The Aloof Immortal Venerable is Pregnant with My Fox Cub - Chapter 64

Chapter 64

Cang Ran looked at her torn clothes and the wounds she hadn’t had time to bandage. Her eyes felt sore. She had rushed all this way, but it turned out Tan Qingxuan could live perfectly well without her.

Tan Qingxuan didn’t need her at all. Why did she say she missed her? She was the only one who was foolishly longing for her day and night, exhausting herself and ending up looking so disheveled.

If she didn’t show up, Tan Qingxuan would continue living this calm and peaceful life. So, what was the point of her being here?

“Ranran, which one of these three is your Qingqing? Is it the one practicing sword under the tree?” Hua Chao’s bird head turned around, asking curiously.

“Don’t ask.”

Hua Chao heard the thick nasal sound, turned her head, and found Cang Ran’s beautiful eyes were red, and her fox ears were trembling non-stop.

Hua Chao was surprised: “Why are you suddenly crying? Didn’t you miss her all this time?”

The little hedgehog also asked blankly: “Great King, what’s wrong?”

Cang Ran’s eyes welled up with moisture, and her voice was low and hoarse: “I don’t miss her anymore.”

Hua Chao patted her on the back: “But you’re already here, and you haven’t even said a word to her yet.”

Cang Ran saw Yun Muyu put away her sword, perform a sword flourish, and then bring a plate of plums from somewhere, handing it to Tan Qingxuan. Tan Qingxuan took one and ate it, even smiling at Yun Muyu. The smile was beautiful.

Cang Ran’s eyes were deeply stung by this sight. Her eyelids fluttered, and tears rolled down fiercely.

She had been missing Tan Qingxuan the entire way here. Now that she had seen her, what more could she be dissatisfied with? Her love was humble and had never been taken to heart.

Hua Chao had never seen Cang Ran so heartbroken. The scene looked very harmonious, nothing seemed wrong, so why was she crying like this? She quickly patted her again.

“Why are you crying more fiercely? How about you go cry in front of her? How will she know you’re so wronged if she can’t see you?”

“No! I’m leaving!”

Cang Ran’s gaze was fixed on the pavilion, but she didn’t immediately turn and go.

The little hedgehog stuck tightly to the Great King’s feet. Where the Great King went, she would go too.

Seeing Cang Ran’s reluctance, Hua Chao suggested: “How about I go scout for you? See what they are talking about. What you see might be completely different from what you imagine.”

Cang Ran sniffled, holding a sliver of hope, and immediately nodded: “Okay. She’s the cultivator sitting in the pavilion.”

Hua Chao transformed into a small mountain sparrow, flew down from the high mountain peak, and landed on a thousand-year-old green pine tree.

Tan Qingxuan had been recuperating for a while and had planned to go find Cang Ran today. Song Zhen handed her a bowl of anti-miscarriage soup and gently advised:

“Senior Sister, the child in your belly is important. It’s only just stabilized a bit. Cang Ran is a large demon. Nothing will happen to her.”

“If she truly cares about you, she should come to the sect herself. It’s not like there are no teleportation arrays. I’ve already informed the disciples guarding the array.”

Tan Qingxuan took the warm soup. Her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed: “But I worry about her. There are many dangers in the secret realm. She hasn’t been away from me this long or experienced solo adventures before.”

Song Zhen didn’t understand: “Senior Sister, you spoil her too much. She is not your adopted child. She is the mother of the child in your belly. No one who is about to become a mother should be worried about like this.”

Tan Qingxuan gently stroked her lower abdomen and shook her head slightly: “She is different from others.”

Song Zhen didn’t think there was anything different, just a fox demon with brighter fur, who was actually troublesome and loved to cause a scene, and had even gotten the Senior Sister pregnant with a fox cub. She felt a headache just thinking about it.

Song Zhen looked at Tan Qingxuan’s lower abdomen and said softly: “Senior Sister, please drink some medicine first. Don’t worry about it. I will help you look for Cang Ran tomorrow.”

Tan Qingxuan nodded lightly, scooped a spoonful of medicine, and sipped it. The medicine tasted bitter, but thinking of the little cub in her belly, she slowly drank the entire bowl.

