When The Flowers Falls, I’ll See You Again

Chapter 5

Meeting Saviour Again

Jin Xiu rose slightly and said, "How dare I trouble Shen Fei."

神妃 (Shén Fēi):

Divine/god concubine, she is Di Jun's concubine

"Zhong Tian Wang is too courteous." The concubine put down the tea and retreated to stand beside Di Jun

Shen Di waved his hand, and the small golden characters in front of him disappeared without a trace in an instant. He looked at Jin Xiu meaningfully: "If I remember correctly, Shi Di has been in charge of flower affairs for nearly 10,000 years."

Jin Xiu said: "Troubled Di Jun for remembering, there is still six years left."

Shen Di said, "How is your cultivation?"

Jin Xiu said, "Don't dare to delay."

Shen Di then nodded and sighed softly: "Someday upon ascending to Tian Shen, there will be some tribulation, there shouldn't be a problem with your magic, but I'm afraid..." He stopped.

天神 (Tiān Shén):

Heavenly god

Jin Xiu said: "Everything is up to Heaven's will, Di Jun need not worry."

Shen Di was silent for a moment: "Since you left, Zhong Tian has been unguarded, don't let me down."

Jin Xiu said, "If I succeed someday, I should share Di Jun's worries."

Shen Di is satisfied: "I asked you to come because I have something to discuss with you."

Jin Xiu said, "I would like to hear more about it."

Shen Di glanced at him, half-jokingly: "Zhen sees that there is no one around Shi Di and there will be a lot of inconvenience in doing things. Since you will be returning to the your place as god, how about I confer you a Wang Fei?"

朕 (Zhèn):

Self appellation used by emperors, equivalent to I/we

王妃 (Wáng Fēi):

Princess consort

Jin Xiu is surprised.

Shen Di turned his face and gestured to his beloved concubine: "You tell him."

爱妃 (Ài Fēi):

Beloved concubine, usually how an emperor will call their concubines

Shen Fei couldn't help laughing: "Bei Jie Wang has a daughter, who was conferred the name Bei Yao Tian Nü in the early years. She is extremely beautiful and intelligent. Not to mention that Bei Jie Wang has been in charge of the Northern Immortal Realm for many years, and every time he mentions you, he is full of compliments, Tian Nü also often asks me about news of you, she is very concerned about you. Di Jun's intention is to decide on her, I wonder if Zhong Tian Wang is satisfied?"

Jin Xiu returned to his senses and smiled: "Di Jun can decide."

Shen Di and Shen Fei looked at each other and smiled, both breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Di said, "Zhen will issue and edict then."

Jin Xiu shook his head: "Why the haste, Jin Xiu hasn't returned to his place yet, the heavenly tribulation is approaching, I wanted to devote myself to cultivation in these few years, but I'm afraid there is no time..."

Shen Di interrupted him: "It's okay, Zhen will make a decision first. When you return to Zhong Tian Palace in future, Zhen will then perform the appointment ceremony."

Jin Xiu said, "I am not sure if this is Tian Nü's intentions..."

Shen Di smiled and said, "You don't have to shirk it. Bei Yao Tian Nü has been waiting for you for 20,000 years. Don't you can deceive Zhen."

Jin Xiu really stopped talking and smiled: "Di Jun's good intentions, how dare I shirk it, Jin Xiu is grateful."

Shen Fei smiled at the side: "This is actually my idea, Zhong Tian Wang don't disdain me for being nosy, Di Jun only has you as Shi Di, he is very concerned about your affairs, always afraid of what accidents will occur when you ascend, so I just gave a reminder, the Bei Xian Jie is unique in immortal arts, which just makes up for the shortcomings our faction. In the future, with the help of the Bei Yao Tian Nü, it will be much easier to go through the heavenly tribulation."

北仙界 (Běi Xiān Jiè):

Northern Immortal Realm

"Jin Xiu understands, Shen Fei has been troubled," Jin Xiu said calmly, "but it is up to Di Jun."

Shen Di nodded: "In these few years, all you have to do is practice cultivation, and don't go out so much."

Jin Xiu said, "Respectfully follow the teachings."

Shen Di was relieved and changed the topic: "Have you heard about the Kunlun clan?"

Jinxiu said: "The Kunlun divine clan and we belong to the same lineage, and the origins are not shallow. It's just that Kunlun Tian Jun failed to survive the heavenly tribulation back in the day, and Di Jun appointed as the Lord of Tian Ting, so they were naturally not angry."

