Fierce Love: Bringing Wife Home
Chapter 523 - 13: Lan Xi and Mi Xi

Chapter 523: Chapter 13: Lan Xi and Mi Xi

A moment later, the lion regained its composure.

Gu Xiaoxi used the Fire of the Blazing Sun not just to intimidate them, but also to sense farther distances.

She was looking for an escape route.

Ultimately, she was disappointed.

The places she could sense were almost all occupied by wild beasts.

And each person who tried to break in was shattered to pieces and died, becoming a meal for these beasts.

Seeing no way out, Gu Xiaoxi could only extinguish the Fire of the Blazing Sun and once again faced the two leading behemoths.

"I mean no harm! Let us leave, and I won’t take the Fruit of Immortality!" Gu Xiaoxi looked down at them, her expression grave.

The Fruit of Immortality was an unnatural growth, not meant to exist in the Mortal World.

She hadn’t even thought of truly obtaining it.

"Leaving is not impossible if you truly are the master. Then come with us, if you can make the Fruit of Immortality ripen, we’ll acknowledge you as the master and obey your commands from then on," the leading Lion King said coldly.

Upon hearing this, Gu Xiaoxi hesitated before replying, "What if I can’t make the Fruit of Immortality ripen?"

"Then you’re a liar. You deceive us, and your fate will be the same as those who trespassed here."

Gu Xiaoxi looked at Su San and Jing Haoran, feeling immediately heavy-hearted.

"I’ll try!" She wouldn’t drive the situation to an uncontrollable extent unless it was absolutely necessary.

"These two will stay here as hostages. You come with us!"

The rich Spiritual Energy here endowed these beasts with extraordinary Spiritual Wisdom.

Gu Xiaoxi looked at the Tiger King with a stern tone, "You must protect them well before I return."

Mi Xi had said... she was the Child of God.

Since the Lion King had said the Child of God was their master.

She could only try her luck.

As she neared the Tree of Immortality.

Gu Xiaoxi walked in the front, followed by the massive figures of the Lion King and the Tiger King.

After a full two hours of walking, Gu Xiaoxi finally drew closer to the enormous ancient tree she had seen from a distance.

Its trunk was as thick as a house, its height immeasurable, looking up at the treetop made her neck feel like it would snap.

What shocked her most was that each leaf of the tree was larger than her.

Fist-sized golden fruits hung from it, the whole tree shimmering with the luster of gold like a money tree.

Even at night, its splendid form was visible because gathered around the tree were countless strands of Spiritual Energy.

"Can you make these fruits mature?" asked the Lion King.

Gu Xiaoxi clenched her fist and swallowed.

She was terrified, for accelerating the ripening of a small tree’s fruit was one thing.

But what now stood before her was a sky-high Immortal Tree.

With leaves bigger than her and Spiritual Energy swirling around the tree richer than her own qi sea.

How could she possibly make these fruits ripen?

Gu Xiaoxi licked her dry lips and chuckled awkwardly, looking to the Lion King and asking, "Do you know the origins of this tree?"

She wanted to buy some time, hoping for a miracle to occur.

"Ten thousand years ago, Lan Xi, the daughter of God, and Mi Xi, the great disciple of God, planted this tree here. They painstakingly watered and fertilized the tree, and it only sprouted after a hundred years. It took ten thousand years to grow into a sapling, sixty thousand to bloom, and ninety thousand to bear fruit. And these fruits can only mature when the master personally picks them. Otherwise, the Immortal Fruits on this tree are as useless as the wild fruits outside," the Lion King explained.

So picking them would make them mature?

Gu Xiaoxi immediately turned back to them and asked, perplexed, "How do you know so much? The events of a hundred thousand years ago, have you lived for a hundred thousand years?"

And Mi Xi! The great disciple of God?

Could it be the Mi Xi she knew?

A tremor of inexplicable apprehension fluttered in Gu Xiaoxi’s heart.

"No, it’s the mission passed down by our ancestors. We are all servitors of Lan Xi and Mi Xi, and we have been waiting for the master to return," the Lion King explained immediately.

At the same time, looking at the fruits on the tree, the Lion King said to Gu Xiaoxi with a stern tone, "As long as you can pick a ripe fruit, we’ll believe you’re the master. Then we’ll release your companions, and from then on, we’ll serve at the pleasure of the master."

Gu Xiaoxi unclenched her fist, wiping the sweat from the palm of her hand on her trousers.

She was just a mortal, an utterly ordinary mortal, a soldier of Liuli Country, a slightly treacherous woman.

