Chapter 81 Eighty-One Cuts "Do you think I can play with mud?"...
Luo Mingshu's wish was very simple. Because her arrival at the Misty Star Sea was sudden, she hadn't thought about what her goal was.
After hearing her goal, Xie Changming breathed a sigh of relief: "That's a good goal."
You should know that the last time she aimed to dominate the Heavenly Realm, she not only tormented others, but also the Misty Star Sea.
Luo Mingshu tilted her head slightly and said with feigned pride, "Right? I'm still very considerate. Considering that you want to kill that immortal lord, I won't set too grand a goal."
Xie Changming said slowly, "We'll still need time to find that escaped immortal lord."
“Isn’t he a Celestial Lord?” Luo Mingshu said, sitting on his head and flicking her tail. “There are only four Celestial Lords in the Heavenly Realm. Why don’t we just go find them one by one?”
“Things are not that simple.” Xie Changming paused and explained, “This matter is also my fault. Back then, I killed the immortal lord who brought me back to the Heavenly Realm and imprisoned me. Seeing that the Heavenly Pillar of the Heavenly Realm was shaken by the death of an immortal lord, I did not take action against the other immortal lords. After all, the Heavenly Prison where I was imprisoned was within his independent jurisdiction, and it is possible that the other immortal lords were unaware of it.”
"So how can this be blamed on you?" Luo Mingshu hadn't quite caught up yet. "It's only right to avenge wrongs. Didn't you say that he also secretly kidnapped many demons and murdered them?"
"The problem lies in the fact that after the immortal lord from the Western Realm whom I killed died, another immortal took his place. As for who the new immortal is and where he is... I don't know any of that information. To put it more broadly, any immortal in the entire Heavenly Realm could have taken his place, and the newly appointed immortal lord is also a suspect," Xie Changming said matter-of-factly.
Luo Mingshu: "..." This is a big problem. The Four Immortal Lords are suspects, the Celestial Immortals are suspects, then all the beings in the Celestial Realm who possess divine consciousness, except for them, are suspects.
“I knew I’d come back to this time.” Xie Changming connected the many clues. “Because during this period, he was best able to hide himself.”
"So cowardly," Luo Mingshu said disdainfully. "Are even the celestial lords of the Heavenly Realm like this?"
“I don’t know much about them, but I do know that the immortals in the Heavenly Realm are all busy cultivating. The Heavenly Realm is rich in spiritual energy, and they are all afraid that their cultivation will be a step behind and they will fall behind others,” Xie Changming said. “That’s why they have evil intentions that are detrimental to the Demon Clan. Similarly, the Immortal Lord’s plan to wear down your arrogance may also be an attempt to use you for something.”
"How could that be?" Luo Mingshu didn't know what other Yinglong were like, but for her, she would rather die than bow down to others.
“Then let’s do what he does.” Luo Mingshu stretched out her short arms, put her hands on her hips and said, “Since he’s hiding in the shadows and doesn’t dare to show himself, let’s hide in the shadows too.”
"What do you mean by this?" Xie Changming asked.
“Elopement.” Luo Mingshu reached out and scratched his face. “You take me with you and we’ll hide. That treacherous little man hiding in the crowd will always live in fear, and he’ll be more likely to slip up then.”
Xie Changming: "?" You're really good at this.
But Luo Mingshu's words made sense, so they also began to plan to pretend to escape from the Heavenly Realm in front of others.
After spending several days searching for Luo Mingshu's glass bead, just then, immortals from the Eastern and Northern Realms came to visit Luo Mingshu.
"The Southern Realm Immortal Lord is the Time Void Immortal Lord. The immortal mansion you reside in originally belonged to him, and these minor deities in the mansion were also brought here by him." Xie Changming analyzed the situation in the Heavenly Realm for Luo Mingshu.
