Chapter 166: Old Stories (1) He gritted his teeth and said, “No.
Si Ling's head buzzed, and he quickly walked into the bedroom, but still couldn't see Xuan Chi.
Then she checked the bathroom and study, but still no sign of Xuan Chi.
She couldn't help but gasp, standing at the door of the study, looking at the blowing curtains in the living room again, and had to accept the reality that Xuan Chi had left.
...The question is, where did he go?
He was still seriously injured and she had put a soul-locking nail on him.
The Soul-Locking Nail is a spell that seals all spells. If a person is asleep, the person who is cursed will be completely unable to use spells.
Xuan Chi is a curse cast upon one while one is awake. One's cultivation level counteracts the curse, and in addition to being sealed, one will also experience continuous severe pain.
That's why she knocked him out before leaving.
Although she was angry at the time, she couldn't bear to let him continue to suffer pain, so she let him faint. Although he would still feel pain after waking up, at least he would not feel anything while fainting.
Her plan at the time was that she would return before he woke up, retract the spell, and then they would have a good talk.
It now seemed that she had misjudged how long he had been unconscious.
But where can he go?
Even flying, which was a common thing for him, required the use of his skills. Where could he go when he was seriously injured and in constant pain?
Si Ling was worried, and the worst guess came to her mind first - she suspected that he would go to Yuzhu Peak alone, try to steal the two immortal books or fight the mummy alone.
But she quickly dismissed the idea, because Yuzhu Peak was far away in China, she didn't have a teleportation talisman, and couldn't go through the formal entry and exit procedures, so she could only fly there.
In his current condition, it was impossible for him to fly halfway around the world.
Following this line of thought, Si Ling felt that he would not go too far. Perhaps he wanted to find some solutions to the problem in the Western world, or perhaps he just wanted to go out and calm down.
Or maybe he was mad at her?
Si Ling paced uneasily in the living room. This thought made her pause, followed by a feeling of uneasiness.
If he really had left in anger, she wouldn't accept it, because he was the one who had ruined things in the first place. But her panic was also genuine, because she had never imagined he would act like this, so she hadn't thought about how to comfort him.
What if he doesn't come back?
Si Ling paused again, his heart beginning to palpitate.
She thought he would not leave her, but what if?
Si Ling fell into an unprecedented state of confusion. For a moment he regretted casting the Soul-Locking Nail spell on him, but at another moment he felt that he should add another seal and lock him here.
She sat on the sofa, but for a long time, she couldn't relieve her uneasiness. Finally, she opened her backpack and randomly grabbed a handful of paper figurines, about two or three hundred in number. She then took out a piece of white paper and wrote a simple missing person notice. Then she walked to the window and scattered the paper figurines and the notice together.
She looked at the paper figures anxiously until they all disappeared in the night sky. She breathed a sigh of relief, turned back and sat back on the sofa.
He quickly stood up again, went back to the window and opened all the windows wide.
How annoying...
It turns out that falling in love is such a troublesome thing.
She just sat there stiffly in the living room. Many times, she felt as if she had been here for several days, and when she looked up at the time, she found that only a dozen minutes had passed since she last looked at the clock.
Just as the first ray of sunlight was about to peek out from the forest, a small black dot appeared on the horizon.
Si Ling was restless and hadn't noticed the black spot at first until it was close enough and became an unignorable color in her peripheral vision. She looked up suddenly and saw a black shadow rushing towards her.
Si Ling suddenly stood up and walked towards the window without thinking, but before he could call him——
With a bang, Xuan Chi rushed in, and the two of them rolled into a ball, with black feathers flying in the air.
"Xuan Chi!" Si Ling quickly turned over and helped him up. Xuan Chi was lying on the ground. He wanted to raise his head to speak but he burst into a violent cough.
Black blood gushed out. He frowned and suppressed another cough, saying softly, "The Immortal Registration Institute will not report this to the Heavenly Court..."
Si Ling paused, he looked up at her, and smiled palely: "Don't be angry."
After he finished speaking, he fell down and fainted.
Si Ling sat beside him for a long, stunned moment, then tentatively reached out his hand to cast a spell: "Gentle rain heals the marrow, spiritual springs nourish the essence. Remove the nails and release the soul, and all powers will return to the body."
A layer of black smoke seeped out from Xuan Chi's body, indicating that the Soul-Locking Nail was dissipating.
Si Ling collapsed.
He went to the Immortal Registration Institute, and she thought he might have found a way to dissolve the Soul Locking Nail, but he didn't.
In other words, he really flew halfway around the world with serious injuries and severe pain.
No, that's not right.
It’s a round trip…
Just a moment ago, she was still suspecting that he had run away in anger, and she felt that love was a very annoying thing.
I deserve to die!
Si Ling thought to himself with self-mockery.
She took a deep breath and cast a spell to guide Xuan Chi out of the window, out of the range of the Ghost Academy's barrier, and to the banks of the Rhine River.
The forest hut that I built after I subdued his Rakshasa form last time is still here.
Si Ling re-set up the barrier covering the cottage, then placed Xuan Chi in the bedroom. He sat on the chair beside the bed, holding his chin and looking at him.
She didn't dare to think too much about how he got to Yuzhu Peak and how he came back.
"When did you become so crazy..." Si Ling murmured.
She found that she didn't understand him, at least not well enough. Over the past tens of thousands of years, she had become accustomed to his forbearing and restrained side, and recently she had slowly gotten used to his clingy side, but she hadn't known that he could be so crazy.
