TL: Moonlit
According to Shen Ye’s meaning, this Fairy Aunt isn’t really that terrifying.
But Ye Ze still didn’t relax and remained cautious.
With the abundant spiritual energy of the Qi Lian Mountains, this Fairy Aunt had been cultivating at the foot of the mountain for two hundred years, which was enough to make people wary.
“You really don’t need to be afraid,” Shen Ye held onto his own man’s arm, “Besides, you’re here. You’re a man favored by the heavens, and the purple aura on your body is enough to harm her. And if worse comes to worst, there’s also Little Golden Dragon. Just call for help, and it will come to assist.”
This old lady’s strength isn’t strong, she’s just tainted with a trace of fairy aura and thinks she’s very powerful.
He could feel that his man was truly worried about him, so he brought up Little Golden Dragon.
Ye Ze lowered his gaze and locked eyes with him.
Shen Ye rubbed against his man’s shoulder, “Don’t furrow your brow. I’m just joking with you. Actually, with just one finger, I can press this Fairy Aunt down and rub her on the ground… Why don’t you believe me?”
Ye Ze touched his face and finally spoke softly, “I believe you.”
Shen Ye was satisfied, he smiled and kissed him, then turned to Ning Shihua and Aunt Three, “Do you know why this old lady favors boys and looks down on girls? It’s because she has lived for two hundred years. She lived in a society that favored boys over girls. She was sold to a wealthy family as a servant, and almost beaten to death by the master… Even though her life got better later, deep down she still believes that women are inferior because that’s how she grew up.”
Ning Shihua and Aunt Three exchanged a glance but didn’t say anything.
When they heard Shen Ye say that the Fairy Aunt had lived for two hundred years, they were initially surprised. But they quickly accepted this fact and didn’t doubt Shen Ye’s words at all.
On Ning Shihua’s side, she had suspected the Fairy Aunt of being older from the beginning. After all, she looked the same when Ning Shihua was a child, and decades had passed without her aging at all. This was enough to indicate that the Fairy Aunt had definitely concealed her true age.
As for Aunt Three, she is also a local and in her sixties, older than Ning Shihua. She couldn’t remember when the Fairy Aunt came to live in the town, but she only remembered that the Fairy Aunt lived alone with a daughter. Upon careful consideration, the Fairy Aunt’s appearance had truly not changed at all, and even her daughter seemed to always remain around thirty years old…
This was too eerie!
Moreover, Aunt Three suddenly realized that the people in town didn’t seem to notice anything abnormal about the Fairy Aunt and her daughter.
Shen Ye glanced at Aunt Three’s face and explained, “The Fairy Aunt has cultivation skills and deliberately blurred her own and her daughter’s identities. You are mortals, so naturally, you wouldn’t perceive it.”
Aunt Three suddenly understood. No wonder everyone accepted the appearance of the Fairy Aunt as a matter of course and acknowledged her status. The Fairy Aunt must have brainwashed them.
“She indeed brainwashed you all, preventing you from doubting her origins. But in other aspects, she didn’t brainwash you. Just like Ning Shihua, her parents forced her into marriage because they themselves wished for her to marry. They knew that the talisman would bring aftereffects to Ning Shihua, yet they still made her drink the water with the talisman.” Shen Ye looked at Aunt Three again. “And you, you yourself believe that it doesn’t matter if your daughter studies or not, so you let her drop out of school.”
Aunt Three felt uncomfortable and lowered her head, realizing that Shen Ye had hit the mark.
Ning Shihua’s parents sighed and didn’t argue with Shen Ye, but they didn’t feel that they had done anything wrong either. In their view, pressuring Ning Shihua to marry was also for her own good. Now that Ning Shihua was a famous actress, enjoying great popularity, they believed that not getting married was also fine. However, when Ning Shihua grew old, she would experience the pain of not having children. If they weren’t Ning Shihua’s parents, they wouldn’t worry about her.
Shen Ye could see the thoughts of Ning Shihua’s parents and couldn’t help but sneer.
Parents and children are separate entities. Why did they think that their children should be a certain way just because they thought so? They believed that their ideas were correct, but in reality, they were just imposing their thoughts on their children.
Taking retirement as an example, Ning Shihua was not even forty years old yet. When she grows old, the retirement system would probably be well-established, so there would be no need to worry about being mistreated by unscrupulous workers.
But Shen Ye didn’t speak up. Instead, he decided to deal with the Fairy Aunt first and then help Ning Shihua solve her parents’ problems.
The Fairy Aunt placed both hands on the table and coldly looked at Shen Ye. “You’re quite capable to figure out that I was sold to be a servant when I was young.”