天君 (Tiān Jūn):

Heavenly lord, usually below Di Jun in rank/status

天庭 (Tiān Tíng):

Heavenly court

Di Jun sneered: "Although they were forced to leave Tian Ting, Zhen has never treated them badly. The day before yesterday, Kunlun Tian Jun..." He stopped.

Shen Fei understood: "Yao Chi meeting is coming up, I'll go to prepare first, excuse me."

Shen Di nodded.

In the spring of March, the earth is getting warmer, the scenery in the mountains is infinite, the water and grass is green, and the slopes are full of apricot flowers. A 15 or 16 year old girl in green clothes and a boy in white clothes are walking on a mountain road, the girls hands are tearing at a few apricot flowers, red flower petals scattering all the way behind her.

Noticing someone's strange eyes, Hong Ning didn't care, and continued to ravage the flower: "You don't need to stare at me, there are so many people picking flowers, and I didn't pull it out from the roots."

Bai Ling said, "Why ruin it?"

Hong Ning said, "Anyway, I don't cultivate immortality. If the flower god wants to blame, let them blame."

Bai Ling said, "Do you have any grudge against it?"

Hong Ning ripped off the last petal, and threw away the flower stalk receptacle, sighing: "I don't know, I like other flowers, but I hate apricot flowers when I see them, maybe I really had a grudge against them in my last life."

Bai Ling glanced at her and said no more: "You wait here, I'll go buy it."

Time flies like an arrow, three years passed by at snap click of a finger. Master and apprentices are in the mountains, those cultivating in the mountains are cultivating, those collecting herbs are collecting herbs, and the days are quite leisurely. This time Wen Xin told them to go into the city to buy some necessary things, Hong Ning doesn't know the Earth shrinking technique, she originally didn't want to go, but she was too embarrassed to say it. Now that Bai Ling proposal fits her wishes exactly, she couldn't help but smile: "How do you know what I'm thinking?"

Bai Ling didn't bother to pay attention to her, so he left her and walked quickly.

Hong Ning turned to his back and said, "If there's anything, call me with the sound transmission talisman!"

Bai Ling disappeared, not sure if he even heard it.

Hong Ning found a big white stone and sat down, conveniently pulled a few apricot flowers from the top of her head and continued to ruin it. Soon the petals and stamens fell to the ground, and she was having fun when a man's voice sounded, very soft and pleasant, with a kind of seductive force, making her heart tremble when she heard it. When she looked up, it was actually a 16-17 year old girl and a man in white clothes hugging while towards this side.

Although the girl has a bit of beauty, the man in white is a rare beautiful man, with a face like a jade, glossy lips, and a pair of peach blossom eyes are particularly charming, looking around amorously. Just seeing it lets people ignore his other shortcomings, such as too beautiful eyebrows, too soft facial lines, lack of masculinity, etc. Hong Ning has always felt that Bai Ling's appearance is impeccable, but this person's beauty is not only limited to appearance, every move, the slightest facial expression, they are all charming.

His arms are around the girl's waist, a low voice accompanied by sweet words.

Hong Ning actually felt a faint heat on her face.

The man in white quickly noticed her, narrowed his eyes, stopped, turned to the girl and said, "San Niang, you go back first, I'll come find you at night."

三娘 (Sān Niáng):

3rd girl, she is probably the 3rd daughter in the family.

The girl lowered her head: "Lu Lang."

The man in white gently raised her chin and looked into her eyes: "Be good."

The girl seemed to be infatuated, nodded blankly, and left obediently.

The hem of the snow white shirt was inlaid with silver threads, and the hem was lined with delicate snow white satin boots. He was dressed like a typical rich boy. Knowing that he was standing in front of her, Hong Ning kept her head down and continued pinching apricot blossoms as if nothing had happened.

"Why is the girl here alone?" The voice contained a smile.

Hong Ning didn't raise her face to look at him: "I'm tired from walking, sitting here to rest for a while."

The man in white was not afraid of being abrupt, he slowly took the flower branch from her hand, his behaviour was three points frivolous, but his tone was very gentle and elegant: "Xiao Sheng also wants to rest here, I wonder if the girl will be angry."

小生 (Xiǎo shēng):

Self appellation of a young intellectual

Hong Ning looked at the flower in his hand and bit her lip: "Of course you can." She gave way to the side.

