“By the way, why do they call you ‘witch’?”
His cheap, innocent servant had poured him a cup of hot milk. The milk had dense, warm steam, and just looking at it felt warm and comforting.
Bai Lixin took a sip of the milk and asked the question.
The silver-haired wizard was sitting in front of the table, sorting out the materials on it meticulously. The table was full of materials and utensils, but Dijia cleaned it up neatly.
He leaned over and quickly gathered up the excess that lay on the table to the side.
“I have never appeared in my true form,” the silver-haired wizard’s cold silver eyes glanced at Bai Lixin, “I always appeared in disguise.”
“I use the form of a woman most of the time.”
Bai Lixin raised his eyebrows, and his heart suddenly stirred.
He made his expression serious, even his voice sounded much more casual, as if the words were just on a whim, “Can I see?”
Indeed, it’s never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
The other party forced him to wear female clothing before; wasn’t this a counterattack?
The woman’s clothes are not the same as the woman’s clothes.
The dogs in the live broadcast room were in for a treat.
The silver-haired wizard swept another glance at Bai Lixin, then nodded, “Okay.”
With that, Dijia picked up a magic wand made of phoenix wood and circled it over his own head. Beautiful silver spots of light started emerging from the silver end of the wand.
Soon, more and more silvery spots swirled around the silver-haired wizard, slowly enveloping him in them.
With hot milk in his hand and a thick blanket covering his body, Bai Lixin’s posture was lazy, but his eyes, more dazzling than the silvery light, revealed his curiosity.
The silver light soon wrapped itself around Dijia and exploded with a bang, turning into a silver luminescence in the air.
The luminescence dissipated, and a tall, glamorous, silver-haired beauty appeared at the spot where Dijia had been standing.
Bai Lixin blinked dumbly.
It was not difficult to tell that the features were still those of Dijia, but in order to make himself appear a little more feminine, Dijia’s eyes and eyebrows were more delicate.
The angular features had also turned into a pointed oval face.
Hiss, this bastard really looks good after a sex change.
————————–
In the live broadcast room
[New drop: female Big Boss experience card has arrived.]
[God Xin is really good, he let us see the old attacker in women’s clothing.]
[Why do you think we say that God Xin and the big boss are living bodhisattvas.]
[Does God Xin want to counterattack?]
[Wow, is he going to attack this time?]
[…… You guys, I suddenly realized that there is no limit to human experience.]
[Ahem, keep a low profile, brothers and sisters. Don’t expose more knowledge, it’s easy to collapse your personas.]
Li Cangshan was dumbfounded as he stared at the barrage in front of him. He looked at the righteous silver-haired wizard and the noble-like God Xin on his screen, and the speeding barrage army, and was momentarily dazed.
So strange, God Xin was by definition strong.
The strong usually come with a halo of aloofness. For such a strong person, it was only right that the attitude of viewers and fans was mostly one of admiration and distance.
For example, the masters in other live streams have barrages saying, [Wow wow] [The great God is amazing] [The great God is awesome].
But in God Xin’s live stream, these dogs don’t seem to treat God Xin like a god, okay? With such doubt, Li Changshan clicked on Li Cancan’s private chat window.
Li Cancan: [Oh, that is something you will get to understand with time. Do you know why God Xin has so many fans? Apart from the fact that he is powerful, he isn’t pretentious. He has saved many players and helped many NPCs time and time again, and more importantly, he doesn’t forget to fall in love when clearing copies.]
Li Cancan: [He is both sweet and salty. He is a gentle kitten when it comes to love, and a wild and fierce weapon when fighting, who wouldn’t like such a person?]
Li Changshan stared at the excited barrages and frowned as he slowly typed out a sentence that would probably make Li Cancan angry: [Is it a set-up persona?]
But he didn’t get the expected anger, as Li Cancan quickly replied, [Absolutely not. No one would risk their life just to create a persona.]
Li Cancan: [Many expert players start to see their fan base drop drastically when they encounter setbacks, but God Xin is just the opposite. He had a lot of fans when he cleared copies before, and when he didn’t complete his mission over two years ago, the number of fans increased a little instead of decreasing.]
