Why Aren’t You Cultivating Immortality? (GL) Chapter 83

Space stretched without limit.
They were clearly inside a bedroom that was a few dozen square meters, not small but not large either, yet the array Bai Moqing and Xiao Xing had formed was a hundred meters wide.
Dense pale purple spiritual energy flowed around them, as if they were standing in a sea of flowers.
This was the fifth day they had stayed here.
Bai Moqing had mistakenly thought Xiao Xing was going to keep her here to do something unsuitable for children. Unexpectedly, they were only cultivating in a perfectly proper way.
Xiao Xing sat cross-legged. Her hands formed Daoist hand seals in front of her as she controlled the spirit stones. The pale purple spiritual energy around them came from spirit stones, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight of the ten thousand top-grade spirit stones Bai Moqing had given her.
Bai Moqing opened her eyes.
The person across from her looked calm and at ease. Her delicate brows were naturally relaxed. As she breathed, her chest rose and fell with a steady rhythm. Each interval was exactly the same as the last.
The two absorbed spiritual energy and breathed out the turbid air inside their bodies. Their divine souls and bodies grew stronger again and again under the washing and tempering of spiritual energy.
Bai Moqing opened her hand, then clenched it into a fist. She could clearly feel that her cultivation had increased quite a bit in these short five days, enough to match several months in the past.
But to a certain little orange cat, these five days had felt as long as five years.
Feiyue lay on the balcony windowsill and looked into the distance until her eyes nearly wore through, but Bai Moqing still had not come back.
“Yunyun, is Qingqing unable to get out of bed because Xiao Xing tormented her too much, so she has not come home all this time?”
Feiyue turned to look at Yun Su, who was squatting on the ground and watering plants. Yun Su’s waist-length hair was swept to one side, revealing her fair, handsome side profile. Under the sunlight, she looked beautiful and moving.
Feiyue secretly swallowed.
Yun Su adjusted the leaves of the clivia, letting the flower core bathe in warm sunlight.
Hearing Feiyue’s words, she laughed softly and turned to look at her. “What is that little head of yours thinking about all day? Why do I not see you thinking more in that direction when it comes to you and me?”
Those words, half teasing and half resentful, made Feiyue’s face flush red at once.
Feiyue turned her head to look at the people coming and going outside and shyly said, “I am not ready yet.”
In a few more days, it would be the Beginning of Spring. After spring began, all things would awaken.
Yun Su turned back and continued watering the flowers and plants on the balcony. Seemingly casual, she said, “The season for animals to mate is almost here.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a cat jumped onto her shoulder, grabbed her clothes, meowed, and slapped a paw over her face.
“What nonsense are you saying?”
Yun Su set down the watering can and reached back to grab the little orange cat from her shoulder, holding her in her arms. She rubbed her fluffy body and smiled.
“You look even cuter like this.”
In cat form, some things were inconvenient, but compared with human form, she looked many times cuter.
Yun Su stood and weighed the little orange cat in her hands. “It seems you have gotten a lot heavier.”
Feiyue hummed.
During the days Xiao Xing and Bai Moqing were not here, Yun Su had cooked delicious food for her every day. It would be strange if she did not get fat!
Speaking of which, when exactly was Bai Moqing coming back?
Feiyue lifted her head and patted Yun Su’s chest. “Yunyun, when do you think Qingqing will come back?”
“Probably soon.”
Yun Su glanced in the direction of Xiao Xing’s home and happened to see Xiao Xing withdraw the spirit stones and remove the barrier.
The light of the barrier melted into the sunlight. The scene around them returned to the bedroom.
The two stood at the same time. Xiao Xing glanced at the fine weather outside the floor-to-ceiling window, then looked briefly at Bai Moqing before walking leisurely into the bathroom.
This moody temper really was hard to understand.
Bai Moqing flashed into the bathroom and stood behind the door, looking searchingly at Xiao Xing, who had turned on the faucet and was filling the small bath.
“A-Xing, my Divine Terrace has fully recovered.”
Xiao Xing held her hand under the faucet, feeling the water temperature while adjusting it. After setting the temperature, she shook off the water and stood.
