Ling Xi looked at him without a word, the oddness in her eyes deepening.
Her stare made Bai Chuan's skin crawl a little, and he plucked up his courage to ask a question in return.
"Then what realm are you in?"
Ling Xi withdrew her gaze, her tone utterly casual and proud.
"I am a Dou Di."
Bai Chuan: "..."
Bai Chuan fell silent for two seconds, then gave a dry laugh.
"Fairy, don't joke. How could you possibly be a Dou Di?"
Ling Xi narrowed her phoenix eyes. Her silver hair stirred without wind, and her presence abruptly turned cold.
"You don't believe me?"
She sneered and raised her right hand, palm upward, her fingers curling slightly.
"Then I shall let you see for yourself-"
Halfway through her words, she suddenly stopped.
Her palm was completely empty. Not a trace of Dou Qi appeared.
Ling Xi's expression shifted slightly, and she tried again. The Dou Qi within her remained as still as stagnant water; she could not muster even a fraction of it.
Refusing to believe it, she abruptly stood and formed seals with both hands, her silver hair dancing wildly and her red robes snapping.
But no matter how she tried to summon it, this space seemed to have sealed her Dou Qi away completely. There was not even the slightest fluctuation.
Ling Xi froze in place, her face alternating between ashen and pale, her lips pressed into a straight line.
Watching her, Bai Chuan cautiously spoke.
"Fairy... are you unable to use your Dou Qi?"
Ling Xi whipped her head around to glare at him, her gaze cold enough to kill.
"Shut up."
Bai Chuan wisely closed his mouth, but inwardly, he had already rolled his eyes.
A Dou Di? You can't even use Dou Qi, and you call yourself a Dou Di.
But it's strange. I can't use Dou Qi here either.
Just as Ling Xi was racking her brains over how to prove her realm, Bai Chuan suddenly spoke.
"Fairy, I have a question."
Ling Xi looked at him coldly without speaking.
Bai Chuan considered his wording, then slowly said,
"No one on the Dou Qi Continent has been able to break through to Dou Di for ten thousand years."
"So you couldn't possibly be a Dou Di, Fairy, unless you came from the Dou Qi Continent of ten thousand years ago."
Bai Chuan only said this to lighten the mood with a joke. After all, how could he possibly meet a Dou Di powerhouse from ten thousand years ago?
The moment he said this, Ling Xi froze.
She stared at Bai Chuan, the chill in her phoenix eyes fading little by little, replaced by deep bewilderment.
"What did you say?"
"The Dou Qi Continent... hasn't produced a Dou Di in ten thousand years?!"
She murmured it again with a grave expression, her silver hair falling over her shoulders, the snake marking on her forehead dimming slightly.
This man seemed not to belong to her world.
Ling Xi had never cultivated at this Dou Qi realm he had mentioned...
Bai Chuan said Dou Di had vanished ten thousand years ago, but in her era, although Dou Di were rare, they were not beyond reach.
What exactly was going on?
Ling Xi raised her head and studied the handsome human man before her anew. For the first time, a thought arose in her heart.
Perhaps all of this was far more complicated than she had imagined.
Seeing Ling Xi's complicated expression and recalling how the two of them had suddenly appeared together in this peculiar place, Xiao Baichuan immediately came up with an extremely bold conjecture.
Could this woman really be an ancient Dou Di from ten thousand years ago?
If that were true, then at least ten thousand years separated him from her!
This was simply far too absurd.
Then Xiao Baichuan remembered that the object of his erotic dreams over the past three years seemed to have always been this woman.
And so, as though possessed, he spoke, his tone somewhat probing.
"Um... Fairy, have you ever dreamed about me before?"
Ling Xi had been immersed in her confusion, but upon hearing this, her phoenix eyes instantly widened, and her silver hair nearly stood on end.
"You!"
Her chest heaved violently with anger. Without another word, she raised her slender hand, and a red longsword appeared out of thin air in her palm.
The blade hummed, red light blazing.
