"Could it be that this baby girl is the current Lixing Empress?"
"Was the Lixing Empress abandoned back then?"
"Not necessarily, it's too early to say anything now."
"But if that's really the case, wouldn't it prove that the Lixing Empress was never the Celestial Emperor's real sister from the beginning?"
The cultivators of the Righteous Alliance in the Celestial Emperor Palace witnessed this scene.
Many were speculating if this was indeed the future Lixing Empress.
After all, the only infant girl that the young Celestial Emperor had the opportunity to be around recently was this one!
Luo Lixing also stared blankly at this scene.
Could it be... was this really her?
In the image, after the two left, the baby girl began to wail.
In such a desolate wilderness.
If Xiao Luo Xuan didn't take care of her, her cries would quickly attract wild beasts to eat her up!
Xiao Luo Xuan hurriedly walked over and picked up the baby girl.
Seeing Xiao Luo Xuan, the baby girl instantly stopped crying and blinked her eyes with a charming smile.
Soon after, however, she started wailing again.
Xiao Luo Xuan frantically tried to comfort her.
As he looked in the direction where the two had left, a cold glint flashed in his eyes.
"These two are heartless, as parents, how could they abandon their daughter like this!"
Xiao Luo Xuan had a warm family, a pair of parents who brought warmth to his heart and mind.
He couldn't imagine, in his heart, with such sacred roles as father and mother.
They would actually abandon their own daughter!
The baby's cries grew louder.
Xiao Luo Xuan could only continue to frantically comfort her.
But the baby's cries did not cease.
Recalling what the adults had said earlier in the small fishing village, a spark of realization struck Xiao Luo Xuan's mind.
"Seems like she's hungry."
There's not much that infants can eat.
For such a small infant, she can almost only have milk.
But out here in the wilderness, where could he find milk?
Xiao Luo Xuan gritted his teeth.
Then, he directly bit down on his own finger hard!
His finger was bitten through, and blood began to flow.
Xiao Luo Xuan offered his finger to the baby's mouth.
The baby instinctively began to suck.
Seeing the baby's cries cease.
Xiao Luo Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Yet in the next moment, the blood stopped flowing from Xiao Luo Xuan's bitten finger.
The baby soon started crying again.
Seeing this, Xiao Luo Xuan hurriedly bit another finger, letting the baby suck on it once more.
The whole night, Xiao Luo Xuan was like this.
Biting his fingers, letting the baby suck his blood.
Through this method, coupled with a night of comforting.
The baby finally stopped crying.
Xiao Luo Xuan survived the night, yet felt utterly exhausted.
Not only had he let the baby consume a considerable amount of his blood.
He hadn't slept the entire night and was visibly much more fatigued.
The people in the Celestial Emperor Palace saw this.
"If this really is the future Lixing Empress, then the Celestial Emperor was truly good to her at this moment."
"Indeed, it's not an exaggeration to say that without the Celestial Emperor, the Lixing Empress might not have survived."
Luo Lixing was staring blankly at this scene.
If this truly was her.
Wouldn't that mean she... owes the Celestial Emperor a life-saving debt?
Hearing the comments around him, Wang Teng felt a bit panicked at this moment.
"Everyone, please listen to me, it's still unclear whether this baby girl is the Lixing Empress.
The Lixing Empress is so peerless, how could her parents be such ignorant people who would abandon their own daughter?
I think there's definitely another story behind this; let's not jump to conclusions!"
As soon as Wang Teng finished speaking.
The surrounding cultivators also paused their discussions.
Watching carefully what happens next.
In the image, time moves to the morning.
Xiao Luo Xuan, holding the baby girl, descended the mountain and found a small village in a mountain valley below.
Xiao Luo Xuan finally found the village chief, informing him about the previous night on the mountain.
Seeing someone abandoned a child.
The old village chief saw it was a baby girl and was initially silent.
Then, seeing Xiao Luo Xuan's fully armed state, thought Xiao Luo Xuan might be the child of a nearby village's hunter.
Ultimately, he wanted to gather the entire village to reprimand the villager who abandoned the child.
The old village chief sent someone to notify the other villagers.
Soon, a man and a woman arrived first.
Xiao Luo Xuan felt a familiar feeling from them.
"It's them—"
"Child, my child!"
Before Xiao Luo Xuan could finish his words.
The middle-aged woman was already weeping bitterly, filled with joy, as she rushed towards the baby girl in Xiao Luo Xuan's arms.
The other middle-aged man looked like he was holding back tears.
"Baby! My baby has finally returned!"
"Young man, thank you so much, really!"
This scene, however, left Xiao Luo Xuan a bit confused.
"Last night, wasn't it you who abandoned the child?"
With Xiao Luo Xuan's words, the two of them reacted like cats whose tails had been stepped on!
"How could it be, she is our biological daughter, have you ever seen parents abandon their own daughter?"
"Exactly, sobbing, last night our baby was taken away, I thought I'd never see her again, but she's back now!"
