A malefic star appears
She kept the room clean and tidy; there was no clutter on the table or floor, and a single piece of fruit would be impossible to miss.
So she bent down and searched under the cabinet and under the bed again, but still couldn't find the fruit.
What are you translating?
Just then, a male voice came from behind her. She had almost forgotten that the very handsome guy had moved in with her.
But when she turned around, the very handsome guy was holding a very beautiful fruit and taking a bite.
"Crunch, crunch," she ate one bite after another. In the time it took her to be distracted, the other person had eaten all the fruit except for the pit.
"What...what did you eat?" Mengli got up and rushed over, trying to snatch the fruit back, but when she got closer, she realized that the whole fruit had already been eaten by the other person.
"Fruit, what's wrong?" Guan Nan casually tossed it, the pit forming a graceful parabola, and threw it into the yard.
Mengli's lips twitched: "You took it from my room?"
Guan Nan raised his chin: "Yes, it's on that cabinet. It's not very tasty; it's a bit raw."
This sentence from the other party completely ignited Mengli's anger. In all her ten thousand years, she had never been angry with anyone. Even when she was bullied by the fairies, she would keep quiet and never fight back.
Yesterday, she attended the Heavenly Emperor's birthday banquet, marking the first time in ten thousand years that she had stepped out of the desolate mountain of the Xuan Palace. The Heavenly Realm was truly beautiful; the Heavenly Palace was dazzlingly lit, and the fairies' clothing was a magnificent style she had never seen before. The Heavenly Officials and Star Lords were also so handsome and majestic—all things she had never witnessed before.
She only wanted to secretly bring back a fruit from the celestial palace as a souvenir, and looking at it every day would bring her happiness. But this happiness was ruined by this very handsome... no, by this rude fellow.
Mengli mentally devised a thousand ways to punish the other party, but in the end, she gave up because she didn't have the spiritual power to fight back. She could only angrily say, "You're not allowed to come to my room again!" Then she carried the bamboo basket and walked towards the small pond.
The big, fat carp by the pond had just swum to the edge when Mengli took advantage of its inattention, grabbed it, and placed it on her lap, soaking her pants along with the fish.
Strangely enough, the fat carp did not struggle when it was pulled out of the water; it simply lay quietly on her lap, letting her do as she pleased.
"Hey, Fatty is so good. You understand that I'm going to treat you, right? Don't worry, my medical skills are very good. I'll apply the herbs I picked for you, and you'll be fine tomorrow."
Mengli smiled and carefully rubbed the herb in her palm, trying to extract as much juice as possible.
"It might hurt a little, Fatty, just bear with it."
“I…you…that’s the Soul-Severing Grass, you little girl.”
The fat carp, transformed from Ksitigarbha, immediately recognized it as the forbidden medicine of the Heavenly Realm, the Soul-Severing Grass. If an ordinary minor immortal were to accidentally ingest it, their cultivation would likely be dissipated, and they would become insane. The Heavenly Realm had long regarded the Soul-Severing Grass as a forbidden medicine and had eradicated all Soul-Severing Grass from the world. Where did this little girl get it from?
Seeing that Mengli was about to cover him with the Soul-Severing Grass, Dizang quickly struggled. However, he could not reveal his true form at the moment, and his fish body was seriously injured because of Guan Nan's teasing, so he had little strength. After only a few thrashings, Mengli forcibly held him down and applied the herb to his body.
"Aaaaaaah, it hurts so much!!!" Ksitigarbha endured the excruciating pain, without revealing his true form, and only screamed loudly in his heart.
Mengli had no spiritual power and couldn't hear Ksitigarbha's cries, but the other one was different.
"Hahahaha, serves you right! You pretended to be a fish and even feigned injury to gain sympathy. Now look what you've done, you've reaped what you sowed." This scene was witnessed by Guan Nan, who was sitting on the roof sunbathing. Hearing Dizang's inner voice, he couldn't help but mock the other party with his own thoughts.
Hearing the other party's mockery, Ksitigarbha had no strength to say anything more, because the effects of the Soul-Severing Grass had already taken hold. He felt dizzy and lightheaded until he was picked up by a pair of hands and put back into the water, at which point he completely passed out.
