Chapter 55 Immortal Lord 055%
“…”
Xie Qingxun is sick.
His immortal body belongs to the water element, but the water element is incompatible with his original body. He stayed at the bottom of the sea for several days in a row, knowing that the water of the desolate sea is not good for him. Now he is lying sick on the ice jade bed, which makes Qu Yaoyao feel soft-hearted and guilty.
He seemed very uncomfortable.
His face was pale and his eyelashes drooped. He looked weak and frail, and he didn't have the strength to speak.
Among his four disciples, only Mo Xuanxiao was proficient in medicine. Xie Qingxun didn't want to call him, but after Qu Yaoyao learned about this, she went to find him in person. At this moment, Mo Xuanxiao was taking his pulse, and he closed his eyelashes and said nothing.
"How is it?" Qu Yaoyao lay beside the couch and looked very concerned.
Mo Xuanxiao had lost a lot of weight recently. Even though Xie Qingxun treated him poorly, he carefully examined his body. After withdrawing his hands, he pondered for a moment, "Your cultivation has been weakened and your energy has been depleted. You need to rest more these days and avoid overexertion."
Qu Yaoyao wrote down everything and asked seriously, "Do I need to take medicine?"
Mo Xuanxiao glanced at Xie Qingxun.
In fact, what he just said was purely for Qu Yaoyao who didn't know much about the matter. To put it bluntly, Xie Qingxun was just overworked. He didn't need to take any medicine or pay attention to anything. He just needed to meditate and rest for a while.
His eyes met Qu Yaoyao's worried face. He was perceptive and vaguely guessed Xie Qingxun's intention, so he said softly, "I'll write a prescription right away. Take it twice a day. You can take one dose tonight."
"Okay, okay." Qu Yaoyao said as she was about to go out with Mo Xuanxiao. She still had some precautions to ask him, but Xie Qingxun grabbed her wrist.
"You stay." Xie Qingxun's voice was slightly hoarse, and with her black hair loose, she looked like a weak and sickly beauty.
Qu Yaoyao couldn't bear to brush him off and looked at Mo Xuanxiao with embarrassment. At this time, Di Shu beside her said with a stern look, "Don't worry, Madam. I'll bring the medicine over in a moment."
"Okay, thank you for your help then." Qu Yaoyao felt relieved.
After everyone left, she sat next to Xie Qingxun, touched his forehead, and asked softly, "Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
Xie Qingxun's body temperature was extremely cold, and what he craved most at this moment was warmth, so he whispered, "A little cold."
"Then I'll get you another thick quilt." Qu Yaoyao didn't understand what Xie Qingxun meant. She immediately ran down the bed and brought back a thick quilt. After covering Xie Qingxun with the quilt, she asked, "Are you still cold?"
Xie Qingxun pursed his lips and uttered a word: "Cold."
Qu Yaoyao was a little embarrassed. Just as she was about to ask Gu Tianci for more thick blankets, Xie Qingxun grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms. He used his arms to hold her tightly in his arms. The coldness and warmth collided. Qu Yaoyao heard Xie Qingxun's low and hoarse voice above her head, "You won't be cold like this."
...It turns out that he wanted her to hug him.
Qu Yaoyao finally reacted and curled up obediently in Xie Qingxun's arms. She hugged his waist and whispered, "Why are you so awkward?"
Xie Qingxun said nothing and rubbed the top of her head with his chin.
Just like Mo Xuanxiao said, Xie Qingxun was fine and was simply feigning illness. His intention in feigning illness was obvious: he wanted Qu Yaoyao to soften her heart and get closer to him. So after the two of them hugged for a long time, Xie Qingxun asked, "I saved your flower. Are you willing to forgive me now?"
Qu Yaoyao was no longer angry and said, "I forgive you."
She was still half-conscious, so she added, "But you can't be so fierce next time. You're really scary."
Xie Qingxun said "Okay" in response, and then added: "You are not allowed to hate me anymore."
