Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 80

Before Bai Moqing could answer, the God-Slaying Cauldron inside her body suddenly began to hum.
The cyan light that rose from it released outward with unstoppable force, and Xiao Xing suddenly felt a terrifying chill crawl over her.
Looking with her divine sense, she saw the inscriptions on the God-Slaying Cauldron slowly float out from the cauldron wall along with the cyan light. The spiritual energy gathered inside the cauldron carried divine aura and poured into the inscriptions. The cyan light slowly turned misty white at a visible speed.
Xiao Xing rose from her seat. In the blink of an eye, she was in front of Bai Moqing and holding her hand.
Frowning, she asked, “What is going on?”
But when she lifted her head, she met Bai Moqing’s blank expression.
Bai Moqing did not know what was going on with the cauldron either.
The cauldron and her divine soul had already fused into one. She could control the God-Slaying Cauldron as easily as moving her own limbs. A scene of losing control like this rarely appeared. It should be said that it had never appeared before.
Bai Moqing circulated her cultivation to control the God-Slaying Cauldron, drawing back all the aura and pressure it had released.
She secretly let out a breath. Afraid Xiao Xing would worry, she said calmly, almost like a joke, “Maybe it thought of Sikou Yan. This cauldron hates her.”
One could hear the truth and falsehood in that sentence at once.
Xiao Xing knew Bai Moqing had deliberately said that because she was worried Xiao Xing would overthink. Still uneasy, Xiao Xing sent her divine thought into Bai Moqing’s Divine Terrace.
The vast Divine Terrace was quiet and peaceful in its hidden corners. The surrounding spiritual energy was like a deep blue lake, and also like a clear bright sky. Only a little Bai Moqing stayed inside.
Seeing Xiao Xing come in, the little Bai Moqing stood and flew toward her.
The God-Slaying Cauldron followed step by step and flew above them. Little Bai Moqing raised her hand and opened her palm. The God-Slaying Cauldron quickly shrank and landed in her hand.
The cauldron became the size of a fist, looking like an ancient bronze wine vessel.
Bai Moqing handed the God-Slaying Cauldron to Xiao Xing and smiled. “A-Xing, here.”
She handed the cauldron to Xiao Xing with complete trust.
Xiao Xing did not take it.
The cauldron was the foremost of all artifacts, and the power of the God-Slaying Cauldron was even more unfathomable. It could slaughter immortals and gods. Even though Xiao Xing was certain Bai Moqing would not do anything to her, she did not dare casually touch a divine artifact inside its owner’s body.
After studying it for a moment through Bai Moqing’s hand, Xiao Xing withdrew from Bai Moqing’s Divine Terrace.
Her expression and actions all fell into Bai Moqing’s eyes.
The instant Xiao Xing withdrew, Bai Moqing lifted her hand. The God-Slaying Cauldron hidden inside her body followed her movement out of the Divine Terrace and appeared on her palm. Bai Moqing took Xiao Xing’s hand and placed the cauldron’s true body onto it.
“You distrust me that much? This cauldron would hurt anyone before it hurt you.”
Xiao Xing raised a brow. “It is not that I do not trust you. I am afraid it will lose control.”
She pinched the God-Slaying Cauldron between her fingers and examined it carefully.
The cauldron looked the same inside and outside the body, but in truth, the God-Slaying Cauldron inside the Divine Terrace was the complete cauldron. At this moment, with the God-Slaying Cauldron in her hand, Xiao Xing could not feel its pressure or divine aura at all.
Xiao Xing was studying the cauldron, and Bai Moqing was studying her.
Xiao Xing’s hands were slender and long. The way she held the God-Slaying Cauldron was elegant and calm. Bai Moqing looked at her hand, then moved her gaze to Xiao Xing’s face and swept over her serious eyes.
Softly, she answered Xiao Xing’s earlier question. “Sikou Yan has always been waiting for me to return to the Eleventh Heaven.”
As soon as the words fell, Bai Moqing felt pressure come from the cauldron.
The fingers holding the God-Slaying Cauldron twisted slightly and turned pale from force.
Bai Moqing held Xiao Xing’s hand. “I am not going anywhere.”
There were passages between realms. If one did not take a passage and instead tore space open to trespass into another realm, without the cultivation of a high god or Yun Su’s spatial arts, one would probably be dissolved by astral wind in less than half an hour.
She would not dare hand her life to someone like Sikou Yan, whose true purpose she could not grasp.
Even if she had to return to the Eleventh Heaven, she should return together with Xiao Xing.
