Hu Po, the young man in white, sat on the Immortal Palace plaque in silence.
Upon seeing his expression, Qin Xi knew Mo Tiange's guess was correct. He whispered, "How did you figure it out?"
Mo Tiange glanced at Hu Po's left hand and said, "Look at his fingers."
Qin Xi followed her line of sight and saw that Hu Po's left pinky was missing half. He then thought of the qilin bone Fairy Fengqing obtained and understood.
Mo Tiange continued, "Not only that, but there's a silver ring on his wrist. It's not a bracelet, but a restriction that imprisons him here.
When he came here just now, I saw the silver ring light up. "
Qin Xi looked again and saw there was indeed a silver ring on Hu Po's wrist.
He sighed. "You're really observant."
Mo Tiange smiled. "I'm very sensitive to restrictions. I noticed it as soon as the silver ring lit up."
"So, he doesn't have the ability to take our lives?"
"I think so. At most, he'll make us suffer a little."
Mo Tiange paused for a moment then said, "But I want to be on good terms with him. First, he doesn't have any evil intentions towards us. Second, I think he must have a big secret."
Qin Xi nodded slightly.
He already knew what Hu Po said, but he didn't ask because he thought their lives were in his hands.
The two of them looked at Hu Po.
Hu Po was sneering at them.
Although he was imprisoned on the side of the plaque, he was, after all, an existence far beyond the current cultivation world. Even if he couldn't read minds, how could the two of them hide their voices from him?
"Senior," Mo Tiange said, "Have you made up your mind?"
Hu Po said coldly, "Even if you guessed correctly, so what?
You can't hurt me or let me out, so why should I talk to you? "
Mo Tiange said, "Senior, I know I can't negotiate with you, so it's up to you whether you're willing or not."
Hu Po continued to sneer. "Do you think I'll be moved by your words and say anything?"
"…" Mo Tiange rolled her eyes. As a divine beast, a divine beast that lived for tens of thousands of years, he was actually so calculative.
Qin Xi asked, "Senior, may I ask where you came from?
As a divine beast, why did it stay in the human world?
What is the Meru Ocean? What do you mean by 'the world will be in chaos' and 'the time of reincarnation'? "
"…" This time, it was Hu Po's turn to roll his eyes. He hadn't even said whether he was going to answer or not, and he actually asked all the questions in one go.
He simply lay down on the horizontal board and pretended to rest, completely ignoring them.
"Senior?" The person below called again. Hu Po curled his lips and pretended to be dead.
She called him a few more times but didn't get any response, so she said, "Since Senior doesn't want to talk to us, let's take a rest first."
The two of them then discussed how to settle down and how to leave, minding their own business and treating this place as their own Immortal's Cave.
Hu Po, who was sitting on the horizontal board, was enraged. He gnashed his teeth and glared at them several times, but then he felt bored and turned his head away to ignore them.
The first thing Mo Tiange and Qin Xi wanted to do was to enter the Immortal Palace. However, they discovered that the Immortal Palace was sealed by restrictions and couldn't be opened, so they could only find a corner outside to settle down.
At that moment, Fairy Fengqing jumped out of the illusion. When she saw the two of them, she was shocked at first, but then she became angry. She took two steps forward, stood in front of them, and asked angrily, "Why are you here?"
Recalling the scene in the illusion, Mo Tiange didn't even feel like showing enough courtesy on the surface. She said, "Why can't we be here?"
Fairy Fengqing was furious. "You followed me?"
"So what if I did?" Mo Tiange looked at her mockingly.
"You —" Fairy Fengqing flew into a rage. She was about to scold them when she suddenly saw Qin Xi looking at her indifferently. She was shocked.
She almost forgot that Qin Shoujing was already in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm. With the two of them here, she absolutely couldn't defeat them.
But was she going to let it go just like that?
When she, Fengqing, formed her Nascent Soul, she didn't even know where these two people were, but now, she was going to be bullied by two juniors …
Mo Tiange said lazily, "Fellow Daoist Fengqing, maybe you don't know, but aside from being a guest elder of Bixuan Court, the founder of Bixuan Court is my Mo family's great ancestor.
You're using Bixuan Court's things to seek fated chances — how could I not get involved? "
Fairy Feng Qing was stunned and said, "Are you talking nonsense?"
"Fellow Daoist Fengqing!" Mo Tiange said coldly, "Even if I'm your junior several hundred years from now, I'm still a Nascent Soul cultivator now."
How could a Nascent Soul cultivator talk nonsense?
Fairy Fengqing said that because she subconsciously didn't consider Mo Tiange a Nascent Soul cultivator.
This Fairy Fengqing didn't hate her for no reason, but she was always aggressive. She didn't care about the first time, she could laugh it off the second time, but how could she keep giving in to her three or four times?
Although she was young, she was still a genuine Nascent Soul cultivator!
Fairy Fengqing was furious inside, but she didn't dare to show it.
She'd always been self-conscious about her status, thinking these two people were juniors. This kind of mentality affected her behavior unconsciously. Now that Mo Tiange was mocking them, she couldn't say anything.
Thinking up to this point, she felt somewhat indignant, so she finally snorted coldly. "What's the point of having a backer?!"
Mo Tiange was surprised. She turned to Qin Xi and asked, "Backer? Is she talking about you?"
Qin Xi smiled. "Probably."
"Oh!" She looked back and said to Fairy Fengqing seriously, "Are you envious?"
"You —" Fairy Fengqing's face turned green and white. She was so angry that she blurted out, "Who's envious?
