Thus, Bu Liuliqing settled down in the Dutian Realm.
In fact, he settled down in the most high-end, magnificent, and luxurious place in the Dutian Realm. When he stood at a high vantage point to look out, what came into view were rolling seas of clouds, the cries of divine cranes, and the whistling of the wind and roars of dragons that scene…
The place where he lived looked like a towering pavilion in the azure heavens, and even more like a legendary realm of immortals.
At that time, Bu Liuliqing stood rooted to the spot in shock for quite a while before regaining his senses.
Whether watching television or reading novels, nothing compared to experiencing it in person it felt so real, so shocking.
He had carelessly found himself standing at the very peak.
This was indeed the Dutian Realm, but the place where he lived wasn’t called the Dutian Realm; it was called the Wuchen Palace (Dust-Free Palace), a very stylish name.
“Young Master Bu, the Exalted One is looking for you.” A maid, who looked just like a fairy, appeared behind him with a swoosh.
Bu Liuliqing, who loved standing here watching the clouds roll by, was no longer as startled as he had been at the beginning. Habit had turned into second nature, and in the entire Wuchen Palace, he was the only weakling.
Even a little toddler could instantly annihilate him in seconds that was reality. However, Bu Liuliqing’s mindset was exceptionally good, with not a shred of unbalance. As an outsider who had received half the life and half the cultivation of the Exalted One, what was there to be unbalanced about? Besides, Su Cixuan had given him the treatment of the most distinguished guest in the Wuchen Palace.
When Su Cixuan introduced him to everyone in the Wuchen Palace that day, the looks that those powerful, handsome men and gorgeous women directed at him were full of awe and reverence. Every single one of them treated him with the utmost respect, not daring to show the slightest negligence.
Bu Liuliqing wasn’t stupid. Whom did he have to thank for such treatment? Wasn’t it entirely due to Su Cixuan’s authority?
Since Su Cixuan treated him with such sincerity, if it weren’t for the fact that soul matters were too complex, Bu Liuliqing would have really wanted to dissect himself and return that shooting star which had burrowed into his body and bound his soul, representing half of Su Cixuan’s life back to its owner.
Bu Liuliqing was the sort of person who detested owing anything to anyone. Putting aside the fact that Su Cixuan’s half-life had sought him out on its own, he at least considered that he had gained such a huge benefit, and the other party had saved him from remaining in that half-dead, conscious yet rotting-corpse state.
Bu Liuliqing had even figured it out: once he returned that half-life, he would ask Su Cixuan to grant him euthanasia. With Su Cixuan’s methods, that shouldn’t be too difficult.
“Let’s go!” Knowing that Su Cixuan was looking for him, Bu Liuliqing put aside his mood for admiring the scenery.
The maid wasn’t in a hurry either, following closely behind Bu Liuliqing.
“Where is your Exalted One?” After walking a few steps, he stopped, realizing he didn’t know where Su Cixuan was right now.
“Young Master Bu, the Exalted One is in the main hall,” the maid replied.
“The main hall, huh? By the way, where is the main hall?” After taking a few more steps, Bu Liuliqing stopped once again, as he had no idea where the main hall was located.
“This servant will take you there.” With that, the maid very obediently placed her hand lightly against Bu Liuliqing’s lower back.
In a split second, the two of them vanished from the spot.
In just that fleeting instant, Bu Liuliqing had already appeared inside a massive palace.
The maid who brought him there bowed slightly toward Su Cixuan and then withdrew.
“You’re looking for me?” Bu Liuliqing walked toward Su Cixuan, who was standing in the center of the hall with his back turned, lowering his head to look at something.
“You’ve come.” The voice remained clear and crisp, carrying its unique charm.
When Su Cixuan turned around, Bu Liuliqing saw clearly what was in his hand—it was a box.
An extremely exquisite box.
At least in Bu Liuliqing’s eyes, it was the kind that cost a fortune.
Su Cixuan raised his gaze to look at Bu Liuliqing, while Bu Liuliqing looked back at Su Cixuan, still feeling a momentary flutter of panic. How could anyone grow up looking like this? He was simply too breathtakingly handsome.
Bu Liuliqing figured that all the best words of praise he could think of from his nine years of compulsory education couldn’t even describe one-tenth, let alone one-percent, of this man’s peerless good looks.
However, he tried his best to remain immune.
Can men find flowers blooming just by looking at other men?
