“Mother, I’m so scared! Just now I had a terrible nightmare! Waah…” Even the Yu Nu Bing Xin Jue taught by Taiyuan couldn’t calm her turbulent emotions. Xiao You’s eyes brimmed with tears, and without thinking, she spread her arms and rushed to throw herself into her mother’s embrace.
“Daughter, be careful with your body, don’t move!”
Ghost Princess quickly pinned her daughter’s shoulders down while giving her a comforting smile, though the smile appeared quite strained.
The intense pain of the meridians pierced through the bones, simultaneously pulling Xiao You, who was still in a state of self-hypnosis, back to reality. When people feel extremely terrible, they always tend to escape from reality. Yet, not only the severe pain, but also the annoying ruffians, plunged the pure young girl into an icy abyss.
Qiao San suddenly darted into Xiaoyou’s line of sight. With sweat on his forehead, the ruffian gently said to the ghost girl, “Xiaoyou, her life has been saved this time. Tell her not to go crazy again, or else her heart meridian will break once more, and no one will be able to save her!”
“Oh, Qiao San!” Xiaoyou finally came to her senses, her eyes widening in shock. Her first instinct was to look down at herself, checking her clothes to make sure they were intact. Then she lifted her head, glaring fiercely at Qiao San, and shouted, “Get out! Get out! I’d rather die than let you touch me!”
Qiao San cast a cold glance at Xiaoyou, as if he hadn’t even noticed the person, and turned away lightly to leave. He simply instructed Guiji with a word, saying, “You Niang, I will be in retreat for a day of cultivation and rest. Don’t call me out even if she dies!”
The rascal strolled away leisurely, leaving Xiao You’s gaze filled with hatred behind; he remained as carefree and composed as the wind.
Sigh…
Ghost Princess sat down beside her daughter with a helpless and worried expression. After Xiaoyou’s excitement had subsided, she sighed and explained, “He didn’t do anything to you. On the contrary, he saved your life!”
Xiaoyou was no longer a naive girl; her cultivation over the past two years had completely transformed her. She naturally understood the difficulty of repairing one’s heart meridians, and knew that it would cost a great deal of Yuan Qi. But to expect her to develop feelings for Papi—this was absolutely impossible.
The daughter’s aversion to the ruffian runs deep, while the mother’s affection for him is equally profound. The Nine Yin Bloodline further ignites the collision and convergence of these emotions, making escape impossible.
“Daughter, you already know about the past. Think carefully, what is there about him that we should hate?” The ghostly princess’s heartfelt lament, long suppressed, finally poured into her daughter’s heart.
The gentle accusation pierced Xiao You’s heart like a sword. The girl fell into deep thought, her gaze growing weaker, yet she, who once wouldn’t even step on an ant, became unusually stubborn and refused to yield. “Hmph, that rascal must be a wicked creature; Mother, you must have fallen under his spell.”
“I…” Ghost Princess’s vermilion lips trembled slightly, her eyes dimmed, and she did not open her mouth again to explain. However, the motion of wiping sweatdrops from her daughter’s brow remained as gentle and careful as ever.
Silence—an oppressive, breath-stopping silence suddenly descended. A pair of ghostly mother and daughter sat in a daze, their eyes wide with distant gazes, the light within their pupils flickering restlessly.
After a while, to dispel the uncomfortable silence, the Ghost Princess took the initiative to ask, “Daughter, how did you leave Zifu Mountain? And you’re even injured! Did the Zifu deity bully you?”
Xiao You’s lowered eyelids trembled weakly before she finally spoke in a voice tinged with sorrow: “As soon as I heard that Mother had appeared in the Ghost Forest, I ended my retreat early. My master did not harm me; the injury was self-inflicted when I forcefully broke through the retreat on my own.”
Qing Lei’s eyes instinctively welled up with tears, turning red and moist. Xiao You’s loving murmurs stirred Gui Ji’s heart with sorrow, and she guiltily embraced her daughter’s frail body, whispering apologetically into her ear, “Xiao You, Mama has missed you too, but Mama is a ghost demon and cannot enter the Underworld Sea. I was afraid of endangering my dear daughter, so please don’t blame Mama, okay?”
A pair of ghost mother and daughter actually embarked on completely opposite paths of cultivation, prompting people to sigh at the irony of fate.
A day and a night passed. Although the Ghost Princess and her daughter shared a deep bond, neither could convince the other. Fortunately, when Qiao San came once again to reconnect Xiao You’s heart meridian, the girl did not greet him with harsh words this time. Instead, she remained cold and expressionless, like a block of ice, silently accepting the rascal’s kindness.
Qiao San didn’t seem to have any intention of melting the ice sculpture either. Right after the treatment, he turned around and left without looking at Xiaoyou even once from start to finish, which instead caused Xiaoyou to glare at him twice.
“Master San, you’re really not going to save her? The lady of the house said that in three more days, Xiao You’s Nine Yin Absolute Vein will erupt again. Without your Ten Yang Qi to neutralize it, she’ll perish and her soul will be scattered!”
“It depends on You Niang’s intention. Sigh, I don’t know why, but I feel somewhat uneasy.”
“Cluck, cluck…”
Shier laughed so hard she was leaning forward and backward, dodging the young master’s lustful hands reaching toward her exquisite jade-like breasts, while teasing him, “Master San, now that you’ve become a good person, you’ve also become a coward. With Xiao You’s tiny bit of magical power, even if she bites you, she couldn’t tear off even a piece of your flesh, ha, ha…”
“Hmph! Dare you say I’m a coward? Right now, let this little vixen know who’s truly—bold and fearless, Qiao San!”
The rogue let out a loud yell, charging forward like an archer on horseback, and lunged fiercely toward the young white tiger, his breath hot and heavy from afar, causing the young tiger’s nipples to stiffen and swell like those of a barking dog…
On the Purple Mansion Immortal Mountain in the Vast Sea.
Taiyuan Yvnu, filled with worry, approached Sihai Longmu, who was sitting in quiet meditation. Her voice hoarse with anxiety, she said, “The soul flame of Yuanshi is nearly extinguished completely. What should we do!”
“Taiyuan, don’t rush. We still have three days. Once those three days are up, I will surely bring Yuanshi back to life!”
The Dragon Mother of the Four Seas leaped up and, shaking her body, declared, “For Yuan Shi to live, one person must die! It’s time for us to set off. The Purple Mansion Mountain will be guarded by Xuan Nu. Let’s go!”
Inside the Qiao family residence, the ghost princess ceased her attempts to persuade her daughter, instead wholeheartedly embracing her role as a mother.
Xiao You, savoring the long-missed maternal love, also sensed something different about her mother compared to the past. Her pure heart as a female ghost warmed up, and she couldn’t help but curiously ask, “Mother, are you truly happy living here?”
“What do you think? Hee, hee…”
The ghostly girl smiled but did not answer directly; instead, she let her daughter make her own judgment.
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