How could Qu Yaoyao dislike him? She wouldn't curse. That was just something she said out of anger. Seeing that Xie Qingxun took it seriously, she suppressed her laughter and nodded, "I don't hate him anymore."
"Then... am I still worthy of your love?" He asked the question that concerned him most.
No one knew how overjoyed Xie Qingxun was that night when he heard Qu Yaoyao say she loved him. For tens of thousands of years of loneliness, no matter what his identity, no one had ever told him he was worthy of love.
But Qu Yaoyao told him she loved him while crying and apologizing, showing such regret. After the joy, Xie Qingxun felt panic. No one knew the pain of loss better than him, so he was afraid of losing and subconsciously wanted to keep the person who loved him. So he hugged Qu Yaoyao tightly and announced his defeat.
Xie Qingxun lost, completely, but he lost willingly.
When his body was immersed in the boundless deep sea, all that supported him in finding the seabed was Qu Yaoyao's crying words: "I thought I could love you."
Now that the question was brought up again, Qu Yaoyao dodged a little, but still mustered up the courage to say, "Although I don't want to admit it, Xie Qingxun, I still like you."
Just because he was willing to dive into the deep sea that he feared most in order to win her back, he deserved to be loved.
"So what about you?"
Qu Yaoyao was a little embarrassed, "Am I worthy of your love?"
Xie Qingxun looked at her intently. Although his expression didn't fluctuate much, his gradually changing color revealed his true emotions. He said, "If it weren't worth it, why would I enter the desolate sea?"
Qu Yaoyao had no idea what a nightmare the desolate sea was to Xie Qingxun. After saying this, he said gloomily, "I never want to go to that annoying place again."
"Okay, let's not go." Qu Yaoyao bravely touched Xie Qingxun's head, and received a cold look from him.
Despite the oppressive look in his eyes, Xie Qingxun hugged her without any rejection, which was undoubtedly tacit indulgence for Qu Yaoyao.
Qu Yaoyao smiled.
A smile that came from the heart of joy, with curved eyebrows and bright pupils, clearly reflected Xie Qingxun's face.
As the two opened their hearts, Qu Yaoyao found out that Xie Qingxun also liked her, and her heart felt like it was filled with honey. She hugged Xie Qingxun and nuzzled him, unable to resist expressing her affection: "I like you so much."
Xie Qingxun, I like you so much.
Listening to her clean and unreserved confession, Xie Qingxun's lips curled up uncontrollably, diluting the indifference between his eyebrows.
"Yaoyao." Absorbing the warmth from her body, Xie Qingxun hugged her tightly and whispered, "Since you have chosen to hold me tight, there is no room for regret."
Either hold him forever or die in his arms.
Qu Yaoyao still didn't know the real 'Xie Qingxun' well enough, so she promised: "I won't let go, and you are not allowed to let go either."
But is love really as beautiful as they imagine?
Love can save a person, but it can also kill him or her just as easily.
“…”
With the Fairy Sword Conference about to be held, there are too many things that Xie Qingxun needs to deal with, and he has no room for laziness.
After pretending to be sick for only one day, he returned to his busy life. Qu Yaoyao could only run to Chengyu Palace every day with the medicine. She was easy to talk to and understood that Xie Qingxun was busy. Seeing that he often couldn't spare the time, she asked him to take the medicine when he was free, and she didn't think too much about it.
Until she saw Xie Qingxun pour the medicine into the flowerpot.
Qu Yaoyao: “…”
Xie Qingxun silently put down the medicine bowl, "I can explain."
Qu Yaoyao didn't want to listen. She felt that the part of Xie Qingxun that belonged to the Qingxi Immortal Venerable was quickly collapsing in her heart. He was no longer cold and desireless, but instead seemed like an awkward and face-conscious child who was afraid of the dark, the cold, and was childish. He even didn't like taking medicine.
The final result of this incident was that Qu Yaoyao watched Xie Qingxun drink the medicine for three days in a row, until Mo Xuanxiao couldn't bear it anymore and said it was okay to stop. Qu Yaoyao reluctantly stopped taking the medicine, but often told Di Shu to take care of Xie Qingxun and not let him overwork.
