He's here.
"Heh, the God of Fate says I'm destined for a calamity, so what? He wants me to go into seclusion and banish me from the Heavenly Court. What gives him the right?"
The man in the dark robe seemed very angry. He flicked his hands, tucked his sleeves behind his back, and said...
"Lord Guan Nan, the Heavenly Emperor is acting in your best interests. The predictions of the Star Lord of Destiny have never been wrong in the past ten thousand years. This calamity you are about to face..."
"Afraid of what?"
The fairy knelt on the ground with a thud, lowered her head and hesitated for a long time before daring to speak: "I'm afraid my primordial spirit will be destroyed."
"Heh heh, I am the dignified Crown Prince of the Heavenly Realm, and you want to banish me to the mortal world and demote me, making you call me 'Your Excellency'? Heh heh heh, what a joke."
The man in the black robe waved to the fairy: "My coming today is to celebrate Father God's birthday. From now on, I will walk my own path. Do not come looking for me again."
After saying that, he turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared from the spot.
"Ah! Lord Guan Nan, Lord Guan Nan, please don't go!" The fairy in front of her was so anxious that she spun around on the spot.
Mengli felt awkward about staying there any longer, so she took advantage of the chaos to leave the Heavenly Palace.
"Sigh, I was thinking of coming out to have fun and see the happy world outside, but it turns out there's so much unhappiness out there too. I think I'll go back and play with Fatty Carp instead."
When Mengli reached the edge of the Heavenly Palace, the old crane was still waiting for her at the entrance.
Were you waiting for me?
Before the old crane could react, she swiftly mounted it, her lack of resistance signifying her consent.
The old crane carried her, stumbling and swaying as it had on the way there, but this time Mengli had learned from experience and would no longer slip down because she hadn't held on tight enough to the rope.
Back at the entrance of the Xuan Palace, the old crane slowly landed. Mengli waved goodbye to it, but the crane turned its head away aloofly.
"Why are you still ignoring people? Here, take this. It's a fruit I just brought out from the inner palace to celebrate the Heavenly Emperor's birthday. You can have two of them. They're both top-grade immortal fruits, and they might be of some help to your old ailment."
Mengli placed the fruit at the old crane's feet, then turned and entered the Xuan Palace.
The first thing she did when she got back was to dig out the half-eaten steamed bun she had hidden the day before and run to the pond where the fat carp was.
"Fat carp, fat carp."
Mengli looked around but couldn't find the fat carp. Finally, she called out to the lotus leaves in the center of the pond, and a familiar and muscular figure swam over, wagging its tail fin.
Seeing its chubby and clumsy appearance, Mengli couldn't help but chuckle. Then she broke the steamed bun in her hand into small pieces and threw them into the water.
"You'll feed him anything."
A male voice suddenly came from behind her, which startled her so much that she shivered and quickly ran to hide by the artificial hill by the pond.
Mengli was an abandoned child left over from the era of the gods. She had neither magical power nor any spiritual power or roots. Out of reverence for the era of the gods, the Heavenly Realm reluctantly allowed her to live in this Xuan Palace.
However, this place is located in a remote area, and Mengli is rumored to be an ominous person. Therefore, no living person has ever set foot here for thousands of years, let alone that the voice came from a man.
After a long while, she slowly poked her head out and looked toward the source of the sound.
The man before them was none other than Guan Nan, the Crown Prince of Heaven, whom they had just met at the Heavenly Emperor's birthday banquet.
He was sitting by the pond, poking at the fat carp in the water with a branch he had broken off from a tree.
Fat Carp dodged left and right, trying to break free several times, but Guan Nan used magic to freeze it in place each time.
"Hey, stop it, stop it."
Mengli was initially scared, but Guan Nan's prodding of the fat carp that kept her company made her furious. She rushed in front of Guan Nan and knocked the small branch out of his hand.
"How can you be so rude? You come to someone else's turf and then try to hit their friend."