She still hadn’t gotten used to the anti-miscarriage medicine she drank every day. Occasionally, she still felt nauseous after drinking it, but since the fetus had stabilized, she rarely threw up the medicine like before.

The time flow inside and outside the secret realm was different. Cang Ran had been away for a month, and the cub was already over three months old. Cang Ran really should have come out of the secret realm by now. Lately, Cang Ran’s replies had become increasingly brief. She wondered if Cang Ran wasn’t having a good time outside.

Tan Qingxuan had been physically weak recently and easily irritable. Fearing it would affect the child in her belly, she had to shrink the coverage of her divine sense, perceiving and knowing less. She tried her best to settle down and rest. Except for using a spell to track Cang Ran’s positioning talisman at 7-9 AM every day, her divine sense remained within ten feet of her body at other times. After all, there wouldn’t be much danger within the sect.

She suddenly felt a bit unwell, placing her palm on her chest, forcefully suppressing the urge to vomit.

Yun Muyu, who had just put away her sword and returned, saw Tan Qingxuan’s discomfort and quickly rushed to attend to her Master.

“Master, these are the sour candied plums I made myself. I saw you weren’t feeling well a few days ago, and you felt better after eating the plums last time, so I went to find some more plums. I took out all the pits. Would you like to have some more?”

Tan Qingxuan saw the plums were coated with white sugar frost, and each plum was perfectly shaped and beautiful. She picked one and tasted it, indeed feeling much better.

Tan Qingxuan felt a warmth in her heart, and her eyes rippled: “You were thoughtful.”

Yun Muyu’s eyes brightened upon receiving Tan Qingxuan’s praise, and she smiled gently: “I am already very grateful to be able to serve Master. I am happy as long as Master likes it.”

Tan Qingxuan tucked the hair from her temples behind her ear and said warmly: “There were a few flaws in your sword moves just now. I will tell you again how you should deal with enemies.”

Yun Muyu’s eyes brightened again. She looked up at her Master with respect and immediately nodded: “Thank you, Master.”

The master and disciple spoke softly. One taught, and one listened. Both were rare beauties. As the breeze blew, the scene was extremely pleasing to the eye.

Song Zhen stood by the side. Her usually serious eyebrows relaxed, and a faint smile appeared on her lips. She suddenly felt the artifact hanging on her waist vibrate violently.

The red light on the artifact intensified, and the red vertical line on the compass pointed very clearly.

Song Zhen immediately warned Tan Qingxuan: “Senior Sister, be careful. My artifact has detected a Great Demon’s demonic energy nearby.”

Tan Qingxuan thought Cang Ran had returned. She immediately cast a spell to expand her divine sense and found Cang Ran on a nearby mountain peak.

She quickly stood up to look for Cang Ran’s figure.

At this moment, the little fat bird Hua Chao on the tree tilted her head, meeting Song Zhen’s gaze.

Song Zhen immediately recognized the dead bird from years ago. Her eyes narrowed, and she instantly drew her sword: “Hua Chao!”

Hua Chao couldn’t stand firm on the branch. A streak of sword energy had already slashed over. The entire thousand-year-old green pine tree was immediately split in half right down the middle.

The branches crashed down, almost hitting Hua Chao. She quickly flapped her wings, rapidly flying to dodge the sword energy.

Streaks of dazzling sword energy pursued relentlessly. Several large chunks of surrounding rocks were shattered, rolling down the cliff.

Hua Chao swiftly flew towards Cang Ran’s direction. After transforming into her human form, she immediately grabbed Cang Ran’s hand to flee for her life.

“It’s over, it’s over! Ranran, hurry and run! My enemy is trying to kill me!”

Cang Ran didn’t understand what was happening. She had asked Hua Chao to scout the situation. How did it suddenly turn into a great escape?

Another streak of sword energy, filled with killing intent, struck over, narrowly grazing Cang Ran’s fox fur.

The little hedgehog ducked into the bushes, trembling.

Cang Ran had just met Tan Qingxuan’s gaze. Thousands of words hadn’t been spoken yet when she was pulled by Hua Chao, who had already run a thousand zhang away.

Before she could regain her senses, Hua Chao dragged her and rushed directly into the teleportation array for outgoing disciples.

