She has a very Tang Dynasty-style face, with slightly round, full cheeks and neatly trimmed bangs. Standing in front of Peach Blossom Mountain, she looks like an elegant yet proud young lady from a modest family.
"elder sister……"
Her older sister, her own sister, has finally returned!
"Let's go in quickly and give them a surprise, shh..."
"Um."
The two of them moved silently from the corridor to the doors outside the room, like cats, and the grandmother's voice came from inside.
"Where did Shui go? And what about Xiao Yu? Isn't she coming back this year either?"
Grandma's voice was very low, but she tried her best to shout loudly so that everyone would ignore her barely perceptible breathing.
"We're here, ding-dong!"
Luo Xiaoyu leaped up with a somersault and landed in front of her grandmother in a few swift steps, pushing Qiu Shui, who was still in a daze, away.
Hello, Grandma.
Qiu Shui greeted her loudly, and her grandmother nodded, her gaze falling on her before turning to Luo Xiaoyu.
"Still wearing the same clothes..."
"certainly."
Luo Xiaoyu smiled but didn't say anything more.
"Auntie, I'm hungry."
Luo Chen, hiding behind her older cousin, whispered something that was quickly detected by her mother-in-law, who was floating not far away.
"Dinner's ready, let's go to the living room."
A peaceful, grandmotherly voice rang out.
"Go on, go on, cough cough... My health is getting worse every day, I need to rest a little longer. Loya, you take care of them."
Grandma coughed a few times and walked towards the bedroom behind the main hall. Grandma's electronic butler quickly extended a mechanical arm to help her.
Goodbye, Grandma!
After her grandmother disappeared from sight, Luo Xiaoyu whispered to Luo Ya, "Grandma's health is so bad, isn't it...?"
Luo Ya nodded. Luo Xiaoyu pulled her aside to talk with a serious expression. Qiu Shui, her older cousin, and Luo Chen went to the dining table, where the home robot had already brought out the dishes.
After eating a few bites, her older sister and Ya Ya still hadn't returned. Her eldest cousin went to the corridor to make a phone call, and soon the sound of arguing could be heard. Luo Chen was still fiddling with that old microphone.
After finishing her meal, Qiu Shui sat on the sofa and turned on her holographic bracelet. This time, she was wearing a VR headset, which would provide a better user experience.
"You have entered Changling District and are being matched..."
"Lingling~"
Before she could even take a step after landing in Heian-kyo, her phone rang immediately, and Qiu Shuiyi almost thought it was broken.
Upon answering the phone, Tian Maxing's impatient voice came through.
Do you have time?
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Something happened as soon as she logged on, which startled her.
"Let's go back to Mount Fuxi!"
"I'll be there soon."
She hung up the phone and rushed towards Fuxi Mountain. Before she even reached the back of the mountain, she saw Tian Ma Xingke's shadow at the foot of the front mountain.
Half an hour ago
"Ibaraki-dōji, this is Shuten-dōji. From today onwards, you will live together as roommates and take care of each other."
Qianshan Muxue said to the newly summoned Ibaraki-dōji, holding Ibaraki-dōji's left hand and leading him to look at the Shuten-dōji in front of him.
Young Ibaraki hid behind him in fear, cautiously tugging at his sleeve.
"The smell of alcohol is awful..."
"What did you say? I am the most powerful yokai in all of Heian-kyo! I am the demon king of the entire Mount Oe!"
Shuten-dōji, with his disheveled hair, suddenly stood up and roared. The strong smell of alcohol emanating from him made Chiyama Muxue frown slightly.
"You're dead drunk again, disheveled and indecent. Where did you forget what I told you before?"
"Hmph! You make me sit on the sidelines, never take me out, and always take the same few shikigami with you, and you still have the nerve to ask me questions!"
Shuten-dōji gave a cold laugh.
"Hey? My dear friend, what are you doing sitting here? And you've gotten so drunk again?"
Not far away, Ibaraki-doji approached, leading the shikigami of the guild toward the back mountain. In his hand were several six-star soul fragments and some awakening materials.
Shuten-dōji, his eyes blurry with drunkenness, stared at the several glittering six-star Soul Shards, picked up his sake gourd, took a big gulp, and pounced on Ibaraki-dōji like a tiger...
When Aunt returned to the back mountain to report the news, Tianma Xingke rushed over. Shuten-dōji and Ibaraki-dōji had been fighting for a long time and were covered in wounds.
"Thousands of mountains covered in snow, how could they have started fighting? And..."
Tianma Xingke glanced at Shuten-dōji, who was being beaten, and continued, "Shuten-dōji isn't wearing any Soul Sets or hasn't been upgraded, how come he's so weak?"
Qianshan Muxue said with a grim expression, "I didn't plan to raise a demon king. I usually arranged for him to be on standby in the dormitory. I didn't expect that he would go crazy after I brought back Ibaraki today."
"What's wrong with you?"
"I'm puzzled," Tian Ma asked.
They stood there, while not far away, Shuten-dōji and Ibaraki-dōji were still fighting. Perhaps out of consideration for their past relationship, Ibaraki-dōji held back each time he attacked; otherwise, the Demon King would have been defeated long ago.
"have no idea."
Qianshan Muxue coldly uttered three words, then looked at Guishi Hei, who was leisurely watching the show, with a headache, and said, "Go and stop Shuten-dōji, tell him to stop making trouble."
Gui Shi Hei walked towards them, while Tian Ma Xing Ke and Qian Shan Mu Xue looked at their troublesome children like two parents.
"Is it okay to keep a Shuten-dōji? By the way, what about your old one?"
"That one was borrowed before, but my friend took it back later."
Tianma Xingke glanced at the trembling little Ibaraki beside him.
"If you're raising your own shikigami, you need to pay close attention to their education. You have to be careful when letting them go out to work, and you can't let them go to dangerous places to work, or they'll be corrupted."
As they were talking, a slender figure ran towards them from a distance. Upon closer inspection, Qianshan Muxue realized it was Qiushui Yiren.
"Who called her here, you?"
"I thought something serious had happened, but I never expected that such a trivial matter could lead to a fight. My silly husband is just too silly!"
"Da Han" is the affectionate nickname that Tianma Xingke uses for Ibaraki-dōji. As Qiu Shuiyiren gradually approaches them, she hears their conversation and asks a question.
"They're fighting? Who?" He looked to the side. "That... isn't that the Demon King who guards the gate of the Muxue family? Why is he fighting with Da Han? Aren't Shuten-dōji and Ibaraki-dōji on good terms? Cough cough..."
After speaking such a long sentence in one breath, and having held her breath all the way up the mountain, Qiu Shui Yi Ren began to cough violently.
"Be careful..."
She asked the white wolf to pour her a glass of warm water. Qianshan Muxue handed him the glass, and Qiushui Yiren took the water and drank it, which stopped her cough.
"Has things calmed down over there?"
Straightening up and wiping the water from the corners of her mouth, Qiu Shui Yi Ren looked over there. Shuten-dōji had finished his fight and was now fast asleep on the ground, while Ibaraki-dōji was checking his wounds.
He was already missing an arm, and now he was using his only remaining hand to examine his wound, which looked very pitiful.
"Go and comfort him, traveler, he's so pitiful..."
"What's there to comfort? Losing an arm is just a small scar, it will heal on its own."
Tian Ma Xingke trusted him completely.
Qiu Shui Yi Ren paused for a moment, then saw Ibaraki-dōji's simple smile and realized he wasn't seriously injured. She then brought up another matter.
"In a few days, there's a shrine tournament to the east of Heian-kyo. I've already signed up. Are you guys going?"
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