Li Cancan: [At that time, he could have cleared the copy easily but gave up the chance because of his principles. He could have won, but he chose to lose. He lost the game, but won people’s hearts.]
Li Cancan: [If there were people who suspected that God Xin was putting on a show before, no one can doubt him anymore after that.]
Li Cancan: [I don’t like to type out so many words, wait for the next time we meet, and I’ll tell you all about God Xin Shen’s copies. Oh, the system added a forum last year, and all the famous players are in it. Among them are God Xin’s superlatives.]
Li Cancan: [You can go inside and have a look. There has been a popularity voting activity recently, you can go give God Xin a vote if you want.]
Li Cangshan: [Okay, I’ll go have a look.]
The two ended their conversation, and Li Cangshan shrank the live broadcast room to the right of his screen, and then tapped on the forum icon.
This icon has always been on his computer, though he has never clicked on it.
In the very middle of the open interface was a polling screen.
[Super event! Vote for a prize!]
[Vote for your favorite player, for every vote cast, the player will receive one random prop treasure box. (Prizes are random, including A-grade prop cards, mall points, upgrade points, etc.)]
[One vote per person, if you want to get extra, you can randomly get 1-3 votes each time you succeed in clearing a copy.]
[The duration of this event is 45 days. When the time is up, the first-place winner will receive a Super Prop Card.]
[And the players who voted for him will also be rewarded with a variable number of points depending on how many votes they cast.]
Li Cangshan swept through the leaderboard interface, the first place was surprisingly the Little Overlord, followed by the presidents of the big guilds, and further on, powerful players.
He flipped through and found Bai Lixin’s name and avatar in the twelfth place.
Li Cangshan finished voting and sent a message to Li Cancan: [Does this game often have these kinds of stimulating activities?]
Li Cancan: [No. I don’t know why the system is doing this activity, but I always feel like it is up to something bad.]
Li Changshan: [Is the Little Overlord so popular? How come his rating is so high? It’s even higher than the points of several guild presidents.]
Li Cancan: [On one hand, it’s because he’s the dark horse of the past two years, and on the other hand, he bought votes. Although the presidents of other big guilds are strong, the frequency of participating in copies dropped because of their high status. Some presidents even participate in copies once a year, so the exposure rate is certainly not as good as the Little Overlord.]
Li Cangshan: [He bought votes? Does he attach that much importance to the game?]
Li Cancan: [It seems so. Zhou Guang said he always felt that this Little Overlord was strange and weird, saying that he had something evil about him. Zhou Guang said that if the Little Overlord is fighting so desperately to win that prop, then there must be something special about it, so God Xin must be voted into first place so that he can get it instead.]
Li Cangshan took a look at the event time, there was still less than a month to go before the event ended, but Bai Lixin’s position was still too far from first place.
It was almost impossible to rush to the top spot in less than a month.
Not wanting to dampen Li Cancan’s spirits, Li Cangshan just replied: [I will also vote for God Xin whenever I have votes.]
———————–
Bai Lixin stared at the silver-haired beauty for a while, until he made Dijia flustered. He flicked his wand and reverted to his male form, asking, “Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Oh, because you’re beautiful,” Bai Lixin regretfully withdrew his gaze, “Why did you think of turning into a witch?”
Dijia: “I don’t like to be recognized, so I put on a disguise when I appear in public. That way, my real form is not recognized when I appear in the downtown area to purchase the necessary materials.”
“To cut to the chase, the curse on you will take effect in two days. Before then, I will take you to the sea monster and beg him to help you break the curse. But it is not over yet. Since the curse placed on the evil seed was transferred to you, the evil seed loses its shackle once the curse is broken. There is nothing to bind him from then on.”
“The prince may seem normal now, but in a short time, he will be consumed by evil. The evil will suck up all the color in the fairytale, and it will lose its luster.”
“And the fairytale will collapse when the last shade of it is gone.”
Bai Lixin: “Is the prince the evil seed? Or is it two different bodies?”
Dijia: “Do you know how the prince was born? An evil seed is just an ordinary seed if you leave it alone. But when someone makes a wish, it fulfills that wish.”
