Encounter

Cui Heng never expected that the little devil he encountered was the boy who had once saved him. The hardships Wu Huan had endured over the years had become an unresolved torment in his heart. He later said to Wu Huan, "Since you have acknowledged me as your elder brother, I will be the knife in your hand. Go! Go and take back what rightfully belongs to you!"

Qiong Cang died at the hands of Cui Heng. Afterwards, Wu Huan lured Qiong Cang's only son, Cang Ze, to this glacial land. With Cui Heng's help, Wu Huan transferred the Gu poison in his body to Cang Ze's body. He then used ice silkworms to trap Cang Ze, causing him to suffer from the pain of the poisonous insects piercing his heart and bones every day.

To survive, Cangze had no choice but to eat the Immaculate Ice Crystal, which he had refined with his own essence. For a time, he was bitten by poisonous insects, which caused him to lose his sight and hearing. He lived like a weevils crawling in the shadows, barely clinging to life. Later, he didn't know how he survived, nor did he expect that he would develop immunity to the poisonous insects. Perhaps it was because of the Immaculate Ice Crystal, or perhaps it was because of the mutual restraint between the poisonous insects. After more than ten years of suffering, he finally escaped and changed his name to Bad Guy.

Ghost King Chongli has only one daughter, who has been betrothed to Cangze since childhood. In recent years, Chongli has felt that he is getting old and unable to do things properly. So he sent a message via carrier pigeon to Houhou Qiongcang, asking Cangze to marry his daughter Siye as soon as possible, and the position of Ghost King will be passed on to Cangze.

Wu Huan once thought that Cang Ze would never escape that hellish place in his life, so he changed his name to Cang Ze and went to the Ghost King's Palace to get married in his place.

Cang Ze was originally Chong Li's adopted son. However, because Si Ye's mother was killed back then, Qiong Cang and Chong Li developed a grudge and took Cang Ze away in anger, and they never saw each other again for hundreds of years.

Because Wu Huan had spent a long time with Cang Ze and had not seen Chong Li for many years, Chong Li did not recognize Cang Ze, who was being impersonated by Wu Huan, at first.

So Chongli took Wuhuan under his wing and carefully trained him until several years later when Chongli discovered the truth about Qiongcang's death and Wuhuan's identity was exposed. Wuhuan was then severely injured by Chongli and fled to the human world.

Wang Xiaoxia found Wu Huan in a forest. He was lying on the ground covered in blood, his thin body covered by weeds and blending into the earth. If it weren't for Wang Xiaoxia's extraordinary sense of smell, it would have been difficult for an ordinary person to find him.

Wang Xiaoxia was the only daughter in her family. Her father was a renowned doctor in the surrounding area, and her mother was virtuous and managed the household perfectly on her own. However, due to her father's doting, Wang Xiaoxia was mischievous and caused a lot of trouble from a young age. However, her mother never mentioned the ghost clan to her, and apart from her extraordinary sense of smell, Wang Xiaoxia had no other special abilities, so she always thought of herself as an ordinary mortal.

That day, two strange people suddenly came to the house. Their clothes and appearance were not those of the locals. Their faces were pale and bloodless, and they wore straw hats that buried their faces in deep shadows as if they could not bear the light. Their hands and feet were also not exposed, so it was impossible to tell whether they were men or women.

Wang Xiaoxia felt that the two people smelled strange; although it was summer, they carried a chilling aura. And their physical condition did not suggest that they had come for medical treatment. When her mother, Siye, saw the two of them, her expression turned extremely unpleasant.

The day the two men arrived, the mother hurriedly returned to her parents' home. Before leaving, she only said that she would be gone for a while and had sent a letter by carrier pigeon to her father, asking him to return as soon as possible. However, her father always had to go out to treat patients and would not return for some time. He was also soft-hearted, and many people sought his medical help, so it was difficult for him to return for more than a month.

Without his parents' supervision, Wang Xiaoxia was like a wild horse, leaping outside in a flash and refusing to even leave the house.

There are many medicinal herbs on the back mountain. When Wang Xiaoxia was young, her father often took her to the mountain to collect herbs. Recently, she heard that there are ear-mousees in the back mountain. Ear-mouses can ward off all poisons and are an extremely precious medicinal material. If she could give them to her father when he came back, he would be very happy.

Following the villagers' description, Wang Xiaoxia walked deeper into the forest. After walking for a long time without seeing any ear rats, he smelled an extremely strong fishy stench. The smell was strange, quite similar to the two strange men who had come to find his mother yesterday.

She followed the scent, but couldn't see anything special, only weeds and fallen leaves covering the ground. The scent grew stronger, and she searched around the area, when suddenly her footing gave way as if she had stepped on something soft, and she fell flat on her face, landing in the soft arms of the person lying there.

The person was motionless, as if dead. She carefully parted the weeds covering the bedding and found that buried under the weeds was a young man in blue clothes with a fair complexion.

