Chapter 87 Eighty-Seven Cuts "You can't sleep with me anymore..."
Luo Mingshu made no attempt to conceal her purpose: "I'm here to find someone, namely Liu Hongying, my master."
“It’s amazing that you would take a human as your master,” Xuan Xu said to Luo Mingshu. “Alright, let’s check things out.”
Now that they know Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming's identities, they won't hide anything when they talk about things.
Xuan Xu slowly took a sip of tea and said to Luo Mingshu, who was sitting opposite her, "You should know that on the starry shore of the cultivation world, there stands a pillar that supports the heavens, right?"
“Yes,” Luo Mingshu asked, “what does it have to do with me?”
"The Heavenly Realm should have told you about these things, right?" Xuan Xu raised an eyebrow. "Didn't they?"
"Something went wrong, and she fell to the lower realm," Xie Changming said.
“I never expected that the Heavenly Realm could actually hatch you, and that you could even take human form.” Xuan Xu looked at Luo Mingshu with some surprise. “Alright, since you don’t know, I’ll tell you.”
“Ten thousand years ago, the spiritual energy of the celestial realm and the mortal realm was out of balance. The spiritual energy of the celestial realm was dense and heavy, so the celestial realm was about to collapse and merge with the mortal realm,” Xuan Xu said slowly. “The solution to this problem was very simple: to create a huge pillar to separate heaven and earth. However, at that time, no celestial lord in the celestial realm had the power to create such a huge pillar to support the heavens.”
"The collapse of heaven and earth was a catastrophe for low-level cultivators." Xuan Xu spoke slowly, as if recalling something. "However, at that time, the patriarch of the Yinglong clan used the Yinglong bloodline as a means to create the Pillar of Heaven. From then on, the Yinglong clan was bound to that Pillar of Heaven for generations."
“At that time, the rift between the Demon God and the Heavenly Realm was already deep. Humans were jealous of the Demon God’s powerful strength, but after being bound to the Pillar of Heaven, the Heavenly Realm could no longer attack Yinglong.” Xuanxu tapped his cheek. “In this way, the descendants of Yinglong can be kept at peace.”
“Humans shouldn’t be able to kill the demon god,” Luo Mingshu raised her question.
"The main purpose is to bind the Heavenly Pillar and save humanity," Xuanxu said. "Protecting the Yinglong bloodline is just a side effect. There's no guarantee that some celestial cultivators won't harbor ill intentions towards Yinglong."
"In short, the bloodline of the Yinglong clan is bound to the Pillar of Heaven. At the same time, the Yinglong clan came up with the rule of not intermarrying with other clans," Xuanxu said. "Who knew that after ten thousand years, the Yinglong bloodline would become increasingly diluted, and in the end, only I, the clan leader, and the Water Balance of the Demon Realm remained."
“I have a Daoist partner. I am about to leave the cultivation world and enter the Misty Star Sea. So before I leave, I must leave behind my bloodline. In the end, Shui Heng returned half of his demon god bloodline. I fused with my half to create you. After leaving behind my bloodline, I left.” Xuan Xu yawned leisurely. “We have been bound to the Pillar of Heaven to protect humanity for long enough. I am also a little tired.”
“I see…” Luo Mingshu nodded. No wonder she lost her memory when the Pillar of Heaven shook; now she understood. Ye Xuan’s intention to harm her was probably to control the Pillar of Heaven through her, thereby gaining greater benefits.
"So, what does this have to do with the Heavenly Pillar here?" Luo Mingshu still remembered the huge pillar she saw when she first arrived here.
"You'll have to ask your master about the Heavenly Pillar here," Xuanxu said to Luo Mingshu.
Liu Hongying had been listening quietly the whole time. Upon hearing this, she smiled slightly and said, "I didn't expect Ming Shu to be Ying Long. However, the appearance of the Heavenly Pillar here is indeed related to us."