“Theoretically speaking, you have the best relationship with this Immortal Lord Shixu,” Xie Changming said. “However, we cannot rule out the possibility that he is the mastermind behind it all. After all, it’s easier to make a move if you understand him.”
"The Yinglong egg was in the hands of Immortal Lord Shixu from the very beginning," Xie Changming said slowly, scratching the small dragon horn on Luo Mingshu's head. (Small. Piano. Organizing.)
“I don’t remember him very well,” Luo Mingshu said after thinking for a moment.
Xie Changming thought to himself that it was fortunate that she hadn't forgotten him alone.
"As for the immortals of the Eastern and Northern Realms, they also showed you some concern. I took you there to play," Xie Changming said. "At that time, the immortal of the Western Realm—the one who brought me to the Heavenly Realm and imprisoned me—was busy plotting evil deeds and had no time to care about you."
"Now that you mention it, it seems they could all be the people behind this, and none of them have good intentions," Luo Mingshu said, stroking her chin.
Xie Changming patted her head: "That immortal lord who escaped was indeed clever."
As the two were talking, before long, two immortals arrived at Luo Mingshu's immortal abode. One of them was named "Donglin" and the other was named "Beiyu".
"Are these the two bastards who came to my immortal abode, refused to leave, and didn't leave until nightfall, and even tried to blow out the light in my room before leaving?" Luo Mingshu recalled what Xie Changming had said and boldly analyzed.
"You could say that," Xie Changming replied. Donglin and Beiyu did not come to Luo Mingshu's immortal abode with any real intention of visiting her. They were carrying out a mission assigned by the immortal lord of their respective regions and came only to show their concern for Luo Mingshu.
In reality, almost all the immortals in the celestial realm were indifferent to Luo Mingshu. It was only because of special reasons that they needed to take care of Luo Mingshu and even protect her.
However, they only did superficial work, such as sending cold and aloof minor gods to take care of Luo Mingshu. You should know that even if they are not demon gods, but just ordinary demons or humans, they still grow up in an environment full of emotions... Even the Demon Lord who calls on them in the Demon Realm has to set up an altar and sincerely pray to Chaos.
There's a reason why Luo Mingshu took hundreds of years to hatch. If it weren't for Xie Changming, she might not have been born even a hundred or a thousand years later.
She and Xie Changming discussed their next move inside the hall. Before long, Donglin and Beiyu arrived. They were a male and a female immortal, both of whom were equally outstanding in appearance.
Donglin and Beiyu presented Luo Mingshu with gifts, but Luo Mingshu was still more interested in those sparkly little things. She jumped onto a luminous pearl and rubbed its surface with her paws.
Xie Changming helped her organize these trinkets and offered constructive advice: "If you elope, should you take these with you?"
"Take them all, take them all." Luo Mingshu stuffed the treasures into her spatial pouch.
After tidying up, Luo Mingshu felt that the spatial pouch hanging around her neck had become a little heavier—all thanks to the weight of sweetness.
She obediently jumped onto Xie Changming's head and commanded, "Let's go, let's elope."
The two walked out of the hall, and as soon as they stepped out, they saw Donglin and Beiyu, who had come to visit Luo Mingshu, walking hand in hand under the pear tree. From a distance, the two looked like a perfect couple.
But as they strolled along, something seemed to go wrong. They started hugging and embracing, and seemed quite reluctant to part.
Luo Mingshu: "..." Did I disturb something?
Xie Changming: "..." How come I didn't discover this back then?
Luo Mingshu poked Xie Changming's cheek with her paw: "Xie Changming, were they like this back then?"
"How would I know? Didn't you see it yourself?" Xie Changming retorted.
“I was rummaging through my treasure pile at the time—that’s your exact words, I don’t think I was paying attention to what was going on here,” Luo Mingshu stammered.
Xie Changming's reasoning was even more compelling: "Since you've said that, I must have been inside the palace watching you carefully moving around in and out of the treasure piles, and I didn't have time to pay attention to what they were doing."
