Obsessively Raised by My Doll 153

Chapter 153

After calling out twice in her heart, she saw a figure walk out from the main door of the bedchamber.

Lu Dieqing immediately broke into a smile, like a spring flower in March, her eyes and brows curved, full of sweetness.

“Ningning!” This time she did not say it in her heart, but called it out directly.

The palace staff at the side, hearing the girl address the cold and indifferent Crown Princess in their eyes in such a way, immediately lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound, nor daring to raise their eyes to look.

In the vast palace, the only one who dared to address the Crown Princess in such a way was the one before them.

The Little Princess of Shan had been born in the Chaoying court, born a hostage. In the past, she had never appeared so brightly in public. However, from the moment she had become a favorite in the eyes of the Crown Princess, her destiny seemed to have changed.

But those who were secretly observing Lu Dieqing had to admit.

This Little Princess of Shan, born with dark hair and red lips, and skin as white as ice and snow, was so unbelievably beautiful that it was not strange that she was treated well.

If they were the Crown Princess, they would probably have done the same.

What was rare was that, although the Little Princess of Shan was now highly regarded, she was not at all spoiled or arrogant, and she was still gentle to the palace staff.

Lu Dieqing led Zheng Xuening out of the long corridor and into an empty side-palace. She led the little date-red horse and lifted the food box.

“Have something to eat.”

Zheng Xuening was not at all hungry, but looking at her little rabbit’s flower-like smile, her heart softened.

“Right here?” she asked, looking around.

This side-palace was empty, not even a single table was placed.

Lu Dieqing blinked her eyes. “No rush, no rush. Sit down and eat slowly.”

As she spoke, she lowered her head and took out a table for eating, along with two stools, from her storage ring.

Zheng Xuening watched from the side and smiled faintly.

“Is the storage ring that big?”

Lu Dieqing nodded like a little chick pecking at rice. “I thought it was big enough, but every day more space is unlocked.”

She wished she could let Ningning also see what was inside the storage ring.

However, once this storage ring was bound to its owner, it could not be used by others.

To erase the divine sense on it was still a little difficult for Lu Dieqing.

Seeing the girl pondering how to unbind the storage ring to show her what was inside, Zheng Xuening helped her to arrange the red bean pastry and other food, and stroked her head.

“No need to show me. Your use is my use.”

Since they were one, why distinguish between you and I?

“Alright,” Lu Dieqing said, arranging the two pairs of chopsticks, her almond eyes showing a happy light.

“It’s great to have a storage ring. You can take out a bunch of things wherever you go.”

Although she had already accepted the legacy from the forbidden land, in her heart, Lu Dieqing always felt that she was still the same as before and had not deeply realized the difference.

But the appearance of the black dragon was as if the thin veil covering the difference between immortals and mortals had been completely lifted, making it impossible to ignore the difference between the two.

Only then did Lu Dieqing discover how difficult it was to embark on the path of cultivation.

She had to cherish this opportunity to change her destiny. In the future, she also wanted to become a great power, to be able to protect the common people of a region, and not let those with great power harm mortals in the mortal world.

After this consciousness was born, the girl who had just eaten a small steamed bun froze there, her soft and tender cheeks puffed out.

She suddenly discovered that if the current peaceful life was because a great power had set down rules in the past, and there was a barrier, so that mortals like them could have favorable weather for hundreds of years and had not experienced any external attacks like the black dragon.

Then… if… if the rules set by the great power were gone, disappeared, what would they do in the future?

A thought vaguely emerged in Lu Dieqing’s mind—did there have to be a successor, who also became powerful, to take the initiative to protect this world, in order to continue to have peace?

Before she could digest this thought, she heard Zheng Xuening speak.

“More than two hundred years ago, a cultivator ascended in the Chaoying court. The record we saw in the bamboo slip last night was about this.”

Hearing this, Lu Dieqing immediately widened her almond eyes and looked at the other seriously.

“Then… the great power the black dragon mentioned, was it that cultivator?”

Zheng Xuening shook her head. “No. Look at this.”

She handed the yellow cloth that had been hidden behind the palace plaque to the girl for her to examine.

Along with that spirit stone, it was also taken out by Zheng Xuening for Lu Dieqing to feel the spiritual energy in it.

“The spiritual energy of this spirit stone seems to be a little more than a low-grade spirit stone, but it’s not as good as a high-grade spirit stone,” Lu Dieqing concluded in a small voice.

She focused her attention on the yellow cloth and quickly scanned the characters on it. Because she was so focused, she even forgot to eat the red bean pastry in her hand.

When she had finished reading everything, a complex expression appeared on the girl’s face.

“So that’s how it is…”

Seeing that Lu Dieqing had understood the meaning of the characters on the yellow cloth, Zheng Xuening added, “I think that in this world of ours, there were once many cultivators who appeared. It was just that later, the spiritual energy was depleted, and the great powers ascended one by one, and this place slowly became a world with only mortals. And those great powers who left, those who cared for their homeland, before they left, they joined hands to set down the rules of the heavenly dao and set up corresponding formations, which was why the decline of spiritual energy was delayed…”

“Now that we know that the Xuanqing Sect has a certain connection with your ancestors, and the other has sent a black dragon to pick you up, and among my ancestors, there were also those who had joined in the arrangement of the formations, let me think, in other courts, there should also have been cultivating ancestors.”

Zheng Xuening said these things slowly, and then said, “If we follow our ancestors’ words, this place will sooner or later completely lose its barrier protection, and at that time, there will be a flood. The way to delay the decline of this world is to have people constantly come to repair the formations.”

“But those great powers who have left this place, because of the suppression of the rules, can no longer come back. Even if they come back, they are no longer recognized by the heavenly dao, so they cannot use their spiritual power to repair the formations. And the black dragon is an outsider. Although it cannot use its spiritual energy, it has the talent of a divine dragon. It is born with the ability to ride the clouds and mists, and even to command the wind and rain, which is why it has made this trip.”

When Zheng Xuening spoke of these things, every word was very slow. Unfortunately, the information contained in them was too much, and Lu Dieqing’s head was a little dizzy. She barely understood all the meaning.

“Then what should we do? What should we do?”

The girl asked softly.

Zheng Xuening stroked the hair by the girl’s temple and curved her lips at her.

“The black dragon should only be able to stay in this place for a month. Let’s drag this month out first. You and I will search for the descendants of the other dynasties, find them all, find those with talent, and cultivate a wide range of cultivation methods, and train more of our peers.”

Only when the people of the homeland have become strong can they better protect this place.

Rather than waiting for the spiritual energy to completely dissipate and sit and wait for death, it is better to take a gamble and pull in more people to fight.

Even a mantis can block a chariot, let alone a cultivator who goes against the heavens?

After saying these things, the two of them looked at each other for a while and inexplicably both laughed.

Lu Dieqing rested her little head in Zheng Xuening’s embrace, her soft little hands holding the other’s arm, and said, nuzzling her cheek, “I never would have thought that the things we have to do would become so many without us realizing it.”

At first, she was only worried about her own future, afraid of being taken away by the black dragon, afraid of being separated from her parents, and from Ningning.

But when she knew that this world was also facing a dangerous situation, she suddenly felt that what she was facing was nothing.

The girl hooked Zheng Xuening’s neck and gently sent a kiss.

“Ningning, we’ll be together forever.”

What responded to her was an even more ardent kiss.

Zheng Xuening’s ten fingers were intertwined with hers. “Of course.”

To hold your hand and grow old with you.

The person she had fallen in love with at first sight, she would love for a lifetime.