Today and Yesterday

Even a powerful being of formless nature, though able to become intoxicated, will dissipate very quickly.

Qin Yi and Liusu didn't watch the sunrise for long; about half an hour later, Xi Yue woke up behind them.

She sat up, body and soul in perfect harmony, and stared at his retreating figure without saying a word.

Qin Yi seemed to sense something, turned his head and smiled, "Awake?"

"Mmm." Xi Yue looked like she was getting up in front of her husband, lazily running her fingers through her hair, her body unabashedly outlining alluring curves, as if she was no longer on guard in front of him.

Qin Yi had no wicked thoughts before, but this one action made him slightly stare at her, turning his head away from her.

Xi Yue was amused by his reaction and deliberately said, "What? You got him drunk and didn't do anything, now you regret it?"

Qin Yi said helplessly, "Don't seduce me, woman."

"Pfft." Xi Yue leaned forward and made the gesture of hooking his chin again. "What good would it do to seduce you?"

While drunk, Yang Shen considered her gesture of reaching out to Qin Yi to him to be frivolous. But when she did the same thing after waking up, neither she nor Qin Yi felt any frivolity; instead, it felt like a familiar joke between old friends.

Qin Yi didn't dodge, letting her lift his chin. "Anyway, you're Qian Yuan's older Elder Sister, so I can't resist whatever you want. Come on, I'm ready."

He lay sprawled out on the cloud, looking as if he were a corpse to be devoured by dogs.

Xi Yue patted the clouds and laughed.

Liusu Su glanced at her sideways.

"Alright, little spirit, I won't do anything to your dao companion." Xi Yue patted the Little Ghost.

Liusu was about to get angry when she was touched, but she paused when she heard the words "dao companion" and didn't get angry.

Xi Yue withdrew her hand and smiled, "Alright, I should go too. Your winged lady is waiting for you."

Qin Yi sat up, surprised, and asked, "She's still here?"

"It's always been here." Xi Yue smiled mischievously.

Qin Yi: "..."

I should have known that mature women are all experienced drivers...

Xi Yue rode away on the clouds, and after going several feet away, she suddenly turned back and smiled, "Thank you for your Drunken Moon Wine, I am very happy."

The fragrance lingers, but the person is gone.

Qin Yi stared in the direction she disappeared for a long while before saying, "Bangbang, she's definitely not from some Lady Country."

"Hmm," Liusu said, "If there is a supreme ruler in this land, she is most likely one of them. Once you get deeply involved in some matters here, you will inevitably come into contact with her sooner or later."

Qin Yi said, "You were keeping a close watch on her before, so why does your tone seem so much nicer now?"

Liusu wouldn't tell him that it felt comfortable because of the word "dao companion," but she said with a straight face, "Who cares about her identity? As long as she doesn't mean any harm, it's fine. Isn't it good to make some friends? Do we really have to offend everyone we go through? That winged person down there still doesn't understand."

Qin Yi looked down.

On a distant mountaintop, Yu Shang stood silently gazing at the sky, as if she had been standing there all night.

After indulging in wine and revelry, Qin Yi felt much of the pent-up frustration in his heart dissipate, and his mood brightened. With this change in State of Mind, his perception of people also changed. His previous resentment and anger towards Yu Shang dissipated considerably, and he even began to see her as someone with merits, at least not inherently bad...

Doing that to her seems a bit... well...

Thinking this, he descended from the clouds and landed in front of Yu Shang.

Yu Shang took a slight step back, seemingly showing some fear of him. In reality... her cultivation was still stronger than Qin Yi's, yet she didn't seem to have any intention of attacking again.

Her disheveled appearance, previously a mess of clothes and hair, had been tidied up, and now she looked serene and serene, like a white swan standing atop a mountain. Unfortunately, her original noble and resolute air vanished with this step back, making her look somewhat like a frightened little Rabbit.

Qin Yi finally spoke, "You've been watching us here all night?"

Yu Shang hesitated for a moment, then whispered, "You said it yourself, whether I fulfill my promise or kill you, you'll accept it."

"So you waited for me on purpose?"

"Um..."

Qin Yi was somewhat amused and exasperated. "How did a single-minded woman like you manage to reach the Huiyang realm?"

Yu Shang said earnestly, "We are born with a heart for music."

