Chapter 207, Ten Years...
Ten years later.
In the back mountain of the Wan family, a seemingly ordinary bamboo forest was surrounded by an abrupt fence, on which was planted the Xie family's emblem.
A strange enclave, with a bamboo house that looks completely unremarkable in the middle.
Xie, dressed in black, knocked on the door once again, carrying a food box made of ebony.
"Why are you here again?"
Gong Shi Moyu, who had spent a lot of effort cultivating back to the Golden Core stage, stood behind the door with a helpless smile.
Xie, dressed in black, pushed the food box toward Gong Shi Moyu, saying, "I'm afraid you'll starve to death here."
Gong Shi Moyu looked at the food box with disdain: "Eating this stuff of yours would really kill me."
He brought out a serving of fresh food for two from the stove: "I think you're just here to freeload."
People are always forgetful. When Chu Xingjin and the Wan clan chief were first destroyed, everyone remembered Xie Jiaoyue and Gongshi Moyu as saviors. Ten years later, people mention Gongshi Moyu more with sighs.
Such a promising young genius, now he's only at the Golden Core stage, how pitiful and lamentable.
Xie, dressed in black, used to shield Gong Shi Moyu from the comings and goings of people a few years ago; now, he shields Gong Shi Moyu from loneliness.
"Aren't you considering leaving here?" Xie, dressed in black, buried his head in his food, unwilling to even lift his head.
It smells so good, this is the taste I've been looking for. It's so delicious I'd gladly die here.
Gongshi Moyu shook his head: "Why are you leaving?"
"Although your cultivation level has dropped and it won't be easy to regain it, you are a pill refiner with unparalleled pill-refining skills. As long as you are willing to come out into the world, you will still be sought after by people."
He maintained his status as an elder of the Gongshi Moyu Xie clan, and the path was paved for him. He even collected many pill formulas and sent them to him every year.
Xie Jiaoyue has been gone for ten years, and Gongshi Moyu should also have a new beginning.
Xie, dressed in black, was filled with resentment. If Xie Jiaoyue were here, she would certainly hope that Gongshi Moyu could become a powerful figure, instead of wasting his years here.
Gongshi Moyu patted her belly: "What's the point of alchemy? Isn't cooking better?"
"Yes, yes, alchemy is so boring. No matter how good the pills taste, they don't have much flavor. Cooking is much more interesting. The eight major cuisines are spicy, flavorful, and delicious. Mmm, they make my mouth water."
"What are you talking about? What eight major cuisines? That's ridiculous. Don't spout nonsense and delay Young Master Moyu." After finishing his rant, Xie, dressed in black, lowered his head and stopped moving.
That familiar tone and the somewhat incomprehensible vocabulary were scenes he had dreamed of countless times.
He didn't dare to look up, but just perked up his ears.
"You're back. Why do you look so disheveled? I've run a hot bath; would you like to take a shower?"
"No, let's eat first. I'm starving. You know I haven't had a proper meal in ten years."
"Okay, let's eat first then." Gong Shi Moyu's voice was choked with emotion.
Tears welled up in Xie's eyes, large drops falling into the rice bowl in front of him. Despite his extraordinary cultivation, he couldn't even hold his chopsticks, which spun around on the table with his tears.
He dared not turn around, fearing it was all just a dream or illusion, and in the end he only dared to look up at Gongshi Moyu in front of him.
Before Xie in black, Gongshi Moyu was even more disheveled. The usually elegant young master was now in tears, his face covered in snot and tears. It seemed that if he opened his mouth again, something unfortunate would happen.
He was shaking like a sieve with holes.
The scene was inappropriate, and Xie in black inexplicably wanted to laugh.
“Brother Moyu, you’re a handsome man, but you look ugly when you cry.” Xie Jiaoyue rested her chin on her hand and looked at Gongshi Moyu with a smile. “Lin Daiyu’s tears were the tears of a beauty, but your tears are like a child throwing a tantrum.”
Gongshi Moyu felt like crying and laughing at the same time. She wanted to hug Xie Jiaoyue, but she also wanted to beat this person up.
He released his spiritual sense and sensed that Xie Jiaoyue's cultivation had also fallen to the Foundation Establishment stage. Perhaps because she had suffered in the Demon Realm and the cultivation environment was not as good as his, Xie Jiaoyue did not cultivate back to the Golden Core stage. Now her cultivation was a whole level lower than his own Golden Core stage.