“Back then, Yinglong created the Pillar of Heaven by relying on his bloodline, but the Heavenly Realm concealed this great feat. The Yinglong clan was too lazy to investigate the matter, but some records have still been passed down.” Liu Hongying said slowly, “Back then, we went to the Misty Star Sea together to expand the territory of the human world, but in the Misty Star Sea we obtained ancient books and learned the truth about the Pillar of Heaven.”
"After learning the truth, we felt that we couldn't let the Yinglong clan bear the responsibilities that should belong to humanity. So we thought, could we create a pillar to support the heavens with our own power, and then we would have to bear our own calamities?" Liu Hongying continued, "Unexpectedly, our decision triggered a hidden passage in the Misty Star Sea, which brought us to a completely new scene."
"Here, we met the demon gods who had fled into the Misty Star Sea, the demons of the Demon Realm, and the immortal lords who had abdicated earlier." Liu Hongying recalled what had happened back then. "After learning of our purpose, they were willing to guide us in building the Pillar of Heaven. Once we completed it, the Pillar of Heaven would be taken out of the Misty Star Sea and replace the original one on the Star Shore. The Yinglong clan would no longer have to bear this heavy responsibility."
Liu Hongying smiled and said, "Ming Shu, you're right. Yinglong doesn't need to bind itself to the Heavenly Pillar to protect itself. That's just an excuse from Xuan Xu to tell us not to feel guilty. But for you, the Heavenly Realm must care a lot about your safety, right?"
"No." Luo Mingshu shook her head, gritting her teeth as she thought of it. "I'll tell you my story."
She told them about her experiences in the cultivation world. After listening, Xuan Xu clenched his fists: "So that's how it is. I'll settle accounts with them when I have time to leave the Misty Star Sea."
"No need for that, I'll find them myself." Luo Mingshu had already taken her revenge and found the people she needed to find.
“You should know that you can advance your cultivation level by using that red copper lotus, right?” Xuan Xu seemed to remember something and said to Luo Mingshu, “I remember I left a few in the Heavenly Realm, and there should be some in some old caves in the Lower Realm as well.”
Speaking of this, Luo Mingshu became a little anxious. She lowered her head and took out a glass bead from her bosom: "The purple energy inside this bead is full, but there is still no movement."
Xuanxu took the glass bead, studied it carefully for a while, and said, "You're quite lucky to have advanced to this level like this."
“Thanks to this Demon Lord,” Xuanxu said. “Mingshu, you care about him a lot.”
Luo Mingshu: "?" Shut up.
“The glass bead here can see into Yinglong’s heart. Only when Yinglong feels that he has obtained what he wants will the energy inside him increase. And now, most of this energy is related to him. Now that you have found Hongying, its last bit of energy is also full,” Xuanxu said. “Find a suitable opportunity, and you can break through.”
"My goal in coming here is to break through and find Yingniang. If I break through now, will we be teleported out ahead of time?" Luo Mingshu asked directly after taking back the glass bead.
“That’s right.” Xuan Xu spread his hands to Luo Mingshu. “However, you can wait until they finish building the Pillar of Heaven and then leave with them.”
“Okay,” Luo Mingshu replied. This was the best solution, and it would also allow her to stay here a little longer.
After resolving her own confusion, she left with Liu Hongying. The former Demon Lord, who also lived there, warmly invited Xie Changming to visit his cave.
“Many powerful cultivators who have entered the Misty Star Sea have come here. Perhaps the Misty Star Sea sensed that Yinglong, who built the Pillar of Heaven, was here, and teleported us here,” Liu Hongying explained to Luo Mingshu. “If you want to come in the future, you can come here too.”
Luo Mingshu thought that the cultivation world wasn't too boring yet, so she still needed to go back there for the time being.
“However, the cultivation world is still the best.” Liu Hongying said to Luo Mingshu with a smile, “Although we have the help of the demon god, our construction of the Heavenly Pillar is still very slow. You’ve come at just the right time. Look, it’s almost finished.”
