Chapter 75

After the ground slabs collapsed, it turned out that the area underneath was indeed deeper than they had imagined.

Xiao Mo was wearing a pink shirt today, the wind fluttered his wide sleeves, just like a butterfly spreading its wings. Xiao Mo nestled in Chu Jinglan's arms, and after adjusting to the position, his body was no longer tense, but he still couldn't help wondering, why hasn't it reached the bottom yet?

Time seemed to be stretched out, reminding him of the long fall into the water when he came to the world of cultivation.

But the difference was that this time, he was in Chu Jinglun's arms, and even though he was falling, he did not feel helpless and suffocated, but only felt safe.

A brick fell from above their heads. Chu Jinglan and Xiao Mo swung in the air to avoid the brick. Xiao Mo subconsciously raised his hand and hooked Chu Jinglan's neck to stabilize his body.

The cold temperature approached his face and his neck was suddenly grabbed. If he had helped unilaterally before when he picked the person up, now that Xiao Mo took the initiative to move closer, Chu Jinglan felt needed and relied on.

Chu Jinglan slightly narrowed his eyes, and his gaze moved.

His expression remained unchanged, but Xiao Mo could already hear the system notification tone in his ears.

[Ding, mental attack successful, points +100! ]

Xiao Mo paused with the hand that was hooked around Chu Jinglan's neck.

Xiao Mo:?

His mind raced, as if he was thinking about something. He raised his head from Chu Jinglan's arms and looked at him with a subtle expression.

Chu Jinglan read the complicated expression in Xiao Mo's eyes, his heart skipped a beat, and his shoulders tensed: "...What's wrong?"

Did he see something? Or did Xiao Mo hear his heartbeat?

If Xiao Mo can really see something, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

When Chu Jinglan was in a state of panic, he usually pressed his finger bones, but at this moment, as he was holding Xiao Mo, he didn't dare to move his fingers at all and held him like a gentleman.

Xiao Mo looked at him scrutinizingly, and Chu Jinglan's shoulders tensed even more. After a moment, Xiao Mo squeezed out a sentence: "Tell me the truth, are you——"

Chu Jinglan's breathing became lighter and he held his breath and listened quietly.

"——Are you actually not used to close contact with people?"

Chu Jinglan:?

Chu Jinglan was shocked: "..."

He almost lost his breath, but fortunately, his genius was real. The flight was still very stable, without any turbulence. Xiao Mo sat steadily in his arms. Thinking about their relationship, they were close to each other more than once or twice. He thought to himself: "Hmm, it doesn't seem right."

Xiao Mo sternly corrected the statement: "It's OK for you to approach others, but it's not OK for others to approach you first?"

Those inexplicable extra points in the past couldn’t have been obtained this way, right?

Although the infinite bonus is still a mystery, some situations seem to be explained by this statement, that is, he approached Chu Jinglan without being noticed, and Chu Jinglan didn't say it, but his emotions actually changed.

Xiao Mo: It makes sense.

Chu Jinglan said in a muffled voice: "No."

Xiao Mo: “Really?”

Chu Jinglan: “Yeah.”

Xiao Mo: "What were you thinking when I hooked my hand up to you just now?"

Chu Jinglan told the truth: "I didn't think about anything."

He really didn't think about anything, but when Xiao Mo approached him, his heartbeat became uncontrollably heavier.

Xiao Mo was suspicious, and tentatively patted Chu Jinglan's neck with the hand he had around it: "I'm not disgusted, and it won't happen like this?"

Chu Jinglan was shocked: "Really not."

There was some helplessness in his tone. Xiao Mo was next to him. The system's extra points prompt did not sound and it fell silent.

Xiao Mo: Guessed wrong?

He was still licking his lips when suddenly, he heard Yue Ming coughing from the front.

Xiao Mo turned his head and realized that they had landed on the ground without knowing when, and the others were watching them not far away.

Yue Ming had an expression that said "look at you two"; Jun Bushu was very polite and lowered his eyes without looking at them; Xi Tie stood beside the puppet and felt embarrassed for them.

Xiao Mo was still being held in Chu Jinglan's arms, and his hands seemed to be very actively hooked around Chu Jinglan's neck.