The boy was covered in blood, which, after drying, revealed a dark, dark red color. The few areas unstained by blood were also covered in dirt and leaves, as if he had fallen from the sky. Apart from this spot, no other part of his body was stained with his blood. There were no obvious wounds on his body, but the bloodstains were plentiful. His face was so pale that he showed no signs of life. Wang Xiaoxia reached out and touched his nose; his breath was so weak that it was almost nonexistent.

"Still alive?" Wang Xiaoxia muttered to himself.

She looked around but couldn't find anything to move him. She couldn't just leave him alone. After thinking it over and over, she couldn't come up with any good ideas. Wang Xiaoxia sighed and slapped the boy hard across the face.

"Hey! Can you get up?" she shouted into the boy's ear.

The boy seemed to be dead, completely still.

Helpless, Wang Xiaoxia tugged at the man's arm, but the man sat up limply, so lightly that Wang Xiaoxia let go, and the man fell limply back to the ground.

It floated so lightly that even the leaves barely moved.

"This person is quite interesting, he seems to have no flesh and blood," Wang Xiaoxia muttered to himself.

The boy was surprisingly light, as if he were just an empty shell. Wang Xiaoxia rubbed the soft flesh with his fingers. It wasn't empty inside; it was a person, but it also seemed not to be a person.

So Wang Xiaoxia slapped the boy hard across the face again, until the boy's pale face turned bloody, at least making him look somewhat like a living person.

"This thing should be pretty durable," Wang Xiaoxia said jokingly, but he couldn't wake the boy up no matter what he did.

She had no choice but to grab the boy by the collar and lift him up, then hoist him onto her shoulder. He wasn't exactly lightweight, weighing about seven or eight ounces, but he was lighter than a chicken!

She couldn't possibly bring such a thing home, could she? Wang Xiaoxia pondered. If the villagers saw her, an unmarried girl, carrying someone back home, it would surely cause a great deal of trouble. After much thought, she decided to take him to a cave deep in the forest.

This was a place she and her father had sought shelter from the rain when they went up the mountain to collect herbs in their early years. Later, she would often run here to hide when she was scolded and beaten by her mother for getting into trouble. She walked quickly, and because of the years of hiding from beatings, she had developed the speed to walk. After about half an hour, she reached the entrance of the cave. She tossed the light object onto the grass mat inside the cave and pulled the man's arm over to take his pulse in a very serious manner.

"Yes, you're pregnant! Congratulations!" Wang Xiaoxia said casually.

She inherited none of her father's medical skills, but under her mother's strict discipline, she memorized all kinds of medicinal herbs.

She absolutely cannot cure this inhuman creature; it all depends on his luck!

Wang Xiaoxia stayed by the man's side, tore off a piece of his outer garment, wet it, and simply used it to wash the man's body. He also managed to feed him some water. Not knowing whether the creature would eat human food, he decided to stew some soup for him every day. Fearing that the creature would die, he also slapped it a dozen times a day as a way to improve its blood circulation.

For three days in a row, Wang Xiaoxia stayed by the man's side with peace of mind. Although the man's body was cold, he always felt that there was still a trace of breath left. He could neither wake up nor die. Gradually, Wang Xiaoxia stopped treating him as a person. Apart from providing him with soup and water every day, he began to study his strange body.

Two days later, while Wang Xiaoxia was changing the man's clothes and fanning his face, he suddenly woke up.

"Who goes there?" the boy suddenly opened his eyes and whispered.

Startled, Wang Xiaoxia tumbled off the boy and ran to the cave entrance to hide, cautiously watching the ghost-like man.

After being injured by Chongli, Wu Huan fled in panic, not knowing where he had gone. He only felt his body fall heavily to the ground. In the days since, he had been in a state of semi-consciousness, with some senses but unable to wake up from his slumber. Every day, he felt his cheeks were swollen and painful, and occasionally he felt like he was being tossed around like a ball.

He weakly got up from the ground, his disheveled hair falling down, covered with fallen leaves and flowers. His clothes had been completely changed, inside and out, and although they were askew, they were still enough to cover his body. His cheeks burned with pain, and he touched his face. His body, which had been cold before, now felt slightly warm. He heard rustling sounds coming from the cave entrance, and when he turned his head, he saw a human girl cautiously looking at him.

"Who are you?" he asked gently in a soft voice, afraid of frightening the timid human woman.

"Ah! He's talking! Ah! He can talk!" The girl screamed like a madwoman, running around the cave entrance.

Wu Huan stared at her with a look of utter astonishment, as if she were a monster.

Wang Xiaoxia was indeed startled. Over the past few days, she had gradually come to regard this speechless, light thing as a toy. Its sudden speech was truly frightening. She ran around in terror, but then she became excited, thinking that having a monster as a companion was quite fun.

Suddenly, she stopped and stood at the cave entrance, asking the monster inside in a domineering manner:

"Hey! Little monster! What are you?"

What an impolite question! Wu Huan's lips twitched involuntarily. How dare a mere human call him a little monster? This guy's ancestors probably hadn't even been reincarnated when he first came to the human world!