Qin Yi choked for a moment, thinking to himself that it was no wonder Xi Yue said that the reproductive ability here was not high. Their overall strength was stronger than that of the Shenzhou people from birth, so naturally their reproductive ability would be weakened. This was the Heavenly Dao order of things.

After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Even with his limited abilities, Heartless God is a god of his race. Are you also a god of the Winged Human Race?"

"My clan is not like that. Everyone in my clan cultivates; I am merely one of them..."

"That strong? Where do you rank?"

Yu Shang hesitated and said, "We haven't confirmed our relationship, so I can't tell you the details."

Qin Yi laughed upon hearing this, "Do you really want to discuss with me what our relationship is?"

Yu Shang mustered her courage and said earnestly, "If it can be confirmed that the Dragon Might is something you truly inherited, then you are my Husband."

Qin Yi rolled his eyes. "What if I don't want it?"

"You... you started something and then abandoned it!"

"What the hell..." Qin Yi was dumbfounded. Was something wrong with this?

After conning the cripple, she got herself into a mess, and in turn, she got the person who conned her into a mess as well...

But since you've already treated him as someone you started with and then abandoned, which means you've treated him as your Husband, and yet you say you can't tell me the details since the relationship hasn't been confirmed.

Is your brain made of numbness?

Finally, Liusu couldn't help but peek out, grasping the crux of the matter. "Before we confirm it, what kind of relationship do we have now?"

Yu Shang said with a stern face, "The enemy."

Liusu said, "Since you're an enemy, it's normal for me to tie you up and do it again, isn't it?"

Yu Shang paused, closed her eyes, and adopted an expression of heroic sacrifice.

Qin Yi stumbled and almost tumbled down the mountain.

Great logician, so you watched me up in the mountains all night and came up with this answer?

I think you did this on purpose, didn't you? M-type constitution awakening?

Thousands of miles away, the old monk, clutching his bald head in the clouds, seemed to be completely bewildered by the logic of that place.

Xi Yue suddenly appeared in front of him. "Hey, were you spying on me?"

The old monk said helplessly, "This Old Monk was thousands of miles away, and my Divine Sense did not even peek. How could you say I was spying? This Old Monk only looked at that man after you left."

"Why are you looking at that man? Do you have homosexual tendencies?"

"... Heartless God, the Pierced Chest Race will soon be wiped out. This Old Monk should at least ask the murderer about the situation..."

"You say you're asking about the situation, but your wording already implies the murderer?"

"Hmm... he killed him, didn't he?"

Xi Yue sneered, "I killed him."

Old monk. "???"

Xi Yue said, "What my friend did is what I did. I take responsibility for this. If you have any questions, come to me."

The old monk said helplessly, "Fellow Daoist, you have already transcended the Three Realms and are no longer bound by the cage. Why force yourself into karma and create unnecessary entanglements?"

"Not in the cage?" Xi Yue laughed. "Old monk, it's one thing to lie to others, but don't lie to yourself. Your bald head isn't bright enough; don't mistake it for the sun."

The old monk sighed and did not answer.

Xi Yue asked, "Can the exact time of Kunlun Void be determined?"

The old monk said, "Half a year. If you came here only for Kunlun Void, you've come too early..."

"It's not early." Xi Yue smiled slightly. "Just right."

The old monk understood what she meant; it seemed that this experience of being intoxicated by the clouds was more important to her Kunlun Void.

He shook his head. "If you have nothing else to do, fellow Daoist, you might as well stay at our temple for a while, so we can discuss our cooperation with Kunlun Void."

Xi Yue said calmly, "I'm not going."

Why?

Xi Yue didn't answer, but turned and left. "Because the Great Wilderness today is not what it was yesterday."

The old monk frowned, but did not argue.

Only long after Xi Yue had left did he sigh softly, "Times change, and who can stay in yesterday forever..."

An echo came from afar, from who knows who. "The original intention remains unchanged, which is yesterday itself."

The old monk's expression remained unchanged. "Then what is Fellow Daoist Yu's true intention? To unify the Netherworld?"

The shadows of the peaks before them slowly blurred, as if a spirit echoed within them, "The Netherworld was originally a place for you, but now you have forgotten."

The old monk pondered for a while before saying, "Fellow Daoist, have you learned of something that led you to suddenly take this action?"

"It's simply because... I've waited too long." Jade True Person's voice turned cold. "If you've forgotten your true intentions, you can observe. But if you turn around and become someone's lackeys, I'll show no mercy in beating them!"