GB Chapter 64

Flesh and blood bodies cannot go to the Immortal Realm, so Bifang took Qin Jiu to a place with the most spiritual energy in the Jiangnan area to live in seclusion. She was originally a celestial treasure, and her absorption of spiritual energy far surpassed that of mortals. It only took her three years to form a Golden Core.

This was a world she could never have imagined in her past life. Everyone only judged each other by their cultivation levels. No one stipulated what cultivators had to do, and there was nothing they could do that would be condemned by the world. In that era, only those with exceptional talent could become cultivators, so the relationships between cultivators were very weak. People who knew each other would part ways and never contact each other again, only caring about seeking their own paths of heaven. If they were destined to meet again, they would share a pot of wine and some flowers, and chat for a few sentences before saying goodbye again.

At that time, Qin Jiu didn’t think that this was because cultivators had no regard for the lives and deaths of mortals. She just liked this environment where she was no longer judged by anyone. Therefore, she cultivated even harder, wanting to see the magical Immortal Realm that Bifang spoke of, where the Immortal Emperor could sit anywhere and debate the Dao with ordinary immortals, and not get angry even if he lost, but just agree to fight again another day.

It was Bifang who led her, taking her out of that closed world locked by heavy etiquette and rules. He told her that all things were born free, and even a sparrow had the right to choose to fly to the ends of the earth. He also told her to learn to protect herself, and if anyone bullied her, she should hit them back hard, just like she had hit him before.

However, after saying this, he still touched his cheek with lingering fear, adding, “But when you hit me, I never thought of fighting back. I just felt very aggrieved. If you can, please don’t hit me anymore.”

The once fierce Bifang could not understand why he had never thought of fighting her, and he also didn’t know why she didn’t do as he said, and he wouldn’t get angry and set fires everywhere like he used to in heaven. Without even realizing it himself, the once willful and unruly celestial beast Bifang was gradually becoming mature. He finally learned to endure, learned to yield, and learned to care for others, just as the immortals had hoped. And all of this, just needed to love someone seriously.

By Bifang’s side, Qin Jiu learned how to become an immortal, while the days Bifang spent with her were learning how to become a human.

Qin Jiu naturally didn’t know this. She only found it very amusing that such a powerful man could make such a wronged expression, and she couldn’t help but laugh. “I can’t even beat you, how could I possibly bully you?”

Bifang was most afraid of her smile these days. As soon as he saw that smile, he would impulsively say things, for example, even though he knew that Qin Jiu hated getting married, he still subconsciously said, “Then be my wife, and I’ll let you bully me forever.”

Bifang originally thought that she would just silently change the topic, as she had done in the past when they talked about this, but today she looked at the bright moon in the sky and pondered for a long time, finally only nodding lightly and responding with a “Okay.”

“You really agreed? Didn’t you not want to get married?”

Seemingly not expecting her to answer like this, Bifang looked very surprised. Qin Jiu only lowered her eyes and smiled. She took the man’s large hand in her own, her tone as gentle and calm as ever, “I don’t want to get married because the only thing a woman can do after marriage is to care for her husband and educate her children. Her husband’s family won’t allow me to do anything that shows my face in public. But I’m willing to marry Bifang because Bifang is clearly stronger than any man in the world, but he never forces me to do anything.”

Now that she was already a Golden Core cultivator, she was no longer the little girl who shivered under her covers imagining the future. She finally understood that getting married was not a bad thing. The unfortunate thing was marrying someone you didn’t love. Even the cleverest words of the world’s best matchmaker could not compare to witnessing a man’s character with your own eyes. She was no longer the weak second miss of the Qin family. Qin Jiu’s husband had to be chosen by herself.

Though she had a stubborn and unwilling spirit inside, her eyes were always gentle like water. She looked up at the tall, black-clothed man, held his hand tightly, and promised, “Bifang, I will work hard to become an immortal. You have given me the best life, and I also want to fulfill all your wishes. I will definitely make you happy.”

“Isn’t that what I should be saying?”

He blinked at her helplessly. Bifang always felt like something was off. In the beginning, he just wanted someone to accompany him. As long as he was no longer alone on the branch watching the moon and calling, it was enough. But he didn’t know when it started, that partner became someone who had to be Qin Jiu.

It wasn’t that anyone but Qin Jiu wouldn’t do; he wanted to be with this person forever, no matter if she was a person or a painting.

This was an extremely dangerous idea for a celestial beast. Born from heaven and earth, they were born without desires, and so they possessed power comparable to immortals from a young age. But now, Bifang had desires. With love, there would be hate; with love and hate, they would indulge in them. Once they couldn’t get out, he would no longer be an immortal.

