This Is My Planet - Chapter 31 - Chapter 31 – This Is Immortality
The little fox’s mind indeed operated on a different channel. For instance, after she stored away the ring and the techniques, her first move wasn’t to examine them but to change clothes and head to work.
—Apart from visiting the research institute yesterday, she hadn’t dealt with company affairs for two days. There were quite a few things pending.
Xia Guixuan didn’t say anything.
Observing her dressed professionally, driving a plush car towards the office, Xia Guixuan started to understand her a bit more.
It wasn’t exactly her fault.
She was too accustomed to modern social life, thinking about face wash, skincare products, breakfast, and company matters every morning. But when it came to cultivation, it seemed surreal to her, like something out of a movie or a novel. Although she knew it was real, it was difficult for her to fully immerse herself.
With just a casual shift of her thoughts, she could easily veer off track.
Just like when Xia Guixuan was reading that novel, where he thought the author wrote something quite normal, but the comments were discussing something entirely different. Similar sentiment…
When he discussed potions with Yin Xiaoru, she was much more serious because that was the most tangible and familiar aspect to her; hence, she wouldn’t deviate from the topic.
Understanding this, Xia Guixuan had a slight headache. It was entertaining to interact with comments while reading a novel, but teaching disciples was a different matter…
What was most important in cultivation? Talent? Innate ability?
No, focus, dedication, and diligence were paramount.
Talents, insights, innate abilities—these could all be modified and improved by external forces through special methods. But dedication depended solely on oneself.
Many cultivators chose to give up various distractions because they didn’t want to lose focus.
Including Xia Guixuan himself.
The little fox might find it challenging… However, Xia Guixuan felt resigned by now. After all, he wasn’t really taking on a disciple. Whether she comprehended the teachings was up to her.
Just let it be.
Worst-case scenario, he would deny ever teaching that goofball…
Xia Guixuan swept his robe and left the villa for the ecological garden.
The park management had already received instructions from Yin Xiaoru and allocated a three-story stone house on the hilltop for him… It had a dozen or so rooms, and the area was quite spacious.
Originally used by the early park management staff collectively, there was an alloy fence outside the house. Later, as the beasts started displaying a bit of sentience, everyone was afraid of the dangers and moved to live below the hill. They enclosed the hilltop with an electric fence, leaving the houses on the hilltop unused.
Standing on the hilltop, Xia Guixuan looked around with satisfaction.
Not only was it remote, it also occupied the peak. From the rooftop, even an ordinary person’s eyes could see half of the city’s panorama, with mountains, rivers, and fields, sparse human activity, making it a quiet and livable place.
There were springs on the mountain, with one spring right behind the house, gushing down the mountain and merging into the lake below that he had once stopped to admire. The grass was green, and white cranes soared, creating a beautiful scene.
There were tiger roars and cicada chirps in the mountains, and the rustling of snakes crawling, all of which were audible.
This kind of natural beauty was indeed hard to find in the city. Indeed, if Xia Guixuan had to choose a place to live, it would undoubtedly be this one.
Turning south, Yin Xiaoru’s villa was about seven to eight hundred meters away from the garden gate, while the distance from the hill to the garden exit was several miles. The hill wasn’t high, but the mountain road from the foot to the top twisted and turned, making it quite a distance for ordinary people to walk… although from the top, it looked close.
Perhaps an ordinary person with a telescope might peep while she changed clothes? Well, there was no chance for that, as her side’s covert protection was tight, and there was also Xia Guixuan here.
Maybe she subconsciously knew that no protection mattered in front of him… Just like at this moment, Xia Guixuan casually looked around, and through all protections, saw everything in her room.
Pajamas and other clothes were haphazardly thrown on the bed, bedding wasn’t neatly arranged, throw pillows were scattered, the dressing table was in disarray—the entire room looked like a pigsty. The diligent housekeeping robot was bustling around, tidying things up.
Xia Guixuan withdrew his gaze, and at his feet, mist suddenly arose.
The building was enveloped in mist, and he stood above it, seemingly in the clouds.
As the mist dispersed, the ordinary three-story dormitory building had transformed into a bamboo and wood pavilion, with the top becoming pavilion-shaped, with blue tiles and flying eaves on all four sides, lacking walls. Xia Guixuan stood by the pavilion railing, a gentle breeze causing his robe to flutter as if ready to take flight.
He gently extended his hand.
A green sparrow flew from amidst the clouds and perched in his palm, staring at him curiously.
Xia Guixuan smiled faintly.