Was she really the Child of God?

Did she possess power beyond mere mortals?

Was the Mi Xi they spoke of the same Mi Xi she had encountered?

Gu Xiaoxi lifted her feet and slowly walked toward the Tree of Immortality.

Mi Xi! Mi Xi!

Why was his name now filling her mind?

She remembered the very first time she had heard the term ’Child of God,’ it was told to her by Mi Xi.

The closer she got to the tree, the more her steps felt like a thousand pounds each, as if using all her life’s strength for each step.

Soon, she stood under the tree, looking at the thick trunk.

In an instant, her eyes widened, and the scenery around her changed.

It turned into a valley bathed in a rosy glow, with pleasing landscapes.

On the lawn in the valley, a mischievous girl in a beautiful white dress squatted on the ground.

In her hands, she held a seed the size of an egg, waving to the man approaching from not far away, and said with a smile, "Senior brother, come and see. The Crown Prince has given me a seed of the Tree of Immortality. I will plant it at the foot of White Cloud Mountain in the Western Sea, and it will grow the Fruit of Immortality."

"Junior sister’s face is indeed great, as the Heavenly Court sees this thing as a treasure. They have never been willing to give it away; it seems our Crown Prince is very good to you," said the man with handsome features, garbed likewise in white, his aura mystical and ethereal.

He carried a fan inked with calligraphy, and wherever he went, a rainbow of light shone, illuminating the earth.

And the look he gave the girl was filled with endless affection.

"Need you even mention it! Everyone has been good to Xixi since she was young... But I also know that it’s because my mother is the only god of this era. And I..." the girl still squatted on the ground, holding the seed.

Gu Xiaoxi couldn’t see her face clearly, but she could hear that the girl’s voice was very crisp and pleasant.

"You are the Child of God, and you will marry into the Heavenly Family in the future. The Crown Prince’s possessions are also yours..."

"Stop it, senior brother. I don’t want to marry the Crown Prince! Come here and help me plant this seed," she cut him off.

A moment later, the girl stood up.

When she turned her head, Gu Xiaoxi could also see her face clearly.

Such a beautiful beauty, with delicate features and skin white as jade, her aura both still and moving was mystical and enchanting, with the national beauty of heavenly fragrance. Especially those large eyes, black and shiny like dark grapes.

But that appearance was so familiar that it took Gu Xiaoxi a good while to reflexively reach out and touch her own cheek.

Wasn’t that her?

Gu Xiaoxi instinctively thought that this might be one of her ancestors.

So she continued to look on.

The man named Mi Xi used a sword to dig a hole in the ground, and the girl placed the seed inside. Afterwards, they watered the seed every day and nourished it with Spiritual Energy.

Soon enough, the seed sprouted.

At the same time, Gu Xiaoxi understood that the girl’s name was Lan Xi.

Lan Xi and Mi Xi...

During the hundred years it took for the seed to sprout, they practiced swordplay together, danced together, and cared for the sapling together.

When they were not there, they asked the beasts of the mountains to look after the little sapling.

Until one day, the seed grew into a small tree.

The woman named Lan Xi never returned after that.

And the man named Mi Xi would stand in front of this sapling, daydreaming until the sunrise, every day as the sun set.

Most nights, he even slept here.

Gu Xiaoxi wanted to see more but suddenly, the scene before her eyes disappeared.

She was back in her current surroundings.

"What are you waiting for?"

Behind Gu Xiaoxi was the urging voice of the Lion King.

And she had been completely stunned by the illusion just now.

As an outsider, it was obvious to her that Mi Xi liked Lan Xi...

Why did Lan Xi never come back?

A single glance spanning ten thousand years!

Gu Xiaoxi suddenly felt flustered, her throat uncomfortably dry.

She took a deep breath, forcing herself to forget the illusionary realm she had just witnessed.

She activated her Spiritual Power and flew upward.

She slowly flew to the branch of a tree, looking at a golden fruit in front of her.

She reached out, only to find her fingers trembling.

What was she shaking for?

Fear that she really was the Child of God?

Or scared that she was the reincarnation of Lan Xi?

Gods?

These things were tied to ancient times, to a past she could not even imagine.

On the Naihe Bridge, she hadn’t forgotten Mi Xi’s words.

He said that he and she, had a connection spanning past and present lives?

Gu Xiaoxi’s hand slowly touched the fruit.

Instantly, a rich Spiritual Energy drifted from the fruit, penetrating into her palm.

The next second, she felt as if a warm current surged into her body.

Immediately after, she plucked the fruit.