With one sentence, Xiao Xing’s mood became light and bright.
She released the force in her hand. “I know you cannot leave me.” Then she returned the God-Slaying Cauldron to Bai Moqing.
The God-Slaying Cauldron had connected to the god realm more than once. Today’s loss of control was most likely also related to the god realm.
The cauldron turned into a pool of light and sank into Bai Moqing’s palm.
Xiao Xing returned to the leather chair and sat. She picked up the steel pen beside her, twisted off the cap, and looked at Bai Moqing with a smile.
“Secretary Bai, can you make me a cup of tea?”
She swept her eyes over the neat stack of documents on the desk that needed to be reviewed and signed, then lifted her eyes and said, “Then handle these documents with me.”
There was no reason to refuse.
Bai Moqing made two cups of tea, one for Xiao Xing and one for herself, then sat beside Xiao Xing.
The desk was very large, more than enough for two people to work over it together.
Xiao Xing placed a stack of unimportant internal approval materials in front of Bai Moqing, then picked up the phone and dialed a number.
Bai Moqing glanced over.
The four digits shown on the phone belonged to Secretary Wen’s office line. She could not help looking at Xiao Xing curiously. Why was A-Xing calling Secretary Wen?
The phone rang twice before it was answered.
Secretary Wen called with a gentle smile in her voice, “President Xiao.”
Xiao Xing said, “Send me a copy of my schedule for the next few days.”
She hung up. Soon, a schedule was sent to her inbox.
Looking at the packed schedule, Xiao Xing lowered her brows. A few minutes later, she marked some items blue and some red, then sent it back to Wen Rushui.
Turning back and seeing the confusion in Bai Moqing’s eyes, Xiao Xing smiled and explained, “I do not need to handle these matters personally. The blue ones can be resolved by Secretary Wen. The red ones will be handled by Tang Yue.”
“Then what about the rest?”
“The rest…”
Xiao Xing dialed Secretary Wen’s number again. While giving Secretary Wen instructions, she answered Bai Moqing’s question.
“For the unmarked matters, let Huaigu and Secretary Wang handle them. Do not arrange any more schedule items for this week. Daily affairs will temporarily be decided by Deputy President Xiao.”
After Xiao Xing hung up, Bai Moqing asked curiously, “Who is Deputy President Xiao?”
She had only missed work for two days, and the company already had another Deputy President Xiao?
“She just came back from a branch company.”
Xiao Xing opened a document and began reading quickly.
A branch company again.
Bai Moqing remembered that Xiao Xing had also returned from a branch company back then, then taken the role of president at the group headquarters. She looked thoughtfully at Xiao Xing as Xiao Xing signed documents with easy decisiveness. Unable to suppress the curiosity rising in her heart, she asked, “What is this Deputy President Xiao’s relationship with you?”
Xiao Xing stopped her pen and lifted her head. “She has no real relationship with me. She is Xiao Tan’s daughter.”
Xiao Tan, the chairman of Xiao Group.
Back when Bai Moqing had worked in the archive room, she had used the convenience of her job to secretly look through Xiao Xing’s file and had happened to see Xiao Tan’s information. As soon as Xiao Tan’s name was mentioned, Bai Moqing immediately remembered what had been in the file.
The new Deputy President Xiao was the chairman’s daughter. Then did that not mean…
The two of them might be enemies!
“You are thinking too much.”
Seeing what Bai Moqing was thinking, Xiao Xing smiled helplessly and rubbed Bai Moqing’s hair.
“The company is mine. Xiao Tan is only the chairman in name. Linran knows that.”
Linran?
Based on the context, this should be Deputy President Xiao’s name.
The hand Bai Moqing had placed under the desk grabbed the corner of her clothes. She asked uncertainly, “Xiao Linran?”
“Mm.” Xiao Xing nodded and withdrew her hand. “Looking out on ten thousand mountains red, the layered forests all dyed. Xiao Linran. It is a very good name, is it not?”
Praising another woman’s name in front of her?
Bai Moqing was unhappy. She shifted, sat up properly, and stopped paying attention to Xiao Xing.
A knock came from the door.
Bai Moqing subconsciously wanted to stand, but Xiao Xing held her back.
“It is fine. Sit.”
After saying that, she called toward the door, “Come in.”
As her voice fell, a woman in a black suit walked in gracefully.
Her flaxen long hair was slightly curled and draped lazily over her shoulders. Light, exquisite makeup covered her face, and she carried an indescribable air about her.
Bai Moqing glanced at Xiao Xing beside her and reacted.