As their relationship became closer, Qu Yaoyao finally remembered the bag she had forgotten in the corner during her free time.
When she returned from Xingyang Sect, she brought many small gifts she had bought from the lower realms, including a small wooden box given to her by Qu Yushu. When she opened the box, she found a necklace made of seven-colored stones. The dazzling stones matched the style of the previous owner, and a thumb-sized colored stone dangled in the center.
Qu Yaoyao didn't like such fancy and dazzling things, but because it was a gift from Qu Yushu, she put it on her free left hand and shook it twice to comfort herself, "It's actually quite nice."
The bracelet on her right wrist emitted a faint glow, as if expressing dissatisfaction with her owner's praise for the bracelet next to her. Qu Yaoyao quickly touched it and said, "You are the most beautiful."
The phoenix is indeed a beautiful and proud creature.
Qu Yaoyao smiled until her eyes dimmed and she began to think about Chong'an again.
At some point, a rift seemed to have developed between the two, and neither wanted to contact the other again. Qu Yaoyao couldn't help but call Chong'an several times, but she couldn't say it when it came to her lips. Before, she felt ashamed, and now she felt guilty.
Even though Chong'an had warned her thousands of times that Xie Qingxun was not a good man, she still fell in love with him. She felt that she had let Chong'an down.
After hesitating for a long time, Qu Yaoyao looked at the pendant but remained silent, carrying her bag and leaving the room. Previously, she had only given Di Shu a gift, a worthless doll, but Di Shu had always been hanging on the sickle, and Gu Tianci had been jealous of him for a long time.
This time, Qu Yaoyao came to Gu Tianci with a gift. It was a string of sword tassels. Gu Tianci was delighted for a moment, then snorted in complaint, "So you still remember me."
Qu Yaoyao: "I always remember it."
She explained: "I bought the gifts in advance, but I didn't have time to send them a few days ago."
Gu Tianci was too lazy to listen to his explanation. Although he was an immortal king and wore white clothes every day, he learned the style of his master. In essence, he was not a sophisticated and well-dressed young man.
Now, a tassel suddenly appeared on the bare hilt of the sword. He waved it tentatively, raised his eyebrows and said, "Isn't it handsome?"
"Handsome." Qu Yaoyao suppressed her laughter and nodded, "Tianci Immortal Lord is the most handsome."
"Isn't that more handsome than Di Shu with a paralyzed face?"
Qu Yaoyao looked at his face carefully, feeling that this was a fatal question, so she hesitated for a moment and said, "You are both equally good-looking, but neither of you is as good-looking as your master."
Xie Qingxun, who happened to pass by, lowered his eyelashes and smiled silently.
Gu Tianci was angry but dared not speak.
After visiting Gu Tianci, Qu Yaoyao was on her way to find Mo Xuanxiao when she encountered Huang Ying, who was napping in a tree. After a few months of missions, Huang Ying had returned to the Immortal Ruins and was still recuperating. He was the most relaxed of the four disciples.
At first, Qu Yaoyao passed by the tree and didn't see her, until a wild fruit fell from the sky and hit her head. When Qu Yaoyao rubbed her forehead and bent down to pick it up, Huang Ying lay on the branch lazily with her chin propped up, smiling and calling her: "Xiao Xuelian, where are you going?"
She called her Little Snow Lotus, saying she was like the white and sweet snow lotus in the cold pond.
Qu Yaoyao was originally the Snow Lotus of the Cold Pond. Because her secret was unknown to others, she liked the way Huang Ying called her, so she looked up and smiled back at her.
Qu Yaoyao said, "I'm going to find Mo Xuanxiao."
"What do you want to do with him?"
Qu Yaoyao replied obediently: "I bought a gift for him in the lower realm."
"Oh? What is it?"
Qu Yaoyao showed her a worn medical book. In the lower realm, she and Qu Yushu were buying candied haws at a stall when they ran into an old Taoist priest in tattered clothes who had no money for food. Out of kindness, Qu Yaoyao treated him to a meal of plain noodles, and the old Taoist priest gave her the medical book in return.
