A different wonderland
The voice suddenly sounded maliciously: "What if I let you go back to that fork in the road and choose the road to Qingyang City?"
Xu Shulou was stunned for a moment, then he lowered his head and chuckled: "Why bother?"
The voice seemed to have finally caught her handle, and asked excitedly: "Why? Do you want to meet your lover? Are you afraid that he will betray you?"
"I can tell you what will happen right now," Xu Shulou folded his folding fan, "He won't betray me. He will be very good to me and help me hide my identity. We will live a very happy life together, envious of the couple. For my safety, he will choose to be exiled and never return to the capital. He will miss the opportunity to be a marquis, become a prime minister, enter Wenyuan Pavilion, and become a famous minister in history. And I... will make sure he doesn't make such a choice."
"..." The voice was silent for a moment after hearing this. "You seem to have a lot of confidence in him? He has become an official in the new dynasty. How do you know he won't sell you out in exchange for greater wealth and glory? After going through so much, do you still have confidence in human nature?"
"Human nature is a very complicated thing," Xu Shulou smiled, "I don't believe in human nature, I believe in him."
"But why can't you be together even though you believe in him and he loves you, even in my fantasy world..."
"You sound quite regretful," Xu Shulou asked curiously, "Are you treating our story as a fiction?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The voice sounded a little angry. "Okay, forget about your mutton noodles with sauce, come with me!"
"Where are you going?"
The voice said proudly: "The past can't hold you back, so let's look at the future."
"future?"
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"This fairyland you conjured up is a little too outrageous."
When he said this, Xu Shulou was lying on the ground, gasping for breath.
In the new painting realm, she successfully passed the calamity and became a low-level fairy in the heaven. But a low-level fairy like her is like an insect in front of other immortals - a real insect.
I don't know what Huajing was thinking. Except for little fairies like her who had just ascended, all the fairies in the fairy world were as tall as giant towers. Even the smaller ones were nearly five stories high. Xu Shulou had to spend a lot of energy just to be careful not to be accidentally stepped on to death by them.
"What's so outrageous about that?" The voice was dissatisfied, "I did refer to many myths."
"What myth?"
"Pan Gu created the world, Kua Fu chased the sun, Fang Feng's body was nine acres wide, and Chi You's body was five feet long..."
"..." Xu Shulou asked, "Have you ever seen the fairyland with your own eyes?"
The voice paused and became depressed: "No, do you really think this place is fake?"
"...It's okay," Xu Shulou consoled him, "Even though it's fake, we can still go and have some fun and find some interesting things, so it won't be a wasted trip."
"Okay." The voice was comforted, sighed, and followed Xu Shulou around.
When it saw Xu Shulou chewing on a fairy fruit that was several times bigger than her, it realized something was wrong: "Wait, who wants to watch you play around? I want to torture you!"
Xu Shulou wiped the juice off his face: "What did you say? How are you going to torture me?"
"..." Torturing you to the bottom of the fairy world, you have to follow their rules tremblingly, feeling dissatisfied but not daring to resist. The voice is thinking smugly, if you keep going against your conscience like this, I want to see if you can still keep a firm heart in Taoism.
Xu Shulou took out a normal-sized jade cup from the Qiankun bracelet. Yes, this voice was authentic. After she ascended to immortality in the painting realm, she gained spiritual power and the Qiankun bracelet could be used again. Her appearance also returned to the young appearance of a cultivator from the fifty years old in the previous painting realm.
She leaned over the edge of the fairyland wine glass and scooped a glass of wine. The glass was so big that she could almost perform a water-walking trick in the glass.
Xu Shulou took a sip and his eyes lit up: "It's worthy of being the wine of the Immortal Palace. It's different. Well done!"
“……”Thank you so much for the compliment.
"This wine, um..." Xu Shulou supported his chin with his hand, "I seem to be a little drunk."
"Of course," the voice finally became happier, "This is the immortal wine prepared for all the immortals. A low-level immortal like you will naturally not be able to hold back after drinking it."
Xu Shulou flew up a tree, found a leaf to lie down on, and picked up a petal to use as a blanket. She didn't dare to faint on the ground for fear of being accidentally stepped on to death.
"Don't be lazy, get up!" She had just closed her eyes when she was woken up by a pretty girl. The girl was similar in figure to her and was obviously a fairy who had recently ascended to heaven. "We have to go to the east side of the Milky Way to help the Weaver Girl weave cloth!"
"Weaving?" Xu Shulou stood up puzzledly, followed the man for a distance in confusion, and sat down in front of a spinning wheel in bewilderment, "How do I use this thing?"
"How come you can't even do this?" Fairy Qingxiu said impatiently, "Let me do it first, watch carefully."
These spinning wheels were prepared for people of normal size like them, and they were not ridiculously large. However, Xu Shulou thought it was ridiculous to use them to weave a piece of brocade for those giant tower-like immortals to wear: "How long will we have to weave here?"
"Weave until the moon floats to our left," said the Fairy Qingxiu, "then we will go to the lotus pond in the Imperial Garden to pick lotus seeds and put them on plates to prepare for the banquet tonight."
Xu Shulou had a bad feeling: "Then we can rest?"