Ling Xi swung her sword at Xiao Baichuan. With a light push of her toes, she swept across the Nine-Colored Stream, red robes snapping, the sword's tip aimed straight at his face.
"Lecher! You dare bring that up!"
Xiao Baichuan nearly had his soul scared out of him. Instinctively, he clapped his hands together and, with a smack, caught the blade firmly between his palms.
A guaranteed barehanded blade catch!
At that moment, that sword was only 0.01 centimeters from the top of my head!
But a quarter of an incense stick later, that sword's mistress would trust me completely and fall in love with me!
Because I was handsome and dashing!
"Fairy, calm down! Calm down! I have a way out!"
Ling Xi did not ease the force of her hands. With murderous phoenix eyes and a flushed face, she stared at him.
"Speak!"
Xiao Baichuan swallowed and spoke rapidly.
"Surely you don't want to live here with me for the rest of your life, Fairy?"
The girl's blush had long since said it all.
Hearing this, Ling Xi clenched her teeth in fury, making to press the blade down.
"Say that again?"
Xiao Baichuan hurriedly corrected himself.
"I was wrong! I mean, I have a way out! Really!"
Ling Xi stared at him for several breaths. At last, she forcibly suppressed her anger, turned her wrist, and twirled her sword before putting it away.
She stepped back twice, her red robes settling and her silver hair falling back to her waist, then spoke expressionlessly, not a trace of the killing intent leaving her voice.
"If you dare toy with me, I'll pickle you!"
Xiao Baichuan instinctively squeezed his legs together and gave a dry laugh.
"I wouldn't dare. I wouldn't dare."
He caught his breath, then cautiously spoke.
"Um, Fairy, just who exactly are you?"
Ling Xi had not wanted to answer this question, but remembering his claim that he had a way out, she forcibly restrained her impatience and coldly uttered a reply.
"Ling Xi, the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, empress of the Ancient Heavenly Snake Clan."
As she spoke, Ling Xi also displayed the Colored Scales unique to the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
Upon hearing this title, Xiao Baichuan went rigid.
A Heaven Swallowing Python! And a nine-colored one at that! A magical beast this rare was exceedingly uncommon even in ancient times, let alone now!
Now Xiao Baichuan had no choice but to believe her.
However, Xiao Baichuan had already experienced transmigration once. Faced with something like this, he was only shocked for a moment before accepting the situation the next second.
Seeing him so shocked that he could not speak, Ling Xi felt immensely pleased.
She simply loved seeing this scoundrel looking shocked and afraid.
The corners of her mouth unconsciously curled upward. Now you know fear, you wretched man. That's what you get for teasing me. I'll scare you to death!
Ling Xi forcibly suppressed her smile and resumed an air of breezy composure. Raising her chin, she spoke mildly.
"Pick your jaw up. Your turn."
Only then did Xiao Baichuan come back to his senses. He hurriedly closed his mouth and composed himself.
"Oh, right. My name is Xiao Baichuan. I'm from the Xiao Clan."
Ling Xi frowned, her gaze instantly growing grave.
She hurriedly asked, "Which Xiao Clan? Could it be the Xiao Clan of the Emperor Clans?"
Xiao Baichuan paused. The Xiao Clan's ancestors had belonged to an ancient Emperor Clan and had produced a Dou Di, though there was a gap of over ten thousand years.
Moreover, the Xiao Clan had declined now. Under the Gu Clan's care, it had produced a Da Dou Shi powerhouse, but it should still count.
"More or less, but I'm only an adopted son."
Hearing that he was adopted, Ling Xi's tightly knitted brows finally relaxed a little.
Wait, what am I nervous about? This brat isn't the Xiao Clan's Dou Di.
"All right, tell me. What way is there to get out?"
Xiao Baichuan did not dawdle either and asked directly,
"Fairy, every time you draw your sword and slash me in your dreams, do you wake up after you're done?"
Ling Xi thought back carefully and realized that was indeed the case.
Every time she finished slashing this lecher in her dream, she woke up.
She nodded.
"Yes."
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