Luo Mingshu was deeply moved by their actions, because in the cultivation world, there were not only greedy beings who wanted to control and manipulate the Pillar of Heaven, but also beings who could endure hundreds of years of loneliness and build the Pillar of Heaven brick by brick.
"However, things happened so suddenly that I couldn't return to the sect in time. I'm truly sorry," Liu Hongying said with a helpless smile.
She chatted with Luo Mingshu the whole way, and Xie Changming didn't get a word in edgewise. Of course, he was thinking about something else at the time.
Before leaving, Xuanxu secretly told him, "After we leave, the Heavenly Pillar will be replaced, and the Yinglong bloodline will no longer be bound to it. Therefore, the rule in the Yinglong clan that it is not allowed to marry outside the clan will naturally be abolished. Little wolf from the Demon Realm, you have to work hard."
Xie Changming was stunned. He hadn't expected that there would be such a good thing in the construction of the Heavenly Pillar.
After returning to the cave dwellings inhabited by humans, the other cultivators who had gone out to build the Heavenly Pillar also returned.
To Luo Mingshu's surprise, she discovered that there were not only humans among them, but also demons and monsters.
Liu Hongying smiled and said, "I happened to be assigned to the same exploration scene as other races, so they also found out about it."
Luo Mingshu had met them all, but she had not yet revealed her identity. (Pianozl)
She planned to go see what Cheng Tianzhu looked like the next day, but after nightfall, she held Liu Hongying's hand and was reluctant to leave.
Luo Mingshu also had deep feelings for Liu Hongying, after all, the first person she saw after losing her memory was Liu Hongying.
Liu Hongying led her to the rooftop to look at the moon, her voice soft: "When I first found you, I never imagined you had such a background."
“Originally, I planned to find an opportunity to go out and train before sending you back to the Demon Realm, but I didn’t expect you to stick to me like this. You said that if you went to the Demon Realm, you wouldn’t be able to find your own race.” Recalling the past, even Liu Hongying herself chuckled, “Sure enough, you won’t be able to find your own race when you go back to the Demon Realm, because you are already the last Yinglong.”
“Back then, the Yinglong clan used their own bloodline to maintain the Heavenly Pillar. Humanity has already received too much from them. Now it’s time for us to be independent,” Liu Hongying said to Luo Mingshu. “But this is good too, you can also date freely now.”
The atmosphere had been warm and affectionate just moments before, but Liu Hongying's words shattered that cozy feeling and steered the conversation in a strange direction.
Luo Mingshu looked around to make sure Xie Changming wasn't nearby, then sighed and said, "What am I supposed to talk about? You know my reputation on the Spirit Network."
"The demon who came with you, isn't he the Demon Lord of the Demon Realm...? Isn't he capable?" Liu Hongying whispered.
“How could he possibly like me!” Luo Mingshu shouted, as if declaring something. “I would never like him. I was too young before.”
“That’s true, there are many single demon gods here too,” Liu Hongying said. “There’s no need to worry about just him.”
“Yes, yes, yes.” Although Luo Mingshu wasn’t interested in others, she still chimed in.
"Was it him who hatched you?" Liu Hongying asked.
"He wanted to roast me and eat me," Luo Mingshu said angrily. Sure enough, Xie Changming was the most despicable.
“As far as I know, Yinglong will have a deep impression of the person who hatched them.” Liu Hongying had also heard many interesting stories about Yinglong from Xuan Xu. “Because the bloodline of the Yinglong clan is weak, it is not necessarily the parents of the little Yinglong who hatched them.”
“Look at Xuanxu, that’s how it is,” Liu Hongying said to Luo Mingshu. “She said that when her parents had a fight, they just threw her away like an egg, leaving it to whoever wanted to incubate it.”
"Back then, Mo Li was just a little phoenix. His parents tricked him, saying that every little phoenix would receive an egg allocated by the Heavenly Dao when it was young, and as long as the little phoenix sincerely hatched it, it would find its future Daoist partner." Liu Hongying said, laughing to herself.