Shen Ye replied, “What’s so difficult about that? You have been using this body all along, so naturally, I can calculate your experiences of the past two hundred years based on your appearance.”
Upon hearing this, the Fairy Aunt’s expression changed.
Indeed, she hadn’t changed bodies in the past two hundred years, but she had hidden her appearance and experiences. Other Taoists couldn’t detect her true origins at all.
However, the Shen Ye in front of her could easily see through her.
She leaned on the table and slowly stood up. “Since you’re so capable, once I devour your cultivation, I will definitely become even stronger.”
Shen Ye smiled. “That depends on whether you have the ability.”
The Fairy Aunt stared at him with a cold gaze and then shifted her attention to Ye Ze. “The person next to you looks powerful too. Once I devour the power from both of you, I will chop you up and feed you to the dogs. Let’s see if you can still be so arrogant!”
She couldn’t see the purple aura on Ye Ze’s body, but she could sense that his aura was suitable for cultivation. Initially, she only wanted to devour Shen Ye’s cultivation, but since there was an additional prey that fell into her trap, she naturally wouldn’t let it go.
Shen Ye, of course, was not intimidated by her. He smiled and said, “Chopped and fed to the dogs, not a bad idea.”
The Fairy Aunt slammed the table abruptly. “You’re still smiling when death is imminent!”
As she slammed the table, a gust of cold wind swept through the hall, followed by a tremendous oppressive force that seemed to engulf everything.
Not only Shen Ye but everyone else also felt the pressure.
Ning Shihua’s family and Aunt Three were all mortals, unable to withstand such pressure. They covered their chests in pain.
Shen Ye’s expression turned cold, and he stepped forward, standing in front of everyone, waving his hand to push back the cold wind.
With his counterattack, the situation for Ning Shihua’s family and Aunt Three eased.
At the same time, the backlash from Shen Ye’s power struck the Fairy Aunt. She was sent flying backward, crashing into the wall with a loud noise.
“Overestimating yourself,” Shen Ye sneered.
He didn’t pay any further attention to the Fairy Aunt and instead set up a barrier to protect Ning Shihua and the others.
With the barrier in place, no matter how he and the Fairy Aunt fought, they wouldn’t be able to harm them.
Ye Ze was also included in the barrier by Shen Ye.
He gazed deeply into Shen Ye’s eyes.
Shen Ye knew that the man wanted to fight the Fairy Aunt together with him, but the Fairy Aunt’s abilities were more formidable than the previous Taoists they encountered. Although he was confident in protecting Ye Ze, and Ye Ze’s purple aura could also help him defend himself, he still worried about what might happen if things got out of control.
He couldn’t bear to let the man take risks.
So he smiled and said to Ye Ze, “Uncle, you need to watch over Ning Shihua and the others. The purple aura on your body can resist the attacks of the Taoists. With you by their side, even if the barrier is broken, Ning Shihua and the others will be safe.”
Ye Ze continued to gaze at him without speaking.
Shen Ye: “…”
His husband’s gaze was so scary, clearly seeing through his lie.
“I… I’m just afraid you’ll get hurt… This old lady is contaminated with an immortal aura, and I haven’t figured out if the immortal aura will affect the purple aura on your body. So I dare not let you face her directly.” Shen Ye honestly expressed his concerns.
This time, Ye Ze finally reacted and asked softly, “What about you? Will you be in danger?”
Knowing that the man had been worrying about him all along, Shen Ye felt a sweet sensation in his heart and shook his head gently. “No danger. The immortal aura on her is brought by me and Little Golden Dragon. With this karmic connection, the immortal aura on her cannot harm me.”
Ye Ze finally relaxed and murmured, “That’s good.”
Seeing the man so worried about him, Shen Ye wanted to rush over and hug him tightly and give him a few kisses.
But now the priority was to deal with the Fairy Aunt. After everything was settled, he and Ye Ze could return to the Imperial City, where they would have plenty of time for intimacy.
Shen Ye turned his head and looked at the Fairy Aunt.
She was still lying on the ground, unable to get up, with a hole in the wall behind her, and broken bricks falling on her legs.
Shen Ye: “…”
He thought this Fairy Aunt was so powerful, but she couldn’t even withstand a single blow from him?!
Just as he was astonished, he suddenly felt an immense pressure coming down on him from above, accompanied by a powerful surge of cold energy.
This time, the cold wind was like a rope, incorporating formations and inscriptions. It was meant to bind Shen Ye!