Xiao Mo: “…”

Xiao Mo immediately loosened his grip, jumped out of Chu Jinglan's arms, straightened his clothes, and pretended nothing had happened.

Yue Ming faintly said: "You two, although I understand——"

"No, you don't understand," Xiao Mo said firmly, pushing the words back to him, saying that he was only focused on the business, "Let's observe the surrounding environment and be careful."

Yueming: "I'm glad you still think so."

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Chu Jinglan adjusted the intensity of the light source. However, the little bird with aura kept circling around Xiao Mo, ensuring the visibility of the environment near him.

When the floor collapsed, Qiuqiu of course flapped its wings and flew away. Now that it has landed, it squatted back on Xiao Mo's shoulder, quietly looking around with its little eyes.

Under the stone building, the walls were all covered with damp soil, with small weeds growing here and there, and some white butterfly cocoons hanging on them. Compared to the difficult-to-distinguish aura on the ground, after the consciousness here was spread out, even if it was impossible to fully distinguish things due to obstructions, it could already vaguely sense the aura of monsters.

After walking another hundred meters, the perception of several Yuanying became more and more obvious. Yueming stopped at a certain place and said to Xitie, "Let your puppet go to the front and take a look. I think the monster is nearby."

Xi Tie nodded and controlled the puppet forward. Everyone waited for a moment, and suddenly a strong gust of wind swept in from the depths. Everyone immediately used their strength to resist it. The wind cut through the dust on the wall and even blew away the darkness. The shadows retreated instantly, revealing the situation in the deepest part.

A giant butterfly with a wingspan of ten meters fluttered its wings. It stood in the air with its huge body, but it did not fully stretch its body. Upon closer inspection, there was a faint halo in its abdomen. The butterfly's antennae buzzed and made a human-like sound: "Human..."

The seventh-level monster, the Lucky Butterfly.

The Lucky Butterflies are harmless to humans, and if some sects need butterflies for their medicine fields, they prefer Lucky Butterflies if conditions permit, because they are friendly to nature. Those above level five can enhance people's abilities in battle. Some Lucky Butterflies can also "bestow blessings", which has the effect of slightly helping people wake up or quenching the dirt and impurities in the body.

Fortunately, it was only a slight one. If they were too outstanding, the situation would be different for both monsters and humans.

Moreover, the belly of the lucky butterfly in front of him looked like it was pregnant.

Although it was usually kind to people, it was the most cautious when it was pregnant. The lucky butterfly spread its wings and a faint light appeared around it. It was its defense arrangement, buzzing, "Human, why did you break in here?"

There were flowers and plants growing underneath the place where the Fuling butterfly stayed, and some of them were piled up, like its nest. Xitie's compass pointed there, and even without the compass, he could see the accumulation of butterfly feathers around the nest. He was instantly excited, and he, who usually spoke shyly, immediately took the initiative to step forward and saluted.

"We don't mean to disturb you. We just want to collect some butterfly feathers that are over 300 years old. Can you please help us?"

The butterfly feathers are of no use to Butterfly himself, he just uses them for entertainment. A little light flashed in Fulingdie's big dark eyes, as if judging the kindness and trustworthiness of the people in front of him.

It is said that some lucky spirit butterflies can see through people's souls, but this one can't, right?

After a moment, Fu Lingdie stared into the big black eyes and moved his wings slightly: "Okay, but you have to do me a favor."

Xitie wanted to agree immediately and took a step forward excitedly, but Yueming and Chu Jinglan reached out to him at the same time, grabbed his collar and pulled him back, causing him to stagger.

Xitie turned around and Xiao Mo supported him on the back: "Don't be anxious."

Xitie's face turned red again: "Uh, sorry."

Yue Ming sighed and shook her head, then said to Fu Lingdie, "Tell me how you can help first."

The lucky butterfly buzzed: "As you can see, I am pregnant, and my strength needs to be shared with the butterfly eggs in my belly. There is a level 7 poisonous spider here, and it will definitely attack me when I am weak. If you help me kill it, I will share the butterfly feathers with you and give you some blessings. How about it?"

