#527 - She is Nannan

Jun Wuxie had a great harvest today.

With his soul cultivation at the peak of a Half-Saint, erasing the Half-Saint imprints on the Naraku rings wasn't difficult.

He casually opened a few Naraku rings and his eyes lit up.

Inside, there was a dazzling array of resources piled up, with the worst being above the sixth star level, and countless at the eighth and ninth stars!

It was just a pity that there were no Half-Saint level treasures, but he was still very satisfied.

There were many spiritual herbs inside that were not of very high grade, but were very rare.

These spiritual herbs all had special effects, such as strengthening the foundation and nourishing the origin, condensing true qi, increasing cultivation speed, and assisting in breaking through great realm barriers, and so on.

Using these spiritual herbs to cultivate the disciples and sword attendants of the Immortal Execution Sword Sect would surely allow their realms to improve at an astonishing speed.

If he had these resources back then, he would probably have reached the Saint Realm long ago.

It could be imagined that the younger generations of the Heavenly Purity Sect and the Soul Hunting Hall must have deliberately suppressed their realms because of the Great Era, otherwise their realms would not have been limited to this.

Doing so, besides the Golden Scaled Secret Realm, was probably for other reasons as well.

"It seems that these two forces really cannot be underestimated. They have profound foundations and possess too many rare spiritual herbs. Their disciples, perhaps after解除ing the封印 of their realms at some point, will achieve rapid realm ascension in a short period of time!"

Thinking like this, he collected all the Naraku rings without carefully counting them.

When the time came, he would hand them over to Su Lan and let her count them.

Su Lan was appointed by her as the Resources Elder, managing all the resources of the entire Immortal Execution Sword Sect, including the resources previously managed by Lingfei, which had already been transferred to Su Lan. With each person dividing the work, things could be done in an organized manner.

"Do you see how much longer she needs to finish?"

Jun Wuxie pointed at Su Xiaoxiao inside the blood qi barrier and said to Ye Qingxue.

"She is awakening and recovering, which will take a long time. You don't have to wait for her to wake up. When the time comes, my sword intent will safely send her back to the Immortal Execution Sword Sect."

"That would be great. I can rest assured then." Jun Wuxie nodded and then asked, "Is the Goddess of Life very strong?"

"The first batch of ancient gods born in the Heavens are naturally very strong." Ye Qingxue said here, looking at him with a strange look, and said, "After the matter of the Binhai Secret Land is over, you should go back to the sect and take her down as soon as possible."

"Who?"

Jun Wuxie was a little confused. Take down? How to take down?

"Her, the Goddess of Life."

Jun Wuxie: ......

He was a little confused. Wasn't Ye Qingxue saying a few days ago that he was indulging in love?

Now, she was actually telling him to take down Su Xiaoxiao as soon as possible?

"Go for a walk with me?"

He looked at her, and there were many questions in his heart that he wanted to ask her, but he didn't want to go to the Eternal Life Shrine.

Ye Qingxue said after a slight silence, "Where to go?"

"The seaside."

After he finished speaking, he didn't see any objection in her eyes, so he set off towards the seaside.

He walked a long way, but didn't see her follow.

When he landed on the beach, Ye Qingxue appeared out of thin air beside him.

They walked side by side, stepping on the wet, soft sand, leaving behind several rows of long footprints.

Her feet were very small, crystal clear, and incomparably perfect, without any flaws. Even if the best jade in the world were carved into works of art, it would not be one ten-thousandth as good as her pair of crystal jade feet.

For a time, they walked side by side like this, and no one broke the silence.

Jun Wuxie sometimes looked at her walking barefoot on the beach, and sometimes looked at her peaceful and beautiful profile. This feeling made him feel that at this moment, all the beauty in the world seemed to be concentrated beside him.

It was this woman walking side by side with him.

Her name was Ye Qingxue, a powerful and beautiful woman who surpassed the ultimate in the world.

A woman who inexplicably gave him a different feeling in his heart.

"Why?" Jun Wuxie finally spoke first: "I mean Xiaoxiao, why do you want me to take her down?"

"Because she is the Goddess of Life." Ye Qingxue sighed slightly: "Her destiny was already destined at birth. Even if she lived out a second life, she still couldn't escape fate. But she met you before she awakened her Dao fruit. Perhaps this is the only possibility to change her destiny."

"What destiny?"

"The destiny of sacrificing herself for the Heavens and the Universe." Ye Qingxue said softly: "She is the source of life in the Heavens and the Universe, and there is a connection of fate with the lives of the Heavens and the Universe. Whenever the Heavens and the Universe face complete destruction, she will involuntarily sacrifice herself, and then leave behind the Dao fruit, turning into the appearance of her you knew before, constantly repeating..."

Jun Wuxie's body shook violently.

