I am just a mortal, why do you all worship me as a saint?

Chapter 38: Young Girl Qin Yiyao

Gu Heng carried the boiled water up to the second floor, where there was a bathtub he had prepared. It was filled with cold water but not hot water. When he went in, the boy was lying in the bathtub with his back to him, his eyes closed and his breathing even.

He slowly walked over and saw that there were bruises on his face and bloodstains at the corner of his mouth, but even in such a disheveled state, his handsome features could not be hidden, and he exuded an unruly temperament.

"This water is so cold, it's not good for your health."

Gu Heng sighed, but it was this sound that startled the boy in the bucket!

"what!"

A slightly hoarse scream, coupled with the boy's sudden panic and helplessness as he huddled against the side of the tub, made Gu Heng realize something.

This...this doesn't seem to be a teenager.

She's a young girl!

Gu Heng truly didn't realize that this "young man" was actually a woman.

She was so thin and frail, hadn't eaten her fill in a long time, her clothes were tattered, and she was covered in filth that it was hard to tell her gender without a close look.

But looking at it now, it really is quite beautiful.

He didn't understand much else, but he could compare her to the beautiful women he had seen. Although she was still a bit immature, she was already a beauty in the making. If she dressed up properly and wore some nice clothes, she would be absolutely gorgeous.

The girl was taking a cold bath when she saw Gu Heng enter. She submerged herself completely in the water, leaving only her head above water. She hugged her arms tightly to her chest underwater, stared at Gu Heng with wide eyes, her eyes red and swollen, as if she was about to cry.

She was already beautiful and delicate, but her tearful appearance made her even more charming and endearing, making people want to protect her.

"Uh... I'll add some hot water for you."

Gu Heng tried his best to avoid feeling too awkward, although he did feel very embarrassed being stared at like that by her with such wary eyes.

I really didn't mean to be a pervert.

"Ah...you can add it."

The girl continued to stare at him. Gu Heng slowly poured the steaming hot water from the pot down the side of the bucket, then tested the temperature with his hand; it was just right.

"Well, okay, you go wash first, I'll go cook and get you some... suitable clothes."

Gu Heng coughed lightly, picked up the pot, and turned to leave.

"boom!"

The door is closed.

After he left, the woman in the water finally relaxed. She let out a soft sigh, looked up at the roof, and her eyes flickered with confusion and struggle.

"Ha, looking at him like this, it seems that all these years I really haven't been like a woman..."

Qin Yiyao has been reborn into this world for sixteen years.

She once conquered half of the Xuan Tian Realm under the name of "Saint Yao Emperor" and founded the Great Qin Dynasty. However, just as she was reaching her peak, she was framed and fell into the poison of killing immortals. The poison was so potent that even she could not resist it at her peak.

Fortunately, by chance, Qin Yiyao found a fragment of the "Medical Immortal" manual!

The "Remnant Book of the Immortal Physician" records a celestial-level formation that can save her.

In order to save herself, she built a mausoleum. Since she could no longer set up a celestial-level array, she had to set up 999 ancient arrays from the Taixu era to make up for the power of the celestial-level array in the incomplete medical manual. In addition, she had thousands of loyal ministers and the twelve most elite Qin generals buried with her to guard the tomb. She also set up the "Boundless Sword Domain" that she had comprehended after ascending to the throne for defense.

After doing all this, she was placed in a coffin and died.

Then, rebirth.

I don't know how long it took.

But when she emerged from the coffin, she found her body had become so thin and frail.

The mausoleum has become a ruin, and a mountain has even slowly risen from the ground based on her mausoleum, becoming a solitary mountain.

All the preparations Qin Yiyao made before her death, including the elixirs, magical artifacts, spirit stones, and even the ministers who were to be buried with her and guard her tomb, had their power drained by the formation. Her cultivation had also been neutralized and dissipated by the poison that killed immortals. In the end, she was brought back to life, but she became a mortal.

A penniless mortal.

She didn't know how much time had passed since her own era when she re-emerged from her coffin, but the Great Qin Dynasty created by the former "Holy Yao Emperor" had long since turned to ashes in the long river of time. Now, the world had been divided for a long time, and the strict laws she left behind had become a pile of waste paper. For the past sixteen years, she had lived a humiliating and lowly life as a "mortal" without any cultivation, or rather, an ant, with no relatives or friends and suffering all kinds of bullying!

There is still a chance for things to turn around, but the chances are extremely slim.

She possesses the bloodline of an immortal descendant, which allows her to fight across major stages even during the Qi Refining stage, making her arguably the most heaven-defying bloodline in the world!

She cultivates the "Asking the Emperor's Heart Technique," which is also a treasure left behind by the Great Void. It can refine the Emperor's Purple Qi and borrow the power of all people to enter sainthood and ascend to immortality!

However, Qin Yiyao has lost her early memories, and she has no idea how to activate the bloodline of the Ascended Immortal Clan within her.

Even possessing extraordinary cultivation techniques is useless if one cannot cultivate.

