Chapter 80 Cutting Eighty Times: "The Pinnacle of Her Naming Skills"...
Actually, the reason why Luo Mingshu gave Xie Changming this name is very simple.
Xie Changming could start fires; flames would pop out from his fingertips. Among all the minor gods in the Heavenly Realm, only his fire magic was warm-colored, while the other minor gods' fingertips emitted only cold flames.
At this moment, Xie Changming pressed Luo Mingshu's head down and began to recall what had happened before.
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After he hatched Luo Mingshu, no one from the Heavenly Realm came for a long time because the Heavenly Immortals had given Xie Changming and his group of minor gods a ten-year deadline.
All the cultivators in the Heavenly Realm were busy cultivating. Even this little Yinglong, who was said to be very important to the Heavenly Realm, was only taken care of by a minor deity, and would only be visited symbolically every ten years.
Since Luo Mingshu was the last remaining Yinglong in this realm, they didn't know how to take care of her. They simply filled her immortal abode with cold, lifeless jewels and cold, lifeless little gods as usual.
They never imagined that a vibrant life was growing inside the Yinglong egg left behind by the former chieftain of the Yinglong clan.
Xie Changming, a demon with thoughts and consciousness, found it very boring among the lesser gods who seemed like walking corpses.
Luo Mingshu was even more peculiar. Since the first thing she saw after hatching was Xie Changming, she always clung to him and followed him around every day.
She was the master of this immortal abode, so Xie Changming had to comply with all her outrageous demands. When Luo Mingshu was still a little dragon, she came up with many tricks that made Xie Changming suffer greatly.
So, ten years later, the immortal came to the immortal palace to visit Luo Mingshu and found that she had hatched.
As was his routine, he was going to replace Luo Mingshu with a group of higher-ranking minor gods to take care of her. When Xie Changming heard that he was leaving, he felt like he had escaped death.
But Luo Mingshu circled him several times and said willfully, "I want him to stay with me."
The otherworldly immortal lowered his gaze and asked her, "Aren't all minor gods the same?"
“I don’t care what they look like, I want him to stay.” Luo Mingshu insisted on her decision.
Luo Mingshu's request was not excessive, so the immortal allowed Xie Changming to stay, while the other minor gods were replaced with higher-ranking attendants.
“If you like him so much, you can give him a name,” the immortal said to her.
Luo Mingshu wasn't very educated, so she hesitated for a long time without making a decision.
Xie Changming, however, felt that she was deliberately tormenting him.
After the immortal left, Luo Mingshu jumped onto his shoulder and commanded, "Take me out of the immortal mansion to play."
"It's dangerous outside the Immortal Abode." Xie Changming didn't want to move, so he just gave her that perfunctory answer.
Luo Mingshu bounced on his shoulder several times: "I want to go."
Helpless, Xie Changming could only leave the Immortal Abode with her. With such a noble little dragon by his side, he seemed to have a pass to enter and leave any place in the Heavenly Realm.
Outside the Divine Bone Tree at the edge of the Heavenly Realm, he saw a group of minor gods who had been removed not long ago being driven to the earth. They were destroyed and transformed back into the Divine Bone Tree.
If someone is a true minor god, then transforming back into divine bone wood and growing again is like a rebirth. But Xie Changming is different; if his divine bone wood body is destroyed, he will expose himself.
“I like you very much, so I don’t want you to die,” Luo Mingshu said to Xie Changming.
“Ridiculous,” Xie Changming said to her. “For a minor deity in the celestial realm, this doesn’t count as death.”
“But what grows back isn’t the same as the original one,” Luo Mingshu said, tilting her head.
"Why isn't the one that grows back from the same Divine Bone Tree the same one as before?" Xie Changming asked rhetorically.
Luo Mingshu snuggled into his arms: "Anyway, you weren't taken away by them."
Xie Changming temporarily supported her.
Luo Mingshu returned to the immortal abode with him, and a few days later, other immortals came to visit her, bringing many gifts.
She loved these sparkly little trinkets and wandered among the piles of jewels, while several immortals whispered worriedly about them.
"She took so long to hatch, and she still hasn't taken human form. Has something happened to her?"
"The growth of the demon god is a secret of their clan. Perhaps Yinglong's growth period is just this long."
They stayed in Luo Mingshu's fairy abode until nightfall before leaving. At night, they watched Luo Mingshu jump onto her specially made little bed to prepare for sleep.
"Your Excellency, we'll be leaving now." Before they left, they thoughtfully blew out the light in Luo Mingshu's room.
The moment the surroundings darkened, Luo Mingshu burst into tears; she was afraid of the dark at that time.
She hid under the covers and said in a tearful voice, "Turn on the light quickly."
Some obedient little gods took action, and a cold light shone in the darkness. The puppets had no emotions, and even the lamps that were lit were cold.
The clusters of firelight made the whole scene even more eerie. Luo Mingshu wanted to call out to Xie Changming, but couldn't remember what his code name was.
So, she could only call out several times in the darkness, "That god, it's that god..."
Xie Changming was so annoyed with her. Everyone else had already helped her set off, so why did she insist on having him?
