Jade Lotus Minor Realm.
BOOM! With a deafening crash, the precious stone table Luo Xian had treasured for years exploded into fragnts.
"Today, I will get rid of you, you profligate!" Luo Qingxian exclaid.
"Fairy Shu, can you stop boasting? Do you really think you can kill ?" Luo Xiu retorted.
"Then you can try!" she challenged.
"Oh, for crying out loud… can you please be reasonable? You were on the brink of death from scorpion poison, and I was kind enough to save your life. Why do you want to kill ?!" Luo Xiu glared at Luo Qingxian, his eyes burning with fury as he roared.
His body, however, betrayed his bravado; he was already cowering behind Luo Xian.
In front of them, Luo Qingxian held a three-foot-long sword, her face a mask of frost. "I don't have to kill you, but I will erase that part of your mory!"
"That's not happening!" Luo Xiu protested firmly, peeking his head out from behind Luo Xian. "If you want to search my soul and erase my mory, you might as well just kill !"
It was only now that he saw Luo Qingxian for who she really was: an unreasonable, tyrannical tigress who couldn't tell right from wrong. He had used the Creation Thirteen Needles to heal and detoxify her, but as soon as she woke up, the tigress had latched onto him, relentlessly looking for trouble.
"If that's what you want, then I will oblige you!" she snapped. "I clearly had a better way to deal with that Fla Demon Scorpion, but you had to interfere and push it into a corner!"
Luo Xian shook her head helplessly. "Alright, you two. How long are you going to keep bickering?"
"Xiu Ling, Taoist Ao was acting as a physician to detoxify you. So things were simply unavoidable."
Luo Xiu nodded vigorously at her words.
"See? Look at Princess Luo, how understanding, gentle, kind, and empathetic she is," he said, turning back to Luo Qingxian. "And then look at yourself. You normally act so noble and aloof, I thought you were at least a reasonable person. Turns out you're completely irrational!"
"Besides, your body isn't even that nice to look at. You're acting as if soone was desperate for a peek, as if they took so great advantage of you."
"Let tell you the truth. I've been a physician for many years and I've seen plenty. Soone like you is really nothing special. You're just cheap and common, an insult to my eyes!"
Hearing this, Luo Qingxian's beautiful eyes widened in a fury. Squeezing the words through her gritted teeth, she said coldly, "Profligate… what did you just say? Say that again if you dare!"
Frightened, Luo Xiu quickly pushed Luo Xian forward. "Princess Luo, save ! This woman's gone insane! I don't want to stoop to her level!"
Luo Xian sighed, feeling as if she were watching two children quarrel. She walked up and gently took Luo Qingxian's hand, her voice soft. "Alright, Xiu Ling. If you really can't let this go, how about I make a decision for you? The two of you can beco Dao companions today."
"Never!" Luo Xiu and Luo Qingxian stared at each other, their rejection shockingly in sync.
Luo Qingxian spoke coldly, "I would rather die than beco Dao companions with such a profligate."
Luo Xiu smiled nonchalantly. "Fairy Shu, I think you're overthinking things. I, Ao Debiao, would never choose an unreasonable woman like you as my Dao companion. I have no desire for a future shrouded in darkness."
Pointing her sword at Luo Xiu, Luo Qingxian said through clenched teeth, "You just wait… One day, I will personally gouge out your eyes and chop off your dog paws!"
Luo Xiu shrugged, feigning indifference. "Perhaps you should first use that pig brain of yours to understand what the Ultimate Boundary lting Path is."
Luo Qingxian scoffed with disdain. "Just being tested for the Ultimate Boundary lting Path only ans you have exceptional talent; it doesn't an everything. Even if I'm only at Level 1 Fusion, I can still kill you!"
"An arrogant and complacent person like you will bring disaster upon yourself sooner or later!"
Luo Xiu smiled faintly. "My apologies, Fairy Shu, it's not one Ultimate Boundary lting Path, but ten."
"Besides, who made the rule that a genius can't be arrogant and complacent? Even if I weren't, wouldn't trouble find anyway?"
"If the White Tiger Fairy thinks she's a match for , she's welco to try anyti."
At the ntion of "White Tiger Fairy," Luo Qingxian's body went rigid. Her face flushed crimson, a mixture of sha and anger.
"Profligate, I will kill you!"
