Chapter 56

The little fox Eucalyptus took advantage of the chaos and rushed out of the market like an arrow. He did not dare to stop along the way and ran back to the secret cave where he had been hiding before relying on his memory.

The ancient tree sensed its breath and made a heavy wheezing sound again. It slowly moved away to reveal the entrance of the cave. After it entered, it closed tightly with a wheezing sound.

With the experience from last time, the little fox Eucalyptus moved more smoothly in the darkness and soon came to the area where Su Chengyue had been imprisoned.

The scene is the same as before.

Su Chengyue's body was still lying there, her skin a lifeless pale color. The surroundings were terrifyingly silent, as if time had stopped.

The air was filled with a light dust and an indescribable silence.

The little fox's keen sense of smell caught a very faint but unusually pungent smell the moment it approached the withered vines. It was a smell different from that of rotting plants.

Deep in the sea of ​​consciousness, a fierce dispute immediately broke out between the little fox's soul and Tang An.

The little fox frantically sounded the alarm, howling to express its fear and resistance to this place, and strongly demanded to leave immediately.

Tang An suppressed his uneasiness, believing that he must come back to check things out, otherwise there would be endless trouble.

In the end, Tang An's willpower was stronger and he regained control of his body.

The little fox was so angry that it stomped its feet in his sea of ​​consciousness and made dissatisfied whining sounds.

Tang An ignored its protest and patrolled around carefully, each step light and silent. Finally, he stopped in front of the spiritual spring.

The spiritual spring in front of me was completely different from what I remembered. The original misty spiritual energy and white fog had long since disappeared. The spring water became dead and ordinary, like an ordinary pool of stagnant water, and there was no longer any sense of life.

He concentrated his attention, staring at the murky water, trying to find some clues from it, and had no time to care about the little fox behind him who was so angry that he was about to pull out the hair on his tail.

Su Chengyue...

Is it really that easy to die?

Even though the corpse was right in front of him, Tang An's intense uneasiness and intuition were screaming wildly—

Things are definitely not that simple!

He felt as if there were a pair of invisible eyes lurking in the dark, silently watching everything that happened in the cave.

If Su Chengyue hadn't died...

Where will he be?

In what form will it exist?

After all, Tang An was an outsider and knew very little about the strange means of survival and escape in the world of immortal cultivation. However, with his experience of reading all kinds of novels in middle school, he knew very well that a powerful person would definitely not be without a hidden life-saving magical power.

Moreover, he had only trapped the opponent with the hallucinogenic fruit at the beginning, and later Su He had only destroyed his cultivation and dug out his spiritual palace, but he had not really destroyed his body and soul.

Both are essentially repression rather than outright destruction.

But when I looked at it again after a month, Su Chengyue had completely forgotten about me?

It must be cold...

Tang An himself was not quite sure.

He was too weak now and didn't dare to get close to examine the body carefully.

But even if it is really cold, where does this lingering feeling of being watched come from?

The more he thought about it, the creepier he felt. He couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body, and even the little fox's body in his sea of ​​consciousness started to stand on end and tremble.

Or should we just forget it?

Tang An began to back out, and after taking a last deep look at the silent spiritual spring, he made up his mind and turned around to run out.

Saving your life is important!

You don’t even act like a human being now, how can you be a hero!

However, just as he quickened his pace and was about to rush out of the area, with a whoosh, a strange vine as thick as an adult's arm and blood-red in color, like a long-lurking poisonous snake, suddenly shot out from the shadows and tightly wrapped around the little fox Eucalyptus with lightning speed.

The scene before my eyes rapidly receded.

The little fox didn't even have time to struggle before it was swung up by a huge force and then fell heavily to the place next to Su Chengyue's body.

"Bang!"

In their sea of ​​consciousness, Tang An and the little fox were shocked by the sudden fall and were dizzy and seeing stars.

Tang Yan suppressed his dizziness and hurriedly controlled the little fox's body to try to get up.