Mengli put her hands on her hips, raised her neck, and tried her best to create an imposing aura for herself.
"Friends? Do you even know what that is? You're just saying it's friends." Guan Nan said sarcastically, a slight smirk playing on his lips.
"I don't care what it is. In the past ten thousand years, no one in your Heavenly Realm has ever come to see me, no one has ever cared whether I have food to eat, or whether I have warm clothes to wear when it gets cold. And you still have the nerve to care who I play with."
Mengli was truly angry. She had been abandoned here for ten thousand years, with no one coming and no one letting her leave. Finally, a fish appeared, and this prince, who appeared out of nowhere, wanted to kill her fish.
Guan Nan ignored her, broke off another branch, and continued to poke the fat carp.
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're good-looking!"
Seeing that the other party showed no restraint and ignored her, Mengli originally intended to curse him out, but for some reason, she looked up and met Guan Nan's handsome profile. Her words were on the tip of her tongue, but her mind changed them before she finally spoke.
Guan Nan still ignored her, his hand holding the tree branch froze in mid-air for a while before he threw the branch away, stood up, and went into Meng Li's room.
Mengli finally breathed a sigh of relief; that handsome guy was no longer causing trouble for her fat carp.
Wait... he, how did he?! He went to my room?!
"Hey, wait a minute, that's my room!"
Mengli ran up and blocked the doorway: "What...what are you going to do? This is my room. How can you go into a girl's room without permission?"
"This place is mine from now on. You can find somewhere else to live."
Guan Nan coldly uttered a sentence, then pushed Meng Li away and slammed the door shut.
Mengli stood alone in front of the door, her face blank. That handsome guy, he'd taken over someone else's place?
But there was nothing she could do. She had no magical power, had never been full in ten thousand years, and was even weaker than an ordinary woman.
I can't beat him... Never mind, I'll just go live in a side room.
Next to the main hall is a small side room, which was previously a temporary residence built by the fairy. It was a bit simple, but after tidying it up, at least there was a bed to sleep in.
After tidying up the side room, Mengli went to check on the fat carp in the pond.
The tranquil pond reflected the full moon in the sky, and where the moonlight shone, dappled light and shadow could be seen, revealing the plump carp floating motionless on the surface.
"Ah, Fatty Carp. Fatty Carp?"
Seeing that the little guy was not moving, perhaps because Guan Nan's dog had been injured during the day, Meng Li ran to the edge of the pool and called out to it a few times with heartache.
The fat carp remained still, floating in place without turning its head, so it was probably still alive. However, many of its scales had been punctured, and in some places, flesh and blood were exposed.
"Fat Carp, hang in there for one night. Tomorrow I will go up the mountain to find some herbs to heal your wounds."
Mengli said, looking at the plump carp floating in the pond.
The next morning, Mengli carried a bamboo basket and went up the barren mountain early.
No sooner had she left than the person inside the Xuan Palace sat down by the pool and began to speak.
"How long do you intend to hide? Do you know who I am? Aren't you afraid I'll kill you right now?"
Suddenly, a golden light flashed, and the fat golden carp in the pond fell to the ground with the golden light, transforming into a human form.
"Greetings, Your Highness. I am Ksitigarbha, a disciple of the Immortal Venerable of Wuliang Mountain. I am here on my master's orders to guard that little immortal. I concealed my form to avoid trouble. I hope Your Highness will forgive me."
Ksitigarbha raised his hand in a salute and respectfully replied to Guan Nan.
Guan Nan frowned slightly: "Oh? That little fairy has no spiritual power at all. She's been trapped in this desolate mountain for ten thousand years without coming out. Does she need your Wuliang Mountain disciples to monitor her?"
"Your Highness may not know this, but a few days ago, the Celestial Venerable cast divination and predicted that this woman is likely the source of the future calamity. She also possesses an ancient weapon that has recognized its master, so we must be wary of her."