Qu Yaoyao doesn't know anything about medicine. Di Shu said that Mo Xuanxiao has done a lot of research in this area, so she wanted to give him the book.
"Are you sure this is a medical book?" Seeing this tattered book, Huang Ying narrowed her eyes and propped up her arms.
Qu Yaoyao blinked, "Isn't it?"
She casually flipped through a few pages of the book, which showed the various acupoints of the human body and the directions of the meridians. She couldn't understand them, but she could tell that it was a medical book.
"If you say so, then so be it. Maybe my eyesight isn't very good." Huang Ying didn't argue too much.
She yawned and lazily lay back on the tree. Her yellow skirt fell with her movement, and she stretched out her body and lay on the branch, like a big bird with a beautiful tail.
Qu Yaoyao was about to leave, but after taking two steps she turned back and thought for a moment before saying, "Actually, I also have a gift for you."
"Oh?" Huang Ying drooped her eyelids and didn't raise her head, seeming not to be very interested.
Qu Yaoyao hadn't known Huang Ying would suddenly return, so she hadn't bought her a small gift in the lower realm. The gift she had prepared for her was something she had found in her jewelry box and had never worn before, choosing it based on Huang Ying's personality and preferences.
"This is for you." Qu Yaoyao raised her arm high, holding a golden phoenix hairpin with yellow forsythia flowers between her fingers.
Huang Ying forced herself to look up and chuckled, "It's quite nice."
She praised him without any sincerity, and still did not show any big emotional ups and downs.
Qu Yaoyao was a little at a loss, "Don't you like it?"
Huang Ying stared at the golden phoenix hairpin for a moment, as if trying to figure out someone's preferences. Her red-gold eyes flickered darkly, and she said with a slight curl of her lips, "I quite like it."
As she spoke, she propped herself up with her arms and jumped down from the tall tree. Her bright yellow skirt fluttered in the wind, and she landed smoothly and stunningly.
Huang Ying took the hairpin from Qu Yaoyao's hand and played with it casually. Her eyes noticed the Lian Chao on Qu Yaoyao's wrist and her pupils shrank slightly.
The weather had warmed up in the past few days, and she had shed her heavy cape and put on a single skirt, revealing her wrists when her sleeves fluttered. The Lianchao bracelet on Qu Yaoyao's wrist was just an ordinary bracelet to outsiders because Xie Qingxun had used a trick to conceal it.
Seeing Huang Ying staring at her, she touched her wrist guiltily, "What's wrong?"
She couldn't possibly see through Xie Qingxun's tricks?
Huang Ying came back to her senses, and a slight smile rose at the corner of her lips. She said in a light tone: "The bracelet is very beautiful."
Without lingering on Lian Chao for too long, Huang Ying tilted her head to look at the totem on the hairpin in her hand, noticing that it was carved with a phoenix. She asked, "Do you like phoenixes?"
Although the world of cultivation is terrified of phoenixes, they don't pay too much attention to women's jewelry.
Qu Yaoyao wanted to nod but hesitated for a moment, so she just replied vaguely, "Phoenix is very beautiful."
"It's really beautiful." Huang Ying smiled.
Her delicate features were gorgeous and charming when she smiled. She put the hairpin into Qu Yaoyao's hair with her backhand and said leisurely, "I accept your kindness. You can keep the hairpin for yourself."
After saying this, she waved and turned to leave.
Qu Yaoyao stared blankly at Huang Ying's back. For a moment, she felt that Huang Ying wasn't acting so easygoing. She was like a sword, an unsheathed sword lying dormant in the darkness, looking gentle and casual, but in reality it was sharp and incisive.
"...Is it an illusion?" Qu Yaoyao felt that her feelings were always accurate.
Touching the pendant, she wanted to ask Chong'an something but held it back. Rubbing her hair in frustration, she turned around and went to look for Mo Xuanxiao, holding the medical book.
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