The Aloof Immortal Venerable is Pregnant with My Fox Cub - Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Moonlight shone into the cave dwelling. Tan Qingxuan’s silk-like long hair was scattered across the jade pillow, obscuring her cool profile. Her delicate figure appeared frail.

Cang Ran could only see her high-bridged nose and her bright, rosy lips. Her breathing was shallow, as if she were truly asleep.

Though right within reach, she seemed far away in the clouds. Tan Qingxuan always gave off such a difficult-to-approach sense of aloofness.

It was as if nothing in the world could enter her eyes, and even if one aggressively broke through, it wouldn’t cause any ripples.

This feeling was frustrating, yet it sparked a competitive spirit. It made one want to possess her, to drag her down from the pedestal, and make her utterly devoted.

She deeply wanted Tan Qingxuan to be captivated by her, even if only for a second.

Cang Ran gently let out a breath. “Were you waiting for me to come back to eat the fish with you tonight?”

Tan Qingxuan had indeed planned to wait for Cang Ran. Firstly, she didn’t prioritize food, and secondly, since Cang Ran had taken the initiative to yield, she should also take a step back.

Even when an ordinary outer disciple in the sect made a mistake, she had never personally treated them with coldness. The sect had its own rules, and the elders of the Disciplinary Hall would handle the instruction, so she didn’t need to step in personally.

She felt a bit different today. Not only did she lift this fox demon by the nape of her neck, but she also felt an impulse to personally admonish her.

But Cang Ran was not her disciple; they had no formal master-disciple relationship. She couldn’t act this way.

She had cultivated for many years and no longer needed sleep, yet she had just claimed she was going to sleep to avoid this fox demon.

Tan Qingxuan didn’t know why she was acting this way, only feeling that she had been spending too much mental energy on the fox demon these past few days living together, and now she needed to retract it.

She tried to strip away and suppress her personal emotions, stating calmly as always, “Yes, I was waiting for you. Not to eat the fish, but to apologize to you.”

Tan Qingxuan had responded to her again. Cang Ran’s heart instantly came alive. She propped up her face with her hand. “It’s okay. I already accepted your apology. That floor wasn’t hard at all, and my fox fur is very thick, so it didn’t hurt even a little when I fell.”

Her eyes curved in a mischievous smile. “Actually, I was lying to you. I was faking crying earlier. But next time, you can’t lift me by the back of my neck like that. It’s very shameful, and I need to save face, okay?”

Tan Qingxuan was naturally cool and reticent, like thin snow on a distant mountain. She simply lowered her gaze and answered, “Okay.”

She had already let it go like this, so why did Tan Qingxuan still seem unhappy? Where did she go wrong?

Cang Ran twitched her ear tips. She got it. Tan Qingxuan must be resentful from hunger. She waited so long for her to return and was too embarrassed to say anything.

Cang Ran said empathetically, “Then I’m hungry. Let’s go eat something together before sleeping. Going hungry for too long is bad for your stomach. You’re already injured, so you can’t get stomach problems now.”

Tan Qingxuan glanced at her silently, with a few more meaningful implications in her gaze.

Cang Ran remembered that she had returned from a feast tonight. In Tan Qingxuan’s eyes, she was probably an invincible Big Eater.

But it didn’t matter. She was always so kind. She kept a straight face and took the initiative to hold Tan Qingxuan’s hand. “Next time, you don’t have to wait for me. I don’t care about these things. I’m a demon; I won’t starve to death if I skip a meal.

You are different. If you starve and fall sick, you’ll have to buy medicine to treat it, and falling ill is very uncomfortable. You’ll also have to take bitter medicine, so you must eat obediently, understand?”

The girl’s voice was very soft and gentle, like a soothing, clear mist in the night, brushing against one’s body, making one unable to resist listening to her words.

Cang Ran wasn’t very talkative on ordinary days. It was only at night that she couldn’t resist speaking a little more, which was also because Tan Qingxuan was even quieter than her.

Tan Qingxuan remained silent for a while before finally speaking. “Cang Ran.”

Cang Ran stopped talking and looked at Tan Qingxuan’s picturesque face. “Hm?”

Tan Qingxuan’s voice was very cool, always unhurried. “I am not a three-year-old child.”

