Chapter 275: Monster God (2/2)

“Do you see these two? They’re august immortals, nobility of the world who’re one step away from ascending to golden immortal realm!” Lu Yun pointed at Beigong Yu and Aoxue. “Stick with us as our guide, and you’ll be rewarded with spirit stones.”

He did indeed need a guide. Given Beigong Yu’s previously lofty position, he’d only schmoozed with the upper echelons of Levitating Island. The island in his eyes was completely different from what the low-level cultivators experienced.

Lu Yun didn’t want to raise a ruckus. He just wanted to enter the capital through the island’s transportation formation without making a scene. However, the formation wasn’t accessible to everyone, especially not the formation leading to the seas around the capital. One would need the permission of the north sea monster spirits to utilize it.

Of course, Beigong Yu had his ways of activating the transportation formation, but he would have to return to his manor on the island, which had long been occupied. Compared to the other islands, Levitating Island was the most accessible doorway to the capital.

The little girl trembled, resigned. August immortals were above the average level of power here, and could own their own manors in the big cities on the island. The North Sea was large, but there was a lack of natural energy around and immortal qi was especially scarce. Only the islands were suitable for immortals to settle down and rest in.

“Can, can I wait until I ascend to the life core realm to warm your bed?” the girl asked in a tiny voice, a bashful expression tinging her dirty face.

“Eh? Warm my bed?” Lu Yun blurted out in shock.

Aoxue levelled the girl with a murderous gaze. What an honor it would be to warm Lu Yun’s bed! She and the four other envoys had never gotten the chance, and now the little girl had the audacity to volunteer herself?! What an infuriating and all-around uncomfortable feeling.

Aoxue's killing intent made the girl blanch and break out in a cold sweat.

Qing Han stepped between the two of them and patted the girl on the shoulder, injecting warm energy into her tiny frame to drive away the killing intent.

“Don’t worry.” Qing Han glared at Lu Yun. “If he tells you to warm his bed, I’ll castrate him myself.”

Lu Yun could only respond with awkward silence. He wouldn’t have asked in the first place!

The girl nodded meekly and hid behind Qing Han. Instinctively, she felt something familiar and soothing from the gentleman. The girl’s name was Xing Mou; she didn’t know who she was, or who her parents were.

Her earliest memories started with serving incoming cultivators as a guide, along with her master and little band of companions, earning meager spirit stones for her cultivation. It was her master who’d taught her how to disguise herself. Although it wouldn’t fool a high-level cultivator, it was enough for her to survive in the lowly parts of the island. Unfortunately, her master had died in a conflict some time ago, which resulted in the little family parting ways.

Qing Han’s eyes stung as he listened to Xing Mou’s story.

……

The city closest to the coastline was named ‘Tidesong’. It wasn’t big, but still bustled with energy. Cultivators of various races gathered here to trade treasures acquired from the ocean for stones or crystals. They always found a ready buyer from the outside cultivators who visited.

“Halt!” exclaimed a voice when Lu Yun and the others approached the city. Fifteen finely-dressed immortals sauntered toward Lu Yun and blocked the way. The burly leading man shouted through his thick beard, “I am king of the hill here! I planted every tree and paved the path—”

Lu Yun almost tripped over himself when he heard the familiar sentence. This Chinese meme from Earth was used in the world of immortals as well?

“They’re envoys of the monster spirit god...” Xing Mou hastily explained.

“Tree? What trees?” After looking around in surprise, Aoxue flashed forward and punched the bearded true immortal in the eye.

Thud!

The man toppled to the ground with a yelp, smashing a human-shaped hole into the earth.

“Don’t!” Xing Mou paled when she saw Aoxue attack the thugs. “They serve His Holiness. We mustn’t get on their bad side....”

Aoxue ignored Xing Mou and punched the bearded man again and again with her fair fists.

“How, how dare you?!” the man bawled. “Don’t you know who I am?!”

After a pause, the other thugs howled and charged at their female assailant.

Bam!

Aoxue knocked all of them off their feet with a single blow. “You planted the trees? Tell me, where are these supposed trees?”

The land was barren outside Tidesong City, completely devoid of any flora.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

She’d been fuming ever since Xing Mou had mentioned warming Lu Yun’s bed, and now she had some perfect targets to vent her ill will on. They cried and begged for mercy, the nonexistent trees the last thing on their minds.