At this moment, he saw with horror that the lifeless and pale hand next to him was losing its lifeless aura at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the skin was quickly filled with blood, showing the healthy texture and luster of a living person.

The little fox Eucalyptus's hair stood on end, and he let out a threatening growl from his throat. His limbs were tense as he stared at the remains of the red fruit that was rapidly withering and turning into ashes on Su Chengyue's body.

O, M, G!!!

Tang An gasped in his sea of ​​consciousness, and the little fox was already frightened out of his wits and immediately retreated to the deepest part and pretended to be dead.

At this moment, only Tang An was left to take charge of everything.

Run!

Why won’t this stupid leg obey me?!

He discovered in despair that under extreme fear, the fox's body was frozen, and its limbs were as heavy as if filled with lead, unable to move at all.

At this moment, Tang An finally understood the feelings of those protagonists in TV dramas who stood there stupidly when faced with danger.

It’s not that they want to lower their intelligence, they are really scared and their bodies are stiff!!

Even if I told myself to run away a thousand times in my head, my body wouldn't listen.

Cold sweat instantly soaked his fur.

Tang An gritted his teeth, and his spiritual sense suddenly penetrated deep into his sea of ​​consciousness, pulling out the body of the little fox that was curled up and trembling.

"Let's carry it together! Otherwise we'll all die here today!!!"

Now, can the person who slowly sat up from the ground and exuded an ominous aura still be called Su Chengyue?

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a monster crawling back from hell.

He was completely naked, with his long hair spread out on the ground like ink. When he slowly raised his head, his eyes were completely blood red.

Su Chengyue fixed her eyes on the little fox with its fur standing on end, and raised the corners of her lips strangely, revealing a chilling smile.

"On you..."

The hoarse and dry voice, as if it had not spoken for hundreds of years, echoed faintly in the cave, with layers of echoes, cold and piercing.

At this moment, Tang An finally felt his body regain a little consciousness.

He controlled the little fox's body and moved it backward very slowly, bit by bit.

Tap.

Be gentler.

"I smell the Master's scent."

Before he finished speaking, Su Chengyue with bloodshot eyes appeared in front of the little fox like a ghost, and a pale but incredibly powerful hand grabbed it as fast as lightning.

At the critical moment.

The little fox Eucalyptus burst out with an amazing desire to survive. It kicked its hind legs hard and its body shot up like a spring. It stepped on the opponent's cheek narrowly and used the force to rush out.

"Gu-an-"

Su Chengyue, whose face was stepped on, let out a heart-wrenching roar.

In an instant, an invisible terrifying force quickly wrapped around the little fox.

“Crack.”

Accompanied by a slight sound of bone cracking, a heart-wrenching pain spread from the coccyx to the whole body.

“Ouch—woo—”

The little fox Eucalyptus let out a shrill scream and fell heavily to the ground like a kite with a broken string. He almost fainted from the pain.

His vision went dark, and Tang An felt that his soul was about to be shaken apart by the severe pain.

“Master…Master…”

Seeing the little fox on the ground breathing in less than breathing out more, Su Chengyue's face changed instantly. He hurried forward, carefully held it in his arms, stroked it over and over again, and his tone became weird and gentle.

"Master, where did you fall? Does it hurt? It's all my fault. I was just so angry that I lost my mind..."

"Master, you are too much. You actually left your disciple and came back after such a long time. I am really worried about your health. Master, you don't know how much I missed you..."

As Su Chengyue spoke, her stroking movements gradually became uncontrollable, and the force became stronger and stronger. In the end, the hands that were originally stroking gently actually strangled the little fox's slender and fragile neck.

The obsession in his eyes was completely replaced by crazy murderous intent and suspicion.

“You are not the Master!!”

His bloodshot eyes were filled with twisted madness.

"Who the hell are you?! My Master, my Master who is so noble and beautiful, as bright as the moon in the sky, how could she be a lowly beast like you who can't even transform into a human form!!!"

"Well……"

Tang An felt as if his breath was completely deprived, his vision began to darken, and his consciousness swayed like a candle in the wind.