This was his accustomed environment.
He could absorb and learn new things, but his living habits remained his own.
Xia Guixuan pointed downward, and suddenly, the tea trees in the ecological garden below took on a vibrant hue. Several tender leaves detached from the tree, swirling and floating towards him. Meanwhile, the spring outside the building exuded a mist, slowly rising and falling into the teapot that had appeared in front of him.
Xia Guixuan lightly lifted his robe, sat on the stone table in the pavilion, poured a cup of tea from the teapot, and smiled at the green sparrow in his palm, “Would you like some tea?”
The green sparrow was puzzled.
“Ah, you lack sentience… I won’t forcibly enlighten you; that would just create more karma.” Xia Guixuan released the green sparrow and suddenly called, “Fat Tiger, come up.”
The sound of a tiger’s roar echoed through the mountains, and a strong wind suddenly surged. A chubby tiger leaped up from the mountains and seemed to step on something like an invisible pathway in the air, flying all the way up to the top pavilion.
Fat Tiger didn’t anticipate this aerial crossing and seemed quite startled. Upon arrival, it plopped down next to Xia Guixuan.
Xia Guixuan laughed, rubbed its head, and even fed it some tea.
Fat Tiger showed a comfortable expression, squatting near Xia Guixuan’s feet, rubbing against him.
Xia Guixuan took out the energy that Ling Moxue had tried to use to blast Yan Wuyue back then, and said with a smile, “I’m not your father god. This is the energy your father god invaded my body with years ago… Hmm, why does that sound strange, did the little fox rub off on me?”
Pausing for a moment, he continued, “Anyway, this strand of power had been struggling with my blood for tens of thousands of years. It was just activated last night and harmed someone.”
Fat Tiger’s eyes showed a longing look.
“You can’t touch it; it will make you burst. You watch the door and guard the mountain properly. You will gradually absorb it as time passes.” Xia Guixuan kneaded the energy ball, with a hint of amusement in his eyes. “For now… let’s share some with the little fox to replenish the spiritual energy in her ecological garden, so she won’t be whining.”
As he spoke, the energy ball in his hand emitted a sparkling light. Specks of light penetrated the ground, re-entering the cave thousands of feet below. Soon, the cave brimmed with spiritual energy, resembling stars in the night.
The ecological garden above regained its former spiritual energy, subtly higher than before.
Fat Tiger was ecstatic.
However, Xia Guixuan suddenly spoke to the void, “Leader Yan, what kind of technology is this, allowing you to watch me from a thousand miles away?”
As he spoke, he pointed his hand, and a nanometer drone appeared.
In the capital, Yan Wuyue stared blankly at the pavilions and towers displayed on the screen, asking after a long time, “What is this?”
Xia Guixuan understood her meaning and smiled, “This is immortality.”
Yan Wuyue was truly shocked. She had seen many powerful divine descendants, but she had never seen anything like this before. With a mere wave of his hand, the mountains and rivers changed, and a paradise appeared before her without a trace of human touch.
Especially, how could he know it was her on the other side of the screen through the drone? It simply didn’t make sense! Wasn’t divine sense used differently?
Xia Guixuan chuckled, “This micro device is quite interesting… Oh, it has a small space inside?”
Without waiting for Yan Wuyue to react, he flicked his finger, and the drone suddenly expanded, “popped” open a small window, and dropped two items.
One was a low-grade battle armor, and the other was an ID card.
Yan Wuyue didn’t know what to say about how the machine she controlled ended up following his commands instead. Dryly, she explained, “Normally, you don’t need a physical ID card; your information is already in the database. You can just link your account to your watch in the future…”
She had wanted to say that he could then freely walk in human society. But watching Xia Guixuan’s miraculous actions, she couldn’t fathom if an identity was of any significance to him at all.
However, Xia Guixuan was very grateful, smiling, “Thank you. I can wander more casually in the future. I might even ask for a researcher identity from you.”
Yan Wuyue: “…”
Xia Guixuan put away the items and added, “So, you also have spatial technology. No wonder the little fox wasn’t surprised when she saw my storage ring, instead pondering about some unrelated matters.”
Yan Wuyue was left speechless and took a while before managing to say, “What you asked for has been delivered. Please don’t take away the drone; I still need it!”
“Thank you.” Xia Guixuan snapped his fingers again, and the drone disappeared, reappearing instantly in front of Yan Wuyue.
Watching the drone appear inexplicably in front of her, Yan Wuyue’s mind was still reeling, feeling like she was in a dream.