Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 81

Sikou Yan’s car skidded sideways and crashed into the median barrier.
Xiao Xing slammed on the brakes and stopped the car crosswise. Through the window, she saw Sikou Yan in the car. Her brows furrowed. She turned the steering wheel, preparing to go around Sikou Yan’s car and leave.
She had just released the brake and had not yet stepped on the gas when the sound of a seat belt unbuckling came from beside her.
Xiao Xing turned her head. Bai Moqing said to her, “I will go down and take a look.”
As she spoke, she opened the car door and quickly walked toward Sikou Yan.
Seeing that he had caused a crash, the culprit hurriedly got out of his car. When he saw the car logo, his face went pale, and his legs went a little weak. Holding onto his car, he shakily took out his phone to call the traffic police.
At a time like this, they had to let the traffic police handle it. Otherwise, if the other side demanded too much, he would not be able to pay.
When Bai Moqing reached Sikou Yan’s car, Sikou Yan was pushing hard at the door. Something seemed to be stuck somewhere, and the door would not open.
Wind blew in through the lowered window and brought out the smell inside the car. A faint perfume scent was mixed with the burnt smell of engine oil.
Bai Moqing grabbed the handle from outside and pulled lightly, opening it.
“Moqing…”
Sikou Yan got out of the car. The moment her feet touched the ground, she swayed twice and fell toward Bai Moqing’s arms.
Seeing this, Xiao Xing was so angry that she gripped the steering wheel tightly. She unfastened her seat belt and got out of the car too.
In truth, the accident was not serious. Sikou Yan had worn her seat belt. When she hit the median barrier, the airbag had deployed. On top of that, Sikou Yan was not an ordinary person. At this moment, her weak legs looked more like an act to others.
But Bai Moqing still raised her hand and supported her.
Through the clothes, Bai Moqing felt the chill on Sikou Yan’s body. In a daze, she remembered the bone-deep cold she had felt back in the Qiongcang Secret Realm when her divine sense touched the icy water in the abyss.
She immediately let go of Sikou Yan.
But when Bai Moqing withdrew her hand, Sikou Yan grabbed her wrist instead. Her peach blossom eyes, shining with watery light, fixed on Bai Moqing. She smiled without speaking.
The driver who caused the accident walked over after making his call and stammered an apology.
“I am sorry, I am sorry. I already called the traffic police and the insurance company. They will be here soon.”
When he saw the other person’s face clearly, his eyes widened in shock.
“Si… Sikou Yan?”
The person he had hit was actually his goddess, Sikou Yan!
The driver began speaking incoherently. He even wanted to ask Sikou Yan for a photo together. As for the crash, he would pay however much she wanted.
If he could not cover the debt with money, he could pay with himself!
Sikou Yan remained silent.
Bai Moqing felt an icy gaze behind her. She instinctively turned back and saw Xiao Xing walking toward her with an unhappy face. Bai Moqing turned back, broke free of Sikou Yan’s hand, and put distance between them.
She asked Sikou Yan, “Are you all right now?”
If Sikou Yan was all right, Bai Moqing had to leave. Her President Xiao was already unhappy.
Sikou Yan shook her head. It was unclear whether she meant she was fine or that she was not sure.
She glanced at Xiao Xing, then at the driver who had caused the accident, and said to Bai Moqing, “Moqing, can I trouble you to help me get the bag on the passenger seat? The orange one. I need to call my assistant and agent.”
Without thinking much, Bai Moqing bent down to get into the car.
Xiao Xing grabbed her and pulled her into her arms. Her cool, distant gaze looked at Sikou Yan. Even if Sikou Yan died in front of her, Xiao Xing’s heart would not stir at all.
Coldly, she said, “Xiao Mo is not your assistant.”
The atmosphere at the crash site became like a dueling ground, as if the two of them would start fighting in the next second.
Sikou Yan raised a hand in apology. “Sorry.”
With a limp, she turned and leaned half her body into the car, then struggled to take out the bag on the passenger seat.
“What happened to your foot?” Bai Moqing noticed something wrong.
Sikou Yan lowered her head and glanced at her right foot. “Nothing. I accidentally twisted it when I got out of the car.”
“Are you still not leaving?”
Watching Sikou Yan call her assistant, Xiao Xing looked at Bai Moqing coldly. The displeasure in her eyes was even stronger than before.
Hearing that the two of them were about to leave, Sikou Yan quickly stopped them.
“Um, can you take me with you?”
Hearing the clicking sound beside her, and noticing more and more onlookers gathering around, Sikou Yan put on her sunglasses, lowered her head, and lowered her voice.
“After all, I am a public figure.”
Fortunately, she was the victim. Even if someone took photos and posted them online, nothing major would happen. Her agency could write a few notices later. Not only could they gain fans’ sympathy, they could also increase her exposure and push back against her recent downturn.
Twenty-five minutes later, Sikou Yan’s assistant Xiao Qiao and her agent, Sister Chen, rushed to the crash site in a panic.
