Chapter 50 Immortal Lord 050%
Xie Qingxun took Qu Yaoyao up a towering tree.
The thick branches were thicker than Qu Yaoyao's thighs. Qu Yaoyao didn't dare to sit alone, so she grabbed Xie Qingxun's sleeve tightly and lay on him.
The air was thin and cool at high altitude, and the cold wind blew away Qu Yaoyao's sleepiness. Seeing that Xie Qingxun had no intention of suppressing the evil spirit any further, she said idly, "You have a lot of experience, why don't you tell me a story?"
Qu Yaoyao has recently fallen in love with listening to stories.
Xie Qingxun hadn't planned to tell the story at first, but then something struck him. He slowly said, "Then I'll tell you the story of the mountain ghost."
Flowers and plants can absorb the essence of heaven and earth to become spirits, animals can cultivate to become demons, and mountain ghosts, formed from the spiritual energy of the mountains, are ethereal and invisible, yet they can transform into all things in the mountains. Xie Qingxun said that every mountain ghost longs to leave the forest. They are born in the forest and will perish if they leave.
"Then what should we do?" Qu Yaoyao listened carefully.
Xie Qingxun pointed at her and said, "I need you right now."
"Me?" Qu Yaoyao didn't understand. "What can I do?"
Xie Qingxun said, "If a mountain ghost wants to leave the mountain, it can't be in ghost form. It needs a human skin. And the scent of a naive little girl is easy to deceive. She's the perfect opportunity for them to eat a good meal and then wear a human skin."
Qu Yaoyao was startled.
It is true that mountain ghosts eat people, and they can indeed transform into all kinds of things, eager to put on human skin and leave the mountains.
Qu Yaoyao wasn't exactly timid, but she was afraid of such strange and cruel things. Thinking of those targeted by mountain ghosts being skinned and eaten, she said weakly, "There shouldn't be any ghosts in this mountain, right?"
"How do you know there isn't one?"
Xie Qingxun smiled and said, "You've obviously seen it before."
Qu Yaoyao subconsciously clutched the hem of Xie Qingxun's clothes, "When have I ever seen him before? Where is the mountain ghost?"
"Here." A faint and low voice came from above my head.
Under the clear moon, Xie Qingxun slowly placed his hand on the back of Qu Yaoyao's neck. His eyes were dark and held a strange smile. He leaned close to Qu Yaoyao and gently rubbed her cheek. "Have you never suspected that I was a mountain ghost in disguise?"
A chill ran up her spine, and Qu Yaoyao shuddered slightly.
She hadn't suspected anything before, but now that Xie Qingxun asked her this, she suddenly felt that his appearance was a bit strange. Yes, even if he came to the lower realm on business, why did he happen to pass by here and come looking for her specifically?
The more she thought about it, the weirder it seemed. Qu Yaoyao suddenly shouted, "Lian Chao Sword!"
brush--
The red-gold phoenix transformed into a sharp sword and fell into Qu Yaoyao's hands.
She was extremely scared, thinking that this mountain ghost disguised as Xie Qingxun was going to eat her, and was about to strike him on the head with a sword. Xie Qingxun was stunned for a moment and dodged her attack with great speed.
"Yaoyao."
Another sword stabbed towards him.
"Yaoyao..." Qu Yaoyao refused to listen to him anymore, so Xie Qingxun could only turn sideways to avoid another sword.
Frightened of the mountain ghost, she was about to jump off a tree as she couldn't defeat it, but Xie Qingxun grabbed her waist.
"Let me go!" Qu Yaoyao panicked and couldn't help shouting, "Brother, help me!"
"Di Shu, brother, come and save me—"
Xie Qingxun pressed the person into his arms.
He wasn't a mountain ghost, but the real Xie Qingxun. He had just been deliberately trying to scare Qu Yaoyao, hoping to teach her a lesson and not trust others so easily. In this dangerous forest, there were not only mountain ghosts but also various spirits. She really shouldn't be so defenseless as to allow someone she didn't know to hold her.
But no matter how I thought about it, I never expected that he acted so genuinely that it scared people.
"Yaoyao." He tightened his grip around the struggling girl and explained with a sigh, "Listen to me, I was just teasing you."
