Chapter 30: Happy Birthday
Early in the morning, the messenger bird came back with a ship pulled by a dragon-like beast.
Song Qingshi signed a transportation contract with the Immortal Beast Sect. After confirming that Qing Luan and the children were all aboard the ship, he had the spirit beast ascend upwards to the sky. Looking down at the deserted Yanshan sect, the Red Lotus Fire bloomed once again in his hand, igniting a raging fire and burning this lair of evil.
The speed of the magical ship was slow. It will take about three days to reach the Medicine King’s Valley.
Song Qingshi missed Yue Wuhuan. With his heart set on speeding home, he carefully gave Qing Luan a few instructions and went on ahead.
He landed in a few cities along the way and spent a lot of time there. He rushed home but by the time he returned to the Medicine King’s Valley, it was already nearing midnight. He estimated the time. He was afraid that it might be too late. He hurried to go look for Yue Wuhuan but then, he saw that Yue Wuhuan had already appeared before him.
Song Qingshi breathed a sigh of relief. “I thought you were already asleep.”
Yue Wuhuan smiled and said, “Master said that he was coming back today so I couldn’t sleep. I was waiting here for you.”
“It’s a good thing you haven’t slept yet. Come with me.” Song Qingshi didn’t think much. He hurriedly dragged him onto the spirit beast and they flew into the air.
Yue Wuhuan was a little confused by his actions. He said comfortingly, “Master, the mice are fine and all the village outside is fine too.”
Song Qingshi said happily, “I want to take you to somewhere beautiful.”
He directed the spirit beast to Xinyi Mountain.
Xinyi Mountain was the highest peak in the Medicine King’s Valley. There was usually no one here and it was very secluded. On top of the mountain there was a Du Ruoting. Song Qingshi would occasionally sit lost in thought inside the gazebo. In the spring, he would watch exotic flowers and rare herbs. In the summer, he would watch the cliff-side springs and waterfalls. In autumn, he would watch red leaves cover the sky and in winter, he would watch an expanse of white snow. All these sceneries would be half-concealed in the mist. It was more beauty than one could take in. At night, this was the only place where there was no fog in the Medicine King’s Valley. It was the best place to see the star-filled night sky.
He had long wanted to bring Yue Wuhuan to play here, but he was delayed by various things.
The weather was clear tonight and the starlight was just right. This was the best setting for a celebration.
Yue Wuhuan hesitantly followed Song Qingshi into the gazebo and sat on the long stone bench. Song Qingshi smiled and sat beside him. The two of them were close together. He felt heartbeat running faster and his thoughts getting all jumbled. As long as he had this person beside him, even the vast and mighty galaxy, even the most picturesque scenery, couldn’t enter his eyes.
Song Qingshi snapped his fingers and the lit up the gazebo’s lanterns, enveloping the two of them in candlelight. He told him earnestly, “I have three gifts for you.”
He finally knew where the two hundred thousand spirit stones had gone. This gift was so expensive that he doesn’t know how to react…
“En, close your eyes and relax. It will only hurt a little bit.” Song Qingshi asked him to take out the spirit bead. He cheerfully gave him a few instructions and then used his spiritual power to carefully interweave countless spiritual threads onto the Quintessence of All Souls. He formed a rune and then use the Quintessence of All Souls as a medium to direct these runes made of spirit threats to the depths of Yue Wuhuan’s spirit, pouncing on the chains that imprisoned his soul, snapping them off one by one.
Yue Wuhuan’s hands were very hot and his back was too. It was as if there was a gentle fire burning, burning bit by bit that livestock brand that had ruined his dignity. The places the fire had burned through felt refreshed and indescribably comfortable. At the moment when all the chains were cut off, the spirit bead turned into powder and he suddenly felt his soul relax. The spiritual power in his Dantian was grew frantically. It wanted to break through the bottleneck formed by his narrow meridians. It quickly made a circuit twice, steadying his breath.
He opened his eyes. He couldn’t dare believe that he had just got rid of his confinement. It was like the fulfilment of a dream he had yearned for endlessly, day and night…
Song Qingshi released his hand and asked excitedly, “Did it work? Let me see, okay?!”
Yue Wuhuan gave him a profound look and slowly undid his clothes and turned around.
The enchanting mark spreading across his back had completely disappeared, leaving only a small red phoenix birthmark on the left butterfly bone. It had revealed its original appearance.