After all, the little fox's body was too weak.

His heartbeat became weaker and weaker, and when his breathing was about to stop, Su Chengyue suddenly let go of his hand.

But it was too late.

Tang An's consciousness sank into endless darkness, and the little fox's body completely collapsed without any sound.

In the cave, Su Chengyue held the lifeless little body in her arms, with her head down, motionless, as if she had turned into a statue.

After a long while, he finally uttered a sound like a dream.

"Master?"

"Wake up."

"Master?"

The moment their consciousness completely dissipated from heaven and earth, the souls of Tang An and the little fox seemed to be pulled away by a force, separated from the small body, and floated up.

A bottomless black vortex suddenly appeared in front of them.

The powerful suction force involuntarily drew the souls of the man and the fox in.

Just before the tip of the little fox's tail was about to completely sink into the whirlpool, a translucent figure emitting a soft milky white halo quietly appeared in front of the whirlpool and gently blocked its way.

The figure was blurry, but it carried a reassuring aura.

"Wait a little longer."

"Go back for now. We will meet again one day."

As soon as he finished speaking, a gentle yet irresistible force enveloped the little fox's soul, gently pushing it away from the vortex and sending it back into the still warm fox body below.

"Hurry up and cultivate your human form."

At the same time, in another time and space.

He Miao, who was sleeping soundly, opened his eyes in the darkness.

He blinked blankly, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and muttered to himself: "A beautiful little fox?"

He sat up in a daze, and when his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he subconsciously looked at Bu Suanzi who was sleeping soundly on the bed opposite.

It was already the middle of the night. Except for Chi Ying, who might have been unable to sleep well because he had turned into a dog, and Gu An, who looked calm on the outside but was probably in turmoil inside, everyone was probably asleep.

In the past two days, they have worked hard and spent a lot of money to quietly return the crystal coffin and the ancestors inside to their original place.

As for Su He's body, He Chenzhou used his money and connections to temporarily hand it over to a forensic friend of his for safekeeping, and fabricated a seemingly reasonable discovery process.

He Miao smacked his lips, feeling mixed emotions.

Although he would occasionally feel sour and hate rich people, most of the time he sincerely wanted to be one of them.

"Alas, I'm glad I didn't become a Buddhist back then," He Miao muttered softly, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have seen such a scene. Maybe I would have made a fortune by deceiving people... No, I might have made a fortune by saving sentient beings and could have driven a Panamera..."

At this time, Bu Suanzi was running out of breath in his dream. Suddenly, he stepped on empty air and woke up with a kick.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he felt a burning gaze.

Bu Suanzi: “…”

He turned his head expressionlessly, and in the faint moonlight coming in from the window, he saw He Miao staring at him with an extremely strange look.

Bu Suanzi subconsciously thought that his black card had been discovered.

But my mind quickly cleared up.

Oh, no, I was broke a long time ago.

The days when I could buy mansions worth tens of millions at will are a thing of the past life. Now, I am a poor man who is penniless and has to support an unreliable master.

"What are you looking at so late at night and not sleeping?" Bu Suanzi spoke with sleepiness and a hint of helplessness.

"I'm hungry." He Miao said at the same time.

Bu Suanzi looked at him with dead eyes: "...What do you want to eat?"

He Miao's eyes lit up, and without hesitation, he said, "The boxed lunch on the plane! The kind with pickled mustard greens, shredded pork, and small sausages!"

Bu Suanzi: "...Think of a more realistic one."

He Miao readily accepted the suggestion and settled for the next best thing: "Then let's add a sausage and an egg to the braised beef instant noodles!"

Bu Suanzi sighed, resigned himself to his fate, lifted the warm quilt, got out of bed and went to cook noodles for this ancestor.

He Miao looked at his apprentice's back as he left the room without complaint, proudly hugged the back of his head with both hands, and lay back on the bed smoothly, thinking happily.

"Well, in my previous life, I must have worked so hard to support him..."

"So in this life, it's his turn to support me."

"No problem."