63: The first deception

"Calm down, Xu Qing, you need to calm down."

"Look closely, maybe you saw it wrong?"

Xu Qing calmed down and cast an Insight skill over her again.

That's right.

This Female Child is a fucking Soul Transformation.

It's just that she lost her deity transformation imprint, causing her to lose her Dao Cultivation.

A Tianshan Child Elder!

Whether it's a golden core imprint, a nascent soul imprint, or a deity transformation imprint.

After merging, they all become vessels for Dao Cultivation.

This kind of imprint is an Incarnation of the Heavenly Dao; once merged with the body, it's impossible to strip away.

Unless one dies.

How did this Tianshan Child Elder lose her deity transformation imprint?

No, no, no, no, he, the Green Snake, doesn't need to care about these things.

He just needs to throw this Tianshan Child Elder far away.

As for killing her?

Ghost knows if this Tianshan Child Elder has some hidden trump card.

After all, she was once a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

The best way is just to throw her far away.

That's right, far away.

Xu Qing looked at the Giant Python and quickly gave an order.

"Throw her to the north, to the human side, as far as possible."

"Also, you're not allowed to pick up random things and bring them back anymore."

Xu Qing was terrified this fellow would pick up some 'great treasure' for him in the future.

And then send him straight to Ascension on the spot.

Hearing this, the Giant Python nodded repeatedly, curled its tail around the Tianshan Child Elder, and swam down the mountain.

Xu Qing's Divine Sense kept observing the fellow.

Only when he saw it leave the hilltop with the Tianshan Child Elder did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"That was close."

"I can't go out lately."

"Unlucky, things are just too unlucky."

Xu Qing returned to the cave and used his tail to wipe the non-existent sweat from his head.

But after calming down, Xu Qing also began to think about the identity of that Tianshan Child Elder.

The Soul Transformation experts nearby, besides that Monster Emperor in the Monster Beast Mountain Range...

...there was only the one from the Xuanji Sect who recently passed away, causing the Xia Dynasty to fall apart.

"Could it be that there's more to the death of that Nascent Soul Cultivator from the Xuanji Sect?"

Thinking of this, Xu Qing quickly shook his head.

Can't think too much, or I'll be taken out.

Too scary.

I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

Since Xu Qing came to this world, what he feared most were high-level Cultivators, and the second most feared were female children.

A high-level Cultivator Female Child.

What a stack of buffs!

It could literally scare Snake Snake into Ascension on the spot.

Xu Qing's little heart couldn't handle such a big surprise.

The next day.

Lin Yumo came to report on the work situation.

Xu Qing excitedly crawled out of the cave.

After a night, he believed nothing could scare him anymore.

"What's that on your back?"

Xu Qing looked at Lin Yumo and asked in confusion.

Did she bring him some big surprise?

"Alliance Leader, this is a child I picked up on the road."

"Probably a refugee from the Xia Dynasty to the east. I saw she was quite pitiful and had fainted from hunger."

As Lin Yumo spoke, she set down the Female Child from her back.

It was exactly the 'great treasure' Xu Qing had ordered the Giant Python to throw far away.

"..."

"A curse, this has reached the level of a curse!"

At this time, Xu Qing didn't know about something called Luck.

Everyone has Luck, some more, some less.

And the Luck of a Soul Transformation Cultivator is so thick that it affects the fate of the life forms around them.

This causes surrounding life forms to reach the result most suitable for the Master of Luck through various coincidences.

Luck influenced things twice, bringing the Female Child before Xu Qing.

Xu Qing didn't know any of this.

He was just about to be scared into regressing into a Green Water Snake by Lin Yumo's big surprise.

The Female Child also slowly opened her eyes at this time.

She opened her eyes and looked at Xu Qing.

"Waaaaah!"

She wouldn't stop crying.

Xu Qing tentatively poked the Female Child sitting on the ground crying with the tip of his tail.

The Female Child grabbed his tail and bit it.

Well, it didn't hurt at all.

"Senior?"

Xu Qing tried to greet this Soul Transformation Cultivator.

"Sen-yor?"

The Female Child looked at Xu Qing blankly.

"Can you understand me?"

Xu Qing asked tentatively.

"It's Mommy!"

The Female Child hugged Xu Qing's big tail and shouted, drool dripping from the corner of her mouth.

"...It's over, this Tianshan Child Elder's brain is broken!"

Xu Qing flicked his tail.

But the Female Child just held on tight and wouldn't let go.

Looking at the blank-faced Female Child, Xu Qing's courage swelled, and he said something death-seeking.

"Call me Daddy!"

The Female Child opened her big eyes and spoke.

"Daddy."

"Boom!"

A thunderclap from a clear sky made Xu Qing shudder.

Xu Qing shrunk his head and poked it out of the cave, only breathing a sigh of relief when he found no more thunder.

Turned around and saw the Female Child crawling on the ground.

"Why are you crawling on the ground?"

"Daddy is a snake, so I'm a snake too. Of course snakes crawl!"

A light of wisdom flashed in the Female Child's eyes.

Xu Qing declared she could be discharged immediately.

"No need to crawl. You are the kind with extraordinary talent among snakes, a walking snake, so you don't need to crawl!"

Xu Qing began his deception.

This was probably based on experience.

Having fooled the Silly Snake for so long, fooling others came naturally.

"Really?"

"So I'm an extraordinary, walking snake!"

The Female Child stood up, walked to Xu Qing, and pounced on his big tail.

"..."

"What exactly is going on?"

"Amnesia? Or is she faking it?"

Xu Qing looked at the Female Child, his non-existent brow furrowed in thought.

It didn't look like she was faking.

Did she really lose her memory?

Was it because she lost her deity transformation imprint?

Is her identity the Grand Elder of the Xuanji Sect?

"Just kill her?"

A cold light flashed in Xu Qing's eyes, and he raised his tail as if to strike.

The Female Child didn't seem to sense Xu Qing's killing intent; she thought he was playing with her and excitedly pounced on the raised tail.

Then she hugged the tail and started gnawing on it.

"...I'll keep her and observe for a few more days."

"After all, she was once a Nascent Soul Cultivator; maybe she left some trump card."

Xu Qing lowered his tail.

Besides, he also wanted to be a Nascent Soul Cultivator's daddy for a bit.

"Call me Daddy again."

Xu Qing teased her with his tail.

"Daddy!"

A crisp child's voice.

"Again."

"Daddy."

"Keep calling."

"..."

Xu Qing felt he had reached the Peak of his life.

What slaying a Soul Transformation? What peerless Prodigy? What world-shaking big shot? They all paled in comparison.

He, Xu Qing...

...could make a Nascent Soul Cultivator call him Daddy.

I ask, who else is there in this Cultivation World!

"Little girl, today I'll give you a beautiful name."

"It'll be... Daya."

Xu Qing patted the Female Child's head with his tail.

"...Daya?"

"My name is Daya?"

Daya seemed slightly dissatisfied with her name.

"Daya, you have to understand."

"Daya is a name only the nobility among snakes, the princesses among snakes, are qualified to have."

"And you are a princess among snakes, a Genius snake that can walk upright! Daya!"

Hearing Xu Qing say this, Daya looked excited.

What an amazing name.

Only a Genius snake like herself was qualified to have such a name.

"Then I'll be called Daya!"

A generation's Nascent Soul Cultivator, one of the nine Soul Transformations, thus fell into a Snake Den.