The Taiyin Life-Generating Pill

“Mm, I picked her up.
Isn’t she cute?”

Xun Xue slipped her hands under Lu Qiancha’s armpits and, as if presenting a treasure, lifted her high up, right in front of the nearby Huang Hua’s face.

“Ngh…”

Lu Qiancha, held aloft in mid-air, gave a few futile twists of her stiff little body, but ultimately couldn’t escape the fate of being held up like a certain lion king.

In the end, Lu Qiancha could only meet Huang Hua’s pair of moon-white eyes.
She tried her best to keep her voice steady, with the reverence due to a high-ranking deity: “Lu Qiancha pays her respects to the Lunar Star Lord.”

With that, Lu Qiancha extended her paw, offering the twenty-odd wisps of incense she had left, along with a bottle of the Clarity Jade Dew wine she had brewed earlier, and then said, “A small offering, hardly a sign of respect…”

Lu Qiancha tried her best to keep her little face straight, presenting the “tribute” to Huang Hua, her voice striving for steadiness: “Please, Yuanjun, do not disdain it…”

“Oh? Incense.
A bit interesting.”

A ripple of amusement finally appeared on Huang Hua’s face.

She elegantly lifted a slender, jade-like finger, and the ball of pure incense faith threads, as if drawn by an invisible force, floated lightly into her palm and then vanished.

Huang Hua, for her part, wore an expression of pleasure, as if she had just eaten a small dessert.

As for the bottle of Clarity Jade Dew wine, she merely raised an eyelid, indicating for it to be placed on the nearby table carved with osmanthus.

Then Huang Hua looked at Xun Xue behind Lu Qiancha, the corners of her lips curling into a devastatingly beautiful arc that was also tinged with a bit of teasing: “Xuexue, dear~”

Her voice was soft and gentle, “This daughter of yours is much more savvy than you, her mother.”

Huang Hua’s smile deepened, her eyes seeming to flash with moonlight.
“This Monarch’s heart is almost unable to resist liking her~”

“You dare!”

The triumphant smile on Xun Xue’s face instantly froze.

The next moment.

A terrifying immortal energy erupted, and the palace was instantly filled with a chilling cold.

She slammed Lu Qiancha behind her with a “smack!” to protect her and said with hostility, “If you dare to lay a hand on my daughter, I will stew every last rabbit on your Guanghan Palace mountain and serve them with wine!”

A trace of helplessness appeared on Huang Hua’s devastatingly beautiful face.
With a gentle wave of her hand, the bone-chilling cold that filled the hall and the tense confrontation silently dissipated.

She glanced at Xun Xue, leaned back lazily against the ice jade chair, and completely dropped her pretentious air.
“Alright, alright, you can’t even take a little joke…” Her voice was tinged with a listless tease.

Then, her gaze shifted and landed on Lu Qiancha, resuming that high and mighty scrutiny.
“Since this daughter of yours knows the rules and understands the need for a meeting gift, I, as an elder, naturally cannot be stingy.”

Just as her voice fell—

Her wide sleeve swept out with great flair.

A cool moonlight flowed across the tabletop, and an ancient jade bottle, flowing with a deep, serene blue light, and an ancient token, as smooth as congealed white jade, with the natural patterns of the waxing and waning moon on its surface, silently rested on the table.

“Just this piece of junk? Who would want it.”

Xun Xue slanted a glance at the tabletop, letting out an extremely dissatisfied cold snort from her nostrils.
With a wave of her large hand, she said, “Bring out all your unique skills and good things.
Save them from collecting dust here in your Moon Palace.
Those things can’t have babies, you know.”

Lu Qiancha: “…”

She tried her best to keep her expression straight, but the tips of her wolf ears under the disguise couldn’t help but twitch.
Her gaze was uncontrollably glued to the bottle of pills.
Actually, she was quite fond of the pills given by the Lunar Star Lord.

“What I’ve given your daughter is already a generous gift.”

