We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?

Chapter 528: I Will Not Live On Alone. Do You Understand? (2 in 1)

Summer sunlight scattered through the mountains, and the cicadas in the woods called one after another without ever seeming to tire.

A soft breeze drifted leisurely through every corner of the mountain. Even the spirit rabbits in the hills lifted their furry little heads in comfort.

And in a courtyard halfway up Moon Spring Peak, several wisps of cooking smoke slowly rose.

“Xiao Mo, I’m back! I heard you made a lot of delicious food, so I have to taste it properly.”

Near noon, Tushan Jingci stepped into Xiao Mo’s courtyard like a little rabbit, her face brimming with a happy smile as she called out in a bright voice.

Not long ago, as soon as she returned to Moon Spring Peak, Sister Yueshi had told her that Xiao Mo had made an entire table of food and was waiting for her to come eat.

So Tushan Jingci had not stayed in her own courtyard even a moment longer. She had immediately hurried over.

Sure enough, the moment she walked into Xiao Mo’s courtyard, the aroma of food came rushing toward her.

“Young Lady, wait a moment. It will be ready soon.”

Xiao Mo poked his head out from the kitchen and spoke to the young woman in the courtyard.

“Then I’ll help you.” Tushan Jingci rolled up her sleeves, revealing white, tender arms like lotus roots, and made to walk toward the kitchen.

“There is no need. Young Lady can just sit in the courtyard.” Xiao Mo tactfully refused. “If Young Lady enters the kitchen, I fear this meal will not be ready quite so quickly.”

“Oh, all right...”

Tushan Jingci muttered softly, a tiny grievance hidden in her tone. “I am not that useless, actually. I can help...”

Still, although she felt that little bit of disappointment in her heart, Tushan Jingci obediently listened to Xiao Mo and did not insist on running into the kitchen to make trouble.

The young woman sat properly in the courtyard, legs together, hands resting on her knees, her gaze full of expectation as she looked toward the kitchen.

Ever since she was little, Tushan Jingci had liked Xiao Mo’s cooking most of all.

Only, because Xiao Mo usually needed to cultivate, she felt too embarrassed to delay him. So Tushan Jingci had never brought up wanting Xiao Mo to cook.

Only when something happy happened, or when there was a moment worth celebrating, would Xiao Mo take the initiative to cook. Only then could she seize the chance to eat her fill.

Half an incense stick later, Xiao Mo carried out one steaming dish after another.

Tushan Jingci hurriedly stood, carried the rice tub out of the kitchen, first served Xiao Mo a bowl of rice, then filled one for herself as well.

“Would Young Lady like some wine?” Xiao Mo took out a jar of wine and asked with a smile. “This wine is rather famous in Tushan. It is called Snow Beauty. The flavor is fairly good.”

“Then... then I’ll drink just a little.”

Tushan Jingci hesitated for quite a while before finally nodding.

She held the wine bowl in both hands, stretched her arms out straight, and properly presented it before Xiao Mo, looking exceptionally obedient.

Xiao Mo lifted the wine jar and poured some for Tushan Jingci.

Tushan Jingci lowered her head and took a sip.

The moment the wine entered her throat, those beautiful fox eyes could not help narrowing tightly. Her pink little tongue stuck out slightly from the burn, making her look extremely adorable.

“Young Lady still is not used to drinking.” Xiao Mo smiled and took a sip himself.

In truth, this wine was not especially strong.

After all, Tushan had many women and few men.

Furthermore, most fox-clan men lacked masculine vigor and carried a somewhat pretty young-husband air.

So Tushan as a whole was not accustomed to drinking overly strong wine.

In the end, though, this wine still seemed somewhat difficult for Jingci.

“I have never understood what is supposed to taste good about wine.”

Tushan Jingci set down the wine bowl, her face full of confusion. Then she lifted her delicate head, looked curiously at Xiao Mo, and changed the subject.

“Right, Xiao Mo, did something good happen to you? Why did you suddenly think to make food for me today?”

“There is indeed something good I planned to tell Young Lady.” Xiao Mo smiled as he answered.

“Hurry, hurry, tell me!” Tushan Jingci immediately sat up straight, her eyes full of anticipation as she looked at Xiao Mo, bright and sparkling.

Xiao Mo looked into Tushan Jingci’s clear eyes and said gently, “A few days ago, the Grand Elder came to me and had me join the Myriad Demon Alliance. Tomorrow, I will set out with the army.”

“Eh?”

