Chapter 126: There is Zhu Xia in the Human World

The man's heart grew colder as he witnessed the girl becoming increasingly arrogant.

It only occurred to him now that since she already knew he was from Old Pine Mountain, but still did not care, she must come from an extraordinary background.

After a long silence, he suddenly thought of a possibility and asked tremblingly, "Are you Zhu Xia, the saintess of the Myriad Heaven Palace?"

When he opened his mouth to ask this question, he had only one thought in his mind: praying that the girl in front of him must not be the saintess of the Myriad Heaven Palace.

But things often turned out contrary to one's wishes.

The girl's voice quickly sounded out, "How did you know?"

Hearing these words, the woman who had been silent all along felt her head explode with a bang and fainted on the spot. The man also felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss, his expression incredibly grim and filled with fear at the same time.

The disparity between Old Pine Mountain, a second-rate foreign land sect, and the Myriad Heaven Palace, a leader of one of the two lineages of Daoism, was truly immense.

To snatch the saintess' honey dates on the street could be a trivial matter or a major one. When trivializing it, it could be seen as young people messing around, no one would take it seriously. If it was escalated, it would be Old Pine Mountain looking down on the Myriad Heaven Palace. After all, he had made arrogant remarks that insulted the saintess.

The saintess represented the dignity of the Myriad Heaven Palace. Insulting the saintess naturally meant insulting the Myriad Heaven Palace itself.

The man's heart was ashen at this moment, unable to utter a word.

Provoking Chen Chao was still considered a minor matter. After all, this person's reputation among foreign cultivators was not good, so it would be considered just a provocation.

But how could Zhu Xia be someone that he could afford to provoke?

Seeing how these two people looked, Chen Chao felt contented in his heart and could not be bothered to think about whether they coughed up blood or not.

He reached out and handed a bag of honey dates to Zhu Xia who had been eagerly looking forward to it. She impatiently took one out and stuffed it into her mouth. Her eyes soon narrowed with pleasure, resembling two crescent moons.

This was the taste she had been waiting for several days.

She casually wiped the sugar syrup on her fingers onto her clothes and shouted to the shop assistant over there with some dissatisfaction, "Your honey dates jubes are so delicious! Can you make more of them every day in the future? Seriously, they're not enough!"

The shop assistant smiled slightly and nodded his head.

Zhu Xia was silent for a while before saying, "I've always lived on the mountain and rarely came down. I haven't experienced such things before. Today, I realized that they rely on their sect and their status as cultivators to bully you all as they please."

The 'you all' here naturally referred to the Great Liang Dynasty, including Chen Chao.

An incident like snatching honey dates, if she were not the saintess of Myriad Heaven Palace and did not have a powerful sect behind her, she would naturally have been powerless as well.

Zhu Xia sighed, "Such incidents have surely happened before, they didn't just start recently."

Chen Chao did not rush to speak. Yes, such incidents were definitely not the first nor the last time.

This had always been the situation in the Great Liang Dynasty.

"I am the Saintess of the Myriad Heaven Palace, so they'll be afraid of me. But they won't be afraid of you all, so they will continue to bully you all in the future."

Zhu Xia furrowed her brows, thinking about these things very hard. But in the end, she could not figure it out. She asked, "But why don't they focus on their cultivation and instead choose to bully others?"

Chen Chao looked at the young girl in front of him, thought for a moment, and then said with a smile. "I used to think that such things were terrible because the first time I encountered you foreign cultivators, they wanted to kill me."

Zhu Xia naturally knew about that story. She knew that the end result was that Chen Chao killed those qi refiners who wanted to kill him.

"At that time, I also wondered if all the foreign cultivators were like that. Coupled with the demons that existed everywhere, the people of the Great Liang Dynasty lived a very difficult life."

Chen Chao's thoughts were a bit scattered, but he quickly collected them and smiled. "Later, I began to feel that there was still some hope."

"That assistant at the honey dates stall wasn't that scared of the foreign cultivators and I really liked that." Chen Chao looked at Zhu Xia and smiled. "I also think that it's great that you, the saintess of the Myriad Heaven Palace, think the same way. Even though the world is very difficult, it's not the worst situation."

There were still many foreign cultivators like Zhu Xia and that was undoubtedly a wonderful thing.

Zhu Xia smiled, her two dimples appearing again. She was really radiant when she smiled, like a brilliant summer.

"Using their sect to suppress others, using cultivation realm to oppress others, using status to oppress others—I think they are all wrong. But today, I feel very happy. If someone truly thinks I'm unreasonable, then today I won't be reasonable for once. I hope the Dean won't get angry, I hope my master won't get angry, and I also hope you won't get angry..."

Chen Chao shook his head and said softly. "Why would I get angry?"

Indeed, why would anyone get angry?

Having someone like Zhu Xia in the human world was a wonderful thing.