Chapter 39 Don't Touch My Face "Do you see my face is disfigured?"...

Like a stone thrown into still water, the lake surface exploded with astonishing spray, the dark red water splashing all the way to the sky, then falling like rain through the clouds.

It was almost like a torrential downpour.

Lou Yan brought his hands together in a hand seal, and a second burst of spiritual energy struck out, landing precisely on the rhinoceros demon and causing it to struggle even more violently.

Water splashed up, and Lou Yan's exposed half-arm was splashed by water droplets falling from the sky, immediately causing a burning, sharp pain.

He watched helplessly as a series of blisters formed on his arm—it turned out that the water in the lake had already begun to boil.

Unfortunately, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

The demonized rhinoceros roared incessantly in the lake, the water churning more and more rapidly, instantly overwhelming the spiritual power unleashed by Lou Yan.

Lou Yan was currently floating in the air, but his body was clearly showing signs of falling.

not good.

If you were to accidentally fall into this lake, you would be scalded and your skin would be burned off, even if you didn't die.

Lou Yan's forehead was covered in sweat. He looked at the ox that was so close to him and urged his spiritual power more and more urgently—he thought he could defeat the enemy in one move, but he was unexpectedly tripped by the scalding lake water first.

What a bad start!

"Senior Brother Lou!" Wei Xiuzhu's urgent shout came from the shore.

Lou Yan felt a burning pain in his dantian and could no longer muster the strength to resist his downward momentum. Cherishing his handsome face, he decided to go all the way and gather all his spiritual power into his palm.

With a loud "boom!"

Golden light burst forth as spiritual energy collided with the lake's surface, forcefully suppressing all the churning water and creating a deep ravine hundreds of feet deep.

Lou Yan gritted his teeth and forced himself to twist his falling angle in mid-air, plunging straight into the ravine.

At the same time, the rhinoceros demon, which had not yet fully transformed, let out a violent roar, as if all its strength had been drained, and fell down along the spot where Lou Yan had cleaved it open.

The lake returned to calm in an instant.

A moment later, the sound of flapping wings suddenly rang out, leaving only the anxious and fruitless figure of the Chongming Bird.

——

Lou Yan covered her face with her hands as she fell down.

He used his spiritual power to forcefully break open a path leading underwater. After his spiritual power failed, the increasingly violent currents converged on him.

Lou Yan felt a burning pain all over his body, fearing that his skin and flesh had been scalded.

With a "thump," he fell heavily into a cave.

Lou Yan had no idea what kind of mechanism was set up here, as the scalding lake water had been blocked by the entrance to the underground cave.

He knelt down, clinging to the ground, momentarily ignoring the burning pain in his chest, hands, and limbs. He carefully examined his face, only breathing a sigh of relief after confirming there were no wounds.

but……

Is it possible to get burned without feeling any pain...?

Lou Yan, who had just relaxed, suddenly gasped for breath. He looked up and around, confirming that he was in a very empty cave. There was nothing around him to see, except for the hole above his head, which was faintly shimmering with water. This must be where he had just fallen.

Since there's no one else, then...

Lou Yan recalled some insults used in the human world and suddenly realized that they weren't entirely without reason. He wanted to know if his face was injured, so could he take a piss and look at himself in the mirror?

That's what he thought, and that's what he did.

As he was halfway through unbuckling his belt, a loud crash suddenly came from above, causing Lou Yan to shudder violently and his surging desire to immediately cease. He frantically fastened his belt, only managing to take a step back before his eyes met those of Si, who had fallen behind him.

The si is no longer the same si.

The rhinoceros horn on its forehead had completely fallen off, and its blue skin had cracked open layer by layer, growing back a brand new head.

Its skin was rosy, and it had all the muscles and features, but what first caught the eye was a pair of eyes that looked like both a human and a cow.

Lou Yan thought to himself, "Just as I thought."

The ghostly aura was too strong, and it had failed to transform into human form, becoming a monster that was half human and half beast.

Having seen such monsters in his previous life, Lou Yan felt no fear at all. Just as he was about to take a few steps closer to mock it, he heard its hiss.

"Moo!"

Where am I?

Lou Yan narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, then chuckled and asked mysteriously, "Want to know where this is?"

The rhinoceros demon nodded.

"Then you have to answer one question for me first."

"Moo!"

This means they agreed.

Lou Yan immediately beamed with joy, raised her hand to gather her hair, which was soaked and tangled from the seawater, and braided it into a side braid following its original curve. She then brushed away the stray hairs from her forehead and asked very seriously, "Do you think I'm disfigured?"

Upon hearing this question, he saw an expression of disbelief in the bull's eyes.

Lou Yan was getting a little impatient.

If it weren't for this greedy fellow, I wouldn't have ended up in this situation. Now, he hesitates and refuses to answer even when I ask him a single question. He's clearly not a good rhinoceros.

"I'm asking you a question!" Lou Yan angrily approached, raising her leg to kick the other person.

In his previous life, he often kicked the demons under his command like this, and now he's gotten used to it.

As the leg wind approached, the rhinoceros demon swiftly extended its forepaws and grabbed it. Lou Yan lost his balance and fell backward with a thud to the ground.

Dust flew everywhere.

His back was covered in scalds from the lake water. When he fell, he felt the bruises that had been hidden under his skin burst through and gush out, causing him to roll his eyes in pain.