"What a joke! I hate you fortune tellers who spout nonsense. That old man who tells fortunes for me said I have a fatal calamity and must descend to the mortal realm to avoid disaster and stay away from the heavenly realm. Heh, I'm afraid he's taken bribes from my second and third brothers, and what he wants me to stay away from isn't disaster, but the throne of the Heavenly Emperor."
"Your Highness, the Heavenly Venerable's divination has never been wrong. The Star Lord of Destiny, who governs the cycle of fate in the Heavenly Realm, would not speak recklessly either. You should be careful."
Ksitigarbha bowed again and respectfully offered words of comfort.
"Bullshit about destiny! I only believe what I see. The Father God is still looking for me, wanting to capture me and banish me to the mortal realm. Now that I've hidden in this remote Xuan Palace, if you dare to reveal my whereabouts, don't blame me for severing your spiritual root with one palm strike, making it impossible for you to cultivate immortality again."
Guan Nan raised his arm in a threatening gesture.
"this...."
Ksitigarbha has always been stubborn. When he was cultivating in Wuliang Mountain, he offended many fellow disciples because of his inflexibility. Even the Heavenly Venerable shook his head repeatedly when he mentioned him.
However, he had heard about the arrogant and unruly behavior of the Crown Prince of the Heavenly Realm in Wuliang Mountain. Even the Heavenly Emperor often couldn't do anything about him and had to give in to him. Otherwise, if this guy got angry, he could overturn the Heavenly Palace.
“Your Highness, unless someone from the Heavenly Realm comes here looking for you, I will not tell anyone about your whereabouts.”
“You can’t tell me if you come looking for me here.”
"I'm not one to lie."
This time, Ksitigarbha's expression was serious, clearly indicating that he had already made the greatest concession.
Seeing that this blockhead was unwilling to back down, Guan Nan had no choice but to give up and ignore him. However, he suddenly felt a little hungry and began searching for food throughout the hall.
In just a short while, Mengli had already entered the desolate forest.
The Xuan Palace was built on the cliffs of a desolate mountain, and once you stepped out of the palace gates, you were in the wilderness.
But precisely because this place is so remote, the celestial children never come here to gather herbs, so the medicinal herbs here are nourished by the essence of heaven and earth, making them even more potent and aged.
Mengli didn't know which herbs were effective. Whenever she felt unwell or hungry, she would come to this desolate mountain to pick fruits and herbs to eat. If the herbs didn't kill her or made her feel better after eating them, she would list them as effective herbs.
"Hey, this is good. I thought I had eaten them all. I didn't know there were still so many growing here."
Mengli picked an unknown fairy herb, which was her favorite snack. Every time she ate it, she would feel drowsy and wake up feeling refreshed and not hungry for more than a month. Even her skin would become more moisturized.
There is an old fruit tree on the cliff. It is called an old fruit tree because it has been there ever since Mengli woke up.
For ten thousand years, it has never declined, and the fruit it bears is always large and sweet. However, it grows on a cliff, with the Heavenly Pool below. Once someone falls into the Heavenly Pool, even an immortal will be reduced to ashes. Therefore, no matter how tempting the fairies are, they all hesitate to approach the fruit tree on the cliff.
"Hey, hey, the fruit is too tall. I can only pick two, and then I can't reach any more."
Mengli shook her head dejectedly and stepped back from the edge of the cliff. The remaining fruits were too tall for her to reach.
She looked at her basket, which was full of medicinal herbs. With the two large, plump fruits, she should have enough food for the next few days.
Mengli swung the basket on her back and carried it on her shoulder. The heavy basket weighed her down so much that she couldn't straighten her back, and she staggered back to the Xuan Palace.
She put down the bamboo basket at the entrance of the side hall and went back inside to get a drink of water, only to find that the fruit she had secretly taken from the Heavenly Emperor's birthday banquet the day before was gone.
"I clearly put it on my bedside table. I only took that one. I can't be mistaken. Where did it go?"
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