Ch. 568 - Post-Scriptum
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The Heavenly Immortal Realm celebrated the Spring Festival in the fourth year of the Immortal Calendar.
Rumble…
The lightning flashed like a raging python, sprinkling raindrops over the entire Hundred Lotus Sect.
On the martial arts platform, a seven-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy fought with blunt swords in the sound of metal clashing.
Ding Ding…
The girl had long black and white hair and one purple and one golden eye, which looked very strange, but her sword dance was very graceful, like a poem or a painting. Her nimble footwork and elegant swordplay complemented each other, and these two points alone were comparable to those of many cultivators in the Hundred Lotus Sect who had practiced swordplay for more than ten years.
Her name was Ye Hanyin, and she was the eldest daughter of the Hundred Lotus Sect Master.
It was rumored that she was born with the ability to speak.
While other children her age were still learning to speak, she had already become a disciple of Master Qi of the Black Star Sect and had memorized the Seven Books and the Twelve Classics; when other kids of her age were still learning to walk, she was already training with a wooden sword, following the brothers and sisters in the sect to practice swordsmanship on the martial arts stage.
She was born with a sword body and a heavenly spiritual root.
On her birthday, all the sects from the five regions came to pay their respects to her, and after seeing her, all the sect leaders wanted to take her in as their personal disciple.
Ye Anping didn't care who she chose as her master, but after Si Xuanji hugged her, the little one grabbed her hair and wouldn't let go, and continued to call Si Xuanji her master all the time. Thus, Ye Hanyin became Concubine Xiao's younger sister, causing Xiao Yunluo to stare in depression at little Ye Hanyin.
Whoosh—
Just when Ye Hanyin and the five-year-old boy in front of her were about to decide the winner, a clear bell sound came through the thunderstorm.
Ding ling ling—
Ye Hanyin, who was fighting with the five-year-old boy, twitched her ears and blocked the boy's sword. She took five steps back and turned to look.
A small oiled-paper umbrella emerged from under the martial arts platform, and then a barefoot girl with long black and white hair appeared.
Si Xuanji held up her umbrella and walked up the steps of the martial arts platform with her bare feet. She squinted her yin and yang eyes at the two kids on the stage and smiled.
Seeing that it was her master, Ye Hanyin's originally cold face was filled with surprise. She ignored her sparring partner and pounced toward her master: "Master, why are you here?"
"She's hungry!! She's hungry!!"
"?"
Ye Hanyin looked toward the sound and found that there was a parrot on Si Xuanji's head, hiding under the oiled paper umbrella to avoid the rain.
"The parrot is here too..." Ye Hanyin pursed her lips and asked, "Master, you are already a Void Returning cultivator, are you still hungry?"
"Void Returning cultivators are also human beings, but they are not hungry." Si Xuanji lifted the parrot and placed it on Ye Hanyin's head, smiling like a mischievous cat, "It's just that I haven't tasted meat for a long time, so I'm a little craving."
"Then Master, can't you ask Aunt Qiu to make you something to eat? You have come all the way to the Hundred Lotus Sect... There is nothing particularly delicious here."
Si Xuanji smiled softly: "There's your dad."
"Eh? My dad..."
Ye Hanyin froze for a moment, and then suddenly understood, and asked: "So, Master, you like my father's roast chicken too? I thought it was just my mother..."
"Well, it's not quite the roasted chicken..."
Bang---!
Before Si Xuanji could finish her words, her head dropped as if she had received a hit.
"You old girl! What are you saying in front of my little Hanyin?!"
The parrot was startled, and hastily flicked its tongue, saying: "You deserved it! You deserved it!!"
It was only then that Ye Hanyin saw that Xiao Tian had somehow gotten onto Si Xuanji's shoulder, and was now angrily poking her with her wooden sword, causing her face to bulge.
"Ugh?"
Ye Hanyin shrank her neck, hurriedly pulled Xiao Tian off Si Xuanji's shoulder, and held her in her hand.
"Master, I'm sorry... Xiao Tian suddenly..."
Si Xuanji couldn't see Xiao Tian and Xue'e and couldn't even sense them, so she had no way to deal with them. She pouted in dissatisfaction and looked at Ye Hanyin's clenched hands: "Is that little guy here?"
"Hmph~~"
Xiao Tian made a face at Si Xuanji, but Ye Hanyin quickly pinched her face and scolded her: "Xiao Tian, don't be disrespectful to Master."
