Chapter 128: I Set Up Another Weird Flag?

“No, I have no mood for love. But if I do consider it in the future, you’ll be the first I will consider as my Dao partner.” Ye Wenxin thought briefly and finally came up with a tactful pretext.

After speaking, Ye Wenxin pretended to glance at the sky outside, feigning surprise, “It’s already this late, I still have to go look for that snake. Hall Master Bai, we’ll chat later!”

With that said, Ye Wenxin left in a fluster, while Shura Hall’s Hall Master continued to maintain that posture, as if she had returned to her original state of having Alzheimer’s……

When night came, she did not know whether it was due to parting, but Xi Mengxuan felt that the wind was rather cold tonight.

Although she was a member of the immortal sects, there had been more or less affection in her interactions with the Shura Hall disciples. The Shura Hall disciples in particular, despite their openness to matters between men and women, did not force Xi Mengxuan to make a choice.

“Mengxuan, you must tread the path ahead by yourself.”

“Junior Sister Mengxuan, you have to chin up, and if you truly can’t bear it just come back. Head Senior Sister is especially soft-hearted, if I go kneel for a few days, she’ll definitely stop blaming you.”

“That’s right, I used to be an Azure Wings Sect spy, but I’m living on just fine now. Ow, who hit me?!”

From the sisters’ lively chatter, it was evident that Xi Mengxuan seemed to have an excellent relationship with everyone.

The immortal sects not getting along with the demon sects was nothing new, but it was unexpected that Shura Hall would be tolerant to this point. Ye Wenxin, who was hiding in the underbrush, was quite deeply moved. Suddenly, feeling a shift around her, she lowered her voice and said, “You stupid snake, lower your body a bit more!”

The red python beside her immediately did as told, regardless of its aggrieved face and its cutesy act, Ye Wenxin only felt chills.

She disliked snakes due to the term ‘femme fatale (蛇蝎美人 lit. snake scorpion beauty/vicious beauty). But she did not think that after beating this snake, it would become so docile. It had some intelligence and comprehended human speech, it would indeed make a good essential spirit beast for one’s home.

About ten minutes passed, the group eventually left the pavilion, and with teary eyes, Xi Mengxuan finally chose to descend the mountain.

Behind her, several sisters who had deep affection for her wiped their tears. Ye Wenxin patted the huge red python, and the two stealthily advanced within the grass, soon walking in front of Xi Mengxuan.

“You’re Junior Sister Ye?” Xi Mengxuan recognized Ye Wenxin had also been present in the great hall at that time, yet she did not understand why. Although she was a stranger, she evoked a sense of familiarity in Xi Mengxuan.

Ye Wenxin gave a faint nod, looking at the red python behind her, suddenly at a loss on how to send out the gift.

Ye Wenxin had wanted to transform into Ye Liangchen to give the red python away, but thinking a man giving a gift to a woman would be misunderstood, she wavered before choosing to do it as Ye Wenxin.

“Is Junior Sister Ye waiting for someone?” Xi Mengxuan asked, a bit of worry on her face, “Now, aside from me, no one should be going down the mountain anymore. A lot of things have happened lately, Junior Sister best return a little early.”

She could not help but remind Ye Wenxin to pay attention to safety, even if she was no longer a member of Shura Hall.

“That’s not it, Senior Sister, I was waiting for you.” Ye Wenxin squeezed out a small, awkward smile, completely surprised that Xi Mengxuan would say such a thing. But her gentleness reminded Ye Wenxin of Ling Jue.

That warmth was unreserved, a guileless gentleness, constantly warming one’s heart.

“Me? But this is the first time we’ve met, wait, your surname is Ye…” Something seemed to have clicked for Xi Mengxuan, and she gazed at Ye Wenxin once more.

“Ahem, Miss Xi is still quite bright. I heard your spirit pet has died, and now your cultivation is abolished too, so I went ahead and caught a spirit beast for you.” Ye Wenxin did not say something awkward like ‘I’m Ye Liangchen’, deliberately cutting off Xi Mengxuan, and directly voiced what she wanted to say.

Xi Mengxuan smiled at this, “Junior Sister, I’m a member of the Beast Taming Garden. Others don’t know how difficult it is to capture spirit beasts, but I definitely know how to raise one…” Before she could finish her sentence, the red python who could wait no longer stuck its head out.

It was exactly ten meters long, and when it straightened, it was a lot taller than the trees nearby. Its red scales were unusually spooky under the light of the setting sun. Just a very beautiful red python, yet it was also extremely deadly.

Xi Mengxuan recognized this large red python as the one that killed her spirit beast and immediately pulled Ye Wenxin behind her. Her defensive maneuver was too practiced, Ye Wenxin was quite helpless, and the red python’s expression was also full of grievance.

Ye Wenxin’s beating had already made it question its snake nature, but now, as a victim, it was being guarded against, while Ye Wenxin was being protected as the weak party, one could imagine how uncomfortable that feeling was.

“No need to fear, Miss Xi, this is the spirit beast I’m giving you. You can make a blood pact with it now.” Ye Wenxin coughed embarrassedly, she could have used the Demon Lord’s identity for this, but Xi Mengxuan did not have any involvement with the Demon Lord, so using her Ye Wenxin identity was the safest instead, which then led to the blooper scene she was seeing.

