My Apocalypse System Arrives 10 Years Early

Chapter 396: Chapter 263: Sound of the Abyssal Tide - The Twin Jades Unearth a Mystery

"Really? Because I seem to recall you knocking me out and using it as an excuse to give me mouth-to-mouth..." Luo Feifei couldn’t help but grin as she spoke. Looking back on the days she’d spent at Li Xiang’s house, she remembered how fulfilling and joyful they had been.

Li Xiang said, "You’re still young and have a bright future ahead of you. Don’t waste your energy on romance. The Apocalypse will be here in nine years. You need to focus on your training, improve your strength, and prepare for the crisis to come."

’Does the Apocalypse mean I can’t fall in love? Then what’s the point of fighting it? We might as well just die and get it over with!’ Luo Feifei thought. ’I refuse to be like the me from the Dream Realm—a Nun for her entire life, dying without ever meeting someone she truly cared for.’

She felt that, having been given a second chance, she had to remedy that regret. And fate had been kind, letting her meet a gem of a guy like Li Xiang.

He might be about ten years older, but a little age gap was nothing. Love knows no age. Besides, having grown up without a father’s affection, she had always been drawn to older men who would cherish her and dote on her.

"You’re so young, yet you’re thinking about that kind of thing all day. Do your fans know you’re like this?"

"Hee hee, for my fans, I’m all cold and aloof. But in front of you, Brother Xiang, I don’t mind a little contrast. Don’t you like girls with a surprising side?" Luo Feifei said with a mischievous twinkle in her eye.

A certain treasure came to Li Xiang’s mind, so he took it out. It was the Qinhuai Water Spirit Pendant, an item capable of controlling the water veins of the lower Yangtze River over a distance of hundreds to thousands of li. It was perfect for Luo Feifei.

Luo Feifei took it, turning it over in her palm, and couldn’t help but frown.

"What’s wrong? You don’t like it?" Li Xiang asked.

Luo Feifei looked at him, completely exasperated. "You keep showering me with such precious gifts, leading me on, and then you tell me not to be infatuated with you. You’re... being a little unreasonable, you know."

Li Xiang reached out to take it back. "Then give it back to me."

Luo Feifei dodged and immediately put it away. "There’s no such thing as taking back a gift. I don’t care, I’m considering all of this my betrothal gift."

Li Xiang was speechless. "...Then I won’t give you any more gifts in the future."

"Fine by me." Luo Feifei pouted. ’As if,’ she thought. ’You like me so much, there’s no way you’ll stop. You obviously adore me but just won’t admit it. What a hypocrite.’

Afterwards, the two traveled to Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Myanmar, but they failed to discover any special Earth Veins. Even with Luo Feifei performing Divination with all her might, she couldn’t find the slightest clue.

Li Xiang mused that perhaps these places weren’t significant enough to produce a King-level Holy Vein. In his previous life, these countries had been of little consequence; after the Apocalypse descended, they practically became deserted wastelands, and he’d never heard of any powerful Extraordinary Beings emerging from them.

However, their trip wasn’t entirely fruitless. In the waters near the Philippines and Indonesia, Luo Feifei tested the power of the Saint Tier Extraordinary Item, the Abyssal Sea Royal Seal. Setting aside its other abilities, its power to control all aquatic life within a ten-nautical-mile radius made it a divine fishing tool.

As the azure light of the Abyssal Sea Royal Seal pierced the morning mist over the Philippine Sea, Luo Feifei stood barefoot on the crest of a wave, the water around her ankles freezing into a staircase of Ice Crystals. The moment she raised the Seal, the seawater within a ten-nautical-mile radius turned as clear as sapphire. A school of hundreds of bluefin tuna surfaced in formation as if for inspection, their scales shattering the morning sun’s reflection into a rain of diamonds.

Li Xiang was speechless. ’Holy crap, you could empty the entire ocean.’ He immediately stepped forward and collected the hundreds of bluefin tuna into his system warehouse.

