Celestial Maiden Accompanies Sleep

Wang Xuan's hair stood on end. With his current instincts, how could someone approach him without him knowing? He would sense it even while asleep, yet now, in the dead of night, he was startled awake to find a furry creature beside him, giving him goosebumps.

Especially when he looked down, a pair of cold, eerie eyes had already fixed on him.

"Aow..." A sharp, piercing scream rang out, hurting Wang Xuan's eardrums. In the quiet of the night, the room was pitch black, and the creature suddenly howled like this. If it were anyone else, experiencing this right after waking up, they would have fainted from fright.

Bang!

Without a word, Wang Xuan slapped out. His palm could now not only obliterate a person's face but also likely cave in their skull.

The creature was agile, however. With a cry, it leaped away, far more nimble than a human.

Wang Xuan pulled his hand back at the last moment because he had seen what it was: a large black cat. Its fur was glossy black, its eyes were green, and it was quite large, weighing nearly nine catties, almost as much as a medium-sized dog.

How did it get in? He turned on the light to look for clues and finally discovered the window wasn't fully closed. The big black cat had squeezed through the gap.

"Get out! If you dare come in again, I'll flatten you into a meat patty with one slap." Wang Xuan opened the window and chased the black cat away.

"Meow!" After darting out, the cat leaped onto the branches of a large tree that extended to the window. Before leaving, it let out an ear-piercing yowl at Wang Xuan and glanced back at him. Its eyes were cold and eerie, and it bared its teeth, seemingly smiling eerily.

Wang Xuan felt an urge to chase after it and give it a slap. The cat felt strange, almost demonic.

In the middle of the night, first a woman in white with red shoes, her hair disheveled, shedding tears of blood, and then a piercing scream from his blanket – who could endure this? Wang Xuan washed his face and sat there to calm his mind.

He guessed the cat was probably related to the female Daoist practitioner, perhaps even sent by her. It was too bizarre.

"I said that when my strength allows, I will go to the Greater Khingan Range to help rescue your physical body, but I am not qualified to intervene yet," Wang Xuan said. Regardless of whether she could hear him, he felt it necessary to emphasize and explain again.

"Could someone have taken your blood again?" he wondered.

This sort of thing was too evil. He had always believed that death was the end, like a lamp extinguished. Yet now, in the dead of night, the female Daoist practitioner was disturbing his sleep, which was truly chilling.

Wang Xuan practiced the Root Method for a while, then began to visualize the female Daoist practitioner, picturing her with tear tracks of blood on her face. Normally, one should visualize a beautiful corpse, but now he directly hypnotized himself, imagining the woman with bloodstains on her face as serene, sacred, and peerlessly beautiful.

If Qing Mu knew, he would surely exclaim that Little Wang had a big heart and was a ruthless person, capable of visualizing a terrifying ghost as a banished immortal.

After visualizing, Wang Xuan immediately fell asleep. It wasn't until the latter half of the night that the disheveled woman indeed appeared in his slumbering consciousness again.

"You're here?" Wang Xuan greeted her in his dream and promptly went back to sleep.

The disheveled woman seemed taken aback but didn't stop. Wearing red shoes, she approached him, her snow-white face streaked with horrifying bloodstains, almost touching Wang Xuan's face as she looked at him up close.

"The Celestial Maiden accompanies me to sleep?" Wang Xuan, who had self-hypnotized and performed "alternative visualization," saw a face that was currently considered stunning approaching him in his sleep. This time, there was no sense of horror; on the contrary, he found her beautiful eyes so gentle. He reached out to caress her.

The female Daoist practitioner was about to explode. What was going on? Even in this state, the other person was still delighted and found her stunning, and he had even reached out to her.

"Boom!"

A bolt of lightning descended from the sky, dazzling white, like a river of stars falling. It sounded in Wang Xuan's sea of consciousness, making his ears ring, and he woke up abruptly.

What was going on? Was it thundering and raining outside? He pulled back the curtains. Outside, the moonlight was like water, with stars dotting the sky. How could there be a thunderstorm?

He pondered what he had seen in his dream and realized that the female Daoist practitioner was using lightning to strike him in his subconscious, waking him up.

Wang Xuan looked down at his right hand. He seemed to have touched a fair, smooth, and elastic face, but there were no bloodstains left.

He felt more confident now. No matter how peerlessly beautiful she was, a former top expert among Pre-Qin Daoist practitioners, she had ultimately undergone Ascension. At least for now, she couldn't interfere with the present world, only acting through dreams, casting her past extraordinary methods into his subconscious.

Wang Xuan entered a state of meditation again. He not only visualized the blood-stained female Daoist practitioner as a Celestial Maiden but also imagined the glaring lightning as ethereal immortal music. He added some scenery and complemented it with poetry, songs, and dances.

Then he buried his head and slept again, hoping to last until dawn this time.

The female Daoist practitioner arrived even faster than he expected. He had barely fallen asleep when she appeared, her white clothes fluttering, her feet not touching the ground, hovering before him. This time, she didn't dare get too close, and her palm began to glow.