“It felt the wish of the king and the queen and created a new life. With life as a shield, it hid itself.”
“It will use the body of a prince to keep absorbing the obsessions and desires of the humans around it and use them as sustenance to grow. Since you are from the kingdom, you should be able to detect the kingdom’s anomalies, right?”
Bai Lixin did not pretend: “The king looks cruel, the queen looks cold, and the servants around them are filled with fear.”
Dijia drew a cowhide scroll from a bamboo tube and took out a quill pen from a pen case to write something on the scroll: “The evil seed feeds on evil, and in order to be able to grow fast, the evil seed will keep leading those around it to breed evil thoughts.”
“Can’t you just take the seed out?” Bai Lixin stared at Dijia’s knuckled fingers and asked, “Have you ever tried?”
Dijia: “The prince’s heart is the evil seed, and the fairytale has rules against killing. To go and remove the heart would require killing the prince.”
“That goes against the rules of this fairytale, so I could only use a curse.”
Bai Lixin began to run through the plot, trying to use it to find the presence of the invader. He asked, “Did the three worlds merge eighteen years ago?”
Dijia thought for a moment and said, “That is correct.”
Bai Lixin: “Did anything special happen then?”
The quill in Dijia’s hand stopped slightly, “At that time, the earth trembled, the sky suddenly began to distort, and then the three temporal worlds were stitched together. If there was anything special, it was that a shooting star once crossed the sky.”
The silver-haired wizard inserted the quill into the holder as he carefully examined his work for a moment and continued, “If I remember correctly, the meteor was heading north.”
“There is a high probability that it landed in the land of the dragons.”
The man gently blew over the scroll, making sure the ink was dry, before lifting it and turning it in Bai Lixin’s direction and asking, “Do you like this outfit, master?”
Bai Lixin raised his eyes and froze for a moment as he took in the contents of the scroll.
On the cowhide scroll was a long-haired youth, and in a few strokes, the youth’s languid and relaxed demeanor was perfectly depicted.
In the scroll, the youth was wearing an exquisite shirt with a collar like a chrysanthemum in full bloom, and a cascade of pleats.
There were large ribbons around the collar, and a large oval jewel was set in the middle of the bow.
Outside the shirt was a waistcoat, and over the waistcoat was a long, well-tailored tuxedo.
Bai Lixin was a little dumbfounded: “Did you just paint that?”
Dijia: “The vines that were wrapped around you are called man-eating vines, the sticky liquid doesn’t just corrode fabric, it can also corrode human skin over time. Don’t look at it as a normal plant, it’s a vicious carnivorous plant.”
“The lake outside connects to the sea, and the sea monster often comes here through the waters.”
“But he has only appeared here and done nothing else; I drive him away at times because this is not his territory after all. But we’ve been at peace with each other for a long time.”
“But for some reason, he attacked you today.”
“So I plan to use magic to make you a suit, one that won’t be corroded by the slime.”
“At least it will keep you safe.”
“It’s getting late, I’ll take you to the guest room so you can get a good night’s rest tonight before I take you to see the sea monster tomorrow.”
Bai Lixin: “……”
———————
In the live broadcast room.
[No, no, big boss, you’re spoiling things, ah.]
[God Xin: Thank you.]
——————
In the dark castle room, a few candles were lit.
The candle flames flickered as a dark shadow snuck into the room. The dark shadow bowed its head and slowly reported the results of the night’s surveillance.
“Dragged away by vines…so you didn’t witness his death?”
A hoarse voice came from all directions, sounding near, yet also distant.
The voice was cold, yet thick with questioning.
The dark figure shook his shoulders in fear and said, “Yes, Master .”
“You have to see if the person is alive, and if he is dead, you have to see the body. I need to be reassured, either bring his head to the table or your own.”
“As you command, master!” The dark shadow gulped in fear and asked boldly, “Master, the prince is already fine, so why must you kill this substitute?”
“Hahaha,” the hoarse voice suddenly let out a wild laugh, “A substitute? He is no substitute, it is his life I wanted in the first place.”
