Chapter 51 Chapter 51 I want to practice spiritual cultivation with you (two chapters combined into one...
Looking at Zhou Li's expression, Lu Rong had the illusion that he was being remembered.
She looked at him suspiciously. After paying, Zhou Li turned around and saw her probing eyes. He asked, "What are you guessing about?"
Lu Rong naturally wouldn't reveal herself, so she could only lie, "We look like a couple having an affair."
Zhou Li: “…”
The shopkeeper at the counter looked back and forth between the two of them, and finally turned his head away to smile stealthily.
Zhou Li was really amused by Lu Rong's train of thought: "What a mess."
He patted her head lightly with his palm and said, "Let's go."
Lu Rong patted his head, which had been slapped, and hurriedly followed Zhou Li out, not forgetting to ask him quietly, "You really don't feel that someone is watching us?"
Zhou Li naturally felt it.
The entire Nan'an City has been controlled by the demon world, and the person who can keep an eye on the two of them is probably also from the demon world.
Maybe they were staring at him.
Lu Rong was so distracted looking at him that she almost missed a step when she was going down the stairs. Zhou Li reached out and grabbed her arm: "Look at the road, don't look at me."
"Oh." Lu Rong stood firm and walked down the stairs, trying to break free from his hand, and then she heard Zhou Li's inner voice.
【I want to hold her hand.】
Lu Rong moved her fingers slightly, frowned, and held hands...
Only young couples walk hand in hand! She doesn't want that!
But the more she tried not to think about it, the more she could notice some of Zhou Li's subtle movements, such as when he retracted his hand and moved it downward, as if he would touch her palm in the next moment.
Her heart tightened, thinking, he is not really going to hold my hand, right?
Lu Rong's peripheral vision was drawn to his hand, and many thoughts popped up in her mind. Finally, she muttered in her heart, just hold his hand. Anyway, we have kissed each other and he has touched my body all over. It doesn't matter if we hold hands.
But Zhou Li's hands were just placed quietly at his sides, and even the back of his hands were kept away from her.
Lu Rong: “?” Huh? A man with inconsistent mind and body!
She glared at Zhou Li's claws, which seemed to be moving away from her hands, and snorted.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Li looked at her in confusion.
"Nothing." Lu Rong crossed his arms over his chest, tilted his chin slightly up, and was so angry that his mouth was about to turn up to the sky.
[Damn man, he doesn't even know how to take the initiative to hold hands. ]
【Then don’t hold my hand for the rest of your life! 】
Lu Rong was angry in her heart. She had thought of not rejecting him so as to avoid making him unhappy.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Li never thought about holding her hand at all.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She walked faster and faster. Zhou Li's eyebrows moved slightly, and a smile couldn't be suppressed on his lips.
How can she be so cute just by teasing her?
Zhou Li followed her and called out to her, "Lu Rong."
"What?" Lu Rong turned to look at him reluctantly, and then she felt her hand being held in his palm.
"Don't walk too fast." Zhou Li touched her palm lightly with his fingertips. Not feeling any rejection from her, he moved a little closer and held her small hand in his large palm.
Lu Rong felt the body temperature in her palm that did not belong to her, and was stunned for a moment before she reacted.
He took the initiative to hold his hand.
The unhappiness in my heart suddenly dissipated and turned into a secret joy.
Humph, I just can't help but want to hold her hand.
[Still pretending to be reserved, men really can't help themselves! ]
[No matter how patient Zhou Li is, he still falls at my feet, hehe.]
Zhou Li listened to her mumblings and thought, Lu Rong is really a cute and arrogant young lady.
Lu Rong thought happily in her heart, but she didn't pull her hand away at all, letting Zhou Li hold her tightly and lead her forward. She once again felt that Zhou Li's hands were really big.
It seems that her breasts are quite big.
Her thoughts immediately flew to the scene of last night. When she saw his incomplete white hands, Zhou Li was obviously immersed in that feeling, even his breathing was heavy.
Zhou Li was originally thinking about the goddess, but his mind began to fill with the ambiguous scene between the two of them last night.
Needless to say, Lu Rong started to reminisce again.
He looked down at her yellow little head, which was full of indecent things.
At this time, the sound of bells was heard above the busy street.
Lu Rong also came back to his senses from his recollection: "What's that sound?"
Zhou Li looked at the goddess statue standing in Nan'an City: "It came out from there."
Lu Rong followed his gaze and saw a circle of golden light emanating from the goddess statue. "Why is there such a golden light? Could that really be the goddess?"
