Chapter 22 This is... the ancient god

 Chapter 22 This is... the ancient god

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024

Xingzhi removed the steel splint on Shen Li's arm and pressed on her acupoints. He was concentrating on the treatment when he heard Shen Li ask, "You said that a thousand years ago you left four things around here as a double seal for Xutianyuan, but the soldiers who patrol here all year round don't know about these things. Do you roughly remember where you put them?"

"Well, one is on the top of the mountain, one is at the bottom of the lake, and..." Xingzhi answered while letting go of Shen Li's hand: "Move your arm."

Shen Li sat on the bed and obeyed Xingzhi's command obediently. She first bent her forearm, then swung her arm a few times. There was no pain in her body. She was surprised by such a fast recovery speed. Under normal circumstances, such a serious injury would take at least half a month to recover, but Xingzhi really healed her in just three days.

"Well, it seems that the big problem is gone." He grabbed Shen Li's palm, and Shen Li pulled back subconsciously. Xingzhi looked at her in confusion. Shen Li then cleared her throat and said, "What's the matter?"

Xingzhi chuckled, "How could a mighty Lord BiCang be shy?" He grabbed Shen Li's hand unceremoniously, then interlocked his fingers and said lightly, "I just want to check the small joints of my left hand. You hold my hand hard."

Shen Li looked up at Xingzhi when she heard that, but seeing that he looked normal, Shen Li lowered her eyes again, but did not exert any strength for a long time. Xingzhi was surprised, "What's wrong?"

"No..." Shen Li rubbed her brows, "I'm just afraid that if I use too much force, I'll break your hand."

Now it was Xingzhi who was stunned, and then he smiled and said, "Your Majesty, feel free to pinch it. If it breaks, I'll pay for it myself."

These words seemed to wake up Shen Li, and she remembered that the person sitting in front of her was Xingzhi, the God of the Outer Heaven, who had an immortal body, and was not the mortal Xingyun who would die if he was gently pinched. Although she told herself over and over again in her heart that these were two different people, looking at the similar faces and the occasional smiles that looked very similar, Shen Li really found it difficult to control her thoughts. Annoyed, Shen Li exerted force on her palm.

"Well, it's okay." Xingzhi said almost immediately, "It's recovered very well." He pulled back his hand and said, "So, Your Majesty, pack up and take me for a walk around this afternoon."

"Go in the afternoon?" "It's okay in the evening."

"No, in the afternoon."

Again... she was suppressed by him unconsciously. Shen Li felt that this Xingzhi God was really too difficult to deal with.

"There is only one high mountain in the south of the military camp. Although it has been useless for many years, it has prevented the miasma from flowing to other places in the Immortal Realm Realm for hundreds of years. We came out late today and there is no time to go to the lake. Let's go to the mountains first." Shen Li took the map drawn by the soldiers and showed Xingzhi the way carefully.

Xingzhi kept fiddling with his clothes behind her. Shen Li suppressed her temper and said, "Lord, let's go to the mountains first today."

"Yes." Xingzhi grabbed the hem of the mopping clothes, and with a flick of his fingertips, the overlong hem was cut off. Xingzhi threw it away casually, and the white silk slowly drifted away with the miasma wind: "Let's go."

Shen Li's eyes followed the cloud brocade silk and her eyes did not turn away for a while. In the Immortal Realm Realm, even the Immortal Realm Lord could not wear such clothes, and such things were thrown away by others. Shen Li turned her head and saw Xingzhi's white robe made of cloud brocade satin. Even after staying in the Immortal Realm Realm for a few days, it didn't seem very dirty. It is said that she fainted on Xingyun on the day she killed the scorpion-tailed fox, and smeared blood all over him, but it was just wiped clean with water.

Thinking of the dirty soldiers guarding the border, Shen Li lowered his eyes slightly. Such unfairness really made people feel like a thorn in their throats.

Seeing that Shen Li did not move, Xingzhi asked curiously: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Shen Li shook his head and then walked ahead without saying a word.

In the afternoon, the mountain was already foggy, and the miasma lingered all year round. Even in the daytime, it was impossible to see anything five steps away. Shen Li was looking at the map in front to find the direction, while breaking the dead branches that blocked the road with his hands, even though those dead branches were so fragile under the erosion of the miasma that they would break at the touch.

"This place is close to the camp, but far from the Ruins of the Abyss. Soldiers don't come here often and are not familiar with it, so the map only shows the halfway point of the mountain. If we fly up directly, the miasma will prevent us from seeing where to land, so we have to find the way up the mountain ourselves." After Shen Li finished speaking, no one responded for a long time. She felt strange and looked back. There was only hazy mist behind her, but also Xingzhi's figure.

She was stunned and blinked twice. It is said that this god found the wrong way when he came to the Immortal Realm world. Now... could he be lost again?

"Lord Xingzhi?" Shen Li went back along the way she came. "Lord."

Not long after she walked back, Shen Li suddenly felt the air around her change slightly. The air flowed faster for no reason. She walked a few more steps. A breeze passed by, blowing away the thick fog that blocked her eyes. The white-clothed immortal slowly walked over there. The fog dissipated where he walked. The mountains and forests that had been shrouded in miasma for hundreds of years seemed to have been washed by new rain. Although there were still no green leaves, the air was fresh.

Shen Li stared at him blankly, watching the white clothes fluttering gently under the flow of air, reflecting the rare light of the Immortal Realm world, imprinted in Shen Li's eyes, and the dark emotions in her heart disappeared.

This is... the ancient god.

Unlike the naturally aggressive Immortal Realms, gods can cleanse the air no matter how filthy it is...