“What a skillful Immortal Binding Technique!” Shen Ye wasn’t afraid and directly confronted it, grabbing the rope formed by the cold wind with his hand and pulling forcefully.
The rope instantly roared as if the sea was pouring in, and its overwhelming momentum sent chills down one’s spine.
Even if an ordinary Taoist had the ability to resist this cold wind, they would likely be frightened by its imposing aura.
But Shen Ye was clearly not an ordinary Taoist; how could he be afraid?
Casually, he formed a hand seal, and soon a white sword made of his spiritual power appeared in his hand. It swept directly toward the center of the cold wind.
The rope formed by the cold wind itself was a formation, with the formation’s core at the center of the cold wind. The vast expanse of the cold wind, like a boundless ocean, made it extremely difficult to find the core.
Moreover, inscriptions floated throughout the cold wind, capable of resisting attacks from magical weapons and protecting the formation’s core.
Fortunately, Shen Ye was a genius in formations and also had some knowledge of alchemy. These inscriptions were no match for the sword, and within a moment, the sword found the formation’s core.
Shen Ye focused his spiritual power and manipulated the sword to stab at the core.
The next second, the cold wind completely disappeared.
Meanwhile, the Fairy Aunt rolled on the ground, blood oozing from her chest.
Shen Ye walked up to her, towering above her, and stared at her. “You’re quite formidable, turning your divine consciousness into a formation and using it against me. If my cultivation were only slightly higher than yours, I would have already been defeated.”
The cold wind was the Fairy Aunt’s divine consciousness, and she incorporated her formation into her divine consciousness, transforming it into a rope. When facing opponents with higher cultivation, she could defeat them directly with the Immortal Binding Technique.
If it weren’t for Shen Ye’s skills, he would have been captured by this eerie wind long ago.
Upon closer inspection, this Fairy Aunt can be considered a cultivation genius.
Unfortunately, she encountered Shen Ye.
She coveted Shen Ye’s cultivation level and Ye Ze’s purple aura, destined to fail.
Who made these two individuals favored by the heavens?
The Fairy Aunt’s heart was at the center of the cold wind, also the eye of the formation. Pierced by Shen Ye’s sword, she was now bleeding profusely, almost fainting.
Upon hearing Shen Ye’s words, the Fairy Aunt stared at him resentfully, with a sinister and vengeful glint in her eyes.
Shen Ye wasn’t afraid of her. He calmly placed a talisman paper on her chest and said, “I don’t value your cultivation level. I should have ended your life instantly, but the immortal aura on you must not leak out. I’ll save your life temporarily.”
He planned to hand the Fairy Aunt over to Little Golden Dragon, letting it extract the immortal aura from her. When the time came, the Fairy Aunt would meet her demise.
The Fairy Aunt had cultivated for two hundred years, devouring many fellow cultivators. Moreover, she had been causing trouble in the town, so this kind of calamity couldn’t be allowed to remain.
Shen Ye used his techniques to bind her, preventing her from causing any more trouble. He then returned to Ye Ze’s side and dispelled the barrier.
Ye Ze immediately grabbed his hand.
Shen Ye held the man’s hand in return, leaning in to give him a kiss. “See, I told you, I’ll be fine.”
Ye Ze gently caressed his face with his fingertips, remaining silent.
“I’m really fine.” Shen Ye knew that the man had been worrying about him all this time. After spending some intimate time with him until his mood improved, Shen Ye whispered, “Can you call Little Golden Dragon here? I need its help with something.”
Ye Ze didn’t ask him what he needed it for and simply nodded softly.
About five minutes later, Little Golden Dragon arrived.
“Master, Master Shen Ye, are you in danger?” Little Golden Dragon had been dutifully purifying the river in the village when it was summoned by Ye Ze. It immediately smelled the scent of blood in the air and couldn’t help but worry, circling around Ye Ze and Shen Ye.
Shen Ye: “…We’re fine. Stop circling around, it’s making me dizzy.”
“Oh.” Little Golden Dragon obediently stopped moving, hovering above Ye Ze and Shen Ye.
Although it was the king of the dragon race, it had just come of age and had a relatively simple mind. Since it had acknowledged Ye Ze as its master, it was quite friendly towards both Ye Ze and Shen Ye.
“Not bad, you’re well-behaved,” Shen Ye muttered, feeling a little embarrassed about exploiting Little Golden Dragon again.
However, he was in a hurry to return to the Imperial City to attend Shen Shimu and Zong Yiming’s engagement banquet, and he didn’t have time to stay and deal with the immortal aura on the Fairy Aunt. He could only ask for Little Golden Dragon’s help.
