Chapter 489 - 488: Is Her Episode Acting Up or Not?

Chapter 489: Chapter 488: Is Her Episode Acting Up or Not?

Chapter 488: Is Her Episode Acting Up or Not?

Luo Wusheng blinked.

His brain, still recovering from that decisive battle, had yet to fully process the situation before him—only his mouth was still instinctively seeking more.

But now that he had awakened, the sucking gradually weakened.

The girl in his arms sensed this and instantly pulled her lips free.

Only then did her full face come into view—her small face was so red it looked ready to drip blood, one little hand pressed against her slightly swollen mouth.

Her beautiful eyes were filled with panic.

"Y-you... you... how are you not dead yet?"

Luo Wusheng slowly produced a question mark in his head.

Listen to that, was that something a human should say?

Though to be fair, he himself was also wondering the same thing right now. His gaze shifted around, and he discovered that he was still above the clouds, though the space around this cloud platform was distorted. Through those distortions he could vaguely see towering phoenix flames.

This indicated that the transparent space known as the Formless Realm was on the verge of collapse, yet had not quite done so—and that the phoenix nirvana scene he had vaguely sensed when he lost consciousness had not been an illusion.

It was just unclear what the current situation was.

Luo Wusheng’s gaze fell back to the person in front of him, and his heart stirred.

"Did your... episode end?" / "That didn’t count just now— I— Little Yuli was just frightened, Brother Luo, you...."

Two voices spoke at the same time, but because the girl’s sentence was longer, her clear voice gradually stalled near the end.

They stared at each other wide-eyed.

"...Alright, actually, I didn’t have an episode." / "Oh, so it hasn’t ended yet."

Once again they spoke simultaneously, triggering an even longer stretch of silence.

Feeling Luo Wusheng’s gaze grow strange, the Sword Fairy felt as though the temperature on her face had already surpassed the phoenix fire outside.

Luo Wusheng also felt something was off... He had just vaguely guessed that his Little Yuli was planning to use "acting up" as cover for that intimate contact, and had silently chosen to cooperate, only for the girl to confess herself.

And what she confessed seemed a little different from what he’d imagined.

This "didn’t have an episode"—did it mean she wasn’t having an episode right now, or that she hadn’t had an episode at all from the start today?

Seemingly sensing his thoughts, Little Yuli’s face filled with embarrassed fury.

"W-wah... this isn’t what we agreed on at all, I... I... I’ll go find a pig and crash into it to death!"

The little girl let out a despairing wail and then head-butted straight into Luo Wusheng’s skull.

Luo Wusheng: "..."

My Sword Fairy seems to be playing something very new.

Just as he was about to restrain the "suicidal" little girl, Luo Wusheng’s thoughts suddenly scattered for an instant.

In that instant, he felt himself become infinitely vast.

Standing upon clouds drowned in flame, ten thousand fires bowed before him, like a monarch of fire.

Behind him followed an endless phoenix silhouette forged from flames, pushing his sense of grandeur to the absolute limit.

A mysterious intent flowed from that phoenix shadow into his heart.

’The phoenix incense fire divine path has taken shape. The Phoenix God leaves behind a dao-shadow in heaven, constructing incense fire...’

incense fire? Phoenix God?

Luo Wusheng subconsciously rummaged through his mind for corresponding information.

And then he found it.

Coincidentally, this was something the former Luo Wusheng had once paid attention to.

It was said that in ancient times there had been many terrifying existences born as gods, such as the nine Great Netherfiend bigshots of the Netherkin race, as well as certain special beings whose very bodies were the Dao.

Because they debuted at their peak and were themselves nearly perfect life-forms, they called themselves gods, ruling the world for a period in the distant past. In the process of commanding weaker races and cultivating believers, they evolved a path that was also greatly beneficial to themselves.

This was the incense fire divine path.

Later generations had never gained too clear an understanding of this path. Many only guessed that it might be related to the road to ascension... Yet for some reason, no one in later ages had managed to successfully condense incense fire, and so no one placed much hope in that road anymore.

As for Luo Wusheng... in the past, what he had taken interest in within those legends of the incense fire divine path was the incense jade that those who condensed incense fire could construct...

And as for now, he could already guess that something had gone wrong with his resurrection.

He looked down at the Sword Fairy who, after discovering her head wasn’t nearly hard enough, had shrunk into his arms while clutching her forehead.

The adorable little girl was still muttering nonstop.

"I didn’t want to pretend to be having an episode either... no, that’s not right, I wasn’t really pretending... earlier when I said ’Brother Luo belongs to Little Yuli,’ if it weren’t for that compass the white-haired girl gave me, drawing in the consciousness of my next-episode self, I couldn’t have said it at all! Right, it’s all that white-haired little brat’s fault! And then she even said things like ’Daddy likes you most when you’re having an episode’—is she really my future daughter or what? She’s nothing like me at all... but that nasty personality really does feel kind of like his, and she even knows about my episodes... tch! Who’d want to have kids with him anyway..."

Luo Wusheng felt sweat bead faintly at his temples as he listened.

And yet... for some reason, he also found this version of Little Yuli kind of cute?

After thinking for a moment, he raised a hand and gently rested it atop the girl’s head, using his thumb to rub her forehead while she drooped.

It was only then that he noticed he was still in that half-alive, half-dead, bodiless state from before...

And yet, somehow, he could still touch the girl in his arms.

For now, he chalked that up to protagonist privilege and spoke softly instead.

"Calm down first. I still don’t really understand what’s going on... tell me what happened after I killed the enemy, and what you meant by ’this isn’t what we agreed on at all.’"

Lu Yuli froze slightly at the sudden tenderness. Hearing him naturally brush past the awkwardness from earlier, the turmoil in her heart seemed to settle a little.

Still keeping her head lowered and not daring to look at him, she answered softly.

"N-nothing really happened... when you lost consciousness, everything was already over, and then your body kept cracking and turning unreal, like you were about to completely disperse and transfer your origin to revive..."

"Then why am I still here now? Forget dispersing, I feel like I’m back in the same state as before."

"I-I don’t know either! Just now I saw you were about to vanish, so I leaned a little closer, and then... and then..."

Steam practically rose from the girl’s head.

Luo Wusheng roughly got the idea.

"Wuu... she clearly said that once you lose consciousness and enter the revival process, you wouldn’t wake up anymore, and she even said—"

As the Sword Fairy spoke, she grew more and more anxious. Her breathing quickened, something went wrong with her airflow somewhere, her eyes rolled back—and she collapsed straight into Luo Wusheng’s arms.

The hand resting on her head paused.

Then Luo Wusheng let out a breath.

The emotional upheaval was only a secondary cause, the main reason was that earlier she had forced out the Sword Ancestor’s strike, exhausting herself to the brink of unconsciousness. Getting worked up had just pushed her over the edge.

Her mind probably hadn’t been too clear to begin with.

So earlier... was she really having an episode, or...

Luo Wusheng fell silent for a moment, then adjusted the unconscious girl into a more comfortable position in his arms.

This kind of fainting spell wouldn’t last long, she’d likely wake up soon.

After finishing, he rolled his eyes at the surrounding void.

"Tower Master Yue? Care to come out and explain what’s going on?"

"Uh... I just remembered something. I saw the little pink fox getting your tombstone ready earlier..."

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Note: Link to the character Illustration:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lkIcPnCxeyuyZA4Kkb621dPC05UvWjhD