Several traffic police officers were taking photos at the scene as evidence. Off to the side stood a tall, thin man clutching his phone, looking rather nervous.
Sharp-eyed Sister Chen could tell at a glance that he was the driver who had caused the accident.
Her gaze swept over the scene. When she did not see Sikou Yan, she held her forehead and let out a breath. She had assistant Xiao Qiao go communicate with the traffic police about handling the accident, while she took out her phone and walked to the roadside, away from the crowd, to call Sikou Yan.
“Yanyan, where are you?” Chen Shuyan covered the phone and asked softly, her eyes watching the surroundings at all times.
Sikou Yan was sitting in Xiao Xing’s car.
From the direction the car was driving, they were going to Bai Moqing’s home. Chen Shuyan’s voice kept repeating by her ear. Sikou Yan withdrew her thoughts and smiled.
“On the way home. I will have to trouble Sister Chen with the rest.”
There was a trace of coquettishness in her tone.
Chen Shuyan raised a brow. “You are my little treasure. If I do not help you handle it, who will?”
Sikou Yan had already gone numb to this kind of cheesy address. Leaning against the seat, she rubbed her temple.
“Thank you, Sister Chen. Also, I may not be able to attend the meeting about the new movie script this afternoon.”
“It is fine. Xiao Qiao can attend instead. I will have her bring you the revised script later.”
Seeing that the traffic police were preparing to leave, Chen Shuyan comforted Sikou Yan a few more times, telling her not to worry about the script or the accident, then hung up.
The atmosphere inside the car was indescribably strange.
Xiao Xing drove with no expression. From time to time, she glanced at Bai Moqing beside her. Bai Moqing sat upright, eyes forward, not looking to either side.
Sitting in the back seat, Sikou Yan put her phone in her pocket. Her gaze moved back and forth between the two of them a few times. With nothing better to say, she said, “President Xiao, I never thought I would sit in your car in this lifetime.”
The answer to her was total silence.
With Sikou Yan in the back seat, Xiao Xing did not even look at the rearview mirror, let alone answer her.
Seeing that Xiao Xing ignored her, and that Bai Moqing had not said another word since getting into the car, Sikou Yan guessed that no matter what she said now, she would only be making herself unwelcome. She simply opened Weibo.
Strangely, after scrolling around, she did not see anyone posting about her car accident.
Looking at her own Weibo page, the comments under her latest post, “I am waiting for you,” were still increasing, but none of them had anything to do with the accident.
She lifted her eyes and glanced at Xiao Xing. It was probably something Xiao Xing had done.
Lowering her head, she opened her following list and tapped into Bai Moqing’s Weibo.
There Is a Little Orange Cat at Home.
The empty Weibo page had nothing on it. After the last photo of the blood moon had been deleted, Bai Moqing had not posted anything else. Sikou Yan looked at the following and follower counts. The number she followed had not changed, but her followers had already reached tens of thousands. Most of the people following Bai Moqing were probably Sikou Yan’s fans.
Sikou Yan lifted her head and looked at Bai Moqing.
Looking at her side profile, the past slid before Sikou Yan’s eyes like scenes from a film. The face was still that face, but her cultivation was no longer the cultivation of a high god.
Feeling a strange sensation on her face and sensing that Sikou Yan was staring at her intently, Bai Moqing turned back and looked at her, reminding her that staring at people like that was very rude.
Their eyes met, their gazes mingled, then quickly moved apart.
Bai Moqing turned her head and glanced at Xiao Xing, who was driving seriously. Then she withdrew her gaze and looked forward.
Sikou Yan still stared at Bai Moqing in a daze and murmured, “Are you still not going back?”
Before her voice had fallen, the tires made an ear-piercing screech against the asphalt.
Xiao Xing braked hard, turned the steering wheel, and stopped by the roadside.
“What did you say?”
She turned to look at Sikou Yan, anger in her eyes.
Xiao Xing had never imagined that Sikou Yan would take Bai Moqing away right in front of her.
Just as she finished asking this, the two of them vanished from her car together.
“Moqing!”
Xiao Xing cried out, losing control of herself. But aside from the disturbed air, where were Bai Moqing and Sikou Yan?
Pedestrians on the sidewalk heard the sudden shout from inside the car and looked toward Xiao Xing. Xiao Xing did not care about their curious, confused gazes at all. She immediately spread out her divine sense.
However, Bai Moqing and Sikou Yan seemed to have disappeared from this world. She could not find them.
Not far away was the Jiangjing Mansion neighborhood.
Xiao Xing closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened her eyes again, her expression had returned to calm.
A gentle breeze blew. Although the sun was warm, the wind still carried a bone-piercing chill.
Two people appeared on an unnamed mountaintop.
Though it was winter, everything before their eyes was a field of green.
Bai Moqing stood steady. She was neither panicked nor confused. She looked at Sikou Yan calmly.
“What did you bring me here to do?”
Those eyes seemed to know everything, yet they were calm and without waves.
Sikou Yan stepped closer to Bai Moqing. Feeling the pressure that suddenly rose, she stepped back again.
