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Now that the life-sharing contract had been established, this lad was someone he probably couldn’t touch in the future.

It was a human boy who had gotten the better deal, and he really couldn’t reconcile with that.

After Lan Xi and the youth had formed the contract, both of them fell into a deep slumber.

Lan Xi had passed out due to excessive exhaustion.

While the youth had passed out because he, with his flesh and blood body, had accepted Divine Blood and required a lengthy period to digest it.

Both of them had fallen unconscious and were sent to recuperate.

The Heavenly Emperor had come with the intention of proposing marriage. His youngest son, Ya, was only five hundred years old, still a little baby cradled in his arms.

After what the youth had caused, he was even more anxious to engage Ya with Lan Xi.

In the Immortal Realm, it was not uncommon for there to be an age difference of several thousand years.

So, after the feast had ended, he took the initiative to discuss the matter with Lan Yan.

Lan Yan naturally had no objections.

If Lan Xi could marry the future Heavenly Emperor, then the Goddess Palace and the Heavenly Court would be one family. They were undoubtedly the two families in heaven most suited for each other through marriage.

During the thousand years that Lan Xi was in a coma, Ya gradually grew up.

From a baby in arms, he grew into a little boy nearly as tall as Lan Xi.

On the other hand, Lan Xi, having lost half of her Divine Blood, still maintained the appearance of a little child throughout those thousand years.

The Heavenly Emperor and Lan Yan chose a date and announced the engagement of Lan Xi and Crown Prince Ya during the Coiled Peach Banquet.

At that time, Lan Xi had still not woken up.

Crown Prince Ya was already sensible and knew he had a bride who was in an unending slumber.

Lan Xi slept for a full two thousand years, and the youth slept just as long.

When Lan Xi finally awoke, he slowly opened his eyes.

All the events that had transpired were clear in his mind; when he saw Lan Xi, he immediately became reserved and extremely cautious.

"Did you save me again?" the youth asked.

Lan Xi walked circles around the youth, admiring his jade-like cheeks, his delicate features, and beneath his thick brows, those cool and distant eyes had become even deeper. "Yes, I saved you once again. From now on, you are mine, and without my permission, you cannot go anywhere."

"Yes!" the youth dared not say more. After all, he was a mortal, while the girl in front of him was a deity.

Although Lan Yan was concerned that the youth’s blunder had wasted his daughter’s two thousand years, seeing how Lan Xi took a liking to the youth and that the youth was sensible and steadfast, serving faithfully by Lan Xi’s side, he gradually let go of his wariness.

Time passed in the blink of an eye, five thousand years had gone by, and Lan Xi was now nine thousand years old.

A nine-thousand-year-old deity had come of age, and her height had doubled from before.

Crown Prince Ya, at seven thousand years old, had also grown into a handsome and graceful young man.

And the youth who had mistakenly entered the Immortal Realm, from the moment he met Lan Xi, his life had just begun, and over five thousand years, he remained as he was in the beginning—aloof and indifferent, like someone painted in a portrait.

He accompanied her as she practiced techniques, practicing swords together, searching for Spiritual Medicine beneath Mount Taibai, raising spirit pets, and picking Coiled Peaches from the peach garden.

Lan Xi lived a very happy life.

With a gentle and wise mother, the highest status, and fearsome cultivation, and let’s not forget, that handsome and attractive youth by her side.

When Lan Xi turned Ten Thousand Years Old, Lan Yan found Lan Xi, "Xixi, your mother has taught you everything I can. I think it’s time to find you a master."

"What? A master?" Lan Xi, munching on a peach, asked in confusion, "I’m already quite powerful, why should I accept a master?"

"No!" Lan Yan spoke with a serious expression, looking at her daughter, "You are indeed very powerful. But you have yet to comprehend the divine. Without divine comprehension, you cannot become a true deity."

"So what now?" Lan Xi tilted her head and asked.

"So, I have decided to have you apprenticed under Immortal Taibai. Tomorrow, I will take you to see your master," Lan Yan said with an authoritative tone.

Lan Xi shrugged indifferently; to her, going anywhere was all the same.

She was quite tired of the Goddess Palace anyway, so changing locations for a bit of freshness was fine.

The next day.

Lan Xi packed her belongings and took the youth with her. Under Lan Yan’s lead, they went down to the foot of Mount Taibai.

There they were met by an Inner Sect Disciple who led them up the mountain.

Upon hearing that Lan Xi had come to seek apprenticeship, Immortal Taibai immediately dared not to neglect her and warmly welcomed the Goddess as well as the little prince.

