Chapter 16: Fairy Qianbi Came out for the Eighth Time
Translator: Xu Kun
Proofread by Zhu Yuan

In view of the severity of this incident, I hadn’t been out for a long time. Bai Qingqing was my spy for the time being, and she was responsible for sticking around everywhere in order to get information for me. According to the latest reports, all people in Fangzhu Mountain were still depressed, and the admirers of the emperor were still very angry. They came to Qinghua garden from time to time to spy on me. In a word, I was not safe at that time!

One day, Bai Qingqing and I changed back into foxes and basked in the garden.

I pulled a stalk of green foxtail and held it in my mouth, feeling most bored.

“My sister, how long do you think this situation will last?” I looked at Bai Qingqing and asked.

Bai Qingqing glanced at me, but didn’t talk to me. She only rubbed the grass under her claws, conjured up a chicken leg out of nowhere and started to eat.

I looked at her doubtfully and asked: “My sister, you’ve already become an immortal and you should never be enticed by the food in the mortal world.”

Bai Qingqing glanced at me and suddenly gave a funny cackle: “You don’t understand. My chicken leg is not a common one. It is not brought back from the mortal world. It’s an authentic chicken leg produced in heaven!”

I twitched my mouth, spat out the green foxtail and asked: “Is it extorted from the kitchen god again?”

Seeing that Bai Qingqing nodded triumphantly, I felt deeply sad for the kitchen god. What a poor fairy! In order to get rid of Bai Qingqing, the notorious windbag in heaven, he must prepare the unique chicken for Bai Qingqing all the time. It was estimated that the chickens on the farm of heaven were almost extinct.

Bai Qingqing began to eat it with great relish, and I was drooling over her chicken leg. I was a fox anyway, but I had promised Bai Xiaoshan that I would not eat a piece of chicken in my whole life. How cruel such a promise was to me!

I looked up at the golden sun, tears sparkling in my eyes. All of a sudden, I felt the temperature suddenly dropped. I was bathed in the warm sunshine, but I couldn’t feel the warmth at all.

I looked at Bai Qingqing. Before I could ask her why, I saw the chicken leg in her hand suddenly fall to the ground and her face suddenly changed. She said to me: “Take care, my sister. I have to leave now!” And then she quickly ran away.

I was surprised at the speed of Bai Qingqing. And at that time I saw a huge green snake in front of me, with glittering and translucent green luster all over its body. The snake’s head was high and its tail was also sticking up to the sky. It was slowly moving in front of me at that moment.

I stared and finally realized why Bai Qingqing ran away in such a hurry. I was just about to follow her when I suddenly found that there was a layer of transparent ice in front of me, and my legs also felt the coolness. I turned my eyes and had to admit that I was frozen completely.

Whoops! I didn’t want to be an ice sculpture! Bai Qingqing, you were so unkind! You bad fox! I wailed in my heart with tears rolling in my frozen eyes.

The green snake seemed to hear my howl. Its head suddenly turned towards me, with a pair of green snake eyes staring straight at me.

Would it kill me with its big eyes? I thought sadly in my heart.

The green snake turned its direction and began to move towards me. It spat out its tongue very slowly and made a “hissing” noise. I wanted to cry. I was a fox. Did snakes eat foxes?

“My lady!” At that moment, I heard the gentle voice of Fairy Willow. Tears filled my eyes again and I knew I was going to be saved.

Fairy Willow came to me in a hurry. With a little magic she practiced, the ice layer that froze me cracked. I shook the water on my body and changed back to the human form. Without saying anything, I ran to Fairy Willow and charged bitterly: “Fairy Willow, you must take her to the prison! She wanted to eat me!”

“Don’t be afraid, my lady!” Fairy Willow said softly and patted me on the back. She gently pushed me away, turned around and greeted that snake: “I am honored to meet you here, Fairy Qianbi!”

I was surprised. Looking back, I found that the green snake had disappeared, and in front of me there was a stunning woman in green clothes, but she was expressionless all the time.

After hearing the words of Fairy Willow, Fairy Qianbi still had no reaction. She just looked at me casually and went directly to Richu Yard.

“Fairy Willow, she…”

“My lady, she is Fairy Qianbi in Richu Yard. Today is the day that Fairy Qianbi plans to come out. I was so careless that you were frightened by her. Your practice is not enough, and you should stay away from her.” Fairy Willow said.

So, after Bai Qingqing, I saw another strange fairy in Qinghua Garden. It was said that Fairy Qianbi had been an immortal for 200 years, but she spent 199 years practicing in her chamber.

As for the reason, I would explain it in detail.

Fairy Qianbi was a hardworking snake before she became a fairy. It took her 3,000 years to become an immortal. After entering heaven, she was still a studious fairy. She began to practice the excellent magic of the snake clan, “the Ice Magic Skill”, as soon as she became a fairy. Unfortunately, although she had become a fairy, it was still difficult to master this excellent magic.