"This situation seems to be able to repeat constantly, but if someone steals the Dao fruit before she recovers, she will completely disappear and vanish into thin air."

Jun Wuxie couldn't accept it: "So, she was born to die for the Heavens and the Universe?"

"That's right, unless someone can interfere with or change the deepest will hidden in her heart. Now, only you can do it, because you have already left a deep mark in her heart."

"Then why do you want me to do it as soon as possible?"

"Because she is the Goddess of Life. Her Dao fruit has already begun to awaken and recover. For the time being, she may only have vague memory fragments. Before her memory becomes clear, it is your only chance. Otherwise, once she remembers who she is, the mark you left in her heart will gradually be erased. At that time, she will no longer have petty love in her heart, only great love for the Heavens and the Universe."

"So, you want me to take her down in order to deepen the mark I left in her heart?"

Ye Qingxue nodded and said, "I don't want to see her have that kind of ending again, and besides, she has unimaginable benefits for you. You must make her obsessed with you, obsessed with you to the point where her entire inner world can't hold anything but you. In that case, your will will be her consciousness. As long as you maintain it like this, you can control her decisions in the future and make her listen to you forever."

The corners of Jun Wuxie's mouth twitched a few times, and he couldn't help but look at her with a strange look, and said, "I say, Miss Qingxue, are you teaching me how to pick up girls?"

Ye Qingxue's delicate body shook slightly, and she suddenly stopped, looking at him very seriously, and said, "I don't like this title."

Jun Wuxie was very speechless. Wasn't it good to call her that before?

He tentatively said, "Then call you Sister Qingxue?"

"I don't like hearing you call me sister. Don't you understand?"

She seemed a little angry, but the anger in her eyes was different from the anger he had seen in her eyes before. There was no longer that feeling that made him feel frightened.

Jun Wuxie didn't know why, but his heart suddenly warmed up: "Then I don't like it either."

"Don't like what?"

Ye Qingxue was slightly stunned.

Jun Wuxie lowered his head and looked at her bare and crystal jade feet, and said, "I don't like you being barefoot outside."

"Why?"

Jun Wuxie's heart became more and more uncontrollably hot, and he said, "Because I don't like others seeing..."

Ye Qingxue was silent for a moment, just quietly looking at him with those indescribable eyes.

Jun Wuxie was a little flustered, worried that this person would suddenly go crazy and throw him thousands of miles away.

Just as he was wondering if he would be thrown out in the next moment, Ye Qingxue slowly turned around and slowly walked forward.

Then, he heard her softly say "Hmm."

At that moment, he was struck by lightning, and his whole body froze in place.

She said "Hmm"?

What did she mean by this "Hmm"? Was she agreeing to him?

He couldn't believe his ears.

He just felt a warmth in his heart and couldn't control himself, so he said such a thing.

He thought she would go crazy, but she actually agreed?

He couldn't help but look at her feet, and he saw that she had a pair of snow-white and delicate shoes on her feet at some point.

He stood there in a daze for a long time, until she walked far away on the beach before he came back to his senses and hurriedly chased after her.

They continued to walk side by side, neither of them speaking, strolling along the beach.

Jun Wuxie's heart was very uneasy.

The current Ye Qingxue and the previous Ye Qingxue were really too different.

He couldn't help but carefully recall in his mind when she first became different in front of him.

Gradually, there was a line in his mind that seemed to become clearer and clearer.

He connected these things together, and his heart became more and more shocked, and he even had a very absurd idea.

He decided to test it out.

"Qingxue, I have a question that I've been wondering about."

He said this, deliberately making the address a lot more intimate.

"What question?"

Ye Qingxue didn't seem to have any reaction to his intimate address.

"It's just that I broke through several great realms in the Xuanyuan Secret Realm. I thought it was special inside, and the Heavenly Dao order was cut off, so I didn't go through the tribulation. Once I came out, I would definitely attract the thunder tribulation at the first time, but until now, there is no sign of the tribulation. What's going on?"

He asked the doubts in his heart, but at the same time he was even more shocked that she didn't have the slightest displeasure with him calling her Qingxue!

"It's because I didn't let you go through the tribulation. If I don't allow it, the Heavenly Dao wouldn't dare to send down the thunder tribulation."

Her words were very calm, as if she was talking about something normal.

Jun Wuxie was stunned. Could it be like this?

Can you be more domineering?

"Why not let me go through the tribulation?"

"Because the Zongwang and Zonghuang tribulations, when降下ed separately, are nothing to you and have no meaning. When you break through to the Saint Zong realm, the great tribulation accumulated in those three realms, ten times more powerful, will allow you to improve during the tribulation. Although it is a bit dangerous, I believe you can persevere. Moreover, the Saint Zong great tribulation, you may also be able to make good use of it, such as killing enemies."

Jun Wuxie: … …

Ye Qingxue is asking him to use tribulation to trick people.