Just kidding, why would he care what the immortals in the heavens are doing? Taking care of this little dragon is enough for him.
Luo Mingshu thought for a moment and realized what had happened. She then explained why those two immortals had stayed in her immortal abode until nightfall.
It turns out those two didn't actually like her; they just came here to make it easier for them to date. After all, once they left her celestial abode, they wouldn't be in the same celestial realm, which would make it a long-distance relationship.
Damn it, she turned out to be someone else's tool in a secret relationship!
Luo Mingshu was so angry that she slapped Xie Changming's forehead several times with her tail. She said angrily, "Run away! Run away right now! I'm going to make them furious!"
Xie Changming was very interested in the word "elopement," so he flew out with Luo Mingshu. Under the pear tree in the courtyard, just as Donglin and Beiyu were about to kiss, Xie Changming rushed out, pushing Luo Mingshu aside.
Donglin and Beiyu separated as if struck by lightning, one of them wiping his mouth as if savoring the feeling of being close to his lover.
"You little deity, how could you be so reckless?!" Donglin questioned, "Didn't I tell you to keep a close eye on Little Yinglong in the hall?"
Xie Changming glanced at her coldly. He detested the arrogant attitude of the people in the Heavenly Realm. Although he initially found Luo Mingshu annoying, in truth, he disliked the immortals in the Heavenly Realm the most. Compared to them, Luo Mingshu seemed much more adorable.
"We want to elope." He uttered these three words coldly.
Upon hearing this, Donglin was still in shock: "Elopement? What elopement? None of us dared to elope, but you dare to elope with Xiao Yinglong? Wait, who are you going to elope with?!"
“Little Yinglong,” Xie Changming said matter-of-factly.
Then, with Luo Mingshu on his head, he flew directly out of the Immortal Mansion.
"Wait a minute—" Inside the courtyard, Donglin and Beiyu were left staring at each other, "Holy crap, you guys really left?"
After all, the celestial realm is extremely realistic, so the characters here are almost indistinguishable from real people. Therefore, when the news of Xie Changming eloping with Luo Mingshu spread, it shocked the entire celestial realm.
On a cliff overlooking the clouds, two people sat facing each other, playing chess. Fine wine was laid out on the stone table, and the chess game was intricate and difficult to determine who was better.
If Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming were here, they would definitely recognize one of them, who turned out to be Wei Qing, the ascended cultivator who was sent to the lower realm.
Wei Qing's strength was not weak; he was an outstanding figure even in the Heavenly Realm. However, he was lazy by nature and did not like to cultivate. What puzzled the people of the Heavenly Realm was that even though he did not like to cultivate, his strength was increasing every day. Therefore, many jealous cultivators thought that he was secretly cultivating and pretending to be a lazy person in front of others to deceive them.
Regardless of what others thought, Wei Qing genuinely loved slacking off. He yawned and downed the wine on the table in one gulp: "Brother Ye, are you ready for the next step?"
The man he called "Brother Ye" also had a serene and composed demeanor. He smiled wryly and said, "I study chess scores every day, yet on this chessboard, I am still no match for you."
Wei Qing smiled kindly and said, "Brother Ye, I never intended to win from the beginning, but you thought I wanted to win, so you played it safe and ended up in my encirclement. You can't rush this cultivation."
Ye Xuan chuckled helplessly. After thinking for a long time, he finally made his move, only to be cleverly countered by Wei Qing.
The two drank and played chess, seemingly in harmony, but only Wei Qing was happy. Although Ye Xuan smiled on the surface, he was questioning himself again and again in his heart. He had clearly played the game once before, so why couldn't he beat Wei Qing? Moreover, this Wei Qing was not even a real Wei Qing, but a character simulated by the Misty Star Sea.
He was Wei Qing's good friend, so he knew that Wei Qing wasn't secretly cultivating as rumored. He knew that Wei Qing truly hadn't been cultivating at all. Wei Qing had no desires from the beginning, and perhaps cultivation required such a mindset...
