Chapter One Little Girl

  Li Luyu wasn't clear how big the medium-sized province was in this little girl's mouth, and what kind of astonishing number the so-called output was, but if that emerald green gem on her necklace was really an imperial jade, it would be a bit too scary. The value of just that one piece of imperial jade is over seven figures.

  No one would think that a necklace picked up from someone's neck on the road is worth a city, but this little girl's temperament makes it impossible to simply view the current situation as a prank or a madman's behavior... Li Luyu thought, even if she was a severe fantasist, she was still a rich severe fantasist.

  "Are you an escort? I can help you make a phone call, or hand you over to someone who can assist you... Where is your home? Where are your parents?" Li Luoyu looked around left and right, but apart from a passerby showing curiosity towards the little girl carrying a large wooden sword and wearing ancient clothes, there were no suspicious individuals showing excessive attention. Apparently, this wouldn't be some kind of variety show either, as far as Li Luoyu knew, such programs that tease pedestrians for entertainment value weren't popular domestically.

  "I don't have parents, people from the Tianyuan realm are all picked from trees." The little girl said somewhat impatiently, it was clear that she wasn't used to this kind of conversation, no matter what she said, the other side seemed to not grasp the point, or rather, they didn't care about her thoughts at all.

  Li Rouyou couldn't help but burst out laughing, all kids are obsessed with how they came into this world, making parents come up with all sorts of stories to explain it, and the kids will vaguely remember those explanations, only to look back on them when they're older and laugh at their own foolishness... But that's just something kids would believe in, what normal teenager still thinks they were picked from a tree? And girls are supposed to mature even earlier.

  The little girl who claims to be Princess An Nan Xiu has a serious expression on her face, as if what she is saying is a matter of course.

  "Alright, you're a peach plucked from the tree, apart from being your attendant officer, what else do you need help with?" Running into such a little girl, Li Luoyu didn't rush to go home either, after all, he couldn't just ignore her like that.

  Li Luoyu walked into the residential area with a little girl following behind him, staring at him and laughing loudly, revealing an unpleasant expression.

  "I can understand you, as an ordinary person, there's no way to accept something that exceeds your understanding ability. Even the whole world hasn't explained the existence of another dimension in terms of ideology, so your reaction now is quite normal." The little girl raised her eyebrows, "I forgive your rudeness."

  "Do all the people in Tianyun Divine Realm speak Chinese? Or is it just that their Mandarin pronunciation is so standard. Chinese has not become a universal international language on Earth, but it has spread to places like Tianyun Divine Realm and Tianyun Empire first. Even the Annan royal family can speak it." The little girl's tone always had a somewhat pretentious flavor, but her pronunciation was standard, with correct tones and intonation, which is rare among southerners who usually have some local accent... However, she spoke in a way that sounded like broadcasting news, not quite like normal people chatting. But Li Luyu wouldn't believe the nonsense about Tianyun Divine Realm just because of this. Looking at the little girl, it seemed like she had found her weakness, trying to pretend even harder, but still leaking on language, after all, not everyone has Tolkien's talent to create an Elvish language.

  "I just acquired this language ability through a simple divine technique." The little girl didn't mind Li Luyu's praise and ridicule, and said to herself: "How about considering it? As the attendant of the eldest princess with imperial succession qualifications, even if you are mediocre, you can get a fiefdom in a province. If you are good at literature, becoming the Prime Minister of the Imperial Cabinet is also a common thing. If you are good at martial arts, you can also make millions of troops gather under your command. After all, any emperor will trust their personal attendants more, they will understand what they should do and what they can do."

  She seemed to have not heard that Li Luyu had already rejected her.

  "Alright, as long as you can prove that you are Princess An Nan Xiu of the Tianyun Divine Realm's Annan Imperial Family, I'll be your attendant." The more serious the little girl was, the more Li Luoyu found it amusing. It was too entertaining, he even thought about inviting her to participate in the next COSPLAY gathering and perform a small skit, this was totally an authentic performance.

  The little girl nodded.

  Li Luyu was just there waiting for her proof.

  After a while, the little girl looked at Li Luyu strangely. "Don't you know that in any world, if something beyond ordinary people's understanding appears, it will often attract curious onlookers? I don't want to be stared at by a group of people with those eyes, after all, only lowly magicians need to provoke others' curiosity."

  "Alright, Your Highness, please follow me to my place to prove it." Li Luoyu shook his head, fortunately he was a good person and not some perverted uncle or brother who had an unusual fondness for little girls. It would be too dangerous if such a deep-thinking patient were to walk alone on the streets with such a pretty little girl.