It also said cautiously: "If you want to rob me, I will destroy these butterfly feathers."

Xitie raised his hand hurriedly: "No, no, let's talk it over!"

After listening to this, Yue Ming looked at Chu Jinglan and said, "What do you mean? We have three Yuan infants, a puppet with good combat power, and with some help from the Fu Ling Die, it won't be a problem to kill a seventh-level Corruption Venom Spider."

Jun Bushu thought to himself that you included me in this, how rude of you, but he looked at Chu Jinglan and didn't say anything in rebuttal. He still said that he was happy to show kindness to the two people who could help him break the calamity in the future.

This trip was originally for Die Jiyu. Chu Jinglan nodded. Xitie was extremely happy: "Thank you, brothers! Uh, no, thank you, senior brother and junior uncle! And this senior brother Jun!"

Yes, Xitie and Yueming both had to call Chu Jinglan "Uncle Master", but Yueming refused to do so. Looking at Chu Jinglan's young face and Yueming's own competitive nature, she sought out Chu Jinglan for sparring every day. If she called him that, she would seem several heads shorter than him. This would not do.

Chu Jinglan didn't care anyway.

Yue Ming Zhao Xi Tie said: "If you want me to call him that, I would rather bear the pain and watch him and Mo Lan being affectionate with each other."

Xiao Mo held the flute in his hand and tapped it: "Please don't make unnecessary associations, thank you."

Chu Jinglan also said: "There is no you and me."

Really not, the relationship between them is just like a gentle breeze passing by, not as thick as lacquer.

They made an agreement with Fulingdie, and in order to thank them for their help, Fulingdie first gave them a piece of Diejiyu that was just over a hundred years old as a deposit. It was sincere and cautious. Knowing that Xitie wanted a three-hundred-year-old one, it gave them a piece that was less than a hundred years old, and kept the rest within its range. If they broke the contract, it would smash the Diejiyu.

I guess from the light that flashed in his eyes just now, he saw that Xitie was a simple soul, so he dared to trade. With a child in his belly, he had to be cautious.

The darkness underground has been dispelled, and everyone is sitting a little away from Fu Lingdie. According to Fu Lingdie, the Corruption Spiders should arrive in the next two days, so they need to wait here for the time being.

The lucky butterfly slowly landed on its nest. The ground was filled with the fragrance of soil and flowers. People sat in a circle, keeping watch and discussing the matter.

"The most troublesome thing about the Corruption Spider is its web and venom," Yue Ming said, "Let's all change into our robes first."

Chu Jinglan nodded and said to Xiao Mo and Xi Tie: "You just wait in a safe place."

Although Xitie is a golden elixir, most weapon refiners are not good at actual combat, so it is better for him to stay away from the seventh-level monster.

However, puppets can help other people and serve as a fighting force.

As a talisman practitioner, Jun Bushu could use his spiritual power to draw talismans in the air during battle, but it still took some time, so he prepared some talismans drawn on paper in advance. After discussion, he stood up and set up the formation in the cave.

The lucky butterfly lay quietly in its nest and watched them.

When Jun Bushu had set up half of his formation, a deep aura approached them at an extremely fast speed from the path they had come from.

Everyone's expression froze: "Here they come."

It came quite quickly.

When the formation was halfway drawn, Jun Bu Shu temporarily changed a small formation and used it first.

The Fuling butterfly flapped its wings and stood up, asking Xiao Mo and Xi Tie to come over to it: "You two should come closer, it will be safer."

Probably because they thought that a small foundation and a small golden elixir would not pose much threat to it, Xiao Mo and Xi Tie moved closer as they were told. At times like this, if one is not strong enough, then one should protect himself and not cause trouble to his companions, and that is what it means to be a good teammate.

A large dark green spider with eight particularly long legs rustled in at an extremely fast speed. It was green to the point of being black, with eight compound eyes lined up on its head. The fangs in front of its mouth dripped with dark green sticky venom, which corroded the soil with a sizzling sound when it landed on the ground.

The rot spider stopped its feet flexibly and landed on the wall.

Its eyes moved and it hissed, "Human, you can still find humans."

