Chapter 63: Lan Quan needs me, but not because of that title.
"What? Xiao Hei seemed quite happy when we became lovers. They even kissed in front of so many people. How come he doesn't love me anymore?" Xu Xingxing looked a little broken-hearted.
Even Qi Rongli, who had seen how straightforward women could be, still found it hard to get used to it.
He was usually calm and composed, but at this moment his eyebrows twitched countless times.
He clenched his fist and coughed for a while, then rubbed his temples and said, "Ordinary cats and dogs often lick each other to show affection. If you had an ordinary dog and it did this, would you still misunderstand it?"
“…”
Xu Xingxing looked constipated. "How can this be the same? Xiao Hei and Ning Ning can transform into human form, speak, and act like humans."
"That being said, they will still retain their animal habits."
Qi Rongli's expression was as serious as if he were discussing an academic question. "They have no understanding of human ethics. Intimate contact is commonplace to them, not to mention their mating season. Producing high-quality offspring is their primary goal in choosing a partner. All else is unimportant."
As he said this, Qi Rongli's face showed a hint of loss.
This explanation instantly switched Xu Xingxing's brain channel from the romance theater to the animal world.
The words that sealed the love and engagement suddenly changed from sweet and ambiguous to indescribable.
…
Her tone dropped noticeably: "How can it be like this..."
Qi Rongli nodded. "Ningning was also so... innocent at first. By the time I realized it... I was already deeply in love. After several times of teaching, she finally understood a little. Haven't you asked Ningning about this?"
"I did ask." Xu Xingxing sighed and said helplessly, "Do you think I would ask you as soon as I came here? How is that possible? I asked Ningning first, then the master, and then you."
Qi Rongli's eyebrows jumped: "What did Ningning say?"
"The kissing issue?"
"……right"
Xu Xingxing sighed: "Ningning told me not to ask her. She is in heat and she won't be able to hold back if I ask her."
Qi Rongli's body trembled, and he asked anxiously: "What can't be helped? What can't be helped?"
"I don't know either." Xu Xingxing spread his hands. "I asked her, but Ningning looked very unhappy and flew away. That's why I started to harass my master."
"Flew away?!" Qi Rongli couldn't even keep his kneeling posture straight. "Where did it fly to?"
"How should I know? I didn't follow her."
After hearing this, Qi Rongli frowned deeply.
Xu Xingxing noticed the sudden drop in his aura, and after a moment's thought, she guessed the reason. She then added, "But Ningning definitely didn't look for anyone else."
Qi Rongli was startled and looked over: "How do you know?"
Because Yue Baiyin didn't want Ningning to waste her excellent special-grade spirit beast genes, he specially introduced her to other varieties of high-quality phoenixes...
But it didn't succeed.
Xu Xingxing didn't dare say that, and instead came up with a less insulting excuse for her master: "A spirit beast took a fancy to Ningning and proposed to her, but she rejected it."
And the refusal was quite straightforward. Ning Ning froze her master for two days before stopping.
By the way, she also scared away the green phoenix that kept showing off its feathers to her.
Xu Xingxing's words made Qi Rongli change his expression three times, from stunned to broken heart and then to relieved, it only took him two seconds.
Finally, he seemed extremely tired, yet managed a faint smile: "That's good."
Afterwards, the two chatted for a few more sentences, and then went on to relieve their own worries.
On the second day, Yue Baiyin and Ningning came to visit Xu Xingxing together, and brought her the news that Xiao Hei was scheduled to be executed in public at Qingyu Peak in Yuqiu in the 20th day.
The 20th?
When asked the reason, Yue Baiyin said that Luo Chuan claimed that it was not appropriate to see blood at the beginning of the year, and that they should wait until the people had passed the New Year. They should not let this quarrel ruin the good day of universal celebration.
Xu Xingxing relaxed a little.
Fortunately.
Afterwards, Xu Xingxing asked what happened after she fainted.
Yue Baiyin sometimes sighed, and sometimes told her the story with emotion, which made her mood even more depressed.
Especially the line: "I will break the contract with her before I die."
She was so forced that she dropped a few more golden beans.
The equality in this love is equality, regardless of gender, or human or animal. If you feel that the friendship is no longer there, you can take the initiative to terminate it.
No, she must escape from this prison and go to Yuqiu to rescue Xiaohei!
Then she sought help from Yue Baiyin.
As expected, he decisively rejected it.
There are two reasons:
First, Xiao Hei specifically told Xu Yi not to let her go looking for it. It must be because Xiao Hei didn't want her to be tainted by the stigma of his life before he died. Therefore, she should listen to Xiao Hei's last words and reflect carefully on this Sicheng Cliff.
In response to this, Xu Xingxing said that based on her understanding of Xiao Hei, he is definitely not such a considerate person. He even gave him a stigma, and he probably didn't think the name was a stigma.