“By the way, why do they call you ‘witch’?”
His cheap, innocent servant had poured him a cup of hot milk. The milk had dense, warm steam, and just looking at it felt warm and comforting.
Bai Lixin took a sip of the milk and asked the question.
The silver-haired wizard was sitting in front of the table, sorting out the materials on it meticulously. The table was full of materials and utensils, but Dijia cleaned it up neatly.
He leaned over and quickly gathered up the excess that lay on the table to the side.
“I have never appeared in my true form,” the silver-haired wizard’s cold silver eyes glanced at Bai Lixin, “I always appeared in disguise.”
“I use the form of a woman most of the time.”
Bai Lixin raised his eyebrows, and his heart suddenly stirred.
He made his expression serious, even his voice sounded much more casual, as if the words were just on a whim, “Can I see?”
Indeed, it’s never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
The other party forced him to wear female clothing before; wasn’t this a counterattack?
The woman’s clothes are not the same as the woman’s clothes.
The dogs in the live broadcast room were in for a treat.
The silver-haired wizard swept another glance at Bai Lixin, then nodded, “Okay.”
With that, Dijia picked up a magic wand made of phoenix wood and circled it over his own head. Beautiful silver spots of light started emerging from the silver end of the wand.
Soon, more and more silvery spots swirled around the silver-haired wizard, slowly enveloping him in them.
With hot milk in his hand and a thick blanket covering his body, Bai Lixin’s posture was lazy, but his eyes, more dazzling than the silvery light, revealed his curiosity.
The silver light soon wrapped itself around Dijia and exploded with a bang, turning into a silver luminescence in the air.
The luminescence dissipated, and a tall, glamorous, silver-haired beauty appeared at the spot where Dijia had been standing.
Bai Lixin blinked dumbly.
It was not difficult to tell that the features were still those of Dijia, but in order to make himself appear a little more feminine, Dijia’s eyes and eyebrows were more delicate.
The angular features had also turned into a pointed oval face.
Hiss, this bastard really looks good after a sex change.
————————–
In the live broadcast room
[New drop: female Big Boss experience card has arrived.]
[God Xin is really good, he let us see the old attacker in women’s clothing.]
[Why do you think we say that God Xin and the big boss are living bodhisattvas.]
[Does God Xin want to counterattack?]
[Wow, is he going to attack this time?]
[…… You guys, I suddenly realized that there is no limit to human experience.]
[Ahem, keep a low profile, brothers and sisters. Don’t expose more knowledge, it’s easy to collapse your personas.]
Li Cangshan was dumbfounded as he stared at the barrage in front of him. He looked at the righteous silver-haired wizard and the noble-like God Xin on his screen, and the speeding barrage army, and was momentarily dazed.
So strange, God Xin was by definition strong.
The strong usually come with a halo of aloofness. For such a strong person, it was only right that the attitude of viewers and fans was mostly one of admiration and distance.
For example, the masters in other live streams have barrages saying, [Wow wow] [The great God is amazing] [The great God is awesome].
But in God Xin’s live stream, these dogs don’t seem to treat God Xin like a god, okay? With such doubt, Li Changshan clicked on Li Cancan’s private chat window.
Li Cancan: [Oh, that is something you will get to understand with time. Do you know why God Xin has so many fans? Apart from the fact that he is powerful, he isn’t pretentious. He has saved many players and helped many NPCs time and time again, and more importantly, he doesn’t forget to fall in love when clearing copies.]
Li Cancan: [He is both sweet and salty. He is a gentle kitten when it comes to love, and a wild and fierce weapon when fighting, who wouldn’t like such a person?]
Li Changshan stared at the excited barrages and frowned as he slowly typed out a sentence that would probably make Li Cancan angry: [Is it a set-up persona?]
But he didn’t get the expected anger, as Li Cancan quickly replied, [Absolutely not. No one would risk their life just to create a persona.]
Li Cancan: [Many expert players start to see their fan base drop drastically when they encounter setbacks, but God Xin is just the opposite. He had a lot of fans when he cleared copies before, and when he didn’t complete his mission over two years ago, the number of fans increased a little instead of decreasing.]