The Fuling Butterfly flapped its wings, and fragments of light like scales fell towards Chu Jinglan and the other two, temporarily enhancing their abilities.

The one who felt it most obviously was Jun Bushu. His sickly body instantly felt much better.

The rotten spider laughed hoarsely: "That's good, no one has been here for a long time, so we can use all of them as food!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Jinglan's sword light arrived first.

Yue Ming and Jun Bushu followed immediately. Fu Xiu had a broad view of the situation. Yue Ming had practiced with Chu Jinglan for a long time and knew his moves. The two of them cooperated well with each other. The swords intertwined, and the overwhelming and cold murderous intent pressed towards the poisonous spider.

Xi Tie was controlling the puppet, Xiao Mo was watching him without blinking, and suddenly said, "Be careful, there's a little spider!"

It turned out that at some point, the venomous spider had quietly released something. There were small black spiders on the wall. They crawled out silently under the protection of the color of the wall. A closer look revealed that they were densely packed.

Chu Jinglan's sword intent condensed into a cold white ice sword floating around him. He raised his hand and swept it. The sword light hit the wall. The bone-chilling frost quickly spread out in a large area, instantly freezing the wall and the spiders on it.

The Corrupt Spider became furious upon seeing this, and a hissing sound came out of its voice.

As for the little spider that had escaped the net and was curled up on the ground and crawling towards Fu Lingdie and Xiao Mo, no one needed to help. Qiuqiu spread his wings and sprayed out a few balls of golden flames, which immediately burned the spider to death.

The fire will go out after burning, and will not ignite the surrounding flowers and plants.

It's still small and can't beat big spiders, but it can definitely deal with small spiders.

Qiuqiu puffed out his chest proudly: "Chirp!"

Praise me, praise me!

Xiao Mo ruffled its feathers and said, "Awesome, awesome."

Yue Ming took a quick look and was surprised: "What? That's the cub of the Golden Flame Fire Phoenix? I thought you just picked up a level 2 or 3 monster to raise for fun!"

Qiuqiu shook his fur and became even more proud.

Now that he has entered the Yingyue Sect, Qiuqiu's identity does not need to be hidden. Everyone knows that Chu Jinglan must have a lot of good things in his hands, and one more Golden Flame Flowing Fire Phoenix would not be too much.

The venom sprayed by the Corrupt Spider would be frozen by the sword before it could get close to Chu Jinglan's body and fall to the ground. The three of them cooperated with ease, and it seemed that it would be a matter of time before the Corrupt Spider was killed. Xiao Mo and Xi Tie were relieved, and the tentacles of the Fuling Butterfly also trembled, relaxing a lot.

Xiao Mo's eyes fell on Chu Jinglan, and he used some of his attention to talk to the Lucky Butterfly, but he used voice transmission: "I heard that some Lucky Butterflies have the ability to see through people's souls?"

The Fuling butterfly's tentacles moved, and it discovered that Xiao Mo was transmitting a message to it alone, so it also responded via telepathy.

【Um】

Xiao Mo: "Can you tell anything from me?"

【A very strange soul】

Fu Lingdie paused for a moment before continuing: [You have one and a half soul marks on your body. People have marks when they are born, representing this life. If you are reincarnated now, you should have two marks, but the second mark is blurred in half. How strange.]

Xiao Mo was stunned.

One mark represents a lifetime, but his is one and a half?

Half of it was because he was now a demon in his heart, but the remaining one overturned Xiao Mo's original guess.

He has truly grown up in modern society, and is definitely a life. Xiao Mo's mind raced, and after a moment of hesitation, he asked the system in his mind: "System."

The system noticed his tone and cautiously said, "Yes."

"You said I was already dead when I came here?"

System: "What I said at the time was that you have been confirmed dead in that world."

...Yes, the system did say so at the time, but because he didn't expect that he had more than one life, Xiao Mo didn't think much about it at the time.

Xiao Mo was so angry that he laughed: "Playing word games with me?"

The system said weakly, "This is also to avoid causing greater confusion to you at that time. You came directly from the book with your current identity and were transformed into a demon. However, the identity of a demon should not have fallen on you. Therefore, the soul mark in the eyes of the lucky butterfly is only half."

