Chapter 15 Blood Moon Secret Realm (10) You are the Goddess
Shi Xianxue nervously squeezed out a double chin, her voice tense: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong? Immortal, can you see clearly like this? Do you need me to take it off for you to see? But why does it seem to be stuck to my skin?"
"No need." The immortal didn't say much, only vaguely saying, "The human heart is more treacherous than mountains and rivers, and harder to know than the heavens. You must be more cautious in the future. Don't let others handle your personal belongings casually."
Shi Xianxue nodded as if she understood but not quite.
The old immortal smiled knowingly, about to say something more, but when he saw Shi Xianxue's face clearly, his expression suddenly changed. He widened his eyes in disbelief, moved closer to Shi Xianxue, as if trying to find a flower on her face.
Shi Xianxue dared not move, and could only let the immortal observe her. After a while, the immortal staggered back a few steps and almost fell, his finger trembling as he pointed at her, "Where is the heartwood?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Xianxue's expression changed.
Tree heartwood?
That golden-red flame?
Judging from the old man's expression, it must be something very important.
“If you’re referring to the golden-red flames from the Ember God Tree, then they’re definitely not on me.” She was sweating profusely, fearing that the Immortal Elder would kill her in his rage. “The young man who was with me just now—he’s the one who took the tree’s heart.”
Black stone chips then fell softly from between his fingers, like dried-out charcoal.
Shi Xianxue saw that the mysterious mask that the Cloud Grass Immortal had put on had calmly shattered.
To be fair, it's true that the Ember God Tree was killed by Wu Xiutang. As a fellow guardian of the secret realm, would the Immortal Elder hold this mistake against him?
Thinking of this, Shi Xianxue held her breath and dared not speak anymore.
She felt that the old man looked like he was about to break apart.
The old immortal paced anxiously in front of her, then broke down and cried out, “Tree Heart! My Tree Heart! How could it be taken by such an inexperienced and impolite brat? Heaven is going to destroy me! Heaven is going to destroy me! I’m not reconciled!!”
The Cloud Grass Immortal was like a crazy little potato, and very aggressive. Fearing being implicated, Shi Xianxue gave up on asking a million questions and was about to sneak away when the Immortal suddenly jumped up and grabbed Shi Xianxue's clothes. "How can you be so useless? Such an important thing has been stolen."
What if he really is a demon?! What do we do?!
Shi Xianxue gripped his clothes tightly, refusing to let go: "Calm down, Immortal. Since things are already set in stone, why don't we think of a way to get it back?"
"Take it back? You make it sound so easy. That tree heart can only be used to its fullest potential in the hands of the Wushan God Clan. I even planted a love potion in you beforehand to restrain that boy and make him work for you so that you could obtain the tree heart. And you still let him take it."
The old immortal released her with a look of disappointment: "You're really useless."
Shi Xianxue was always good at grasping the key points: "The Wushan God Clan, the lineage of the Wushan Goddess? Could this Blood Moon Secret Realm have been created by the Goddess?"
The book "Cultivation of Immortals" mentions the Wushan God Clan, whose goddesses are women with heads and bodies of snakes. The golden-red snake-shaped vertical stripes are the goddess's totem. In the third secret realm, she discovered this pattern on the Emberfire Divine Tree. The storyteller in the teahouse said that at the beginning of creation, the reason why human beings had difficulty cultivating was because they had seven emotions and six desires. The immortal said that she was pure and true and had a special physique. However, as long as one is human, one cannot escape the shackles of desire. Therefore, the fundamental reason for avoiding the transformation of the shadow is bloodline.
This is the coveted bloodline of Wushan.
Yes, Shi Huaiyu is the legitimate daughter of the Western Liang royal family, and naturally possesses the pure Wushan bloodline. Linglong also belongs to the Wushan clan. Although she is not a member of the royal family, she awakened the Wushan clan's repairing power early on, and is very talented. Shi Huaiyu was unremarkable at first, and just occupied the identity of a royal princess for no reason. After awakening later, she abused her power to help the wicked and eventually suffered the consequences.
But in the beginning, this bloodline did indeed exist to benefit all living beings.
Or perhaps there is a fragment of a goddess's divine consciousness here, which is why the Wushan people who come to the Blood Moon Secret Realm are protected.
Shi Xianxue gradually came to the answer: "You are guiding me step by step so that I can obtain the tree heart and resurrect the goddess."
However, things didn't go as planned. The tree heart was planted in Wu Xiutang's body. Was it because of the love potion, or because he actually had the bloodline of Wushan in his body?
However, the book makes no mention of his bloodline or origins, and even his master is shrouded in mystery...
The immortal chuckled twice, seemingly devoid of any will to live, and lazily glanced at her before replying in a mocking tone, "What are you talking about, resurrecting a goddess? Aren't you the ready-made little goddess?"