Ah, he's finally lived to see this day.
You're saying he cries ugly, right?
Seeing how calm he is, is that it?
You've disappeared for so many years, and you feel no remorse at all, right?
Today he's going to show Xie Jiaoyue why the flowers are so red!
Gong Shi Moyu, with tears streaming down her face, grinned maliciously: "Black-clad Xie, close the door! Xie Jiaoyue, come here and take your beating!"
"Holy crap, you're serious!"
Xie Jiaoyue leaped onto the table with a monkey-like agility, her toes dancing precisely as she dodged Gong Shi Moyu's whip and the dishes on the table, before flipping over and running to a chair.
"Calm down, listen to me, I didn't do it on purpose. Messages can't be sent back from that place in the Demon Realm, right?"
"Oh dear, I didn't mean it ten years ago. I admit I acted impulsively. There might have been a better way without sacrificing myself, but I couldn't think of it because of the emergency."
"Ouch, it hurts, Brother Moyu, it hurts."
"Black-clad Xie, didn't you say your dream was to watch me grow up? Why don't you do something about it?!"
Xie, dressed in black and facing the wall with his eyes closed, pretended not to see anything. If he fought, there weren't many Xie family members left, and he felt he would be letting down the ancestors of the Xie family. If he didn't fight, he would feel he would be letting down himself for all these years.
Another lash of the whip forced Xie Jiaoyue to retreat back to the table. The cracking sound rang out, and the perfectly good meal was finally ruined.
Xie Jiaoyue gritted her teeth, disregarded everything, and jumped off the table, abandoning all her protective spiritual energy and spells.
She bet that Shi Moyu would catch her.
She threw herself into Gongshi Moyu's arms, lowered her head, and kissed Gongshi Moyu's forehead.
"I miss you."
Successfully applied the Stasis buff to Gong Shi Moyu.
Xie, dressed in black, rolled his eyes.
He knew all along that single people like him had no human rights.
Xie, dressed in black, silently left the room and considerately closed the door for the two of them.
Inside the room, Gongshi Moyu held Xie Jiaoyue in his arms with one hand, while his other hand couldn't help but trace Xie Jiaoyue's eyebrows and eyes.
"You've lost weight."
"Of course, without food or water, we can only consume spiritual energy. And since there isn't much spiritual energy, we have to consume some fat to survive."
Do you miss me?
Xie Jiaoyue didn't answer, and kissed him again.
Her thin, bony figure, exhausted expression, and messy, dirty hair all spoke of her longing.
Countless moments have passed since she considered giving up.
My greatest mission in transmigrating to this world is to prevent the original plot from happening and to stop Chu Xingjin from draining the world's resources to create a version of myself.
When she fell into the demon realm once again, she knew clearly that her mission was over.
With Chu Xingjin gone, Clan Chief Wan will not live either. She can sense the hidden movements of the entire world every day, and the Demon Realm is gradually moving away from the Cultivation Realm.
In about ten years, the Demon Realm will be completely separated from the Cultivation Realm, and there will never be another Chief Wan or Chu Xingjin who would dare to use anything for their own selfish interests.
But, for her own sake...
The most desperate moment was when Xie Jiaoyue's first attempt to return failed.
That battle had exhausted all her cultivation, and the secret technique had overdrawn her strength, causing her to not only be unable to maintain the Nascent Soul stage, but also to fall back to the Golden Core stage.
Early stage of Golden Elixir.
The elixirs have run out.
The old method required enough spiritual energy to awaken the boundary of the cultivation world so that she could return through it, but she couldn't provide that much spiritual energy now.
She had thought of this from the beginning, so she made ample preparations before trying it, healing her injuries, resting, and calculating the few magical treasures she had left.
Using all her magical artifacts except her natal spirit sword, she began her first attempt.
The enormous roar shook the earth and attracted countless magical beasts, but it failed to send her back to the cultivation world.
Xie Jiaoyue suffered a backlash and vomited blood. Before she could wipe it away, she fled in panic.
After making one futile attempt after another, Xie Jiaoyue lay on a cold, huge rock, gazing at the unfamiliar sky.
Perhaps it is because she has already completed her mission, and the world no longer needs her as a variable, so she cannot return smoothly.
fine.