Si Xuanji smiled without saying anything, patted her head, and wrapped her up with a rain-proof spell, then looked at the expressionless little boy standing aside.
Seeing Si Xuanji looking at him, the boy respectfully bowed to her and said in a mature tone but childish voice: "Greetings, Matriarch Si."
After he reminded her, Ye Hanyin finally reacted and immediately stepped back to salute Si Xuanji: "Greetings, Master!"
Looking at the two little kids bowing to her, Si Xuanji shook her head and sighed: "I am not a stranger, why are you so polite? Also, I have told you so many times, call me Sister Si."
The boy looked away and complained in a small voice: "Master Si, you are thousands of years older than our parents. When I call you sister, my father becomes my son."
Bang—
Si Xuanji raised her hand and flicked his head, with a helpless look.
This kid had a big mouth. Who knew who he learned that from?
"Forget it. Qinghe, where is your sister? Didn't she accompany you to practice swordplay?"
Ye Qinghe shrugged slightly, spread his hands, and said: "At my mother's. Mother is free today, so she is personally teaching her sword techniques. Senior sister Liang is probably there too...Daddy asked me to practice swordsmanship with sister Hanyin, and that's how I escaped death."
"Is that so..."
Si Xuanji nodded, thought for a while, and asked: "Pei girl has that kind of personality. She was trained through beatings when she was a child."
"I've heard that my father beat my mother every day when they were children... The Elders of the Hundred Lotus Sect all said so. He must like my mother very much. After all, she is very powerful..." Ye Qinghe glanced at Ye Hanyin and added: "And she can even deal with Auntie Feng and beat her..."
As soon as these words came out, Ye Hanyin frowned and quickly retorted: "That's because my mother wasn't serious! If my mother had been serious, how could your mother have won?! Humph~~"
"Ah, yes, yes..." Ye Ying nodded condescendingly, "Auntie Feng is pretty capable, just a little silly. Daddy convinced her to marry him with just a few roasted chickens."
Ye Hanyin frowned, looked at her brother, tightened the hilt of the sword, and threatened: "If you call my mother stupid again, I will beat you up! Do you believe me?!"
Seeing the two siblings at loggerheads, Si Xuanji shook her head, raised her hand, and gave each of them a slap on the head, making them both frown.
"Ouch!" "Hiss--"
"Why are you two so much like your mothers back then; making a fuss over nothing?"
"Oh..." "..."
Si Xuanji waved her hand and cast a spell to help the two kids avoid the rain. She said: "It's raining so hard, stop practicing. Go back to change your clothes, and..."
With another wave of her black sleeve, three shorter spiritual swords flew out of her waist pouch and landed in front of the two kids.
"These are the swords your Aunt Bai made for you. Qinghe, you have one for your sister too. Remember to give it to her later."
"Yes, Master Si."
Si Xuanji frowned slightly: "Hmm?"
Ye Qinghe immediately changed his words: "...Sister Si."
"Hmm~~"
Si Xuanji smiled, looked around, and then floated up, flying slowly toward the back mountain of the Hundred Lotus Sect.
After watching Si Xuanji fly away, Ye Hanyin pursed her lips and asked: "Do you think Master has a crush on our father?"
Ye Qinghe was silent for a while, then said: "It's not impossible. After all, Daddy is very handsome. I don't know how Master Si and our father know each other. They seem to have a good relationship... But our father is a Nascent Soul cultivator, and Master Si is a Void Returning cultivator, so..."
"Hmm..." Ye Hanyin hadn't thought about this question yet. After hesitating for a while, she looked down at Xiao Tian in her hand, "Xiao Tian, how did our father know Master Si? What is their relationship?"
"Well..."
Xiao Tian hesitated to speak because Ye Anping had warned her before not to tell the three little ones about Xuanji's affairs, so after a moment, she simply shook her head.
"I really don't know~"
Ye Hanyin pouted and threw her away: "So useless. And you're still calling yourself the spirit of the Heavenly Dao Scroll."
Ye Qinghe also nodded in agreement and said: "Uhm...Xue'e seems much more reliable than Xiao Tian."
"Hiss--- How is that black bastard better than me?!"
… …
The Hundred Lotus Sect, on the back mountain.
Thunderbolt---!
Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled continuously while drops of rain fell from the sky, creating ripples in the steaming open-air pool.
