Chapter 752: Chapter 752: Elena Hamilton and Young Xie Zhen
“Who is Jasmine?”
Amber Livingston asked about the name.
Although it sounded a bit unfamiliar, inexplicably, it gave him a sense of familiarity.
The old lady looked at him and casually explained,
“She’s also a little fox. She was raised by my side for a while when she was young.”
She paused and continued,
“When you were five, you choked on a lychee and almost died. It was she who saved you.”
Amber Livingston vaguely remembered something like that happened, but he had no recollection of the little fox named Jasmine Hamilton.
“She saved me, so is she also my Immortal Family?”
The old lady couldn’t help but roll her eyes at his words, “You wish.”
He couldn’t even sense one Immortal Family, yet wanted another.
“She’s a half-demon; she can’t be an Immortal Family.”
Amber Livingston uttered an “oh,” glanced at the old lady again, and asked her,
“Then why did you choose me as a disciple? Why did you choose me when I haven’t felt your presence all these years?”
The old lady got angry upon hearing this.
“Isn’t it because of you!”
Amber Livingston: …
Didn’t she just say it wasn’t his fault?
Seeing his innocent face, the old lady sighed again and told him about her past connection with the Xander Family.
The old lady’s name was Elena Hamilton.
Back then, she was just an ordinary fox practicing in the mountains.
Unlike other foxes, although she was the oldest, her cultivation was the weakest.
But because her seniority was the highest in those mountains, most foxes dared not disobey her.
Like the Immortal Family earlier, before he developed any abilities, she had taken care of him for a while.
Elena Hamilton had a weak cultivation but enjoyed being close to humans.
When Xie Zhen’s father got married, he accidentally saved her from a trap in the mountains.
Since then, Elena Hamilton often went down the mountain, roaming the Xander home, and gradually, Xie Zhen’s father routinely fed her.
That’s how she formed a bond with the Xander Family.
“I watched you being born.”
Elena Hamilton said,
“From when you were an infant, I guarded you until you turned five. That year, you almost choked to death but were saved by Jasmine Hamilton, signaling your destined connection with the Fox Tribe.
I revealed myself willingly and asked your parents to establish a shrine for me to take you as my disciple.”
As a family guardian spirit, she would protect this child for life.
Little Xie Zhen went through the initiation ritual under his father’s guidance, but he was too young to remember it.
Afterward, Elena Hamilton stayed in the Xander Family as the family guardian spirit and, at an appropriate time, opened his spiritual meridians for Xie Zhen.
The process of opening spiritual meridians is a necessary step for every disciple under the Immortal Family.
Starting from the head, gradually opening the orifices in his body, stimulating his Spiritual Power, allowing him to sense the unseen and feel the unseen energies.
But the initial experience of this process is often painful.
When Elena Hamilton first opened Xie Zhen’s head meridian, Xie Zhen reacted intensely.
Although Xie Zhen’s parents felt sorry for him, knowing it was a necessary step, they still let him endure it.
As a result, Xie Zhen suffered for over half a year without improvement, and his parents begged her at the shrine to change disciples.
Seeing Xie Zhen’s unique situation, Elena Hamilton agreed with his parents to wait until he grew older to reopen his meridians.
That wait turned into more than twenty years.
As Xie Zhen aged, she completely lost her spiritual connection with him.
If it weren’t for Nathan White leaving behind a thorn imbued with his Spiritual Power as a guide, she couldn’t even meet him in dreams.
Later, Elena Hamilton also considered the reasons.
Besides her low cultivation, maybe Xie Zhen subconsciously rejected her being his Immortal Family back then.
“Children, after experiencing the pain of the first meridian opening, naturally develop a resistance to the source of pain.
When you rejected my existence, our spiritual connection also gradually severed.”
That’s why, when she finally reconnected with him, the old lady just wanted to strangle his neck in frustration.
Though he might not remember it at all.
As Elena Hamilton said, Amber Livingston truly didn’t remember this incident.
“Even if I did reject it as a child, when I grew up, I didn’t resist it at all! Why still no connection?!”
Amber Livingston felt wronged.
He always longed for an Immortal Family, faintly recalling his parents mentioned when he was young that he had one, but when asked later, they denied it.
He could only explore on his own, learning about these things, even pretending online as if he really worshipped an Immortal Family…
Wouldn’t that count as a different kind of sincerity?
Elena Hamilton looked at Amber Livingston for a long time and said,
“You are still resisting. You just don’t realize it.”
Just like when he saw her multiple times in dreams, he thought he was haunted, never considering she was his Immortal Family.
If it weren’t for Scarlett Jennings pointing it out, he wouldn’t even truly recognize her existence.
But that’s still far from enough.
“To become a true disciple, you must first let go of your fears and resistance. Neither I nor Master Jennings can help you with that.”
Saying this, mist began to envelop her surroundings.
Amber Livingston visibly changed his expression, but he seemed rooted to the spot, watching as Elena Hamilton’s figure disappeared into the mist.
Before disappearing, he heard her say,
“The day you truly stop resisting and wholeheartedly accept my existence, perhaps, without relying on other powers, you’ll be able to… communicate with me.”
Amber Livingston’s whole body trembled, and he suddenly opened his eyes.
Drenched in cold sweat, yet dawn light already shone outside the window.
Lying in the quiet, dim room, Amber Livingston felt an indescribable bleakness. After a long while, he murmured out a name.
“Elena Hamilton.”
Paused, then called out another name.
“Jasmine Hamilton.”
…
Otherworld.
Jasmine Hamilton took Thalassa Hamilton out for a walk.
After Magnolia Hearne returned, Jasmine Hamilton stayed as the guardian of the Otherworld, inheriting everything Magnolia had there.
Including Thalassa Hamilton.
Logically, Thalassa Hamilton didn’t need walks.
But due to a recent supermoon, Jasmine, out of habit from the original world, wanted to go out to absorb a bit of Luna.
Not wanting to leave Thalassa behind, she took her along, and she happened to meet Amber Livingston who was also on the rooftop basking in moonlight.
Since then, she discovered that whenever she took Thalassa out, Amber Livingston would secretly follow and take pictures… of Thalassa.
Just like now, she had been out with Thalassa for less than five minutes, he pretended to be taking a walk too, following behind her, occasionally taking secret photos of Thalassa walking.
It was like… a perverted voyeur.
Jasmine felt it necessary to clarify things,
“This one isn’t your fox.”
Amber Livingston, although flustered at being caught, tried to remain composed,
“I know, her fur isn’t as fluffy as my last one, her butt isn’t round like mine was, her tail also…”
“Shut up!”
Jasmine’s ears suddenly turned red with embarrassment, “Say one more word and I’ll report you for being a pervert!”
Amber Livingston: ???
He’s a fox pervert??