afraid that someone else might appear.
She turned around and realized that the clone of the god was still looking at her with a smile.
Hua Xun's cheeks flushed, and he cleared his throat, saying, "Brother Li was just joking, Divine Lord, you don't need to take it to heart."
The clone paused slightly, seemingly puzzled: "Why not use it?"
This time, it was Hua Xun who was stunned: "You are a god, marriage is a human custom, and besides..." She paused, then smiled, "Human men and women should be united by love."
His gaze lowered, and in his memory, the girl had asked him if his feelings for her were love.
He replied: I don't know.
“Ah Xun,” the clone stepped forward and touched her cheek, “I…”
Before he could finish speaking, Hua Xun's gaze fell on what was behind him.
The deity's true form gradually appeared, quietly gazing at her, his gaze finally settling on the hand on her cheek.
In that instant, Hua Xun felt an inexplicable sense of embarrassment, as if she had been caught in the act. She coughed awkwardly and called out, "My Lord."
The smile on the clone's lips gradually faded as it turned to look at the face that was exactly the same as its own.
Hua Xun looked at the two deities, silently reopened the courtyard gate he had just closed, and said, "Deities."
Both gods looked at her at the same time.
"I'm going to find Qingyan first," Hua Xun said, forcing herself to speak. This time, without waiting for a reply, she had already walked out the door. "I'll be back soon!"
Having said that, he rode the wind and flew towards the distant woods.
Hua Xun finally breathed a sigh of relief after flying into the forest.
I really don't know what's wrong with the God Lord. Why is there such a big difference between the clone and the original body?
We should find Qingyan as soon as possible and ask her the truth.
Following the location Jin Huan indicated, Hua Xun looked westward and leaped into the air.
Before she could fly far, she suddenly felt a tightness around her waist, and then the scenery in front of her flew away rapidly, as if shrinking the distance to an inch. In the blink of an eye, Liangyi Town had disappeared from her sight.
Although there were demons here, Hua Xun did not sense the killing intent of the person behind her and subconsciously asked, "Divine Lord?"
The person behind him stiffened slightly, their hoarse voice both unfamiliar and familiar: "You really hope it's him?"
Hua Xun froze, her face filled with astonishment.
She hadn't heard that voice in so long.
The voice belongs to... Baili Sheng.
After a long while, Hua Xun finally regained consciousness: "...Baili Sheng?"
The person behind him chuckled softly, his voice hoarse: "Not bad, you still remember me."
Hua Xun looked at the scenery rushing past her: "What are you doing here? Where are you taking me?"
Baili Sheng did not speak again.
Hua Xun struggled a little, but his grip tightened even more.
Hua Xun pursed her lips, a faint blue light gathering in her palm: "Let me go."
Looking at her increasingly refined spiritual power, Baili Sheng chuckled hoarsely, "You can't bear to hit me?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Hua Xun's spiritual power slammed into Baili Sheng's chest.
Baili Sheng coughed softly, his arms still tightly wrapped around her, remaining motionless.
Hua Xun's heart sank, and the spiritual power she was about to unleash froze in her hand. A moment later, she suddenly struck her own chest.
The rapidly receding scenery suddenly stopped as a large, pale hand gripped her wrist, halting her movements.
Hua Xun felt herself gradually falling. The moment her feet touched the ground, she turned around and swiftly broke free from the hand around her waist. But when she saw the person behind her, she was suddenly stunned and stood there in shock.
The man before me, Baili Sheng, was thin and frail, looking as if he were skin and bones.
Her once radiant and jade-like complexion had now lost all color, leaving only a paper-thin white with a faint bluish-gray tinge.
The demonic energy surrounding him was chaotic and disordered. His eyes, which had once been filled with stars, were now pitch black, with very little white showing. His eye sockets had a faint bluish-black tinge, and his lips were deathly pale.
“I thought I could threaten you,” Baili Sheng laughed, “but it turns out you’re even more ruthless.”
Hua Xun paused, the spiritual energy in her palm gradually dissipating: "How did you end up here?"
“To pick you up,” Baili Sheng said matter-of-factly. A gust of wind swept through the forest, and he covered his mouth and coughed. “I should say, to pick up my wife.”
“I am not your wife,” Hua Xun denied.
"If Changsang Jiuqing hadn't appeared that day..."
“Even if the God hadn’t appeared that day, I would still have left,” Hua Xun said earnestly. “I don’t like you, so I won’t marry you.”