I didn't expect this one to be so cunning, just like him.

"Your path of cultivation is very long.

I can't always help you solve strong enemies, that would only harm you.

You need to constantly temper yourself in adversity, break through your limits, and ultimately achieve no flaws in your cultivation, so that you can face the enemies you will face in the future…"

Jun Wuxie nodded, and then he fell silent.

They walked side by side, and before they knew it, it was dusk.

The afterglow of the setting sun stretched their shadows very, very long.

The sea surface rippled with golden-red light, the sunset glowed fiery red, and a flock of seabirds flew by, forming a beautiful picture.

Alas!

Jun Wuxie, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly sighed.

"Why sigh?"

Ye Qingxue also stopped being silent and asked plainly.

"I remembered those things from the Divine Ancient World.

Of those memories, the clearest is Nannan…"

Jun Wuxie said this, seemingly casually mentioning it, walking side by side with her, but in reality, his mind was all on her.

He noticed Ye Qingxue's body tremble imperceptibly.

"That little girl is too pitiful.

Every time I think of her pitiful appearance, I feel both uncomfortable and sad.

Back then, I left and never returned, she must have been looking forward to my return every day, just waiting alone, watching.

I can even imagine the look in her eyes filled with tears…"

"If she knew that you have always been thinking of her, she should be very happy."

"Perhaps, but I don't know, without me, if she continues to wander, how will she live alone…"

In Jun Wuxie's mind, the scene of him first meeting Nannan appeared, and his eyes were slightly moist.

He said, "She was abused by her adoptive mother.

On such a cold day, wearing ragged little clothes, small shoes with holes, she stood in the cold wind on the street begging passersby, suffering from hunger and being pushed around…

Later, I bought her a few buns, and she was so happy…"

Ye Qingxue's eyes were blurred, with a little bit of crystal, and she said softly: "A little girl who has been hungry for so long will of course be happy to suddenly be able to eat hot buns…"

"Are the bun skins delicious?"

"Yes, delicious…"

She almost subconsciously responded to his words.

In that instant, Jun Wuxie's body shook violently, his lips trembled, and he looked at her incredulously yet excitedly.

His mouth opened and closed several times before he made a somewhat dry and low voice: "Nannan?"

Ye Qingxue's body also stiffened in an instant.

She didn't expect that he would lead her into the memories step by step, and when her mind was lost, she subconsciously said those words.

She suddenly turned her back, and at that sound of Nannan, her eyes instantly filled with tears.

"I… I'm not!"

Her voice was trembling, and Jun Wuxie could clearly feel the extremely strong fluctuations in her state of mind.

This is not the state of mind that a strong person who reigns above the heavens should have!

If there is, then it can only mean that the deepest mark in her heart has been touched.

"I know it's you, but it seems you are unwilling to recognize me."

Jun Wuxie suddenly felt a little lonely, and said, "My Nannan has grown up.

She is no longer the little girl who needed my care and followed me every day.

She is now a strong person who reigns above the heavens, and I am just a small martial artist in the Sect Emperor Realm, and I no longer have the ability to protect her…"

"You said you would come back, but you didn't!

Do you know that she waited for you at the valley entrance every day, do you know how sad and desperate she was when she returned to her own time and space and couldn't see you one last time, you don't know, you don't know anything!

Why did you have to go, why?

Back then, even if you had stayed with her for one more day, just one more day…"

Every time she said a sentence, her body would tremble.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault…"

Jun Wuxie's heart twitched.

He didn't explain, he knew that with her ability, she must have understood the matter clearly back then.

"She doesn't want to hear you say sorry!"

Ye Qingxue's emotions were very agitated, and her voice choked.

"Nannan…"

Jun Wuxie reached out to pull her, but at the moment when his hand was about to touch her, her figure disappeared into thin air before his eyes, leaving only her suppressed sobs echoing in his ears.

His hand stopped in the air, slowly, slowly falling down.

Ah!!

He roared at the sea, and the terrifying sound waves caused huge waves to rise on the sea surface.

The creatures at the bottom of the sea all showed strange colors.

What is that Jun Wuxie doing?

They were not aware of what was happening on the shore.

With the War Saint present, let alone spying, they even restrained their spiritual senses to the smallest range, not daring to release them at all.

… …

Jun Wuxie lay on the beach, letting the surging waves wash over his body.

Looking at the rising bright moon in the sky, the twinkling stars, his mood was very complicated, with deep relief and deep loss.

Nannan, that poor little girl, is now an invincible strong person, and will no longer be bullied by others.

He can finally rest assured and no longer worry.

However, she is unwilling to admit it herself and still harbors resentment about what happened back then.

She is blaming him, blaming him for not killing all the enemies and returning alive to her back then, blaming him for why he had to go back then, why he couldn't stay by her side, even if it was just one more day…