Sure enough, the man in white sat down next to her, with a softer voice: "Not sure what is the girl's name, where do you live, how can you run out alone?"

"I..." Hong Ning was about to speak, but suddenly stopped, as if remembering something, she raised her hand and threw him something, "Mr help me see, what is this?"

The man in white subconsciously took it in his hand, and his expression changed drastically after seeing it clearly.

Only then did Hong Ning dare to look into his eyes and sneer: "Demon fox, you still want to harm people!" Turns out when he looked at her earlier, she already felt something was wrong , she was in a trance and unable to control her mind, knowing it was a seductive technique. Hence, she took out the peach wood beads from her bosom and held it in her hand, throwing it to him when he is not prepared. The peach wood has the effect of warding off evil spirits. Wen Xin specially made it for her self-defence. After several refining, normal demons should not be able to use demon magic in front of it.

The sun was shining brightly overhead, just right to borrow the power of the Sun Lord, Hong Ning recited a spell in her mouth, and the palm of her hand faintly lit up and with a "hit", she shot straight at the other party.

The man received her slap and groaned.

Hong Ning stood up and said coldly, "Evil beast, you dare to harm people with seductive tricks, do you know the sin!" This was originally Wen Xin's words, but now that she has learned it, she even has some deterrent power.

The man's shoulders shook slightly.

Thinking he was afraid, Hong Ning softened her tone: "On account that It's not easy for you to cultivate, I have the heart to forgive you, that girl was caught in your seductive technique, and most of her Yuan Yin was taken away, and the body would be severely damaged. If the Yuan yin you sucked away is returned as soon as possible, I will no longer pursue it.”

元阴 (yuán yīn):

Origin Yin, also known as True Yin. In Chinese Medicine, it is interdependent with 元阳 (Yuán Yáng) Origin Yang/True Yang and they are the origins of life.

"Really?" The man slowly raised his face, with an intoxicating smile flashing in his peach blossom eyes.

Hong Ning froze.

The man chuckled and blew lightly, the peach wood beads in his palm immediately turned to ashes, and dispersed with the wind without a trace.

Hong Ning was horrified.

The man was also surprised, raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "I can't believe that it is also a cultivator, and the little girl dares to play tricks. How can a mere peach wood bead be able to compete with our Samadhi True Fire?"

三昧真火 (Sān Mèi Zhēn Huó):

Samadhi True Fire, originated in Journey to the West, first developed by Hong Hai Er (Red Boy) after cultivating for 300+ years and it enables him to shoot fire inextinguishable by water and smoke from his eyes, nostrils and mouth.

"Samadhi" refers to a state of meditative consciousness. It is the last of the eight elements of the Noble Eightfold Path which is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from the painful cycle of rebirth.

* Not sure if there is a typo cos the raws actually used 味 (Wèi) instead of 昧 and 三味真火 translates to "three flavours are really hot" which is a TV show in China

Samadhi True Fire! Hong Ning stepped back: "Are you a descendant of the nine-tailed fox?"

The man's eyes fluttered: "What's your name?"

Under the horror, she didn't even think to be on guard, and when she accidentally met his gaze, Hong Ning was confused and groggy for a while, and followed his words and replied, "Hong Ning."

The man said softly, "Come on, I'll take you to a fun place."

The voice seemed to have magic power, and Hong Ning couldn't help herself at this time, and sure enough, she moved her footsteps and walked up to him, looking at him foolishly.

The man put his arms around her, lifted her face and looked at her carefully for a moment, showing satisfaction: "You dare subdue me with this little magic power. Interesting, why don't you spend a few more days with me."

Hong Ning nodded blankly.

The man smiled and lowered his head to kiss her.

A gust of wind blew past, and countless petals fell like rain overhead.

The fluttering petals hit him, and the pain was unbearable.

"Who!" The man quickly hugged Hong Ning to avoid, and was about to get angry, but he suddenly thought of something, his face changed drastically. He threw Hong Ning away, turned into a five-tailed white fox and escaped.

Hong Ning suddenly woke up.

Brocade robe embroidered with belt, slender figure, gentle expression, phoenix eyes with a faint smile, even though he is still far away, one can vaguely smell the fragrance flying from his body. Probably because of his presence, the surrounding flowers also seemed to be blooming more gorgeously than before.

"It's you!" Hong Ning was surprised.

Jin Xiu smiled: "I haven't seen you for a long time, you have grown up again."

