Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 69

Sikou Yan’s clear voice scattered through the forest with the wind.
Bai Moqing turned to look at her. Sikou Yan smiled and walked closer. “Let us return to the Eleventh Heaven together.”
“Right now, I only want to go to the company.”
She had promised Xiao Xing she would appear at the company within one minute. If she was late, who knew how Xiao Xing would punish her? Thinking of Xiao Xing’s methods, Bai Moqing’s eyes filled with a smile. Most of Xiao Xing’s punishments had to do with matters between lovers.
All kinds of embarrassing little games.
Seeing that bright, spring-like smile suddenly appear on Bai Moqing’s face, Sikou Yan did not need to guess what she was thinking about. She could not stop Bai Moqing from liking Xiao Xing, and she could not stop Bai Moqing from thinking about Xiao Xing.
Unwilling yet helpless, Sikou Yan could only say, “I will wait for you to return with me.”
It left a little room for both of them.
Xiao Xing tapped her bent finger lightly on the armrest. Her eyes were fixed on the second hand of the watch on her wrist. Thirty seconds had passed since she hung up the phone.
Tap, tap, tap.
The steady tapping made An Huaigu and Tang Yue straighten their backs and sit upright. The pressure was too strong. Each second felt like a year.
At the fifty-ninth second, a knock sounded from outside the door. Xiao Xing turned toward the door with no expression. “Come in.”
Seeing Bai Moqing, An Huaigu and Tang Yue both let out a breath of relief.
She was finally here.
Then they looked at President Xiao eagerly. Should these two huge lamps quietly withdraw now?
Sadly, President Xiao did not give them even one glance. The two of them could neither stay nor leave, so they could only sit there stiffly.
After entering, Bai Moqing closed the door behind her. She walked to the sofa and glanced at Sister An and Assistant Tang, who were sitting there obediently. Then she asked respectfully, “President Xiao, did you need me for something?”
That “President Xiao” sounded annoying no matter how one heard it. An Huaigu hurriedly threw Bai Moqing a look. Your President Xiao is unhappy right now, and you still dare call her so distantly?
As for why Xiao Xing was unhappy, An Huaigu swept a glance over Xiao Xing’s lower belly. It was very possible her period had come. That would explain why, while discussing business, she had suddenly turned cold and called Bai Moqing.
Poor Little Bai.
And here An Huaigu had boldly guessed this morning, when President Xiao arrived alone, that Little Bai had been worked over by President Xiao until she could not get out of bed.
Judging from the current situation, the two of them did not look like they had spent a warm night together at all.
Xiao Xing’s face looked cold. After Bai Moqing asked her question, Xiao Xing did not answer. Instead, she quietly looked into Bai Moqing’s eyes, as if trying to read something from them.
The silence was awkward. No one was more awkward than An Huaigu and Tang Yue.
Xiao Xing withdrew her gaze and ordered, “Make three cups of coffee.”
Coffee? President Xiao, you called Little Bai over just to make coffee?
As Bai Moqing turned to pour the coffee, An Huaigu stood up and kindly said, “I will help Little Bai carry it.”
“Can she not carry three cups of coffee?”
Xiao Xing’s words froze An Huaigu in place. An Huaigu looked back. Xiao Xing had spoken to her, but her eyes were clearly on Bai Moqing.
It seemed President Xiao had not tormented Bai Moqing in bed last night, so now she was going to torment her at the company.
Bai Moqing stopped, turned her head, and answered calmly, “I can carry them.”
When the three steaming cups of coffee were placed on the coffee table, Xiao Xing did not even take a sip before expressing dissatisfaction.
“Make them again.”
The two people sitting across from Xiao Xing had just reached out to take their cups. They instantly pulled their hands back and looked at Bai Moqing.
Bai Moqing was not angry. She smiled faintly at Xiao Xing and asked gently, “A-Xing, what kind of coffee do you want?”
An Huaigu and Tang Yue quickly turned to look at Xiao Xing.
She was calling her A-Xing now, not President Xiao. Was she coaxing President Xiao?
The gossip audience became a little excited.
“You two, leave.”
Xiao Xing’s gaze fell on An Huaigu and Tang Yue. The gossip audience was chased out before they could even take one bite of the melon. An Huaigu, who walked behind, used the chance of closing the door to peek inside. Bai Moqing was still standing beside the sofa.
Once only she and Xiao Xing were left in the office, Bai Moqing sat down next to Xiao Xing and held her hand, squeezing it gently. “Are you angry?”
Steam rose from the coffee on the table, just like the anger rolling in Xiao Xing’s heart. Xiao Xing admitted it with a soft “Mm.”
Then she held out her hand to Bai Moqing. “Give me the sword.”
“Which sword?” Bai Moqing took off the black jade ring and handed it to Xiao Xing with a smile. “There are many swords inside.”
She was actually pretending to be foolish.
Xiao Xing’s face darkened. “The fully black sword.”
Bai Moqing did not dare tease Xiao Xing anymore. She took out Xuan Chi and gave it to her. Before Bai Moqing could even plead for the sword, the moment Xuan Chi entered Xiao Xing’s hand, it turned to powder in the blink of an eye.
A couple’s sword? It did not exist. If it did, it had to be destroyed.
“What? Does your heart ache? Are you unwilling to part with it?” After destroying the sword, Xiao Xing lifted her head and looked at Bai Moqing. Seeing the regret in Bai Moqing’s eyes, she took the black jade ring from Bai Moqing’s hand. “Is there anything else paired inside?”
“There should not be.”
While Bai Moqing answered, Xiao Xing had already sent her divine sense into the black jade ring.
