Freaked Out . . .
"Kiddo, you must be young, right?" Xuan Bing, her eyes focused on the rocky road, initiated a conversation with Cha Eun Xiao while they walked together.
Eun Xiao couldn't help but smile, touched his youthful face, and replied, "Indeed, I am young. Look at me; I'm practically a teenager."
The moniker 'kiddo' didn't bother him in the slightest. After all, he inhabited a youthful eighteen-year-old body. Even in his previous life as the Xiao Monarch, he was considered a young figure compared to someone as formidable as Xuan Bing.
"How old, specifically? Nineteen or eighteen?" Xuan Bing inquired further.
Eun Xiao raised an eyebrow and playfully retorted, "You could practically count the wrinkles on my face, couldn't you? I'm eighteen."
Xuan Bing, however, wasn't done yet. She pointed out, "But you look no older than seventeen. Why pretend to be older? Trying to appear more mature? You're just a kid."
Eun Xiao was momentarily stumped by her observation. "Why is she making such a big deal out of my age?" he wondered. "What's the point of all this?"
"Kiddo, you haven't been in this world for long, have you?" Xuan Bing pressed on.
"It's been quite a few days," Eun Xiao responded with caution. "Almost a year."
Xuan Bing corrected him with certainty, "Why are you fibbing? It's been around half a year."
Eun Xiao was utterly bewildered by Xuan Bing's knowledge. "How does she know this stuff?" he pondered. "If you already know the answers, why ask me?"
"Why are you full of lies?" Xuan Bing probed. "Kid, it's only been about half a year!"
Eun Xiao was taken aback by Xuan Bing's line of questioning. He couldn't fathom why she was making such a big deal out of these trivial details.
"You've been in this realm for just half a year, and yet you've reached level seven of the Dream Origin Stage," Xuan Bing praised him.
Eun Xiao responded with humility, saying, "I'm honored, Senior."
However, Xuan Bing took offense at the 'Senior' address. "Senior? Why are you calling me that? Do I look old to you?" she demanded, her anger apparent.
Eun Xiao was flustered by her reaction. "People call you 'Senior' because you... look old?" he ventured.
He wasn't sure how to address her properly, considering her position. "Should I just call you by your name?" he contemplated, feeling awkward.
"Not that either!" Xuan Bing snapped. "What am I to you? Do not call me that, either!"
Eun Xiao widened his eyes, at a loss for what to call her.
[If I can't call her "Senior" and can't use her name, what on earth is the right way to address her?]
[Xuan Bing?]
[Great-great-grandmother?]
Thankfully, he refrained from uttering the latter aloud. Had he spoken it aloud, she might have resorted to violence to reprimand him.
As the atmosphere grew awkward and neither said a word, Xuan Bing eventually muttered, "You can call me..."
She hesitated briefly before abruptly halting, leaving Eun Xiao curious. "Call you what?" he asked, wondering what she wanted him to address her as.
Xuan Bing glared at Cha Eun Xiao and fiercely said, "Whatever you want to call me!"
"Urh…" Xuan Bing noticed Cha Eun Xiao's perplexity. [Whatever I want? That seems great… But… What exactly should I call you?]
"Great Elder Xuan…"
"Are you deaf? What did I say? Do not call me that!" Xuan Bing shouted fiercely.
"Senior…"
"Are you out of your mind? Can't you learn? Didn't I tell you not to call me Senior?" Xuan Bing freaked out.
Cha Eun Xiao freaked out too…
"Please, just tell me what should I call you with…" Cha Eun Xiao helplessly asked.
"Just call me whatever you want,"Xuan Bing repeated.
Cha Eun Xiao just wanted to kill himself.
[Whatever I want? Are you sure? Screw whatever I want… That is not whatever I want at all!]
[Are you going to drive me crazy…]
[I can't defeat you, and I don't dare to piss you. Otherwise, I would have punched you hard!]
[I know I can never defeat you. Otherwise, I will put you down on the ground and spank your butt. I will ask you, 'Not this, not that! What on earth do you want? What do you want me to call you? Do you want me to call you mother! What? Dear wife?]
[Pah! Whoever marries you must have done lots of sins in his previous life. That's why he has to endure you in this life to pay his debt!]
[Women are so difficult to get along with! Women are the most difficult entities to understand!]
Cha Eun Xiao gave up. In fact, Cha Eun Xiao was a bit freaking out.
[It is a problem though. What should he call me?]
She didn't know either.
Senior or Great Elder made her look too old. She just couldn't accept it. She just wanted him to call her something that didn't refer to age. He should have picked one from lots of appellations. She didn't understand why he was so stupid about this!
[Fine. Just leave the problem to him. I just want to make trouble for him but do not want him to suffer… I want to hurt him a bit, but not too much… Ah… What's wrong with me…]
[I am confused!]
"Well… Miss Xuan…" Cha Eun Xiao kept thinking for a long time and finally figured it out, so she decidedly said it.
Her hands were full of sweat because of nervousness…
She just felt so weird.
She was calling a world-shaking, powerful, and murderous female cultivator… Miss…
[Oh… Heavens…]