"There is indeed a faint divine power in the goddess statue, but its authenticity is questionable." Zhou Li took her and followed the crowd to the goddess statue.
The ringing of the bell seemed to summon everyone in the city. Even the normal vendors and pedestrians on the street hurriedly ran towards the statue of the goddess.
Lu Rong caught a kind-looking girl on the road and asked her what was going on.
"Girls, what happened to you?"
"You and your husband are from other places, right?" The little girl said with her eyes still on Zhou Li's face, unable to move her gaze away.
Lu Rong moved closer to Zhou Li, smiled and nodded: "Yes."
"The goddess is calling us and is about to bless us." The little girl said, "You can also take a look. Perhaps you will also be blessed by the goddess."
The little girl was probably afraid of delaying her own blessing, so she ran with the crowd without saying much.
Blessing from the goddess?
Lu Rong subconsciously looked up at Zhou Li and asked, "Shall we go take a look?"
Zhou Li didn't say much, he just put his arm around her waist and flew away. Instead of going into the crowd, he hid in a tall and dense tree.
This tree is some distance away from the goddess statue, but with their cultivation level, they can still see clearly what is happening over there.
Zhou Li looked at the wide flat ground around the goddess statue, which was now full of people kneeling, and the high platform under the goddess statue was the Nanyuan he had seen yesterday.
He was wearing a very strange female outfit, which looked just like a goddess statue.
What on earth was Nan Yuan up to? He had previously tried to seize Lu Rong and kill her, and now he was playing tricks on her.
"A Ling! I saw A Ling!" Lu Rong pulled his sleeve and pointed at Qiu Ling who was kneeling in the crowd.
She hurriedly sent a message to Qiu Ling, but the other party's jade token remained dim.
The Xuanyang Sect's jade token will always be lit as long as the spiritual consciousness is still there.
"Qiuling's jade token is not lighting up." Lu Rong was filled with worry. Zhou Li reached out and took her jade token, casting a seal.
Qiu Ling's jade token could be seen flickering: "Her consciousness was only temporarily controlled."
Hearing Zhou Li's words, Lu Rong suppressed her panic, but her expression was still full of worry: "Let's bring Qiu Ling back first."
"No, there's also snow fungus!" Lu Rong realized that she didn't bring snow fungus with her, and she looked at Zhou Li.
"I rescued you last night in front of the Goddess Temple. You didn't have the rabbit on you." Zhou Li explained, "It should be in your room. Qiu Ling was also in your room at the time."
"Xue'er is not with Qiu Ling." Lu Rong looked several times but didn't see Xue'er. She had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the next moment, she saw someone carrying snow fungus to the platform. Her expression changed, and she heard the noisy noise outside become even louder.
"Are they trying to kill Xue Er?" Lu Rong wanted to go over, but Zhou Li took her in his arms and flew away first. "Ice crack."
I saw a sword light streaking across the air and rushing straight towards the platform. A golden light suddenly lit up, blocking the path of the ice crack heading towards Nanyuan.
The ice cracks blocked the outside from getting in at all.
"Is this divine power?" Lu Rong looked at the golden light in front of him in astonishment.
The divine power in this world is the strongest. No matter how powerful a cultivator is, he cannot resist the divine power in the slightest.
Zhou Li had previously discovered that there was indeed divine power in the statue of the goddess, but the power was very weak.
However, the divine power of the barrier set up before him was extremely strong.
He looked at the people below and realized immediately that the goddess statue was indeed dedicated to God. The more believers or faith the God has, the stronger his power will be.
It seems that Nanyuan deliberately lured all the people in the city here to enhance the power of the goddess. So was he trying to kill Lu Rong, or was he trying to kill him?
Zhou Li's sharp eyes met the standing statue of the goddess, and he pushed his palm forward, causing the ice crack to force its way forward a few inches against the golden barrier.
The crowd below looked at the two people who wanted to offend the statue of the goddess, and suddenly a loud noise came over them.
Nanyuan seemed to grasp this point and said to everyone within the golden light, "Nan'an City has recently seen monsters running rampant. This is the rabbit monster I caught today!"
Xue'er had already seen Lu Rong and was struggling frantically, but she was trapped and had no way to break free.
Nan Yuan then pointed at Zhou Li and Lu Rong, who were hovering in mid-air on their swords. "Those two are most likely accomplices of the monster. We mortals cannot destroy them. We can only pray to the goddess to use her divine power to eliminate these evils!"