Many of Hua Chao’s snowy white downy feathers fell off, and the shoulder cape of her beautiful ruqun (dress) was crooked.

She immediately stunned the disciple who was about to sound the alarm in the teleportation array and urgently said to Cang Ran: “That was close! If Zhenzhen had caught up to us, we would all be finished!”

“Huh?” Cang Ran was still thinking about Tan Qingxuan and was completely baffled by her words. “Who is the Zhenzhen you’re talking about?”

Hua Chao was sweating on her forehead from anxiety: “Song Zhen! The purple-robed female cultivator who was with your Qingqing! How could she be here? I knew I shouldn’t have followed you to the Taixuan Sect!”

Seeing Hua Chao so flustered, Cang Ran was not so flustered herself and asked curiously: “What is your relationship with Song Zhen? Isn’t she your ex-Dao Companion whom you haven’t seen for almost a thousand years and didn’t know if she was dead or alive?”

“Yes, yes! Let’s hurry and escape! If we get caught, it’s over! I’ll die! All my bird feathers will be plucked bald!”

Hua Chao was panicking, transforming into a bird one moment and a human the next. The entire teleportation array was filled with the downy feathers she flapped, flying up and down.

Cang Ran thought she couldn’t waste them and collected all of Hua Chao’s feathers. She could make a feather fan later.

While collecting, Cang Ran suddenly realized the little hedgehog was missing. She wasn’t with them in the teleportation array. She quickly said: “Hua Chao, we forgot to bring the little hedgehog with us when we left! The little hedgehog is still left in the Taixuan Sect!”

Hua Chao was also dumbfounded. She looked down and searched the teleportation array. She indeed couldn’t find the silly short-legged little hedgehog. She slapped her head and said:

“A miscalculation! I thought she would follow. Now that we are in the teleportation array, we will definitely be blocked if we go back. Your Qingqing should have some influence in the sect, right? She wouldn’t be uncaring about the little hedgehog, would she!”

The little hedgehog knew quite a few female cultivators at the Taixuan Sect. She usually helped people massage their tummies when she was bored. There should be kind female cultivators who would take her home.

Cang Ran and Hua Chao exchanged a look, both secretly relieved.

The teleportation array quickly opened after the transmission was complete. Because they fled in such a rush, they didn’t pay attention to which territory they were being transported to.

After Hua Chao pulled Cang Ran away, she flew around a few times before confirming that this place was not far from her temporary cave where the cunning bird had many nests. She quickly said: “Go! I have a cave nearby. Come with me to hide for a while.”

Song Zhen was only a step slower than Hua Chao. She watched helplessly as the teleportation array closed. She had been seriously injured when she returned from collecting medicine in the ancestral secret realm and had only recovered a bit after half a month. She didn’t expect to encounter the dead bird from back then again. The forceful channeling of sword energy just now caused her old wound to reopen, and she was in severe pain.

Tan Qingxuan caught up and saw Song Zhen holding her sword, blood staining her lips. She quickly supported her: “Junior Sister, are you alright?”

Song Zhen wiped her lips and gritted her teeth: “Senior Sister, I encountered my old enemy. I must kill her today!”

Tan Qingxuan thought of the bird demon who had been clinging to Cang Ran. When the two demons left, their hands were still clasped together. Earlier, Cang Ran had told her that she entered the secret realm with the bird demon to socialize with her. Now, after three months apart, they were already this intimate.

Tan Qingxuan pressed her lips together and transferred some spiritual energy to Song Zhen: “You are injured. I will go with you.”

Song Zhen felt much better after being soothed by Tan Qingxuan’s spiritual energy. She took out a healing elixir and swallowed two mouthfuls: “This teleportation array should be heading towards Xizhou. Hua Chao is good at flying and will definitely escape faster after leaving the array. Senior Sister, you are pregnant and cannot use the teleportation array. Please stay at the sect. I will go after her alone.”

Tan Qingxuan’s eyes shifted slightly: “The child has been much more stable recently. Cang Ran is with the bird demon. She has a positioning talisman I placed on her. We can find her just by following the talisman.”

Song Zhen didn’t expect the Senior Sister to have placed a positioning talisman beforehand. She immediately nodded: “Good. Then I will drive the flying artifact.”

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