After seeing Xiu Luo off, Xie Wei returned to Li Ning's room.
Xu Daiwei had been taking care of him for quite a while. Xie Wei hugged her and buried his head in her hair.
"Go to sleep, I'll take care of things here," Xie Wei said softly, inhaling the fragrance of her hair.
Xu Daiwei looked at Xie Wei with a smile and kissed the corner of his mouth. "Looks like I'll be adding another sister to my circle."
...
It was already midnight when Li Ning woke up.
Looking at the room, which felt both familiar and strange, her first thought was, 'How did I get here?'
Then he saw a young man sitting to the side cultivating under the moonlight, vaguely showing signs of breaking through to the mortal realm, and subconsciously thought, 'Looks like I'm dreaming again.'
"Hiss~" Just as she was about to make a move, the pain throughout her body was already being transmitted to her brain, forcing her to let out a sound of pain.
'Oh, this isn't a dream, I'm already at Xie Wei's house,' the girl realized with a clear mind due to the pain.
Upon hearing the noise, Xie Wei immediately stopped cultivating and opened his eyes to see the girl staring blankly at him.
"Awake?" Their eyes met, and Xie Wei walked to her side and asked in a low voice.
Feeling the long-lost tenderness, Li Ning shyly pulled up the blanket to cover her nose and eyes, and for a moment forgot how to answer Xie Wei, so she could only nod repeatedly.
Xie Wei was amused by the girl's actions.
The girl gently punched Xie Wei and softly asked, "Are you... alright?"
"What could possibly happen to someone as strong as me?"
"It's alright...that's good. You suddenly disappeared...it's not...you." The girl seemed very happy, forgetting the pain she had just felt.
"Yes, as agreed, I'll wait for you here."
With tears welling up in her eyes, she took out the item from her storage ring—a black stone that could be held in one hand.
"This... is for you," the girl said, handing it to Xie Wei like a treasure, her eyes sparkling as she looked at him.
'This is why Li Ning went to great lengths in the end.' He reached out and took the stone, and was surprised to find that it was a storage stone.
Storage stones are one of the raw materials that can be used to build storage artifacts. I've only ever heard of storage stones in stories. It's said that they were destroyed in a war thousands of years ago.
The piece in Xie Wei's hand is so large that it can be considered a rare treasure.
Unlike the spirit stones Xie Wei obtained at the auction, the storage stone is isolated by spiritual energy inside, and can truly function as a storage stone.
Almost all storage artifacts in the world are found in ruins.
While storage artifacts are the most practical among all artifacts, most ordinary cultivators' first reaction upon acquiring one is to sell it on the dark web.
Storage artifacts are the most convenient way for assassins to hide their weapons, and assassins or assassin organizations on the dark web will generally offer high prices to bid for them.
Most of the storage artifacts in the mortal world have fallen into the hands of the underworld.
The most common, convenient, and least material-intensive storage artifact is the storage ring, but its drawback is that it has a small space, less than ten cubic meters, and can store small and few items.
There is a solution, though. By refining and compressing ten 10-cubic-meter storage stones using a special method, one can obtain a 100-cubic-meter storage stone, just like the one in Shura's hand.
However, nowadays, not only has the technique of compression disappeared, but even the skill of refining storage stones into spiritual energy has vanished with the tide of time.
However, this is not a problem for Xie Wei, because he has Xie Lan, hehe.
Xie Wei looked at the girl, whose eyes were full of expectation, as if she was waiting for Xie Wei's praise.
Xie Wei patted Li Ning's head, and the girl seemed to enjoy it, her eyes narrowing with a happy expression.
"Your last mission was for this?" Xie Wei gripped the stone tightly, looking at Li Ning with indescribable emotions in his eyes.
"You...you knew everything?" A hint of panic flashed in Li Ning's eyes as she lowered her head. "It...it works for you...I think, and...I want to be with you...with you."
She saw a protection mission on the dark web. It was for a merchant from the Gem Kingdom who came to another country to do business, but just then a war broke out. All his bodyguards were killed, and he wanted someone to protect him so he could return to his country.
The price offered was extremely high, and since people on the dark web only kill, and it was about protecting people during a war, which might backfire, virtually no one would take the offer.
Li Ning wasn't interested at first, but when she saw the target's photo, which was taken at home, she noticed a stone on the left side of the photo that looked very similar to the one on her storage ring.
Thinking back to those soap operas I'd seen at Xie Wei's house, it seemed like two people needed a gemstone to stay together.
Li Ning had always wanted to find the best gemstone in the world to give to Xie Wei, but she couldn't distinguish the different types of gemstones. However, the one in the photo must be unique, and it would be perfect to give to him.
She accepted the task and made an agreement with the merchant that she would receive the gem as payment after sending him back.
The mission was indeed very difficult. They were once considered to be the ones being chased, and they hadn't had time to heal the old injuries from previous missions. In addition, there were many cultivators among their opponents, so it was a matter of life and death.
Fortunately, Li Ning broke through to the mid-stage of the Innate Realm at the critical moment, and managed to kill all the pursuers despite his physical limitations, thus escaping death.
In the end, as agreed, I received the gem.
On the way back to the underworld, I heard people there say that the third young master of the Xie family in the capital of the Dragon Kingdom fought against the famous four-person modification group on the dark web. Although he won in the end, he was still seriously injured.
My dear reader, there's more to this chapter! Please click the next page to continue reading—even more exciting content awaits!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