Song Qingshi poked the little phoenix and said in surprise, “Your birthmark is very cute.”
“En.” Yue Wuhuan felt his ears grow a bit hot. He was afraid of being seen through by the other party. He quickly put on his clothes again, lowered his head and stopped his cheeks from turning red by using the “Emotion Locking Gu”. He tried his best to try and make himself appear acting natural. He adjusted his breathing and then stood up and bowed carefully to Song Qingshi.
He didn’t say any more words of thanks because some debts of gratitude can no longer be expressed in words and will take a lifetime to repay.
“Don’t thank me. I’m embarrassed. It’s taken me this long to fulfill my promise to you.” Song Qingshi pulled him up and said with a smile, “I still have gifts for you. You’ll like this one. ”
He took out a soul lamp from the mustard seed bag. In the faint blue flame inside the lamp, a suffering soul was ceaselessly struggling.
Yue Wuhuan took the lamp. Once he clearly saw the appearance of this soul, he opened his eyes in disbelief. “Is this Xie Que?”
Song Qingshi nodded. “I killed him and locked his soul in this lamp.”
Towards those that immortal cultivators hate deeply, they can use a soul lamp to trap their adversary’s soul after death, stopping them from being freed so easily.
Yue Wuhuan’s breathing began to race once again. “Why?”
“He’s your hatred and the source of your pain,” Song Qingshi considered his words for a long time and slowly explained, “I can be very obtuse and I can’t always understand other people’s intentions. I’m giving you this to vent your hatred. You can torment him however way you want. If there comes a day when you want to let go of your pain and hatred, just smash this lamp and I will know what you intend…”
Yue Wuhuan said dazedly, “What I intend?”
Song Qingshi smiled and said, “To break off the shackles of the past and have the best life.”
Yue Wuhuan looked longingly at his smile and tightly grasped the soul lamp in his hand. He only felt that he would never be able to let go of this hatred his entire lifetime.
Song Qingshi was embarrassed and said, “Jin Feiren should also be killed but his cultivation level is similar to mine. It is rumored that there are Fen Shen cultivators behind Golden Phoenix Manor. I’m not certain that…” He has calculated many times, but Jin Feiren was rich and powerful; everywhere he goes, he would have attendants crowding around. He had countless magical weapons on his person. Although a sneak attack using poison could be employed, the success rate was very low. He was not afraid of his own death. What he was afraid of was that the Medicine King’s Valley would fall into the hands of Golden Phoenix Villa after his death and Yue Wuhuan would be brought back to the devil’s lair.
“Don’t try to take on Jin Feiren!” Yue Wuhuan grabbed him and said anxiously, “I have seen with my own eyes. There are indeed Fen Shen cultivators in Golden Phoenix Manor and there are three of them. Jin Feiren has on him a talisman that gives him poison resistance and it can restrain you. Master killing Xie Que for me was already enough to assuage my hatred. Don’t take any risks.”
“En,” Song Qingshi casually poked the soul in the soul lamp, increasing his pain. “If you’re feeling unhappy then you can play with this and bully him. A tool to help you decompress.”
Yue Wuhuan smiled and glanced at the soul lamp. He said softly, “Okay.”
He liked this gift a lot. He will take good care of this lamp; look after it day after day so that it will not be damaged in the slightest.
Song Qingshi scratched his head, embarrassed. “The last gift is a bit simple.”
“I’m already very satisfied.” Yue Wuhuan looked at him with a smile and couldn’t think of what else he needed.
Song Qingshi carefully took out an old wooden box engraved with a bird pattern and placed it in front of him.
Yue Wuhuan was stunned. He tremblingly stretched out his hand and took the wooden box…
When he was a child, he dreamt of collecting the most beautiful gems and stones in the world.
This wooden box was made by his brother when he was six years old. It contained gems given by his parents and brother, as well as beautiful stones after he came to the immortal realm. He collected a box full of them. Afraid of being made fun of as being childish, he didn’t dare let anyone know. Later, he was sold to the Golden Phoenix Manor and he lost everything. The wooden box also disappeared. He sunk into hell every day and he had already forgotten all his likes and preferences a long time ago.
He never thought that he would ever be able to see this wooden box again in his life…
Yue Wuhuan gently stroked the clumsy carving on the wooden box and opened the lid.