  Li Luyu and the old men and women who walked their dogs in the neighborhood greeted each other, and the elderly people always had nothing to do, so they couldn't help but ask about the pretty little girl behind him. Li Luyu smiled and explained that she might be a lost child, and he temporarily took her in to help her find her family.

  Li Luyu is not a foolishly kind person, in this day and age doing good deeds tests one's heart more than doing bad things. He just wants these old men and women to bear witness, in case there are any disputes, it can be proven that he brought the little girl back with him, not with any evil intentions, nothing shameful, everything open and aboveboard.

  The little girl stared at Lao Lao and Ye Ye with a calm and collected expression, her eyes cold as usual. When someone showed sympathy or pity, the corners of her mouth would slightly curve up, giving off an ambiguous smile that made people feel somewhat annoyed. It seemed like she was a disobedient child who liked to play the rebel, running away from home.

  Li Ruyu lived alone in a rented house with two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. Since it was just the summer vacation, he had just moved in and there were not many things, making it look empty, but at least it was clean and tidy, unlike most boys' dormitories which were dirty and smelly.

  Li Luyu didn't have mysophobia, nor was he diligent in cleaning. The tidy state of his room now was thanks to his younger sister who was a high school student and came over every few days to help him clean up.

  "What would you like to drink?" Li Rouyu casually threw her bag and wooden sword onto the sofa, opening the refrigerator door. "Soda water, cola, orange juice, or coffee?"

  The little girl furrowed her brow and thought very hard about what Li Rouyu had said, but after a while she still couldn't determine her own taste, then she said: "Clean water."

  Li Luoyu handed her a bottle of yogurt drink. Little girls like to drink this, and he had several bottles here, probably left by his sister.

  The little girl turned the green box over and over, slowly picked up a straw, inserted it and took a sip, then put it aside. "It's hard to drink, like all sorts of flavors mixed together, a mess."

  "If you were an ancient person, how would you use a straw?" Li Luoyu laughed again. What about the Annan royal family, what about princesses? Aren't they just ancient people? There are some royal families in modern times too, but obviously not the Annan royal family that little girl mentioned.

  "I'm not an idiot, although it's a bit unusual, but the Tianyun Divine Realm isn't without similar things, I can tell at a glance." The little girl said disdainfully.

  Li Luoyu took the orange juice and started drinking it himself. "Alright, I'm rather impatient to see how you'll prove that you're from Tianyun Divine Realm."

  The little girl looked at Li Luyu with a pretended excited expression and stood in front of him.

  Look at her serious face, preparing to do something shocking. Li Luyu, who was originally lying down and biting a bottle, sat up politely, and the orange juice in his mouth fell to the ground. The yellow liquid flowed all over the floor, and a line of orange juice also seeped out from the corner of Li Luyu's enlarged mouth. His mouth grew bigger and bigger, and then it couldn't close again.

  The little girl's mouth was murmuring words, spewing out phrases that sounded extremely complex and obscure, no longer in the standard Mandarin tone of a broadcaster. The drawn-out intonation was like one syllable treading on another, yet it had a unique elegance that gave people the feeling of singing an opera. As she chanted, azure-colored ancient characters floated around her, slowly rotating. When her slender white fingers relaxed, the massive staff floated up into the air.

  "Ding... dong... ding... dong..."

  The wind chime sang without the wind, and the surrounding space seemed to be distorted by such sound waves, making people feel dizzy. Li Rouyu listened to the voice and had a feeling of enlightenment, with countless wonderful and beautiful pictures flashing in his mind. He saw the wizard chanting ancient and mysterious spells, which were exactly the same as the little girl's chant just now. The colorful magic released dazzling light, he saw the god using his soul to condense powerful weapons and armor that emitted strong pressure, he saw a huge bone dragon unfolding its tens of meters wide bone wings in the desert, stirring up the sky-high yellow sand, from the snowy forest came the majestic snowman's roar like a storm, triggering large-scale avalanches, tall and prosperous old trees rose from the ground, stretching out giant trunks that became tree people wearing tree bark armor. Merchant ships with cloud-beast head marks cut through the towering waves on the ocean, sailors standing on the crow's nest of the thirteen-masted ship looked greedily at the beautiful women on the coral reef through binoculars, they were mermaids carrying shells and hiding their beautiful bodies inside, loud barks scared them into jumping into the water to hide, leaving only a piece of quiet ripples...

  The last paragraph is adapted from the introduction of a good friend's book "Ta Jian Shu". New book uploaded, various requests, updated three times a day, 3,000 words per update.