So he explained his plan.
After listening, Little Golden Dragon sighed softly, “I feel like you’re exploiting and enslaving me.”
Shen Ye: “…”
Indeed, the two things combined did seem like exploitation.
Shen Ye transformed his spiritual power into a hand and gently touched Little Golden Dragon’s dragon head. “But you’ve already acknowledged my husband as your master. You can only obediently listen.”
Saying that, he looked at Ye Ze.
Ye Ze: “Hmm.”
Shen Ye then turned to glance at Little Golden Dragon. “See, your master has spoken.”
Little Golden Dragon: “…”
It felt so miserable.
But what could it do? It had already acknowledged its master, so it had to continue to do so even if it cried.
“Okay, I’ll take her away.” Little Golden Dragon drooped its dragon head and said.
Shen Ye used his transformed hand to pat its head. “You’re really obedient.”
Ye Ze silently stared at that hand and then tightened his grip on Shen Ye’s finger.
“…”
Shen Ye was shocked. Did his man even get jealous of something like this?
He was using an illusionary hand! It was just a bunch of air!
Under the dark and heavy gaze of the man, Shen Ye dispersed the illusionary hand in the air and looked very serious as he gazed at Little Golden Dragon, saying, “Thank you for your hard work.”
Hearing his serious tone, Ye Ze’s lips curved up slightly.
Shen Ye couldn’t help but find his husband’s jealousy cute, even though he couldn’t do anything about it.
Unable to resist, he leaned in and gave the man a deep kiss.
Ye Ze chuckled softly and held the back of Shen Ye’s head.
Little Golden Dragon covered its eyes with its claws and muttered, “Here it goes again…”
Shen Ye, of course, was not shy at all. After exchanging the kiss with Ye Ze, he smiled mischievously and got back to business.
He performed a technique to disable the Fairy Aunt’s cultivation.
The Fairy Aunt visibly transformed into a skeleton, with the white immortal aura still attached to it.
Little Golden Dragon didn’t want to stick around for the lovey-dovey moments and immediately said, “I’ll take her away!”
Saying that, it used its front claws to grab the skeleton and took it away.
Soon, Little Golden Dragon disappeared from sight.
Ning Shihua’s family and Third Aunt watched as Shen Ye knocked the Fairy Aunt to the ground, and she writhed in pain while coughing up blood.
That was not all, they even seemed to have seen a golden dragon just now?!
…That was a dragon!
Even Ning Shihua was dumbfounded by the appearance of the Little Golden Dragon.
While Shen Ye and Little Golden Dragon were talking, the four of them stood there with their heads tilted back, staring blankly at the dragon.
When they heard Little Golden Dragon speaking, they were even more shocked and held their breaths.
Afterward, they watched as the Fairy Aunt turned into a skeleton and was then taken away by the golden dragon…
Until the dragon disappeared, none of the four had snapped out of their trance.
Shen Ye shook his head and used a technique to make them regain their senses. He said, “The Fairy Aunt cast an illusion on your town, but now that her cultivation has been disabled, your town will soon return to normal, and she won’t be able to influence you anymore.”
The four slowly reacted.
The third Aunt was the most excited and stared at Shen Ye with enthusiasm. “So you really are a master… By the way, was that a dragon just now? Oh my, I actually saw it… Am I going to be lucky? I already knelt down and paid my respects…”
Shen Ye interrupted her, “Treat your daughter well, and you will have good fortune.”
Speaking of her daughter, Third Aunt’s expression paused.
Shen Ye continued, “Now that you believe in my abilities, you should also trust the fortune I’ve given you. Your son is unreliable in this lifetime, so you have to rely on your daughter.”
Third Aunt’s face didn’t look too good.
As someone who favored sons over daughters, she wouldn’t be pleased to hear that her son was inferior to her daughter.
But she had witnessed Shen Ye’s abilities and knew that she couldn’t show her displeasure. So, she forced a smile and said, “Yes, yes, I understand.”
“You better treat your daughter well, or else you can expect a miserable old age,” Shen Ye stared at her and warned. “Don’t doubt my words. I’ve never been wrong in my life!”
Third Aunt was intimidated by Shen Ye’s aura and could only nod reluctantly, saying, “I… I understand…”
Just a moment ago, Third Aunt was especially excited and wanted to ask if she could pay her respects to the real dragon.
Now, after being frightened by Shen Ye, she dared not say more and weakly smiled, “I have something to do, so I’ll go now… Master, thank you.”
After saying that, she ran off without leaving anything in return.
