Chapter 44 Together - Part 2 Qi trembled with childish innocence, "You, you..."
Qi Zhi trembled with rage, "You, you are utterly shameless."
Lu Qing gave her a strange look. "What you're saying is ridiculous! My sweetheart and I are deeply in love, our relationship is pure and innocent. He's unmarried, and I'm unmarried. On the auspicious day, he will come to propose. My elders have all given their approval, so why should I feel ashamed? Or is it that you like someone you shouldn't like, and that's why you feel ashamed!"
"You!" Qi Zhi couldn't help but reach out and grab the sword.
Qi Ying immediately jumped up and grabbed Qi Zhi's right hand. "What do you want to do?"
Qi Zhi's eyes welled up with tears. "She's gone too far."
Qi Ying suppressed her anger and tried to reason with her, "You're going to hit her just because she said a few words? Besides, this girl didn't say a single wrong thing."
Qi Wu also gave Lu Qing a wink, "Do you think everyone is as outspoken as you? Apologize to them now."
After saying that, before Lu Qing could speak, Qi Wu stood up and said, "Please don't be angry, young lady. We are from a rural family and are not bound by etiquette. We have embarrassed you. I apologize on your behalf."
Qi Ying pressed Qi Zhi down to sit down and said to Qi Wu, "This lady is too polite. Actually, it was my junior sister who was rude first. Please forgive her."
Looking around, it seemed there was hardly anything interesting to watch, since the argument was so minor and both sides were rushing to apologize.
Qi Zhi glared at Lu Qing, who suddenly made a face at her. Qi Zhi snorted coldly and turned her face away, refusing to look at her.
Lawson watched as Lu Qing made a cheek-scratching gesture with her finger. Lu Qing chuckled, then glanced at Qi Zhi, who was secretly angry, and shook her head and sighed, feigning maturity.
Qi Wu reached out and tapped her, "You're still causing trouble."
Lu Qing immediately closed her eyes, yawned, and said, "I'm so tired, I'm going to sleep now." She then curled up into a ball and pretended to fall asleep.
Qi Ying actually thought Lu Qing was a nice guy despite his small stature, but unfortunately Qi Zhi wouldn't listen to anything he said. He smiled apologetically at Qi Wu and the others.
Luo Yuan quickly changed the subject and started chatting with Qi Ying.
In the middle of the night, Lu woke up. She quietly got up and went to relieve herself somewhere further away. But on her way back, she bumped into Qizhi.
Lu Qing raised an eyebrow and stopped walking.
Qi Zhi intended to walk over haughtily, but Lu Qing's words, "someone I shouldn't have liked," struck a nerve. She sneered, "A country bumpkin with a stupid woman, with your rustic talk, you dare to show off everywhere."
Lu Qing pouted, "I was just trying to comfort you, I had no ill intentions. Yet you're so fixated on it. With your narrow-mindedness, even if I were your sweetheart, I wouldn't be interested in you."
Qi Zhi retorted angrily, "How dare you! Do you know who I am?"
Lu Qing put her hands on her hips. "I don't know who you are, and I don't want to know. I only bothered you because you're pretty, and I deserve to be called shameless by you. It's your problem if you won't listen to advice, and I'm not going to say anything more. But if you want to take it out on me, hehe, even if I can't beat you, I'll have my sweetheart get revenge for me."
This self-righteous and fearless attitude provoked Qi Zhi to the point that her eyes reddened slightly, but she hadn't lost her mind after all. "There are plenty of beautiful women in this world. If your sweetheart were to turn around and see them for the first time, I wonder if you would still be able to laugh."
Lu Qing chuckled, "If looks worked for everyone, why are you so sad?"
"you!"
Lu Qing raised her chin, her long ponytail almost hitting Qi Zhi's face, and then walked away without looking back.
Qi Wu was mentally calculating the time for her return when he saw Lu Qing's spirited expression and couldn't help but smile. "What, are you arguing again?"
Lu Qing glanced at Qi Ying, who was pretending to be asleep with her eyes closed, and muttered, "It's really strange. How can two senior and junior brothers be so different?"
Qi Ying didn't know how to respond to that, so she could only continue to pretend to be asleep.
Just then, Qi Zhi let out a whistle, and Qi Ying instantly jumped up and rushed over there.
Everyone woke up with a start and jumped up, grabbing their weapons.
Not far away, Qi Ying and Qi Zhi were already fighting with something. Their two swords gleamed with a bluish-purple light in the night, making them quite beautiful.
Qi Wu glanced at Luo Yuan, who gave her a smile, and Qi Wu fell silent.
Lu Qing and Luo Sen couldn't resist craning their necks to look, asking, "What kind of demon is it? Is it powerful?"
A chilling sound came from the mud, like something walking in the mud.
Lu Qing grabbed a burning wooden stick and swung it toward the direction of the sound. In the flash of the firelight, several people could be seen crawling out of the swamp.
Luo Yuan frowned. "Why is it the Food Court?"
Lawson had never seen such a monster before, and quickly asked, "Father, what is a food pit?"
What is "食凥"?
"The Devouring Pool is a kind of demonic beast that lives in the swamps of the Western Wilderness. Originally, it resembled a large lizard with thick, armor-like skin and black, thorny hairs covering its body. It could see in the dark and liked to eat rotting corpses. The most troublesome thing about this thing is that the stronger the spiritual energy of what it eats, the faster it evolves. Look at these Devouring Pools, their upper bodies are almost humanoid. I wonder how many cultivators' corpses they have eaten."