The bluefin tuna were perfectly obedient under Luo Feifei’s control. The moment Li Xiang opened the warehouse entrance, they leaped inside of their own accord.

"Look at this!"

Luo Feifei suddenly stomped her foot, sending a wave several meters high into the air. A mysterious energy pulsed from the Seal’s core in her palm, causing the seabed dozens of meters below to tremble violently. Two Humphead wrasse, both over five meters long, were forced to leap from the sea. Their green and gold scales shimmered like peacock feathers under the sun, and their fleshy tails slapped the water into a rainbow-colored mist. With a dazzling smile, this "number one beauty in the universe" manifested an Ice Crystal Chain, trussing up the struggling giants like sushi rolls and presenting them to Li Xiang.

"Here you go, some giant sushi for you. Still nice and lively."

"Haha, thanks! Yummy, yummy!" Li Xiang pretended to dig in with gusto, but in reality, he smoothly stored them in his system warehouse.

Feeling exceptionally playful, Luo Feifei suddenly snapped her fingers. Countless varieties of seafood leaped from the water, first forming a giant heart, then rearranging themselves to spell out "Li Xiang & Luo Feifei."

"Stop messing around!" Li Xiang shouted. "Be careful, you might get spotted by a satellite." ’This quirky, mischievous girl,’ he thought, ’does she really have to be so over-the-top?’

"What are you afraid of? You’re a Major, and I’m a Captain. The government already knows all about our little escapades." Luo Feifei flew toward him, stepping on the waves like a sea goddess, and explained with a smile, "I’m usually so pent up. I just wanted to let loose for once. I hope I didn’t make a fool of myself."

Li Xiang couldn’t help but feel a pang of sympathy. It wasn’t easy being a superstar. Out in public, her every word, every action, even every frown and smile was secretly filmed and scrutinized. There were always people watching, some even searching for flaws with a magnifying glass. Add to that a rather "greedy" mother who booked her for endless jobs and constantly reminded her to maintain her public persona, and it was no wonder she felt constrained. Luo Feifei had barely even attended a proper high school for more than a few days; she had indeed lived a very restricted life.

Although she was an Extraordinary Being, she was also a dutiful daughter. Perhaps because her mother in the Dream Realm had died young, she was especially attached to her mother in this life and was almost completely obedient to her.

Of course, this obedience wasn’t unconditional. She would do her best to satisfy her mother’s wishes, as long as it made her happy. But if it was something she really couldn’t do, she certainly wouldn’t force herself.

As Luo Feifei played to her heart’s content, the two of them acquired countless precious abalone, sea cucumbers, bluefin tuna, Humphead wrasse, nautiluses, ornate spiny lobsters, Chinese bahabas, manta rays, blue-ringed octopuses, and king salmon...

Luo Feifei’s Space Gem Ring had long been stuffed full of Spiritual Medicine, so all this seafood was stored in Li Xiang’s system warehouse. Seeing the mountain of assorted seafood, Li Xiang couldn’t help but sigh, "We’ll never be able to finish all this for the New Year. We won’t need to buy holiday food for the next ten years."

"Brother Xiang, why don’t we go check out India?" Luo Feifei suggested. "India is so big and populous, and it was the cradle of an ancient civilization. Who knows, maybe it has a special Earth Vein?"

She had long wanted to go with Li Xiang to India and pose as a Divine Envoy, but the trip had never materialized. With a few days of their vacation left, they could finally go and have some fun.

The idea of going on a "secret date" with Li Xiang, hidden from the rest of the world, made her feel a thrill of excitement.

After all, how could her hundreds of millions of fans ever guess that their idol, always so aloof and introverted, was secretly doing something this exciting?

"Alright!" Since Luo Feifei wanted to go, Li Xiang decided they could take a look. He had originally planned to visit Kunlun Mountain. Kunlun Mountain was the Ancestor of the Dragon Vein; legend had it that this ancient qi vein underwent a transformation known as "One Qi Transforms Five Dragons." Three of the resulting veins remained within the country, while the other two stretched all the way to Europe, giving rise to several of its most powerful eras and empires.