In the center of the pool, a man with his hair tied sat cross-legged.
Although he was already the father of three children, the man did not have the mature look of a father.
His white shirt was completely soaked through, revealing the toned flesh underneath. A ponytail hung down on his back; seen from behind, he even had a bit of an androgynous, feminine vibe.
Ye Anping had cleared his mind at this moment, letting the lightning and thunder in the sky and the heavy rain knock on his head, while he sat there like a rock, not moving an inch.
Suddenly, the thunders in the sky stopped, and the rustling rain ceased to fall.
Although spring thunderstorms came and went quickly, the fact that this one disappeared in an instant made Ye Anping feel a little confused.
However, with the clear sound of a bell, this doubt was answered.
Ding ling ling~~
Ye Anping held his breath, opened his eyes, and there was Si Xuanji's face, almost touching his.
"Ah~~"
She acted like a little tiger, baring her teeth and claws, and suddenly roared, as if she wanted to scare Ye Anping. If it were in the past, he would have to join her in the fun and pretend to be scared.
But now the two of them already knew each other well.
"Xuanji, you are not a little girl anymore, aren't you ashamed?"
Seeing that he was not cooperating with her, Si Xuanji pouted, turned around, and used Ye Anping, who was sitting cross-legged in the pool, as a chair, sitting on his legs and leaning on his chest.
Si Xuanji's eyes turned resentful, she pouted and said sourly: "Alas... Anping, you have changed after all. You used to play with me, but now you start to dislike me because I am old."
Ye Anping felt like laughing for some reason. He gently hugged her waist, rested his cheek on her shoulder, and said: "How come the dignified leader of Black Star Sect, the Immortal Matriarch Red Moon, is acting like a little spoiled girl now? If someone sees this, won't you be embarrassed, Xuanji?"
"Do you think my restriction is for nothing? Besides you, who else in the world can see me acting like a spoiled child?"
Hearing this, Ye Anping looked up at the sky again and saw that the thunderstorm had not stopped, but was isolated from the area by a layer of crystal-like spiritual energy.
And this spiritual energy shield also conveyed another message to him:
Xuanji was probably 'hungry' again and came to him to feed.
It was hard to explain, but Si Xuanji didn't want to make their relationship public, fearing that it would make him the target of public criticism. Therefore, except for Xiao Yunluo, his sister, Zu Yuan, and a few others, no one knew about his relationship with Si Xuanji as a dual cultivation partner.
Although Ye Anping felt a little sorry, he still followed Xuanji's lead and didn't even tell Ye Ao and Kong Yulan.
But this way, every time Xuanji came to see him, he felt like they were having an affair.
Especially with the anti-peeping restriction.
The anti-peeping restriction that Si Xuanji cast was a restriction that has been used in the secret treasure house of the Black Star Sect's ancient cultivators. If someone passed by and saw such a good restriction, they would probably think that there was some rare opportunity hidden here.
Who would have thought that this kind of prohibition was only used for "adultery"...
Ye Anping shook his head helplessly and suggested: "Xuanji, why don't you come to my room?"
"What room..." Si Xuanji sneered, "Do you think I'm that girl Yunluo? She thinks about that kind of thing every day."
Like daughter, like mother…
Ye Anping laughed and raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Then what can I do for the great hero Xuanji?"
"I came because I missed you and I also brought something from Miss Bai."
Si Xuanji glanced at him, and with a wave of her hand, "Bai Yue" flew out of her storage bag and landed in her hand.
"Did Senior Sister Bai finish her sword so quickly?"
"That girl wanted to make a spirit sword for you and she simply sat by the stove for a month without coming out. She was roasted red all over. You should go to the Black Star Sect to see her in a while. She misses you."
"Last month I went with Hanyin and the others to pass the test, and I also asked Sister Bai to make them some small spiritual swords."
"They are ready, too, I just brought it to them."
As Si Xuanji spoke, her yin-yang eyes scanned the spiritual pool.
To be honest, she hadn't noticed it when she first saw it, but now that she was immersed in it, she realized that this spiritual pool was not an ordinary thing. It seemed to be like the demonic spiritual pools used by the demonic cultivators of the Eastern Region.
Normal immortal cultivators could greatly improve their efficiency in condensing energy by soaking in the spiritual pools, and could even heal injuries and repair their spiritual core.