For 200 years since she became a fairy, Fairy Qianbi had lived in constant seclusion, practice and failure.

When she came out for the first time, she froze the entire Qinghua Garden and even could not move herself. Thanks to the timely arrival of the emperor, Qinghua Garden was saved and would not become the first ice sculpture building in heaven.

After this incident, Fairy Qianbi was deeply depressed and devoted herself to the seclusion and practice again.

When she came out for the second time, she walked out of the gate of Richu Yard carefully. She turned around, and saw that the Richu Yard was already covered in a thick layer of ice. This time she did not dare to bother the emperor again, so she managed to unfreeze the garden after three days of hard work.

As a result, she once again went back to her seclusion and continued her painstaking practice.

For the third test, Fairy Qianbi tottered out of the Richu Yard and finally saw with satisfaction that Richu Yard remained unfrozen. She was very happy and hurried out, hoping to share this breakthrough with other fairies.

At that time, Bai Qingqing was just promoted to be a fairy, so the Qinghua Garden was very boisterous, and all the fairies in Fangzu came to congratulate her. Fairy Qianbi was no exception. However, when she just stepped into the Xingluo Yard, ready to smile and congratulate Bai Qingqing, she found that all the fairies had been encased in ice and they were all staring at her.

So, with tears in her eyes, Fairy Qianbi went back to Richu Yard silently and continued her practice.

Fairy Qianbi still couldn’t fully control the chill in her body in the following years. There was only Bai Qingqing in the Qinghua Garden except herself, so she had to find Bai Qingqing to share the outcome of her practice every time she went out of Richu Yard, and she would freeze Bai Qingqing into an ice sculpture every time.

Therefore, Bai Qingqing had formed a conditioned reflex. Every time when she found that the temperature suddenly dropped, she would flee from the danger zone at a lightning speed. Just like this time, she didn’t even carry her favorite chicken leg with her when she ran away!

According to Fairy Willow, this was the eighth test for Fairy Qianbi. It seemed that she was still not successful. Maybe she would continue to practice in seclusion soon.

After listening to Fairy Willow’s words, I found that I was so lucky to be saved by her in time. Looking at the nine tails that I had attained by overcoming great difficulties, I felt somehow balanced in my heart. It turned out that there was still another “wizard of practice” who was as unfortunate as me!

Two days later, Bai Qingqing ran into my room with excitement and woke me up.

“Fairy Pine, please see her out!” I narrowed my eyes and stared angrily at Bai Qingqing. She could run faster than a rabbit every time she was in danger!

“My sister, don’t be angry. I have good news for you this time!” Bai Qingqing gave me an attractive smile but it was immediately spurned by me.

“Fairy Pine! Fairy Pine!” I didn’t give up shouting.

However, Fairy Pine didn’t show up. I bit my finger and thought that he must still be angry because I kissed Emperor of Donghua last time.

“Go ahead, what happened?” I couldn’t bear Bai Qingqing’s rigmarole, so I asked her to come to the point although I was still bleary-eyed.

Seeing that my attitude was changed, Bai Qingqing immediately began to ramble cheerfully. I listened to her in a daze and finally understood what she meant. According to what she said, after two days of secret observation, she found that Fairy Qianbi had made great achievements in practicing her skills, and she could almost control the chill in her body. Although it was still far from the final success, as long as people around her had a certain level of accomplishments in practice, they would not be frozen by her again.

“Then why was I frozen?” I protested discontentedly. I was at least a fox with 2,000 years of practice!

Bai Qingqing glanced at me and said: “Although I am a fairy, she has frozen me so many times before. You are a demon who has practiced for only 2,000 years. Don’t worry, there are still many chances for you to be frozen in the future!”

I stared at her with anger. This was contempt for me!

Bai Qingqing also stared at me for a long time. She blinked her eyes after that glance and earnestly patted me on the shoulder: “It’s okay! Don’t worry! You will get used to it! Besides, I will not leave you frozen for too long! ”

I gave a snort towards her and saw Fairy Pine coming into my room unwillingly.

“What do you want me to do?” Fairy Pine looked at me and asked, with deep resentment in his eyes.

I asked him: “Fairy Pine, you still cannot forgive me, right?”

Fairy Pine was stunned, and I could see that he was very uncomfortable. He lowered his head and said: “Why do you say so?”

“Well, you always show me an angry face these days. Everyone knows that you are complaining about me in your heart!”

Fairy Pine flushed and stammered: “My lady, I …”

I waved my hand and pretended to sigh helplessly: “Well, you don’t have to say anything. I know you are still angry about me. So in order to comfort you, I decided to let Bai Qingqing be your girlfriend.”

As I finished speaking, Fairy Pine became extremely angry. He gave me a hard stare, turned around and left.

I looked at Bai Qingqing, closed my eyes and was ready to accept her cynical remarks. I didn’t realize that she was so satisfied with what I had said. She sat on my bed and said: “You are truly my best friend!”

I twitched my mouth. ‘Bai Qingqing had long coveted Fairy Pine!’