It was the figure of a woman.
She was wearing a simple long dress, but she exuded the aura of a genuine immortal, so pure that it almost stopped people in their tracks and made them dare not approach her easily.
As the white mist gradually dissipated, the woman's facial features became clearer and Xue Li recognized her at a glance.
It’s the fairy Shaoyin.
Her appearance had not changed much from when she was in the mortal world. She was still the familiar look to Xue Li, but because of the fairy-like aura, she seemed even more ethereal and noble.
Xue Li clutched the hem of her skirt tightly, and didn't dare to go forward for a long time. Even if she went forward, she didn't know what to address.
Fairy? Immortal? Master? Aunt
Calling her "Fairy" or "Immortal Lord" felt too unfamiliar and would make Xue Li feel a dull pain in her heart; calling her "Master" or "Aunt" made her afraid that Fairy Shao Yin would feel too close. After all, this was not the mortal world, and Fairy Shao Yin was not the mortal Lin Shao, so she was always afraid that it would seem like she was marrying above her station.
Xue Li was so nervous that her calves were shaking. She opened her mouth and pursed her lips. However, at the moment she hesitated, Fairy Shao Yin seemed to have come to her senses. She frowned slightly in pain and opened her eyes in the lingering white mist.
Seeing Fairy Shao Yin open her eyes, Xue Li became more and more at a loss.
At this time, Fairy Shao Yin woke up from nearly forty years of ups and downs in mortal life, feeling dizzy and still in a trance.
After parting with Xue Li at Xinglin Peak, she traveled all over Kyushu again, searching for all kinds of herbs that had never been discovered in the world and treating all kinds of difficult and complicated diseases. Finally, when she had collected a thousand magical herbs, she had an epiphany about medicine. At the same time, there was a strange movement in her mind, and memories of nearly ten thousand years revived. When she came to her senses, she had regained her immortal body and returned here.
Until this moment, she still had some cognitive confusion caused by the collision of the two memories. After a moment, the eight thousand years of divine memory finally prevailed.
But when she regained her status as an immortal, worldly affairs made her pause again.
Before she came to the mortal world, she thought it would be just a clichéd dream of suffering. Until she woke up at this moment, the memories of the past forty years suddenly rushed into her mind like a picture. She found that the amount of information was quite large. Things that she didn't understand before finally became clear to her. There were also many things that she had only taken for granted and didn't notice before, which made her heart tremble suddenly at this moment.
Xueli, the fairyland, the nine-tailed fox, the jade pendant Xueli wore, the song she sang, "Looking for the Moon"...
Shao Yin couldn't believe that she would meet Xue Li in the mortal world. Even if she were asked to come a hundred times, she would never expect such a thing to happen in the world. At this moment, she raised her head and saw Xue Li waiting for her not far away, hesitating and not daring to come forward.
Looking at the girl he raised, Shao Yin was stunned for a moment.
She was stunned and said: "You..."
Xueli also stepped forward fearfully, several names flashing through her lips, and finally she whispered: "Shao Yin Yuanjun..."
Before Xueli finished her words, the fairy Shaoyin, who had just returned to heaven, knocked on the door and said, "You're calling me 'Aunt' just fine, why change the way you say it? It sounds so strange and awkward."
"oh."
Xue Li was stunned.
But Shao Yin's words dispelled all her doubts. Xue Li came to her senses and was extremely excited. She happily went up to her and called out, "Auntie!"
Xueli rubbed against her aunt's arms, wagging her tail and rubbing against her happily.
Shao Yin hugged her and touched her head, but after a moment, she held Xue Li's face again.
Seeing Xueli like this, Shaoyin was reminded of many memories that were too old to be easily touched. She almost lost herself in thought and whispered, "Xueli..."
"Um?"
Xueli felt that her aunt's eyes were a little strange, and the voice calling her name was also vague, so she couldn't help but tilt her head.
She couldn't wait to say, "Aunt, I've missed you so much during this period! I've heard from Zi Lan that you are the incarnation of the ancient snow lotus and the Nine Heavens Medical Fairy who has descended to the earth! So when we heard the news that you had returned to heaven, we came to see you! During this period, the small fairyland has moved to the Nine Heavens, but we still left a door for you at the original location. And..."
