“Yes, of course!”
Since Su Li didn’t mention what happenedjust now, Su Buwang was relieved immediately. He scratched his head and smiled, “Are you angry at my words?”
Su Li put down her cup and smiled softly when she looked at Su Buwang’s face that was similar to hers.
“No, I’m not. Buwang, I mean if… If I am really your mother, can you accept that?”
“???”
Su Buwang blinked, “I heard people say that women hate people saying she is old. My mother, she…”
Speaking of this, Su Buwang became awkward, “If she were still alive, she would be more than two thousand years old. Sister, you are called the unparalleled prodigy and you are more than nine hundred years younger than me. How could it be possible…”
“So…”
Su Li took her wine cup and shook it towards the first lights of dawn, “Buwang, I am not as powerful as you said. There are some things that I must do. I have to take revenge. Otherwise… I will not be reconciled and I will be sorry for the past self.”
Su Buwang was confused. For him who had not experienced much, Su Li’s words seemed too difficult to understand. And he scratched his head again.
Sister used to call him Brother Buwang. But now he was unaccustomedto being called Buwang.
“What are you doing in Jiuzhou Region?”
Su Li interrupted Su Buwang’s thinking. Hearing this, Su Buwang felt excited.
“It’s so boring to stay in Juecheng City, a remote place! This is the place where my mother was born. I want to come back here! And Sister, with you, I am not afraid of Shengtian Shrine…”
Seeing Su Buwang’s change of expression, Su Li felt a little bit depressed.
Since it came to this point, she was no longer afraid of her identity being revealed. With an eye to the situation, she was uncertain whether Buwang would believe her or not even if she said…or she removed her pretense.
Perhaps, he would be angry that she distorted…the image of his mother in his heart.
Or…he would blame her for the fact that she had abandoned him and he had lived as an orphan for thousands of years.
Su Li closed her eyes and listened to Su Buwang’s chatter.
She admitted that she was scared.
“Buwang.”
Su Li opened her eyes and said softly, “You can stay here.”
“Great! I know you are the best!”
Su Buwang clenched his fists. He was really afraid that she would say that this place was dangerous and would send him back to Juecheng City.
“But Jiuzhou Region is not as safe as you think,”
said Su Li. Then she awakened the nightmare in her body. A black light suddenly appeared out of thin air and turned into an idle black cat. Then it jumped into Su Buwang’s arms.
“What a cool black cat! Is it a monster pet?”
Su Buwang’s eyes brightened. He had long wanted to raise a monster pet, but it was so hard to keep one. The people who could afford a monster pet in Qingshui Circle were well-connected. Even Uncle Fang couldn’t afford it.
But when he arrived in Jiuzhou Region and met Immortal Sister, she gave him a monster pet!
Seeing he was happy, Su Li smiled broadly.
“Its name is Hei, and it is a nightmare soul beast that feeds on dreams. It is stronger than you. From now on, it will follow you as your partner. You should treat it well.”
“What? It is stronger than me?!”
Su Buwang widenedhis eyes. He lifted the black cat up and looked at it carefully. Then he asked seriously, “Are you really stronger than me?”
The black cat turned its head arrogantly, as if it said that if it weren’t for the master’s order, he would never have the opportunity to be its second master.
“Unwilling to submit?!”
Su Buwang took to it, “So clever. With my talent, I will surpass you very soon.”
“Meow, meow—”
The black cat didn’t care about him at all. It meowed twice, licking its paw.
Su Li smiled and watched this scene. She transmitted the sound,
“He is my only offspring. You know what to do when you are in danger.”
Hearing this, the black cat suddenly opened its eyes and nodded solemnly.
“I see, Master.”
“By the way, Buwang.”
Su Li took out the Yin jade-bone mask and placed it in front of Su Buwang, “Perhaps you don’t know. This thing…is the treasure that your mother used in the Reincarnation Mirror back then. You should keep it well and shouldn’t give it away at will.”
Su Buwang’s face changed suddenly, “Does this mask belong to my mother?”
Su Li smiled and nodded gently.
Su Buwang frowned. This thing was clearly given to him by a maid in Shengtian Shrine. Then she died, and he grieved over her death for a period of time. But he gradually became numb because there were so many deaths of the maids in Shengtian Shrine every day.
But now Sister Jiuzhou told him that this thing belonged to his mother!
Sister wouldn’t lie to others. So… who instructed the maid to give it to him?
Su Buwang held the mask tightly. He wore a long face.
He would never admit that Ling Li had an interest in doing such a boring thing!
“What’s wrong? You don’t look well.”
Su Li’s concern awakened Su Buwang. He raised his head and smiled, carefully putting away the Yin jade-bone mask, no longer as casual as before.
“Sister, how do you know this thing belongs to my mother?”