Li Cancan: [At that time, he could have cleared the copy easily but gave up the chance because of his principles. He could have won, but he chose to lose. He lost the game, but won people’s hearts.]
Li Cancan: [If there were people who suspected that God Xin was putting on a show before, no one can doubt him anymore after that.]
Li Cancan: [I don’t like to type out so many words, wait for the next time we meet, and I’ll tell you all about God Xin Shen’s copies. Oh, the system added a forum last year, and all the famous players are in it. Among them are God Xin’s superlatives.]
Li Cancan: [You can go inside and have a look. There has been a popularity voting activity recently, you can go give God Xin a vote if you want.]
Li Cangshan: [Okay, I’ll go have a look.]
The two ended their conversation, and Li Cangshan shrank the live broadcast room to the right of his screen, and then tapped on the forum icon.
This icon has always been on his computer, though he has never clicked on it.
In the very middle of the open interface was a polling screen.
[Super event! Vote for a prize!]
[Vote for your favorite player, for every vote cast, the player will receive one random prop treasure box. (Prizes are random, including A-grade prop cards, mall points, upgrade points, etc.)]
[One vote per person, if you want to get extra, you can randomly get 1-3 votes each time you succeed in clearing a copy.]
[The duration of this event is 45 days. When the time is up, the first-place winner will receive a Super Prop Card.]
[And the players who voted for him will also be rewarded with a variable number of points depending on how many votes they cast.]
Li Cangshan swept through the leaderboard interface, the first place was surprisingly the Little Overlord, followed by the presidents of the big guilds, and further on, powerful players.
He flipped through and found Bai Lixin’s name and avatar in the twelfth place.
Li Cangshan finished voting and sent a message to Li Cancan: [Does this game often have these kinds of stimulating activities?]
Li Cancan: [No. I don’t know why the system is doing this activity, but I always feel like it is up to something bad.]
Li Changshan: [Is the Little Overlord so popular? How come his rating is so high? It’s even higher than the points of several guild presidents.]
Li Cancan: [On one hand, it’s because he’s the dark horse of the past two years, and on the other hand, he bought votes. Although the presidents of other big guilds are strong, the frequency of participating in copies dropped because of their high status. Some presidents even participate in copies once a year, so the exposure rate is certainly not as good as the Little Overlord.]
Li Cangshan: [He bought votes? Does he attach that much importance to the game?]
Li Cancan: [It seems so. Zhou Guang said he always felt that this Little Overlord was strange and weird, saying that he had something evil about him. Zhou Guang said that if the Little Overlord is fighting so desperately to win that prop, then there must be something special about it, so God Xin must be voted into first place so that he can get it instead.]
Li Cangshan took a look at the event time, there was still less than a month to go before the event ended, but Bai Lixin’s position was still too far from first place.
It was almost impossible to rush to the top spot in less than a month.
Not wanting to dampen Li Cancan’s spirits, Li Cangshan just replied: [I will also vote for God Xin whenever I have votes.]
———————–
Bai Lixin stared at the silver-haired beauty for a while, until he made Dijia flustered. He flicked his wand and reverted to his male form, asking, “Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Oh, because you’re beautiful,” Bai Lixin regretfully withdrew his gaze, “Why did you think of turning into a witch?”
Dijia: “I don’t like to be recognized, so I put on a disguise when I appear in public. That way, my real form is not recognized when I appear in the downtown area to purchase the necessary materials.”
“To cut to the chase, the curse on you will take effect in two days. Before then, I will take you to the sea monster and beg him to help you break the curse. But it is not over yet. Since the curse placed on the evil seed was transferred to you, the evil seed loses its shackle once the curse is broken. There is nothing to bind him from then on.”
“The prince may seem normal now, but in a short time, he will be consumed by evil. The evil will suck up all the color in the fairytale, and it will lose its luster.”
“And the fairytale will collapse when the last shade of it is gone.”
Bai Lixin: “Is the prince the evil seed? Or is it two different bodies?”
Dijia: “Do you know how the prince was born? An evil seed is just an ordinary seed if you leave it alone. But when someone makes a wish, it fulfills that wish.”