Immortal Taibai certainly would not deny the Goddess’s request and happily accepted Lan Xi as his disciple, promising to teach her personally.

At that time, Immortal Taibai already had one direct disciple, Mi Xi.

With Lan Xi’s arrival, she became the junior sister.

The two disciples lived in the same courtyard, and Lan Xi even brought a little follower with her.

Wherever she went, Lan Xi was always the center of attention.

All the disciples of Taibai Hall vied to please her.

The only exception was Immortal Taibai’s head direct disciple, who was very cold to her.

In the blink of an eye, she had already been at Mount Taibai for a hundred years.

Every hundred years, Taibai Hall would have a martial arts competition.

As the direct disciples of Immortal Taibai, the competition between Lan Xi and the senior brother, Mi Xi, was the most anticipated.

Mi Xi, since entering Taibai Hall, practiced diligently every day. Within a hundred years, although living in the same courtyard, the two had met less than ten times.

It wasn’t until the martial arts competition that he took a proper look at his junior sister.

Her white fairy dress trailed on the ground, the hem revealing a beautiful single-layered bridge pattern, her black hair flowing down like silk, her skin as fair as jade, her visage blooming like a flower.

She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, and he was even mesmerized for a moment.

The Tai Chi Platform was the venue for the martial arts competition.

When all the disciples had finished their matches, as the closing highlight, the two important figures naturally attracted the entire Taibai Hall’s disciples to watch.

Mi Xi also wore a white robe, which was the uniform attire for all Taibai Hall disciples.

The only difference was the embroidery on the clothes.

His had water and ink landscape paintings, while the other disciples wore entirely white or had different totems embroidered on their belts to show their different statuses.

"Junior sister, please go ahead!" As the senior disciple, Mi Xi naturally needed to let her go first.

To his surprise, Lan Xi took a sword in one hand, and with the other hand, she pulled a coiled peach out of her pouch. Munching on it, she spoke unclearly, "Senior brother, fighting you would be too bullying. Ah Qing, come over and exchange a few moves with the senior brother in place of me."

As soon as her words fell, a young man dressed in black clothes leaped from the spectator stands to Lan Xi’s side in an instant.

The youth held a seven-foot longsword, his slender body wrapped in black, his hair as beautiful as Lan Xi’s.

He stood beside Lan Xi, taciturn, though his gaze towards Mi Xi was filled with a deadly seriousness.

"You!" Mi Xi naturally did not know Lan Xi’s strength, but her sending a little follower to fight him was too humiliating.

"Senior brother, if you can’t even beat him, what qualifications do you have to fight me?" Lan Xi said cheerfully, patting the young man’s shoulder, "Ah Qing, you have to try hard! I also need to test your strength."

After all, he had been practicing techniques with her for thousands of years; if he lost, it would be too embarrassing for her.

The girl’s smiling eyes and casual words infused him with the energy of a rooster that had just had its blood drawn, full of fighting spirit.

Within ten moves, Mi Xi was forced to retreat step by step, directly knocked out of the ring.

Seeing this, Lan Xi clapped her hands joyfully, looked at the defeated Mi Xi and smiled, "Senior brother, you’ll have to work much harder to fight me."

Mi Xi was so angry he could vomit blood, having never encountered such an arrogant girl before.

This was when he began to take notice of this junior sister.

Although she was apprenticed to Taibai Hall and was a fellow disciple of the same master.

But the master only taught her the ways of heaven and earth, and most of the time, Lan Xi could fall asleep during lectures.

Initially, the master angrily sent her to the back mountain to feed the wild beasts. Over time, Lan Xi seemed indestructible; she would sleep during lectures, and nobody could do anything about it.

As a result, the master later gave up on her and let her turn Taibai Hall upside down.

All the disciples were so harassed by her that they practiced martial arts desperately, for being beaten by a little girl and sent searching for their teeth on the ground was something nobody dared mention. It was too humiliating.

Another hundred years went by, Mi Xi trained hard, but still on the Tai Chi Platform, he was punched away by the youth at Lan Xi’s side.

The martial arts competition ended.

Lan Xi, thoroughly bored, headed to the back mountain.

She often came to feed the wild beasts there and had developed a relationship with some of the ferocious beasts on the mountain.

Especially the most ferocious Chaos of Taibai Hall, which would joyfully run up and circle around her whenever it saw her coming.

"Chaos, you’ve gotten fatter again," Lan Xi said, feeding a stalk of Immortal Herbs into the little beast’s mouth.

The little beast immediately began munching on it with delight.