"Huh? Why did you turn pale? Hmm... right, I always faint for a few days after eating this herb. It's okay, this herb has strong spiritual power. Ordinary people like us... and ordinary fish can't absorb such strong spiritual power all at once, so it's normal to faint. You should rest well, I need to go get back to work."
When Mengli saw the fat carp flip over headfirst in the pond, she was about to panic, but then she suddenly remembered that this was due to the strong medicinal effect of the immortal herb. So instead of being worried, she felt that the immortal herb was working its magic and that the fat carp was recovering quickly. She was very satisfied with her medical skills and went to work with a smile and a bouncy gait.
She was going to sort through the magical herb she had brought back, which was her main food source. Eating that herb would keep her from feeling hungry for half a month.
Wash and dry these herbs by the stream in the backyard; they will last longer.
"Fool, what do you need this for?" Guan Nan had quietly appeared behind her without her noticing.
Upon hearing Guan Nan's voice, Meng Li didn't turn around, but said irritably, "Eat up, otherwise do you think I've lived this long without spiritual power?"
"You eat that thing? And you've been eating it for ten thousand years??" Guan Nan exclaimed in shock upon hearing this.
That substance is a forbidden medicine in the Heavenly Realm. If a minor immortal consumes it, they lose all their magical power and descend into madness. Even someone like Guan Nan, a master of spiritual power, would suffer damage to their consciousness after consuming it, requiring a massive expenditure of spiritual energy to recover. How could a minor immortal with no spiritual power have consumed it for ten thousand years without any ill effects?
"Hmm, what's wrong? There used to be a lot of these magical herbs on this barren mountain. I thought I had eaten them all, but today I found another patch in a dense forest. I'm so happy." Mengli shook her head and said with a smile.
"Freak, no wonder they've left you here for ten thousand years." Guan Nan coldly remarked before turning back to the main hall.
"Tch, what a trashy immortal lord, and a prince at that? He has no manners at all. What good is being good-looking?" Mengli muttered irritably before continuing her work.
Guan Nan heard these words from afar. He had already lain down, but suddenly got up to teach her a lesson. However, when he heard the last sentence, he suddenly stopped and lay back down on the bed in the main hall.
Days passed by like this. Mengli would eat the fairy grass once a week. Before eating the fairy grass each time, she would first apply the juice of the fairy grass to the fat carp, put it back in the pond, and only after confirming that the fat carp had turned white would she return to the side hall to eat the fairy grass and sleep for a week.
Guan Nan simply watched them go through the cycle endlessly, and even when he got tired of it, he didn't step out of the Xuan Palace.
In the celestial realm, the Heavenly Emperor's Palace stands majestically atop the nine heavens, shrouded in celestial aura.
The immortals hurriedly arrived on auspicious clouds, as if summoned to discuss important matters.
"Fellow immortals, does anyone know the whereabouts of my son, Guan Nan?"
The Heavenly Emperor sat on the main seat in the hall, slowly opening his mouth and looking at the assembled immortals.
The immortals looked at each other, shaking their heads, not daring to look directly at the ruler in the hall, unable to answer the Heavenly Emperor's question.
"Xuan Ye Xingjun, you speak." The Heavenly Emperor waved his hand and looked at Xuan Ye Xingjun in deep thought.
"Your Majesty, your humble servant led the officials in searching the entire Heavenly Palace, but we were unable to find His Highness the Crown Prince. Even my magical artifact, the Tracking Glass Ring, could not locate him." Xuan Ye Xingjun clenched his fists, his voice slightly weak.
The Heavenly Emperor turned to Siming and asked, "Siming Star Lord, what do you think we should do now?"
"Your Majesty, Xuan Ye Xingjun's magic weapon can find every living being with spiritual power in heaven and earth, this..."
"You mean? The reason we can't find him might be because something bad happened to my son?"
The Heavenly Emperor was furious. He and Si Ming had set up the scheme to ensure Guan Nan could escape his fate. Xuan Ye Xing Jun's treasure could not find Guan Nan's whereabouts. Could it be that he had already met his demise?
"Your Majesty, my calculations are absolutely correct. We have not yet reached the timeline for the start of the life-threatening tribulation. Perhaps the Crown Prince has learned some new techniques and concealed his form."
"Impossible! My son is unruly and hates cultivation. He has driven away all the masters who taught him cultivation techniques. Where could he learn new techniques? A fairy even saw him on the day of the birthday banquet. How could he have mastered them in just over a month?"