However, as the thunder gradually approached with a rumbling sound, she and the scenery around Wang Xuan changed.

In an instant, there was music and dancing, falling blossoms, and fragrant scents filling the air. Amidst the flickering lightning, crystalline petals continuously fell from the void.

Nearby, women were dancing, musicians were playing the zither and guzheng, hermits were reading golden scriptures, and someone was chanting: "Fleecy clouds playfully weave, flying stars transmit sorrow, the vast Milky Way silently crosses. When the golden wind and jade dew meet, it surpasses countless encounters in the human world..."

The female Daoist practitioner was stunned. Her white skirt billowed in the wind. Although her palm was glowing, she didn't strike. Watching the songs and dances of later generations, she became lost in thought, her mind hazy with the music and dance.

It wasn't until later that her eyes regained clarity. She realized this was Wang Xuan's domain, and all the scenery was his pre-set arrangement.

She floated closer to Wang Xuan, looked down at him, her palm glowing, lightning flickering.

"You're here again?" Wang Xuan, still asleep, regarded her as a Celestial Maiden. Although his subconscious was acting, this was his domain. His thoughts and feelings instantly manifested. He took the female Daoist practitioner's slender hand, showing the same joy as when he met an immortal.

Boom!

The lightning in the female Daoist practitioner's hand struck Wang Xuan directly. Wang Xuan cried out and sat up abruptly. He quickly checked his body, then observed his spirit, energy, and mind, finding no damage.

At this point, he became calm. So, the female Daoist practitioner could only do this much. She couldn't harm his body or his spirit.

"The Celestial Maiden sleeps with me!" Wang Xuan said and fell asleep again. There was nothing to fear now; he considered it a spiritual and conscious journey, meeting an immortal.

Although he woke up several times that night, he felt more confident, composed, and calm. Conversely, the female Daoist practitioner seemed lost in thought and completely disappeared before dawn.

After the sun rose, Wang Xuan washed up, ate breakfast, and immediately went to find his old colleague. Although he had been calm in his dreams, calling out for the Celestial Maiden to sleep with him, this was only sustainable for a night or two. If it happened every night, he would absolutely not be able to handle it. Even though the female Daoist practitioner couldn't interfere with the real world, being constantly woken up was a very troublesome issue.

His old colleague preferred peace and quiet. He had a secluded courtyard outside the city and was practicing martial arts when Wang Xuan arrived in the morning.

"Old Chen, hurry and think of a solution. I can't spend every night singing and dancing with her in my dreams. Humans and immortals have different paths; we can't always meet."

Wang Xuan didn't dare mention the Inner Scenery Realm. He only said that the female Daoist practitioner had found him. Two nights were one thing, but who could endure this every day?

"The Greater Khingan Range is thousands of miles away, and she could still track me here. Also, she died three thousand years ago; could she still cause unpredictable trouble? It seems she's truly extraordinary," his old colleague, Chen Yongjie, sat down and pondered seriously.

"Strange, why hasn't anything happened underground in the Greater Khingan Range?" Old Chen asked.

Wang Xuan pondered, thinking, Don't rush, this is likely due to the spiritual energy he released from the Ascension Stone entering the Inner Scenery Realm. It's following him now, and perhaps when it recovers some more in the Inner Scenery Realm, it will find others in their dreams.

"Old Chen, can you use your connections to ask if they've drawn blood from her again and if they can temporarily stop? I'm worried something big will happen. You know, she can already interfere with people's subconscious now, and who knows when she'll be able to interfere with the real world." Wang Xuan tried to emphasize the severity of the situation.

"Don't worry, I'll ask around and think about how to handle it." Old Chen went to make a call and returned quickly, nodding at him. He said that the underground laboratory in the Greater Khingan Range had indeed drawn blood recently.

Wang Xuan asked, "Did you tell them about the seriousness of the problem?" He hoped Old Chen would explain to them that this project carried certain risks. Of course, deep down, he was willing to help the Female Daoist practitioner.

Old Chen considered for a moment and said, "I don't have that much influence with them. How about this, you behave well recently, and I'll give you the opportunity to go on a business trip to New Star this time, so you can temporarily avoid this. Do you think she can chase you all the way to New Star?"

Then he quickly added, "This isn't a permanent spot for you, you can't stay there permanently. Don't even think about it now. It's too difficult to send someone there these days. It's just a business trip."

Wang Xuan immediately became vigilant. Could this old man be deliberately using this opportunity to send me over? To transfer me to participate in some mysterious exploration activity?

Ever since Old Chen gave him that book, he felt like the old man was laying the groundwork.

At the same time, he thought of the goddess Zhao Qinghan in his class, and the beautiful Li Qingxuan on New Star, who had a pair of charming phoenix eyes. These two, or rather, their families, seemed to be forming exploration teams and had both tried to recruit him to cooperate.

The people on New Star, from the zaibatsu to the life research institutes, and various alliances and organizations, were all getting restless. Including Old Chen right in front of him, could they all have their eyes on that Earth Immortal Grass?