Nanyuan knelt before the goddess statue and said, "I am willing to offer my soul as a sacrifice and pray for the goddess's protection!"
The huge crowd below all knelt before the goddess statue and began to pray devoutly: "I am willing to offer my soul and pray for the goddess's protection!"
Lu Rong looked at the countless white lights converging towards the statue of the goddess. Those were not prayers, they were truly their souls!
Zhou Li also saw it, and recalled Bing Lie to send down a sword formation to cut off the connection between these people and the goddess.
But these people all believed in the goddess willingly and could not resist.
They could only watch as countless people willingly sacrificed their souls and turned into zombies.
"What should we do?" Lu Rong saw that Qiu Ling's soul was becoming unstable.
"This is a soul gathering formation." Zhou Li's eyes turned around, "When the formation is broken, you will take Qiu Ling and Xue Er away."
After saying that, Zhou Li flew directly towards the goddess statue with a sword in his hand. Ice cracked in his hand and the heaven and earth shook.
Several loud thunders were heard in the sky, which were warnings that would shake the power of the gods.
Lu Rong's heart jumped with fear: "Zhou Li!"
The cracks in the ice hanging in the air burst out with powerful force, instantly freezing a thousand miles, and even the people in the audience were frozen.
"Break!" Zhou Li's cold voice sounded in the sky, and the golden light shield formed by divine power shattered in an instant, and the thunder came down and hit Zhou Li.
Lu Rong's mind went blank for a moment, and he thought, it's over, Zhou Li will be struck to death.
The next moment, Zhou Li's slightly panting breath was heard: "Save people."
He is still alive. Lu Rong almost cried and nodded. He did not dare to delay and flew down. He directly grabbed Qiu Ling and put on the sword. He reached out to bring Xue Er over.
But before they could touch each other, a golden light came straight at them, and all the ice that had blocked the area for a thousand miles melted away. Lu Rong was unable to dodge it.
An ice wall blocked the way first, and the next moment Xue Er was picked up by Zhou Li and thrown onto her sword. The ice cracked and pierced Nanyuan's sword.
Lu Rong felt Zhou Li's strength pushing her: "Let's go."
Everything changed so quickly that Lu Rong couldn't react. Her sword had already carried the three of them away, but the power of the gods was still unshakable. A golden light appeared again, blocking her path completely.
Zhou Li caught up and looked at the formation that appeared again. He stepped calmly on the ice cracks and sneered, "It seems that you want to kill me?"
"I thought the Emperor's absence would have reduced him to mediocrity." A voice came from all directions. "Now it seems the Emperor is even more powerful than before."
Zhou Li's fingertips moved slightly: "It seems that I didn't kill you back then in order to kill you today."
He waved his long finger, and a murderous sword energy flew out. In the blink of an eye, a masked man appeared on the left, covering his heart that was seriously injured by the sword energy.
Lu Rong didn't expect that Zhou Li knew where this person appeared in an instant.
Zhou Li turned to him and looked down at the newcomer: "Kneel."
The man fell from a great height and hit his knees hard on the ground. Blood was oozing out but he didn't make a sound and even tried to stand up.
The ice cracks directly pierced his knee, and the hilt of the sword broke his demon pill. The masked man suddenly turned into an ugly gecko and tried to escape.
The ice cracked and tried to split the gecko in half, and a black gas surged up from the ground and took the gecko away directly.
Bing Lie flew back into Zhou Li's hands, covered in blood. Zhou Li wiped the blood off Bing Lie's body and said coldly, "Either let us go, or I will destroy Nan'an City."
Lu Rong didn't know who he was talking to.
"I originally only wanted to kill the little beauty beside you. Now that you are here, I will naturally kill you first." Another voice came, more gentle and warm like a spring breeze.
As the other party finished speaking, a loud baby cry was heard, like a demonic sound. Lu Rong's blood boiled in her heart, and Zhou Li pressed down on her with his palm: "Don't listen."
Lu Rong nodded, holding back the blood rushing up his throat: "Can we go out?"
"Yeah." Zhou Li looked into her eyes, which were full of calmness. "It's okay."
"Zhou Li..." There was worry in her eyes. These people kept calling him the emperor, but they all wanted to kill him.
She thought he should not return to the demon world, as no one in the Xuanyang Sect would kill him.
But she didn't know what to say, and she now felt that she was so stupid with her mouth.
She would tell him after they got out.
But when she raised her eyes, her pupils shrank slightly: "Zhou Li, the goddess statue... moved."