“We should go back.”
“We?” Bai Moqing smiled carelessly and looked straight into Sikou Yan’s eyes. “Where Xiao Xing is, that is where I am. She and I are the only ‘we.'”
“Do you still remember the blood moon from a few days ago?”
Sikou Yan opened the photo album on her phone. There were many photos of the blood moon inside, from the faint white glow to the whole moon being swallowed by blood-red color.
Sikou Yan’s finger swiped across the screen again and again. After she finished flipping through all the photos, she exited to the Weibo image folder and opened the photo Bai Moqing had posted on Weibo, which Sikou Yan had saved.
She raised the phone, pointed at the photo, and said, “You took this one. You should know what the appearance of a blood moon foretells.”
When the blood moon appears, demons and devils emerge.
Bai Moqing did know.
She frowned and looked at the photo. In the lower left corner, the watermark from her Weibo was still there, a few blurry words.
She moved her gaze away and looked into Sikou Yan’s eyes, pretending not to know.
“What does it foretell?”
“I remember now. That is Ganmu.”
Yun Su shot to her feet. Her eyes flashed brightly, full of spirit.
Feiyue, who had been chatting enthusiastically with An Huaigu, was startled when she heard Yun Su’s excited voice. She sat up and asked, “What Ganmu?”
Her face was blank.
Yun Su did not answer. She put the watering can on the windowsill and ran into the bedroom. A few seconds later, she came out holding a yellowed book.
“I found it. It really is Ganmu.”
Yun Su held the book and explained to Feiyue, who was looking at her eagerly.
“The God Palace in the Third Heaven is glowing with rosy light. That is the light of Ganmu. Ganmu is also called the Undying Tree. It has a crimson trunk and bears yellow fruits. It looks a little like…”
Yun Su swept her gaze around the living room and saw the cape gooseberries in the fruit bowl on the coffee table. She walked over, picked one up, and peeled away the outer skin.
“Like this.”
Feiyue’s interest was lacking. She gave an “oh” and lay back in the chair.
She did not like eating cape gooseberries. Back then, she had bought them only because they were round like little beads and looked cute.
“Eating Ganmu’s fruit can grant endless life.”
“What did you say?”
Feiyue sprang down from the reclining chair. She walked to Yun Su’s side and leaned her little head against Yun Su’s shoulder. She saw a tree drawn on the old page, with crooked words beside it that looked like earthworms and made no sense to her.
“Where does it say endless life?”
“Endless life?”
Xiao Xing’s voice sounded out of thin air.
Feiyue and Yun Su turned toward the voice and saw that Xiao Xing had returned at some point. She was now standing behind them, looking at them.
“What endless life?” Xiao Xing asked again.
Her gaze moved from their faces to the book in Yun Su’s hand. The pages were yellowed and wrinkled, and the spine was already a little loose. It looked at least several hundred years old, if not a thousand. Who knew where Yun Su had found it.
Seeing that Xiao Xing was interested in the book in her hand, Yun Su passed it over.
Xiao Xing took the book and looked at the writing on it. Surprise flashed over her face. It was actually ancient golden seal script.
“In the main hall of the God Palace in the Third Heaven, a Ganmu tree has grown.”
Yun Su’s black eyes slowly turned red-gold. Her left hand pulled Feiyue, and her right hand grabbed Xiao Xing’s wrist, showing the scene she had seen to the two of them.
“Wow, such beautiful rosy light.” Feiyue narrowed her eyes. “That round fruit looks very tasty.”
Was that jade platform not the same jade platform where Bai Moqing had taken the God-Slaying Cauldron?
Xiao Xing calmly withdrew her hand. “It is indeed the Undying Tree.”
Why would an Undying Tree suddenly grow there? She remembered that the Third Heaven had never grown any Undying Tree before.
Could it be because Bai Moqing had taken away the God-Slaying Cauldron?
“You want to eat it?” Yun Su asked Feiyue.
As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeves, looking ready to transform into her true dragon body and go to the Third Heaven to pick Ganmu fruit.
Xiao Xing temporarily set aside her doubts about the Undying Tree and said to Yun Su, “Do not hurry to the Third Heaven yet. Help me find where Moqing is first.”
Only then did Yun Su and Feiyue realize that Xiao Xing had come back alone, while Bai Moqing, who was usually inseparable from her, was nowhere to be seen.
Then surprise followed. There was actually a time when even Xiao Xing could not find Bai Moqing.
Yun Su said, “I will try.”
Her eyes, which had just returned to their normal color, turned red-gold again. A powerful divine sense searched through space for Bai Moqing’s aura.
Suddenly, a burning sensation came from her back.
Her body could not help trembling. Yun Su quickly controlled herself, pressed down the heat on her back, and said, “I found her. She is on a mountain peak. There is another person beside her.”
Feeling Xiao Xing move, Yun Su turned sideways and dodged her hand. She withdrew her divine sense and looked at Xiao Xing with some difficulty.
“It is probably not convenient to go there right now…”