Seeking the Tao in the Mortal World

Chapter 23: Ye Ling

Li Qinglin left, but Ye Ling didn’t follow. She still stood there straight, neither speaking nor sitting. Li Qingjun who was watching beside had a headache. She had something to say to Qin Yi, and it’s convenient if another person was there, so she said, “Can you please give us a private moment.”

Ye Ling didn’t even bow and just disappeared like that.

Li Qingjun shook her head, “I don’t know where my brother found this little guard. She is good in martial arts, but she is a bit weird. I just don’t get why she wears the strange cloak all day long. Oi, you really want her to be your guard? A man and a girl… “

Qin Yi had a headache hearing it, “In front of her, you praised her for being quiet, what are you saying after she left?”

Li Qingjun snorted twice. She didn’t know why she said this. After a pause, she said, “Being overwhelmed by the matter of the eldest brother, second brother probably won’t plan other things for a while. If you are bored here alone, you can also go to the princess mansion to find me. The princess mansion is right here …”

Qin Yi said, “I’m not bored. When I was alone at home, I could stay in door for a month. Time will pass by reading books and refining medicine. By the way, help me find some books to read, as well as the medicinal material and alchemy cauldron. You promised me…”

Li Qingjun was speechless for a moment. She became angry from embarrassment, “Let the people of the mansion find it for you!”

After speaking, she walked away.

Qin Yi was stunned for a while. You asked for a private moment just to say this?

Did I answer something wrong? Qin Yi was very alert. He seemed to hear Liu Su’s ridicule, so he preemptively stuffed the mace under the bed.

Liu Su was dumbfounded. It was its first time seeing Qin Yi, who had always been calm, being so dumb. Including putting it under the bed, this wasn’t Qin Yi’s style at all.

Normally, it would really laugh, but this time, it was silent for some reason. Maybe it thought of something that happened long ago.

Not long after, Ye Ling reappeared.

This time she looked at Qin Yi with a weird look as if she couldn’t figure out the relationship between him and the princess.

Qin Yi also withdrew his mind from embarrassment and looked at Ye Ling speechlessly.

She actually stayed there as if she really treated herself as his guard.

“If I remember correctly, I said no. You are not my guard.” Qin Yi sighed, “A Morphing Stage beastkin with high spiritual power like you why can’t save yourself some face? People tell you to be my guard, and you really agree to it. I even hurt you just now. Do you have no temper?”

“Face?” Ye Ling said indifferently, “I was awakened in ignorance, I was summoned by the heart in ignorance, and I directly entered Dong Huazi’s beastkin refining array. Only when I saw the beastkin bones piled on the ground did I know my mission to be born. How should I have face?”

This serious and indifferent little adult’s words, paired with her immature image, was really inconsistent. Qin Yi became interested, “What happened?”

“I was originally an ordinary little snake. I was spawned by Dong Huazi’s beastkin transformation miasma, enlightened into a beastkin, and grew wings for some reason. He set up beastkin transformation miasma everywhere to give birth to little beastkins just to get the beastkin pellet for him to consume for a longer lifespan. This is the meaning of our birth.”

There was some hatred on her immature face, but more of it was a kind of indifference toward others and herself. Qin Yi pursed her lips, thinking that the birth of this little beastkin was a tragedy. No wonder her behavior didn’t match her age.

At this age, she should be carrying a schoolbag to school, instead of talking about killing like a little adult here.

He sighed softly.

The purpose of Dong Huazi’s beastkin transformation miasma was actually for this. It was not to cause chaos to the world or cultivate power, but to kill beastkin for himself to obtain pellets for cultivating. This coincided with what Ming He said. Ming He thought that Dong Huazi was merciless in killing beastkin. Of course, he was merciless.

Ye Ling continued, “I don’t know why my breakthrough was so fast. The beastkin formation didn’t trap me. I broke out with all my might, but I only had one breath left. It was His Highness who saved me. Even my name was given by His Highness at that time. It means a tender feather, showing the bloody panic in the night.”

Qin Yi wondered, “I didn’t expect Li Qinglin to be quite cultured.”

“What is culture?”

“Oh, I mean he would actually show mercy to the beastkin too.”

“It’s not out of mercy, but I took the initiative to beg him to save me at the price of blood oath. His Highness found out that I escaped from Dong Huazi, so I’m useful to him…” Ye Ling was a little sad, “Just now… Your mahogany sword wants to kill me, but he just sat back and watch. Maybe it’s better for him that I’m dead…”

Qin Yi vaguely knew why Li Qinglin didn’t stop him because it was indeed better for Ye Ling to be dead than alive.