“It felt the wish of the king and the queen and created a new life. With life as a shield, it hid itself.”
“It will use the body of a prince to keep absorbing the obsessions and desires of the humans around it and use them as sustenance to grow. Since you are from the kingdom, you should be able to detect the kingdom’s anomalies, right?”
Bai Lixin did not pretend: “The king looks cruel, the queen looks cold, and the servants around them are filled with fear.”
Dijia drew a cowhide scroll from a bamboo tube and took out a quill pen from a pen case to write something on the scroll: “The evil seed feeds on evil, and in order to be able to grow fast, the evil seed will keep leading those around it to breed evil thoughts.”
“Can’t you just take the seed out?” Bai Lixin stared at Dijia’s knuckled fingers and asked, “Have you ever tried?”
Dijia: “The prince’s heart is the evil seed, and the fairytale has rules against killing. To go and remove the heart would require killing the prince.”
“That goes against the rules of this fairytale, so I could only use a curse.”
Bai Lixin began to run through the plot, trying to use it to find the presence of the invader. He asked, “Did the three worlds merge eighteen years ago?”
Dijia thought for a moment and said, “That is correct.”
Bai Lixin: “Did anything special happen then?”
The quill in Dijia’s hand stopped slightly, “At that time, the earth trembled, the sky suddenly began to distort, and then the three temporal worlds were stitched together. If there was anything special, it was that a shooting star once crossed the sky.”
The silver-haired wizard inserted the quill into the holder as he carefully examined his work for a moment and continued, “If I remember correctly, the meteor was heading north.”
“There is a high probability that it landed in the land of the dragons.”
The man gently blew over the scroll, making sure the ink was dry, before lifting it and turning it in Bai Lixin’s direction and asking, “Do you like this outfit, master?”
Bai Lixin raised his eyes and froze for a moment as he took in the contents of the scroll.
On the cowhide scroll was a long-haired youth, and in a few strokes, the youth’s languid and relaxed demeanor was perfectly depicted.
In the scroll, the youth was wearing an exquisite shirt with a collar like a chrysanthemum in full bloom, and a cascade of pleats.
There were large ribbons around the collar, and a large oval jewel was set in the middle of the bow.
Outside the shirt was a waistcoat, and over the waistcoat was a long, well-tailored tuxedo.
Bai Lixin was a little dumbfounded: “Did you just paint that?”
Dijia: “The vines that were wrapped around you are called man-eating vines, the sticky liquid doesn’t just corrode fabric, it can also corrode human skin over time. Don’t look at it as a normal plant, it’s a vicious carnivorous plant.”
“The lake outside connects to the sea, and the sea monster often comes here through the waters.”
“But he has only appeared here and done nothing else; I drive him away at times because this is not his territory after all. But we’ve been at peace with each other for a long time.”
“But for some reason, he attacked you today.”
“So I plan to use magic to make you a suit, one that won’t be corroded by the slime.”
“At least it will keep you safe.”
“It’s getting late, I’ll take you to the guest room so you can get a good night’s rest tonight before I take you to see the sea monster tomorrow.”
Bai Lixin: “……”
———————
In the live broadcast room.
[No, no, big boss, you’re spoiling things, ah.]
[God Xin: Thank you.]
——————
In the dark castle room, a few candles were lit.
The candle flames flickered as a dark shadow snuck into the room. The dark shadow bowed its head and slowly reported the results of the night’s surveillance.
“Dragged away by vines…so you didn’t witness his death?”
A hoarse voice came from all directions, sounding near, yet also distant.
The voice was cold, yet thick with questioning.
The dark figure shook his shoulders in fear and said, “Yes, Master .”
“You have to see if the person is alive, and if he is dead, you have to see the body. I need to be reassured, either bring his head to the table or your own.”
“As you command, master!” The dark shadow gulped in fear and asked boldly, “Master, the prince is already fine, so why must you kill this substitute?”
“Hahaha,” the hoarse voice suddenly let out a wild laugh, “A substitute? He is no substitute, it is his life I wanted in the first place.”
