The Golden-Winged Roc snorted coldly and glanced at the Oriole with icy eyes: Isn't it just that you want to see this fox make a fool of himself?
Of course, he understood this in his heart, but he wouldn't say it out loud.
Bai Qing then said, "Since you've come out all this way, why don't we go to a restaurant together for drinks and music?" With that, he pulled the Golden-Winged Roc away.
Bai Jiuxiao had probably heard the Golden-Winged Roc's cry and rushed over from afar, relieved to see Liu Ying was unharmed. But then he saw Bai Qing seemingly very familiar with the livid-faced Golden-Winged Roc, and, puzzled, he stepped forward and asked, "Bai Qing, isn't this the Golden-Winged Roc?"
Bai Qing: "Yes! He is the Empress's mount. However, Her Majesty's rule is extremely strict, and he is rarely allowed to go out. Sometimes I feel sorry for him."
"A mount?" Bai Jiuxiao exclaimed in surprise.
Bai Qing: "Yes, didn't you know? Eh? I heard that when the Empress went to Mount Ling to avenge the severed tail and took him as a slave, you went with her. Oh, it seems that you and Yingying both went." He looked surprised as he spoke.
"Do you want to go drink and eat meat or not?" Xiao Jin asked impatiently when he saw him chatting with the two female foxes.
"Go on, let's go!" Bai Qing hurriedly said, bowing to Bai Jiuxiao and saying, "I'll take my leave now." Then he and the Golden-Winged Roc entered the most famous restaurant in Qingqiu.
Bai Jiuxiao murmured, "That time when we went to Lingshan, we actually thought she might be eaten by the Golden-Winged Roc, ha!" He couldn't help but laugh bitterly at himself as he spoke.
Liu Ying said, "Mother, why? She is just my nine-tailed fox, why is she so powerful, while I am..." It was a long story! She started to sob.
Bai Jiuxiao said helplessly, "Although she is already so powerful, she has never given up on cultivation all these years and has been working hard with Bai Qing to learn weapon crafting. What about you?"
Liu Ying was speechless after being asked that question.
Bai Jiuxiao sighed, "She's right. I also bear responsibility for how you've become like this! I should have made you realize back then that the Nine-Tailed Fox was broken and that you could no longer rely on your ancestral inheritance, but had to rely on your own hard work in cultivation. But I was so focused on finding the Nine-Tailed Fox for you that I rarely urged you to work hard in your cultivation."
Liu Ying cried, "Mother, the Nine-Tailed Fox was originally mine. What's wrong with you wanting to help me find it? What's wrong with me wanting to find what I've lost?"
Bai Jiuxiao shook his head and said, "What's lost is lost. Don't cry. Work hard in your cultivation in the future, and you'll still have a chance to achieve great things."
Liu Ying didn't speak, she just cried. She felt that cultivation was too bitter and tedious. Was this really the only path she could take?
She truly couldn't understand: for every fox in Qingqiu, cultivation was the only way out, not just for her.
Liu Ying disliked cultivation, and her progress was always slow, which also meant her lifespan wouldn't be very long. However, thanks to the bloodline and genes of the fox clan's royal family, she still lived for thousands of years.
For thousands of years, Chu Nian not only learned the art of weapon crafting from Bai Qing, but also sought out weapon crafting masters everywhere. For this reason, he even took the opportunity to go to the underworld again to pester Lin Jingting to learn the art of weapon crafting.
Lin Jingting was puzzled as to why this Qingqiu Empress, who could have any magical artifact she wanted, insisted on learning artifact crafting. However, she was so persistent that she eventually taught her a lot of the artifact crafting techniques she knew.
Although the original owner didn't have a particularly strong desire for revenge against Liu Ying, Chu Nian's soul was extracted from this world after Liu Ying's death. It seems the original owner did have some obsession with Liu Ying.
As Chu Nian fell into her new body, a flood of memories rushed into her mind. She heard a cacophony of anxious and terrified cries all around her. She felt a sharp pain in her leg, as if the original owner of this body had either broken her leg or been beaten before she transmigrated.
The original owner of this body had probably fainted due to the excruciating pain from her broken leg. When she opened her eyes, she found a huge creature surrounded by a group of people.
The enormous creature, several meters tall, resembled a dinosaur, but Chu Nian's spiritual probe revealed that it was actually a lizard, its cells filled with an energy source that would frighten humans—nuclear energy.
Not only that, Chu Nian also sensed that the air in this world was filled with this powerful and deadly energy. If humans lived in such air, probably no one would survive for long.
In the original owner's memories, humanity lived in a vast spatial shield that kept intense nuclear radiation out.
Although this space shield is very large, the area it covers is ultimately limited. Moreover, outside the shield are all kinds of enormous beasts, strange plants, and even giants—creatures that resemble humans but are much larger.
These creatures were all mutated due to nuclear radiation. Giants were created from a group of humans who mutated after being exposed to too much nuclear material; like wild beasts and strange plants, they feed on humans.
Normal humans are like ants in the face of these enormous monsters.
However, the original owner lived nearly two hundred years after the world began to mutate. Humanity survived the most difficult first ten years of the mutation, and then found the Azure Sky, a space shield that isolated large amounts of nuclear radiation.
In fact, the sky has a unique characteristic: at its center, in a place called Huai Mountain, the air in this region contains almost no nuclear factors. However, the farther away from Huai Mountain, the higher the concentration of nuclear factors.
In other words, even within the heavens, there are not completely nuclear-free systems; it's just that the intensity of nuclear radiation varies.
Humans, having lived in nuclear-contaminated air for years, have undergone various mutations and developed a certain degree of resistance to nuclear pollution. However, those living on the outermost edge of the sky have a much shorter lifespan than those living near Huai Mountain.
Over the past two centuries, humanity has established a relatively complete system for living in the heavens. Those with special abilities and the capacity to protect the heavens are assigned to houses near the mountains, while those far from the mountains are assigned to houses elsewhere.
On one hand, those with supernatural abilities must protect the heavens and defend against monsters that attempt to invade them; on the other hand, they must explore Huai Mountain, because for two hundred years, people have still been unable to truly enter Huai Mountain and know very little about it.
To date, human exploration of Mount Huai has only reached its outer areas, and no one has been able to penetrate deep into the mountain. As for what lies at the deepest part of Mount Huai, or what it is like, no one knows.
Because there is no nuclear contamination near Mount Hoai, people believe that materials capable of resisting nuclear contamination are hidden deep within the mountains. If such materials are found, it may be possible to find a cure for the many ailments caused by radiation.
The original owner's name was Wu Nian, a natural-born superhuman, 22 years old, and a recent college graduate.
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