"If you go to New Star, the job to cover your identity this time is quite good. There are two options: one is to be a bodyguard for a zaibatsu's young lady, and the other is to be a driver for a very famous and beautiful widow," Old Chen said slowly.

Then, he added with a seemingly earnest expression, "Young man, you need to work hard. Many famous explorers can't get such opportunities on New Star. Although it's just a temporary job to cover your identity, it's worth fighting tooth and nail for."

The more Wang Xuan listened, the more something felt off. Zaibatsu princesses, beautiful and wealthy widows... why did it all feel so familiar? He stared at Old Chen and said, "Uncle Chen, you're really going all out to get me to New Star!"

"What's wrong with that? Isn't it good? I'm fully considering your needs. You're young and highly skilled in the Old Arts. Don't people like you enjoy the kind of work I'm describing?"

Wang Xuan was speechless. Where did this old man get that conclusion from? The more Old Chen wanted to send him to New Star now, the less he wanted to go. He was afraid of being passively involved in unpredictable exploration activities and becoming cannon fodder by accident.

"Hurry up and help me solve the problem I'm facing now, don't talk about all that. My parents are reluctant to let me travel far, and it's impossible for me to go to New Star right now!"

"Young man, you must seize the opportunity." Old Chen patted his shoulder and then turned to make a phone call.

That morning, two old monks arrived. They chanted scriptures and sprinkled water on Wang Xuan, causing a commotion for a good half of the day before leaving.

After they left, Wang Xuan asked, "What kind of water is this? Why is it so dirty after being sprinkled on me?"

"It seems to be incense ash from the bronze censer before the Buddha, mixed with water and sprinkled on you," Old Chen told him calmly. These were two eminent monks invited from a thousand-year-old temple outside the city, and they only personally took action out of respect for Old Chen.

Wang Xuan looked at his dusty, grimy clothes and was speechless. He bid farewell and turned to leave.

In the evening, Qing Mu called and asked if he was going to New Star, preparing to transfer his exploration compensation in advance, with the first installment being about five million old currency.

Wang Xuan was immediately excited. He had never seen so much money right after graduation. With this amount to give to his parents, even if he left in the future, they would have some security.

However, he quickly calmed down. Old Chen had first laid the groundwork subtly, and then tempted him with benefits, trying to send him to New Star. There was definitely something going on, and he couldn't agree to it immediately.

"Sigh, should I still look for Ascension Stones? Now I have problems on my body. If I find a few more, will I have several old monsters on me? What about celestial maidens, monks, female Daoist practitioners, old Daoists, female demons, etc.? If they all gather together, who knows what will happen!"

Wang Xuan sighed. Without resolving the issue with the Female Daoist practitioner first, he really didn't dare to act rashly.

That night, the Female Daoist practitioner indeed appeared again. Wang Xuan said helplessly, "It's no use looking for me. I don't have much authority for now, and I can't interfere with the underground experimental site in the Greater Khingan Range. It's more effective to find Old Chen than me."

Perhaps the Female Daoist practitioner was understanding, but ever since he explained it this way, the night passed peacefully. The Female Daoist practitioner did not appear again, and he slept soundly.

It wasn't until dawn that Old Chen personally came and banged on his door, waking him up early.

When he saw Old Chen's appearance, Wang Xuan felt it was incredibly strange. He wanted to laugh but held back.

Old Chen had dark circles under his eyes, his eyes were red, clearly indicating he hadn't slept well. Most importantly, his body was covered in talisman papers, and his eyes were spitting fire; he could no longer maintain his composure.

"Speak, what's going on? Why is she bothering me?" Old Chen gritted his teeth.

Wang Xuan was surprised and said, "How would I know? Maybe she also realized that your words carry more weight and are more effective than mine. Why don't you try to help her properly?"

Old Chen grinned, showing a smile that was uglier than crying, and turned to leave. He would find a way to save himself.

After a long while, Wang Xuan came back to his senses. Was his problem solved just like that? The ups and downs of life are truly unexpected.

The next day at work, Wang Xuan saw that Old Chen had very dark circles under his eyes and was carrying a Bagua diagram. With a hurried glance, he saw that his clothes were filled with talisman papers.

"Old Chen, what's wrong with you?" a colleague asked.

"I've been quite interested in the I Ching recently and am studying it in conjunction with the Bagua diagram," Old Chen replied calmly.

For two consecutive days, Old Chen's mental state worsened. By the third day, Old Chen didn't show up. Qing Mu called and found Wang Xuan, directly asking him, "What did you do to my master?"

Wang Xuan replied, "What could I have done to him? I'm still wondering, he didn't come today, where did he go?"

Qing Mu sighed and said that Old Chen had run away. Early that morning, he had boarded a starship to New Star as if his pants were on fire, shouting, "This kid has great terror about him, this old man is going to flee to avoid disaster first!"

"No way!" Wang Xuan stared blankly. In the end, Old Chen ran to New Star to seek refuge. Was he taking the disaster for me?

Wang Xuan immediately thought that the five million old currency would be arriving soon, and with the trouble on his body gone, he should be able to find two more Ascension Stones. His mood instantly improved, and he felt refreshed.

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