Sweat dripped down Ye Xuan's forehead. He knew that as long as he did his best, he wouldn't be discovered by Xie Changming. There were so many cultivators in the Heavenly Realm, and every one of them was his target. As long as he could stall for long enough, he could escape forever and then make a comeback after he had slowly prepared to cultivate.
He played the chess pieces slowly, trying to maintain a calm and composed expression.
However, a new message that arrived shortly after the time it takes for an incense stick to burn caused him to overturn the chessboard.
A minor deity approached them and said in a dry voice, "Reporting to you two, there has been an unusual event in the Heavenly Realm."
Ye Xuan remembered that he had finished the entire game of chess with Wei Qing, so he suddenly looked up and asked, "What kind of unusual event is this?"
"Something happened at the Immortal Abode of the Southern Realm Immortal Lord. The little god in the abode eloped with Little Yinglong. Lords Donglin and Beiyu were there, but they couldn't stop them," the little god said, emphasizing each word.
"Snap." The chess piece fell from Ye Xuan's hand.
In his fear, he stammered, "Do you have any basis for your claim of eloping?"
"The basis for this is that the little deity in the manor himself said that they eloped." The little deity repeated what Xie Changming had said.
"How could they...?" When Ye Xuan was in the Heavenly Realm, he had heard about Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming. Later, Xie Changming took off the body of the Divine Bone Wood to seek revenge. All the cultivators in the Heavenly Realm believed that he hated Luo Mingshu very much because Luo Mingshu had often bossed him around.
"That's it. They ran away, so the Immortal Lord told us to keep an eye on their movements. If we find them, we'll bring Little Yinglong back. As for that little god, we'll just destroy him." The little god who came to deliver the message never considered himself one of the little gods, and continued in a dry voice.
"This..." Ye Xuan's fingers trembled, and he accidentally pushed the chessboard in front of him to the ground, scattering the chess pieces all over the floor.
"Brother Ye, are you unable to accept defeat?" Wei Qing asked with a smile, his good temper evident as he bent down to tidy up the scattered chess pieces on the ground.
Ye Xuan hadn't expected Xie Changming to be willing to stand on the same side as Luo Mingshu. He wasn't afraid of anyone, not even the other four immortal lords in the heavens. He was certain that he couldn't deal with Xie Changming.
He knew how skilled Xie Changming was at concealment, and Ye Xuan thought to himself that he might be watching him from nearby.
Ye Xuan took a deep breath to calm himself down, then bent down and arranged the chess pieces with Wei Qing.
"That's enough for today," Ye Xuan said slowly.
"Brother Ye, you're acting very strangely today." Wei Qing noticed Ye Xuan's unusual behavior.
"I'm worried about Xiao Yinglong," Ye Xuan casually offered as an excuse.
"That little Yinglong is a famous demon king in the Southern Realm. She is arrogant and willful, and no one dares to provoke her. She can even go to the forbidden areas of the Immortal Realm," Wei Qing commented.
"Why are you worried about her?" Wei Qing asked.
In his nervousness, Ye Xuan even let slip: "You know about Xiao Yinglong and that Pillar of Heaven..."
"What is the Pillar of Heaven?" Wei Qing asked with a smile.
"I misspoke." Ye Xuan took advantage of him being a fictional character from the Misty Star Sea, so he brushed it off lightly.
But he forgot that the characters created in this exploration scene in the Misty Star Sea were extremely realistic. They were generated by extracting memories of a certain person from the explorer's memories, and were almost indistinguishable from real people. They could think for themselves and make corresponding reactions.
Wei Qing watched Ye Xuan's departing figure, narrowed his eyes, and muttered to himself, "Little Yinglong... Pillar of Heaven, could these two things be related?"