She stomped her foot in fury, then turned and stord into a room to the side.
Luo Xian shook her head helplessly and looked at Luo Xiu. She suddenly felt that the young man's personality was very similar to her deceased brother's, especially his sharp tongue that was often venomous.
Her tone held a hint of reprimand. "That mouth of yours… Sotis, especially when you speak to girls, you shouldn't be so harsh."
"Boys with venomous tongues are not very likable, you know."
Luo Xiu replied, "She's the one being unreasonable. I don't need her to like . Besides, if she were half as reasonable and gentle as you, I wouldn't speak to her like that."
"These so-called goddesses and fairies are probably just spoiled by all those fawning sycophants, making them actually believe they're divine."
"I, for one, won't indulge anyone."
Luo Xian said, "Xiu Ling takes these things very seriously. For now, just let her calm down." With that, she walked toward the room. "You go check on the Fla Demon Scorpion outside. I'll go comfort Xiu Ling."
...
Luo Xiu stood in the sa spot, looking down at the scattered, curly black hairs on the ground. Rembering Luo Qingxian's attitude, he couldn't help but mutter a few curses.
That damned White Tiger. If you get into trouble again, don't you dare expect to save you! Forget it. I can't be bothered to argue with a woman. I'd better go check on my spoils of war.
***
At that mont, inside the room, Luo Qingxian's beautiful eyes brimd with tears. She clutched the hem of her clothes, her delicate body trembling uncontrollably.
Luo Xian walked over and put an arm around her, whispering gently, "Xian'er, it was just to detoxify and heal you. Try to be more open-minded. Besides, Aunt Xian was watching the entire ti. Taoist Ao truly didn't do anything inappropriate."
Luo Qingxian suddenly threw her arms around Luo Xian's slender waist, buried her face in her chest, and began to cry, feeling utterly wronged.
"I am the Plateau Saintess! When have I ever suffered such a great humiliation? That profligate… I will make him pay!"
Luo Xian gently patted her on the back. "What's shaved is shaved. It will grow back. Besides, it was done to make it easier to treat your wound."
"Aunt Xian, you're talking about it again!" Luo Qingxian looked up with a pout, her teary eyes gazing at her.
In truth, the primary reason Luo Qingxian was so enraged, to the point of threatening her own life, was because Luo Xiu had shaved her to make treating the poison wound easier.
"Alright, alright, Aunt Xian won't say any more… It's nice and clean, isn't that good too?"
"Aunt Xian!" Luo Qingxian stomped her foot. "Stop talking about it!"
"Okay, okay, I'll stop!"
***
anwhile, after two hours of work, Luo Xiu had finally finished processing the Fla Demon Scorpion's corpse.
He managed to collect a large jar full of the Fla Demon Scorpion's Treasured Blood essence. He also obtained its inner core and Ling Bones.
As for the protein-rich scorpion at, Luo Xiu had no intention of keeping it. It was poisonous and tasted terrible, so in the end, he simply incinerated it with a burst of Indestructible Divine Fla.
Shortly after he finished, Luo Xian erged from the Jade Lotus Minor Realm.
"Taoist Ao, it's getting dark, and it's almost Heaven-Closing Ti. Why don't we return to rest and et again tomorrow."
Luo Xiu asked curiously, "Heaven-Closing Ti?"
Luo Xian smiled. "The Divine Oracle Cave Heaven closes for an hour every day. During this period, all Cultivators are forbidden from entering. That is the Heaven-Closing Ti."
"I see. By the way, Princess Luo, take this Ling Bone from the Fla Demon Scorpion. I just looked at it, and this type of Demon Art seems to be useless to . You can take it and try to comprehend it."
"Alright, thank you very much."
...
***
In the depths of a mountain range, Xing Rui knelt before a man in white robes. His face was filled with grievance, like a bullied child who had co ho to his parents, looking so pitiable he seed on the verge of tears.
"Master, that's what happened… It was all my fault for being careless. I was ambushed by that lowlife from the Mortal Realm, wasting the Life-Forfeiture Flower you worked so hard to obtain."
The white-robed man's face was grim. "Enough, get up. I will personally take action and get justice for you."
"Thank you, Master!"
The man looked up at the sky. "It is almost Heaven-Closing Ti. Let's go back to rest. We'll explore the Divine Mountain tomorrow."
"Yes!"
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