“Mm.”
Facing this cold attitude, Bai Moqing could not help wondering whether she had done something wrong to Xiao Xing.
But aside from cultivating, they had not done anything!
That day, after Xiao Xing said they would stay in this bedroom, she pushed Bai Moqing away and began setting up the barrier. Before Bai Moqing could even react and understand what Xiao Xing wanted to do, Xiao Xing had already sat cross-legged, formed hand seals smoothly and cleanly, created an array, taken spirit stones from her storage ring, and said, “Start cultivating.”
Then she stopped speaking to Bai Moqing.
Could this delayed reaction still be stuck on the matter with Sikou Yan?
“A-Xing, do you need me to help you bathe and change?”
Bai Moqing decided to lower her stance and coax Xiao Xing properly.
Xiao Xing’s gaze fell on the gradually rising water. She did not say yes, but she did not say no either.
Several faucets filled the small bath at the same time. The water soon reached the right level.
Xiao Xing removed her clothes, lifted one long, straight leg, and stepped into the bath. With the sound of splashing water, she lay back against the edge of the tub.
Bai Moqing did not leave the bathroom. Her gaze stayed fixed on Xiao Xing.
The ripples spreading through the water could not hide Xiao Xing’s graceful figure beneath the surface. While Bai Moqing was lost in wild thoughts, the person in the water turned over and lay on her side, resting one hand on the edge of the tub.
“Did you not say you would help me bathe?”
Her posture was lazy, and her brows and eyes were teasing.
Bai Moqing thought of a line of poetry: in spring chill, a bath was granted at Huaqing Pool, and hot spring water washed smooth skin.
Although this was not a hot spring, the rising mist could still make the person bathing look soft and alluring.
Her heartbeat suddenly sped up.
No matter how many times they had been close, Bai Moqing’s reaction was still the same as the first time. Desire colored her clear eyes. As she drew closer, the longing in her gaze grew stronger, almost spilling out.
Xiao Xing liked Bai Moqing’s eyes at this moment very much.
But there was not much expression on her face, as if she could not see Bai Moqing’s reaction. Her eyes were half-lowered, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and her tone was light.
“If you are unwilling, go out.”
Bai Moqing’s heart stirred. She stepped to Xiao Xing’s side, took down the towel hanging on the nearby shelf, and sat sideways on the edge of the bath beside Xiao Xing’s arm.
Xiao Xing turned over. Both hands rested on the edge of the bath, and her smooth back was half exposed above the water.
Without needing words, Bai Moqing wet the towel and gently wiped Xiao Xing’s back.
The steam gradually spread a flush across Xiao Xing’s body. Bai Moqing’s clothes were dampened by the water, giving her a charm of her own.
Xiao Xing could not help releasing her divine sense through Bai Moqing’s clothes to secretly glance at what was inside, then quickly withdrew it.
Lowering her eyes, she began to speak.
“Your God-Slaying Cauldron was connecting to the God Realm before.”
When Xiao Xing said this, she felt Bai Moqing’s hand pause. When Bai Moqing continued wiping her, the force in her hand became a little heavier.
Bai Moqing knew that Xiao Xing had more to say than this. Looking at Xiao Xing’s back, she stayed silent and waited for what came next.
“I have looked through the ancient god texts left in this realm. The place closest to the God Realm is the peak of the Snow Region.”
The peak of the Snow Region?
Bai Moqing frowned. No wonder the spiritual energy there was far denser than elsewhere. When she cultivated there, her cultivation also increased the fastest.
Thinking of Xiao Xing’s earlier plan to take her to the peak of the Snow Region, Bai Moqing wrung out the towel and set it aside.
“Do you want me to return to the God Realm?”
“Do you not want to go back? Your cultivation is there.”
Xiao Xing braced herself on the edge and stood. She put on a bathrobe and walked out of the bath, looking down at Bai Moqing, who was still sitting on the edge.
“This place should not have immortal cultivators to begin with. Once spiritual energy is exhausted, the immortal cultivators who remain in this world will one by one return to chaos.”
“And…”
Xiao Xing used an art to clean herself and pulled Bai Moqing to her feet.