Relying on a man to succeed — shameless! "
"Then you're envious."
Mo Tiange nodded and looked at her sympathetically. "It's been more than seven hundred years, but you can't even get a man. It's quite miserable."
"Mo Qingwei, what nonsense are you talking about?!"
Fairy Fengqing was extremely ashamed and resentful. She wanted to teach her a lesson, but she was worried about Qin Xi, so she was in a dilemma.
"That's not nonsense," the amber on the horizontal board suddenly said, "If you didn't have jealousy in your heart, you wouldn't have such an illusion."
The three of them were stunned. Qin Xi was the first to return to his senses. He asked, "Senior, do you know what illusion we had?"
Hu Po snorted and said, "Of course I know. I made up the illusion."
"Huh?" Mo Tiange and Qin Xi looked at each other in astonishment.
Now they all knew that Hu Po was imprisoned here and that the formation around them was probably to trap him. If he could control the illusion, wouldn't it be useless?
As if he knew what they were thinking, Hu Po snorted and said, "Our Qilin Clan is innately mysterious. What's a small illusion?"
He then pulled the silver ring on his wrist impatiently. If it weren't for this thing, how could he have been trapped here for so long?
"So it's because of your innate talent." Qin Xi nodded lightly. "Senior is trapped here, but you can still control it freely. Your strength must be extraordinary."
Hu Po turned to look at him with a faint smile. "You don't need to test me. I won't tell you these things."
Qin Xi said, "Senior, if you want to tell me, then tell me. If you don't, then forget it. It's not good for us to know these old things."
"Don't say it like you don't have any desires," Hu Po mocked. "You cultivators came to the Immortal Palace for treasures. Unfortunately, there's nothing here except for me. Whether you can get out or not is a problem."
"That's right!"
Mo Tiange said, "In any case, we can't get any benefits. If Senior likes to tell stories, we'll listen. If you don't tell stories, we won't lose anything."
"…"
After a moment of silence, Hu Po couldn't help but ask, "Hey, how did you two break the illusion?"
He had been trapped alone for too long. He was so lonely that he could pretend to be playing happily with the Nine Interlocking Rings, so he was very happy to have someone to talk to to relieve his boredom.
Mo Tiange and Qin Xi looked at each other with smiles in their eyes.
Mo Tiange said, "There are two reasons why Senior's illusion failed.
First, what happened in the illusion didn't match our experience and personality. Second, Senior ignored our feelings. "
Hu Po was stunned. He sat up and asked, "What do you mean?"
Mo Tiange said, "Let's talk about me. Does Senior know my background?"
Hu Po waved his hand and said, "You're young and high-spirited. You're probably the child of an aristocratic family!"
Mo Tiange pointed at Qin Xi. "What about him?"
Hu Po glanced at her then said carelessly, "He's still young, but he's like an old man. He must've come from a poor family, so he's always thinking about things."
"…" Qin Xi was speechless.
This was the first time he encountered a situation where others thought he was a child of a poor family.
"…" Mo Tiange was also speechless. Just as she was about to speak, Hu Po said in surprise, "Ah, I guessed wrong?"
Mo Tiange frowned and said unhappily, "Senior, can you not use the Mind Reading Technique?
If you use the Mind Reading Technique, what's the point of talking? "
"… Fine." Hu Po urged, "What's going on?"
Mo Tiange said, "I was born in a village in the secular world. I didn't have a father since I was a child, and my mother died when I was young. Before I became an adult, I followed my uncle and wandered around. Later, I became a disciple of my master and finally reached the sky in a single bound."
"…" Hu Po scratched his head then pointed at Qin Xi. "What about him?"
Mo Tiange said, "When he was a mortal, he was a child of a prince's mansion. Once he entered the school of immortality, he became the beloved disciple of a Nascent Soul cultivator."
"Nascent Soul isn't that high …" Hu Po muttered, but Mo Tiange glared at him again.
Not high? Does he think we're in the Middle Ages or the Distant Past era?
Mo Tiange continued, "Look, what kind of lousy identity did you give us?
And that lousy plot doesn't fit our character at all, okay? "
"Why doesn't it fit?
Isn't it fun for a loving husband and wife to have a falling out with each other? "Hu Po asked with a pair of curious and innocent eyes.
Mo Tiange felt helpless. "… We're cultivators, okay?
All of them cultivated their state of mind, alright?
To put it simply, if he really had a blood feud with me, he wouldn't have married me because it would have implicated the innocent. If I really became a husband and betrayed the sect, I wouldn't have been beaten half to death, and I definitely wouldn't have confronted him with weapons. "
"Why?"
Hu Po decided to get to the bottom of it. "Because our relationship is deep, betrayal is even more intolerable, right?"
"It's wrong to put it on me!"
"Then what will you do?"
"I …" Mo Tiange paused then said, "Why should I tell you to make the illusion more realistic next time?"
"Pfft!"
Hu Po said, "This time, I'm just too unfamiliar with it. If there's a next time, I'll definitely trap you in the illusion and never come out."
"Unfortunately, there's still the second point. No matter how realistic Senior's illusion is, feelings can't be fake. In the illusion, I have no feelings for my illusory parents. It'll be the same even if I do it again."
"Hmph!
Next time, I won't make it up like this. I … "
"Senior!" Fairy Fengqing suddenly spoke.
Hu Po's gaze froze and he said coldly, "Junior, it's very rude of you to interrupt."
He flicked his sleeve and was about to punish her, but he heard Fairy Fengqing say loudly, "Senior, junior has something to give to senior."