However, immortal cultivators soaking in this demonic spirit pool will not only fail to accelerate the energy condensing and stabilize the core but will instead cause their cultivation to decline. Except for those immortal cultivators who needed to disperse their energy to practice the reincarnation art, ordinary immortal cultivators could not bathe in this pool.
Slightly puzzled, Si Xuanji questioned: "Anping, you're soaking in this pool..."
"Well, I asked Senior Mo to dig it up for me from the Eastern Region. It can suppress cultivation."
"Why?"
"If you want to reach the Deification stage, you must first become a mortal, which takes at least twenty years, and at most eighty years.
Ye Anping slightly lowered his eyes, looking in the direction of the Hundred Lotus Sect.
"Hanyin is only seven years old now, and Qinghe and Hanyue are only five. If my sister and I are going to prepare for the Deification stage, who will take care of them? Moreover, Sister Gu is already seven months pregnant, and Longling found that she is also pregnant last month. I can't just leave them alone in the Heavenly Immortal Realm while I go to the ordinary world to begin the Deification stage, right?"
"What a good dad."
"I didn't cultivate for immortality." Ye Anping looked back, with some emotion in his eyes, "...but to protect myself and my family. Xuanji, didn't you see me as a dead star at first? I was just a cannon fodder at the beginning."
"The innate pattern forms the body, and the acquired pattern gives the function. They are simple and they cannot be changed. But you have changed the fate of the stars, and you have also gone against the fate of heaven."
"It's also against my own will."
Ye Anping looked at Si Xuanji and raised his hand to tuck her hair behind her ears: "It's your turn now, Xuanji."
"You've already saved me once..."
"It's not over yet." Ye Anping shook his head and said, "In the past few years, I've actually been looking through the classics, searching for something called 'Nine Transformations Pill'."
"Hmm... isn't that the immortality pill from mythology? I remember it can change the meridians without affecting the spiritual roots."
In fact, in the game, it was a thing that could only be exchanged with krypton gold that was bought with real money.
Ye Anping shrugged slightly. In the past few years, in addition to taking care of the children and accompanying his wives, he had instructed Mo Chi Ling, Liang Zhu, and Ye Waner to place spies in various places in the five regions and investigate some local legends.
The 'Nine Transformations Pill', had the clearest clues among all the information he had collected over the years.
As long as he could find it, it meant that those heaven-defying pills that could only be obtained by paying real money in "Heavenly Sword Fantasy", did exist.
Aside from the 'Nine Transformations Pill', what Ye Anping wanted most was a full-level ascension pill, which could reach the Void Returning stage with just one pill, and was called the 'Nine-star Heaven-reaching Pill'.
He, his sister, Feng Yu Die, Gu Mingxin, and Xiao Yunluo didn't need it, but Yun Yiyi and Li Longling didn't have outstanding spiritual roots.
He did not want to gamble with their lives.
Yun Yiyi and Li Longling were also his wives, so it was his duty to protect them.
And the best solution was the Nine-star Heaven-reaching Pill.
However, Ye Anping had already made up his mind. If he still couldn't find it within sixty years, and there was no other good way, he would find a few cultivators with natural spiritual roots and dig out their spiritual roots for Li Longling and Yun Yiyi…
Of course, this was the final solution that would be used only when there was really no other way.
Si Xuanji saw that Ye Anping's eyes had become serious, and was somewhat puzzled. She asked: "Why are you looking for the Nine Transformations Pill?"
"Of course, it's for you, Xuanji." Ye Anping smiled, "Isn't it because of your cultivation technique that you can't have children?"
"..."
Si Xuanji widened her eyes slightly. She had never expected that Ye Anping would actually think about this. After hesitating for a while, she shook her head and said: "Anping, there's no need... I can treat Hanyin and the others as my own children."
"Then why don't you want to tell Hanyin and the others about us?"
"..."
"Besides, when you hatched Yunluo in the back mountain of the Black Star Sect, didn't you also tell the four regions that she was your biological child? Xuanji, you..."
At this point, Si Xuanji frowned, turned around, grabbed Ye Anping's collar, and blocked his mouth with hers.
"Anping, rather than having your child, I hope you can live up to your name, Anping, Anping (calm and peaceful)."
"Well, don't worry. I'm a good young man, I would never gamble with that."
Si Xuanji lowered her eyes slightly and looked at Ye Anping's thin shirt that showed his well-defined muscles. A faint blush gradually appeared on her cheeks and she whispered: "Anping, I'm hungry..."