Lou Yan gritted his teeth and pushed himself up from the ground. Before he could even straighten his vision, he saw a flash of white light.

—The rhinoceros demon's fist was already smashing towards his face.

"What should we do! If something happens to Senior Brother Lou, how can we explain it to the God?" Wei Xiuzhu paced anxiously on the lake shore.

Fortunately, the Chongming bird remained relatively calm. It circled Xuanwu Lake several times before finally landing on a rock by the lake, where it stretched its neck and let out a long, drawn-out cry.

The sound was sharp and long, seemingly possessing the power to pierce through clouds and mist, causing people's hearts to tremble slightly, and even giving the feeling of an echo reverberating in an empty valley.

For the first time in his life, Wei Xiuzhu hated himself for not understanding the language of demons and beasts.

He knew that many people in this world were born with such extraordinary talents; his senior brother Fu Yusheng was one, and so was Lou Yan.

Perhaps he is really more suited to be a medical practitioner.

Thinking of Lou Yan, who had given him this advice, Wei Xiuzhu's worry deepened. The Chronicles of the Nine Provinces said that Xuanwu Lake was unfathomably deep, and there might be unknown and terrifying monsters at the bottom. Now that Senior Brother Lou had fallen in with Si Yao, was he really going to survive?

"Who are you calling?" Wei Xiuzhu asked Chongming Bird. "Are you calling Senior Brother Lou?"

The cuckoo did not answer; its cries still echoed across the sky, but it could never be Louyan calling.

At this very moment, Lou Yan, whom Wei Xiuzhu was talking about, was sitting in a corner of the lake bottom cave with his knees drawn up to his chest, sniffing with great resentment.

A bruise clung to his unconventional yet undeniably handsome face, hanging precariously from the corner of his mouth, a gruesome sight. He instinctively tried to pull his lips open to reveal his canine teeth, but the moment he moved, he hissed involuntarily, his eyes filled with even more undisguised resentment.

He looked up and gazed at the farthest corner, at the culprit who had disfigured him.

The half-human, half-beast creature stood in the corner with its head bowed in remorse. Its huge bull-like eyes cautiously rose, but quickly fell back down when they met Lou Yan's murderous gaze. It only dared to silently pick at its fingers.

"Moo~"

Please don't be angry.

It coaxed sweetly.

Lou Yan was immediately amused by the thing, and with a throbbing pain in his lips, he pointed at it and cursed, "You fucking have the nerve to 'moo'! If it weren't for you, would my face be like this?!"

The rhinoceros demon was unaware of the situation and originally wanted to refute it, but when Lou Yan referred to himself as "this seat" in his words, he was probably a very important figure in the immortal and demon realm.

It's best not to provoke them easily.

"Moo~" it then let out a soft moo, this time conveying a deeper meaning.

You insisted on making me disfigure you.

If Lou Yan hadn't used up all his spiritual energy when he broke through the lake's surface, he would have truly felt the urge to fight this rhinoceros demon to the death.

He suddenly raised his arm, and the overly obvious attack startled the rhinoceros demon, causing it to take another step back and press itself completely against the stone wall behind it.

"I'm just asking if you did it!" Lou Yan pounded his fist. "Who told you to hit someone!"

The rhinoceros demon, lacking human understanding, felt even more aggrieved upon hearing this. However, seeing Lou Yan's red-rimmed eyes and the appearance of someone about to cry, it softened its tone and coaxed the unreasonable wolf.

"Moo~"

Okay, it's okay. You only have your face ruined. I've turned into a monster and I haven't even said anything yet.

Lou Yan stared at him angrily, growing angrier the more she thought about it.

Back then, he could command all the demons in the world all by himself, but now he was beaten up by a half-human, half-beast rhinoceros.

The world is going to the dogs.

Lou Yan asked him, "Are you saying that it's my fault that you've become this ghastly creature?"

"Moo?"

Isn't that so?

The sound of grinding teeth could be faintly heard from the silent underground cave. Lou Yan clenched his back teeth tightly, regretting that he did not have any spiritual power at the moment, otherwise he would have made this mindless stupid thing bleed on the spot.

The rhinoceros demon had already noticed his abnormality and, confirming that the angry wolf wouldn't do anything to him for the time being, confidently took a step forward and walked over with that terrifying head on its head.

"Moo?" he tried to inquire about Lou Yan's well-being.

Are you alright?

Lou, annoyed, raised his hand to cover his face, his voice unconsciously rising a notch, "Get out of here!"

The rhinoceros demon couldn't understand why there was such a capricious wolf. It probably knew that it looked terrifying, and perhaps the wolf was frightened by its own appearance.

After trying to coax it with straightforward words for a long time without getting any appreciation, it felt a little aggrieved. It dragged its heavy body back to the corner and hugged its knees against the wall.

There was silence for a while.

Lou Yan cursed the rhinoceros demon countless times in his heart, but feeling that his ears were too quiet, he looked up and looked at the farthest corner.

Just then, they heard the rhinoceros demon muttering to itself.

"Moo..."

I don't want to attract ghosts.

I was originally a rhinoceros that had already transformed into human form. If it weren't for that mirror in the tomb of Emperor Yi, how could my original form have been revealed...

Lou Yan suddenly stood up, and for a moment he could no longer feel the pain in his body.

He took two steps forward, lowered his head to stare at the dark figure, and asked in a serious tone, "What did you say? What mirror?"

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Author's note: See you tomorrow!