Chapter 204 - The Reason for Leaving Home (2/2)

So the Cloud Beast so easily agreed to enter into a contract with Ying Zhi because it mistook him for a lady. Speaking of that… was this a common problem faced by all avatars?

What’s more, the Cloud Beast took a few thousand years to realise that Ying Zhi was a male. Was the Cloud Beast slow or did Ying Zhi play the role very well?

“The Cloud Beast is not yet fully mature – that’s why it’s acting this way,” Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi sighed. He had a pained expression on his face. “When it throws a tantrum, there’s nothing I can do as well. Anyway, the more we try to stop it, the more it insists on going out to look for a new Big Sister.”

“It’s just throwing a tantrum – why can’t you get a female immortal to pacify it? Why must you let it out of the Cloud Sea?” It seemed that the Cloud Beast only wanted to find a Big Sister to form a contract with from the very beginning. When it found out that Ying Zhi was a male, it could not help but lose its temper. The problem would be solved if they could just find it a female immortal. The Cloud Beast was not yet mature anyway – nothing much would happen if they did not let it out of the Cloud Sea to cause trouble.

“We tried that method…” Ying Zhi’s expression fell. “But while the Cloud Beast throws a tantrum, its true body is hidden in the deepest corners of the Crystal Palace. Whenever it says it wants to escape from the Cloud Sea, it would only turn into an avatar and appear at the water surface. In order to enter the Crystal Palace, one has to at least be an Exalted Immortal.”

So that’s the case. No wonder they only saw the waves but did not catch a glimpse of the Cloud Beast – it was hidden at the bottom of the sea.

“All the demons that are Exalted Immortals in the Cloud Sea have tried to persuade it,” Ying Zhi continued. “But all of them have been chased out.”

“Why?”

Ying Zhi pursed his lips. “It says… they look ugly.”

Everyone: “…”

Lonemoon subconsciously looked at Ying Zhi’s face. Honestly, if one did not bother that Ying Zhi’s body was that of a man’s, his face was really exceptionally beautiful. His eyebrows and other features were so feminine, and he was even dressed in women’s clothing. It was no wonder that the Cloud Beast would despise the other female immortals for being ugly. Ying Zhi already set such a high standard.

“There’s nobody else in the Cloud Sea that we can use. We’ve run out of solutions – that’s why we started looking outside of the Cloud Sea and invited female immortals from all around to come and try.” Ying Zhi frowned. “The immortals in the Cloud Sea have never had relations with the other continents. Our immortals have always been extremely pure. It took us a long time to find a couple of immortals to come and try things out, yet all of them were male and each had their own personal motives. It was extremely irritating.”

That was why they set up that sign outside the door?

“That’s why we have not removed the spell to this day.” Ying Zhi frowned even more deeply. He wanted to ask the few of them whether they knew any worthy females who were Exalted Immortals.

Shen Ying, who had been munching on a fruit up till then, suddenly spoke. “Why not I give it a shot?” She was quite experienced in educating children.

“You?” The moment Shen Ying spoke, Lonemoon retorted. “Save it! Didn’t Celestial Emperor Ying Zhi already say that the Cloud Beast has high expectations?”

Shen Ying tilted her head. “Am I not of a high enough standard?”

Lonemoon rolled his eyes and turned to look at her. “Don’t you have an inkling whether you are of a high enough…”

Before he could finish speaking, his eyes focused on the familiar yet foreign face in front of him. He lost his train of thought all of a sudden. He had not paid much attention to her face before, and this was the first time he was paying attention to it and looking at it from a male’s perspective.

It seemed that… she was quite pleasing to the eye!