Chapter 3 Chapter 3 "Aren't you a god?"
"Huh?"
Biqing was completely confused by Xuan Yi's question. Watching Xuan Yi getting closer and closer to her, Biqing jogged to catch up: "Wait for me! My injuries haven't healed yet! I can't walk fast!"
She ran to Xuan Yi, looked up at him who was a head taller than her, and asked, "Are you going to send me back to heaven?"
Xuan Yi stopped and turned his head to look at the little bamboo that was only as tall as his shoulders: "Of course."
Her arm felt tight, and Biqing grabbed her arm and said anxiously, "Don't send me back!"
Because Biqing lost her composure, her voice rose several notches. The wolf demons resting nearby both raised their heads and stared at Biqing fiercely.
Several of the young wolf demons stood up and bared their teeth at Biqing, making a whining sound, which scared her so much that she shook her shoulders.
Xuan Yi took a quick glance, and the wolf demons instantly drooped their heads and lay back down unwillingly.
Xuan Yi withdrew his hand, led Biqing past the wolf monsters, and continued walking deeper into the cave.
As the two passed by, several wolves showed disdainful expressions and gathered together to whisper: "How much meat can such a skinny person have? It's not even enough to fill their teeth..."
"Yeah! It looks a bit too dry, can they chew it?"
"Who cares! Something to eat is better than anything else!"
Biqing felt a chill in her heart, and her ears were filled with the sound of her own rapid and disordered heartbeat, and she could hear nothing else.
"Where... are we going?" Biqing asked tremblingly.
Xuan Yi said, "A safe place."
Biqing's eye twitched.
She remembered a saying in the human world: The safest place is where the dead stay.
Thinking of this, Biqing almost fainted.
Even though she knew this wasn't a good time, she still mustered up the courage to change the subject, trying to divert Xuan Yi's attention: "You saved me, is there something else..."
Xuan Yi paused for a moment, then returned to normal: "It's just a coincidence."
Someone carefully grabbed her sleeve, and the woman beside her snorted, "You, I can do anything you want! I just beg you not to send me back! If you really want to send me back, you might as well eat me!"
The tears in Biqing's pupils were particularly bright in the dark night, like sparkling diamonds hanging in the corners of Biqing's eyes.
The wolf demon clan has excellent eyesight, and seeing at night is no problem at all.
Xuan Yi saw clearly the look on Biqing's face when she was crying.
"Do you know how many people in the demon world have homes they can't return to?"
Xuan Yi didn't feel sorry for her. He pulled back his sleeve with a cold face and said, "You treat your life so lightly. I really shouldn't have saved you."
"I just don't want to go back..."
Biqing sobbed, "I, I ran away secretly! If they catch me, I'll be locked up..."
Her body tightened, and the blue demonic power transformed into a rope that tightly bound her and forced her to continue forward with Xuan Yi.
Biqing struggled and twisted her body, tears falling down after she failed: "I'm telling the truth! Don't send me back... I'll do whatever you say..."
Xuan Yi frowned slightly, ignoring Biqing's crying, and led her forward.
The noisy sound faintly echoed in the darkness. Biqing looked in the direction of the sound: a faint blue light flashed deep in the cave.
"Brother! You're here!"
Mo Jue walked through the barrier created by demonic power with a smile on his face. Seeing Bi Qing's nose red and her body bound by demonic power, he asked in surprise, "Brother, what are you doing?"
"I just said I wanted to send her back, and she started clamoring louder than those wolf cubs, saying she would rather be eaten by me than go back to heaven."
Xuan Yi said calmly, "In that case, I will satisfy her and feed her to the wolf cubs later."
Mo Jue ignored Biqing's pale face and said in a long voice, "Okay - I'll throw Fairy Biqing to feed the wolf cubs later."
He chuckled twice: "Fairy Biqing, please."
Without giving Biqing a chance to refuse, she was pushed by the demonic power and passed through the blue barrier.
"Brother, didn't you just say she was a nuisance? Why did you put her with the wolf cubs again?"
Mo Jue stretched and teased Xuan Yi, "You're really reassuring."
"She's no match for those wolf cubs."
Xuan Yi said, "She's no different from a mortal now. Putting her with those wolves is actually worrying."