Although he had noticed the danger behind this feeling, Bifang ultimately didn’t care about anything. He just smiled and hugged the earnest woman in front of him, “But, it doesn’t matter, please let me be happy!”

Zhuge Qingtian had never understood how someone with Lüling’s carefree personality could give birth to a serious son like Qian Ren. In fact, while Qian Ren looked like his father, his personality was more like Qin Jiu. She had always been a very serious person. At home, she would study hard and finish all her homework to the best of her ability. She never complained about being tired on the path of cultivation. Even making Bifang happy was not just something she said casually.

Although Bifang had taken human form, his nature as a divine bird had never changed. For example, he would fly a few laps in the sky every day. Also, he refused to take off his clothes when taking a bath, insisting that the human body was too ugly without feathers. Sometimes, when he saw a particularly beautiful branch, he would inexplicably get excited. Although he was happy to have company, he would still stand alone on one leg on a branch late at night, watching the moon and enjoying the pleasure of listening to the sounds of heaven and earth…

Qin Jiu knew that this was a world she would never understand. She could stay with Bifang forever, but in the end, she was not his true kind. Even if she became an immortal, she was afraid that she would not be able to fully understand Bifang’s thoughts. That person was probably still a little lonely. Even so, she could give Bifang a companion.

That day, she watched her husband return from the night, and she brought up this idea, “Bifang, I want to have a child for you.”

“Why? It’s good enough for just us to be together. Have you never seen those little guys when they’re just born? They’re all piled up together and so noisy. When the little phoenixes on the parasol tree were born, I wished I could set them all on fire.”

The propagation of offspring was the nature of living things, but Bifang, who was born alone, did not have this concept. Mentioning the past, his face was full of bitterness, “As a result, as soon as I finished complaining, I was beaten up by the old phoenix, and it didn’t allow any phoenix to talk to me.”

Although his tone was full of disdain, when he mentioned the groups of phoenixes, a trace of loneliness still flashed across his face. Qin Jiu knew that it was because he was thinking that he might never have a day of flying with his own kind. It was indeed a terrible thing to give birth to a child from her belly, but she wanted to fulfill all of Bifang’s wishes. At this moment, she was even more determined, “I want to, and he should look a lot like you after he’s born.”

Bifang would never refuse her request. They had been intimate as husband and wife, but there had been no movement so far. He thought that it was probably because they were different species and could not have children. So he replied, “Since you want one, I’ll go to heaven and ask Daoman how humans and celestial beasts have children. He’s read so many books, he must know how to have a baby.”

No, that man probably wouldn’t know either.

Qin Jiu had also heard him talk about Daoman. He was clearly a wise immortal, but he had to be asked these kinds of things by a bird, which was quite tragic. But sympathy aside, Qin Jiu still wanted to see if it was possible, so she said calmly, “Go on, you’ll be very happy when you truly have a child connected by blood to you.”

“Okay, I’ll be back in less than three days. Stay in the formation and don’t go out!”

At that time, her cultivation was already close to forming a Nascent Soul. Bifang had also set up layers of formations in the valley where they lived. She had never had any accidents when going out to train in the Golden Core stage. They both thought that it was only three days, and nothing would go wrong.

However, what they didn’t know was that the old minister was extremely angry that his concubine had been kidnapped, and he wrote a letter begging the most powerful cultivation sect at that time, the Ziyun Sect, to pursue and capture her. The Ziyun Sect originally didn’t want to bother with such mundane matters, but a disciple who had seen this letter happened to meet her. After a closer look, he discovered that the Qin family woman had achieved such a level of cultivation in such a short time. Such talent would be a top-notch furnace.

He thought of this and was filled with greed. Knowing that the man beside her had a high level of cultivation, he immediately reported it to his sect, claiming that he had once made an agreement with the woman to become cultivation partners, but who knew she had been kidnapped by a wicked person. He only asked the sect to help him.

This disciple had a high position in the Ziyun Sect, and when he said this, the sect didn’t mind taking the opportunity to punish the wicked and earn a reputation. They dispatched several elders to help him.

Bifang was, after all, a celestial beast. Although he knew some formations, he had never truly mastered them. When several Nascent Soul cultivators joined forces, they ultimately broke through the formation and reached the valley.

They saw this woman, who was more beautiful than a mortal. The leading elder firmly believed that an ordinary person could not so easily enter the Golden Core stage. This woman must have been used as a furnace by a demon cultivator to obtain such cultivation. After subduing her, he said lightly to the disciple, “She is no longer a virgin, and faint demonic energy can still be seen on her body. I’m afraid she has been captured and played with by a demon cultivator for a long time. Are you sure you still want her?”

That person only needed a furnace, and didn’t care about such things. He immediately replied, “This disciple must have her.”

