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Xuanyuan Mingzhu nodded slightly and said, "This is the theory of reincarnation that is circulated in the human world, but as far as I know, not everyone can be reincarnated."
Xiao Yuan was a little surprised, but he quickly figured it out: "Is it because the underworld isn't that big?"
It is conceivable that if the soul of every dead person passes through the Ghost Gate, then this gate between the dead and the living will be very "bustling" and full of ghosts.
"...Perhaps that's part of the reason." Xuanyuan Mingzhu was surprised by Xiao Yuan's idea and smiled, "Actually, I think the main reason is very simple. The souls of ordinary people are not stable enough. Even if they can reach the gates of hell after death, they can't support them to drink Mengpo soup and forget worry water again, let alone enter the cycle of life and death."
Xiao Yuan felt inexplicably touched. It was truly true that human life was worthless. Ordinary people couldn't even be reincarnated after death. It was a pity that most people in the world still believed that if they did good deeds in their lifetime, they would be reborn into a good family in the next life.
"Mortals cannot enter reincarnation."
Xuanyuan Mingzhu concluded, "Only a small number of cultivators whose spirits have not been extinguished, as well as some who were gifted in life, or who carried strong resentment after death, have their spirits strengthened."
"Where's the Immortal?"
"It is said that immortals—similar to the General Xianhe we met—need to be struck by five Yin thunders from the Netherworld in order to enter the cycle of reincarnation. This causes the three souls and seven spirits to disperse, and then the main soul must drink Mengpo soup. Only then can they be reincarnated."
"Being struck by Yin thunder? Immortals are already immortal, why do they need to reincarnate... Uh, I'm confused."
Xiao Yuan patted his head. Isn't General Xianhe one of them?
Besides, even the Immortal Emperor committed suicide and reincarnated.
It seems that the immortals in the fairy world are not carefree either, they also have all kinds of troubles.
If that's the case, why ascend to the fairyland?
"Right!" Xiao Yuan thought of something and looked at the Ninth Princess in confusion. "Besides the function of reincarnation, isn't the Netherworld also occupied by the demons from the Six Paths Demon Sect? Where do they live? On the Yellow Springs Road? Or on either side of the Naihe Bridge?"
"The Netherworld is huge."
Xuanyuan Mingzhu smiled and said, "Most areas inside are no different from the human world. There are also some special creatures that do not have sunlight, but they feed on Yin and evil spirits, which is very different from the monsters in the human world."
Xiao Yuan had also heard of similar rumors. After all, one could enter and exit the underworld almost at will, as long as the soul could leave the body and travel there.
"Deep within the Netherworld is the underworld, where the six demons of the Six Paths Sect are stationed. The blood-red Ghost Gate is right there. I heard that even cultivators from the Netherworld rarely get close to it, let alone enter it."
"It seems that the Gate of Hell is a forbidden gate for the living."
The two chatted for a while, but still had not come to a conclusion on how to treat Qingqing from Qingshan Village.
"Knock, knock, knock."
There was a knock on the door, and Xiao Yuan called out, "Come in!" He quickly poked his little head out, and looked at them curiously with his dark eyes: "Two young masters? Is that what you call them? Hehe, it's time to eat~"
The girl had learned the terms young master and young lady a long time ago, but unfortunately, no one in the village could be considered a young master, so she had only called them that for the first time today.
Xiao Yuan and Xuanyuan Mingzhu looked at each other.
"Let's talk about it after dinner?"
"Okay."
Qingqing blinked her eyes and secretly glanced around the room. There didn't seem to be anything strange, but she always felt that Mr. Ming was a little strange, like a young lady~.
"Qingqing."
Xuanyuan Mingzhu walked up to her with a smile and patted her head: "How about you tell me about you and your family later?"
"OK."
Qingqing agreed immediately, but still stared at her, and said, "Sister, you are my sister so you can touch my head."
Xuanyuan Mingzhu: "…"
"Ha ha ha ha."
"Don't laugh!"
"Well."
Xiao Yuan shut his mouth obediently, touched his nose, and followed the two girls into the living room.
The farmhouses in the mountain village are not big, with three bungalows, one for the elderly, one for parents, and one for children. There is a small room in front of the door, which contains the kitchen and dining area, plus a hall for sacrifices, which is usually used to store some miscellaneous items.
Because they had guests, Qingqing's parents moved the dining table from the narrow kitchen to the living room and lit the only two kerosene lamps in the house. When the Ninth Princess arrived, Qingqing's grandparents, parents, and younger brother all stood there waiting stiffly.
"Sorry we're late."
In front of her parents and family who were the reincarnations of the Immortal Emperor, the Ninth Princess did not dare to put on airs. The Immortal Palace was less than a hundred miles away. If Qingqing awakened, he could transform into the Immortal Emperor with a wave of his hand and cut off heads with his sword.
"No, no, Mr. Ming, you have helped us so much. The goods you brought have made our family better off." Qingqing's father stuttered, and there was heartfelt gratitude on the farmer's dark face.
