Chapter 1004: Chapter 36: Prosperous Husband_2
This city, he shall not enter.
With these words, the Chang’an Sword Immortal no longer lingered; he rose up lightly and drifted away in a direction away from Chang’an City.
The Marquis of Anxi watched as the silhouette of the Chang’an Sword Immortal gradually faded on the Heaven’s Vault, and sighed softly.
He knew sothing about the matters between the Supre and the Chang’an Sword Immortal. It was precisely because he knew that he felt regret.
However, regarding affairs of such figures, he had no position to ponder much.
The Marquis of Anxi collected his thoughts and looked towards the Qing King beside him, who wore a python robe and appeared as if watching a show; his scalp tingled—this was what he should care about.
“Qing King, this way please,” he promptly said respectfully, and flew ahead to lead the way.
The Qing King snorted coldly, bringing along the only trusted subordinate who hadn’t left, and followed.
When the grand walls of Chang’an City gradually ca into view, an imposing aura surged forth.
This was the most magnificent, largest city in the entire Human Realm, the Imperial City of Great Xia, located in the heartland of the Human Race.
The always indifferent Qing King finally lifted his gaze at this mont, and looked around at Chang’an City as if taking it all in.
After a mont, he slowly smiled at the shadow beside him and said, “Earlier, this king always thought, the walls here are very high. Now looking again, it seems to be rely so.”
“Yes, Qing King, Chang’an… is rely so,” echoed the shadow behind him with a smile.
Their conversation did not evade the Marquis of Anxi, thus every word reached his ears.
This caused the Marquis of Anxi to frown.
His keen intuition detected a trace of ominous aning embedded in the dialogue between Qing King and his subordinate.
As if sothing else was being implied?
He pondered carefully, but couldn’t glean much, so the perpetually tense Marquis of Anxi no longer dwelled on it.
….
anwhile.
Li Qiubai, having left Chang’an, suddenly paused, his gaze directed ahead.
There, the silhouette of a woman appeared silently.
The woman wore a phoenix crown, exuding an aura of regal elegance with every gesture, looking like an ordinary twenty-three or twenty-four-year-old woman, yet extraordinarily stunning—her face fair and pure, her eyes clear as deep pools, gazing coldly at Li Qiubai.
The Chang’an Sword Immortal, who had just stirred great waves in the Human Race by consecutively defeating two Martial Emperors, thus raising his na anew, appeared sowhat awkward in front of this woman, finally offering a bitter smile, “Xiaoxiao… Why have you co?”
The one called Xiaoxiao, also known as Xia Zhao,
“If I hadn’t co, were you planning to leave without seeing ?” The woman called Xiaoxiao stood there coldly, asking coldly like an iceberg.
But Li Qiubai felt not coldness, rather his heart wrenched.
Because the woman’s eyes, clear as pool water, had long turned red, mist spreading, her high nose wrinkled as if striving to suppress her emotions, not letting tears fall.
This woman with the highest status in the Human Race, incredibly dignified, revealed an unprecedentedly fragile appearance at this mont.
She only showed such deanor before the person present.
Li Qiubai was montarily speechless, unsure how to respond.
In his life of freedom, here with Xia Xiaoxiao, he truly couldn’t remain free.
—Only with indifference can one be free; it has always been thus.
Yet how could he possibly feel indifferent towards the woman before him?
“Since leaving Chang’an, you haven’t returned once in ten thousand years. I’ll take it as swords being more pleasing to you; thus, you don’t wish to look at much.”
Xia Xiaoxiao pursed her lips, her watery eyes fixedly looking at Li Qiubai, with an almost imperceptible grievance in her tone, asking, “Yet this ti, even when outside Chang’an, you still refuse to look at ? Am I truly so unpleasant to look at?”
Li Qiubai glanced sidelong at this Great Xia Supre who could in no way be considered unattractive, even viewing her in his heart as the most beautiful woman of the age, and could only shake his head, honestly replying, “Beautiful.”
Xia Xiaoxiao’s mood beca joyous, smiling, dimples quietly erged on her cheeks.
Two very adorable dimples.
At this mont, where was the slightest trace of dominion over the world for this Great Xia Supre?
Truth be told, she hadn’t smiled for a long ti to maintain her deportnt, always keeping a distant expression.
Yet in front of the man present, her millennia-long deanor broke in one move.