Xue Li hesitated for a moment, but still felt that she should tell her aunt these words earlier.
Xueli hesitated and said, "I'm sorry, aunt. For some reason, I rashly visited your Snow Lotus Peak. The fairy boy guarding the gate repeatedly warned me not to enter the inner palace, but I was still careless..."
"No need to say more."
Shao Yin interrupted Xue Li's apology. She had returned to the position of Immortal King and seemed steady and calm about everything.
But to Xueli, her aunt seemed surprisingly not angry about this.
Shao Yin looked around and saw that although only Xueli and Zilan were there, it was still the East Terrace after all, so she said, "This is not a place to talk, let's go to another place. I also have something to tell you, it's a long story, how about we go back to Xuelian Peak first?"
Of course Xue Li nodded, and then naturally took Zi Lan's hand.
Zi Lan, who brought Xue Li here, was a little hesitant. He paused when being led, as if he didn't know whether he should intervene in the conversation between Xue Li and Shao Yin given his situation.
At this time, Shao Yin glanced at him and said calmly: "You come too."
"Wumi?"
Xueli tugged at his sleeve.
Zi Lan reacted and said quickly, "Thank you, Fairy Shao Yin."
Only then did he follow.
Zi Lan and Xue Li came here in the fairy carriage, so they simply took the fairy carriage to Xuelian Peak.
Fairy Shao Yin came back from this rooftop because it was close to Snow Lotus Peak. Before it got dark, the three of them had already arrived at Snow Lotus Peak.
"Master Yuanjun is back!"
"It's Master Yuanjun who's back!"
When Gancao and Danggui saw Fairy Shaoyin coming back, their attitudes were very different from last time. They had been standing still at the gate of the palace, but when they saw Fairy Shaoyin getting off the fairy carriage, they immediately came to greet her with surprise, and even became much more enthusiastic towards Xueli and Zilan.
"Does Lord Yuanjun have any other luggage?"
"Does Lord Yuanjun need to eat and bathe?"
"We clean the Fairy Palace every day, and now it is spotless!"
Licorice and Angelica were circling around Fairy Shaoyin, as if they were eager to move something for her. Fairy Shaoyin patted their heads and said, "Go and tidy up the tea room. Licorice, go and make a pot of good tea. I have something to discuss with Xueli and Young Master Zilan."
"yes!"
Licorice nodded obediently and went to make tea happily.
Shao Yin turned around and said to Xue Li and Zi Lan, "Come with me."
After a while, the three of them sat together in the tea room.
The last time Xueli came here, she came to read medical books. Because she went into the inner room against convention, Gancao secretly disliked her. Xueli didn't know there was such a place in the fairy palace, and she couldn't help but look around curiously. She was curious about every trace of her aunt's previous life.
Since her aunt returned to the Ninth Heaven, she has suddenly turned back into the Shaoyin Fairy that Xue Li had heard of from others. Her every move is filled with indescribable calmness and elegance.
Xue Li could still see the similarities between her and when she was in the mortal world, but she couldn't help feeling a little restrained in front of such an aunt.
Fairy Shaoyin took a sip of tea and waved to Xueli, "Little darling, come here and let me see you."
“Ouch!”
Xue Li understood what her aunt meant, and transformed into a little nine-tailed fox. She ran towards her aunt, dragging her tail, and jumped onto her aunt's knees!
Shao Yin picked her up with a smile and touched her head and ears.
“Woo woo woo…”
Xueli rolled over comfortably as she was kneaded, making a small gurgling sound from her throat.
Shao Yin held Xueli and rubbed her for a while, and the two of them got rid of the unfamiliarity between the mortal world and the fairyland after a long separation.
Shao Yin put Xueli back and let her run back to her seat and turn back into her human form and sit down.
Xueli paused and tried to ask, "Aunt..."
Shao Yin looked at her face and said with emotion: "It's been a long time."
But then, Shao Yin reached out her hand, touched her face with a long and meaningful touch, and said in a trance: "Looks so much like..."