How could Qu Yaoyao trust him again?
Seeing the little girl trembling in his arms, looking terrified, Xie Qingxun sighed with a headache. He didn't dare let go. If he relaxed his hold on her, he was sure Qu Yaoyao would jump out of the tree.
There was no other way, Xie Qingxun could only continue to hold her in his arms and bent down to kiss her forehead.
Qu Yaoyao was still afraid, so Xie Qingxun could only use more gentle force and move slowly down along the corner of her eyes. He gently held Qu Yaoyao's lips, and when she shivered and resisted from time to time, he used gentle teasing as a comfort to awaken her familiar side of him.
"I'm real." After a long kiss, Xie Qingxun's voice became slightly hoarse.
It was no longer the playful teasing as before. This time, Xie Qingxun was a little emotional. He rubbed his cheek against hers lightly, his voice low and sexy.
"Yaoyao." Feeling the girl in his arms gradually calm down, he whispered in her ear: "Do you feel it? I am the real Xie Qingxun."
Qu Yaoyao's body gradually softened, and under Xie Qingxun's patient pecks, she breathed slightly faster and opened her mouth slightly, completely losing her ability to attack. Lian Chao had returned to her wrist at some point, and Qu Yaoyao's breath was filled with Xie Qingxun's light, elegant fragrance, a scent she was indeed familiar with.
"Are you really Xie Qingxun?" Qu Yaoyao was still not calm, and this time she finally became cautious.
Xie Qingxun kissed her eyes again, a low laugh spilling out a few times. He asked: "What else do you want me to do to believe it?"
Qu Yaoyao thought for a moment and said, "Let me touch it."
Xie Qingxun raised his eyebrows, "Where do you want to touch?"
If it was just his face, it would be fine, but Qu Yaoyao was the little hooligan who was obsessed with his body after all. She opened her mouth and said, "I want to touch him everywhere."
Xie Qingxun chuckled, "You're dreaming."
He refused to let her touch him and returned to his previous noble and cold appearance. Qu Yaoyao now believed it, "You are the real Xie Qingxun."
Xie Qingxun never let her touch her, he was so stingy.
Xie Qingxun didn't know whether to be angry or laugh. He raised his hand and pinched her soft cheek, noticing the tension on her wrist.
"Put it away." His fingertips lightly touched the Phoenix Bracelet, and he said calmly: "Lian Chao is extremely cruel and hurts people the most cruelly."
"Don't use it on me again."
Qu Yaoyao nodded obediently, "Then you are not allowed to scare me again."
“…”
It’s cold in the mountains, and even colder at high altitudes.
Qu Yaoyao didn't wear an outer robe when she ran out, and she was shivering from the cold. She couldn't help but burrow into Xie Qingxun's clothes, but found that his body was no warmer than the cold wind.
In a daze, she felt a warmth on her back. She opened her eyes and saw Xie Qingxun putting his outer robe on her.
"Aren't you cold?" Qu Yaoyao nuzzled herself into Xie Qingxun's outer robe.
The outer robe was loose and retained a faint scent of Xie Qingxun. Qu Yaoyao felt the warmth and couldn't help but hold on tighter.
Xie Qingxun was naturally cold, but his coldness was not affected by the outside world. The coldness came from his bones and blood, and it could not be warmed up by wearing more clothes. Qu Yaoyao didn't know this, so she hugged him tightly with her arms, trying to wrap them both with her outer robe, and muttered softly: "I hold you tight, so that we can both be warm."
Xie Qingxun hummed softly, a faint smile on his lips, and said, "Then hold me tighter."
Don't let go.
Qu Yaoyao responded by hugging him tightly, burying her head in his arms and breathing a few breaths of warm air.
With the comparison, Qu Yaoyao found that Xie Qingxun's body was far more comfortable than soft grass. Although it was a little cooler to rest her head on him, she felt very safe sleeping with him hugged tightly. The most important thing was that he smelled good, with a fragrance similar to the lotus fragrance on her body, which made her sleep very peaceful.
She fell asleep unknowingly and inexplicably dreamed of Qu Yingsi.
She shivered and quickly woke up. Someone patted her back twice. Xie Qingxun's voice was very clear, "What's wrong?"