Shi Xianxue: "...Immortal, I know you're in a hurry, but don't panic. Let's solve problems as they arise. Don't give up on yourself!"
He lost patience with communicating with Shi Xianxue and gave her a hopeless glance.
Shi Xianxue reached out to tug at the Immortal's mustache, only to see a blood-red vortex appear in the once clear blue sky, indicating that the exit of the Blood Moon Secret Realm was slowly closing.
Seeing that the old man was still half-dead, Shi Xianxue grabbed his shoulders and shook him violently, "Old man, tell me quickly how to retrieve the tree heart! Tell me now!!"
The old immortal was so shaken that his brains almost spilled out. Seeing that he was about to vomit, Shi Xianxue quickly let go of his hand. The old immortal patted his chest and said irritably, "I don't know. Maybe you can get it back after that boy dies."
Shi Xianxue was stunned.
die?
"The heartwood is a divine object, and anyone can wield it. Where does the divine majesty lie? It can bring powerful divine power and give the user endless strength, but it is also a violation of the Dao. Even those with great cultivation levels risk exploding and dying. This kid might accidentally be blown into fireworks."
He died from an explosion? He was blown into fireworks? Shi Xianxue stared in shock, her eyes wide.
What a disgusting scene that was.
“If the divine power within him shows any unusual activity, Xiaoxue, only you can save him.” Gazing at the blood-red vortex that was about to vanish into nothingness, the immortal spoke heavily, his eyes fixed on her, “The Wushan bloodline can save him.”
Before Shi Xianxue could ask any questions, she was pushed into the crimson vortex by a gentle force.
As Shi Xianxue's figure gradually faded into the distance, the immortal straightened up, his figure now slender and graceful. His white hair turned black inch by inch within the colorful spirit consciousness, and the petals rose without wind. In an instant, the entire sea of flowers transformed into a desolate illusion and collapsed downwards.
Shi Xianxue was pushed out of the well by the splashing water. Just as she was about to fall heavily, a cool embrace caught her. When Shi Xianxue saw the person's red and swollen eyes, which were like walnuts, she tentatively called out, "Zhou Zheyue?"
Zhou Zheyue lost contact with the main group and walked alone for a long time. He was chased by monsters and felt hopeless. He was tired and scared. He had never suffered such grievances in his life. When he saw that no one was around, he squatted down by the well and cried his heart out. Suddenly, a miracle flashed before his eyes. His tears were still pitifully hanging in the corners of his eyes, but his hand instinctively and kindly reached out to catch them.
Zhou Zheyue felt that the person in her arms was like a ball of cotton, light and weightless. Holding her was like holding a rose with dew on it. The world was turbid and twilight was dark, but she was spotless, clean and outstanding. When she was spat out by the well, her whole body was surrounded by soft white light.
When the girl called him Zhou Zheyue with surprise in her eyes, his eyes reddened even more. He hugged her tightly as if he had seen a relative, and whispered with sobs, "It's me."
Shi Xianxue naturally saw his reddened eyes, which were filled with grievance. After all, he was just a teenager. In their eyes, he would be a high school student who was inexperienced in the ways of the world. As a senior in college who had been working like a dog for half a year, she immediately felt sorry for him and took the initiative to pat the little dog's head buried in her neck, and comforted him in a stiff voice: "Don't cry, you've made my clothes wet."
Zhou Zheyue remained motionless, and her sobbing grew even louder.
This position actually tested Shi Xianxue's composure quite a bit. She tried to grab his neck and pull him backward, saying, "Don't cry, a real man bleeds and sweats but doesn't shed tears!"
Zhou Zheyue was forced to leave by being grabbed by the back of her neck. Shi Xianxue took the opportunity to jump out. After cautiously observing the surrounding environment, she looked at Zhou Zheyue's red and swollen eyes and felt a little sorry for her: "I'm here now, don't be sad, we didn't abandon you."
Zhou Zheyue cried and looked listless, the discomfort in his chest was so intense that he could not bear it.
There is also a well here, gleaming with white light, indicating that there is more than one passage leading to other secret realms.
"Have you been hiding here all this time?"
The crying puppy looked extremely disheveled, with wet tear stains on his face, messy hair on his forehead, and a few mud marks on his fair face, but it couldn't hide his handsome features. He didn't seem to think that crying was a shameful thing. With a blink of his eyes, the silver bead fell down uncontrollably again: "There are many man-eating monsters here. After I fell in, I couldn't find you, so I had to hide for now."
Shi Xianxue nodded.
The hoarse cry of a flamingo came from not far away, and a dazzling rainbow light bloomed in the sky. Attracted by something, Shi Xianxue's eyes were glued to Zhou Zheyue's neck and she didn't move.