The wooden box was filled with a box of gems and stones, including pearls, sapphires, rubies, diamonds… and the beautiful stones that he had picked up on the mountain or by the river. He picked up these beautiful gems one by one and placed them down one by one. Finally, he placed a white round pebbles in his hand and examined it carefully.
“I don’t have any money.” Song Qingshi was ashamed of the poverty of the Medicine King’s Valley, “I saw a lot of gems from the immortal realm in the city. They were very beautiful but they’re too expensive for me to buy… so I only bought these mortal world gems. Somehow I managed to put together a box. I will definitely give you better-looking ones in the future…”
He was feeling a little guilty. He felt that these gems were not worthy Yue Wuhuan’s beauty. He should have bought flame stone or blood jade.
However, the money he had grabbed from Xie Que was used to pay the bills from Night Rain Pavilion and Heaven Craft Pavilion. He didn’t have much pocket money left, so he took out all of it and still only managed to buy these…
Song Qingshi said, stumblingly, “I’m sorry, when I make money, I’ll buy you better ones.”
“I already have the best.” Yue Wuhuan suddenly stretched out his hand, took him into his arms and hugged him tightly.
He recognized that this white pebble came from the river in Ruoxu Peak. Its surface was still slightly damp which meant that it was put in recently. Such a spotlessly white, smooth and round stone was not easy to find. There was still a little bit of mud at the corner of his Master’s clothes. It must have taken him a long, long time standing in the water to find it. The “Emotion Locking Gu” wriggled and struggled around his neck, frantically absorbing his emotions. He laid a sincere kiss on Song Qingshi’s forehead. In ambiguous words that the other would not be able to understand, he said words of the love he could not declare, “I want to give it to you, give it all to you…”
My first gift, I would like to give you my body…
My second gift, I would like to give you my soul…
My third gift, I would like to give you my heart…
I am yours, and will always be yours…
……
Song Qingshi counted down the time. He raised his hand and countless tongues of Red Lotus Fire bloomed in the air, layer upon layer, overlapping each other. Like brilliant fireworks, they illuminated the entire valley, as though it constituted the most gorgeous celebration. Standing under the fireworks, he raised his head with a smile and wholeheartedly gave the most beautiful blessing.
“Wuhuan, happy birthday.”
Chapter 30: Happy Birthday
Early in the morning, the messenger bird came back with a ship pulled by a dragon-like beast.
Song Qingshi signed a transportation contract with the Immortal Beast Sect. After confirming that Qing Luan and the children were all aboard the ship, he had the spirit beast ascend upwards to the sky. Looking down at the deserted Yanshan sect, the Red Lotus Fire bloomed once again in his hand, igniting a raging fire and burning this lair of evil.
The speed of the magical ship was slow. It will take about three days to reach the Medicine King’s Valley.
Song Qingshi missed Yue Wuhuan. With his heart set on speeding home, he carefully gave Qing Luan a few instructions and went on ahead.
He landed in a few cities along the way and spent a lot of time there. He rushed home but by the time he returned to the Medicine King’s Valley, it was already nearing midnight. He estimated the time. He was afraid that it might be too late. He hurried to go look for Yue Wuhuan but then, he saw that Yue Wuhuan had already appeared before him.
Song Qingshi breathed a sigh of relief. “I thought you were already asleep.”
Yue Wuhuan smiled and said, “Master said that he was coming back today so I couldn’t sleep. I was waiting here for you.”
“It’s a good thing you haven’t slept yet. Come with me.” Song Qingshi didn’t think much. He hurriedly dragged him onto the spirit beast and they flew into the air.
Yue Wuhuan was a little confused by his actions. He said comfortingly, “Master, the mice are fine and all the village outside is fine too.”
Song Qingshi said happily, “I want to take you to somewhere beautiful.”
He directed the spirit beast to Xinyi Mountain.
Xinyi Mountain was the highest peak in the Medicine King’s Valley. There was usually no one here and it was very secluded. On top of the mountain there was a Du Ruoting. Song Qingshi would occasionally sit lost in thought inside the gazebo. In the spring, he would watch exotic flowers and rare herbs. In the summer, he would watch the cliff-side springs and waterfalls. In autumn, he would watch red leaves cover the sky and in winter, he would watch an expanse of white snow. All these sceneries would be half-concealed in the mist. It was more beauty than one could take in. At night, this was the only place where there was no fog in the Medicine King’s Valley. It was the best place to see the star-filled night sky.
