Time seemed to stand still at this moment, and even the wind stopped blowing.
Shen Qing unconsciously tightened her grip on Li Xian's lapel. What was reflected in her eyes were Li Xian's smiling eyes.
Those amber eyes were filled with deep affection.
The moment their lips touched, Li Xian felt as if every part of his body was crying out. The unique scent on Shen Qing made his possessiveness even stronger.
After noticing that Shen Qing even held her breath, Li Xian released her lips and said hoarsely, "Qingqing, you can breathe."
Shen Qing blushed to the roots of her ears. After being reminded by Li Xian, her breathing became even more chaotic.
"Li Xian, why did you..."
Li Xian lowered his head and encircled Shen Qing in his arms. His breath fanned against her ear. The slight gasps and heartbeats were mingled together, making one feel dizzy.
"Shen Qing, I have something to tell you." Li Xian rubbed his nose against Shen Qing's ear and cheek affectionately.
Shen Qing felt a tickling sensation on the side of her face. Her mind was still lost in the kiss just now. She just replied blankly, "What?"
Seeing her blank look, Li Xian couldn't help it anymore. He kissed Shen Qing's lips again. Amidst Shen Qing's fragmented struggles, he supported the back of her head and deepened the kiss bit by bit.
It was not until they were both out of breath that Li Xian finally released Shen Qing.
Seeing the alluring color on Shen Qing's lips and the slight swelling bitten by him, Li Xian felt a strange sense of satisfaction in his heart.
Shen Qing saw the naked desire and possessiveness in Li Xian's eyes. She averted her gaze and shyly pushed Li Xian away.
"You hurt me!"
Li Xian helped Shen Qing tidy up her somewhat disheveled clothes and hair, and said with a faint smile, "Sorry, it's my first time. I have no experience. I'll do better next time."
Shen Qing glared at Li Xian angrily and shyly, "You don't do any serious business, and you still dare to think about a next time!"
"Okay, okay, I won't dare anymore."
Li Xian pretended to surrender fearfully, but secretly thought in his heart that there were some improper story - books of Xiao Jinglan. He should borrow them to have a look later.
Otherwise, if Shen Qing's lips were always slightly swollen, it would be difficult for her to go out and meet people.
Shen Qing didn't know Li Xian's little thoughts. She covered her lips and tried her best to regain her rationality quickly.
Li Xian's two completely opposite actions in the main hall and just now made Shen Qing a bit confused.
One moment he rejected her approach, and the next moment he took the initiative to kiss her.
It was just like having a split personality.
The more she thought about it, the calmer Shen Qing became.
"Li Xian, what on earth is going on with you? Give me an explanation."
Li Xian saw the shyness fade from Shen Qing's eyes and that she had regained her rationality. He sighed silently.
His own wife was too rational. Sometimes it really wasn't a good thing.
But he still had to say what he should say. Li Xian looked around and found that this wasn't a good place to talk. So he took Shen Qing back to Qing Qing's courtyard.
Since Qing Qing moved back here, Li Xian had set up a forbidden formation around it.
At that time, when Shen Qing saw Li Xian take out a series of things she had never seen before, her eyes were fixed on them. After all, in the Qingyun Sword Sect, the most things Shen Qing saw were swords. She really rarely saw magic tools like compasses.
Li Xian set up the formation using the principle of the five - element and eight - trigrams. No matter how high a person's cultivation was, as long as they got close, they would be detected.
So, Li Xian felt very safe here.
Li Xian pulled Shen Qing to the table. After thinking for a while, he took out some sunflower seeds, candied haws and some snacks that he had prepared earlier from his storage bag flatteringly.
Since he started raising Long Bao, the snacks in Li Xian's storage bag had never decreased.
"What are you doing? Didn't you say you wanted to talk about something? Why does it seem like we're going to listen to a story - teller in the mortal world and need to prepare some refreshments?"
Shen Qing looked at the table filled with snacks by Li Xian in astonishment.
Li Xian thought for a while and explained, "Shen Qing, what I'm going to tell you next is a secret about the mermaid clan. There are some things that you may find hard to accept. So I hope you can just listen to it as a story and don't get too involved..."
What Li Yuan gave him was not only the inheritance of the mermaid clan but also many unknown secrets.
He didn't want to hide any secrets from Shen Qing. Through what just happened, he also understood that sometimes his so - called protective actions might just be a kind of harm to Shen Qing.
It was precisely because of the lack of communication between Li Yuan and Xu Yanxi that they gradually ended up in this situation.
Li Xian didn't want his father's story to happen to himself. Being honest was the best choice.
Seeing Li Xian's solemn expression, Shen Qing couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy.
So, under Li Xian's somewhat pleading gaze, Shen Qing picked up the sunflower seeds on the table and started to crack them. "Go ahead."
Li Xian took a deep breath and first told Shen Qing the story about the mermaid clan.
The mermaid clan had lived in the South Sea for generations. Like the dragon clan, they were creatures born with the heaven and earth, equally ancient and mysterious.
Just like the dragon clan, the scales, tears, mermaid pearls, etc. of the mermaids were all treasures, coveted by both the human and demon races.
The dragon clan was born brave and good at fighting, so the human and demon races didn't dare to act against them.
But the mermaids were different. During the most prosperous periods of the human and demon races, the mermaid clan was even massacred to the point that they only dared to hide in the depths of the South Sea and often had to ask the divine beasts in the North Sea for help.
But even so, the treasures on the mermaids still attracted a large number of humans and demons to pursue them. The number of mermaids continued to decrease.
There was no other way. The mermaids had to rely on the sea creatures on the seabed to build a palace in the depths of the South Sea. They used the formation left over from ancient times to protect the Mermaid Palace. Once someone broke in, they would surely die, and even their souls would be burned out.
With such a formation, the massacre of the mermaids by the human race slowed down.
Shen Qing sighed, "How many immoral things did the human and demon races do before? It was the same for the dragon clan and the mermaid clan."
But Li Xian didn't quite agree with Shen Qing's sigh. He pursed his lips and finally didn't say anything to refute. He just continued to talk about the things of the mermaid clan.
"Do you still remember the silver needles pulled out from the heads of Elders Lian Shan and Lian Qiao? Shen Qing, what I'm going to tell you next is about the silver needles."
"Maybe one day, you will even personally insert a silver needle into my head." Li Xian said with a smile, but there was only desolation in his eyes.
Shen Qing was stunned. "How could I do such a thing?"
Li Xian shook his head. "The mermaid clan finally managed to avoid the pursuit and killing of the human and demon races. But then, the divine punishment came..."
The mermaid women needed an extremely long time to conceive. And after conception, they could only produce one mermaid egg at a time. This led to the fact that after the massacre, the number of mermaids had never increased.
There was no other way. The then - clan leader of the mermaid clan took a risk and used a forbidden technique in an attempt to make the women in the clan conceive and lay eggs quickly.
This method was indeed effective. The egg - laying speed of the mermaids in the clan did become much faster.
But what the mermaids didn't expect was that after using the forbidden technique, all the little mermaids hatched from those mermaid eggs were monsters with scarlet pupils.