"Of course not," the pretty fairy glanced at her, "We have to perform dances at the banquet! There will be a small drum on each table that is only the size of a palm for a fairy, and we will be responsible for dancing on the drum."
"……Then what?"
"Then go to the Moon Palace to help Rabbit make medicine. Laojun, Emperor, and Star Lord all need to make elixirs, so the more people who can help, the better."
"Anything else?"
"I'm going to help the Flower Fairy take care of the flowers. The fairy said there are bugs in the flowers, and she wants us, who are small and delicate, to pick the bugs out."
Xu Shulou's eyes went dark. It turned out that she was not here to be a fairy, but a farmhand.
She clenched her fists and couldn't help but feel itchy. The voice seemed to realize this and decisively hid its voice and stopped talking.
Xu Shulou could only bite the bullet and sit in front of the spinning wheel, imitating the pretty fairy and pedaling twice. She had a good understanding and learned weaving quickly. She mastered it successfully in a short while, humming a song and pedaling the spinning wheel to create a sense of rhythm.
The fairy on the side looked at her strangely: "Are you so happy to work?"
"I'm trying to find joy in suffering." Xu Shulou would glance at the moon after pedaling for a while. Although he had no idea what the time measurement method of "the moon floats to the left hand side" meant, he finally had something to look forward to.
After a lot of effort, the moon slowly floated over. Xu Shulou stood up, but was told that he had to wait for the Weaver Girl to check before he could leave.
"No, throw it away." Soon a tall woman came in. Xu Shulou could only see her knees, so he couldn't see what she looked like. "Come back tomorrow and weave one more to make up for today's."
“…”
Xu Shulou felt like crying but had no tears. Was this the consequence of having separated the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl so many times when she was playing in the painting in the Taixu Realm?
She followed the pretty fairy half-deadly to pick lotus. The lotus in the fairy world was planted in a shocking way, some big and some small. The small ones were for them to pick. As for the big ones, Xu Shulou clearly saw several huge lotus flowers in the distance that even held up a small piece of heaven and earth. At first glance, the lotus leaves were truly endless and green, reaching the sky.
The lotus picking process was quite pleasant. Several fairies each rode in a wooden basin and floated in the lake. Xu Shulou even started a water fight. Everyone laughed and played while picking lotus seeds, then changed their clothes and waited to perform dances.
Dancing was a bit too embarrassing for Xu Shulou. She was wearing a red dress and was hesitating when she heard the male fairy in the opposite seat shout, "It's ugly!"
She looked in the direction of the sound and saw the male fairy stretching out his giant hand and slapping the drum in front of him and the fairy dancing on the drum into thin slices, then he brushed off the blood and flesh on his palm as casually as if he had killed a mosquito.
"..." Xu Shulou was stunned. This was different from accidentally stepping on someone to death. This was... taking a person's life casually.
What kind of fairyland does this painting construct?
Xu Shulou gritted his teeth and imitated the fairy next to him by shaking his sleeves, tilting his neck, kicking his long legs, and twisting his waist.
The giant blue-clad fairy watching her dance was extremely puzzled: "What kind of dance is this?"
Xu Shulou made up a rumor with difficulty: "This is the most popular hip-twisting dance in the mortal world. A concubine once performed this dance in front of the king, and the dance shocked the world."
"Oh? Is that so?" The blue-clothed immortal looked a bit honest, as if he believed her words. But the next moment, he suddenly raised his hand and slapped her, "Liar!"
Fortunately, Xu Shulou was prepared. He tapped the drum lightly with his toes, and the moment he raised his hand, he was bounced out.
The next moment, the drum surface shattered. If Xu Shulou was still standing on it, his fate would be unimaginable.
Seeing her run away, the blue-robed immortal did not chase her, but continued to sit there drinking, as if he didn't care about her life or death at all. He would kill her if he could, and if he didn't kill her, he was too lazy to do it again.
“…”
Fortunately, everyone else danced well and the banquet went smoothly until the end. Xu Shulou followed a group of people to make medicine.
"The medicine is too dry," they had just approached when the giant rabbit that was pounding the medicine suddenly spoke in human language, grabbed one of them with its claws, threw it into the mortar bucket, and pounded it hard with a wooden pestle. "It's much better now."
"..." Everyone had no time to react and could only watch. They didn't even dare to be stunned for too long. They hurriedly and nervously helped to pound the medicine, not daring to make the slightest mistake.
But after a while, the rabbit stopped and sighed, "It's too dry."
"It's too dry. Can't you add some water?!" There was no need to endure it any longer. Seeing that it was about to make trouble again, Xu Shulou was furious. She raised her hand, turned her fan into a sword, and threw it with all her strength. She didn't know how powerful the giant rabbit was, so she could only fight with all her strength.
The long sword pierced straight into the rabbit's right eye and came out through the back of its head. The pretty fairy in its claws fell to the ground. She was stunned for a long time in disbelief, and then she looked at Xu Shulou with her whole body trembling: "You...you saved me, thank you...but you killed it, how dare you kill it?"
Xu Shulou wiped the blood that splashed on her face. If she ever had a traumatic experience with rabbits from now on, she would definitely burn the painting when she got out.
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