When a Blade of Grass Wants to Become Immortal

Chapter 159: Chapter 156: Cute Fox Girl x Cold-Faced Wolf King 6

”You heartless woman. You left me just like that. I searched for you for so long, only to find out you were a soul from another world.”

As Lang Xuan spoke, his eyes gradually reddened.

”Please, speak properly. Don’t cry. How could I have left you?”

Ji Xiaosong replayed all her life’s experiences in her mind. Aside from the memories that had been extracted, she truly couldn’t recall a thing.

’Could it be that Lang Xuan is someone I wronged in one of the worlds I’ve been to?’

’No way, right?’

’It’s not in her nature to do something like that.’

”Back in the Phoenix Clan, why did you leave just like that? I thought you had really died. Do you have any idea how long I was in agony?”

’Phoenix Clan?’

Ji Xiaosong tried hard to remember, but nothing came to mind.

But considering she had so many items from the Phoenix Clan in her storage space, she figured she must have stayed in the Phoenix Clan’s world before, and had her memories extracted when she left.

Seeing Ji Xiaosong’s confused expression, Lang Xuan knew this heartless woman had definitely forgotten him.

’Then again, it has been three hundred years. A mortal would have already lived through at least three lifetimes.’

”If you’ve forgotten, then so be it. It’s enough that I remember. In this life, you can’t leave me again. You have to stay with me always, okay?”

Lang Xuan suddenly grabbed Ji Xiaosong’s hand and pressed it to his heart. His voice trembled slightly, and the tears in his eyes could no longer be held back, streaming down his face.

”Do you know? Every single day and night after you left, I lived in endless torment. Every corner of the Phoenix Clan held a trace of you, yet you suddenly vanished without a trace. I traversed every realm and finally divined that you might appear in this world. And at long last, I found you.”

He gripped Ji Xiaosong’s shoulders forcefully, his eyes filled with pain and pleading. ”I guarded the place you were most likely to appear, and I waited for three hundred years. Countless nights, I’d jolt awake from a dream, thinking you had returned, only to open my eyes to an empty room and my own solitude. That despair... it was like a dull knife, carving into my heart, piece by piece.”

Seeing Lang Xuan’s tormented expression, Ji Xiaosong’s heart filled with guilt and sorrow. She gently raised a hand, wanting to wipe the tears from his face. ”I’m sorry, I really don’t remember. But don’t worry. In this life, I won’t leave you again.”

”What about after that? Will you still leave?”

”When I die of old age, I will naturally dissipate.”

Ji Xiaosong was very matter-of-fact about such things. She completed a task in each world, and when she was done, the karma was naturally settled.

’The reason someone like Lang Xuan could suddenly reappear... it must be because I didn’t make a clean break.’

’At worst, I’ll just wait for him to breathe his last before I leave. That way, I won’t be wronging anyone.’

’A Beastman’s life is only a few short decades. I can definitely keep him company for that long.’

”I won’t let you dissipate.”

Lang Xuan pulled Ji Xiaosong into his arms, his embrace so tight it was as if he feared she would vanish again the moment he let go.

”I will find a way to keep you by my side forever. I don’t care if I have to break every taboo in this world.”

”Er... that’s not really necessary. Life and death are fated. We just need to live each day we have to the fullest. If we spend every day living in constant fear, wouldn’t that be a waste of our time?”

Ji Xiaosong didn’t dare make promises to anyone. She came to these small worlds to complete tasks, and she never had a choice in who her target was.

Although the Immortals’ requirements ensured her husbands were never subpar, she ultimately had no say in the matter. That was why she could only try to put Lang Xuan off.

”You little liar. So heartless.”

Lang Xuan didn’t press her for anything else. If Ji Xiaosong wouldn’t give it willingly, he would just have to keep her here by force.

”Lang Xuan, can I go back to the Fox Clan to check on them?”

Ji Xiaosong was still worried about the Fox Clan; after all, they were her family.

”Not right now. The Fox Clan will be safer in your storage space. We’ll let them out tomorrow after we deal with the Tiger Clan.”