One of the military generals guarding the border suddenly spoke up: "Since that calamity is caused by a female immortal, why don't we lock up all the female immortals and prevent them from having the chance to meet His Highness the Crown Prince? Wouldn't that avoid the calamity?"
The Heavenly Emperor rolled his eyes at the other party: "There are tens of thousands of female immortals in the Heavenly Realm, are you going to lock them all up? How long are you going to keep them locked up?"
These words drew a burst of laughter from the hall.
The Star Lord of Destiny shook his head; it was truly absurd. But all of this began with a celestial event two months prior.
That day, the priests at the Observatory were on duty when suddenly the sky changed. The stars that were originally in their fixed orbits suddenly changed positions and an unknown star appeared. This star shone with an eerie purple light and devoured other main stars along the way, gradually approaching the companion star next to the Emperor Star with unstoppable force.
Upon witnessing this sudden change, the priest immediately reported to the Star Lord of Destiny. According to his calculations, the prince of the celestial realm, represented by the companion star, would encounter and become entangled with the celestial fairy, represented by this evil star, ultimately causing a cataclysmic calamity, also known as a calamity of fate.
The God of Fate reported to the Heavenly Emperor overnight. The Heavenly Emperor discussed the matter with his ministers and finally had to adopt the suggestion of the immortals, sending the Crown Prince Guan Nan to the mortal realm to avoid disaster.
Guan Nan was a loner and rebellious by nature, never believing in any kind of divination. Besides, Guan Nan never got close to female immortals, so no matter what abilities she had, she couldn't get near him. Let that evil star come; he'll kill gods and evil as he encounters, and get rid of that thing.
However, the people in the Heavenly Realm felt that they could not take the risk and decided to wait until the Heavenly Emperor's birthday banquet was over before sending Guan Nan down to the mortal realm.
Guan Nan could not do as they wished. Meeting Meng Li on the day of the birthday banquet gave him inspiration. The Xuan Palace where Meng Li was located was a desolate place in the Heavenly Realm. Because this woman was recognized by the ancient weapon, powerful beings from all over the world joined forces to set up a barrier on that desolate mountain to hide the aura there. Therefore, Guan Nan followed Meng Li into the Xuan Palace and hid there.
Therefore, even though it is a celestial treasure, its whereabouts cannot be found.
Soon, the urgent search for the prince convened by the Heavenly Emperor ended inconclusively. No one could find the prince's whereabouts, and the officials could only continue searching for his presence.
"What are you still doing here? What are you doing? Did you poke my fat carp again?"
Mengli, who had been asleep for a week, quietly woke up. Rubbing her eyes, she was about to go to the small pond to visit the fat carp when she ran into Guannan, who was holding a small tree branch.
Guan Nan subconsciously put his hand holding the tree branch behind his back. He didn't know why he did this, but it was just a conditioned reflex.
Seeing this, Mengli quickly stepped forward and snatched the small tree branch that Guannan had hidden behind his back: "So that's why Fatty Carp's injury hasn't healed after two months. It turns out you kept hurting it every time I was unconscious. How could you be so mean? What good is being good-looking?"
Every time Guan Nan heard a lowly fairy with no spiritual power dare to criticize him, he would be so angry that he wanted to beat the other person to death. But every time the other person would say that last sentence, and every time Guan Nan heard that last sentence, he would instantly lose his temper.
"Sigh," Guan Nan sighed, thinking to himself, "Why do I love flattery so much? Even when the fairies and officials in the heavenly realm flatter me, I'm not happy."
"Hehe, you've probably taken a liking to her, haven't you?"
A male voice came from Guan Nan's spiritual consciousness, and he immediately glared fiercely at the fat carp in the pond: "If you talk nonsense again, I won't just poke you with a tree branch."
"If you kill me, your girl will probably hate you to death."
"Hey, how can you be so shameless? Are you from Wuliang Mountain? Are you a cultivator? A practitioner of the Matchmaker's Way? You love to randomly match people up."
For some reason, Ksitigarbha, who was clearly a dull and unassuming Taoist priest before, has become quite mischievous after staying here for a few months.
"Guan Nan, I'm warning you, get out of here right now, disappear from my sight immediately," Meng Li warned him as she broke off a small tree branch.
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