The romance between the snake rescuer and the kindness repayer was gone. Qin Yi had the feeling that something was smashed to the ground. He shook his head slightly, “You were born by Dong Huazi’s means, so you must be restrained by him. You can deal with him?”

“Yes, and my mean are all awakened in ignorant. I don’t know much about cultivating, and I don’t know the principles of many things, so His Highness is very disappointed.”

Qin Yi thought that this little sister probably not just didn’t understand a lot of cultivating principles, she might not even understand a lot of common sense in life. She probably learned it slowly in the mansion… including the words and intonation that spoke like a little adult. It was more or less influenced by Li Qinglin’s style, which was not cute at all.

But this time he felt that Ye Ling was useful.

At least now he had a deeper understanding of Dong Huazi.

She also understood Li Qinglin very well… and she had no loyalty or reverence for Li Qinglin at all. She just spoke whatever came to her mind.

She is indeed a very helpful assistant. At least, she knows something… It’s a pity that there will be huge troubles in the future.

Qin Yi finally asked, “Do you know why I don’t want you to be a bodyguard?”

Ye Ling sneered, “I’m ugly. Compared to Princess Zhao Yang, it’s like a monster with wings against a real phoenix.”

“What do you know, little girl? Why compare yourself to others in this?”

Ye Ling kept a straight face and didn’t answer.

Qin Yi said, “It has nothing to do with that. I think your wings are very cool. I also want to have such a pair of wings.”

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“…” Ye Ling’s expression moved slightly.

But Qin Yi continued to say, “The real reason is that there is a very strong cultivator who is after you. If you really stay with me, even I will be finished. I suggest you run away…”

Ye Ling finally looked shocked, “So you know.”

“So you know it too!” Qin Yi laughed, “It seems that you guys came looking for me today for another purpose.”

Ye Ling stopped talking, looked down at the toe of the shoe with her little head down, and looked a little embarrassed. Qin Yi was a little amused. This little girl has a cold temperament, but she is much easier to be shy than Li Qinglin.

No wonder, I’m not a human-shaped aphrodisiac, so why would a powerful beastkin rely on me? I bet she thought I’m badass that I can save her life…

Qin Yi sighed, “Li Qinglin asked you to follow me, just for this?”

“Not really…” Ye Ling whispered, “I think His Highness really values ??you.”

Her feelings were too obvious. Li Qinglin’s attitude toward Qin Yi was really different from his attitude toward her.

“He is so obsessed with Dong Huazi?” Qin Yi wondered, “Such a powerful beastkin like you, he is actually willing to give you away just to win me over?”

“He is definitely willing. Not to mention a beastkin with scales and horns, you can even ask for more. Besides, I also regard Dong Huazi as my mortal enemy. No matter who I follow, it is no different that he will deal with Dong Huazi.” Ye Ling said decisively, “Kicking Dong Huazi off his position is His Highness’s biggest obsession, more important than the throne.”

Qin Yi became even more curious, “So dramatic? Did Dong Huazi blow his… Ugh, never mind.”

Ye Ling couldn’t understand; her face was expressionless.

Qin Yi thought about it for a while, and he finally said, “There is no need to be my guard. It is very inconvenient for you and I to stay alone in 1 room. We can make friends. I need to consult you more about Dong Huazi.”

Ye Ling didn’t know that Qin Yi had a lot of secrets, how could he let her follow him? Anyway, after hearing this, her eyes became softer. She nodded, “I’m not His Royal Highness’s guard. We are originally in cooperation… …” He gestured with his small hand, “I have a small yard. You can come and find me.”

Seeing her gesturing the size of the yard with her small hand, she finally had a hint of childishness as if she was showing off something she was very satisfied with. Qin Yi couldn’t help laughing, “You can also come to me. When I was talking about Journey to the West, I can see that you listened intently. You like it?”

Ye Ling seemed a little embarrassed, then she suddenly disappeared.

Qin Yi thinks that “Journey to the West” was really awesome. Li Qinglin, Li Qingjun, and Ye Ling seemed to have found a different sense of substitution in it. They all see their own shadows in it.

Only Qin Yi was left in the room again. A mace slowly rolled out from under the bed. Qin Yi looked at it and didn’t know what to say. His stomach was full of words, but he didn’t know what to say for a while.

TL: Hmph hmph, seems like Qin Yi has a special feeling against the princess…

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