Still, Bu Liuliqing thought to himself that if Su Cixuan were part of the plot of Asking Immortals, the two male leads probably wouldn’t even need to exist; Su Cixuan would simply sweep away everything in his path.
“Are you going to make me eat something else again?” During this period, Su Cixuan had given him plenty of medicinal pills, heavenly treasures, and the like to help nourish his body through his soul. He didn’t mind; since he lacked the sense of pain, they could experiment however they pleased. Even if he did feel pain, Bu Liuliqing believed he could still persevere.
Before crossing over, he had gritted his teeth and endured all the hardships from his childhood.
Although he had lost his sense of pain, the physiological reactions that were supposed to occur while nourishing his body through his soul still happened. When consuming heavenly treasures to cleanse the marrow and reshape the bones, bleeding from all seven orifices was completely normal, and fainting happened all the time.
Although the scenes were sometimes quite terrifying and bloody, Bu Liuliqing remained unfazed and found it not the least bit difficult to bear. As a result, this calm and natural attitude of his unintentionally caused the people of Wuchen Palace to look at him with deep reverence.
Under normal circumstances, what Bu Liuliqing went through was practically a real-life purgatory countless times more terrifying and horrible than being worse off than dead.
Yet Bu Liuliqing endured it lightly, without even a groan, maintaining complete composure. Bu Liuliqing had even explained that he had lost his sense of pain.
However, the more he explained, the more unfathomable he seemed to everyone (talk about a massive misunderstanding).
It was one thing to lose the sense of pain in one’s physical body, but everything Bu Liuliqing endured went straight to his soul, and soul torment was the most insoluble and terrifying kind. Later on, Su Cixuan told him that there was no such thing in this world as a soul that also lost its ability to perceive.
Bu Liuliqing was simply an exception.
Knowing that any explanation was useless, Bu Liuliqing simply stopped explaining. Let them think whatever they wanted! He was just a low-combat-power existence anyway, as long as he himself was crystal clear about it. Explaining any further would just be being overly pretentious.
“This is a Quqing Fruit.” Su Cixuan opened the box.
Inside lay a fruit that looked as crystal-clear and translucent as jade. In Bu Liuliqing’s eyes, it looked more like a giant candy. In any case, in a fantasy cultivation world, having such a magical fruit was well within the normal range.
“It’s also used to stabilize the soul.” Bu Liuliqing took the fruit and was about to bite right into it when.
“It’s for helping you build your foundation,” Su Cixuan said casually.
The fruit, which was already about to reach his mouth, was treated by Bu Liuliqing like a hot potato; he tossed it right back into the box.
Then, he cast a look of utter disapproval at Su Cixuan.
And crossed his arms.
“Don’t you think this is meaningless?” Bu Liuliqing’s height was now about the same as Su Cixuan’s.
Since he was a major villain after all, all his standard configurations were quite in place.
Even if he wasn’t as peerlessly enchanting as Su Cixuan.
Bu Liuliqing had to admit that Bu Liuqing’s appearance also belonged to that alluring and handsome category.
Moreover, Bu Liuliqing discovered that he deserved to transmigrate into a major villain because he found that his original appearance happened to share a seventy to eighty percent similarity with this Bu Liuqing. Of course, his own brow ridge didn’t carry that kind of allure.
Since he was currently inhabiting this physical body, all that allure had transformed into casual detachment and ease.
Right now, he looked at Su Cixuan with a bit of anger.
Su Cixuan didn’t reply, instead gazing at Bu Liuliqing with deep, dark eyes as if trying to see right through him though whether it was because Bu Liuliqing’s soul was becoming increasingly stable,
he now rarely heard Bu Liuliqing’s inner thoughts anymore.
Even so, whenever he used his full magical power, he could still hear them, but… what would be the point of doing that?
“You don’t need to keep testing me over and over again like this. You aren’t tired, but I am. I already told you I am not coveting your half-life and half-lifetime cultivation, so can you please give it a rest? I don’t want to become a cultivator; I just want to successfully nourish my body through my soul as quickly as possible, until I reach a point where you can take back your half-life without being affected. That’s enough! Testing me again and again aren’t you being childish?” Bu Liuliqing bluntly fired back.
Accused of being childish, Su Cixuan who had lived through goodness knows how many years and had remained calm until now once again felt a sensation of being choked up.
It was just as the other person said.
What he was doing really didn’t have much point.
It was mainly because, in all the long years he had lived up to now, he had never seen anyone like Bu Liuliqing.
He just couldn’t help wanting to test him to see how long he could hold out.
As a result…
He was called childish.