[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-living-among-all-heavens-achieving-immortality-t":3,"chapter-living-among-all-heavens-achieving-immortality-t-living-among-all-heavens-achieving-immortality-t-chapter-406":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Living Among All Heavens, Achieving Immortality Through Merit",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2323974,4545,"Chapter 406: Pulled Zi Xuan","living-among-all-heavens-achieving-immortality-t-chapter-406",406,"\u003Cp>“Gu Qing, Gu Qing, your monkey is causing chaos in Heaven!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh… Queen Mother.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Four Heavenly Kings have fallen, Nezha and Li Jing cannot hold them back, Yang Jian refuses to intervene, and the Bodhisattva Guanyin from the West has come here saying only you can resolve this calamity. Gu Qing, speak—what do you want?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Queen Mother, Queen Mother, what have I done to earn such disrespect? My monkey serves in Heaven; why can’t you invite him to a single peach? Now the matter has blown up—if you’re coming to me as my mother-in-law…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mother-in-law? Dare I use that title? You and your mother-in-law…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop playing the lute out of tune!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Playing the lute out of tune? You have the Pangu Axe, the Bao Lian Deng, and secret scriptures from the Chan and Jie sects—if you truly wished to seal it, could I still see through the Desire Realm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did Cunxin mistreat your dog?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What dog of mine? Xiaotianquan is my brother. Now she can’t even tolerate him. Honestly, I think you’re very fickle—I don’t think you’re a good match for my sister. But over the years, my sister and her cousin have been happy with you, so I’ve come to learn from you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can’t learn my methods.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can’t learn them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because I lower myself to soothe them properly, while you cling to your pride and only argue endlessly with Cunxin. On the other hand, the women I choose are all normal, good women…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Normal… good women…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you feel Cunxin can only satisfy one of those two?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh? Isn’t this Marshal Tianpeng?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve come to humiliate me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, I’ve come to learn from you. I heard you have a battle technique—I’d like to see how good it is. Of course, I know your battle technique is terrible; you can’t even defeat a fox spirit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which fox spirit? What do you mean I can’t defeat her? Marshal Tianpeng, Zhu Ganglie, challenges you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Assistant Wind God, good! Fifth Brother, you’ve made something of yourself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Supreme Deity, for your guidance back then. Many immortals from the Jie Sect no longer participate. My fox sister and I slipped in, and eventually I became Assistant Wind God, while my fox sister became Lightning God… but, but—we secretly had a child. We dared not leave her in Heaven. Only you, Supreme Deity, can protect her…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Yu!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gu Qing, is the Kingdom of Xiliang really so wonderful that you keep going there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Flower Immortal, long time no see. A pleasure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see you often… Gu Qing brother~”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why do you speak so strangely?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Strange? Isn’t this the Queen’s tone? Gu Qing brother~ You dare do it but won’t admit it? Gu Qing brother~ Open your eyes and look at me—I don’t believe you’re blind. Gu Qing brother~”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Manzhou, Nüwa Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing entered, gazing at the coiled statue of Nüwa, studying it closely. In truth, Gu Qing had formed a bond with Nüwa; in the Bao Lian Deng world, Yang Chan’s Bao Lian Deng had often been handled by him, its mysteries felt. Now standing before Nüwa’s statue, he naturally felt a sense of familiarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current world was also deeply familiar to him—likewise created by Pangu. After Pangu’s death, his essence, spirit, and energy divided into three great deities: Fuxi, Nüwa, and Shennong. Fuxi created the gods, Nüwa created humans, and Shennong created beasts. Later conflicts led to their division into the Six Realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely the Sword and Sorcery world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing silently turned his Nascent Soul, comprehending all, sensing the temporal segment—he knew this was the era of Sword and Sorcery III.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thousand years ago, the divine general Feipeng, guardian of the Divine-Demon Well, dueled the Demon Lord Zhaolou in Heaven. Their battle dragged on for years until the Demon Realm invaded, threatening Heaven. Heaven punished Feipeng; distracted, his Zhao Dan Divine Sword fell to the mortal realm, and Feipeng was condemned by the Heavenly Emperor. After several reincarnations, he became a lowly clerk in Yong’an.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Five Spirit Pearls, Shennong’s Nine Springs, Nüwa’s descendants, the Divine-Demon Well, the Divine Realm…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, Gu Qing organized all this, took the bamboo incense beside him, and with a thought, it ignited. He placed it in the incense burner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nüwa’s faith is confined to the southern frontier. For a young master to come here and offer incense is truly rare.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An old woman with a wrinkled face, leaning on a cane, entered. Seeing Gu Qing’s clear, moonlike aura, his flawless white purity, and the effortless elegance in his every gesture, she exclaimed in surprise: “Your appearance is unparalleled in this world—walking among mortals, you’ll surely stir endless infatuation in girls.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Romance and love are but passing clouds.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing spoke calmly, embodying a transcendent detachment from worldly affection: “Only fools fail to grasp the truth of boundless emptiness, clinging desperately and inviting needless calamity.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman’s thoughts turned to Zi Xuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nüwa clan is the most wondrous of all clans—if they bear no child, they may endure forever. But if they bear a child, the child drains the mother’s spiritual power, eventually causing her to age and die, while the daughter becomes the new Nüwa descendant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zi Xuan and Xu Zhangqing were entangled across three lifetimes. In the first, they loved but could not be together. Zi Xuan found him again in his second life, Lin Yeping. After bearing his daughter, Lin Yeping eventually died. Zi Xuan, unwilling to accept it, had the old woman feed the girl puppet soup to halt her growth, while she herself forged an internal elixir to help this lifetime’s Xu Zhangqing attain immortality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing stepped forward, passing the old woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman felt a faint, fragrant scent drift past, leaving her mind hazy. When she regained clarity, she saw Gu Qing had shattered the barrier and stood before the lotus platform where Lin Qing’er lay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman cried out sharply—this was a Nüwa descendant. Even if she sacrificed everything, she could not let the Nüwa descendant be harmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing reached into his robe, lifted the tiny infant, and held her. Though decades old, she remained a baby, her growth stunted by puppet soup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman raised her cane, striking down at Gu Qing’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing did not look, did not raise his hand—he stepped forward, carrying the child naturally away. The puppet woman chased after him frantically, but though his pace never changed, the distance between them widened rapidly. In moments, he vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qing’er…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qing’er…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The puppet woman screamed aloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing held Lin Qing’er in his arms, playfully poking her. The child’s eyes slowly opened, her dark pupils fixed on Gu Qing. When their gazes met, she giggled sweetly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhao Linger’s mother.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing poked Lin Qing’er’s cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should you be my daughter—or my mother-in-law?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vast, all-encompassing spiritual awareness swept across the mortal realm. When it passed Gu Qing, it locked onto him. Far away on Mount Shushan, Zi Xuan’s eyes burned with pain, tears streaming down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been plotting her meeting and bonding with Xu Zhangqing this lifetime—but now that Lin Qing’er had been taken, it was as if he had ransacked her very home. She had no choice but to break her spiritual seals and awaken to the mortal world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who is this man?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zi Xuan recalled her earlier sight of Gu Qing—he had appeared to her like a blazing, radiant light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1252,"2026-06-20T17:04:28.193Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","451095bd647660ee1740604d7a92c5374598f7014f1f11c7dd2c8aee8290a65b","living-among-all-heavens-achieving-immortality-t-chapter-407","living-among-all-heavens-achieving-immortality-t-chapter-405",449,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fliving-among-all-heavens-achieving-immortality-t-cover.jpg"]