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The moment Biqing passed through the barrier, the feeling of restraint disappeared. She stumbled a step, and just as she was about to regain her balance, she saw a group of wolf cubs playing together.
The little wolf cubs smelled a strange scent, stopped moving, and looked at Biqing.
"It's the gods!"
A little wolf cub bared its fangs and growled, "You're the one who killed my mother!"
Bi Qing was stunned, and she didn't have time to wipe the tears off her face: "Little wolf demon, did you remember it wrongly?"
No matter how small, they were still wolves. A dangerous aura was bearing down on them. Biqing calmly took a step back, watching the wolf cubs' every move warily. She explained slowly, "This is my first time in the demon world, and I've never met your mother before."
"I won't be wrong!"
The little wolf took two steps back and suddenly ran towards Biqing: "If it weren't for you! How could my mother be corroded by the evil spirit and lose her life!"
The little wolf cub's movements are not as fast as those of an adult wolf demon, but it is still extremely dangerous.
Biqing stepped back to avoid the impact, but collided with a source of heat behind her. Turning around, she was met with a pair of golden-blue eyes, and said in panic, "You...?!"
A burst of fragrance drifted past him, causing Xuan Yi's throat to roll. He frowned slightly and distanced himself from Biqing.
Xuan Yi opened his lips slightly, but before he could speak, he heard the little wolf cub leap into the air and suddenly howl, then fall to the ground with a thud.
"Didn't the king say it before? Sister Biqing is innocent!"
Ah Jiu bit the wolf cub's mouth and said angrily, "Don't you even listen to the king's words?"
Biqing looked at Xuanyi in confusion.
Xuan Yi ignored Bi Qing's expression and said to Jiu, "Let go."
The little wolf cub stood up in disbelief, shook off the gravel on his body, and complained to Xuan Yi. Xuan Yi interrupted him coldly, "Is this how I usually teach you to distinguish right from wrong?"
Xuan Yi's stern face frightened the little wolf cubs so much that they all tucked their tails between their legs and dared not look up.
He had no intention of taking Biqing's life. He put her with the little wolf cub just to scare her and let her know that being alive is far more important than anything else.
Biqing was frightened by his majestic look.
Xuan Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and said to the wolf cubs, "If you really feel that your wings are strong enough, you can step out of the barrier at the cave entrance now and seek a new world and truth. I will not stop you."
The wolf cubs shook their heads, leaving afterimages, and huddled together with their tails between their legs.
"Being young is no excuse for you to be ignorant of right and wrong and to hurt others."
Xuan Yi glanced at Bi Qing's poorly bandaged arm and said, "It's my fault for not disciplining them properly. I apologize to you on their behalf."
Biqing shook her head to indicate that she was fine.
Xuan Yi said, "You will stay here with them for the next few days."
Biqing asked in surprise, "You won't send me back to heaven?"
"Send it off," Xuan Yi said, "but not now."
Meeting Biqing's puzzled gaze, Xuan Yi said, "I can't reach the heavens. When we reach the foot of Mount Kunlun, I'll have Ah Jue take you to the human world. From then on, you can go wherever you want."
Biqing was naturally happy to be able to go to the human world, but she still didn't quite believe it and asked, "Will you...really send me to the human world?"
"Since I saved you, I won't let you die in the demon world."
Xuan Yi placed Biqing's untouched hand, wrapped in leaves, into hers. "But if you seek death, that's another matter."
Biqing retracted her hand and cautiously reminded, "This is raw..."
Xuan Yi didn't insist any longer. He took back the piece of meat, turned around, stepped through the blue barrier, and disappeared.
Biqing looked in the direction Xuanyi had left and muttered to herself, "How could he leave so quickly and easily?"
"The King has always been like this!"
Ah Jiu came to Biqing's legs at some point and asked with concern, "Sister Biqing, are your injuries feeling better?" He sniffed the hem of Biqing's skirt again and again, and sighed, "Sister Biqing, you smell so good!"
"It's much better now."
Biqing found a relatively comfortable place to sit down and touched her slightly aching back: "If I want to fully recover, I'm afraid I have to wait until I leave the demon world."
Ajiu lay beside Biqing, swaying leisurely, feeling very comfortable.
Biqing asked, "Ajiu, why do you keep following me?"
"Because Sister Biqing, you smell like mother!"