Baili Sheng's face grew paler and paler, his thin lips pressed tightly together, as if he wanted to say something, when suddenly a bead of blood spilled from the corner of his lips.
Hua Xun was slightly taken aback: "You..."
"Concerned about me?" Baili Sheng wiped away the drop of blood.
Hua Xun frowned, and after a long silence, said quietly, "Baili Sheng, wouldn't it be better if we were even?" Her tone held a hint of weariness and annoyance.
Baili Sheng's slightly lowered eyelashes trembled: "How can we be even?"
"From now on, unless absolutely necessary, we need not meet again."
Never to see each other again?
Hearing her resolute words, which showed no hesitation whatsoever, Baili Sheng suddenly laughed: "As if those ten years never existed?"
"That's right."
"Do you dare say that you never thought of me after you left Eternal Ashes City?" Baili Sheng asked in a hoarse voice, as if he had fallen into obsession.
Hua Xun suddenly fell silent.
A glimmer of light gradually appeared in Baili Sheng's eyes: "So..."
“I rarely think of you,” Hua Xun interrupted him calmly, “You may not know…”
"Once the Spirit Rhinoceros Gu is planted, the thought of anyone other than the host of the Yang Gu will cause excruciating headaches."
"After experiencing the pain a few times, I no longer wanted to be in pain."
Baili Sheng suddenly fell silent.
The forest was deathly silent.
After experiencing the pain a few times, I no longer want to feel it.
After thinking about it a few times, I dared not think about it anymore.
“…Then let’s not think about it anymore,” Baili Sheng murmured.
Hua Xun looked at him, puzzled.
Baili Sheng skillfully suppressed her surging emotions: "Do you know what I was thinking during the days you disappeared?"
Hua Xun did not speak.
Baili Sheng chuckled briefly: "I was wondering what would have happened if I hadn't left when you went to save me at Cuiling Mountain, but instead returned to Dahe Village."
"Will you and I still live in that little courtyard, just like you did in your courtyard in Liangyi Town?"
“Every day you go to pick medicinal herbs, and I'll help you dry them. Manager Li in Wufang Town will think we're husband and wife, and everyone will…”
“Those days are long gone,” Hua Xun interrupted him.
Baili Sheng fell silent again. After a long while, he asked in a low voice, "What if you and I could go back to that time?"
Hua Xun frowned in confusion: "What..."
Before she could finish speaking, a crimson-black light pierced her brow, and Hua Xun felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, gradually losing consciousness.
His thin, bony hands caught her unconscious body, and a near-fanatical light appeared in Baili Sheng's originally dark eyes.
"There will be enough time."
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In the courtyard, the deity and his avatar remained standing silently, without uttering a sound.
After an unknown amount of time, the clone slowly said, "Why didn't you dare to listen just now?"
"Why don't I dare let Ah Xun hear this? I was born because of her."
Even the incarnations of God have their own destiny.
He was born because he accompanied Ah Xun to the mortal realm.
The deity gazed at this clone of himself, as if looking at another version of himself: "I do not know."
The clone gazed at him silently and asked gently, "Isn't it better to be like before?"
“You return to the realm of the gods and remain an unapproachable god, while I am merely a fragment of you, accompanying those you wish to be with.”
"Your memories and perceptions are exactly as you experienced them, without the slightest deviation."
The god's smile gradually faded, and after a long while, his voice was like a low sigh: "And me?"
Should he, as he has for millions of years, remain alone, guarding the long-vanished divine realm, wandering aimlessly around the cloud cliffs, watching the flowers bloom and fade again and again?
He should continue to sit high on the lotus throne, letting the voices of the world fill his mind, watching those who respect him kneel devoutly before the statue and pray day and night, while those who hate him grit their teeth and curse him for being heartless and cold-blooded. Does Heaven not have any pity for him?
For thousands of years thereafter, no one could destroy him, nor could anyone save him.
The clone looked at him.
The original owner of the body was also gazing at him.
Like a judgment of gods against gods, a confrontation between self and self, in this moment, a sense of enlightenment arises spontaneously in my heart.
“I do not wish to return to the past,” the deity whispered. “I love Ah Xun.”
I love Ah Xun.
The moment the words left his mouth, an unforgettable mark was imprinted on the consciousness of the clone.
The door to the small courtyard was kicked open again.
Jin Huan arrived, panting, and when he met the gazes of the two deities, he couldn't help but shrink back once more, but quickly regained his composure and said hastily:
"My Lord, Hua Xun has been taken away by the Demon Lord!"
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Author's Note: There are probably two or three more chapters left before the main story ends!
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