Chapter 5: Is the transformed Xiao Hei a male or a female?
Xu Xingxing saw Yue Baiyin's face, which had just been about to brighten, turn cloudy again. The wind outside the window was even stronger, and the candlelight inside the room was trembling. She plopped to her knees and said, "Master, please accept my disciple's greetings!"
Yue Baiyin was happy, but Gu Nuo's face turned dark.
She pretended not to notice the air pressure behind her, and swore loudly, "Of course the life of a spirit beast is its life. Not to mention half of its spiritual power and having to start over, even if it means losing all of its spiritual power and having to stop cultivating, I won't hesitate!"
Yue Baiyin's pupils shrank slightly, and his body trembled slightly. He also knelt down with a plop, tears streaming down his face, "My Beast Taming Sect finally has a successor!"
"Disciple!"
Yue Baiyin knelt down and took a few steps, tightly holding Xu Xingxing's hands. "You are not only my disciple, but also my soulmate! Disciples are easy to find, but soulmates are hard to find. I, Yue Baiyin, am already half buried in the ground, but I still have such a close friend. I will die without regrets!"
After saying this, he burst into tears.
Xu Xingxing no longer cared about Yue Baiyin pinching her nose and feet while holding her hand. She was almost stunned by the smell, and her mind kept playing the following sentence on repeat: I want to escape but I can't.
He wanted to say something else, but the smell forced him to close his mouth several times. Finally, he had no choice but to roll his eyes and pretend to faint.
Perhaps she was really weak, she actually slept until the next day.
When Xu Xingxing opened her eyes, she saw Gu Nuo sitting beside the bed, and she felt as if she had returned to a few months ago.
At that time, she had just arrived here and was seriously injured. After the system finished telling her the task, it disappeared without a trace, leaving her alone in a strange world with only that endless task.
She was in so much pain every day that she couldn't sleep, yet she couldn't even scream. It was he who sat by her bed every night, talking to her, sometimes seriously, sometimes jokingly, and slowly pulled her back from the brink of collapse.
Therefore, even though she knew that he had deliberately concealed it from her yesterday, she couldn't be angry with him.
It was just dawn, and the sky outside was still dark. He probably hadn't slept all night. Seeing her wake up, he handed her a bowl of medicine and said in a cold voice, "Drink it."
She reached out and touched it; it was warm, just like before.
She sat up, took it, and drank it in one gulp.
Gu Nuo took the bowl back with a cold face and was about to leave. Just as he was about to stand up, his clothes were grabbed.
"Uncle Master."
Gu Nuo sneered, "Uncle Master? Don't mess up the generations. You are Yue Baiyin's apprentice now, so we are equals. Just call me Brother."
"Uncle-master, how did you persuade my father to let me move to Lingshou Mountain that day?" Xu Xingxing looked at him calmly, and held on to the corner of his clothes tightly, afraid that he would leave.
"Why are you asking this?" Gu Nuo obviously didn't want to answer.
"Then I'll take a guess." She looked at Gu Nuo, her tone calm, "Given my father's personality, if you try to persuade him from my perspective, I'm afraid it will be useless even if you talk your mouth off. So you can only find a way out from his perspective."
"I went astray and nearly lost my life. Even if it didn't affect my foundation, you shouldn't force me to practice too hard. After all, you have to keep me alive."
Gu Nuo was slightly startled, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.
"Then when will I be able to break through my physical body and overcome the tribulation to become an immortal?" Xu Xingxing's face was calm, as if he was talking about someone else's business. "Let's not talk about the fact that no one in Kunlun has ever reached the immortal level since ancient times. If I can't become an immortal, then even if I ascend to the Mahayana stage, it's useless. After all, the Demon Chasing War has proven that."
The demon god that appeared out of nowhere wiped out all the Mahayana monks in Kunlun. Even if she hadn't read the book, she knew a thing or two about this.
"The Tianji Pavilion once predicted that I would be the savior. Since the path you envisioned is hopeless, why not let me do what I want? Who knows, there might be a turn for the better."
Xu Xingxing's tone changed: "Uncle Master, am I right?"
Gu Nuo looked at her calm appearance, and that strange feeling that the person in front of him was not Xu Xing'er rose in his heart again.
Is Xing'er really like this? She's usually aloof and reserved, taciturn, rarely as talkative as she is now.
Finally, he asked, "Are you really Xing'er?"
Xu Xingxing was not surprised that he asked this. After all, she always stayed true to herself. She was not even a passerby in the book, so why should she be afraid of OOC?
She laughed and asked instead, "Uncle Master, what you said to persuade father, is it what you really think?"
"You treated me so attentively, is it because I am Xu Xing'er, or because I am the so-called savior?"
Gu Nuo's body suddenly stiffened and he looked at Xu Xingxing.
It was already bright outside, and sunlight came in through the window, but it did not illuminate her eyes.
There was a dark spot in her eyes, but a smile was on her lips. Her face looked the same as usual, but it made him feel a little sad.
Why? He never thought about it.
He knew a little about divination, and putting himself in other people's shoes, he felt that half of the predictions of the Tianji Pavilion were nonsense.
Later, the devil descended upon the world, and catastrophe struck the world. The Tianji Pavilion had made such a prediction half a month ago.
At that time, the cultivation of immortals was at its peak, and there were more than thirty cultivators who had reached the Mahayana realm, a record high in a thousand years. When people heard this prophecy, they did not take it seriously and even looked down on it.
People have been comfortable for too long, and Kunlun has also been comfortable for too long. No one believes, and no one cares, until the disaster strikes.
The status of Tianji Pavilion rose rapidly, and every step taken thereafter had to be calculated in advance.
