“This can’t be real…”
“How can it be real, how…”
Shan Shou had been staring at the mirror for five minutes now.
“Believe it or not, all is indeed very much real. You have shed your ugly duckling appearance and became a belle.”
“I-I’m a beauty?”
Millie Snow nodded.
Shan Shou got her back home then left. Millie Snow was the one in charge of Shan Shou.
“N-not possible… I can’t be…”
“Where’s that man?”
Shan Shou recalled Li Mo.
“You mean master? He is very busy and I don’t know where he goes, but don’t worry. He always comes back after a while.”
“He is your master?”
“Yeah, he is the best master in the whole wide world.” Millie Snow smiled.
Shan Shou was envious of Millie Snow for having such clean and beautiful clothes.
Millie Snow smiled, “You look so amazing in these clothes.”
“I, amazing?”
“I can’t believe it. This must be a dream. With how hideous I am…”
Shan Shou held her face.
Millie Snow smiled, “You really are gorgeous. Besides lady Yang, you would be the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.”
“Who is lady Yang?”
“The one reading in the parlor.”
“S-she’s master’s wife?”
Millie Snow paused for a second then shook her head, “Can’t say for sure. But master has many, many missuses.”
“You are also one from now on.”
“Me? No, I can never be.” Shan Shou shook her head.
She had became a babe alright, but with such a low self-esteem ingrained in her bones her entire life, it was hard to overcome it overnight.
“I’m just like you, his servant. I-if he doesn’t hate me, then he is my master.”
Shan Shou held her face.
“You are a goddess, not some average person.”
The Yang girl stood at the door with a smile.
“Greeting madam.” Shan Shou jumped to her feet.
“I’m not the madam. I ought to be a guest, or… “
The Yang girl frowned.
She’d been doing nothing but hitting the books ever since she got here, and not much else. All so she could find an answer.
She’d been stuck in the divine root vessel for eons and lost most of her memories. What she found in the Earth’s books however, were the answers to who she was.
“Yang Chan, I like this name, so call me that from now on.”
Millie Snow nodded, Shan Shou was stunned.
“A goddess is respected and revered everywhere. Your name no longer fits your new status. How about I help you pick a great name for you?”
“I-I think the one I have is perfect.” Shan Shou lowered her head.
She was still not over her recent change, that she’d be back to her hideous form the next second.
“Only the strongest race in the universe could birth a goddess. From what I can remember, there has only ever been one human goddess before I was sealed.
“She was called Yao Ji. Even though she was a woman, she had proven herself in a world of men.
“She killed dragons and punished demonic flood dragons. In those years she used her own strength to wipe these two races out and protecting humanity from destruction.
“You are a goddess, so what do you say to Shan Yao?”
“Shan… Yao?”
“I’m only Shan Shou…” Shan Yao held her face.
“No worries. Now you’re Shan Shou, and after Shan Yao.”
Yang Chan smiled as she waved and a light shot from her. Shan Yao’s body burst with an immortal light as her body was purified. In just a minute, she had become as elegant and flawless as an immortal.
Yang Chan’s baptism was far more thorough than Li Mo’s. He transformed her as a whole and Yang Chan minded every bit of detail as well. Yang Chan found she had quite the knack for this.
When Shan Yao’s constitution became immortal-like, the study’s Dao Comprehending Tea tree, who showed just a hint of green, now was sprouting a leaf.
Regardless how small it was, this represented its rebirth.
Legend had it that immortal herbs could only grow around immortal. This proved it.
Li Mo came home three days later. He entered the parlor to see Mite Snow, Millie Snow and Shan Yao running to greet him. Shan Yao went a step further, kneeling and calling him master.
“Who told you to call me that?” Li Mo felt awkward.
“I chose to. From now on, you are my master. Don’t reject me. I-I don’t have a home.”
“Your body…”
Li Mo instantly saw something was off about her with his Celestial Eye.
Her entire body changed. Shan Yao was clear of any impurities.
She no longer needed to eat and drink, not even cultivate, and just from naturally absorbing spiritual qi, she would live for ten thousand years.
“You’d need to train in the Celestial God Art for fifty years at the least to achieve this…”
“It’s lady Yang Chan who helped me.”
“Yang Chan?” Li Mo said.
“Welcome back.”
Yang Chan smiled at him.
“Your name is Yang Chan?
Yang Chan shook her head, “I don’t know, but I’ve been recently reading Magic Lotus Lantern and found Yang Chan to be a charming name!”
Li Mo was speechless.
It was far better than Jinlian, at least.
“I gave her a name, Shan Yao. What do you think?”
“I still believe Mountain Belle is better.”
“D-don’t call me that way.” Shan Yao shook her hand. She had calmed down somewhat these few days, but it was going to take a long time for her worldview to change.
“Alright, then you will be Shan Yao from now on.”
“Yes, master!”
Li Mo shook his head helplessly.
He entered the study and was thrilled to see the revived Dao Comprehending Tea.
He had no idea this change came about with the transformation of Shan Yao’s body into that of an immortal. He always thought he’d have to wait a hundred years for the Dao Comprehending Tea to recover.
“This is great news.”
Li Mo pointed the Staff of Origin at the tree.
He was going to trace its origin. And this ability did not work on dead items.
If the Dao Comprehending Tea hadn’t grown a leaf, he wouldn’t be able to open a time-space rupture.
To others, the Dao Comprehending Tea had no use, but to Li Mo, it was priceless.
Because he had the Staff of Origin.
Hum~
A Gate appeared.