Shen Ye, of course, didn’t care about any rewards. He only spoke up because he encountered Third Aunt and sympathized with her daughter’s situation. Whether or not there was a reward for such a small matter didn’t matter to him.
Once Third Aunt left, only the Ning family of three remained in the room.
Ning Shihua looked at Shen Ye excitedly and said, “Thank you!”
With the defeat of the Fairy Aunt, she no longer had to worry about her parents being influenced by her.
Shen Ye glanced at her and said, “I suddenly remembered something. Do you still remember when Mr. Shi asked me to fortune-tell for the artists in your company? You were suffering from insomnia at the time, and I gave you a few talismans.”
Ning Shihua nodded, curious, she asked, “Was it also the Fairy Aunt’s doing?”
“No, it wasn’t,” Shen Ye said. “I found it strange at the time. With my talismans, how could you be affected by the Fairy Aunt’s talisman and even drink the talisman water… Now that I think about it, the Fairy Aunt must have targeted me back then. My talismans were ordinary, but she used more powerful talismans to deal with you, catching my attention…”
Ning Shihua apologized, “I’m sorry, it’s because of me that you and Mr. Ye were targeted by the Fairy Aunt.”
“It’s not your fault. She was targeting me from the beginning. Even if it wasn’t through you, she would have used someone else to lure me to Qixian County,” Shen Ye shook his head and changed the subject. “Now, let’s solve your problem.”
Ning Shi Hua’s expression immediately turned serious.
Shen Ye looked at Mr. Ning and Mrs. Ning and asked, “Do you still want to force her into marriage?”
Mr. Ning and Mrs. Ning exchanged glances and remained silent, indicating that they hadn’t changed their minds.
Shen Ye sneered and said to Ning Shihua, “I am very accurate in face reading, but I have never mentioned anything about your marriage prospects. Do you know why?”
Ning Shi Hua shook her head.
“Because your marriage line has always been changing,” Shen Ye explained.
Ning Shihua hesitated for a moment and said, “I don’t quite understand what you mean.”
Hearing Shen Ye mention Ning Shihua’s marriage prospects, Mr. Ning and Mrs. Ning also perked up their ears, hoping to hear that their daughter would marry a good man.
Shen Ye continued, “Before your parents forced you to drink the talisman water, your marriage prospects were good. When you turn forty-two, you will meet a good man, marry him, have children, and live a happy and fulfilling life in the second half.”
“Really?” Ning Shihua stood there in a daze.
She didn’t reject the idea of marriage, but she hadn’t expected that she would actually get married and have children…
Mr. Ning and Mrs. Ning’s reactions were even more intense. Hearing that their daughter would meet a good man and get married, they couldn’t help but show ecstatic expressions.
“Xiao Hua, we won’t force you to get married anymore!” Mrs. Ning immediately grabbed Ning Shihua’s hand and said with a smile, “You’re thirty-eight now, and in four years, you will meet your marriage prospect. Mom is so happy… really happy…”
Ning Shihua looked at her hand being held by her mother, feeling somewhat stiff, not knowing how to react.
Shen Ye swept his gaze over Mr. Ning and Mrs. Ning and sneered, “Don’t be too happy too soon.”
The three members of the Ning family turned to look at him.
“After you forced Ning Shihua to drink the talisman water, her thoughts changed. She doesn’t want to be forced into marriage. She even feels defiant and believes that she can live a good life on her own. Because of this change in her mindset, her marriage prospects have also changed. She will remain single in the future. Even if she meets her marriage prospect at the age of forty-two, she will reject his pursuit and end up living a lonely life,” Shen Ye said.
As Shen Ye’s words fell, Mr. Ning and Mrs. Ning were struck as if by lightning, standing there dumbfounded, without any movement for a long time.
Ning Shihua was also somewhat surprised.
She didn’t doubt Shen Ye’s fortune-telling, but she was amazed at how accurate he was… She had indeed thought that if her parents insisted on making her get married, she would firmly refuse. She wanted to prove that she could live a good life even without getting married…
“Well… well, we won’t force her anymore… Can she still get married?” Mrs. Ning looked at Shen Ye with despair in her eyes, her voice trembling.
Shen Ye sarcastically replied, “It’s too late.”
Of course, this was meant to scare Mr. Ning and Mrs. Ning, but Shen Ye truly disliked their stubbornness.
Author’s Note:
Over 6000 words, darlings, see you tomorrow. Good night~
I’ll revise the text another day~
I don’t know if you noticed, but I type Fairy Sister in Chapter 105 instead of Fairy Aunt. It was a mistake on my part. Anyway, I’ll edit it when I have time.