The flying sleeves brushed past her. Xingzhi walked two steps forward and looked back: "Which way should I go?"

Shen Li blinked and came to her senses. She was about to take out the map in her hand to have a look, but something hit her feet hard. Her hand slipped and the map turned with the wind, floated down the mountain forest, and disappeared in the mist below. Shen Li wanted to jump down, but felt her feet being dragged by something. She looked back. A small wild boar with four ears on its head bit her ankle. Although it didn't hurt the body, this delay made her unable to find the map again.

She was furious and bent down to pick up the wild boar's curled tail and slapped it twice on the butt: "You're in the way!"

The wild boar moved around in her hand very frantically. A pair of bloody eyes stared at Shen Li and screamed at her. Xingzhi frowned: "It has been contaminated by the miasma and turned into a monster. Put it down, I will burn it."

"No need." Shen Li swung her arm, and the little wild boar was thrown into the forest by her. It disappeared with a panicked scream. "In recent years, there are many things in the Immortal Realm world that have been affected by the miasma and turned into monsters, but most of them are animals and are not very aggressive. Ordinary people can deal with them." Shen Li found the road she had just walked back based on her memory, and said as she climbed up, "It's not easy to survive in a mountain like this. As for it, it hasn't done anything bad yet. It's unreasonable to kill it like this. Even if it does something bad in the future, we have to wait until it does it before punishing it."

Xingzhi was slightly startled, and looked at Shen Li's back: "Lord BiCang is so kind-hearted." The emotions in his eyes settled down slightly, and he walked with Shen Li for a while before saying, "According to my habit, I like to control the trouble before it gets bigger." He paused and stared at Shen Li with a heavy look.

"In that case..." Shen Li turned her head to glance at him, but her eyes turned too quickly and did not notice the emotions in Xingzhi's eyes. She curled her lips, and her smile revealed her natural confidence and unruly, "Isn't life too boring?"

Xingzhi was silent for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "It's quite boring."

The further up the mountain Shen Li walked, the more she couldn't find the direction. Seeing that it was getting dark, Shen Li couldn't help but feel a little irritated. Xingzhi said: "It's better to have Yuehua to look at you." He took steps as if he was taking a walk in his own backyard. Seeing him like this, Shen Li didn't want to urge him, so she could only wander slowly on the barren mountain with him.

Before she knew it, it was dark. After passing through a mountain road full of dead trees, Shen Li's eyes suddenly lit up. The moon above her head was big and round, which surprised her so much that she couldn't help but open her mouth slightly. It had been a long time since she had seen such a moonlight in the Immortal Realm world.

"The top of the mountain, we've climbed up." Xingzhi walked up from behind her. The moonlight on his white clothes left a clear and distinct outline in Shen Li's dark pupils. He walked forward slowly. He stopped in front of a huge dead tree. Shen Li saw that this big tree on the top of the mountain was different from other trees.

Although it was withered, some of the branches still had leaves dancing with the night wind, about to fall. Xingzhi put his hand on the trunk, and the dead tree seemed to make a crying sound.

The trunk trembled, and the earth also cried with it. Xingzhi lowered his eyebrows, half sighing, half comforting: "Thank you for your hard work." White light rippled from his palm, poured into the dead tree, and followed its roots into the earth. Shen Li could almost see the traces of the light passing under her feet.

The ground trembled slightly, as if awakening the mountain's consciousness, and the fog cleared. Shen Li stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down the mountain, only to find that the road they had walked in the afternoon was illuminated by the light, like a character printed on the mountain.

The moonlight, the dead wood and the unknown character formed a line, connecting the sky and the earth, dispersing the mist and miasma. It turned out that he had calculated it from the beginning, setting out in the afternoon, drawing the sealing character on the mountain, and using the power of the moonlight to clear the miasma on the mountain and awaken the sealed object. Such a comprehensive arrangement. But he didn't reveal a single word.

This person... "Lord BiCang." Xingzhi suddenly waved to her under the tree. Shen Li walked forward with a little caution in her heart, but she saw him standing on tiptoe, picking a newly grown leaf from the tree and handing it to Shen Li, saying with a smile: "A leaf grown in the Immortal Realm world." Shen Li took it blankly, and when she touched the slightly cold leaf surface, she didn't know what she felt in her heart.

The leaves of the Immortal Realm world, the new green color was so lively. I really want the children of the Immortal Realm world to see such leaves in the future. Her eyes softened, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly. Shen Li, who was too focused on stroking the leaves, didn't notice that the man's eyes beside her also softened. He looked at her and silently curved his lips.

"Do you want to sit on the tree for a while?" Shen Li was stunned: "Can I?" She pointed to the trunk carefully, not daring to touch it, "Won't it break?" Xingzhi was amused by her: "If it breaks, I'll pay for it." He put his arm around Shen Li's waist, and the two sat on the thick trunk. The moonlight shone into the tree canopy where the leaves had not yet grown into the secret room.

Shen Li stared at the branches and new leaves slowly growing out with wide eyes, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's beautiful." She said, "They seem to be singing." Hearing this, Xingzhi picked a leaf and put it to his lips, and a melodious tune came out of his mouth. Shen Li turned back in surprise and looked at Xingzhi. Seeing that he blew so easily, she also put the leaf in her hand to her lips and learned to blow it.

But as soon as she exerted force, the breath in her mouth blew the leaf violently, and the new leaf flew out of her hand like a sharp arrow and shot straight into the ground. "Heh!" As soon as the music on the tree stopped, Shen Li was stunned, turned her head to look at him, and then narrowed her eyes: "God, are you laughing at me?"

" No, I think." Xingzhi looked at the night sky and smiled, "The moonlight is too beautiful tonight."

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