By this calculation, his current life still starts from the modern era, but the experience of his previous life suddenly made Xiao Mo think of another possibility.

After all, he had seen modern buildings in his dreams, but they were very different from the orphanage where he stayed, and were not what he had seen in this life.

Xiao Mo proposed another conjecture: "I have never been a person in the world of cultivation. The last time I lived, I was also born from a certain place and entered the world of cultivation through a book?"

The system gives an affirmative answer: "Yes."

Xiao Mo stroked the jade flute in his hand, accepting the system's way of playing word games with him, because it seemed that the little bit of guidance and discoveries after he integrated into this world were indeed better than what was told to him when he first came here.

Therefore, Chu Jinglan and Su Baimo were always characters in the book. Xiao Mo lived twice, and both times he appeared in the book for some reason.

He looked up at Chu Jinglan who was fighting in the distance. His figure was rustling and his sword energy was unstoppable. He asked Fu Lingdie: "Then look at the man in the field, the one wearing silver clothes and the best-looking one. How many soul marks does he have?"

[One, all the others are one, they are the souls of this life, living in the present, only you are special]

Xiao Mo stopped stroking the flute.

Chu Jinglan, Xi Tieyueming and Jun Bushu are all people in the book, all in this life, but he and Chu Jinglan have clearly met once, he lost his life, but Chu Jinglan's soul is still new...

Chu Jinglan didn't reincarnate or become the same as him, so what other possibilities are there? Could it be that time has turned back? Or maybe he should be even bolder and restart the world?

It is absolutely beyond human power to accomplish this.

The system knows him so well, he should have brought the system with him when he traveled through the book last time. Since the inner demon should not be his identity, then the original reason for him to come to this world... Xiao Mo looked up. The ground was too deep. He could not see anything when he looked up. In the distance, there was only darkness.

Xiao Mo felt a coolness spreading up from the soles of his feet.

He wouldn't have provoked any huge creature, right?

Xiao Mo was lost in his own thoughts when the darkness above his head began to tremble slightly in his eyes. Xiao Mo almost thought he was dazzled, but suddenly he paused: No!

He immediately looked back, but saw a thick dark green breath swirling wildly around the corrupt spider, like a deep whirlpool. The strong wind it blew was invisible and terrifying. Chu Jinglan immediately dodged an invisible wind, only to see the wind hit the wall behind him, corroding the wall directly into a large hole.

There is clearly no venom, but even the air is poisoned!

The lucky butterfly flapped its wings and stood up suddenly: "Not good, it's going to advance! Quick, we can't let it successfully advance to the eighth level!"

Yue Ming was blown away and fell to the ground after rolling in the air. He finally stood firm and gritted his teeth. Everyone knew that the Corruption Spider must not be allowed to advance to the next level, but it was easier said than done. The pressure from the monster that was close to level eight was so great that they could hardly breathe and their movements became much slower.

The puppets retreated to Xitie and Xiao Mo's side in an instant, and Fulingdie also joined the battle. Hurry, it must be quick!

Chu Jinglan did not hesitate at all, he increased his speed to the extreme and attacked with astonishing sword intent.

It looked like he was not affected by the terrifying aura of the Corruption Spider, but a close look at the blue veins on his neck and the back of his hands revealed a clue. The Corruption Spider had many wounds on its body, the most serious of which were caused by Chu Jinglan. It hated Chu Jinglan so much that when it saw him rushing up, it directed its pressure and poisonous mist exponentially towards Chu Jinglan alone.

"Humanity, die!"

Chu Jinglan gathered his Qi into a sword, brazenly colliding with the dark green turbid Qi. He took the lead in tearing open a gap and shouted: "Moon Ming, Falling Moon Style!"

This is the sword technique in the Moon Lord's Sword Manual. After Chu Jinglan handed the sword manual to Yingyue Sect, Yue Ming was also qualified to practice it, but Yue Ming had never been very good at using this move. However, at the critical moment, especially when seeing Chu Jinglan's fierce and fearless attitude, Yue Ming gritted his teeth and swung out the most beautiful move in history, sending out a backhand sword.