He had long wanted to bring Yue Wuhuan to play here, but he was delayed by various things.
The weather was clear tonight and the starlight was just right. This was the best setting for a celebration.
Yue Wuhuan hesitantly followed Song Qingshi into the gazebo and sat on the long stone bench. Song Qingshi smiled and sat beside him. The two of them were close together. He felt heartbeat running faster and his thoughts getting all jumbled. As long as he had this person beside him, even the vast and mighty galaxy, even the most picturesque scenery, couldn’t enter his eyes.
Song Qingshi snapped his fingers and the lit up the gazebo’s lanterns, enveloping the two of them in candlelight. He told him earnestly, “I have three gifts for you.”
He finally knew where the two hundred thousand spirit stones had gone. This gift was so expensive that he doesn’t know how to react…
“En, close your eyes and relax. It will only hurt a little bit.” Song Qingshi asked him to take out the spirit bead. He cheerfully gave him a few instructions and then used his spiritual power to carefully interweave countless spiritual threads onto the Quintessence of All Souls. He formed a rune and then use the Quintessence of All Souls as a medium to direct these runes made of spirit threats to the depths of Yue Wuhuan’s spirit, pouncing on the chains that imprisoned his soul, snapping them off one by one.
Yue Wuhuan’s hands were very hot and his back was too. It was as if there was a gentle fire burning, burning bit by bit that livestock brand that had ruined his dignity. The places the fire had burned through felt refreshed and indescribably comfortable. At the moment when all the chains were cut off, the spirit bead turned into powder and he suddenly felt his soul relax. The spiritual power in his Dantian was grew frantically. It wanted to break through the bottleneck formed by his narrow meridians. It quickly made a circuit twice, steadying his breath.
He opened his eyes. He couldn’t dare believe that he had just got rid of his confinement. It was like the fulfilment of a dream he had yearned for endlessly, day and night…
Song Qingshi released his hand and asked excitedly, “Did it work? Let me see, okay?!”
Yue Wuhuan gave him a profound look and slowly undid his clothes and turned around.
The enchanting mark spreading across his back had completely disappeared, leaving only a small red phoenix birthmark on the left butterfly bone. It had revealed its original appearance.
Song Qingshi poked the little phoenix and said in surprise, “Your birthmark is very cute.”
“En.” Yue Wuhuan felt his ears grow a bit hot. He was afraid of being seen through by the other party. He quickly put on his clothes again, lowered his head and stopped his cheeks from turning red by using the “Emotion Locking Gu”. He tried his best to try and make himself appear acting natural. He adjusted his breathing and then stood up and bowed carefully to Song Qingshi.
He didn’t say any more words of thanks because some debts of gratitude can no longer be expressed in words and will take a lifetime to repay.
“Don’t thank me. I’m embarrassed. It’s taken me this long to fulfill my promise to you.” Song Qingshi pulled him up and said with a smile, “I still have gifts for you. You’ll like this one. ”
He took out a soul lamp from the mustard seed bag. In the faint blue flame inside the lamp, a suffering soul was ceaselessly struggling.
Yue Wuhuan took the lamp. Once he clearly saw the appearance of this soul, he opened his eyes in disbelief. “Is this Xie Que?”
Song Qingshi nodded. “I killed him and locked his soul in this lamp.”
Towards those that immortal cultivators hate deeply, they can use a soul lamp to trap their adversary’s soul after death, stopping them from being freed so easily.
Yue Wuhuan’s breathing began to race once again. “Why?”
“He’s your hatred and the source of your pain,” Song Qingshi considered his words for a long time and slowly explained, “I can be very obtuse and I can’t always understand other people’s intentions. I’m giving you this to vent your hatred. You can torment him however way you want. If there comes a day when you want to let go of your pain and hatred, just smash this lamp and I will know what you intend…”
Yue Wuhuan said dazedly, “What I intend?”
Song Qingshi smiled and said, “To break off the shackles of the past and have the best life.”
Yue Wuhuan looked longingly at his smile and tightly grasped the soul lamp in his hand. He only felt that he would never be able to let go of this hatred his entire lifetime.