Zhou Zheyue's clothes were torn during the fight, revealing shadowy black patterns. Seeing Shi Xianxue staring at her intently, Zhou Zheyue covered her neck, her tears flowing even more freely: "I don't know why this happened..."
He went into hiding after noticing the changes in his body.
He had a vague idea that the monster he had just hunted was originally a human who had been unintentionally drawn into the Blood Moon Secret Realm and had lost his mind and was trapped here for some reason. After figuring it out, he naturally would not draw his sword against his own kind again, and could only find a secluded place to hide first.
However, he had always had poor mental fortitude. Surrounded by an unfamiliar environment, and with his skills still lacking, the monsters lurking in the shadows could rush up and tear him apart at any moment. Coupled with the fear of being abandoned by his senior brothers and sisters, he cried uncontrollably.
Zhou Zheyue became increasingly distressed as she thought about it, and sat by the well, tears streaming down her face.
"Huh? No, I just wanted to say..." Shi Xianxue's attention was not on this at all. She pointed to the jade pendant around Zhou Zheyue's neck, her face full of greed, "Your jade pendant looks very valuable."
Zhou Zheyue was stunned for a moment. He covered the pattern with his hand and touched the white jade pendant on his chest. He grabbed the silk rope and pulled the jade pendant out, so that Shi Xianxue could see it more clearly.
It is a square jade pendant with densely engraved small characters on its surface, and it emits a faint light when held in the hand.
It's clearly a valuable piece of spirit jade.
It looks even more exquisite than the exquisite one.
Seeing that Shi Xianxue was very interested, Zhou Zheyue took off the jade pendant, wrapped it around the jade thread a few times, and handed it to her. "When I was a child, I was always in poor health, so my mother went to the immortal mountain to ask for this jade pendant for me, to ensure that I would be free from illness and disaster and live a long life."
"It's such an important item, so you'd better put it away carefully, or I might break it." She scratched her head sheepishly. "But it would be best if your mother could also ask me for a jade pendant to bring me wealth, haha."
Zhou Zheyue's expression visibly dimmed. He gripped the jade pendant tightly, his knuckles turning white from the effort. His rose-like lips trembled slightly, and his whole body exuded a lonely and desolate sense of desolation.
It looked like she was about to cry again the next second.
No way, no way, why is he making that expression? It can't be what she's thinking, can it?
After a long silence, Shi Xianxue said in a serious tone with a hint of negotiation, "Brother, how about this, I'll kowtow to you as an apology to our mother, and we can let bygones be bygones today, okay?"
Before she could finish speaking, Zhou Zheyue suddenly hugged the jade pendant and wailed heartbreakingly, "I really miss my mother so much, but she doesn't want me and my father anymore. She divorced my father, waaaaah."
Shi Xianxue: "..."
Seeing that his crying was getting louder and louder, Shi Xianxue was afraid that he would attract the monster, so she quickly covered his mouth.
"Alright, little darling, stop crying. Try to look on the bright side; at least you still have a father, right?"
After gently coaxing him for a while, Shi Xianxue saw a blinding light suddenly appear on the western horizon, and Wu Xiutang's figure appeared and disappeared in that light.
That was the light of the divine tree.
Shi Xianxue pulled the sobbing Zhou Zheyue in a 100-meter sprint, and after struggling to push her into the tree heart rainbow light, she leaned on her knees, panting heavily.
The tree's heart resides within the body; the Wuxiutang itself is the antidote, eliminating the need for the Immortal Fruit of Confusion.
As the blood moon disappeared, everyone's figures also vanished from the secret realm. Shi Xianxue walked at the back, knowing that the monsters could not get close to the light emitted by the tree heart and could only hide in the shadows and wait for an opportunity to ambush. However, Wu Xiutang did not give them a chance and waved his hand to lead everyone out.
The duck that was about to be eaten flew away, and the monsters were so anxious that they scratched their heads and cheeks, and a few black stones fell out from under their tattered trouser legs.
Shi Xianxue paused, as if she had smelled that strange odor again.
What exactly is that?
After successfully escaping the Blood Moon Secret Realm, it was almost dawn. The thick fog dissipated, and the sky was faintly showing the first light of day.
Everyone was fast asleep when the celestial maiden scattered flowers that fell into the grass.
Wu Xiutang looked at Song Qingshu's beautiful face, pondering something. Suddenly, he raised his hand, and the unconscious people jumped up from the grass. With a few loud bangs, their bodies were neatly arranged on the roadside.
Shi Xianxue was biting her fingers and thinking when she was startled by the noise. Just then, she saw a skinny little black dog pok its head out of the grass. It had almost been crushed to death in its sleep and had wet itself in fright.
In the dawn light, she could clearly see the little black dog's predicament.
