We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?

After finishing lunch, while Jiang Xin went to the clear spring halfway down Karma Blood Peak to wash clothes.

Xiao Mo once again walked toward Xue Kui’s courtyard.

At this time, Xue Kui wasn’t sleeping in her room, but was sitting in a rocking chair in the courtyard reading a storybook, which quite surprised Xiao Mo.

“Looks like you’re ready?”

Sensing Xiao Mo entering the courtyard, Xue Kui continued flipping through the pages without looking up.

“Should be about right,” Xiao Mo nodded, his gaze falling on Xue Kui’s book. “So you read books too?”

“What do you mean ‘I read books too’? I’ve always loved reading books. You just didn’t know,” Xue Kui looked up. “You should read some too. This book would benefit your cultivation.”

Xue Kui tossed the book in her hands toward Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo caught it and casually flipped through a few pages, his brow involuntarily furrowing.

This storybook was entirely about romantic affairs.

Xiao Mo closed it and tossed it back, looking at Xue Kui with a complicated expression.

You call this loving books?

You love reading about Liu Bei!

“Don’t look at me with that expression,” Xue Kui said matter-of-factly. “Your master has no Dao companion. Can’t I read some books to satisfy my cravings?”

“No Dao companion, so why don’t you just find one?” Xiao Mo said speechlessly.

“Heh heh heh heh.” Xue Kui stood up, walked to Xiao Mo’s side, reached out and knocked his little head. “I’ve lived for over three thousand years and haven’t found a single man who catches my eye.”

Xiao Mo remained silent.

“Alright, enough talking with you. You’re really no fun, kid.” Xue Kui walked out of the courtyard, her voice coming from behind her. “Kid, come get beaten.”

Xiao Mo turned to follow. The two came to an open space at the peak, standing fifteen zhang apart.

Xue Kui casually took out a wooden blade and said to Xiao Mo, “Three strikes. Kid, are you ready?”

“Come on.” Xiao Mo nodded, gripping the Spirit Absorbing Sword tightly.

“First strike.”

As Xue Kui’s words fell, the wooden blade in her hand slashed out.

Xiao Mo recognized this strike.

This was the first form of the Blood Demon Sword Formula—Blood Glow!

The first form of the Blood Demon Sword Formula wasn’t actually difficult to learn. Xiao Mo also believed he had mastered Blood Glow to perfection but when Xue Kui slashed down with this strike, it was like crimson clouds in the sky turning to blood, falling straight toward Xiao Mo!

Xiao Mo gripped his blade with both hands, similarly slashing out with Blood Glow!

Both sides’ blood-red blade qi collided, spiritual power dancing through the air like blood-colored butterflies.

After one breath, the blood glow dissipated. Xiao Mo reversed his blade edge and planted it in the ground, blood already trickling from the corner of his mouth.

“That’s all for the first strike? Kid, can you handle this or not?” Xue Kui shouldered the wooden blade, seemingly not caring at all whether Xiao Mo might be killed by her strike.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Mo stood up, “Second strike.”

“Oh.”

As Xue Kui spoke, the wooden blade swung out.

The second strike was the second form of the Blood Demon Sword Formula—Remnant Red.

Malevolent aura surrounded the wooden blade, extending it a full twenty zhang.

The enormous blood blade chopped down toward Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo crossed his blade to block.

“Boom!”

The blood-red blade struck the Spirit Absorbing Sword’s body.

The ground beneath Xiao Mo’s feet sank down a full foot.

His hands were shocked to the point of cracking, his chest felt stifled, his throat sweet, and he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Behind Xiao Mo, the ground had already been split open with a crack!

“The third strike is Blood Moon Slash. You can also unleash it. If you cut off the bell at my waist, I’ll call you master.”

Xue Kui swung out one strike.

A crescent-shaped blood qi blade slashed toward Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo similarly swung out his long blade, his crescent-shaped blood qi blade colliding with hers.

“Boom!”

Malevolent aura scattered across the mountain peak, raising sand and dust several meters high.

Xue Kui waved her hand, and the sand and dust dispersed.

Xiao Mo still stood fifteen zhang away.

Drops of fresh blood dripped from Xiao Mo’s palms, seeping into the sandy soil but his posture stood like a small pine tree rooted in the ground, as if nothing could knock him down.

“Can I take Jiang Xin and leave now?” Xiao Mo raised his head, asking Xue Kui.

“I’ll barely count this as passing,” Xue Kui pulled out a bottle of pills from her high collar and tossed it to Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo caught the pills. The glass bottle still carried the warmth from Xue Kui’s body.

“One pill per day. After three days, your injuries should be mostly healed.” Xue Kui yawned, casually dropping the wooden blade in her hand and walking back to the courtyard. “Remember, return to the Ten Thousand Dao Sect in three months. Don’t die out there. I don’t like collecting corpses.”

Xiao Mo wiped the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth, took a pill, then returned to the courtyard to clean off the bloodstains and change clothes before heading down the mountain.

“This guy…”

Watching Xiao Mo’s figure disappear at the end of the small path, Xue Kui withdrew her gaze and looked down. The silver bell hanging at her waist had its thread snapped and had fallen to the ground.

“That was close. I almost got found out.”

Xue Kui picked up the bell and held it up to the sunlight, the corner of her mouth curving up.

Walking to the mountainside.

Beside a clear spring, a little girl had rolled up her sleeves and was seriously pounding clothes with a washing stick.

She would occasionally tuck strands of hair behind her ear, occasionally wipe dewdrops from her face.

Crystal water droplets slid down the little girl’s cheeks without obstruction.

“Ah Xin.” Xiao Mo called out.

“Xiao Mo?” Jiang Xin looked up to see Xiao Mo, quickly wiping her small hands on herself and running over. “Xiao Mo, why are you here? Wait, I’ll finish washing the clothes soon.”

“No need to wash them.” Xiao Mo smiled. “Xue Kui agreed to let us leave. We can go directly down the mountain to Kongnian Temple.”

“Eh? Xue Kui is letting us go?” Jiang Xin found it incredible.

“Mm.” Xiao Mo nodded. “She thinks I can graduate, so she’s letting us leave.”

“Xiao Mo, you’re not lying to me, are you?” Jiang Xin’s eyes blinked.

“Why would I lie to you?” Xiao Mo tapped Jiang Xin’s little head and turned to walk down the mountain. “Hurry up.”

Jiang Xin glanced at the clothes left by the river, then at Xiao Mo, and quickly chased after him.

Walking beside Xiao Mo, Jiang Xin looked at his profile, “Xiao Mo, you really really haven’t lied to me?”

“I really really haven’t lied to you,” Xiao Mo smiled.

“That’s wonderful.”

Hearing Xiao Mo’s definitive answer, the not-yet-ten-year-old little girl truly believed him. Her eyes instantly brightened.

“Then Xiao Mo, when we get to Kongnian Temple, we’ll find a place to live.”

Xiao Mo nodded, “Good.”

“Then we’ll live in the mountains where bad people can’t find us.”

“Good.”

“The two of us will farm together, catch fish together, and grow up together.”

Xiao Mo looked at her happy profile, listening to her happy words, and couldn’t help but clench his small hands.

“What’s wrong, Xiao Mo? Isn’t that good?” Jiang Xin turned around, gently tugging at Xiao Mo’s sleeve.

He reached out his hand and rubbed the girl’s head, “Good.”