Ye Xuan left dejectedly. He knew that Xie Changming and Luo Mingshu had already come to the shadows. If he gave himself away and they saw him, he would be targeted by Xie Changming.
Even after he escaped to the Misty Star Sea, Xie Changming still pursued him. This man was ruthless and incredibly determined. He didn't want to provoke Xie Changming, but unexpectedly, because of Luo Mingshu, he still stood on the opposite side of Xie Changming.
Ye Xuan was secretly terrified but dared not show it, under immense psychological pressure. Meanwhile, the instigators—Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming—were enjoying their time together.
Luo Mingshu sat on Xie Changming's head and soared into the sky. She made a "Wuhu" sound. She didn't like that immortal abode. She thought that she herself probably didn't like that place in the past either.
Xie Changming had wanted to do this for a long time, but he was not strong enough at the time. So this time, leaving with Luo Mingshu, he felt exhilarated and broad-minded.
"Where to? To the peach grove where you used to love rolling around?" Xie Changming asked.
Luo Mingshu didn't expect that even at this point, Xie Changming would still remind her of her love for rolling around in the mud.
She grabbed Xie Changming's hair ornament, thought for a moment and said, "We don't need to rush to find him. Since we've just gone missing, he should be able to keep up the act for a while. After some time, he'll break down and reveal his true colors."
"So it's good to have some fun now," Luo Mingshu tried to console herself.
"So, are we going to the peach orchard?" Xie Changming asked her with a smile.
Whether it's a peach grove or not doesn't matter. What he really wants is to see Luo Mingshu rolling around in the mud now. If she gets there and sees the mud puddle where she used to roll around, she definitely won't be able to resist.
He took Luo Mingshu and flew into the forbidden peach forest in the Heavenly Realm. The guarding deity did not notice their presence at all. With Xie Changming's current strength, he could travel through the Heavenly Realm as if it were an empty place.
In the peach grove, fallen peach petals landed on the green grass, moistened by a light rain, making the earth soft and fragrant.
No wonder Luo Mingshu liked this place. She used to love rolling around in the falling peach petals. The ground was muddy after the rain, and after rolling around a few times, it would turn into a mud puddle. But the crushed peach petals that fell on her would make her smell fragrant. Luo Mingshu loved the sweet and rich fragrance of peach blossoms.
Sure enough, upon seeing the peach petals scattered all over the ground, Luo Mingshu could no longer contain herself. She impatiently stomped her paw on Xie Changming's head.
Luo Mingshu could remain composed when she was in human form, but once she was inside Xiaolong's body, she became somewhat willful and childish.
Xie Changming sensed her urgent desire, so he reached out and touched her little dragon horn, saying, "If you want to play, I can pretend I can't see it, but remember to take a bath after you're done."
Luo Mingshu raised her head and said arrogantly, "How could I possibly play with such dirty stuff?"
"I'll head out now and go take a look around somewhere else." Xie Changming made a move to leave.
“Wait, I think the scenery here is quite nice too,” Luo Mingshu interrupted him. “Find a peach tree to sit down.”
Xie Changming leaped onto the peach tree and sat down on a branch.
Luo Mingshu landed from his head to beside him, knowing that her constant stomping might give her away.
"I want to drink water." Luo Mingshu thought for a moment, "Go and get some water for me."
Xie Changming cleverly swallowed the words "I know magic" and chuckled, saying, "Fine, you stay where you are."
“Of course I’ll sit here. Do you think I’d go down and play in the mud?” Luo Mingshu said loudly, as if to announce something.
Xie Changming patted her head and then turned around to pretend to fetch water.
Just as he left, Luo Mingshu was still hesitant, but when her gaze fell on the mud puddle at her feet, she noticed a shiny little thing.
It emitted a familiar dark purple light; it was the glass bead she had lost.
As if she had found a logical reason, Luo Mingshu immediately threw off the spatial pouch hanging around her neck and plunged into the mud pit.
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