The woman before her looked somewhat like Xiao Xing.
It was Xiao Linran!
“President Xiao.” Xiao Linran bowed slightly and greeted Xiao Xing.
Her gaze then drifted to Bai Moqing beside Xiao Xing. “This must be my sister-in-law?”
Sister… sister-in-law?
This form of address was not ordinarily awkward.
Bai Moqing wanted to deny it, but a cold voice beside her sounded first.
“Mm.”
Xiao Linran’s office was on the twenty-fifth floor, three floors away from here.
When Bai Moqing arrived, Xiao Linran had wanted to come meet the person who had made their cold and indifferent President Xiao fall in love. But thinking of Xiao Xing’s temper, she had not dared come rashly.
“You suit each other very well.”
Xiao Linran handed a document to Xiao Xing. “Secretary Wen said the company’s daily affairs for the next few days will be my responsibility?”
“Mm.”
Xiao Xing opened the document and glanced through it. She signed her name at the end and handed it back to Xiao Linran.
“I will be leaving for a few days. If there is anything in the company you do not understand, you can ask Tang Yue.”
“All right. I understand.”
Xiao Linran looked at Bai Moqing, then left the office.
After the person was gone, Bai Moqing’s divine sense was still on Xiao Linran.
Xiao Xing set down her pen. Her voice gave no clear emotion as she said, “Linran came up here to look at you.”
Bai Moqing quickly withdrew her divine sense and explained, “I only wanted to see whether she is an immortal cultivator or an ordinary person.”
Xiao Xing’s face was still darkening.
Bai Moqing glanced at the clock in the corner of the desk. “It is almost time to get off work.”
It was a very poor attempt at changing the topic.
Xiao Xing looked at Bai Moqing with a dark expression.
Bai Moqing’s heart thumped.
Oh no. How should she coax her now?
Xiao Xing did not dwell on the matter. She turned back and said, “Wait until I finish handling these things. We will leave work together.”
There was not much left to handle. Xiao Xing soon finished everything.
When the two of them left the office, there was already no one on the floor.
Bai Moqing returned to her office to shut down her computer. She saw a blue sticky note on her desk. From the handwriting, it was Sister An who had left it for her.
She lifted her eyes and glanced at the door.
Xiao Xing stood there waiting for her, head lowered as she sent a message, not looking in Bai Moqing’s direction.
Bai Moqing peeled off the sticky note and tucked it into a book, then shut down the computer and walked out.
Feiyue lay in the rocking chair, leisurely basking in the sun while playing on her phone. Yun Su was watering the flowers and plants on the balcony. In the corner, the cat grass was lush and thriving.
Hearing a sly laugh from behind her, Yun Su turned back and asked Feiyue, “Did you see something interesting?”
Feiyue lifted her head, moved her gaze from the phone screen to Yun Su, and raised a brow with a smile. Then she turned over with her back to Yun Su.
“I am not telling you.”
Sitting in the car and watching the scenery flash past outside the window, Bai Moqing felt that the temperature had been nice these past few days, as if winter had passed and spring had come.
Thinking of the note Sister An had left for her, Bai Moqing withdrew her gaze and turned to look at Xiao Xing.
“Sister An added Feiyue on WeChat.”
Xiao Xing glanced at Bai Moqing, not understanding why she suddenly mentioned this. “I remember Feiyue does not like Huaigu. How did they add each other?”
Seeing the worry on Bai Moqing’s face, then hearing her sigh, Xiao Xing asked, “What are you worried about?”
“Sister An likes Feiyue.” Bai Moqing sighed again. “What if Assistant Tang finds out…”
Before she could finish, Xiao Xing laughed openly.
“She is not that kind of person.”
She could tell Bai Moqing with certainty, “Huaigu’s liking for Feiyue is only that she simply finds her interesting. It is not the kind of liking where she wants to sleep with her.”
The kind of liking where she wants to sleep with her…
That was far too direct!
Bai Moqing stopped the topic and turned to look out the window.
With this look, she unexpectedly saw someone she did not want to see.
Outstanding beauty, picturesque brows and eyes, a captivating profile.
Sikou Yan lowered her car window. She did not care at all that they were on a busy road full of traffic. Her right hand held the steering wheel, and her left hand removed her sunglasses as she turned and smiled at Bai Moqing.
“Moqing.”
The word had only just left her mouth when there was a bang. A collision loud enough to make one’s heart shake rang out.
A black sedan that had turned right from the side of the road and was preparing to merge into the lane crashed into Sikou Yan’s car.