Then he scolded Yue Baiyin's words:
What last words? Who are you cursing? Pah! Pah! Pah!
Second, Xiao Hei has killed millions of people now. He is accustomed to blood and disregards human life. He has become a bloodthirsty monster and is no longer the ordinary spirit beast he used to be.
Xu Xingxing was very good at grasping key words: "Is it normal? It was quite worrying before."
"How can that be the same?" Yue Baiyin wanted to slap his stubborn disciple on the head. "After you save him, can you be sure he won't hurt anyone again? If he does, will you be responsible? Can you stop him? Besides, the Beast Chain isn't even clearly useful to him. How can you control him?"
"It would be better to kill him completely and eliminate the trouble forever!" Yue Baiyin concluded in a firm tone.
Xu Xingxing remained silent about this, but she had already thought about this problem while in the formation. If she could save Xiao Hei, she would definitely watch over him every day, never leaving his side, and not give him any chance to commit crimes or kill innocent people.
The key is that she really can't let go now.
Seeing that Xu Xingxing refused to listen, Yue Baiyin angrily pulled Ningning away, leaving Qi Rongli feeling disappointed for a while.
No one helped her, no outside support, which made Xu Xingxing worried. After that, she thought about how to escape from prison every day, and she lost weight quickly.
Until she studied the entire cave from beginning to end for the sixty-eighth time, crawled out of the pool for the seventy-second time, and tried to circulate the spiritual power in her body for the one hundred and thirty-sixth time, but to no avail.
Qi Rongli finally couldn't bear it anymore.
He looked helpless. "Even Mahayana cultivators have been through this Sizhen Cliff. Everything here, from the jewels to the jade, even the stone walls and the blue spring, has the effect of suppressing spiritual energy and blocking the meridians. Don't waste your energy, you can't escape."
Xu Xingxing wrung the water from her clothes, condemning his careless attitude. "Now it's your turn to laugh at me? This is not the time for Ningning to be seriously injured and on the verge of death."
"Ningning has been by my side since I was little, and we have always been close friends. She is simple-minded and has saved me many times. She has never done anything harmful or immoral."
Qi Rongli sighed and advised, "I know Xiao Hei is very important to you, but he has made such an irreparable mistake after all. Now that things have come to this... You can toss and turn, but this blue spring will damage your meridians. You should stop torturing yourself like this."
Xu Xingxing stopped what she was doing, and tears began to fall without any warning.
She knew what Qi Rongli meant.
It's just that she and Xiao Hei have not known each other for long, and Xiao Hei has made a mistake again, so she should be more open-minded and mourn more.
Who says the depth of friendship is related to how long you have known each other?
Xu Xingxing wiped his face and asked, "How long have you known my master?"
Qi Rongli was stunned for a moment, then answered honestly, "About two hundred years."
Xu Xingxing asked again: "What about Uncle Gu?"
"More than a hundred years." Qi Rongli recalled something, a smile flashing in his eyes, "Before, Gu Nuo had achieved nothing in his studies, and was very——"
Xu Xingxing was in no mood to listen to him reminiscing about his youth, so she interrupted him directly: "So, why do you have a better relationship with Uncle Gu?"
Without waiting for Qi Rongli to react, she stopped talking nonsense, stood up and jumped into the blue spring again.
This blue spring may seem shallow, but if you jump into it and probe down, you will find that it is more than ten feet deep.
There seems to be running water at the bottom of the pool, but there is no connection to the outside world.
This Sicheng Cliff is a cliff behind the Guojing Peak. According to legend, during the great war between immortals and demons ten thousand years ago, a magical weapon of an immortal fell into the human world and turned into a tall and steep mountain.
Since the mountain was transformed from a divine weapon, it possesses extremely strong defensive capabilities. Whether it is broken from the outside in, or from the inside out, the possibility is extremely small and extremely difficult.
Therefore, the ancestors of Kunlun spent hundreds of years hollowing out the mountain and built this prison.
From top to bottom, the higher the realm of the cultivator, the further down they live.
Although she and Qi Rongli were not at the bottom of the society, they were not far behind.
She noticed a source of flowing water and was about to circulate her spiritual power when she suddenly felt a stabbing pain in her meridians like needles. She was so shocked that she spat out a mouthful of blood, lost her breath, and swam to the shore.
She lay on the stone platform, covered herself with the red dress and covered her head. She felt pain not only in her meridians but also in her internal organs.
The pain is especially severe in the heart.
Not knowing whether it was because of her mood or the pain, her tears flowed uncontrollably, from soft sobs to loud crying. As she cried, she curled up again, clutching the collar of her shirt tightly with her hands.
Is she really unable to protect the man she has been thinking about all the time, the only connection between her and the world?
No, no.
But what should she do? What should she do?
There is no other way but to fight to the death.
In the following days, she abused herself like this again and again.