Normally, she would have laughed at the silly little dog, but now, she unusually put on a stern face and asked, "Tell me, what exactly are those black stones in the old man's basket?"
Wu Xiutang looked at her.
"Is this the fertilizer he picked up in the first secret realm, put in the bamboo basket, and threw to Xiao Huang and the others?" Shi Xianxue gestured.
Wu Xiutang raised an eyebrow, giving him a look that said, "Why are you asking such a stupid question?": "What can I use to fertilize flowers?"
Yes, the most natural ingredient for fertilizing flowers is— Shi Xianxue trembled as she placed her fingertips under her nose. The next second, a towering building inside her collapsed rapidly, scattering rubble. Shi Xianxue let out a groundhog scream. Holding her hand as if it were cramping, she jumped around Wu Xiutang like a madwoman: "Ahhh, it's poop!!"
No wonder the Sea of Boundless Flowers smelled so strange; it turned out to be covered in monster excrement. What's most terrifying is that she not only picked it up with her hands, but also crushed it—with her own precious, delicate hands!
Wu Xiutang frowned as she watched the woman go crazy. From her behavior, she could guess what was going on. So her delicate brows furrowed even more, and her beautiful face was full of disgust: "Get away from me, you stinky woman."
Shi Xianxue stopped her cramping and suddenly got a little angry. So the next moment she turned her attention to him and fearlessly reached out to touch his face, pinching his throat in disgust, "Why are you being mean to me again? I don't smell bad at all. You're disgusting me like this, it really hurts me."
As those hands, covered in black shavings, touched him repeatedly, Wu Xiutang's face was filled with astonishment and shock.
He knew perfectly well what those black flakes were, and this damned woman actually dared to touch his face.
After being touched by those hands, he felt that even his breath smelled foul. A string of lit firecrackers was thrown into the air, crackling and sparking, igniting his emotions. His temples throbbed, and he became so angry that his breathing became rapid.
He wanted to strangle this woman!
Unexpectedly, Shi Xianxue was not as timid as before; instead, she fearlessly offered her neck.
The two were instantly within arm's reach. Wu Xiutang's brows relaxed as the girl's sweet scent and body temperature flowed through their pressed skin like a long snake.
The skin beneath her palms was smooth and delicate, like a ripe peach that had just been peeled in the summer heat. Bathed in sunlight, the girl leaned forward, and the fine downy hairs on her cheeks were clearly visible.
The unprecedented closeness made him feel like he was facing a formidable enemy, and he unconsciously increased the force in his hands. Shi Xianxue sensed his killing intent, but still clung to him affectionately and warmly.
She was beautiful and spoke in a sweet, coquettish voice: "You smell so good, no wonder you said I smell bad."
She died, and he couldn't live either. He was such a person who cherished his life, wishing he could live as long as heaven and earth.
Shi Xianxue was self-aware; the fact that the female lead hadn't warmed his heart even after 800 chapters meant that the strategy of winning him over was simply not going to work. She was as obedient as a rabbit, yet he still didn't like her. Being nice to him was always ulterior motives and premeditations. He never thought the best of people, so why should she do all this useless work? She might as well do the opposite: if she couldn't be the best, then she would be the most unique in his heart.
Wu Xiutang really wanted to strangle her.
But as the murderous intent began to rise, another strange and unfamiliar emotion crept into his heart. At first, it was soft and caught him off guard, but then it became arrogant and wild, like a June storm sweeping away seedlings, leaving him powerless to fight back. It felt as if a heavy lock was branded onto his veins, making even breathing difficult and heavy. When he gazed at her, he would also experience an uncontrollable, frantic heartbeat.
He suddenly lowered his eyes, his dark eyelashes trembling slightly. His arm slipped away from the skin of his neck and slowly slid down, his dark eyes sharpening as he passed over his slender waist and abdomen.
If I had known I would be constantly controlled by her, I would have preferred to have died inside this evil love potion.
Shi Xianxue took advantage of the situation, snuggling against him and loosely wrapping her arms around his lean waist. Noticing the boy's stiff body, she raised her eyes and smiled, just like a self-righteous little monster cub. She didn't even need to speak; Wu Xiutang already knew what she was going to say next.
"Little Wu, you're so kind and sweet-hearted. Could you lend me a new dress from your magic bag? In return, I can braid your hair into a cute braid."
She has very skillful hands; she used to braid the hair of other children when they lived in the courtyard.
Wu Xiutang glanced away as if he had known this all along.
"Let go." His tone was cold and hard, like a stubborn stone. However, when the girl pinched his chin and leaned in, looking at him with her pink and wet cheeks, his gradually cooling breath became heavy again. He pursed his thin, rosy lips tightly, as if he was trying his best to endure something. When he spoke again, his tone was no longer so unyielding.
"Let go and I'll give it to you."
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