Cang Ran paused, confused. “What’s wrong?”

Tan Qingxuan said plainly, “So you don’t need to talk so much.”

Cang Ran realized and pouted. “Are you saying I’m being too talkative?”

Tan Qingxuan: “Yes.”

Cang Ran: “???”

How could someone just admit that?

Cang Ran gritted her back teeth and pressed her hand to her chest. She had been truly annoyed by Tan Qingxuan.

She was so kindly advising Tan Qingxuan to eat, yet Tan Qingxuan didn’t appreciate it at all. How infuriating!

Cang Ran was so angry that her lips were puffed out, her chin lifted high, and her ear fur was ready to explode. The pent-up frustration in Tan Qingxuan’s heart suddenly dissipated.

A trace of a smile, which was hard for even herself to detect, appeared in her eyes before she quickly masked it. “Let’s go eat the fish now.”

Cang Ran didn’t really want to go anymore, but Tan Qingxuan seemed happy again. She couldn’t help but curve her lips, and her heart relaxed.

Wait a minute, why am I relaxing? Do I have the constitution of a pushover?

Hmph. When Tan Qingxuan finishes eating, I must get back at her!

Cang Ran realized that the fish meat had gone cold, and reheating it might not taste good, so she told Tan Qingxuan in advance, “You don’t have to eat so much later, just a little will do. After so long, the texture of the fish meat won’t be good. I’ll reheat it for you.”

Cang Ran activated a fire spell with a thought. A fist-sized ball of flame immediately appeared in her palm. The fiery red flame was like blossoming fireworks, leaping with faint blue light spots in the air.

Tan Qingxuan’s beautiful eyes were reflected brilliantly by the firelight. She hadn’t expected Cang Ran to possess a unique elemental fire.

This unique fire was the Yao Yan (Brilliant Flame) unique fire, one of the Ten Great Unique Fires, capable of flashing blue light spots. It seemed this unique fire had already undergone some refinement.

To cultivate such a large ball of it, it could only be a symbiotic unique fire, one that was planted in her body since birth and should be several hundred years old by now.

How could a three-tailed fox demon possess such a powerful unique fire? Some demon cultivators she had met, whose cultivation was higher than Cang Ran’s, only used their innate fire derived from their spiritual root when wielding flames. The power was incomparable to Cang Ran’s symbiotic unique fire.

When Tan Qingxuan saw Cang Ran start to use this precious unique fire to grill the fish meat, she couldn’t help but speak. “Cang Ran.”

Cang Ran was concentrating on grilling the fish meat. She was startled by Tan Qingxuan’s call and almost dropped the fish meat in her hand. “Huh?”

She looked up. In the firelight, Tan Qingxuan’s face was exquisite, her jawline clear and beautiful. A portion of her waterfall of long hair was scattered in front of her, making her look quiet and moving.

A nerve in Cang Ran’s mind suddenly twitched, and she belatedly thought of something.

In all this time, from entering the cave dwelling until now, she hadn’t brought the fire stove over!

She had been staring at Tan Qingxuan with her eyes glowing green, like ghost lanterns, and said a whole bunch of nonsense!

Cang Ran instantly stopped grilling the fish. The flame in her palm extinguished immediately.

Tan Qingxuan had been watching Cang Ran in the dim moonlight. The sudden disappearance of the fire plunged her vision into darkness.

She again drew out her divine consciousness. Although she couldn’t see Cang Ran, she could hear Cang Ran’s rapid breathing. She asked with concern, “What’s wrong?”

Cang Ran’s mind was a mess. Her body was stiff, and the entire fox was buried in her arms.

In the completely dark environment, only the fox’s nervous, rapid breathing could be heard.

Thump-thump-thump. It seemed even her heartbeat was audible.

Cang Ran didn’t speak. She was in a very dark corner, so Tan Qingxuan couldn’t see her by the moonlight as before.

She had never felt that divine consciousness was inferior to sight, but now she realized that being unable to see was the most worrying thing.

Her brow furrowed slightly. She reached out, taking the initiative to touch Cang Ran, sensing her condition.

She quickly found something: a fluffy, surprisingly hot, fox ear.

It was soft against her palm, trembling continuously beneath her hand.

A startled little beast.

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