It seems that only pain can make my heart feel better, and only suffering can help me temporarily escape from the feeling of despair.
The hopelessness and pain brought from the present world, accumulated one after another, brought her exponential tearing and shattering.
The cramping in her meridians and the burning pain in her body made her toss and turn in bed and unable to eat or sleep.
But within a few days, he lost a lot of weight again.
Now, there is no extra fat on her belly.
That day, she was about to go into the water again. Qi Rongli couldn't bear to watch her again. He said, "Xu Xing'er, even if you can really get out like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to reach Yuqiu."
But what could she do? As soon as she stopped, her heart would feel like it was crushed. It would be better to let her body feel some pain.
Xu Xingxing still had the energy to joke. She curled her lips and said, "What? Are you feeling bad? Ningning knows she's going to get jealous. She might come over and push me into the pool and send me off."
Qi Rongli's face darkened: "I'm not joking with you."
Xu Xingxing also calmed down. She looked at him and asked, "If the person about to be executed was Ningning, what would you do?"
Qi Rongli tightened his jaw. He was probably going to get even crazier and lose control of himself, but he still tried to persuade her: "But Xiao Hei——"
"Killed so many people?"
Xu Xingxing sneered, "It was Ningning who caused Qingzhou to be plunged into heavy snow. Why is she still free, while you are living here? What's the matter? Sect Leader Qi, you are too hypocritical. You have opened up a backdoor for yourself, and when it comes to others, you have to be rational and objective and point fingers?
"If it were Kunlun in the past, even if you took all the blame like this, would Ningning be safe? You said Ningning was forced by you, and I said she wanted to die by dissipating all her spiritual power. Why couldn't she die in a different way? Did she have to implicate the people? Oh, Sect Leader Qi, I thought you at least understood me. I was overthinking it. But since we're both like that, let's not criticize each other."
Qi Rongli was stunned, his eyes lowered and he remained silent for a long time. Then he resumed his kneeling position and bowed, saying, "I was shallow. I apologize."
After the ceremony, he placed his hands on his legs, lowered his eyes and said, "As the former head of the Beast Taming Sect, I have punished many bloodthirsty monsters. Therefore... this is one-sided."
Xu Xingxing was still furious and continued to speak harshly, "I know you never treat other spirit beasts as human beings."
Qi Rongli did not refute, but looked like he was sincerely admitting his mistake and allowing himself to be beaten and scolded.
Seeing his attitude, Xu Xingxing felt that she was overreacting, and her tone softened. "I know what you're thinking. How could you have such deep feelings after only being together for less than a year? There are so many spirit beasts in the world, you can always find another one if they die. What's more, this is a demonic beast that refuses to obey discipline and has committed many sins of killing."
She was not born in this world and could not clearly distinguish the difference between spirit beasts and humans. From the moment Xiao Hei became a human, to her, he was a human.
If we have to say what makes him different from humans, it's probably that he's still the human that Black Uncle No. 2 transformed into...
How should she explain to her, a person from another world, why Xiao Hei is unique?
She tried to integrate Xu Xing'er's experiences. Their stories were different, but they always had something in common: "Since I was born, I have always followed the rules and practiced diligently, never slacking off, and not daring to make the slightest mistake, until I heard my father say that -"
"If I hadn't been the savior, he wouldn't have wanted me. If it weren't for me, my mother would still be alive."
Xu Xingxing twitched her lip dryly again. "Qi Rongli, can you understand? At that moment, I realized that although I was born into this world, I have no family. I struggle to survive alone in this world. Why do I live? Why was I born? Who cares about me? Who needs me? It's not because of the title of the so-called savior, but because of who I am. But no, my title, that prophecy, is much more important than me."
"Only Xiao Hei is different."
"He's the only one who needs me, but it's not because of that title. He cares about me simply because I am who I am. So, do you understand what I'm saying?"
Qi Rongli looked at her, his eyes slightly open, as if lost in memories, or as if shocked by her words.
Xu Xingxing dipped his foot into the blue spring, feeling the dull pain in his meridians. He said, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand. Just know that if he dies, I don't want to live either. I hope this isn't just an outburst."
He was about to jump into the water when he heard Qi Rongli call out, "Wait!"
Seeing Xu Xingxing stop, he changed his mind and asked, "Why is Xu Xianjun looking for spiritual beasts everywhere?"
Xu Xingxing didn't expect him to ask this. She was stunned for a moment. After realizing what was going on, she frowned and said, "I like it. Is that not okay?"
"Xu Xianjun saved my husband and I's lives, and he's my benefactor. He also brought life back to the once-silent Spirit Beast Mountain. It's my duty to help you, both morally and personally."
Qi Rongli looked up at her, his expression serious, his tone still calm. But listening carefully, it seemed as if he had made a great determination: "I do have a way to help you escape from this prison."
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