The night was filled with ice and snow, and the setting moon was shining in the sky. Chu Jinglan actually used the sword power of others for his own use. With this move, he not only broke through the poisonous mist, but also cut off the two long legs of the poisonous spider.

The poisonous spider cried out in pain, and the thick aura before the stage began to become chaotic. A huge spider web fell on his head, and a wave of sound waves leaped past Chu Jinglan's back, causing the spider web to stop. Chu Jinglan took the opportunity without hesitation and chopped up the web that was trying to imprison him.

It is the sound of Xiao Mo's flute.

Xiao Moheng was holding the flute in front. Although he couldn't kill, he could definitely block the spider web venom.

However, a large area of ​​the robe on Chu Jinglan's arm was corroded in the previous fight, revealing the flesh underneath which was also corroded by the venom.

The fair and healthy flesh changed color, rotting and turning green.

Shocking.

Chu Jinglan had already taken a detoxifying pill beforehand, so he didn't even blink as he raised his sword and cut off the rotten flesh on his arm. Bright red blood gushed out instantly. He pressed the acupuncture points and used his spiritual power to temporarily cover the wound to prevent the blood from continuing to flow out.

He was always ruthless to himself, without any hesitation, and he did these things without blinking, let alone having any special expression.

Xiao Mo's heart was pounding with fear, and he subconsciously took a step forward. Chu Jinglan raised his eyes at this moment, and the cold sword intent in his eyes was not directed at Xiao Mo at all. He just looked at Xiao Mo and shook his head gently.

Xiao Mo suddenly clenched the flute in his hand.

He felt uncomfortable in his chest, especially uncomfortable, a place without a heart, and Huanyue Heart could not fill the void of flesh and blood, but he truly possessed human emotions and knew who he was sad for.

The flute even made a sound in his hand. Xiao Mo was startled and came back to his senses, loosening his grip slightly - he couldn't afford to break the flute.

At the same time, a picture appeared in Xiao Mo's mind again.

He and Chu Jinglan were beside a huge rock, surrounded by dense vegetation, which could be considered a secluded place. Chu Jinglan and his clothes were both stained with blood, but neither of them had any injuries, the blood should have belonged to someone else, but they both looked extremely tired.

Judging from Chu Jinglan's appearance, he is at least in his twenties. His youthfulness has completely faded, leaving only his handsome features.

In his memory, he stared at Chu Jinglan for a while, raised his hand, used the Cleansing Technique to remove the blood stains on his body, and then said, "Chu Jinglan, go now."

The voice was so low and tired that even Xiao Mo frowned when he heard it.

Chu Jinglan was closing his eyes and regulating his breathing. Upon hearing this, he looked at him.

"Su Baimo and Tiandao want to kill me the most right now." Xiao Mo looked away, not looking into Chu Jinglan's eyes. "I may be able to handle it alone. I still have many powerful methods. I will come to you after I have done what I should do."

"Xiao Mo." Chu Jinglan said in shock, "even a three-year-old wouldn't believe it."

Xiao Mo closed his eyes and said in a hoarse and choked voice: "I'm sorry."

"Don't apologize."

"After my mother passed away, I just lived for revenge. The hatred is over. If you were not here, I would probably just be bored and live day by day. I have learned a lot from you."

Xiao Mo smiled bitterly: "Me too, after I left the orphanage and lost my grandma who took me in, I seemed to be trying to move forward, but in fact I was also very lost and confused. But I just quietly comforted myself. You are my first friend... We are close friends, right, Chu Jinglan?"

Chu Jinglan did not answer directly, but said: "I have few relatives and friends. There are not many people who care about me and I can care about them. Xiao Mo, you are one of them."

He avoided the question of their relationship and asked, "Are you going to give up?"

Xiao Mo stood up and said, "How is that possible?"

Chu Jinglan stretched out his hand, and Xiao Mo also lent him his hand. The two of them supported each other and stood up.

Chu Jinglan's palms were warm, and his own palms were also warm.

The memory scene ended here. The inner demon Xiao Mo lowered his head and looked at his cold palms that had no temperature at all.

His short memory gave him a lot of information.

