The Immortal Fairy's Adventure
"Picking and picking mushrooms, I found a small mushroom..."
High Antiquity songs echoed through the dense forest, their melodious, cheerful, and bright voices revealing the singer to be a lively and cheerful young girl.
But if anyone were to see the singer's appearance, they would be greatly surprised.
The singer was a bald man with a dignified appearance, who covered himself with clothes made of leaves. It was hard to imagine that such a person could sing children's songs.
The immortal fairy squatted by the lake, looking at the shape of her body, her eyes darting around.
"Although Lu Yang isn't ugly, he's still a man. Since Lu Yang isn't here, why not take my look instead?"
The Immortal Fairy acted on her whims; she finally had the chance to go out and play, and no one was watching her, so of course she could do whatever she wanted.
She put two fingers together, placed them between her lips, and softly uttered something that resonated with the heavens and earth, causing the surrounding space to blur and distort.
When the space returned to its original state, the person squatting by the lake was no longer the bald Lu Yang, but a girl who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old.
The little girl was innocent and carefree, with big, bright eyes, long hair that reached her waist, wearing a beige dress and bare feet, like a young lady from a wealthy family who had run away without even being properly dressed.
"Hehe, I'm so cute." The Immortal Fairy saw herself transformed back into her original form in the lake and laughed happily.
She sat by the lake, barefoot, kicking the water idly, creating ripples.
Attracted by the ripples on the lake's surface, the little fish mistook the appearance of food and swam closer, only to discover that it was humans playing in the water. Disappointed, they flew away.
Although the Immortal Fairy could conjure anything within Lu Yang's mental space, those were, after all, mental constructs, and playing with them felt meaningless. Unlike now, even kicking the water a couple of times felt like a lot of fun.
The lake water was icy cold, and her little feet soaking in it made her grin from ear to ear.
She picked up a slightly longer branch from the lakeside, used her own magical power to make a fishing line, wrapped it around the branch, and made a simple fishing rod.
"Hey!"
She didn't even put in any bait, just cast the line, showing a completely free and unrestrained style.
The immortal power condensed into the fishing line was only a trace, but it was immortal power after all, a power unique to immortals. It didn't need bait; the fishing line itself was the best bait.
The immortal fairy squinted, half-lying by the lake. Using some kind of Law Technique, the lakeside was muddy, yet she lay there without a single stain on her body.
If Lu Yang were here, he would recognize that this was the Cleansing Clothes Incantation he had been longing for. However, the Cleansing Clothes Incantation used by the Immortal Fairy was far more sophisticated than that taught by the Orchid Pavilion, and it had already entered the realm of immortal arts. It consumed almost no power when cast.
Soon a big fish took the bait and clung tightly to the fishing line.
The large fish wanted to refine this wisp of immortal power, but the difference in their levels was too great, and it was unable to do so.
"They've taken the bait?"
The Immortal Fairy suddenly stood up, her eyes sparkling with excitement. With a forceful lift of her right hand, a fathead fish leaped out of the water.
"Oh dear, it's a bighead carp. It doesn't look good, doesn't taste good, and has no nutritional value." The Immortal Fairy shook her head in disappointment, patted the bighead carp's face to signal it to let go, and threw it back into the lake.
"May you be reborn as a delicious animal in your next life," the Immortal Fairy reminded the fathead fish, explaining that sparing its life meant it should be grateful.
The fathead fish was too young to understand what she was saying.
After the bighead carp left, all sorts of lake delicacies took the bait: fish, shrimp, crabs, shellfish, and various creatures that appeared only after High Antiquity, which even the immortal fairy did not recognize.
It doesn't matter if you don't know her; she has a wealth of experience and cooking expertise. She'll know what's edible and what's not after just one taste.
Soon, the fairy was surrounded by lake delicacies. Fearing that the delicacies would escape, she mixed lake water and black soil together to make mud, and then used the mud to form a small circle to surround all the lake delicacies.
Suddenly, a dark shadow darted out from the lake, its body covered in sharp spikes, like a hedgehog, only with much shorter spikes.
This lake is several times larger than the one controlled by the old turtle, and correspondingly, the owner who controls this lake must be exceptionally powerful.
The shadowy figure is the master of the lake, possessing a late-stage Golden Core cultivation level. Countless humans and Demon Race have been swallowed by it while drinking its water.
It was so greedy when it saw the Immortal Fairy. Although she looked like a little girl in the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, for some reason, it felt that if it could eat this little girl, it could immediately break through its core and become a Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beast.
At that time, it will be able to further expand its territory and become stronger.
Lu Yang is at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and the Bodhi Tree clone can inherit 80% of its power. This means that the Immortal Fairy's current cultivation level is only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
The immortal fairy blinked once, and was swallowed by the lake master.
The lake's master was not worried that the Immortal Fairy would attack it from within. It had ingested an extremely corrosive liquid, and anyone swallowed by it would have their attacks eroded by the liquid, posing no threat whatsoever.
"Avoid water... never mind, Fennel Fist."
The soft fist struck the stomach wall, and the lake owner felt as if his stomach was churning, or even worse, as if a huge force was stirring his body.
"Wait, let me go..."
Before the lake owner could finish begging for mercy, the power from the Fennel Fist tore him into several pieces.
The immortal fairy, holding a piece of meat from the lake's owner, swam back to the lake's surface.
She initially intended to use a water-repelling spell to deal with the lake's owner, but then she reconsidered. The lake's owner was a creature she had never seen before, and she didn't know what it tasted like. If she used the water-repelling spell to drain the lake's owner of its moisture, how could she eat it?
That's when he suddenly decided to use the Fennel Fist technique.
The Fennel Fist, which regulates Qi and stomach, can nourish the body when used on an opponent. However, if the opponent is healthy, the Fennel Fist can become a death warrant.
"Why doesn't Lu Yang learn such a powerful fist technique? It's so wet and uncomfortable. Water-Avoiding Technique."
As the words "Water Repelling Technique" were uttered, the water on her body and around her quickly receded, and an invisible force lifted her up.
She stepped onto the lake surface, her hands behind her back, clutching a piece of the lake's owner's flesh, humming a little tune as she returned to the lakeside, relaxed and carefree.
"I wonder what the lake's owner's cooking tastes like."
The culinary expert's intuition told her that the lake owner's cooking must be quite good.
"There's no pot."
The Immortal Fairy scratched her head; there wasn't even a decent kitchen utensil around here.
She saw the lotus leaves on the lake and her eyes lit up. "I've got it! We can wrap it in lotus leaves, then cover it with mud, and roast it over a fire, then we can eat it!"
She didn't bring any seasonings, so she used what she could find on the spot, using plants that looked like seasonings growing by the lake as her real seasonings.
"Immortal True Fire." She exhaled a stream of true fire, a flame unknown to the world, existing independently of the 108 kinds of true fire.
The Immortal True Fire is gentle, scorching food from the inside out, quickly releasing a refreshing aroma.
Just as the Immortal Fairy was about to start eating, a gentle voice sounded behind her.
"Little sister, why are you here all alone? It's dangerous here."
The immortal fairy turned her head, her face showing confusion and ignorance, with a few mud spots on her cheeks, which had been splashed on when she was making beggar's fish.
There were four people standing behind her, all of whom were at the Golden Core stage. Whether it was her imagination or not, the Immortal Fairy only felt that they smiled maliciously before disappearing and being replaced by kind and friendly smiles.
"Little sister, where are your family members?"
(Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader Da Chuan's father)