“Junior Sister Ye, are you kidding? It’s an eight-hundred-year-old spirit beast, how can a newbie like me…”

She was not done talking when the red python humbly lowered its head with some eager attentiveness in its eyes. Admittedly, this spirit beast was much smarter than that crow, Hei Tong.

Ye Wenxin could not refrain from mentally roasting Hei Tong again, and began to talk nonsense seriously, “Mm, it came to find me of its own accord, saying that it was impressed by your spirit and is willing to follow you down the mountain.”

The red python listened to Ye Wenxin’s lies but still nodded, tacitly approving this excuse.

Xi Mengxuan remained dubious, but considering she had no cultivation and no spirit beast either, this road back would be very challenging, and under Ye Wenxin’s trickery and reasoning, she signed a blood pact with the red python.

With the signing of this blood pact, Xi Mengxuan and the red python were now bound together for life.

“It’s actually real.”

“You still think I’m deceiving you?” Ye Wenxin sighed and then took out a bottle of pills from her bag of holding, reminding the red python again, “Xiao Hong (Little Red), this lady’s constitution is very beneficial in improving your cultivation. Following her will only lead to good things, never bad.” Saying this, Ye Wenxin rolled out a pill and stuffed it into the red python’s mouth.

Although the red python did not know what it was, it sensed that it was something extraordinary as it consumed it, so it desperately nodded its head, its gaze towards Ye Wenxin softening significantly.

Xi Mengxuan did not dare to believe the truth of everything happening before her, she had lost a Level 1 spirit beast and suddenly gained at least a Level 7 spirit beast, how could she not be flabbergasted by this gap?

“Thank you miss.”

“It’s no big deal, if I hadn’t kidnapped you to the backwoods, you wouldn’t have lost your spirit beast.” Ye Wenxin truly felt somewhat sorry, she was just saying it in the beginning, but now Xi Mengxuan was actually graduating from Shura Hall.

“To be honest, it’s because of Miss Ye that I made up my mind. Even if my spirit beast hadn’t been killed, I had already decided to confess the truth and leave Shura Hall.” Recalling everything that happened today, Xi Mengxuan let out a long sigh.

One moment it felt like hell, yet also like heaven, making her feel double the sorrow and joy, not knowing how to express her current feelings.

“I see, it seems I’ve meddled unnecessarily.” Ye Wenxin feigned reflection. Flustered, Xi Mengxuan hurried to say, “No no no, it’s very much thanks to Miss Ye that I have such opportunity.”

She was so excited her face flushed, uncertain how to articulate her gratitude, but seeing Ye Wenxin did not reject the title ‘Miss Ye’, she felt a little disappointed.

If Ye Wenxin was a man, she might have been a bit moved by this gift. But this was Shura Hall, a man could not become a Shura Hall disciple, so she naturally knew that these feelings could only be cut off.

“Alright, the sky has darkened now, hurry up and go down the mountain. Best wishes to Miss Xi for a smooth journey and an early return home.” Ye Wenxin did not take it to heart, today’s excessive acting left her mentally exhausted, and she wanted to go back early and have a good rest.

“Going home?” Xi Mengxuan was absent-minded, still, she saluted Ye Wenxin with a cupped fist and descended the mountain with the red python.

Ye Wenxin did not leave, for some reason, she was growing to hate parting more and more these days, but life was full of partings. And although she had found a fellow Earthling, she still felt too lonely in this world.

After all, not everyone would be like her best friend……

It was at this time that Xi Mengxuan, who had walked over a dozen steps, suddenly looked back and could not help but ask.

“By the way, Miss Ye, may I ask you a question?”

“You may.”

“Which you is the real you?”

This question was asked with much suspense, as if referring to ‘Ye Liangchen’, then Ye Wenxin, and also Demon Lord Gu Qingcheng.

“The me you see now is my truest self.” Ye Wenxin could only answer thusly, she feared that perhaps one day, she would forget herself as she kept acting.

Xi Mengxuan was taken aback, then showed a smile. She turned back around, her steps becoming much firmer. It was unclear what she had understood from this sentence, but Ye Wenxin hoped it could lead Xi Mengxuan towards happiness.

It did not matter whether she was a good person, or a bad person, all was well as long as she could have a clear conscience.

Thinking this, Ye Wenxin wiped the sadness away, went up the mountain, ignored Luo Miaoyi’s gossiping, and quickly entered the land of dreams.

Ye Wenxin had a very strange dream……

She dreamt the story of Shura Hall’s ancestor and the Golden Serpent Immortal hundreds of years ago. In this story, Bai Chi was just a child, watching powerlessly as the ancestor and the Golden Serpent Immortal battled it out without rest.

The ancestor was greatly injured, and just as the group of people from Shura Hall planned on killing themselves, a woman dressed in red broke the stalemate, saving Shura Hall amidst the flames. The ancestor was rendered speechless with excitement by the savior, but her gratitude could not make the woman look back, and she did not even get the other party’s name.

The ancestor waited foolishly, one day passed, then two days……