“Is this not a pair?” Xiao Xing opened her palm. A white mutton-fat jade gouyu appeared in her hand. Who knew which corner of the storage space she had dug it out from?
Two gouyu could combine into a taiji shape. Xiao Xing held the gouyu up in front of Bai Moqing. “Where is the other one?”
Bai Moqing looked at the gouyu and tried to remember. Although this gouyu was carved from white mutton-fat jade, it had no spiritual energy. To cultivators, it was no different from a stone on the ground. Bai Moqing thought for a long while but could not remember where it came from, let alone whether there was another one.
She shook her head. “I do not know.”
Before her voice fell, the gouyu met the same fate as Xuan Chi and turned to powder.
“What about this guqin? Is there one paired with it?”
A thousand-year cedar, ice-crack patterned, Fuxi-style guqin floated in front of them. Xiao Xing casually plucked a string. The sound was clear, and a spiritual wind spread with the note. It was a magic artifact.
Its name was carved vertically at the tail: Daiqi.
A name like that did not look lonely. There was absolutely another guqin paired with it.
Seeing Xiao Xing press the strings as if preparing to destroy it, Bai Moqing quickly said, “No!” She took the guqin back into the storage ring and grabbed Xiao Xing’s hand. “A-Xing, the things inside are all heavenly treasures. None of them are love tokens.”
“So Xuan Chi was a love token?” Xiao Xing stared straight at Bai Moqing, waiting for an explanation.
Bai Moqing did not know whether to laugh or cry. “I found Xuan Chi in a lake. When I got it, there was only one sword. The sword in Sikou Yan’s hand was not given to her by me.”
She had wanted to explain, but before she had the chance, Xiao Xing had destroyed Xuan Chi.
The word “lake” easily made one think of Fallen God Lake. Xiao Xing stopped questioning her. She lowered her head and put the black jade ring back onto the middle finger of Bai Moqing’s right hand.
When the ring slid to the base of her finger, a faint dark light flashed and disappeared into Bai Moqing’s body.
Sensing that Xiao Xing’s mood had suddenly changed, Bai Moqing asked softly, “A-Xing, what is wrong?”
Thinking back on what she had just said, Bai Moqing tried asking, “Did you think of Fallen God Lake?”
Xiao Xing did not answer, but the guilt in her eyes said enough. Bai Moqing leaned forward and pulled Xiao Xing into her arms. “It was so long ago. Why remember it?”
The things that had happened at Fallen God Lake were slowly becoming blurry. Bai Moqing had a feeling that the memory seal was returning. Perhaps after some more time passed, she would no longer remember those events.
She was about to say something warm when Xiao Xing pushed her away.
“There is indeed no need to remember.”
Her expression looked a little proud.
Xiao Xing took a dark red heavy sword from her own storage space. It had a deep, weighty presence and faintly carried the aura of an emperor. She handed it to Bai Moqing.
“I destroyed your Xuan Chi, so I will compensate you with a new sword. Wu Ze.”
Bai Moqing accepted the sword. The moment it entered her hand, thick spiritual power flowed from the hilt through her palm and skin into her body, linking with her Divine Terrace.
This sword was an excellent magic artifact, many times better than Xuan Chi.
It only looked a bit heavy.
The thought had just flashed through her mind when Wu Ze trembled in her hand and instantly became light and nimble.
Bai Moqing held the sword in a daze. Only six words remained in her heart.
This sword is so amazing.
She lifted her head and asked Xiao Xing, “A-Xing, do you have another sword similar to this one?”
She suspected her President Xiao was using this chance to give her a couple’s item.
Sadly, Xiao Xing answered, “There is only this one.”
Xiao Xing did not know Sikou Yan had asked Bai Moqing about returning to the Eleventh Heaven. After destroying Xuan Chi and feeling better, Xiao Xing remembered she still had many things to handle and sent Bai Moqing back to her own office.
However, before Bai Moqing walked out of the office, Xiao Xing said one light sentence.
“There is also Bai Gui.”
Whether Bai Moqing heard it depended on how good her ears were.
An Huaigu had been worrying about Bai Moqing the whole time. When she saw Bai Moqing return to the office with a pleased expression, she glanced twice at Bai Moqing’s neck but saw no kiss marks.
She could coax President Xiao this quickly without using her body?
An Huaigu quietly gossiped, “Little Bai, why did President Xiao suddenly get unhappy?”
Bai Moqing put away her smile and answered, “I was late, so she was unhappy.”
Speaking of being late, An Huaigu patted Bai Moqing’s shoulder and naturally let her hand rest there. “You came pretty fast. Less than a minute after President Xiao called, you arrived.”
Hearing the probing in her words, Bai Moqing turned and slipped free of An Huaigu’s hand, then walked to her seat and sat down.
She answered calmly, “It is very fast to go from here to President Xiao’s office.”
It sounded as if she had arrived at the office long ago and had simply not been there.
An Huaigu thought about it. She truly had not been there. For half an hour before the call, she and Tang Yue had been in Xiao Xing’s office.
The unclear suspicion in An Huaigu’s heart disappeared.
Then Bai Moqing told her, “President Xiao wants you and Assistant Tang to go to her office.”
An Huaigu left the office as if heading to an execution ground.
Bai Moqing had thought the office would become quiet after An Huaigu left. Unexpectedly, as soon as An Huaigu was gone, her younger sister An Huaijian arrived, holding an application form and looking as if she wanted to find President Xiao.
Seeing An Huaijian look straight at her with smiling eyes, Bai Moqing realized An Huaijian had come to find her.