The demon was finally destroyed, and when everyone thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, the Tianji Pavilion calculated the prophecy of the savior.
He thought it was absurd at first, but he dared not disbelieve it.
He felt distressed when he saw his senior brother being so strict with Xu Xing'er, but later on, he gradually felt that it should be so and must be so.
Until he saw the little girl he once held in his arms crawling out of the cave covered in blood.
When the usually self-possessed senior brother heard the news, he instantly became weak and powerless and couldn't even stand up.
She almost died.
Fortunately I survived.
When he treated her, he saw her crying silently in pain and biting her lower lip until it was bloody.
He asked himself countless times, was it right to force her like that? Wouldn't it be better to let her live like an ordinary woman?
Now she sat on the bed and asked him the questions he dared not face with a calm face, which made him choke for a moment and he didn't know how to answer.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, she smiled, her eyes filled with light again. She said, "Uncle Master, no matter what the reason is, I thank you for saving me, and thank you for helping me persuade my father so that I can do what I want. I will cherish this life, live well, and live the way I want."
Gu Nuo didn't know how he walked out of the room, nor did he know how he returned to his residence.
He understood what she meant.
No matter how he persuades his senior brother, as long as the result is good, she will be grateful.
No matter why he saved her, since he saved her, she knew it.
Knowing that no one is perfect when it comes to their heart, we should judge by their actions rather than their heart.
That’s it.
Gu Nuo held his forehead and smiled, but there was a slight moisture in his eyes.
——
Xu Xingxing had been sitting beside the black dog for an hour, her hands resting on her cheeks, a strange smile on her face, and occasionally a "hehe" sound.
Fang Zhiming thoughtfully brought some tea and snacks, and just as he was about to exchange a few words, he was scared away by her sudden laughter.
Although Gu Nuo had already made up his mind to be a tolerant and generous uncle in the future, he couldn't help but frown when he saw Xu Xingxing's perverted look.
"Is this dog very handsome?"
"Hehe, uncle-master, hehe."
Gu Nuo: ...
He felt he had nothing in common with these farmers, so he threw the medicine he had been using for the past few days into Xu Xingxing's arms and flew away with a cold face...
It’s no wonder she’s been acting so weird these past few days. God knows how happy she feels after saving this black dog.
Besides that, the feeling she had felt since she formed the bond was truly wonderful.
It was as if she had gained another clone in this world. She could sense its perceptions and understand its condition. Even now, she could feel its meridians slowly healing and its spiritual power slowly accumulating...
"How about I call you Xiao Hei?"
"Don't."
Yue Baiyin had stood beside her at some point, cracking some melon seeds as he spoke, "These high-quality spirit beasts are all incredibly valuable, yet wild and unruly, and most have their own names."
"Then your nickname from now on will be Xiao Hei, hehe."
Yue Baiyin: ...
"Master, it's been several days, why hasn't Xiao Hei woken up yet?"
"It's injured too badly. I've used a lot of herbs these past few days. I estimate it will wake up after another half month of recuperation."
Yue Baiyin spat out a mouthful of melon seed shells. "If you want it to recover faster, keep it close to you. Your spiritual energy will be able to nourish it now. It's much stronger than the herbs I made myself."
"Homemade?" Xu Xingxing looked up at him. "Have you washed your hands?"
Yue Baiyin shook his head and handed over the melon seeds in his hand: "Want to eat?"
Xu Xingxing glanced at the mud under his fingernails and closed his eyes: "No, thank you, Master."
Then she went out, grabbed Fang Zhiming, and angrily said, "It's been several days. Can Master take a bath now?"
"Master's appearance is natural. What's the big deal whether he washes or not?" Tao Fuzhong, the Beast Tamer monk who had moved here and a die-hard fan of Yue Baiyin, asked back.
Xu Xingxing and Fang Zhiming exchanged a glance, and that night they tricked Yue Baiyin into staying in Tao Fuzhong's room in the name of educating the younger generation.
Early the next morning, Tao Fuzhong, with dark circles under his eyes, and Fang Zhiming took Yue Baiyin to the mountains to clean him.
But Xu Xingxing had no intention of worrying about this matter at that time.
In order to help Xiao Hei recover soon, she moved him into the room yesterday. For better results, she even let him sleep in the same quilt with her.
She used to sleep with Uncle Hei all the time, and whenever the kennel brought in a cute new puppy, she'd cuddle up with it for a few days. It was furry and warm, so why not?
But no one told her that this world of immortal cultivation is different!
So when she woke up and found a stranger lying beside the bed, she was shocked and wanted to kick him!
Her heart was suddenly pulled, she paused, and was in a daze for a long time before she realized that the person was Xiao Hei.
After calming down, she was attracted by the man's appearance.
There is no shortage of handsome men and beautiful women in the world of cultivating immortals. There is the suave Gu Nuo, the upright and tall Tao Fuzhong, and even the eccentric Fang Zhiming, who could be a school hunk in today's world.
Even so, she couldn't help but be shocked.
His eyelashes were thick and long like feather fans, his nose was high, his skin was whiter than snow, his lips were slightly pale due to injury, and his black hair was scattered on the bed, he looked like an immortal. For a moment, she couldn't tell whether he was a man or a woman.
Is Xiao Hei a male or a female?
She doesn’t know…
Xu Xingxing looked at his slender neck. Hmm...his Adam's apple was slightly protruding - but some girls also have Adam's apples...
Looking down, the chest under the black clothes is very flat - but some girls also...
Before she could look down again, she felt someone's gaze directed at her. She raised her head and met a pair of black eyes as deep as ink.
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