Chapter 161: The Command
Xing was keeping her head bowed in respect to the Heavenly Emperor who is considered the Emperor of all and her being here won’t be for chit-chatting. She looked at Shengli and the Emperor by her side still in prostration and they seemed unable to handle the presence of so many powerful gods. If not for the God-blood in them, they’d have cardiac arrest by now. She felt bad for bringing them inside the temple in the first place.
"Well, well! Haven’t the ’Dyed Radish’ all grown up now? Didn’t know a radish can grow up to be a transcendent beauty. Mortals always surprise me", a bell-like voice echoed in that ethereal Hall that was filled with various gods to the brim with the sudden arrival of mortals. The last time a human was allowed here was when the God of Wind brought Little Tianshi Emperor to beg for the revenge of his mother’s death.
The entire hall that still had some murmurings went entirely silent with their Emperor’s commanding voice laced with playfulness - a sight they had never seen before.
Xing felt her knees go weak hearing that nickname ’Dyed Radish’. When she was about five, she saved a white peacock from a hunter and he was the one who gave her the gift of receiving anything she wants from the mountains. But Xing with her usual ’reverence’ to all things, was calling him a ’Bleached Peacock’ making jokes about how he lost all his colours right to his face. Xing had raven black hair and she had extremely pale skin and she was wearing white that day and so the God called her ’dyed radish’ in return to mock her. She remembered that she even plucked one of his feathers and she still has it back in her home. The God got angry at her for hurting him and that’s why he brought her here previously and tried to hold her as a prisoner and made her listen to stories but she was plenty mischievous back then and he and his horde of servants could not handle a single five year old her. That God even made her trapped inside a cage and told her that the only reason he is letting her live was because she actually saved his life. But Xing sneaked out from the cage and she had turned the palace of the Heavenly Emperor upside down in a short amount of time and he had no other choice but to send her back to her place.
Well, Xing! Of course the one God you messed about a lot is the Heavenly Emperor! What do you expect? But how am I alive still?
Xing wanted to wail, "What? Nothing to speak now..? Why don’t you call me bleached peacock, Radish? Lift your head! ", the Heavenly Emperor spoke in a commanding tone.
Xing saw Shengli flinching by the corner of her eye but he could not move and she knew she was finished. Fei Lian saw her paled expression and knew this one might have done it and the entire hall of gods were gasping in surprise about the Impudence of a mortal.
"I’ll apologise for her Impudence, Your Majesty. This one has malapert blood coursing through her veins. I’ll teach her properly in the future to be more aware of her place", Fei Lian stood in front of her and bowed and talked on her behalf.
Even though she was being called names, Xing wasn’t worried as she knew she was all those things and in this situation it would be better if she gets back to her place safely and even thanked Fei Lian in her heart.
"Raise your head, Mingxia ", the Heavenly Emperor commanded and Xing looked at the Heavenly Emperor who had silver hair and was siting majestically in the big throne made of ivory and jade. His eyes were dark like the endless sky and his glance was powerful enough to make anyone tremble.