Zhou Li turned around and saw that the standing statue of the goddess was completely awakened. The hundred-meter-tall stone statue carved out of stone began to move like a human, and the earth shook when it stepped on it.
"Give my child back to me!" The goddess seemed to be blind and just walked around screaming.
Countless people were trampled to death under her feet.
"Give me back my child!" she kept shouting, and the divine power in her hands could easily turn a building into ruins.
Lu Rong felt that even Zhou Li and she were no match for her. She looked at the Baili Dun on her wrist and said, "Use Baili Dun."
She held Zhou Li's hand tightly, trying to drive Baili to escape, but the goddess came over and saw Lu Rong, then stopped for a moment and went completely crazy.
"It's you, it's you! You stole my child!" A divine power rushed towards Lu Rong with full murderous intent.
Lu Rong subconsciously tried to block it, but she didn't feel any pain. She could only feel the warm blood dripping onto her face.
She looked at Zhou Li who was standing in front of her in astonishment, and her heart stopped beating completely.
"Zhou Li...you..." Her whole body was shaking and she looked at him in disbelief.
"Don't be afraid." Zhou Li's face was so pale that there was no blood at all. He reached out and grabbed her wrist with Baili Dun, and forced it to take them away.
Then the sky spun and the whole picture was distorted. Zhou Li realized that something was wrong and subconsciously hugged Lu Rong in his arms.
When his whole body suddenly fell to the ground, he protected Lu Rong's head and fell with her.
The feeling of weightlessness startled him and he opened his eyes to look around.
It is a completely unfamiliar environment.
"Zhou Li, are you okay?" Lu Rong poked her head out of his arms and looked at him, tears streaming down her face. She touched the blood at the corner of his lips and asked, "Are you going to die?"
Zhou Li grabbed her hand and coughed softly: "It's okay, you won't die."
Lu Rongxin seemed to be squeezed hard. She reached out and hugged him tightly, crying, "You scared me to death."
She knew the power of divine power, and fortunately Zhou Li was also powerful.
Zhou Li knew she was frightened, so he gently stroked her back with his palm and looked around: "It seems we are in another place."
Baili Dun can only go a hundred miles away, but now the entire Nan'an City is in ruins, and it is impossible to have such a peaceful place to live.
He looked at Qiu Ling and Xue Er who had fallen to the ground.
Lu Rong raised her head, her eyes were already tearful, which made Zhou Li's heart soften. He wiped away the moisture from the corners of her eyes with his fingertips.
Lu Rong felt a little embarrassed and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeves: "I'm fine."
She looked around and noticed something strange: "This place feels so strange."
"I'll go and take a look, you wake them up." Zhou Li helped Lu Rong sit up, then got up and walked out. He saw a courtyard that was well-maintained and full of blooming pink and white roses.
It should be summer now, with the heat blowing in your face and the cicadas chirping incessantly.
It was late spring when they were in Nan'an City, and there were no cicadas chirping yet.
"Madam Chen, isn't your husband at home again? You're about to give birth, so you have to be careful." A woman's voice came from next door.
Zhou Li turned his head and looked over the fence. He saw a woman in the next yard chatting with a pregnant woman. Her expression was full of concern: "You'd better be careful with your first child."
"I'll be careful." The pregnant woman probably didn't want to talk, so she simply responded and left with her maid, holding her waist.
Zhou Li noticed that the woman looked somewhat similar to the statue of the goddess.
Could it be... this is an illusion?
"Mr. Zhou!" The woman next door, who had probably noticed Zhou Li's presence, also started chatting enthusiastically, "How is your wife? I saw she was unwell a few days ago."
Madam?
Lu Rong happened to come out of the house, and Zhou Li happened to meet her eyes.
Lu Rong: "Huh? Why are you looking at me?"
"She asked if you were feeling better." Zhou Li pointed at the lady next door.
Lu Rong: "? I don't even know her."
“This is an illusion. Talk to her and ask her about Madam Shen.” Zhou Li whispered in her ear.
"Who is Madam Shen?" Lu Rong was puzzled, but still went to chat with this enthusiastic lady.
Zhou Li entered the house. The yard was not big and had only two rooms.
Qiu Ling and Xue Er both woke up and were sitting there to calm down when two streams of spiritual power flew out from Zhou Li's palms, returning their unstable souls to their places.
In an instant, Qiu Ling and Xue's ears were sore that they felt like they were about to explode. Before they could say anything, Zhou Li said coldly, "Get out."