Xuanyuan Mingzhu smiled and said, "It's nothing, everyone... no, everyone, please sit down. Uncles, aunts, grandpa and grandma, just call me Xuanming."
Xiao Yuan held back his laughter. As the little princess of the Xuanyuan royal family, she couldn't even use the term "you all".
Xuanyuan Mingzhu glanced at him and sat down.
"hiss!"
Xiao Yuan's waist twitched and his face turned green.
Qingqing asked curiously, "What's wrong, young master?"
"Nothing, just a really big mosquito...hiss, here it comes again!"
Ignoring this guy, Xuanyuan Mingzhu took the initiative to find a topic. With her warm and cheerful personality, she quickly made Qingqing's family put aside their concerns. While eating, she talked about Qingqing in a long and lingering manner.
"Qingqing has been naughty since she was little. She's fourteen years old now, but she still acts like an eight or nine-year-old girl."
"Just the day before yesterday, some swordsmen came and she insisted on following them, saying she wanted to learn a few sword techniques."
"When he was born? There didn't seem to be anything strange about it."
"Oh, this is Qingqing's younger brother, his nickname is Niu Niu, and he hasn't been given a name yet."
Xuanyuan Mingzhu obtained a lot of information about Qingqing, but it was basically useless. Qingqing was not a peerless genius who could create a new body movement technique just by looking up at the cultivators he met and flying past.
She was just an ordinary girl. Apart from her excessive curiosity and an innocent heart that ignored etiquette, she was almost no different from any other village girl.
"Master Mingxuan." Qingqing's father drank two cups of rice wine and asked boldly, "If you think highly of Qingqing, please take her in as a maid and let her serve you in your daily life."
"Maid? No no no!"
Xuanyuan Mingzhu was frightened and quickly stood up and solemnly refused. Then she thought of something and said tentatively: "Uncle Zhao, if Qingqing is willing, I can introduce her to a good master and let her teach Qingqing personally."
Only someone at the Dao Yun realm can be the master of the reincarnated Immortal Emperor, and only a woman at the Dao Yun realm can be one.
"That's great!"
Qingqing's family of four were overjoyed, except for her brother, who protested loudly, "Sister, are you going to cultivate immortality? No, I don't want to leave you!"
Naturally, his parents scolded him severely for what he said, and asked Qingqing to quickly agree to Master Mingxuan's suggestion.
"No, I don't want to cultivate any immortality, nor do I want to become a disciple."
Qingqing refused decisively, "I want to stay in Qingshan Village and not go anywhere!"
"That's great, sister won't leave~" Her brother Niu Niu clapped his hands and laughed again. Uncle Zhao was so angry that he slapped the boy on the head.
Then Qingqing's family of four came out together and tried their best to persuade Qingqing to leave with Xiao Yuan and the others. Even Niu Niu's mouth was blocked, but Qingqing was stubborn and didn't want to agree.
"You little girl!" Zhao's mother nodded at her forehead in disapproval. "You don't even want the chance to rise to prominence, so what else do you want to do? What else can you do in the village? Apart from getting married and doing farm work, you'll never be a hero in your life."
"I won't get married. What's so good about getting married? I want to be with you, mom and dad, my whole life. How wonderful it is."
"You kid!!"
"Hmph~"
Qingqing ate her meal in silence, refusing to agree. Finally, unable to resist the persuasion, she glared at Xuanyuan Mingzhu and said, "Sister, what's so good about cultivating immortality?"
If an ordinary person asked this question, Xuanyuan Mingzhu would have a thousand reasons to despise him.
What's good about cultivating immortality?
Only by cultivating immortality can you have everything!
Without cultivating immortality, everything is over!
Not to mention the glory and wealth in life, after a hundred years, it will turn into a piece of yellow earth.
Cultivating immortality can lead to longevity.
But facing the reincarnation of an Immortal Emperor, Xuanyuan Mingzhu felt like her head was stuck and she couldn't think of any reason to answer her.
The end of the immortal road is the Immortal Emperor. Talking about cultivating immortality with an Immortal Emperor is just like talking about what happened in front of Lu Ban and what happened in front of Guan Gong.
"Xiao Yuan, speak!"
Seeing that this bastard was trying to hold back his laughter, Xuanyuan Mingzhu decisively kicked the ball to him.
Xiao Yuan's smile froze. Under the gaze of the Immortal Emperor's reincarnated eyes, he thought for a long time before coming up with a reason: "Cultivating immortals allows me to be with the one I love."
"But I'm with the person I like now!" Qingqing answered loudly.
Xiao Yuan was stuck for a moment.
"You can become an immortal by cultivating the immortality." Mother Zhao continued to persuade him, "Immortals are so powerful that they can blow away many mountains with just one breath."
"whispering sound."
Qingqing sneered, "So what if he can blow up a mountain? No matter how powerful an immortal is, he can only do that."
"How can you talk like that, kid!" Grandma Zhao was angry.
