Immortal of the Ages

"I can't calm down! I can't be rational! You've ruined me! If I don't make you pay for this, you scoundrel, I can't live another moment!"

Si Ji was utterly furious. She suddenly slammed the bronze coffin onto the ground and coiled her snake tail around it. Her once serene and beautiful face now appeared completely frenzied.

"I ruined you?" Yun Xiao couldn't help but roll his eyes at her words. He said, "Come on, stop being so melodramatic, will you? Haven't you just achieved the greatest dream of your life? Who helped you get there in one step? When you were on the brink of death, who pulled you back from the gates of the underworld?

"I'm your savior; under normal circumstances, I could be considered your second parent, right? Think about it carefully—is it that I ruined you, or did I personally elevate you to the divine pedestal?"

"Shut up!" Si Ji shouted sharply, tears streaming from her pink eyes. She glared intensely at the coffin before her and said angrily, "Everything you've said is true; you did help me immensely. But the fact remains that you acted without my consent! I am grateful to you but also resent you—those are two separate matters! Let's keep them separate!

"You simply don't understand what such humiliation means to the Extreme Yin Celestial Realm! I'm their Diva; I should lead by example. But now I'm tainted and disgraced—how can I face them? How can I face the two founders of the Harmony Divine Palace?"

Hearing this, Yun Xiao grew even angrier and retorted, "Oh, give me a break! How dare you mention the two founders of the Harmony Divine Palace? The shackles of yin energy on your soul were set by them—they're the ones who wanted your life! They're the ones who turned you all into fools defying the natural laws of heaven and earth!

"They're the ones who isolated you, causing countless innocent descendants to perish! You still revere such ancestors who harm their own offspring as the ultimate truth? Tell me, after cultivating for over 1,000 years, have you ended up with nothing but rubbish? Can't you discern such basic right from wrong?"

"Yun Xiao, I told you to shut up! Stop talking!"

As for the purity of the women in the Extreme Yin Celestial Realm, it was actually the greatest shackle imposed on them by the two founders of the Harmony Divine Palace.

"I insist on saying it!" Yun Xiao snorted coldly, his tone rather harsh as he raised his voice, "Could you please take a good look at yourself right now? Your aura, your complexion, your cultivation—objectively speaking, aren't they far superior to before? Do you know how beautiful you are now? And you're still calling yourself tainted and filthy? Come on, as long as someone's not blind or their nose isn't clogged, they can see how radiant you are and smell how fragrant you are!

"At this very moment, the strong, invincible, beautiful, noble you who can achieve any dream—that is the real you. You always had the talent to become a Boundless Immortal; it was the two founders of the Harmony Divine Palace who destroyed you!

"Now you've finally broken free from their malicious shadow. Such a perfect you—even the two founders aren't worthy to compare with you! So why are you still listening to their brainwashing? You can now become the new progenitor of the Extreme Yin Celestial Realm for the next 1,000,000 years!"

No matter how closed-minded Si Ji was, as long as she was a woman, under Yun Xiao's words—which seemed like scolding but were actually praising her to the extreme—she couldn't help but be affected.

"Enough!" As she listened, the hatred in her eyes gradually faded, replaced by confusion. She touched her face, gazed at her reflection in the ice, and asked blankly, "Am I really... still okay now?"

"What do you mean still okay? If you just smile, you'd be ten times more beautiful than before! At this point, if you're still frowning, isn't that a waste? If I were you, I'd be laughing across 3,000 miles, dominating all realms, telling everyone, 'I am a Boundless Immortal!'" Yun Xiao chuckled.

"You can't expect ivory from a dog's mouth! You're always saying such exaggerated things," Si Ji pouted, somewhat reproachfully.

"I'm just speaking from the heart... truly!" Yun Xiao took a deep breath and said earnestly, "Actually, deep down, you understand better than I do. The vastness of the dao lies in the fact that it's through reproduction and inheritance that the world today is so prosperous. The Divine Spring Water is just an exception in this world, but an exception never equates to correctness, let alone justice.

"Reproducing descendants through the Divine Spring Water, as long as it exists, has its rationale, but it doesn't prove that normal reproduction is wrong or unreasonable! On the contrary, it's because of normal reproduction that there is the passing down of generations! So, matters between men and women have never been evil, nor taboo—they are great; they are the progression of life and inheritance.

"Just because the two founders of the Harmony Divine Palace—those old hags with lumps on their brains—defined it as evil to elevate their historical status and gain attention, do you have to regard it as a burden and uphold it?

"The two founders were Boundless Immortals; you are also a Boundless Immortal. In what way are you inferior to them? You're already a Boundless Immortal. Yet, you're letting two old fossils who died so long ago that not even their bones remain define your life?!"

Yun Xiao's words struck her like resounding bells.

Of course, Yun Xiao didn't think he was changing her. Sometimes, women could be quite complicated; even when they understood something, they just needed a graceful way to step down, or they'd rather die than concede.

Now, Yun Xiao had paved the way for her, extended his hand to welcome her, giving her all the respect she needed!

Sure enough, after listening to all this, Si Ji lowered her head and bit her lips. After holding back for a long time, she suddenly said, "Don't talk nonsense. As descendants, no matter how our ancestors were, we must respect them..."

"Look, even you can't say that with a straight face!" Yun Xiao chuckled.

"Yun Xiao!" Si Ji glared at the ancient bronze coffin, annoyed. "No matter what sweet talk you use, I won't forgive you. Come out of there right now and apologize to me."

"I won't. If I come out, you'll cut off my... root. I'm not that foolish. Without it, I'd rather die! Life would be meaningless—you don't even realize you almost killed your savior today," Yun Xiao snorted.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"What's wrong with you? Isn't it just a vulgar desire? Why treat it as more important than life?" Si Ji said, exasperated.

"Because I'm a vulgar person; it's more important than life," Yun Xiao replied.

"Ugh!" Si Ji truly couldn't stand him anymore. She finally stopped coiling around the dark bronze coffin, flew up, and landed not far away, somewhat impatiently saying, "Fine, I'll spare it for now. You can come out!"

"You're not lying to me…?" Yun Xiao asked.

"Though I'm not a man, I keep my word," Si Ji paused. "Besides, with this treasure protecting you, what are you afraid of?"

"True enough," Yun Xiao nodded contentedly.

With that, he finally emerged from within Blue Star and Red Moon. Although the little black beast had just blocked an ice blade earlier, the attack had consumed quite a bit of resources, and Yun Xiao was still reluctant.

At this moment, the incomparably handsome young man in white appeared before the stunning pink-white serpent maiden of the Harmony Divine Palace. The two locked eyes, and the atmosphere was somewhat awkward.

Just as Yun Xiao was about to speak, Si Ji preemptively said, "Don't get too happy. I'm just sparing it for now. If it misbehaves again, I'll make you regret it."

"Si Ji, what do you mean by misbehaves?" Yun Xiao asked.

Now calling her by her name, the Snow Lineage Diva didn't seem to mind. She gave Yun Xiao an annoyed glance, sat down to the side, and sulked, saying, "You know perfectly well, so don't ask."

"Understood." Seeing that her anger had mostly subsided, Yun Xiao became earnest and serious, putting on a sincere expression as he sat down beside her.

"We still need to sort out our relationship," Yun Xiao took the initiative to say.

"How do we sort it out? This is an ill-fated relationship." Si Ji bit her lip and shook her head helplessly.

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"Si Ji, what do you mean by misbehaves?" Yun Xiao asked.