“Senior, have you been to Heavenly Spring City before?”
“Senior, look at this, it’s so interesting, my parents bought one for me when I was young…”
“Senior, do you have any favorite foods? This place has an especially great restaurant… Sorry, Qingran forgot that you are already in retreat.”
“Senior, this path leads to Flying Dragon Pass. My parents often said that those who leave through this path might never come back…”
Li Qingran turned to face Chen Huaian but only lowered her head, fidgeting with her clothes, her bangs swaying with the wind, her eyelashes fluttering, hiding her unspeakable feelings.
Heavenly Spring City, once her hometown.
Now, the dynasty had changed, and the city lord had changed twice.
Standing at the city gate, facing the bustling traffic.
Li Qingran’s voice was tinged with sorrow.
“Senior, you…”
She dared not look up.
Afraid that the senior would see her reddened eyes.
“This sovereign… sigh—”
Chen Huaian was at a loss. Because his current actions were no different from those parents or elders who just leave their children in daycare centers without caring about them.
Daycare centers are actually sects.
Li Qingran no longer had a sect. According to the plot, she needed to find a sect as protection. At first, Chen Huaian didn’t understand until he saw his experience card time gradually draining away.
He understood.
In this world of superhumans,
With her supreme dantian, Taiyin constitution, and single Water Spirit Root, Li Qingran was a walking treasure chest.
If someone with ill intentions discovered her special traits, she would immediately be in danger, and her pitiful peak Qi Refinement strength couldn’t protect herself. In this world, cultivators without strength but full of treasures had no chance of survival!
He couldn’t watch her 24/7; he also needed to participate in the show to earn money. Therefore, a temporary sect providing shelter for Qingran was necessary.
As her cyber boyfriend and guardian,
His job was to help Li Qingran stabilize her footing in the new sect.
So he brought Li Qingran to Heavenly Spring City.
From the upper left center of the map to slightly right of the center.
This was a large city far enough from Bluecloud Sect, away from the densely populated areas rich in spiritual energy. The spiritual energy here was very thin, which also meant relative safety.
“This sovereign is just temporarily leaving.”
Actually, he wouldn’t really leave.
It was just that the time for this avatar was running out, making it hard to explain.
“Senior…”
Li Qingran saw the difficulty on Chen Huaian’s face.
Her fingers gripping her clothes slowly loosened.
What was wrong with her?
She shouldn’t keep troubling the senior anymore.
The senior had his own things to do, with a hundred hungry female disciples.
The senior had already given her so much support; what more could she ask for?
“I understand, I will stay somewhere quietly.”
Chen Huaian looked at Li Qingran in surprise.
He thought she had finally understood, and the conversation would proceed, but seeing her red, downcast eyes, she looked like a little kitten about to be abandoned, pitifully.
Just earlier, she was so heroic during the sword fight with Lu Changtian.
“Never mind, this sovereign will tell you everything!”
Staying here wasn’t solving anything.
Chen Huaian took Li Qingran into a restaurant, let the nervous waiter serve some food, then seriously explained to her, “I… cough, this sovereign is very busy, there are many things to do, and I don’t have time to take care of you.”
Upon hearing this, Li Qingran’s lips pouted immediately.
Chen Huaian quickly gave up his cool tone, inserted his hand into her head, and added in her stunned gaze, “Look, this sovereign can’t touch you because this sovereign is an avatar descended from the main body, which is currently battling a super-demon!”
Hearing this, Li Qingran’s expression immediately became tense, “Will Senior be in danger? Is it a very tough demon?”
Yes, it’s not wrong to say so; cancer is indeed very tough.
Chen Huaian nodded helplessly, “Very tough, this sovereign was poisoned by the demon, and it’s hard to cure, maybe even life-threatening.”
He thought, how much could a game character understand? What good would telling her about cancer do? Although the game was very free, the characters were AI-intelligent, they probably couldn’t reflect real human emotions. This was the biggest shortcoming of AI.
Li Qingran’s face turned pale, buzzing in her ears, her mind in chaos. Her heart tightened sharply, feeling like it was pierced by a hot iron, her fingers gripping her clothes turning white.
Even with the senior’s unparalleled cultivation, he still couldn’t detoxify; how fierce must that demon be?
Indeed, as she thought, the senior was a great hero, always fighting to protect Cangyun Realm. Even though he was so busy, he still took time to accompany her to Bluecloud Sect, but now she didn’t want him to leave.
“Senior, I know my mistake,” Li Qingran cried, walked up to Chen Huaian, and knelt down, startling him.
“What are you doing?” Chen Huaian raised his hands.
Even though Li Qingran was lifted by some force, she stubbornly knelt mid-air.
They faced each other in a strange way.
“Senior, I have a single Water Spirit Root, suitable for alchemy cultivation. There are countless alchemy formulas in Cangyun Realm. No matter what, I will definitely refine a potion for Senior to detoxify!”
Li Qingran’s tone was firm.
Her idea was naive and laughable, yet she still held onto hope.
She believed that although the senior’s cultivation was unparalleled, the methods he sought must be precious formulas circulating in the market, but sometimes solutions to problems lie in ordinary sect libraries.
While the senior searched for big solutions, she would exhaustively seek small ones.
This way, nothing would be overlooked.
Seeing Li Qingran’s reaction, Chen Huaian couldn’t help but feel moved.
He even suspected that Li Qingran wasn’t an AI character at all, but a dedicated GM playing this role, handling voice acting and motion capture, serving him exclusively.
He could see unbreakable sadness and reluctance in Li Qingran’s eyes.
More fear and terror.
The girl in front of him feared his departure and dreaded his death.
Eyes never lied.
He didn’t know how strong the acting skills had to be to convey such expressions.
Thirty thousand, it was worth it.
At the moment he was about to leave this world,
It could truly make him feel warmth again.
He smiled and couldn’t help but comfort the girl, “Don’t worry, I am a grand cultivator in the Integration Realm, how could I die so easily from a mere monster’s poison? You focus on your cultivation, and becoming the strongest cultivator in Cangyun Realm will be my greatest comfort.”
Li Qingran noticed that the senior no longer referred to himself as “this sovereign.”
But she felt it made him seem closer.
That lofty and unreachable senior seemed reachable.
Although, she couldn’t reach him.
“Senior, I want to become a Dan Shi. I must become a Dan Shi. I have a single Water Spirit Root, and Spirit Intuition Valley will accept me.”
Spirit Intuition Valley was a famous alchemy sect in Cangyun Realm, also known as the Holy Medical Valley.
Inside were all alchemists and physicians capable of reviving the dead and healing the wounded.
Currently, there was a major sect holding a question-asking assembly in Heavenly Spring City, selecting geniuses with spirit roots from commoners to join the mountain gate, including Spirit Intuition Valley. However, considering Li Qingran had already practiced the opposing Scarlet Cloud Technique, he did not consider Spirit Intuition Valley as her future ‘daycare center.’
“Qingran, I understand your feelings, but you’ve already practiced Scarlet Cloud Technique…”
Chen Huaian paused mid-sentence.
Because he saw determination and firmness in Li Qingran’s eyes.
He suddenly froze, realizing something.
“You…”
“Senior, Scarlet Cloud Technique is fire-based and mainly for killing, incompatible with alchemy. I understand this.”
Li Qingran bowed, then met Chen Huaian’s gaze.
“In any case, Water Spirit Root doesn’t match Scarlet Cloud Technique.”
She smiled slightly, a warm smile,
As if she was the one comforting him,
Not the other way around.
“Since that’s the case…
I’ll just dispel my cultivation.”