“Mo Li just happened to find the abandoned Xuanxu, and he devoted himself to praying to the egg for the appearance of his future Daoist partner. Although he was a male phoenix, he still hatched Xuanxu,” Liu Hongying said to Luo Mingshu.
“Look, they eventually became Daoist partners.” Liu Hongying smiled.
Upon hearing this, Luo Mingshu clenched her fists. Damn it, if only Xie Changming had thought this way when he got her egg.
Unfortunately, what he was thinking was—how well-done should this egg be cooked?
“He’s different from Mo Li!” Luo Mingshu retorted. “When he was incubating the egg, he must have been sincerely praying that the egg would be edible.”
Liu Hongying laughed: "Xuanxu is right. It's really fortunate that you've grown up to where you are now."
"Have you dealt with the immortal lord in the Heavenly Realm who was hostile to you?" Liu Hongying asked.
“He’s already dead.” Luo Mingshu lifted her eyelashes slightly and said casually.
"It seems the Heavenly Realm is about to elect a new Immortal Lord again." Liu Hongying shook her head and sighed softly. "After I leave, my cultivation should be ascending soon. Is my sect leader still in the Yuling Sect?"
“He’s here.” Luo Mingshu nodded.
“He was waiting for my cultivation to improve so that I could lead the sect, and then he would ascend to heaven,” Liu Hongying said. “I never expected to stay in the Misty Star Sea for so long; even they thought I was dead.”
“That would be excellent.” Luo Mingshu nodded. “If you become the sect leader, I will be the sect leader’s head disciple. That would be very prestigious.”
"With your status, why do you still feel so powerful?" Liu Hongying laughed upon hearing this.
“I’ve taken on another apprentice for you. She’s an orphan girl from the village. She’s not very talented and is only at the Golden Core stage right now.” Luo Mingshu thought of Afa.
"Another apprentice. Luckily, you no longer need my instruction, otherwise I wouldn't be able to manage you all," Liu Hongying sighed helplessly.
"The stream is too deserted; it's more lively with more people," Luo Mingshu said, giving herself an excuse.
Liu Hongying patted her head: "Alright, it's late, you should go to sleep. I still have to go and repair the Heavenly Pillar tomorrow."
"Okay." Luo Mingshu obediently jumped down from the roof and said goodbye to Liu Hongying.
Once she found Liu Hongying, a huge weight was lifted from her heart.
She was humming a cheerful tune and was about to go back to her room to rest when she heard the rustling of grass in the bushes beside her.
Luo Mingshu sensed the surrounding atmosphere and saw the silhouette of a dark figure hidden in the grass. She put her hands on her hips and called out, "Xie Changming."
Xie Changming then emerged from behind the bushes, his claws landing silently on the ground.
He maintained his black wolf form—because he was cunning, and he knew that Luo Mingshu would be more soft-hearted towards a cute (?) big dog.
"What's wrong with you?" Luo Mingshu said, but she couldn't help but reach out and touch Xie Changming's head. The feel of his head was so good that she couldn't help but rub his ear as well.
"I'm waiting for you," Xie Changming said.
He was very curious about what Luo Mingshu had said to Liu Hongying. He knew Luo Mingshu cared a lot about Liu Hongying; what if Liu Hongying disapproved of him? He was, after all, a demon...
"Why are you waiting for me?" Luo Mingshu stroked his neck. "Go back and rest by yourself."
Xie Changming jumped up, placing his two front paws on Luo Mingshu's shoulders, and affectionately licked Luo Mingshu's ear: "I wanted to wait for you."
"Wait for me to sleep with you?" Luo Mingshu finally realized what was happening. "Xie Changming, you can't be so shameless."
“I always kept you company when you asked me to,” Xie Changming said.
Luo Mingshu opened her arms and hugged him. She really liked Xie Changming's original form. He was cute and handsome, and most importantly, he had soft fur all over his body that she could touch and play with.