He was also an orphan in his previous life, but seemed to have met some kind people who took him in, including Tiandao and Su Baimo.

Heaven's Way, Xiao Mo pondered carefully and tightened his icy fingers.

Over there, with Chu Jinglan's overwhelming attack just now, Fu Lingdie also took the opportunity to send out the charged wind blade, and the Corrupt Spider's advancing aura was finally interrupted. The originally surging aura was like a punctured ball, and it collapsed in an instant. Pools of green blood from the Corrupt Spider flew out, and it was too late for it to escape again.

Jun Bushu sent out the thunder talisman, and Chu Jing drew his sword. With one sword, he pierced through the dying poisonous spider that wanted to escape, and nailed it to the ground.

The rotten spider's remaining legs twitched a few last times, then spread out its legs and stopped moving.

Chu Jinglan recalled Poxiao. Poxiao was indeed a heavenly weapon. The sword was clean and spotless without a single speck of blood.

Yue Ming heaved a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground. His hands began to tremble after he finished. He recalled the Falling Moon move he had just made. Although he hadn't thought about it at all when he made the move, the more he thought about it now, the more he felt something different. He was about to tell Chu Jinglan about it when he felt that Chu Jinglan's condensed aura had slowly faded, but it was also a little thicker than before.

Yue Ming was stunned for a moment, then she thought of something and her eyes almost popped out: "... No way, you won't reach the middle stage of Yuanying before me, right?"

Obviously, he arrived at Yuanying before Chu Jinglan, but now Chu Jinglan's aura is indeed ahead of him.

Chu Jinglan took a look at the corpse of the venomous spider and confirmed that it was indeed dead. Then he gave Yue Ming a look. Although he didn't say anything, it was obvious that he was conveying: Is there any problem?

Yueming: “…”

Yue Ming gritted his teeth and said, "Wait, you haven't arrived yet. Don't be arrogant. It's still unknown who will win. I will practice hard when I get back. I will definitely reach the middle stage of Yuanying before you!"

Yue Ming made a bold statement and set a great ambition, but Chu Jinglan had no time to pay attention to him as he still had to treat the wound on his hand. Although the wounds on the skin would heal much faster during the Yuan Infant period, it would still take two or three days for the wound to heal even if he simply cut off the rotten flesh and used medicine.

As Chu Jinglan took out the medicine bottle, his injured arm was lifted up.

It was Xiao Mo who walked up to him in silence.

Chu Jinglan's hand holding the medicine bottle did not move. Xiao Mo took the medicine and said, "Sit down."

Chu Jinglan, who had been so arrogant just now, immediately wiped off the frost and snow all over his body and sat down quietly as he was told.

The frost on the wall had not yet faded, and the cave was chilly due to Chu Jinglan's spiritual energy and sword power. Xiao Mo lowered his eyes and applied medicine to Chu Jinglan without saying a word. However, precisely because he said nothing, there was a kind of silent oppression.

Chu Jinglan couldn't see Xiao Mo's expression clearly, and didn't know what he was feeling, but he felt like he should say something.

He thought for a moment and tried to whisper, "Don't worry, it doesn't hurt."

Xiao Mo was wrapping a bandage around his neck. Hearing his stubborn words, I wanted to tighten it to see if he felt any pain. But in fact, Xiao Mo was very gentle, wrapping the bandage around his neck neither too tight nor too loose. He looked up and said quietly, "Chu Jinglan, even a three-year-old wouldn't believe this."

After saying this, Xiao Mo was stunned first.

...Isn't this what Chu Jinglan said to him in the memory scene just now?

Xiao Mo lifted his healed arm back to Chu Jinglan's side. He stared at the snow-white bandage, and before he could sort out his own affairs, he was interrupted by Chu Jinglan's wound.

Xiao Mo thought to himself that the world of cultivation was filled with numerous dangers. Putting aside other things, Chu Jinglan's cultivation must not remain at the level of distraction in the future. Since he was capable of stronger abilities, he naturally had to continue to move forward so that he could be invincible and no one could hurt him anymore.

Even if it is not for the cornerstone plot, the inner demon tribulation must be overcome.