What if an accident happens? What if you lose your life?
Si Ling felt sad and regretted what he had said before.
Especially the sentence "I don't force your loyalty."
In fact, she knew his loyalty best. She said this simply because her anger led to malice. No matter how calm she appeared at the time, she was deliberately hurting him.
Now she wondered, if she hadn't said that, would he not have gone so crazy?
Si Ling shook his head and wanted to go out to take a breath. Just as he reached the bedroom door, a very soft voice suddenly came from behind him: "Your Majesty."
She quickly turned around, but found that he was not awake, his brows were furrowed, and beads of sweat the size of beans were condensed on his forehead.
"Your Majesty..." He called again. Si Ling quickly returned to the bed and sat down: "I'm here."
Xuan Chi muttered unconsciously in his sleep: "It's my fault."
Si Ling's breathing stagnated. He held his hand and whispered, "I'm just drunk. You should have a good rest and don't bother with me."
Xuan Chi's eyebrows twitched again, and he was silent for a while before suddenly speaking again: "I don't know..."
Si Ling was stunned.
He was so nervous that veins on his forehead were throbbing: "They didn't tell me..."
These words sounded familiar to Si Ling, but it took him a while to remember what it was.
That was tens of thousands of years ago.
In fact, Xuan Chi was not only the first Su Huang to serve in the Heavenly Court, but also one of the "aliens" selected when Xin Bi first issued an edict to select the imperial guards from the entire Heavenly Realm.
Before that, although Xin Bi had trusted members of the Phoenix, Mermaid, and Three-Tailed Fox tribes, the vast majority of positions in Heaven were still held by the gods. This was especially true of the Heavenly Emperor's Imperial Guards, which, for the first few thousand years of Heaven's formation, were composed entirely of gods.
This meant that even though all tribes submitted to her, the Protoss remained superior. If this continued, conflicts would only arise sooner or later. So, once the situation stabilized, she immediately announced that she would recruit talented individuals from all tribes, with the Imperial Guard being the first position to be tested.
At that time, other races were naturally grateful, but for the gods, this meant that the resources and power that originally belonged to them were being encroached upon.
So, after the first round of selection, a wave of exclusion unsurprisingly began. At the time, both the Phoenix and the Mermaid tribes of the Five Great Clans had already had members among the "Four Sacred Lords," and both the Three-Tailed Fox and the Feathered People also had members trusted by her. Therefore, the unaffiliated Suhuang became the most suitable candidate to serve as an example to the gods.
They soon found a suitable opportunity. It was during the ceremony of praying to the ancient gods. When Xin Bi was supposed to offer sacrifices, all the imperial guards looked at Xuan Chi at the same time.
Xuan Chi was probably completely confused at the time, so the captain of the guards pointedly asked, "Didn't I ask you to prepare a sacrifice? Where is the sacrifice?"
The sacrifice was already halfway through, and Xin Bi couldn't possibly interrupt it, nor did she have the heart to listen to their argument. Fortunately, Feng Xiaozi reacted quickly enough, immediately returning to the Heavenly Palace and retrieving the offerings within a moment.
The prayer was completed without incident, and Xin Bi returned to the Heavenly Palace, immediately getting busy with other matters. The minor incident during the sacrifice was just an insignificant episode to her, and she had guessed the calculation behind it at the time.
So when Xuan Chi asked for an audience, Luo Ling told him, "Your Majesty is very busy. He knows the matter of the sacrifice, so you can go back without worry."
But Luo Ling said this because she understood her, but the fledgling Xuan Chi didn't understand her.
He then asked nervously, "Can I wait?"
Luo Ling was speechless, but nodded: "Okay, but it will take a long time."
He said, “It’s okay.”
Luo Ling did not stop him. Xin Bi worked non-stop for three days, and he waited in the outer hall for three days.
When Xin Bi was about to take a nap, Luo Ling finally had the chance to tell her, "There's another imperial guard waiting to see you, Your Majesty."
Xin Bi didn't understand what was going on: "Let him in."
After three days of trepidation, Xuan Chi finally entered the palace. He had rehearsed his words thousands of times during those three days of waiting, but when he actually faced the almighty Heavenly Emperor, he suddenly felt extremely guilty, and all his previous preparations were invalidated. He knelt on one knee at the steps of the Heavenly Emperor's throne, lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, the sacrifice was my fault."
Xin Bi looked at Luo Ling silently, and Luo Ling immediately said, "I told him to go back without worry."
The word "go back" stirred in his heart, and he looked up suddenly: "But I don't know... they didn't tell me!"
Xin Bi raised her eyebrows slightly and looked back at him.
He suddenly choked. She stared at him for a long time and said calmly, "I originally wanted Chi Huang to investigate secretly. Since you've come to complain, Chi Huang can save some energy."
She paused. "They must have bullied you more than once, right? Tell me in detail what else they did."
Xuan Chi shuddered and shook his head decisively, "No, Your Majesty..." He realized that he seemed to have said something wrong and panicked to make excuses, "It's just that this matter... I probably forgot. There are so many things to do before the sacrifice, so..."
"Tsk." Xin Bi made a soft "tsk." She supported her forehead with her left hand and hooked her fingers with her right hand, and he floated up uncontrollably.
She said, "I hope you didn't lie to me."
He gritted his teeth and said, "No."
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