This performance was only seen by the elders as deep affection. They asked in disdain, “Are you willing to be his cultivation partner? If you agree, this old man might be able to save your life.”

Qin Jiu had not seen such gazes since leaving the Qin family. However, she was no longer the person she was in the past. She only coldly refused, “I won’t.”

Then, she heard words that made her feel like she was in a nightmare, “Demonic nature has penetrated her bones and cannot be cured. Send her back to the Qin family to be dealt with by her parents.”

Under the elders’ intervention, that disciple ultimately failed and had to choose to give up regrettably. He resigned himself to playing the part of a pitiful cultivator who was heartbroken because his loved one had been defiled by a demon cultivator. The elders pitied him for being heartbroken at such a young age and instead gave him many pointers, allowing him to rise smoothly from that point on. As for the woman who was sent back to the Qin family, no one cared about her anymore.

Qin Jiu never thought that she would return to the Qin residence. Her Golden Core was destroyed, and she was escorted in front of her father by a group of servants. However, the only relative she had not seen for a long time only coldly sentenced her to death, “Men, Qin Qing disobeyed her parents and engaged in illicit cohabitation without a matchmaker. She has ruined the Qin family’s reputation. Immediately carry out the family laws and clean up the house!”

He had many children. Qin Jiu was just one who had brought trouble upon him by running away from marriage. Now that she was no longer a virgin, the minister’s mansion would not take her back. There was no use for her other than to secretly eliminate her to protect the family’s reputation. Until the very end, in this father’s eyes, her existence still only served the purpose of marrying to exchange for the family’s prospects. Once she could not be married off, there was no need for her to live.

“Sir, it seems she is pregnant…”

“She conceived a child without proper betrothal. Beat her to death! Kill that bastard seed along with her!”

When the sticks fell on her, she did not cry out in pain, nor did she beg for mercy. She didn’t even want to look at these people. It was only when she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen that she realized the existence of the child, and she felt a slight urge to cry. But she couldn’t cry in front of these people. She had promised Bifang that she wouldn’t let anyone bully her.

Perhaps that descendant from Bifang didn’t want to die just like that. She finally obtained a trace of true energy. With the power of this last flash of brilliance, she broke free from the people who were restraining her. Without a weapon, she used her fingernails, running them across her father’s throat. She looked up at that person, her voice without any emotion, “There is no Qin Qing here. My name is… Qin Jiu.”

With her Golden Core destroyed and multiple broken bones, it was already difficult for her to walk. The people around her shouted and cursed at this demon woman who had been bewitched by a monster and killed her own father. However, no one dared to approach her, who was covered in blood. Her face always had a mocking sneer, but even after using all her strength, she only managed to reach the outside of the city. She turned around and looked at the road that was stained red with blood, reached out and pressed her abdomen, feeling nothing of the life that had once existed there. Suddenly, she lost all her strength and could only slowly fall into the icy moat.

The river water flowed over her vision, and the surface of the water was getting farther and farther away from her. She seemed to hear Bifang’s voice again. He said,

“Qin Jiu, you must quickly transcend the tribulation and become an immortal. Then, we can travel together among the stars and the sea. I will ask the Old Man of the Moon for the best red thread to tie you and me together.”

“Qin Jiu, you are my favorite person. No one in this world can bully me, so you can’t be bullied either, because I will feel very bad.”

“Qin Jiu, do you really want a little cub that much? Then it’s settled, even if one is born, you must love me the most. You can’t just care about raising that little devil and ignore me.”

He really was a willful and childish man. No matter what time it was, the things he said could always make her inexplicably happy, even now. Just thinking about it made her feel no pain at all.

Bifang, I’m sorry, I still can’t seem to catch up to you. I’ll probably sleep for a long time this time. When I wake up, I must cultivate more diligently. I promised you that I would become an immortal, that I would fly with you from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sea…

I’m sorry, even though I had a child, I didn’t protect him well. I thought that if he was by your side as a half of your kind, you who love excitement would be very happy. You are the best husband to me. I wanted to make you happy every day.

But, Bifang, I tried very hard to protect myself. Look, I didn’t fall into anyone’s hands. Even if you’re not here, they can’t bully me.

Meeting Bifang was Qin Jiu’s only luck in this life. If possible, she wanted to go back into the painting, to be by your side, forever, and never be a human again.

The author has something to say: Zhuge Qingtian: Do all the men in the Bi family not know what it means to take the initiative?

Lüling: You should be glad that he at least inherited the gentleness of my wife.

Zhuge Qingtian: Yes, he even inherited your wife’s aggressive attributes!

Lüling: What is that???

Qin Jiu: It’s okay, I like your pure and straightforward nature.

Lüling: My wife is still the best!