"Eh? You mean..."
Si Xuanji kissed Ye Anping again, and then she poked his collarbone with her finger and drew circles: "Anping, Xiao Tian beat me earlier."
Listening to this little girl in the Void Returning stage complaining to a young Nascent Soul cultivator like a spoiled child, Ye Anping felt a little amused and replied: "...I'll teach her a lesson later."
Then he gently cupped Si Xuanji's cheeks, lifting her head, and took the initiative to kiss her moist cherry lips.
Standing on a tree branch, the parrot watched the two people rolling in the water pool like two dragons playing with a pearl. It immediately spread its wings and flew up, croaking:
"Nothing to do today!! Nothing to do today!!"
"Hundred Lotus' playboy An Ping!! Hundred Lotus' playboy An Ping!!"
Bang—
Then it slammed headfirst into Si Xuanji's restriction and fell to the ground...
… …
The Hundred Lotus Sect, Eastern Peak.
Clatter—
Rain crackled against the windowsill and occasionally, thunder rumbled.
Under the eaves, a silver-haired girl was lying down on a recliner, with her face covered by a book, sleeping like a white-haired dead pig with her legs crossed. She didn't even notice if anyone was approaching her.
At this time, Ye Hanyin came back from the martial arts arena. After wiping the water off her hair, she changed her clothes and went to look for her mother. However, she did not expect that her mother could actually fall asleep on the recliner in such a thunderstorm.
Standing next to Feng Yu Die, looking at her mother, Ye Hanyin asked in a somewhat depressed tone: "Xiao Tian, Daddy really convinced my mom to marry him with a few roasted chickens?"
"Well..." Xiao Tian thought for a while holding her chin and replied, "There were more than a few roasted chickens, at least a thousand. You Die can eat a lot..."
At this, Ye Hanyin looked at her mother as if she were a fool.
To be honest, she had never seen her mother compete with others in swordplay. Most of her knowledge of her mother's "power" came from what Auntie Yun and Auntie Li had told her.
But did she really kill a Core Formation mid-stage cultivator when she was in the Foundation Building stage?
What else did they say... she fought against the Demon King, led the Justice Division to break through the encirclement of the Ghost Spirit Sect in the Central Region, and fought against the Great Elder of the former Heavenly Demon Sect together with Auntie Gu…
Anyway, Auntie Yun and the others all said that her mother was a rare genius cultivator in the world.
But...
Ye Hanyin thought about how she usually saw her mother.
一Always with a silly smile on her face.
一She only thinks of the roasted chickens made by her dad.
一She usually either sleeps or wanders around.
It's like a…
"Second idiot...?"
Ye Hanyin didn't know why, but she murmured this title.
Feng Yu Die, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly shuddered, drowsily raised her hand to lift the book on her face, and looked toward her.
"Huh? Hanyin…did you finish your sword practice?"
"Yes, mother. Master just came and asked me to come back..."
"Oh~~"
Feng Yu Die sat up and put her hands around Ye Hanyin's waist, then lay back down holding her in her arms. She yawned and said: "Then we can have dinner when your father comes back from the Spirit Pond.
"Roasted chicken again, eh..."
"Well...I want to eat roast chicken anyway. If you want to eat something else, let Anping make it for you. Hee-hee"
Feng Yu Die grinned, patted her recliner, and then hugged her daughter tightly like a pillow, turned sideways, and prepared to continue sleeping.
But perhaps because she saw her daughter looking at her as if she were a fool, Feng Yu Die was dazed for a moment and asked: "What's wrong? Why are you staring at me like that?"
"Mom... who is more powerful in a fight, you or Auntie Pei?"
"Of course it's your mother! When I fought with Sister Pei before, I always gave in to her, but that was because I liked..."
Bang—
Before she finished speaking, Xiao Tian kicked Feng Yu Die on the head, fearing that she would lead little Hanyin astray.
Ye Hanyin tilted her head: "Eh?"
"Anyway, I was the one who gave in to Sister Pei! If I get serious, I can beat ten Pei sisters!"
"Really?"
"Of course it's true!! Hanyin, you see, every time your father comes to my place, he always supports his waist when he leaves, but when he goes to Sister Pei's place, it's always Sister Pei..."
Bang—
"Yu Die!!! Shut up!!!"
"Why are you so fierce... sigh~~"