Some of the people she cares about live in the modern world, while others she cares about live in the cultivation world. Her brother, whom she has protected since childhood, is also being protected by her this time. In the future, he will be able to use the reputation she has built up to act arrogantly and domineeringly in the Xie family and enjoy a peaceful life.
Having accomplished all this, it seems that she can never go back, and it doesn't matter. When her spiritual energy is exhausted and she silently perishes, it seems that this is the ending that was written for her.
But I really want to cry.
She wants to go back; she must go back.
Gong Shi Moyu is so handsome, the perfect childhood sweetheart, and she didn't even get to sleep with him, how could she die!
Xie Jiaoyue leaned against Gongshi Moyu: "Brother Moyu, my natal spirit sword is gone."
She had killed magical beasts for ten years and accumulated magical cores for ten years. She awakened her natal spirit sword once again, shattered the sword and broke through the barrier, and rushed back before the two realms were completely separated.
"It's alright, my natal magic weapon is still here, I can still make candy for you to eat."
“Brother Moyu, my natal spirit sword is gone. I’m afraid I won’t be able to become a high-level cultivator in the future.”
The shattering of her natal spirit sword caused irreversible damage to her dantian.
"I'm just an ordinary alchemist. From now on, we'll eat Xie the Black-Clad's coffin lid together."
Xie Jiaoyue laughed out loud, wondering what Xie in black had done to Gong Shi Moyu over the years. Even a model student like her had learned to covet someone else's coffin lid.
"That's not necessary. My mother is so rich, and I have a good business sense. I don't need to covet the meager sums that Xie in black has."
“Then let’s go back to the Southwest Region. What does cultivation matter? A business empire is what matters. You’ll be a legendary entrepreneur in the future, and every cultivator will have to bow down to you.”
Xie Jiaoyue patted her own little ribs. "Not bad, but we should go back later and fatten up a bit, otherwise Mother will worry."
"good."
Everything is fine.
As long as Xie Jiaoyue can appear before Gongshi Moyu, everything will be fine.
Ten years is nothing, a hundred years is also possible.
No, he can't wait a hundred years.
"Gong Shi Mo Yu, kiss me."
Gongshi Moyu hugged Xie Jiaoyue tightly, holding his precious treasure that he had lost and found again, and reverently pressed a kiss to her.
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How an ordinary person can succeed in the entertainment industry?
Tian Jin is a staunch materialist. Even though he encountered various "paranormal events" early in his career, he firmly believed in science and rejected feudal superstition.
A late-night job interview is interrupted by an S-class werewolf king who blocks the way, his shadow obscuring the red moon, his fangs dripping blood.
The agent was so frightened her legs went weak: What...what should we do?
Tianjin calmly called the police: "I've reported it; someone is walking their dog without a leash."
After hanging up the phone, he casually ruffled the trembling head of the "big dog": "Good boy, don't run around next time."
During the performance, the beautiful lead singer's face revealed eerie blue scales, and her trousers gradually disintegrated to reveal a sticky fish tail.
The bewildered audience, their eyes filled with blood and tears, chased and clung to each other, drooling as they did so, like walking corpses.
Tian Jin punched a sasaeng fan in one go and sincerely praised the lead singer: "Your stage outfit is quite unique."
During a live variety show broadcast, the elderly director of an orphanage had all ten fingers severed, leaving the corridor stained with blood.
Tian Jin gently patted the gluttonous boy next to her who was chewing on his severed finger: "Spit it out."
The Taotie, which was being filmed and appeared to be gagging, gleamed with a fierce light in its eyes.
Tianjin casually handed him a lollipop: "Sweetie, you can't eat junk food, it's unhygienic."
A werewolf who transforms into a golden-haired creature & a mermaid whose spiritual power goes berserk & a gluttonous beast that eats its fill for the first time: What is your identity?
Tianjin: Hmm, the Five Stresses and Four Virtues Youth?
I'm so tempted! Is it too late to join the Party now?
At each scene, the clerks who arrived late wrote down the findings: the situation was suspected to have been resolved by an unidentified high-ranking force.
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Department of Indigenous Affairs recently issued a top-level alert.
The observer reported in alarm: "Report! An unidentified high-level entity has appeared, its energy level cannot be determined! Danger level: Destruction level!"
Vice Minister You Sujiu looked at the newly crowned top star on the stage and slowly wrote down his instructions.
"The target is extremely dangerous and requires 24-hour close monitoring. Executor: You Sujiu."
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