He eventually managed to produce a cluster of firelight at his fingertips. Although he was enveloped by the Divine Bone Wood body, his magic was still different from that of the lesser gods; the light from his fingertips was warm-toned.
The dim firelight outlined the contours of his face, and Luo Mingshu flew up, following the cluster of firelight, and crashed into his arms.
“You don’t have a name yet, right?” Luo Mingshu asked, crouching in his arms.
Xie Changming nodded. He didn't have a demon name either, because when he was first born from the chaos of the Demon Realm, he was taken away by the immortals of the Heavenly Realm.
"Then let's call it Changming," Luo Mingshu said.
Xie Changming really wanted to say that this name didn't fit the naming habits of the demon race, but he still agreed.
Because he knew that Luo Mingshu, this little dragon, didn't have much talent for naming things, and the two characters "Changming" were probably the pinnacle of her naming skills.
If she changes her mind again and calls him something like "Dog Egg," he probably won't be able to resist during his more than 100 years of hiding.
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"That's how it is," Xie Changming said, finishing his explanation.
Luo Mingshu was listening to Xie Changming's story with great interest, and even curled up in his palm.
Only after he finished recounting that memory did Luo Mingshu straighten up: "So, because you can light lamps, that's why I named you this?"
"Yes." Xie Changming looked at the small dragon horns shining on her head and said firmly.
"I was once so cultured when it came to naming things," Luo Mingshu muttered to herself. "So how can you be so hypocritical? You clearly liked the name I gave you, and you're still using it back in the Demon Realm, but you were so disgusted with it back then?"
Xie Changming really wanted to say that it was because he had gotten used to this name after returning to the Demon Realm, so he used the surname that all the Demon Lords of the Demon Realm had used, plus this given name, and just made do with it.
“You used to look down on me,” Luo Mingshu scolded Xie Changming. “I was only doing you a favor, and you dared not accept it.”
Xie Changming glanced at her: "You used to like rolling around in mud, who would like such a dirty little dragon?"
Luo Mingshu couldn't accept that she had such a dark history. She lowered her head and gently tapped Xie Changming's palm with her little dragon horn: "You lied to me."
"How did I lie to you?" Xie Changming cupped her head, picked her up, and walked towards the door.
The environment in this immortal abode is exactly the same as before, so it seems that his memory is very clear. As for Luo Mingshu, perhaps she has truly forgotten.
Outside the courtyard, there are pear blossoms and fluffy green grass, with pure white petals falling on the grass blades, and other silent little gods sweeping the courtyard.
Xie Changming basically ignored those minor gods, but Luo Mingshu looked over and said, "They're too silent."
"That's how they are," Xie Changming said. He had taken over the body of that minor god in the Heavenly Prison with ease, because there was no divine thought within the body of the minor god.
"What about the others in the Celestial Realm?" Luo Mingshu thought of her initial mission upon entering the realm.
“I tracked that celestial lord from the heavens here. He must be in this exploration area too. It would be good to find him,” Xie Changming said.
"Then I want to change back." Luo Mingshu pawed at Xie Changming's fingers with her paws.
A spatial pouch hung around her neck, swaying gently. Yes, even after she transformed into a little dragon, she didn't throw away the spatial pouch she always carried; it just hung obediently around her neck.
But... she always felt like something was missing from her.
Luo Mingshu searched through her spatial pouch for a long time before finally remembering what she had lost: the glass bead hanging on her wrist was gone. It was said to be a key item for her advancement.
"The glass bead that I spat out from the copper lotus is gone," Luo Mingshu muttered to herself.
"It's not on you?" Xie Changming realized this.
Luo Mingshu shook the spatial pouch hanging around her neck: "My spatial pouch is all here, and none of my magical treasures are missing."
"I'll go with you to find it," Xie Changming said, realizing that this glass bead might be the key to Luo Mingshu's return.
He placed Luo Mingshu on his shoulder, but Luo Mingshu tugged at his ear and climbed onto his head.
"I want to sit here," Luo Mingshu said confidently, curled up on Xie Changming's head.
She thought to herself, "As expected of Xie Changming, who is 192 cm tall, the view from above his head is amazing."
Xie Changming fell silent, because Luo Mingshu used to like climbing on his head too. It seemed she had lost her memory, but these habits remained unchanged.
He recalled the places he used to frequent in the Heavenly Realm and took Luo Mingshu there to search for the Glass Bead.
They came to the Misty Star Sea with different goals. Xie Changming was clear about his own goal, which was to kill the Four Directions Immortal Lord who was detrimental to Luo Mingshu. Anyway, if the old one was killed, a new one would take over, and he had already killed one before.
The Four Immortal Lords being hunted by him had a clear goal: to escape from his clutches. If he could stall long enough—just like Wei Qing and Amo had done before—the Misty Star Sea would dissipate the exploration scene where they met, and he could remain in the Misty Star Sea forever, escaping Xie Changming's pursuit.
As for Luo Mingshu's goals... Xie Changming was genuinely afraid that she would try to dominate the Heavenly Realm again this time.
So he asked Luo Mingshu, "So, Shushu, what is your goal in coming to the Misty Star Sea?"
Luo Mingshu scratched her head. Xie Changming's question had really stumped her: "I... I should be trying to become human?"
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