Chapter 929: Evil Crimson Flower Emperor
The man in black and red hood stood beside the Moon Goddess and the Immortal Sun Emperor observing the Tree of Knowledge together. For some reason, Shen Jueyang didn’t immediately kill the person as if attacking this man would go beyond what this Haven can bear and causing such commotion would cause destruction much more than others expected. He didn’t want to put the Inner Haven into the road of destruction making it hard for the Goddess of the Moon.
The Moon Goddess seems to have thought of the same thing and didn’t really mind the man’s actions. She even responded to this man’s words.
"It doesn’t eat the blood and flesh specifically. Instead, the knowledge is stored within it. It just happened that both blood and corpse can be absorbed by the roots as fertilizers," said Yue Xuexia.
The man in the hood turned his head to look at Yue Xuexia who didn’t care that he was staring at her, much less responding to his actions. The man felt that this reaction was interesting and wanted to get closer even more. However, when he took a few more steps closer to the Moon Goddess, a sword blocked his path and met the warning gaze from the Immortal Sun Emperor.
The man in hood avoided the slash yet it ruined his hood exposing his androgynous handsome face that even the Fairy Queen had fallen for. She loves this kind of exquisite appearance the most. Unfortunately, she burned herself, as this leader of the Death Valley was not someone who can easily control. The others who were watching the scene from the pill tower were stunned. This is the first time they had seen a man that can be called beautiful instead of handsome. This man is so attractive that almost all genders get easily attracted to him.
However, the one whose reaction he is waiting for was Yue Xuexia’s reaction. Unfortunately, her eyes didn’t even flicker when she saw the face under the hood. The Moon Goddess just stared at his face with a dull reaction and it didn’t even last for too long as she is more interested in the Tree of Knowledge than himself. Seeing this reaction from the Moon Goddess, the leader of the Death Valley, Hei Xieyi, was that of disbelief.
Seeing his reaction, the Immortal Sun Emperor whispered to him, "Give up. My Xue’er is not one that is attracted to someone’s face, Evil Crimson Flower."
"Tyrant, you have fallen this much. You are willing to be someone’s servant," retorted Hei Xieyi, the one with the title as Evil Crimson Flower.
The Immortal Sun Emperor responded, "She is not someone else."
Before the two men could react, Yue Xuexia had returned to her human form and descended from the tree and entered the Pill Tower. At the first floor, the tree spirit comes running towards Yue Xuexia which the Moon Goddess welcomed without problems.
"Master, are all the enemies gone?" Yue Guishu asked.
Yue Xuexia rearranged the boy’s clothes and said, "It’s over for now. Master is going to work for now. If you want to play, go to your Uncle Shen"
"Gui’er, understand." The little boy tree spirit said.
At this moment, Yue Xuexia suddenly remembered her flower children. With a wave of her hand, the first floor of the Pill Tower was suddenly filled with various types of lotus flowers leaving the Pill Tower Master, elders, and disciples dumbfounded by the scene. The largest one is a water elemental lotus flower, followed by a pure white lotus flower, then a golden colored lotus flower and the smallest which is violet shade. Just based each color and the elements it emits. Water, ice, metal (gold) and finally lightning elements.
The Moon Goddess called, "Children, wake up. You have a new brother."
At first, no one from the Pill Tower had recognized what these flowers were and thought they were just special kinds of flowers gathered by their tower master. It was until the Goddess had spoken and each one of these Lotus flowers had turned into children with the largest lotus flower turning into a teenager while the rest turned into children.
"Mom, you’ve finally summoned us again," The blue water flower spirit, Yue Huashui, said.
After the teenager was summoned, he looked around and immediately noticed that they were inside some kind of living and sentient tree. When Yue Huashui noticed the boy within the embrace of his mother, he realized who the child was almost instantly. It was the tree spirit of the building they are in right now. Once the rest of the children are also the shy boy in the arms of their mistress, they finally know why they were being called. They immediately surrounded their master looking at the child who was trying to hide under their stares.
"Master, Gui’er feels uncomfortable. So many people are staring at Gui’er!!" The Tree spirit, Yue Guishu said while hugging the neck of his master trying to his neck.
The Goddess of the Moon gently pats the little boy’s back and coaxes, "Gui’er, don’t be afraid. These brothers and sisters were all good children. They come here to become your friends and they are like you. Sentient beings who had owned a human form. They are lotus flower spirits."
The children realized that the boy in their master’s embrace was even more timid than Yue Huaxue when they first met. They collectively backed away for a while waiting for the young boy to calm down. Only when the boy in the Moon Goddess eyes stopped hiding his face, he carefully looked and saw the other children. Only when Yue Guishu noticed that these children were harmless and that they are sentient beings like himself, he finally opened up his mouth and introduced himself to the other children.
"G-Gui’er. My name is Yue Guishu. The tree spirit of a Ghost Gum Tree. Nice to meet you."
The other children looked at each other and smiled. They had also started to introduce themselves. The first one to speak is the eldest among the flower children.
"I am Yue Huashui. A water lotus flower spirit. Gui’er can call me big brother."
"My name is Yue Huaxue, a snow lotus flower spirit. Nice to meet you, Gui’er!"
"Guigui, you can call me Erge. My name is Yue Huajin. You are so cute!"
"I... Boo~ name is... Yue Hualei. Leilei. Brother can call me Leilei~"
The tree spirit, Yue Guishu realized that these big brothers and sisters were all good people and they all liked him as well. He finally felt relaxed and went down from his master’s embrace and approached the other children. It didn’t take long for the children to get along and start being comfortable at one another.
Seeing this the Goddess of the Moon smiled and pats each of their heads and said, "Mom is going to work for now. You can play together but don’t get out of the tower alright? Shui’er, watch after your siblings."
"Yes, Mom. Please leave it to Shui’er!"
Yue Xuexia said, "Alright. Go and play!"
After getting permission, the children left hand in hand while laughing. Grand Elder Li Houye tasked two elders to watch after the children and also told the guards not to let them run out of the tower. Once the children were gone, Yue Xuexia looked at the Pill Tower Master and Grand Elders. As if she hadn’t been the one who commanded the death of dozens of people from outside of the tower, Yue Xuexia resumed her schedule of watching over the alchemy talent of her people.
The Moon Goddess said, "Let continue where we left off. We should go to the Alchemy Hall."
"Mistress, please feel free to follow me," said Pill Tower Master Han Siyu.
Yue Xuexia suddenly recalled something and said, "Ah, right. If someone from the Black Cloud Academy seeks an audience from me, please pass a message to meet me tomorrow midday at the Floating Island One. I will write a written invitation so they will be allowed to enter the Noble District."
"Feel free to pass the letter to this old man and I will have someone to give it to them," said Grand Elder Su Kan.
The Moon Goddess before walking towards the elevator only glanced at the open entrance as if looking for someone. But she didn’t speak a word so no one had realized that she was looking for Shen Jueyang, the Immortal Sun Emperor who had seemed to not follow her into the building and was faithfully blocking the other Emperor realm cultivator, the Evil Crimson Flower Emperor, Hei Xieyi. After seeing that Shen Jueyang is indeed busy she chose to focus on what she planned to do for today. She heads to the Alchemy Hall and watches the extent of the alchemy talent her people from this Pill Tower possess.
Meanwhile, outside the Pill Tower, two emperors were confronting one another without openly releasing any aura. They were just standing each other face to face, glaring at one another while also completely on guard at the other man’s possible actions.
The Immortal Sun Emperor said, "You are too fearless to appear before Xue’er like this. If she learned you are from Death Valley. Believe it or not, she will definitely try to kill you on the spot."