Chapter 36: Silly Girl… 

Seeing the happiness brimming in Jiang Qingshang’s eyes, Chu Yaoyao felt completely sour.

What virtue and ability does that Lin Pei possess? How many lifetimes of good fortune did he Cultivate to marry such a wonderful wife!

“Qingshang.” Stroking her best friend’s smooth hair, Chu Yaoyao’s charming eyes were like silk.

“What’s wrong?”

“Qingshang, why don’t you divorce him and marry me instead?”

Jiang Qingshang looked at Chu Yaoyao kindly and smiled, “What do you think?”

“Then, Qingshang, would you consider having an extra female husband? Can I share you with Lin Pei?”

“I only belong to him.”

“Alright then, I’ll reluctantly marry that Lin Pei, so I can—”

Before Chu Yaoyao could finish, she saw Jiang Qingshang in her arms looking at her with curved eyes, smiling without speaking.

It was clearly an incredibly sweet smile, but Chu Yaoyao trembled all over. A sense of danger washed over her.

Chu Yaoyao quickly stuck out her charming tongue, “Qingshang, I was just joking! How could I ever fall for your man?”

“Hmm, just a joke is fine.”

Jiang Qingshang also rose from her embrace, her small hand caressing her cheek.

“But Yaoyao, there won’t be a next time for this kind of joke. He can only be mine.”

“…”

Chu Yaoyao found that she didn’t dare to move a muscle.

Although Qingshang was her best friend, beneath that cold and beautiful exterior was a gentle heart that considered others.

But Chu Yaoyao understood today that this ‘gentleness’ had a prerequisite: she couldn’t touch what Qingshang cared about most.

And there was only one thing Qingshang cared about most, and that was Lin Xun.

Chu Yaoyao even felt that if she hadn’t quickly clarified it was a joke, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Thinking of this, Chu Yaoyao’s charming eyes welled up with tears. She sat on the bed like a duck, rubbing her eyes with her small hands, and complained tearfully:

“Qingshang… We’ve known each other for ten years, and that Lin Pei has only been married to you for two months. In your heart, am I really not as important as him?”

“How can you ask such a question?” Jiang Qingshang pinched her dramatic best friend’s little face.

“Hehehe… I knew, Qingshang, you…”

“Yaoyao, of course you’re not as important as him.”

“Hmph, I’m not talking to you! I can get angry too!”

Chu Yaoyao huffily lay back on the bed, pulling the quilt over half her face, her graceful figure turned away from Jiang Qingshang.

Jiang Qingshang merely smiled, no longer teasing her dramatic best friend. Instead, she used her spiritual power to iron the clothes in her arms, then folded them neatly.

Looking at the neatly folded clothes on the table, Jiang Qingshang seemed to recall how he looked wearing them, and a smile bloomed on her lips.

Sure enough, feeling a bit of quiet behind her, Chu Yaoyao turned around and saw Jiang Qingshang staring blankly at the clothes on the table.

The girl’s clearly defined lips curved slightly, and just a pair of clear and charming peach blossom eyes could make the entire spring lose its color.

As her best friend, Chu Yaoyao naturally knew what this little girl was thinking.

“You, ah.”

Chu Yaoyao stretched out her fair, long leg, her dew-like toes gently tapping the ground, and softly embraced the lovely girl from behind.

“Qingshang, you like him so much, but what will you do? In less than two years, you’ll have to end your Mortal World training and officially return to Zilin Holy Land, right? What will you do then?”

“I’ll take him with me,” Jiang Qingshang said softly. “Or, I simply won’t be this Saintess.”

“Not be the Saintess? What about the Zilin Holy Land? How will you repay your Master’s kindness in raising you?”

Jiang Qingshang lowered her beautiful head, her long eyelashes fluttering. Even her worried expression was so beautiful, making one willingly fall into enchantment.

It is said that the Saintess of the Huanxi Sect, having achieved Major Achievement in her secret technique, captivated all beings upon entering the world. With just a few words, she could manipulate countless Cultivators, and it’s even rumored that she could rank alongside Qingshang at the top of the se jia ranking.

But in Chu Yaoyao’s opinion, what woman in the world could be more beautiful and intoxicating than Qingshang?

“And also, ah.”

Gathering her thoughts, Chu Yaoyao pinched Jiang Qingshang’s little face and continued.

“Lin Pei is ultimately a Mortal, and you are ultimately a Cultivator. Immortals and Mortals are different. His entire life, to you, might just be a small period of secluded cultivation. When he is old and gray, and you are still in your prime, what will you do then?”

“Then I…”

Before Jiang Qingshang could finish, Chu Yaoyao’s index finger gently pressed against the girl’s soft, pink lips.

“Qingshang, I know what you’re going to say. You want to say, ‘Then I will cripple my cultivation and grow old with him,’ right?”

Chu Yaoyao gently lowered her finger. Jiang Qingshang lowered her gaze, not refuting, which was already an admission.

“Alas.”

Chu Yaoyao sighed softly.

Chu Yaoyao knew it was impossible to truly dissuade her, because even though she was only eighteen, she was extremely stubborn.

However, in Chu Yaoyao’s heart, Jiang Qingshang was naturally more important than Lin Pei!

This was her best friend.

And even if everyone in the world were to judge, a girl at the top of the se jia ranking, a sword Dao Genius…

Compared to an ordinary Mortal scholar…

The girl was far more important than the scholar.

But the problem was, in the heart of this girl, that scholar was more important than even herself!

“Silly girl.”

The more Chu Yaoyao thought, the more helpless she felt, and she lightly cursed.

They say the Fox clan values emotion, but how could this little girl be more easily swayed by love than a fox?

“I’d better give this to you quickly, or else this little girl of yours might do something foolish.”

Chu Yaoyao, with her bare, pink feet, walked gracefully to the dressing table and took out a small box from a drawer.

The small box opened, revealing a letter inside.

“Here,” Chu Yaoyao handed it to Jiang Qingshang.

Jiang Qingshang unfolded the letter, and a line of text was written on it.

【Rootless Secret Realm, July next year, opens in Candle Dragon Wilderness.】

“Rootless Secret Realm?”

“Mm.”

Chu Yaoyao nodded and explained.

“You’re only eighteen. These past years, besides Cultivating in the Holy Land, you’ve been training in the Mortal World. And in Qianye Continent alone, there are so many Secret Realms, it’s normal for you not to know.

Within the Rootless Secret Realm, there are rootless fruits. Legend says they ripen once every thousand years. Cultivators who eat them can heal Spiritual Root injuries, and Mortals who eat them can open their spiritual apertures and grow Spiritual Roots. If the news is correct, the rootless fruits in the Rootless Secret Realm should be ripe this time.”

“rootless fruit?”

In the courtyard, Lin Xun stroked his chin. Five Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators, bruised and swollen, knelt trembling before Lin Xun, their hands obediently placed on their laps, not daring to move.

“Mm, yes, it’s true.”

The Elder with the receding hairline had lost a front tooth, making his speech airy.

“It is rumored that the Demoness lineage of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect is determined to obtain the rootless fruit in this Rootless Secret Realm!”