If it's a dog hook, it's not necessarily a bad thing, right? She doesn't want to agree to Xie Changming's proposal either, but he's a cute dog hook.
“Okay,” Luo Mingshu agreed, “but you’re not allowed to change back.”
Xie Changming wagged his tail at her and nibbled at Luo Mingshu's ear with his canine teeth.
“Okay,” he said, his breath warm against Luo Mingshu’s cheek.
Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming returned to their room together. Luo Mingshu scratched Xie Changming's neck, deep in thought.
She took out her glass bead and showed it off to Xie Changming, saying, "Once they finish building the Heavenly Pillar, I will immediately advance to the next level. Xie Changming, then you won't be so impressive anymore."
Xie Changming nibbled on her finger: "When have I ever been so powerful?"
Luo Mingshu thought to herself, "You don't know this, do you? She still remembers it. She hasn't forgotten how Xie Changming bullied her on the Spirit Network, saying that she was a '300-year-old beauty with a water spirit root who's super easy to fool.'"
When the time comes, she will return after advancing to the next level and utterly annihilate him on the Spirit Network.
Xie Changming had no idea what mischief Luo Mingshu was up to. He simply lay down beside her, gently wagging his tail, looking quite obedient.
He probed indirectly, asking, "What does your master think of me?"
Luo Mingshu scratched his chin and said, "She looks at you with her eyes."
However, as she spoke, her cheeks flushed slightly, because she remembered Liu Hongying's words telling her to find a Daoist partner.
Damn it, Xie Changming is so wicked, why did she even look for him? She hasn't forgotten her online scamming business yet.
Judging from Xie Changming's current state of being head over heels in love, she must have him completely under her control.
Xie Changming's tail wagged happily, making a sound. Luo Mingshu lowered her eyes to meet his gaze. His eyes were deep and beautiful, looking so sincere and full of love.
When he was maintaining his original form, he found it difficult to hide his emotions, so Luo Mingshu could see right through him.
"Xie Changming," Luo Mingshu called out to him.
"Hmm?" Xie Changming licked her fingertips.
"Go to sleep." Luo Mingshu yawned.
She was indeed a little sleepy, but while she was sleeping, Xie Changming, that scoundrel, kept trying to talk to her.
"Do you want roasted corn tomorrow? I'll roast some for you."
"eat."
"The former Demon Lord of the Demon Realm has invited me to visit. Would you like to come with me?"
"go."
Are you about to fall asleep?
"Going to sleep...dreaming..."
"Can I change back tomorrow morning?"
"Can."
In her daze, Luo Mingshu inadvertently agreed to something for Xie Changming.
Xie Changming listened to Luo Mingshu, so he changed back to his original form as soon as it was light the next day.
Because Luo Mingshu had been sleeping with her head on his neck before falling asleep, she was now resting her head on his chest.
Xie Changming lowered his eyes and gently touched the dragon horn on Luo Mingshu's forehead. He really liked the feeling of the little dragon horn hitting his palm.
Luo Mingshu groaned and woke up, then she and Xie Changming stared at each other.
Her curly hair fell onto her shoulders and onto him.
Luo Mingshu was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses from Xie Changming's close-up attack of beauty.
"Gulp." She couldn't help but swallow.
Xie Changming looked down at her slender neck, his breathing even, and said nothing.
He can hold him a little longer as long as he doesn't talk!
Luo Mingshu scratched his back: "Xie Changming, didn't I tell you not to change back?"
Xie Changming, however, was quite self-righteous: "Before going to sleep, I asked you again, and you said it was okay."
Luo Mingshu bumped him with the little dragon horn on her forehead: "You asked while I was sleeping, you shameless person."
Xie Changming cradled her head: "Shall we change back now?"
Luo Mingshu stared at his handsome face, thinking that she absolutely could not be tempted by his good looks.
"What change? Don't change." Luo Mingshu raised her head and said fiercely to him, "Even if you're a dog, you can't sleep with me anymore."
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