“You were never an immortal cultivator to begin with. You never belonged to this realm.”
What Xiao Xing said made sense.
Bai Moqing nodded. Thinking of Sikou Yan, she asked, “Did you change your mind because of Sikou Yan?”
It would have been better if she had not mentioned her.
Once Sikou Yan was mentioned, Xiao Xing remembered that before, she had not allowed Bai Moqing to explain, and Bai Moqing really had not explained.
Frowning, she asked, “What did Sikou Yan say to you? Why did you use the God-Slaying Cauldron to help her?”
Bai Moqing understood now. As long as there was a debt, it would be settled sooner or later.
Looking at Xiao Xing, who was waiting with a serious expression for her explanation, Bai Moqing considered her words.
“She is a high god in charge of prisons, justice, and discipline. She came to this realm by accident and lost part of her cultivation, so she cannot leave alone.”
Hearing that Sikou Yan was a high god, Xiao Xing did not react much. After Bai Moqing finished speaking, Xiao Xing gave a cold laugh.
“Cannot leave alone?”
She opened the door and walked out of the bathroom. Turning back, she looked at Bai Moqing, who had followed her out.
“So you were going to leave with her?”
Seeing that Xiao Xing was about to get jealous again, Bai Moqing quickly explained, “I only used the God-Slaying Cauldron to help her. I never thought of leaving with her.”
She raised her hand, wishing she could swear an oath to Xiao Xing on the spot.
Xiao Xing glanced at Bai Moqing’s three raised fingers, her face calm and indifferent.
“There is no need to swear.”
She turned and walked to the wardrobe, opened it, and chose clothes to wear.
Bai Moqing followed her step by step to the wardrobe.
Inside the open wardrobe door was a full-length mirror that clearly reflected both of their expressions.
The white cotton bathrobe slid down Xiao Xing’s body. Through the mirror, Xiao Xing glanced at Bai Moqing. Bai Moqing happened to be looking sideways at her. Their gazes met unexpectedly in the mirror.
Xiao Xing simply looked at Bai Moqing in the mirror.
“Are you going to watch me change?”
The soft curves that could be held in one hand were displayed before Bai Moqing without any cover. The person being looked at was calm as usual, but Bai Moqing lowered her head in embarrassment.
“Are you going out later?”
Xiao Xing put on her underclothes, then pulled a plain cable-knit cashmere sweater over them.
“Mm. I am going out to meet someone.”
She took out a gray coat, hung the hanger back in the wardrobe, closed the door, and put on the coat.
Seeing Bai Moqing’s expression, clearly curious yet holding back from asking, Xiao Xing deliberately said, “You do not need to go. I will go alone.”
After buttoning the coat, she added, “After not seeing you for several days, the little orange cat must miss you.”
She simply refused to tell Bai Moqing whom she was going to meet.
With a hidden smile, she glanced at Bai Moqing, opened the bedroom door, crossed the living room, and went straight to the entryway to change shoes.
Bai Moqing stood at the bedroom door and watched Xiao Xing.
Xiao Xing took a pair of black casual sneakers from the shoe cabinet. Paired with her coat and jeans, she looked very much like she was going out to pick up girls.
Even if she was not going out to pick up girls, she was definitely going on a date with a woman.
Bai Moqing held in her anger and refused to ask.
Xiao Xing tidied her hair and glanced at Bai Moqing from the corner of her eye. Then she opened the door and left.
She really was not going to say it!
Bai Moqing spread out her divine sense.
After Xiao Xing left, she took the elevator straight to the parking lot. Once she got into the car, the scene flashed, and Bai Moqing’s divine sense could no longer see Xiao Xing.
Very good. Blocked again.
Bai Moqing turned and went back to her own home.
As soon as her feet touched the floor and she appeared in the living room, a fattened little orange cat leaped into her arms, hitting her chest hard enough to hurt.
“Meow, wuwuwu, Qingqing!”
Ignoring Yun Su watching from the side, the little orange cat rubbed against Bai Moqing with all her might.
“After fooling around outside for so many days, you finally remembered to come home!”