”Storage space? How do you know I have a storage space?”

Seeing Ji Xiaosong’s shocked expression, Lang Xuan found her incredibly cute.

He gently raised his hand and booped her on the nose. A gentle smile played on his lips, his eyes full of affection. ”You silly girl. In the Phoenix Clan, everyone has their own storage space. And you, you were always showing off what new treasures you’d collected in yours.”

Lang Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly as he became lost in reminiscence, his voice tinged with nostalgia. ”You decorated your space to be so warm and unique. You would often pull me inside to show me your new trinkets. Your eyes would just light up back then.”

”So, what was your name before?”

”Feng Cangwu.”

’Huh?’

’That name sounds a little familiar.’

’Oh well, whatever. Rongrong isn’t here, so I can’t confirm it anyway.’

’When Rongrong gets back, I’ll look at my past memories. I should be able to find out what happened between me and Feng Cangwu then.’

Listening to Lang Xuan—no, Feng Cangwu’s—deeply affectionate recollections, Ji Xiaosong stood on her tiptoes, placed her hands lightly on his shoulders, and unhesitatingly planted a kiss on his cheek.

Her cheeks instantly flushed red, her voice a mix of shyness and unwavering resolve. ”Even though I still don’t remember much, I can feel how good you are to me. In this life, I won’t let you down again.”

”I know. You’re a person of your word.”

”By the way, what exactly happened with the Tiger Clan that it’s affecting our Fox Clan?”

”In order to wait for you to arrive in this world, I opened a small hole in the world barrier so you could enter at any time. But unexpectedly, a woman from the modern world accidentally transmigrated into my world through that hole. She carries immense luck, which has thrown our entire Beast World into turmoil. The Fox Clan was the first to be affected because they were waiting for you.”

”Are you saying that the stronger that transmigrated woman’s luck gets, the more the other clans in the Beast World are affected?”

”Yes.”

”Then we really do need to deal with this. With your power, can’t you just intervene directly?”

”I can’t. Her arrival is a consequence of my actions. If I were to eliminate her all at once, her luck wouldn’t be redistributed to the other clans. Her luck needs to be drained away slowly to restore the world’s balance.”

After speaking, Feng Cangwu secretly brought Ji Xiaosong to the skies above the Tiger Clan.

An ice-blue halo condensed at his fingertip. When he touched the air above the Tiger Clan’s territory, spiderweb-like cracks suddenly erupted.

”Do you see these spatial-temporal folds?”

He pressed Ji Xiaosong’s hand into the void. ”That woman brought more than just iron tools and gunpowder; she brought rules that don’t belong to this dimension.”

A searing pain shot through her palm, and a scene flashed through Ji Xiaosong’s sea of consciousness:

A syringe pierced the swollen belly of a female Tiger Clan member, and twins were born, covered in blood.

This violated the Beast World’s primal law of ”one cub per birth.”

The Divine Pattern on Feng Cangwu’s brow began to flicker erratically. ”The abnormal birth rate has unbalanced the cycle of reincarnation. The Nether River is flowing backward.”

He pushed up his sleeve, revealing root-like black marks winding up his forearm. ”The roots of the World Tree have been contaminated. My Divine Power is continuously dissipating.”

The Bronze Star Gnomon suddenly let out a piercing ring. The White Tiger Priest knelt outside the temple, holding the Crystal Skull.

An eerie blue flame flickered in the skull’s eye sockets, reflecting an image of Lin Wanwan teaching the Tiger Clan how to make nitroglycerin.

At that moment, a voice from the Wolf Clan suddenly reached Feng Cangwu’s ears.

”Lord Beast God! The Tiger King says he’s going to blow the Wolf Clan’s territory to smithereens!”

The Wolf Clan Priest’s tail slapped the ground anxiously. ”That woman from the Tiger Clan... she said that gods are merely projections of a more advanced civilization. Since the Wolf Clan refused their marriage alliance, they’re going to make us vassals of the Tiger Clan.”