"Grandma, I wasn't wrong!"
Qingqing counted them off on her fingers: "The immortals won't help us plow the fields, nor will they help us herd cattle. They won't bring rain during droughts, nor will they dispel the clouds during the rainy season. They can't help us pick fruit during the Beginning of Autumn, nor will they bring us clothes during the Great Cold."
Everyone in the hall was frightened by her strange metaphor.
You actually want immortals to plow the fields and herd cattle?
"The immortals are not merchants and will not buy the fruits we pick. They are not guardian gods and will not protect us when monsters enter the village. The fields will grow the same amount of rice every year. Not only will the immortals not increase the amount of rice, but we will have to worship them instead."
"so--"
Qingqing looked around, her eyes sparkling: "What is the use of immortals?"
After hearing what she said, her parents and grandparents were frightened and kept scolding her for being naughty.
But to Xuanyuan Mingzhu and Xiao Yuan, it was no less than thunder from the sky, and they understood many things in an instant.
No wonder the Immortal Emperor Qiming would cut off the Ghost Gate, the boundary between the human world and the underworld, without hesitation, and could also stab the immortals in the immortal world through the Ascension Road with his magic sword, severely injuring them and making them vomit blood.
After ascending to the throne of the Immortal Emperor and unifying the three realms, he committed suicide a hundred years later and entered the cycle of reincarnation again.
It turns out that immortals are so unbearable in the eyes of Immortal Emperor Qiming. No wonder she disdains to sit alone on the throne of Immortal Emperor.
Xuanyuan Mingzhu understood what to do next.
She did not force Qingqing to embark on the path of cultivation again, nor did she find a master for Niu Niu. She just promised her parents that she would leave some money to improve Qingqing's living conditions.
Qingqing's family was very disappointed about this, but they did not force it. Instead, they apologized on Qingqing's behalf.
"Qingqing, can you come out and talk to your sister for a moment?"
After dinner, Xuanyuan Mingzhu said to Qingqing with a smile, no longer shying away from revealing her gender.
"Okay, hehe, Mr. Ming, are you the older sister or the older brother?"
Qingqing's strong curiosity began again.
"secret."
Xuanyuan Mingzhu winked at her playfully, then took her out of the house and came to the village path. Xiao Yuan did not follow them.
The nights in the countryside seem very deserted, without the prosperity of small towns. Once night falls, the sky and the earth become dark and there is no one around.
"Are you scared?"
Xuanyuan Mingzhu suddenly asked as they walked slowly along the quiet and dark village path with Qingqing.
Qingqing gave her a strange look and asked, "What are you afraid of?"
Xuanyuan Mingzhu laughed dumbly, "Are you afraid of ghosts? Never mind, Qingqing, it seems you don't even know what fear is. However, if you cultivate immortality, you can go anywhere in heaven and earth. Qingqing, are you sure you don't want to cultivate immortality?"
"I'm living a good life now, why should I cultivate immortality?"
"Well, how should I put it? Cultivating immortality can broaden your horizons. Traveling across the entire Kyushu continent in one night. There's a saying in the book: 'In the morning, I travel to the North Sea, and in the evening, I travel to Cangwu.' Do you want to put it that way?"
"Walking so far, aren't you tired, Immortal?"
"...puff."
Xuanyuan Mingzhu couldn't help laughing. She lowered her head and touched her little head, saying softly, "Okay, I won't try to persuade you anymore. It's too difficult to change an immortal's... thoughts. Let's do this."
She took out a golden token from her storage bag. It was the size of three fingers. On the back was a majestic five-clawed golden dragon, and on the front were two characters in official script: Mingzhu.
"Take this." Xuanyuan Mingzhu stuffed the token into Qingqing's arms and explained, "This is a symbol of your sister's identity. If you encounter any danger, or if someone comes to cause trouble, just throw the token out. Well, just throw it hard at the bad guy!"
Of course, this is not the function of the token, but Qingqing has no divine consciousness and cannot call upon the forbidden magic circle contained in the token, so she can only use it to hit people.
"Hey? Sister, this is made of gold. Will it be very expensive?" Qingqing touched the gold token and couldn't let it go. It was the first time she saw such a beautiful token.
"It's not expensive, take it with confidence." Xuanyuan Mingzhu smiled and said, "Just don't treat it like a toy and lose it. If you need money and want to sell it, take the token to the government office and ask their highest official to come and see you."
As she spoke, a hint of noble aura emanated from her, making Qingqing a little dazed. She nodded in agreement obediently, put away her sister's token, and then smiled sweetly: "Thank you, sister. Qingqing doesn't know how to repay you!"
"Haha, you, just don't swing your sword at me next time."
"Hehe, sister is really good at joking, how could that be? Sister is such a nice person~"
Xuanyuan Mingzhu smiled and said nothing more.
Things are unpredictable. If Qingqing regains her memory and sees Jiuzhou under the rule of the Xuanyuan royal family today, will she go to the capital again with a sword in hand?