As Tushan Jingci listened to Xiao Mo’s words, her expression froze slightly. Her eyes blinked several times, and her mind went blank. She almost wondered whether she had heard him incorrectly.

“Xiao Mo... what... what did you say?”

“I said... I am going to set out with Tushan’s army.”

Xiao Mo looked at Tushan Jingci with a smile and repeated his words from just now, neither hurried nor slow. “This meal can be considered farewell wine.”

“No!”

Tushan Jingci, recovering herself, stood up all at once, obvious urgency in her voice. “I know about the great war between the Myriad Demon Alliance and the Sacred Demon Alliance. This battle may very well be fought until one side lives and the other dies. Many people who go will never come back!”

Tushan Jingci’s eyes stared straight at Xiao Mo. Her small hands clenched tightly into fists, her knuckles faintly whitening, and her voice carried a tremor.

“I... I will go find the Grand Elder right now. I will never let you go to the battlefield.”

After speaking, Tushan Jingci turned and was about to fly toward Moon-Gazing Mountain.

“Jingci.”

Xiao Mo reached out and gently took hold of Tushan Jingci’s fair, delicate wrist. “Listen to me first.”

“Xiao Mo, nothing you say will work. I will not let you go.”

When Tushan Jingci heard Xiao Mo call her name, her lips pressed tightly together, but her expression remained stubborn as iron, as though no matter what Xiao Mo said, she would not retreat even half a step.

“Jingci, calm down first.”

Xiao Mo spoke in an even tone, his gaze steady and gentle.

“Actually, going to the battlefield is also my own intention.”

“You are about to become Tushan’s holy daughter, and in the future, you will be the clan chief of the Tushan clan. If I continue staying by your side, what will others say? And how many people will stand up to oppose it?”

“Besides, with my current realm, I have indeed fallen into a bottleneck. On the battlefield, life-and-death combat and spell-art clashes may perhaps be precisely the chance I need to break through. Otherwise, if something truly happens in Tushan in the future, what will I use to protect you?”

“But Xiao Mo...”

Tushan Jingci’s eyes reddened faintly, her voice full of urgency and heartache.

“I will protect myself properly, and I will protect you too! I do not care what others say at all. What others say is their business. That I like you is my business!”

Tushan Jingci looked at Xiao Mo seriously. Every word seemed squeezed out from the bottom of her heart.

“I know what you have always been worrying about. You are afraid that if you are with me, I will be ostracized by all of Tushan, or even hunted down. But I do not care!”

“At worst, the two of us can flee the demon-race world together and go to the Ten Thousand Arts world!”

Xiao Mo shook his head and sighed softly. “But Jingci, could you bear to part with your mother?”

“I...”

Tushan Jingci could not help pressing her lips together.

She very much wanted to say that if they truly went to the Ten Thousand Arts world in the future and she could never see Mother again, then so be it.

But when the thought turned in her mind, she felt that saying such words did not seem very good.

“And your bloodline is extremely precious. Even if you went to the Ten Thousand Arts world, would you truly not be coveted by those cultivators of the upper three realms? Could we truly obtain real peace?”

Xiao Mo continued, his hands gently holding Tushan Jingci’s shoulders, his gaze sincere and firm.

“Jingci, I do not want to take you into a life of wandering from place to place and hiding east and west. As long as I establish enough military merit and my realm is high enough, others will not dare criticize us.”

“I also know you are worried for my safety. I promise you, I will definitely come back alive. All right?”

Listening to Xiao Mo’s words, Tushan Jingci tightly clenched the hem of her skirt. Her fingertips whitened slightly from the force, and her expression was full of struggle and hesitation.

After a long time, the young woman finally lifted her delicate head. She blinked as she looked into Xiao Mo’s eyes, her voice so soft it was as though she feared startling something.

“Xiao Mo... only at times like this do you call me by my name...”

“Jingci, I’m sorry...”

Looking at the faintly wavering eyes of the woman he loved, guilt rose in Xiao Mo’s heart.

“You do not need to apologize to me...”

Tushan Jingci shook her head gently, and a bitter smile surfaced at the corners of her mouth.

“And I actually understand everything you said. You also know that as long as it is something you insist on, I have never had any way to refuse you...”

“Xiao Mo... I know I cannot persuade you...”

Tushan Jingci looked seriously into Xiao Mo’s eyes. In those clear fox eyes, there was worry, and there was reluctance to part.

“But Xiao Mo, you must remember one thing.”

Her voice was not loud, yet every word was like iron.

“If anything happens to you, I will not live on alone either... Do you understand...?”