"This must be the will of heaven, little brother, it's really all thanks to you, you're such a benevolent person!"
The two people cried their hearts out, showing genuine emotions.
For a moment, Xiao Luo Xuan was also somewhat uncertain.
He indeed hadn't had the chance to see the two people's appearances last night before they left.
He just had a faint feeling that the two people in front of him seemed familiar.
Looking at the way they were expressing genuine emotion at this moment.
Could it be that they really weren't the ones who abandoned the child?
"Little brother, thank you so much, please give me the baby."
The old village chief also said that this was their child.
Xiao Luo Xuan hesitated for a long time.
In the end, he still didn't want to believe that human nature was as evil as he thought.
"...Alright."
Xiao Luo Xuan handed the baby girl in his arms over to the woman.
The woman held the baby girl in her arms, her face full of maternal love, while continuously wiping away tears.
The man beside her also had tears welling up in his eyes.
Seeing this scene before him, Xiao Luo Xuan felt that nothing seemed amiss.
In his heart, he felt much more at ease.
After the two carried the baby girl home, Xiao Luo Xuan still felt somewhat uneasy.
He discreetly inquired around the village several times.
Confirmed that those two were truly the parents of the baby girl.
This small village was indeed too tiny, lacking anything Xiao Luo Xuan needed, not to mention any information he required.
Xiao Luo Xuan planned to take a short rest and leave in the afternoon to explore further afield.
...
Within the Celestial Emperor Palace, Wang Teng watched the scene play out.
"I told you, that baby girl wasn't the Lixing Empress.
Clearly, the destiny between the young Celestial Emperor and this baby girl ends here.
The baby girl has been reclaimed by her parents.
Her parents are not the ones who abandoned her, I said there couldn't be parents so heartless in the world."
Wang Teng continued talking, feeling confident that he had guessed correctly.
Other cultivators also echoed his sentiments.
However, Luo Lixing remained silent throughout the process.
In her heart, there lingered an unsettling feeling of anxiety that couldn't be shaken off.
As though everything wouldn't be that simple.
In the scene, the sun was setting.
Xiao Luo Xuan was already preparing to leave this place to explore further away.
Before leaving.
Xiao Luo Xuan went to check outside the window of that household once more.
Only after confirming nothing was amiss, did he feel at ease, preparing to leave.
However, just at that moment.
"Wah!!"
The baby girl suddenly burst into tears.
Then, the woman seemed to feed the baby girl milk, and her cries gradually subsided.
Yet, the ordinary cry of the baby girl made Xiao Luo Xuan pause in his actions.
In his mind, scenes from last night flashed by, when he cared for the baby girl, her crying fits and him feeding her drops of his blood.
Even recalling what the two people had said before abandoning the baby girl.
"Her mom, that worthless girl..."
Thinking of such a description, the more Xiao Luo Xuan thought about it, the more something seemed off.
If this baby girl wasn't abandoned by those two, but by someone else.
Calling her "her mom" could barely be explained, suggesting perhaps another couple abandoned her.
But "worthless girl," if not from her biological parents, sounds off any way you listen.
Reflecting on what the two had said earlier, that their daughter was kidnapped.
If she had been kidnapped, why would her abductors abandon her in the mountains? This wouldn't benefit the abductors at all?
The old village chief was furious and sent someone to notify the villagers, yet those two were the first to arrive.
At that time, the two seemed genuinely emotional, but it could have been performed after the village chief notified them in advance.
"I hope I'm just overthinking..."
Ultimately, Xiao Luo Xuan couldn't leave, still feeling uneasy.
He chose to stay by the window of their house.
At night, Xiao Luo Xuan watched over the place all night, not daring to sleep.
When daybreak came, Xiao Luo Xuan hid in a haystack on the side.
Feigning that he had already left.
Even Xiao Luo Xuan himself wasn't clear on what exactly he was worrying about.
The time came to the next night.
Counting the night spent calming the baby girl, Xiao Luo Xuan hadn't slept or eaten in almost two days and nights.
Afraid that he'd miss something if he left.
During this period, everything seemed peaceful.
Just when Xiao Luo Xuan thought he was really overthinking, deciding he'd have a good sleep soon and leave in the morning.
"Wah!!"
At that moment, the baby girl cried again.
The man and the woman were already asleep.
With the baby girl crying, the woman had no choice but to get up and feed her milk.
The man, awakened and now completely flustered.
"This little girl, isn't she annoying! Crying every now and then, how can I ever sleep?"
"She's still young now and can have milk, but when she grows, what will we have to feed her?"
"The head of the household, what do you suggest we do then?"
The man thought for a moment.
"That busybody kid has probably left, no one mentioned seeing him in the village today.
Should we throw her away again tonight?"
Seeing the man's suggestion.
As Xiao Luo Xuan, who was relaxing his mind to rest, suddenly opened his eyes wide!
The Double Pupils in his left eye, in the darkness, shone with an angry ghostly light!