She shook her head and added, "I didn't expect it. I really didn't expect it. Who could have thought that there would be such a thing in the world?"
Shao Yin couldn't help but think of her first meeting with Xue Li.
A pitch-black curtain of rain and a gloomy rainstorm.
Xueli was a little white fox lying alone in a bamboo basket, breathing weakly. She was also alone, holding a broken oil umbrella in her hand.
She once thought about abandoning the little fox and leaving, but in the end she couldn't bear to do it and turned back.
She had forgotten all about her past in the mortal world... If she had died like that at that time, how much would she regret it now
Shao Yin tidied up the loose hair that had fallen to Xueli's temples, sat up straight, and then said, "Xueli, I have something I should tell you."
Upon hearing this, Xueli and Zilan couldn't help but sit up straight, knowing that their aunt must be saying something very important, and they were afraid to leave out even a word.
Shao Yin asked: "You just said that you accidentally entered the inner palace, right?"
Xueli nodded shamefully.
Shao Yin asked: "What did you see?"
In fact, Xue Li could not be considered to have entered the inner palace. It was just that the little tiger knocked over a box, and both Xue Li and Zi Lan saw what was in the box.
Xueli recounted what she had seen truthfully, then stood up and asked bravely, "Aunt, are you—?"
Shao Yin sighed softly and said, "Don't panic. Even if you didn't see those, this is something I should tell you. Especially you, Xueli, I can't hide it from you."
She said, "Yes. I once raised a little white fox in Snow Lotus Peak and did some things that violated the laws of nature."
Shao Yin paused for a moment, then stared at Xue Li and continued, "You two look very similar. I think she should be your mother."
Xueli's heart couldn't help but beat wildly.
When she smelled the scent of those toys, which was somewhat similar to her own, Xueli thought so, but she was not sure after all. Now that this idea was confirmed, she unconsciously became nervous.
Xueli asked: "What's going on?"
Fairy Shaoyin paused for a moment, looking at the tea in the cup that was swaying slightly. After a long while, she spoke with nostalgia: "The story starts at least eight thousand years ago..."
She closed her eyes and let the scroll of memories slowly unfold in her mind.
Eight thousand years ago, Shao Yin was still a soulless ice lotus on the Snow Lotus Peak.
She was born in an ice pond since ancient times. Since flowers have no concept of time, the long years seem to pass by in the blink of an eye for her.
Snow lotus like hers, which grows in the ice pool on the top of the snowy mountain, is a very precious medicinal material. Just like the spiritual herbs and elixirs that she usually collects and plants with Xueli, spiritual plants like them are transformed by spiritual energy. Although they have spiritual energy, they will not be able to open their intelligence, transform into human form, and even less likely to become immortals if they do not have special luck.
The same is true for Shao Yin.
She is the flower that grows on the highest peak, has the best medicinal effect, and is the most difficult to reach. Because of this, over the past two or three thousand years, immortals who come and go to collect herbs have never been able to pick her. She has grown into a huge snow lotus with lush branches and leaves and beautiful flowers. She is considered the most precious treasure of the snow mountain. There is even a rumor that getting a petal of her can cure all diseases.
However, even so, she still has no consciousness, no thoughts, just a special kind of rare treasure, like other medicinal lotus, quietly waiting for people to pick her in the cold wind on the top of the snow mountain.
The change happened in just one day, thousands of years ago.
Shao Yin still remembers her earliest memories.
It was a little white fox, which climbed up the steep mountaintop in the midst of the snow and wind. The fox wrapped itself in leaves and carefully guarded the one drop of spiritual spring water it brought up, which dripped gently onto her lotus heart.
At that moment, Shao Yin opened her mind and spiritual awareness, and truly became a spiritual lotus.
With her dim spiritual consciousness, she saw the little white fox in front of her happily wagging its tail at her and spinning around happily.
From that moment on, Shao Yin understood that her life would be connected with the white fox. They had a cause and effect relationship from the very beginning, and one day, she would be needed to repay the favor.
The author has something to say: After much thought, I decided to set the new fixed time as 18:00.
I will update it at this time later.
If I can adjust it back smoothly, I will change it back to noon.
I hope I can update it to the end on time.
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