"No, it's okay." Qu Yaoyao felt uneasy and closed her eyes again.
After a while, she suddenly opened her eyes again and looked up at the man who was holding her.
It was late at night, the forest still and silent, save for the occasional animal cry. Leaning against a branch, Xie Qingxun gazed at the moon overhead, his chin slightly raised, his eyelashes unblinking as if lost in thought, though his eyes were indeed open.
"You... don't want to sleep?" Qu Yaoyao asked in a low voice, remembering Qu Yingsi's question to her that day.
Xie Qingxun lowered his eyelashes lightly, his eyes fell on Qu Yaoyao and said, "I've slept long enough."
"You lied to me." Qu Yaoyao snorted, "I've never seen you sleep."
“Just because you haven’t seen so many things doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
"For example?" Qu Yaoyao didn't quite understand.
Xie Qingxun laughed a few times, "Just like you've never seen me sleep, but I'm actually always sleeping."
He slept for a very long time, so long that people were born, grew old, got sick, died, and were reincarnated. So long that the world he was familiar with had already been replaced, and his sleep became a myth that people had never seen.
These words were too profound. Although Qu Yaoyao tried hard to understand, she still had some difficulty. So she followed his words and asked naively, "Are you awake now, or are you sleeping?"
The word "sleep" came to his lips and then retreated. Xie Qingxun looked at Qu Yaoyao in his arms, paused for a moment and said: "Half asleep, half awake."
Qu Yaoyao pouted, "How can this be possible?"
The two of them were so close that Qu Yaoyao raised her hand and touched the corner of Xie Qingxun's eye. She tried to lean against him, touched his long eyelashes with her fingertips, and said with a bit of sleepiness, "Don't lie to me about my limited experience. I don't care if you are awake or half awake now. I only know that not sleeping for a long time will kill you."
As she spoke, while Xie Qingxun was not paying attention, she quickly covered his eyes with her hands and whispered in his ear: "Now, close your eyes."
"Breathe in with me, and breathe out."
"Breathe in again, exhale again..."
His breathing gradually became soft and even, the hand covering his eyes gradually slipped away, and Qu Yaoyao fell asleep.
For a moment, Xie Qingxun also fell asleep with her, but then his body began to feel cold and frosted, and his consciousness fell into darkness and nothingness.
This body is destined to not be able to accompany Qu Yaoyao to sleep peacefully.
Xie Qingxun slowly opened his eyes, and the ice dissipated.
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When Qu Yaoyao woke up, she was already lying on the soft grass.
Not far away, Qu Yushu was packing up. Yunzhi and Dishu were nowhere to be seen. She rubbed her eyes and sat up, still unaware of the situation.
"Why am I here?" Qu Yaoyao's memory was still stuck on the tree with Xie Qingxun last night.
Qu Yushu extinguished the firewood that had been burning all night, turned around to look at her and asked with a smile: "If you are not here, then where should you be?"
Qu Yaoyao gradually regained consciousness. She touched her nose and joked, "I dreamed that I was sleeping in a tree. I didn't even know how I climbed down."
Qu Yushu's expression remained unchanged, and he cooperated very well: "Of course, my brother carried you down."
"Really?" Qu Yaoyao wanted to test it out. "But that tree is so tall it almost reaches the sky, and there's a giant monster guarding me. How did my brother carry me down?"
Qu Yushu walked over to her, rubbed her head, and said helplessly: "Silly girl, wake up quickly, it's dawn."
It seems that her brother didn't know that Xie Qingxun had been here.
At this time, Di Shu came out from the other side of the forest, followed by Yun Zhi, who was holding wild fruits. Seeing Qu Yaoyao wake up, she wanted to wave and ran over to her, "Girl, try this fruit quickly, it's so sweet."
Before she could get close, the fruits she was holding all rolled to the ground due to the bumps. Yunzhi cried out and squatted down to pick them up, but a hand picked up the fruits before her and said calmly, "Let me do it."
Yunzhi was stunned for a moment, then looked up and saw Dishu's enlarged face, very close to her.
Di Shu's face was cold and hard. He picked up all the wild fruits with a few swipes of his big hands. He picked out two big, red fruits and handed them to Yunzhi, "These two are the sweetest."
