Chapter 8 Cai'er's attachment, their own practice
"She is temporarily mute."

Sheng Lingxin explained softly, "The Reincarnation Spirit Furnace has deprived her of the ability to speak."

It turned out to be the case.

Xingyuan finally reacted. This is why Cai'er didn't speak when she first met Long Haochen in the original plot line.

As if he didn't see the expression that should appear on Xingyuan's face, Sheng Lingxin asked coldly: "Aren't you sad at all that she's mute?"

"So what if she's mute?"

Xingyuan coughed twice and said, "She just can't speak. It's more important than anything else that she's still alive."

"..."

"These are the medicines and herbs that your grandfather gave you to replenish your blood and qi, as well as to increase your external spiritual power."

After putting down the things on the storage ring on his finger, Sheng Lingxin said no more and left the room to Xingyuan and Caier.

how do you feel?
Cai'er wrote on Xingyuan's palm with her fingers, which made her feel itchy.

"I am fine."

Xingyuan shook his head, and then his eyes moved around Cai'er's body. When he saw that her face was a little red, he finally asked: "Besides the voice, do you have any other problems?"

Cai'er bit her lip and shook her head slightly, but seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"What's wrong?" Xingyuan sat up and asked.

'What if I can never speak again?'

While writing this line, Cai'er's body was shaking slightly, as if she was worried that Xingyuan would dislike her because of it.

"What if I stay as ugly as I was in the cave, with scars all over my face and body?"

Xingyuan smiled and asked, "Are you afraid or do you think I'm disgusting?"

'No, no.'

Cai'er kept shaking her head. Because she couldn't express herself in words, she looked very flustered, worried that Xingyuan didn't believe her.

What she wanted to say was that no matter whether it was the current Xingyuan or the Xingyuan with a scratched face and covered in scars in the cave, they were the same to her.

She even thought Xing Yuan looked better back then...

"I do not know either."

Xingyuan smiled and patted Caier's hand, "If you can't speak anymore, then we'll always be like this... No, why don't you wait for me to learn how to read lips?

You know how fast I learn things."

Cai'er was stunned, just staring at him blankly, tears seemed to be flowing in her eyes again.

it is good.

Cai'er hugged Xingyuan and put her head on his chest, feeling his warm body temperature and beating heartbeat, as if she was back in the cave when he hugged her...

"Cai'er?"

Xingyuan was a little dazed. He didn't know where to put his hands, whether to hug her or not. He just supported Cai'er through the air.

However, when he lowered his head, he found that Cai'er had fallen asleep while holding him in her arms.

Alright alright.

Xingyuan moved to the side, used a part of the quilt to cover her, and then rested his chin on his hand, quietly admiring Cai'er's sleeping face...

……

"Cai'er can't leave that child anymore." Sheng Yue, who witnessed the whole process in the room, sighed and said, "Her feelings for him are beyond ours, even the Temple."

When Sheng Yue thought of the scene where Cai'er threatened him with her life and forced him to save Xingyuan, he felt a blockage in his chest for no reason.

There is nothing wrong with Xingyuan being a good boy, but if Cai'er is so devoted to him...

"Lingxin, what do you think?"

"...I feel relieved to leave Cai'er to him."

Sheng Lingxin, who was still thinking about what Xing Yuan had just said, answered without any reason.

Shengyue: “?”

Shengyue actually didn't object to Cai'er and Xingyuan being together. He was also very pleased that his great-granddaughter could meet a good man at such a young age.

Cai'er, who inherited the mantle of the previous Son of Reincarnation, now lives her own life no longer.

Especially since Xingyuan is not a member of their Assassin's Temple. If he stands on the side of the Magic Temple, there is no guarantee that Cai'er will not stand with him on the opposite side of the Assassin's Temple.

Well, let’s wait until Xingyuan grows up a little before we can have a good talk with him.

Shengyue thought secretly in his heart.

……

Cai'er didn't want to be separated from Xingyuan, nor did she want to listen to her family's advice to practice anymore.

Even with Xing Yuan's persuasion, she remained completely unmoved. No matter what, she would not forgive her father and great-grandfather who threw her into the cave and forced her to inherit the temple's heritage. She also hated Lan Yanyu, who was completely unaware of the matter.

From the completion of the ceremony to now, she has never mentioned them to Xingyuan even once.

"Please, Yuan, don't mention them anymore."

Cai'er's knot in her heart is not so easy to untie, and Xingyuan naturally knows it very well.

He hoped that Cai'er could reconcile with her family and forgive them for what they had done, but if doing so would make Cai'er sad, then he would have to let it go for now.

However, Shengyue naturally could not accept that Cai'er had inherited the mantle of the Son of Reincarnation, but had allowed herself to degenerate and stayed around Xingyuan all day long.

He forcefully took Cai'er away, saying that if she didn't practice to his satisfaction, she would never see Xingyuan again. Only then did he finally bring this rebellious Saint of Reincarnation back on track.

Fortunately, this is what Xingyuan wants to see. He doesn't want Caier to give up practicing because of her hatred for him and her family.

Life in Exorcist City is still too depressing. Xingyuan feels as if he is being monitored or protected every day.

If possible, Xingyuan still hopes to be able to travel the continent with Caier as a demon hunter and kill demons in the future.

Wait until the final ending comes, when the humans of the Temple Alliance regain control of the continent from the demons. At that time, the two may be able to travel through dimensions and take a look at the world outside the Holy Demon Continent.

Of course, Xingyuan would not tell Caier about these things that were too far-fetched.

After all, no one can guarantee which will come first, tomorrow or an accident. The existence of Xingyuan has caused major changes to the original world line, so much so that he can't say for sure what the future will be like.

Fortunately, Cai'er had the same idea as him.

When the two met again, Cai'er expressed her hope that Xingyuan would work hard with her, and the two of them would go together to participate in the Demon Hunting Team selection and break free from the control of their great-grandfather and the temple.

Because Shengyue rarely agreed to let Caier take a vacation, and she could only go out for an hour at a time and had to come back, the number of times the two met after that could be said to be very few.

Moreover, with every meeting, Cai'er's cultivation level became higher and higher. Xingyuan also devoted his whole body and soul to cultivation, and his diligence was no less than Cai'er's.

Because every day he insisted on eating the monster meat that Shengyue gave him to nourish his blood, taking pills that could enhance his external spiritual power, and insisting on taking medicinal baths.

Xingyuan, who originally had a thin and weak physique, now has physical fitness that can even compete with warriors and knights of the same level.

　I would like to ask for your opinions. Xingyuan will go to the Magic Temple headquarters Jialingguan to practice. He will meet new friends there and there will be new plots. There will be no plots with Caier in the short term. Do you prefer to watch the plot with Caier, or as long as the content is interesting? If it is the former, then I will try to shorten the content of Xingyuan's practice in Jialingguan.
　　
　
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