Huang Hua finally couldn’t resist rolling her eyes at Xun Xue.
She tapped the tabletop lightly with her jade-like fingers, her voice tinged with helplessness.
“One Taiyin Life-Entering Pill, which can create a wisp of pure yin moon essence to protect one’s fate; and one Moon Divine Token, which can connect to the gate of the Moon’s Precious Light, allowing one to enter and exit this palace and star domain at will.”

She leaned forward slightly, her moon-white eyes carrying a power that could see through people’s hearts, and looked directly at Xun Xue.
“Xuexue, this kind of treatment, in all of heaven and earth, can you find a second one? Go on, try!”

“Wait!”

Xun Xue suddenly caught the key information, her eyes instantly narrowing.
She scanned Huang Hua with the vigilance of a mother protecting her cub.
“A Moon Divine Token?! Why are you giving this to my daughter?! To make it convenient for you to lure her in for a ‘chat’ at any time?!”

Recalling Huang Hua’s earlier declaration of “almost falling in love with her,” alarm bells went off in Xun Xue’s head.

She knew this Lunar Star Lord all too well.

Beneath that face that could topple the three realms was a clever tongue that could talk a person into circles.
When they first met, wasn’t she herself tricked by that cool, aloof, yet gentle and intellectual facade?! She had almost fallen for it!

“Oh my, don’t be so vigilant.
I’m not a bad person.”

A faint smile, like the halo around a bright moon, bloomed on Huang Hua’s lips.
Her tone was lazy and tinged with a deliberate sense of grievance.
“It’s just that I’ve been in the cold depths of Guanghan for too long, spending my days with those Moon Rabbits and Golden Toads.
I don’t have anyone to talk to, so I can’t help but feel a little bored.”

At the end, Huang Hua sighed softly, her voice like an ice bead condensing and dripping from the eaves, carrying a touch of loneliness.
“They all say the immortal realm of jade palaces is good, with eternal life and carefree wandering.

“But who knows that within this eternal lifespan, there is also greed, there is anger, there is foolish delusion, and one must also taste the bitter loneliness of not meeting a single person to talk to for ten thousand years…”

“Don’t give me that sentimental nonsense here.” Xun Xue cut off her long sighs without a second thought, her beautiful brows raised, her deep blue eyes as sharp as a knife.
“I’m warning you! If I find out you dare to play any ‘sweet talk to deceive a true heart’ tricks on my daughter, then I really won’t show any mercy!”

“Heh… I already told you, I’m not interested in your daughter.”

Huang Hua couldn’t be bothered to pretend anymore and retorted bluntly.
Then, a very playful, teasing smile curled at the corners of her lips.
“We’ve known each other for so long, what? Can’t you see who this Monarch’s unchanging, exquisite heart of a billion years is ‘interested’ in? Hmm? Little Xue?”

As Huang Hua’s eyes shifted, she cast a meaningful glance at Xun Xue.

“…” Xun Xue couldn’t be bothered with her.
She crossed her arms and said bluntly, “Your Moon Palace isn’t some grotto-heaven or blessed land.
Chatting won’t improve one’s cultivation.
The dignified Lunar Star Lord, meeting a junior for the first time, and you only take out this little thing to dismiss her? Huang Hua! Have you lost your face and used it as a pillow for the Golden Toads?”

Lu Qiancha: “…”

Lu Qiancha sat obediently, her paws folded in her lap, like the most perfect little ornament.

But when she heard this, she couldn’t help but look up at Xun Xue.

‘Actually, the spiritual energy in this place is so thick it’s almost dripping.
It’s very suitable for cultivation.
Much better than those so-called grotto-heavens and blessed lands.’

“Who said I wanted your daughter to come here just to chat?”

Huang Hua ignored Xun Xue’s pestering and finally threw out the real hook.

Her voice regained its usual elegant and composed sense of control.
“This Monarch actually wants to make a small ‘deal’ with this little daughter of yours.”

“A deal?”

The alarm bells in Xun Xue’s heart rang loudly.
She looked at Huang Hua’s face and said with certainty, “My daughter doesn’t have any heavenly treasures that you would take a fancy to.”