Song Qingshi was embarrassed and said, “Jin Feiren should also be killed but his cultivation level is similar to mine. It is rumored that there are Fen Shen cultivators behind Golden Phoenix Manor. I’m not certain that…” He has calculated many times, but Jin Feiren was rich and powerful; everywhere he goes, he would have attendants crowding around. He had countless magical weapons on his person. Although a sneak attack using poison could be employed, the success rate was very low. He was not afraid of his own death. What he was afraid of was that the Medicine King’s Valley would fall into the hands of Golden Phoenix Villa after his death and Yue Wuhuan would be brought back to the devil’s lair.
“Don’t try to take on Jin Feiren!” Yue Wuhuan grabbed him and said anxiously, “I have seen with my own eyes. There are indeed Fen Shen cultivators in Golden Phoenix Manor and there are three of them. Jin Feiren has on him a talisman that gives him poison resistance and it can restrain you. Master killing Xie Que for me was already enough to assuage my hatred. Don’t take any risks.”
“En,” Song Qingshi casually poked the soul in the soul lamp, increasing his pain. “If you’re feeling unhappy then you can play with this and bully him. A tool to help you decompress.”
Yue Wuhuan smiled and glanced at the soul lamp. He said softly, “Okay.”
He liked this gift a lot. He will take good care of this lamp; look after it day after day so that it will not be damaged in the slightest.
Song Qingshi scratched his head, embarrassed. “The last gift is a bit simple.”
“I’m already very satisfied.” Yue Wuhuan looked at him with a smile and couldn’t think of what else he needed.
Song Qingshi carefully took out an old wooden box engraved with a bird pattern and placed it in front of him.
Yue Wuhuan was stunned. He tremblingly stretched out his hand and took the wooden box…
When he was a child, he dreamt of collecting the most beautiful gems and stones in the world.
This wooden box was made by his brother when he was six years old. It contained gems given by his parents and brother, as well as beautiful stones after he came to the immortal realm. He collected a box full of them. Afraid of being made fun of as being childish, he didn’t dare let anyone know. Later, he was sold to the Golden Phoenix Manor and he lost everything. The wooden box also disappeared. He sunk into hell every day and he had already forgotten all his likes and preferences a long time ago.
He never thought that he would ever be able to see this wooden box again in his life…
Yue Wuhuan gently stroked the clumsy carving on the wooden box and opened the lid.
The wooden box was filled with a box of gems and stones, including pearls, sapphires, rubies, diamonds… and the beautiful stones that he had picked up on the mountain or by the river. He picked up these beautiful gems one by one and placed them down one by one. Finally, he placed a white round pebbles in his hand and examined it carefully.
“I don’t have any money.” Song Qingshi was ashamed of the poverty of the Medicine King’s Valley, “I saw a lot of gems from the immortal realm in the city. They were very beautiful but they’re too expensive for me to buy… so I only bought these mortal world gems. Somehow I managed to put together a box. I will definitely give you better-looking ones in the future…”
He was feeling a little guilty. He felt that these gems were not worthy Yue Wuhuan’s beauty. He should have bought flame stone or blood jade.
However, the money he had grabbed from Xie Que was used to pay the bills from Night Rain Pavilion and Heaven Craft Pavilion. He didn’t have much pocket money left, so he took out all of it and still only managed to buy these…
Song Qingshi said, stumblingly, “I’m sorry, when I make money, I’ll buy you better ones.”
“I already have the best.” Yue Wuhuan suddenly stretched out his hand, took him into his arms and hugged him tightly.
He recognized that this white pebble came from the river in Ruoxu Peak. Its surface was still slightly damp which meant that it was put in recently. Such a spotlessly white, smooth and round stone was not easy to find. There was still a little bit of mud at the corner of his Master’s clothes. It must have taken him a long, long time standing in the water to find it. The “Emotion Locking Gu” wriggled and struggled around his neck, frantically absorbing his emotions. He laid a sincere kiss on Song Qingshi’s forehead. In ambiguous words that the other would not be able to understand, he said words of the love he could not declare, “I want to give it to you, give it all to you…”
My first gift, I would like to give you my body…
My second gift, I would like to give you my soul…
My third gift, I would like to give you my heart…
I am yours, and will always be yours…
……
Song Qingshi counted down the time. He raised his hand and countless tongues of Red Lotus Fire bloomed in the air, layer upon layer, overlapping each other. Like brilliant fireworks, they illuminated the entire valley, as though it constituted the most gorgeous celebration. Standing under the fireworks, he raised his head with a smile and wholeheartedly gave the most beautiful blessing.
“Wuhuan, happy birthday.”