Ah Jiu used his claws to pick at the tattered hem of Bi Qing's skirt: "It smells so good! It smells just like mother!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the wolf cubs huddled nearby laughed, "You haven't even seen your mother!"
"You talk as if you've seen it before!" Jiu retorted rudely.
Biqing looked at Ajiu helplessly: "Sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned that..."
"Sister Biqing, you don't have to apologize to me."
Ah Jiu paid no attention to the mocking voice. Instead, he leisurely stood up, shook off the dust on his body, and lay on Biqing's legs without any hesitation. He said proudly, "Don't pay attention to them! They are jealous of me for being brave enough to play with you!"
Biqing was a little scared at first. After all, it was a wolf, a cub at that, and was no less dangerous than an adult wolf demon.
Ah Jiu groaned, "So what if you've never seen your mother... How many of you have ever seen your own mother..."
Ajiu's words disturbed Biqing's thoughts.
Biqing felt a pang of sadness in her heart, and the pain in her back became even more severe.
Biqing ignored the stinging pain on her back, mustered up the courage to put her hand on Ajiu's furry head, and stroked the wolf's fur backwards, saying lovingly, "Ajiu is a good child. I like you very much."
"I like Sister Biqing too!"
"Ajiu, can you tell me why everyone is so hostile to the gods?"
"I heard from the aunts in the clan that during the great war between immortals and demons, the barrier between the demon world and the monster world was split open by an immortal. The foul air from the demon world drifted along the barrier to the monster world and eroded our water source."
Biqing finally understood why these wolf demons regarded her as an enemy.
Because I am a god from heaven.
Ah Jiu rolled over in enjoyment, exposing his belly. "The king took us away from our hometown and migrated all the way so that we could have clean water to drink. I don't know where we will end up."
Biqing was born not long ago when the war between immortals and demons took place, and she had only heard some details about the incident.
The only thing she knew clearly was that her parents died in that war, and...
"Ajiu, do you know which god broke the barrier?" Biqing asked.
Ah Jiu shook his head: "I don't know."
"Does your king know?"
"The King must know! Lord Mo Jue knows too! And Sister Mingzhu and the others! But the King never tells us who it is. Maybe he's worried that we'll overestimate our own abilities and seek revenge. Sister Mingzhu almost let it slip before, and was scolded for a long time by the King and Lord Mo Jue!"
Biqing pressed on, "Didn't the other wolf demons tell you who did it?"
"No!"
Ah Jiu said, "The king said that if anyone brings this up, he will abandon them mid-way and leave them to fend for themselves! Everyone is afraid of being abandoned by the king! So no one mentions this matter."
Bi Qing sighed silently: Xuan Yi is really amazing. He can actually make the tribe members keep silent about this matter.
"Sister Biqing, why can't you purify the foul air?"
Ah Jiu asked innocently, "Aren't you a god?"
"I am a god, but I have no spiritual power now. I am no different from a mortal, even worse than you."
Bi Qing patiently explained, "The Heaven Realm and the Demon Realm signed a peace agreement, and the two sides did not set foot on each other. As a result, my spiritual power was sealed and corroded by the foul energy."
"Sister Biqing, can't you drink the water purified by the king?"
"...I'm not sure, Ajiu. What kind of water do you usually drink? Is it purified by the king?"
"yes!"
After hearing Ah Jiu's affirmative answer, Bi Qing speculated that if she drank the water purified by Xuan Yi, her skin would not ulcerate.
Xuan Yi was willing to put himself together with the wolf cubs, so he could be considered to have some protection.
Although this guarantee is not very reliable...
At least he didn't have to worry about Xuan Yi abandoning him in the cave.
I was lucky enough to get a drink of clean water thanks to these little wolf cubs. It wasn't too much trouble.
The pain in her back gradually began to rise, and Biqing could no longer sit still. She simply lay down on the gravel ground to rest, letting Ajiu lie beside her.
Seeing this, several wolf cubs who usually had a good relationship with Ajiu bravely stepped forward, lying not far from Biqing, and smelling the fragrance emanating from her.
The other little wolf cubs who had a grudge against Biqing huddled together, suppressing their curiosity and refusing to move forward.
Biqing, who was lying on the ground, didn't know that her actions and conversation with Ajiu were all seen by two people.
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