Light flashed through Su Li’s eyes. She said, “The past events in the Reincarnation Mirror in those days are not secrets for me. This mask is the treasure,Yin jade-bone mask. Ling Qinglan and the others recognized it at a glance.”
“Yeah, Ling Qinglan also came back from in the Reincarnation Mirror.”
Su Buwang took a tumble. Then he hesitated for a second and said, “Sister, I want to make the acquaintance of Ling Qinglan. Can you introduce me to him?”
Su Li knew that he wanted to hear more about her. She was silent for a moment and then nodded, “Okay, but you can’t bother him often. You know?”
“I see!”
Su Buwang gave an expectant face, “I will never interrupt him when he is practicing!”
Su Li shook her head and transmitted the message to Ling Qinglan.
Ling Qinglan was about to practice in isolation. When he received the message from Su Li, he rushed to the top of Zuowang Mountain.
“Are you Brother Ling Qinglan?”
When Su Buwang saw Ling Qinglan, his eyes glinted with surprise.
When Ling Qinglan saw Su Buwang’s face, he was shocked and no longer doubted Su Li’s message.
He stared at Su Buwang’s face with mixed feelings and didn’t know how to answer.
“It seems that you have a lot to talk about.”
Su Li got up and walked off the stone platform, “I won’t bother you.”
Ling Qinglan stepped aside and looked at Su Li with gratitude.
“Thank you, Honored Master. I will chat with him, and I won’t delay our business.”
Su Li chuckled when she saw this. She waved her hand and left, “Don’t worry. Buwang will be a member of Ni Sect.”
Hearing this, Ling Qinglan was puzzled again.
Although he didn’t know why Su Jiuzhou knew Su Li’s son, and why Su Li’s son appeared here instead of Shengtian Shrine, he was extremely grateful for her.
He owed his life to Su Li several times in those days… He could never repay the debt that he owed her.
He turned his head and fixed his eyes on Su Buwang. His words made Su Buwang’s eyes cloud with tears.
“You really look like your mother.”
…
In the hall, Su Li let out a long sigh and gave an anxious expression.
“Ziye, what’s your finding?”
Yan Ziye lowered his head slightly and said with a strange tone, “Honored Master, the Young Head of the Tianyake Attic…Xie Tianxing appeared at the gate of Ni Sect a few days ago, and it is said that he had some contact with Buwang. He dressed…in bad taste.”
Light flashed through Su Li’s eyes. She asked, “Where is he now?”
Yan Ziye’s face suddenly became even more weird. “He…sneaked intoour Ni Sect. Now he is a handyman disciple in charge of watering the flowers in Hua Valley of Sister Hua Yan…”
“Interesting.”
Su Li chuckled and disappeared like smoke in a blink of an eye.
Yan Ziye straightened himself up and said to himself, “Sometimes the talents do odd things. Honored Master often says something incomprehensible. This Young Head…is crazy!”
In these days, he followed the clues left by this Young Head to Hua Valley. Nobody knew his feelings.
Hua Valley… There were all female disciples! How did he sneak into it?
If he were not the deputy lord and didn’t have a serious reason, he would be ejected from Hua Valley by Sister Hua Yan!
Even so, those female disciples in Hua Valley looked at him quizzically, as if they were looking at a pervert.
“Bah! I can find any cultivation companion. Damn it. Xie Tianxing, I hate you!”
Yan Ziye cursed and left. He forgot that he had been a Great Holy Boy of a holy sect before.
…
There was an idyllic scene in Hua Valley—birds were singing and flowers were giving forth their fragrance.
Xie Tianxing lay in Wanhua Lawn, watching the female disciples who were picking flowers around him. Then he couldn’t help but sigh, “This is the real life!”
The thought that the disciples of Tianxing Valley were mostly male made him feel sad.
“Does the old ancestor prefer guys? He always enrolls male discipleswhich makes the talents in Tianxing Valley less and less. If I become an old ancestor, I will make a change!”
Xie Tianxing made an ambitious aspiration.
Suddenly, a young girl in a pink sect dress stopped and smiled at Xie Tianxing who was lying in the flowers, “Senior Sister Apprentice,why are you still loafing on the job? If you don’t pick those flowers, some of them will wither by noon. And if you don’t finish the task given by the Lord, you won’t get the sect’s reward.”
Xie Tianxing quickly sat up and smiled apologetically, “I know, Junior Sister Apprentice. I will go now…”
In this girl’s eyes, Xie Tianxing was clearly a female disciple, who wore the same dress as her, smiling foolishly at her.
The girl turned around with a strange look.
Why did Senior Sister Apprentice look a little abnormal today…
After she left, Xie Tianxing breathed a sigh of reliefand walked farther. Seeing no female disciples was approaching him, he lay down again. When he took a deep breath of the fragrance coming from the surrounding flowers, he was totally relaxed. Suddenly, a female voice surprised him.
“Don’t you know if you inhale too much mixed fragrance of these flowers, you will be poisoned?”