Somehow, when these words came out of his mouth, Hong Ning's face became hot for a while, and when she looked again at that handsome face, there was no change at all compared with three years ago, so she was more firm of the guess in her heart and thanked calmly: "Thank you for saving me again."

Jin Xiu walked slowly to her and looked at the direction in which the white fox fled: "This time he sneaked out, but he didn't cause any deaths."

Hong Ning said, "You know him."

Jin Xiu said: "He was originally the son of the Northern Realm Fox Clan, whose name was Lu Jiu. Because he was born with three tails, he was favoured by Bei Jie Wang, so we can't throw Bei Jie Wang's face."

Hong Ning hesitated for a while: "Will he retaliate against you?"

Jin Xiu shook his head: "The clan rules in the Northern Realm are extremely strict. Since he went back, someone will deal with him."

Hong Ning was relieved, and was about to say something else, but when she saw him looking down at the petals all over the ground in a daze, she felt extremely regretful. breaking off flowers and branches and destroying the environment is not a noble thing, not to mention that the other party is likely to be a flower demon, and he has the grace to save her life, it would be rude to do this kind of flower-inducing evil under his nose now.

After a long while, Jin Xiu said softly, "Did you do this?"

People have faces, trees have bark, Hong Ning is at a loss, but she can't make any sense: "I don't know either, I just don't like it..."

Jin Xiu looked at her for a moment and sighed, "If you don't like it, there has to be a reason."

Seeing that he didn't any intention to blame her, Hong Ning breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't pay attention to the problem in the words. She was just surprised and uneasy. She had only met twice, it doesn't make sense for her to be so concerned about his opinion, unless...he is already that important in her heart?

Jin Xiu said, "Do you still like the way it is now?"

Hong Ning returned to her senses and smiled, "I don't have that enlightenment, and I don't like cultivating immortality."

 Jin Xiu said nothing.

Hong Ning has her own reason: "I have also heard Shi Fu say that the immortal way is actually changing one's life without authorisation, in order to live forever, which goes against the cycle of the law of heaven, so to become an immortal one must go through several tribulations. From this, it can be seen that the real way of heaven is to let us follow the laws of nature and be good people, don’t you think that the way you are is actually going against the heavens?”

Jin Xiu was slightly stunned.

Hong Ning said, "What's more, cultivating every day, you are hearless and without desires, even if you live forever, what's the meaning in living like that."

Jin Xiu said: "The immortals have their own way of immortality, and they may not be as heartless as you think."

Hong Ning deliberately said "Oh": "So the immortal world also has affection and desires?"

Jin Xiu said, "Naturally."

Hong Ning couldn't help laughing: "You mean, you must first abstain from love and destroy desires to cultivate immortality, and then you can indulge to one's heart's content after becoming immortals?"

Seeing that she has no taboos in her blunt words, Jin Xiu also laughed: "Different species cannot be united, immortals and mortals are even more different. This is the way of heaven, just as a husband cultivates immortals, but his wife destroys his merits. Isn't it a pity? If you cannot bear to part with the mortal realm, how will you ascend in the future? Cultivating immortality through hardships is for the sake of breaking all these mortal relationships, double cultivation is only mutual benefit, and the two have no affection until they are recorded in the book of immortals."

Hong Ning's heart moved, half joking: "You really want me to cultivate immortality?"

Jin Xiu smiled: "The way of immortality is eternal."

Looking at those bright and gentle eyes like water waves, Hong Ning didn't know what to say for a while, but at this moment, the sound transmission talisman suddenly had movement.

"Something happened in the temple outside the city, I'm going to take a look, I won't come back." Bai Ling's voice.

Hong Ning hurriedly asked, "Does Shi Fu know?"

Bai Ling said, "I told."

It turned out that he specifically told her, Hong Ning likes the feeling of being put in someone's heart. First, she was worried about his safety, and second, she was also bored, so she immediately asked, "Where are you?"

Bai Ling seemed to have expected her to say this: "Tianhe Temple in the east of the city."

Hong Ning said: "You wait for me." keeping the talisman.

Jin Xiu sighed: "You'd better not run around, I can't rush over every time something happens." It's already hard for me to predict your affairs.

Hong Ning heard the meaning of the words: "You have been protecting me?"

Jin Xiu did not deny it.

No one would protect others for no reason. It was difficult for Hong Ning to use any other excuse to explain, her heart beating non-stop. She hurriedly lifted her feet and walked away: "I'm just going to have a look, thank you."