"Oh." Qiu Ling hurriedly took Xue Er out and closed the door for him.
After all, only Lu Rong could gain the Sword Master's favor, no one else could.
When the door closed, Zhou Li couldn't hold on any longer and covered his heart with his palms, with bright red blood dripping from the corners of his lips.
Having just blocked the goddess's divine power, the demonic fire in his body seemed to be completely out of control. The originally stable flame exploded in his body in an instant.
It seemed like there was lava flowing in his blood, burning him clean.
He tried hard to calm the evil fire in his body, but the sword energy he cultivated conflicted with the evil fire, and his meridians and bones were all aching.
The evil spirit could no longer be controlled and ran rampant in the small house.
Lu Rong and Qiu Ling were chatting with Aunt Lin when the system in their minds suddenly sounded an alarm.
[Host, the hero's health is rapidly decreasing. Attention! Attention!]
Upon hearing this, Lu Rong hurriedly said to Qiu Ling, "You guys continue chatting, I'll go inside to check on Zhou Li."
Qiu Ling held her back and said, "I feel that Jian Zun must be injured. His breathing was very chaotic just now."
Of course Lu Rong knew that he was injured.
"He just helped us block a divine power." After Lu Rong said that, she walked towards the closed door. She wanted to push it open.
But the door was blocked by a barrier.
"Zhou Li!" Lu Rong shouted outside, but there was no response from inside the house. She could only see ice extending from the crack in the door.
Zhou Li's spiritual power was out of control.
Lu Rong knew that it was very dangerous to lose control of spiritual energy, and it might even lead to obsession.
Zhou Li’s voice echoed in her mind.
[Don't come in, Lu Rong, don't come in.]
I can't lose control.
I can't hurt her.
Lu Rong listened to his weak voice, her eyes reddened, and she knocked on the door: "Zhou Li, you are injured, I will heal you."
But the door remained tightly closed, with only the ice extending from the door to the steps.
Qiu Ling noticed something was wrong and came over. Seeing Han Bing at the door, he became nervous. "What happened to Sword Master? Why is his spiritual power out of control?"
"He helped us block a divine force." Lu Rong looked at her for help, "Qiu Ling, help me open the door."
Qiu Ling tried his best to open the door, but Zhou Li's demonic energy and spiritual power were rampant inside, and he had no way of breaking it open. He could only shake his head helplessly: "I can't open it."
"What should we do now?" Lu Rong was very anxious.
"Baili Dun, use Baili Dun to get in." Lu Rong looked at his wrist and found that the Baili Dun that he had worn on his right hand was gone.
She remembered that Zhou Li seemed to have held Baili Dun and wanted to leave. Could it be that Baili Dun led them into this illusion?
Lu Rong didn't have time to think about this question. She looked at the closed door and drew her sword directly: "Zhou Li, if you don't open the door, I will cut myself!"
After she finished speaking, she saw that there was no movement at the door, so she endured the pain and cut a bloody mark on her arm.
She was about to draw a second line when the door opened. Before Qiu Ling could react, Lu Rong was dragged into the house.
Lu Rong was thrown onto the bed, her body still in a daze as Zhou Li's aura enveloped her and completely submerged her.
Her arm was held by a hot palm, and the next moment, warm lips touched it.
He licked and kissed the place where she had been scratched, and the warm lips and tongue relieved the pain.
Thinking about how he had blocked her from entering the room earlier, Lu Rong was so angry that she grabbed his collar and stood up, pressing him to the edge of the bed. She glared at him fiercely, "Zhou Li! Why are you hiding from me when you're injured?"
Zhou Li's long eyelashes were covered with frost, her face was pale, and the only color on her lips was her blood. Even the breath on her body was chaotic.
"I will lose control. I can't hurt you." Zhou Li clenched his hands tightly, and even his breathing was heavy as he held it back.
Lu Rong saw the sweat rolling down his neck, soaking the hair scattered on his shoulders, making him look broken.
She couldn't bear to say anything more and just wiped the blood from his lips.
"Heal your wounds, I'll heal you." Lu Rong knew that now was not the time to be angry. "How do I heal you?"
She looked at him, but Zhou Li just gently pushed her away: "No need."
[Can't tell her that spiritual practice can heal.]
【And she won’t be willing to do spiritual practice with me.】
Lu Rong listened to his frustrated words, and angrily pressed his head down and bit his lips: "Zhou Li, I want to practice spiritual cultivation with you!"
"Don't refuse me!"
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