She was no longer the great emperor who could change the world with a wave of her hand and command the submission of millions with a glance. Now she was just an ordinary person who had almost lost half her life just by coming to Yunling City, and could only barely survive in the alleys, not even having enough to eat. Leaving was a luxury, because there were too many dangerous places outside Yunling City for her to survive.

Even if she stayed in the city, she would still be bullied by those ants who she would never have given a second glance to before!

A mighty emperor, reduced to this state.

But Qin Yiyao could accept it, after all, she herself had gone through the same process.

She was prepared to be beaten again tonight; those people wouldn't dare to actually kill her. The true ruler of Yunling City, the Nianling Sect, couldn't bear to see the lowly life of a mortal like her defile the ground of Yunling City.

They claimed that "common people should not be killed indiscriminately."

Qin Yiyao scoffed at this nonsense every time she heard it.

However, she hadn't expected to be rescued.

"However, that guy doesn't seem to be an ordinary mortal." Qin Yiyao secretly glanced behind her.

He didn't come up again.

In the past, anyone who peeked at her bathing would be sentenced to death.

But she is no longer the emperor, and that person was the one who saved her.

Qin Yiyao currently has no cultivation at all, her bloodline is not awakened, and she cannot cultivate. However, she still has the perspective of a former Great Emperor and that intuition. She can see the difference between mortals and cultivators. No matter how she looks at it, she only feels that the young man is a mortal.

Even for a mortal who has mastered martial arts to the extreme, dealing with a half-baked Foundation Establishment cultivator like Hong Ba wouldn't be so easy.

He's eccentric.

He could be a true mortal, or perhaps a cultivator whom even she couldn't see through.

"...Why think so much? You should think about how you should live your life right now..."

Qin Yiyao idly patted the water's surface, water droplets sliding off the lotus tips and splashing up a few small waves.

……

Gu Heng found a tailor shop, bought several ready-made women's dresses, and also got some good-looking pork, eggs, and vegetables from a vendor who hadn't closed up shop yet, before returning to the new medical clinic.

Going upstairs, Gu Heng saw her still soaking in the bathtub and placed the several sets of clothes he had bought next to her: "I don't know if these clothes will fit, but you can wear them after you're done washing."

Qin Yiyao hummed in agreement.

"Then you go ahead and wash up. I'll... get you something to eat, even though I'm a terrible cook..."

Gu Heng scratched his head, smiled sheepishly, and was about to leave when he heard her say, "Qin Yiyao."

He turned around. "My name."

"Oh, that sounds pretty good."

Gu Heng smiled and went downstairs.

That's good. He wouldn't talk just now, but now he's willing to tell him his name, which means he's let his guard down a bit.

He returned to the back room, started a fire, and cooked. After spending some time preparing two dishes and setting out the bowls and chopsticks, he heard footsteps coming from the stairs, and a delicate and slender figure descended the stairs.

Qin Yiyao wore a light green dress, her long, smooth black hair draped over her shoulders. Having washed away the mud and dust that covered her body, her skin was now as smooth as jade, her eyebrows and eyes delicate, her lips thin and her teeth white. Her features seemed to be the most outstanding work of art by heaven, every detail just right.

If there's anything lacking...

That means you're too thin.

She looked very thin; the dress was one of the smallest sizes available at the tailor shop, but Qin Yiyao's figure barely filled it out. Gu Heng raised an eyebrow, thinking to himself that he had struck gold tonight.

When Qin Yiyao saw him standing by the door looking at her, a faint blush appeared on her face. She bit her lower lip, lowered her head and didn't speak. Her two fair and delicate hands were twisted together, as if she was a little flustered.

Gu Heng realized what was happening and knocked on the door frame: "Dinner is ready."

"Oh."

She responded and hurriedly followed him inside, slowly moving over to sit down.

On the table were stir-fried vegetables, braised beef, and scrambled eggs. They didn't look very appetizing. She used to eat delicacies from land and sea, spiritual fruits and birds raised in a treasure land rich in spiritual energy, but that was a long time ago.

Since her rebirth, Qin Yiyao has long forgotten when she last ate a normal, full meal.

So she didn't even bother to choose, and devoured all the dishes on the table in a flash.

Gu Heng watched her wolf down her food, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice.

Hmm, looks like we've picked up a little guy who eats a lot.

A short while later...

"I'm done eating."

Qin Yiyao let out a burp, looked at Gu Heng, and gave him a bright smile.

Her smile was incredibly infectious. At that moment, she seemed to brighten up completely, and it also touched Gu Heng, who smiled, his gentle and handsome face curving upwards.

"Now that we've eaten and warmed up, let's get down to business."

Qin Yiyao was taken aback: "Is this serious business?"

Why would the Black Forest Gang hunt down a young girl like you?

Gu Heng likes secrets. Although he never pries into them, he still really wants to find out about secrets that are delivered to his doorstep.

"...Why are you asking this?" "I see you're all alone and have no one to rely on, so I wanted to help you out as much as I could."

"But if I don't tell the truth, I have no way to help even if I want to."

He spoke frankly and sincerely.