Everyone knelt before the fairy, praying that she would take them under her wing; even if they couldn't be her disciples, they wanted to follow her and take care of trivial matters. They didn't care about cultivating immortality—they would be content just to see the fairy every day.
However, the "fairy" was noticeably unhappy, her face frosty with annoyance as she snapped, "What is all this noise? So bothersome!" With that, she extended a finger and released a streak of sword light, slicing a basin-thick old pine tree at the waist on the cliff, frightening all the knights into immediate silence.
Only then did she calm down and take a careful look at the array on the mountain peak, "This array is righteous and not evil, bearing some resemblance to the Immortal Array passed down by the master my father mentioned..."
It turned out this young fairy's full name was Zhuge Han'er, the very child born to Zhuge Jingwo and Lady Bao Xiang back in the day.
When Lady Bao Xiang encountered Zhuge Jingwo in the East Sea, she felt affection for him and tried to seduce him.
In the original story, after Lady Bao Xiang discovered Zhuge Jingwo was a disciple of Xuan Zhenzi, fear took hold, and she didn't dare make a move; instead, she helped Zhuge Jingwo escape the Three Calamities, owing her a favor, which led to three immortals from the East Sea helping her through the Heavenly Tribulation later. They also took in her two daughters, born to Qin Yu, as disciples.
Because of Shi Feiyang's arrival, the three's fates became entangled. Shi Feiyang used the Heaven and Earth Harmony Fragrance, making the two unable to control themselves, which led to a multitude of ensuing tales.
Back then, when Zhuge Jingwo returned to Fishing Rock, Xuan Zhenzi gave him two paths to choose from—one was to achieve the Earth Immortal Position and live a good life with his wife and children; the other was to undergo Soldier Disintegration and reincarnate to ascend to the path of a Heavenly Immortal.
Without a moment's hesitation, Zhuge Jingwo chose the latter, undergoing Soldier Disintegration and re-cultivating the Righteous Skill.
Lady Bao Xiang gave birth to two daughters, the elder named Ziling and the younger named Han'er.
In the original work, her daughters were fathered by Qin Yu and were born in two separate instances, with an age gap between the two sisters.
However, these children were fathered by Zhuge Jingwo, twins of the same birth and equally aged.
Lady Bao Xiang became an immortal through unorthodox means, cultivating for three thousand years and enduring numerous calamities. Not long after giving birth, she too underwent Soldier Disintegration to avoid calamity but did not reincarnate; instead, she hid her Nascent Soul in a cave beneath Fishing Rock to cultivate and avoid disaster.
The two daughters were left in the Purple Spirit Valley of Yellow Mountain, sealed off from the outside by Immortal Law. Usually hidden in clouds and fog, it would be difficult for even those determined to find them, let alone ordinary people seeking immortals.
Once reincarnated, Zhuge Jingwo occasionally visited, regarding them as daughters from a previous life, born from a compromised Dao Foundation, making each encounter complicated for him.
Due to these mixed feelings, he wasn't very close to his daughters, and even his instruction in cultivation was done with due formality.
The elder daughter, Ziling, was composed and managed fairly well, but the younger daughter, Han'er, was quite unstable...
That year, Shi Feiyang brought Jiang Shu to Yellow Mountain and the Purple Gold Waterfall to fetch the Broken Jade Hook. They coincided with the Peach Blossom Fairy, Li Yuyu, and Pu Miaomiao, the son of Jiangsu's Chongming Island Golden Thread Goddess, rewarding each other in the valley. Li Yuyu ran off to seduce Jiang Shu but was replaced by Shi Feiyang with the Myriad Cold Centipede, destroying her physical body. Finally, Chuandeng Monk cast a spell from afar to repel the Cold Centipede, and Li Yuyu's Primordial Spirit barely escaped.
Pu He, meanwhile, noticed a blue-clothed young girl and, naked, chased after her wanting to "reward" her.
That blue-clothed girl turned out to be Zhuge Han'er, who had snuck out to play.
Seeing Pu He chasing her with a lecherous face, though not understanding what he was saying, Han'er knew it couldn't be good and led him into a narrow crevice between two rocks using the Heavenly Demon Hui Ming Escape Technique.
Excited to find the girl entering a dead-end crevice, Pu He squeezed in happily, forcibly trying to "reward" her, but suddenly felt excruciating pain in a vulnerable part of his body. Instantly sobering up, he found only his own head caught in the half-a-foot-wide chasm, pierced by a silver needle and nailed into the rock.
He struggled, but his wrists and ankles suddenly tightened, caught by smooth silk bands that wrapped around securely. On closer inspection, these bands appeared to grow from within the rock, their other half deeply embedded within.
Although Han'er was already grown up, being strictly restrained by her parents' command, she could only stay within Purple Valley and couldn't leave Yellow Mountain without her sister Ziling's permission.
Having no contact with the outside world, she was naive and uninformed, assuming that Pu He simply meant to bully her. She found him repulsive and disgusting, yet had no idea what he really intended. She demanded to know what Pu He was up to.
Pu He, not daring to tell the truth, claimed he wanted to catch rabbits with her.
Han'er questioned why he wasn't wearing any clothes, and he replied that he was practicing a spell...
Innocent though she was, Han'er was not foolish. She kept asking questions and piecing together the inconsistent answers, realizing he was lying and deceiving her. Then she made the needle release sparks, causing Pu He to howl in pain.
Using the Heavenly Demon Hui Ming Escape Technique to seal the area, she wasn't worried about being overheard and began to interrogate Pu He right there.
Pu He racked his brains, initially trying to deceive her into letting him go, already planning to use the most powerful spell his aunt had taught him to capture her and thoroughly "reward" her once he was free.
But Han'er didn't care about extracting any particular information; she had grown up sheltered and had never interacted with people from outside. Curious about the world beyond, she saw Pu He as nothing more than a toy or a pet.
That day, after interrogating him for over two hours, she left, and Pu He immediately tried to free himself.
Alas, Lady Bao Xiang's Heavenly Demon Hui Ming Escape Technique was extremely powerful, having originally been a cultivation method secretly passed down from Elder Xue Xue from Heaven. It comprised six sets of skills—Life and Death Illusion Destruction Brightness—but Elder Xue Xue only transcribed the Hui and Ming sets. Lady Bao Xiang, following her instincts to cultivate the Heavenly Fox Illusion along with her previously mastered Demon Path Skills, combined them to form the Heavenly Demon Hui Ming Escape Technique.
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