bookpower Chapter 142 Old Homeland
Chapter 142 Old Homeland
Ping'an City.
On the moderately sized city gate tower hung the sign of Ping'an City.
Through the wide-open gates, few people were coming and going.
Little Wild Grass stepped into this city once again, her hand gripping Li Muyang's unconsciously.
By now, Little Wild Grass had fully grown into a young lady.
Though she wore simple clothes, they could not hide her natural beauty.
The most radiant and moving features of a young girl had already solidified upon her face, impervious to the ravages of time.
In her bright eyes seemed to swirl a nebula, dazzling and luminous.
Li Muyang had no idea what cultivation realm Little Wild Grass was at now, and the girl herself couldn't say for sure.
The method she used for cultivation had been altered beyond recognition by her, vastly different from the conventional cultivation methods of the mundane world.
There was no Core Formation, no Primordial Spirit, and no Purple Mansion.
In her body, there was only the misty Immortal Spirit Qi.
On the surface, the girl seemed to merge entirely with the world around her, posing no threat at all, completely lacking the imposing aura of gods or cultivation masters.
Yet not long ago, Little Wild Grass had effortlessly slain a Demigod, her display of power moving Li Muyang.
But now, this little girl stood outside the gates of her small hometown, her hand unconsciously tense and clutching Li Muyang's tightly.
"Brother..."
Little Wild Grass nervously glanced around and whispered, "Shall we not go in? It's been so many years, perhaps my parents are no longer there..."
However, Li Muyang faced Little Wild Grass's nervous, evasive, and restless gaze with a smile.
"We've come all this way, why not just stroll around inside?"
He patted the girl's hand, laughing as he said, "There's an old saying, 'Since we're here...'"
Li Muyang, laughing heartily, almost forced her as he led the girl into the old city with mottled city walls.
Visiting Ping'an City had been Li Muyang's casual suggestion.
But the girl's skittish response to his idea only cemented Li Muyang's resolve to bring this little girl on this trip.
The path of cultivation fears the Heart Demon the most, and of late, the girl had been saying her cultivation was stagnating, that she had hit some kind of bottleneck.
Li Muyang speculated that she might not be able to let go of her childhood experiences.
Being abandoned by her mother at a young age must have left a deep shadow in the girl's heart.
Perhaps, he thought, taking her back to her hometown, revisiting the old places, and seeing her parents again might help untie her emotional knots.
Li Muyang laughed heartily, forcibly dragging the girl through the city gate.
Although Little Wild Grass could have crushed Li Muyang with a mere lift of her hand at that moment, in his grasp, she was as docile as a kitten.
However, once they were in the city, Li Muyang did not immediately take Little Wild Grass to find her parents.
"I thought I would miss her a lot, care about her, or perhaps she had her reasons back then."
"But when I actually saw her, it turned out everything was very simple."
"There were no reasons, nothing to say; she's just that kind of person."
"As her daughter, whom she gave birth to, naturally I'm just as cold-blooded and ruthless. Seeing her, I felt not an ounce of longing, but the more I saw her, the more I despised her, and even wished I could kill her."
With that, the girl glanced back at the dark woodshed and said, "Let's go, brother. This place is boring."
"Staying any longer is a waste of time."
The girl's eyes were cold and her expression disgusted.
Li Muyang smiled and reached out to her, saying, "Everything as the fairy wishes."
Under the moonlight, the two of them walked away hand in hand, disturbing no one, as if they had never been there at all.
Only the girl's curious murmuring voice faded into the darkness.
"By the way... Brother, you seem to have no interest in that sort of thing, which is strange..."
The girl seemed puzzled.
In the darkness, a man's resigned voice of defense rose.
"Who says that? I'm very interested, okay?"
"But you never... Even though last time with that dragon lady..."
"You dare to bring that up! You got drunk last time and almost got me captured by the Dragon King to take wedding vows. Daring to claim the Dragon King's daughter so casually? She could have swallowed me with one bite... I don't like fierce women..."
"Tsk... then what kind of woman do you like, brother?"
"I like the kind that I like!"
"Wow! That's not helpful at all! You're already thirty, an old man now, yet still so picky... only I would bother to stay by your side."
"Heh..."
The girl and man's soft laughter vanished into the night breeze.
Inside the mansion under the moonlight, there was chaos.
But it had nothing to do with them anymore.
They would leave Ping'an City and head to the next destination, continuing their journey.
To them, Ping'an City was nothing more than a brief episode in their travels.
Not worth mentioning.
Gazing at the moonlight, the girl whispered softly.
"... The only relative I have in this world is my big brother."
She had understood.
Apart from her big brother, there was no one else in the world who was her kin.