Yunzhi looked at Dishu and then at the fruit in his hand. She had been following Qu Yaoyao since she was a child and had never had such close contact with a man, let alone received gifts from a man.
Even though she knew Di Shu had asked her to give the fruit to Qu Yaoyao, her heart still raced as she reached out to take it. A blush spread uncontrollably across her cheeks, and she whispered a "thank you" before hurriedly running back to the tree.
"What's wrong with you?" Looking at Yunzhi who ran back to her, Qu Yaoyao poked her cheek, "It's so red."
Yunzhi was a little embarrassed and annoyed. She stuffed the two fruits into Qu Yaoyao's hands. She said uncomfortably, "This is hot."
"But it's winter now."
"That's the fruit picking fever."
Qu Yaoyao was even more puzzled. "You can't climb trees, so aren't these fruits picked from the ground?"
That was exactly what happened yesterday. Yunzhi was standing guard at the foot of the tree when Dishu leaped up and effortlessly tossed the fruit into Yunzhi's arms. Reminded by Qu Yaoyao, Yunzhi couldn't help but think of Dishu tossing the fruit to her from the tree just now. Even when she missed and let the fruit fall to the ground a few times, Dishu had glanced at her and never scolded her.
The Immortal Lord Dishu, who is cold and cruel in the eyes of outsiders, is actually not as scary as imagined.
Thinking of this, Yunzhi's face turned even redder.
Under Qu Yaoyao's curious gaze, she couldn't help but cover her cheeks and said, "Miss, please stop talking."
Qu Yaoyao chewed the fruit innocently and said, "I didn't say anything."
After a quick snack of fruit, Qu Yushu prepared to take Qu Yaoyao into the mountains according to yesterday's plan. Seeing Qu Yaoyao's joyful expression and no sign of objection, Di Shu hesitated and stopped her before entering the forest, "Master wants you to return today."
Qu Yaoyao remembered these words and nodded, "But I didn't agree."
Didn't she agree?
Di Shu was a little embarrassed. He didn't know what his master had said to Qu Yaoyao, but when he saw his master this morning, he did receive the order from his master to take people back to Wangxu.
It’s better to wait a little longer.
Di Shu thought, after all, the day was long, and Qu Yushu couldn't possibly let Qu Yaoyao live in the mountains. It wouldn't be too late for him to take people back after they came out of the mountains.
He was right to think so. In the afternoon, Qu Yushu led people out of the mountain. The Immortal Venerable's wife, who should have been bright and elegant, had her dress wrinkled and her cloak not on. Her sleeves were half rolled up and her skirt was tied, and she wore a flowery hat on her head and smiled happily. It was definitely an outfit that would not make his master happy.
"Let's go back to the inn." Qu Yaoyao wiped her face, and the mud on her fingertips stuck to her chin.
Di Shu nodded silently and said, "Go back quickly, wash up quickly, there is still time to rush back to Xianxu."
When they returned to the inn, Qu Yaoyao changed her clothes and came out of her room. Di Shu, who had been waiting outside the door, couldn't wait any longer and asked, "Are we leaving now?"
Qu Yaoyao hesitated, "Isn't it too early?"
"It's getting late." Di Shu said, "If we don't leave now, it will be dark."
"Okay then." Qu Yaoyao nodded and turned to knock on Yunzhi and Qu Yushu's room. "Brother, let's go quickly. If we don't leave now, there won't be any good seats left in the teahouse."
Today marks the end of Lady Meng’s four pranks on her brother-in-law.
Under Di Shu's bewildered gaze, Qu Yaoyao patted his shoulder to comfort him, "Don't worry, there will definitely be room if we leave now."
Qu Yaoyao sighed silently in her heart. She had never expected that Di Shu, who looked so serious, actually liked listening to stories even more than she did. At this moment, Di Shu's mind was filled with only two words: it was over.
Before Xie Qingxun left, he not only asked him to take Qu Yaoyao back to Xianxu, but also specifically warned him not to take Qu Yaoyao to the teahouse to listen to those messy stories again.
It was already the afternoon of the next day when Qu Yaoyao finally agreed to return to Xianxu.
The author has something to say: I will go back in the next chapter.
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