Imdiately, Xia Xiaoxiao realized—behaving this way seed too lacking in resolve, promptly returned to her stern visage.
“If I’m beautiful, why don’t you want to see ?” she snorted coldly, asking.
Li Qiubai gazing at Xia Xiaoxiao’s face that suited anger and annoyance, sighed inwardly.
It’s not about unwillingness, but rather fear!
The gentle holand is always a hero’s grave, he’d always thought so.
That’s why even though she’d foolishly kept thinking of him, Li Qiubai always only considered her as a girl, a younger sister who didn’t understand, just like her na, Xiaoxiao.
Who could have guessed, the muddle-headed little girl in his eyes, would be chosen by Xia Xuanji as successor, chosen as the next Lord Xia of Great Xia.
He began to realize then that the little girl was no longer just a girl, and any muddleness was reserved only for him alone.
But even at that ti, being one who lived only for the sword, dashing through the world, enamored with the Sword Dao, he still didn’t think much.
He only upheld treating her like a sister, helping her stabilize that position with all his might, fending off those coveting her position among the Great Xia collateral branches.
At that ti, though his Sword Dao was established, he was alone, lacking fortune, difficult to open the Dao.
And the situation was turbulent, with Martial Emperors outside having lost patience, preparing to act, using force to compel her to abdicate.
In a stance of defeat from the Eighth Realm against a Martial Emperor no matter how seen.
Li Qiubai remained Li Qiubai, even without the current Sword Dao bearers who could ignore realms, he showed not an ounce of retreat or fear.
Yet unexpectedly, that night, Xia Xiaoxiao called him to her chamber under the guise of discussing sothing.
That night, donned in a red dress embroidered with golden dragons, she adopted the deanor of ruling the world, for the first ti before him presenting a starkly different dominance than the delicate posture of a little woman, gazing at him with charm and allure, then slowly walked toward him.
Tender chaste skirt half-revealing bosom, ornate silk thread lightly revealing skin, evening makeup anew….
Li Qiubai suddenly awoke to the realization, the little girl truly was no longer just a girl, but rather a stunning woman.
At that mont, he realized the feelings he held for Xia Xiaoxiao within.
As night fell, a night of folly transpassed, stirring red waves.
Luckily within cultivators there’s no ntion of attending court early, otherwise it would inevitably carry so semblance of “the king not attending morning court” therein.
As dawn broke, Li Qiubai, under Xia Xiaoxiao’s service, washed clean, donned his attire.
Finally, under Xia Xiaoxiao’s guidance, Li Qiubai, not yet grasping the situation clearly, appended his hand seal like a marionette upon the marriage contract she had earlier drafted.
“I know you’re facing Xu Su tomorrow, him as Martial Emperor, you rely the Eighth Realm, how could you be his match?”
“You defy hierarchy for , I conduct this act naturally, you needn’t overthink it, just consider it a transaction,” the woman spoke freely back then.
“I’ve always been muddle-headed, know very little, the only comndable point is this identity, the only thing I can do is gift you Great Xia fortune, aiding you in opening the Dao,” the woman blinked and explained earnestly.
Back then, with Sword Dao established, Li Qiubai was just a step away from entering the Sword Immortal Realm, lacking only fortune.
And Xia Xiaoxiao, as the Great Xia Supre, was precisely the one who gathered imnse Great Xia fortune—the woman in the Human Realm with the most abundant fortune.
The fortune amassed upon her, simply by giving out a portion, could help Li Qiubai enter Sword Immortal Realm protecting and opening the Dao.
The issue was, fortune was not so easily gifted or transferred.
Fortune is inherently intangible, subtle and mysterious.
So, Xia Xiaoxiao eventually chose a most straightforward yet practical thod to gift Li Qiubai fortune.
—From ancient tis, there has existed the saying of “bringing fortune to one’s husband.”
This stems from, once woman and man marry, her fortune partially transfers to the husband.
If said woman’s fortune is abundant, it fulfills the saying of “bringing fortune to one’s husband.”
Having signed the marriage contract, and consummated the marriage.
Even though they hadn’t announced it publicly, nor inford anyone, from that mont on, the two ant as husband and wife.
Consequently, Li Qiubai obtained a portion of Xia Xiaoxiao’s Great Xia fortune, sufficient fortune to aid him into the Sword Immortal Realm.
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