...

“This has to come along.”

“And this too.”

“Or I might as well bring this too—after all, who knows when I’ll be able to come back?”

Hundred Flowers Alley.

In a small courtyard, Xiangniang was busily packing her luggage.

She stuffed in everything she could possibly bring, then carefully counted it all again. Not a single item was missing.

“That should be just about enough!”

After everything had been packed properly, Xiangniang exhaled deeply, raised a hand, and wiped the hot sweat from her forehead. Then she placed all the packed bundles into her storage bracelet.

“Xiangniang.”

“Xiangniang, are you there?”

“Xiangniang...”

Outside the courtyard, a woman’s calls suddenly sounded, one after another, carrying considerable urgency.

“Coming, coming...”

Xiangniang turned and walked out of the room. She quickly went forward and opened the courtyard gate, only to see a woman who looked about forty-something, though her actual age was already three or four hundred, standing before her.

“Auntie Wang, why do you look so anxious? Did something happen?” Xiangniang asked curiously.

This Auntie Wang was Xiangniang’s neighbor.

Because Xiangniang’s parents had died early, Auntie Wang had always taken good care of her in everyday life.

“What urgent thing could there be? Is it not because of you?”

Auntie Wang shot Xiangniang a look and spoke anxiously, her tone full of complaint.

“What in the world is wrong with you, girl? How did I see your name on the expedition list? What, have you gotten tired of living?”

“Ah?”

Xiangniang’s eyes shifted left and right a few times. Then she curved her eyes and smiled. “Auntie, there really is no way around it...”

“What do you mean, no way around it? Do you think you can walk sideways just because you are at perfected Dragon Gate Realm? Or do you think there are not many people on that battlefield whose realms are higher than yours?”

As she spoke, Auntie Wang grabbed Xiangniang by the wrist and started pulling her outside.

“Come, come, come! Your auntie still knows a few people above. We will go strike your name off right now! You just stay obediently in Tushan and cultivate properly.”

“Oh, Auntie, there is really no need.”

Xiangniang gently freed her hand from Auntie Wang’s grip.

“Auntie, look. Originally, I did not have to go. But I failed to complete the task the Grand Elder gave me, didn’t I? That Xiao Mo is just like a piece of stone. No matter how I seduced him, it was useless. Oil and salt could not get in.”

“Now, I can only rely on myself. Once I reach the battlefield and accumulate some military merit, maybe I will be able to enter Moon-Gazing Mountain. Stepping into the Golden Core Realm will only be a matter of time.”

“That still does not mean you should risk your life!”

Auntie Wang’s tone was full of anxiety and heartache.

But the moment she finished speaking, Auntie Wang seemed to suddenly realize something. She could not help looking this girl up and down, scrutiny in her gaze.

“No, no! You girl are far too sly. Never mind that you usually dress so flirtatiously—from childhood to now, I have never seen any male take advantage of you. Anything risky, you have never once gone near!”

“Tell me the truth! Why exactly are you joining the Myriad Demon Alliance this time?”

“I... what else could it be for? Of course it is for myself.” Xiangniang unconsciously dodged Auntie Wang’s gaze, her eyes drifting.

“Like hell I believe you!” Auntie Wang snorted and began thinking seriously with a frown.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up, as though she had seized the key point.

“Wait! I heard that the attendant beside the holy daughter, that one called Xiao Mo, has also signed up to join the Myriad Demon Alliance. You cannot possibly be doing this for him, can you?”

“Oh, my dear girl...”

Auntie Wang stamped her foot in anger, her face full of disappointment that Xiangniang had failed to live up to expectations.

“You already flaunted yourself in front of him like that. If he ignored you, then he ignored you. There are plenty of fish in the sea. You were born this beautiful—are you really going to hang yourself on one crooked tree?”

“Besides, you are not one of those lofty Nine-Tailed Heavenly Foxes, who can only stare at one man their entire lives or else have no opportunity to testify to the Way.”

“You are just an ordinary fox. You can have as many men as you want.”

“Listen to your auntie’s advice. Stop always thinking about those unrealistic fantasies. I know you have never touched a man from childhood to now. I suppose summer has come recently, your heart is itching, and your flirtatious thoughts are overflowing. Just endure it for now. Later, Auntie will introduce you to a few decent men!”

“Oh... Auntie...”

Xiangniang sighed helplessly, her tone full of laughter and tears.

“I understand everything you are saying...”

“But I just feel that... that crooked tree is crooked more beautifully than all the other trees...”