It took Qizhi and Qiying working together to kill one of the food pits, and they could only fight their way back to their resting place.
Everyone overheard the conversation between the Luo father and son and quickly asked, "Sir, do you have a way to subdue this monster?"
Luo Yuan frowned. "This thing is thick-skinned and tough. You can cut it a few times and it won't care at all. It's very difficult to kill. However, it can only crawl on the ground."
Upon hearing this, someone immediately summoned a flying sword, jumped onto it, and flew away.
Shitang roared as it watched the cultivators leaving above.
When you're running for your life, no one dawdles. Soon, only Lu Qing and his three companions, along with Qi Ying and Qi Zhi, remained at the resting place.
Qi Ying asked curiously, "Why don't you leave, sir?"
Luo Yuan smiled, "We are physicians, good at pulse diagnosis and acupuncture, but flying on swords is really not our forte."
Qi Zhi heard this and felt a surge of satisfaction. He immediately sneered at Lu Qing.
Lu Qing rolled her eyes at her angrily.
The sounds coming from the surrounding food stalls were getting closer. Qi Ying said to Qi Zhi, "Let's each take one and help the master and his family escape danger."
Qi Zhi sneered, "Qi Ying, I have to get going. Besides, they didn't ask me for anything, so I don't have time to bother with such trivial matters. If you're willing, saving these four people would be a piece of cake for you. I'm leaving now." She gave Lu Qing a cold look, sneered, jumped onto her flying sword, and left.
"Qizhi!" Qiying roared, "When did you become so cold-blooded?"
Qi Zhi turned around and called out, "I didn't stop you from going to save them." With that, Qi Zhi left without looking back.
Qi Ying was so angry that his face turned pale, but there was a time of need, and he couldn't abandon the four of them like Qi Zhi had done. "Sir, I'll take your wife and sisters out first, and we'll come back to pick you and your son up later."
Luo Yuan smiled, "Young hero, there's no need for that. Although flying on a sword isn't our forte, we come to the Western Wilderness every year to gather herbs, so we have some means of self-defense. You should hurry and catch up with your companions."
Qi Ying was taken aback, thinking, "That's not what you meant." But looking at the four of them again, all with smiles and calm expressions, the two younger ones looking eager to try, showed no awareness of the danger they were in. "Are you sure?"
Lu Qing smiled, "Don't worry. You should hurry up and catch up with your companion. That girl's personality... is a bit too extreme."
Qi Ying blushed at her words and quickly clasped his hands in a fist salute, saying, "Then take care, everyone."
Luo Yuan clasped his hands in a fist salute, "Until we meet again."
Qi Ying quickly jumped onto her flying sword and chased after Qi Zhi.
After everyone had left.
Lu Qing drew his eyebrow ruler, while Lawson's weapon was a short pestle with a cold-looking chain attached to one end, the other end of which was fastened to his wrist.
The two men grinned maliciously as they walked toward the food stall.
The Luo couple sat down again by the fire and spoke in hushed tones.
The two enthusiastic individuals took the initiative and, after much effort, managed to stun one of the food-eating beasts. This only provoked the other food-eating beasts to become ferocious and attack them together. Before long, both of them were injured.
The glorious moment of dominating the battlefield that she had imagined was nowhere to be seen, and Lu Qing was so anxious that she jumped up and down, "Sister, brother-in-law, come and help quickly."
Luo Yuan wasn't in a hurry at all. He raised his voice and said, "Your sister and I are both tired. We don't have the energy to fight anymore. Weren't you guys quite confident just now? Put in a little effort, and we'll take care of it in no time."
"No, Dad, this thing is too tough!" Lawson was also getting anxious. It was more than just thick-skinned; when he smashed down with his pestle, the food pit would only tremble slightly, retreat a little, and then quickly pounce back.
Luo Yuan remained calm and unhurried. "There's nothing we can do about it. It's your own fault for not considering the strength of your opponent before you made your move. Next time you want to make a move, you should consider whether you can defeat them. You started the game, so you have to figure out how to clean it up yourself. How can we always clean up your messes?"
"Brother-in-law, how could you betray even your own people?" Lu Qing was on the verge of tears.
Luo Yuan and Qi Wu exchanged a glance and chuckled. "I only said I could protect myself, but I never said I could kill these food pits."
These two kids, after winning a fight against a few petty thieves, have become a bit arrogant. Kids need to learn from their mistakes early on, lest they get too cocky.
Seeing that the two were calmly drinking tea and showed no intention of helping, Lu Qing and Luo Sen had no choice but to suppress their playful mood and treat these food stalls as real opponents.
They had never encountered such an opponent before. Against petty thieves, they could use tricks and a bit of charades to scare them away. But the Gourmet King didn't understand human speech; it was ferocious and bloodthirsty, determined to tear them apart for its own consumption, and knew nothing of compromise. Those gaping maws and sharp claws—even a slight blow from them was truly painful.
The two dared not try any more tricks and used all their strength. When they finally finished off the group of food pits, they collapsed by the fire, too exhausted to even move a finger.
Luo Yuan and Qi Wu treated their wounds, not forgetting to tease them, "Young heroes, you have won a great victory. You must continue your efforts and maintain your undefeated record so that you can become famous throughout the world as soon as possible."
Having learned their lesson and suffered enough, Lu Qing and Luo Sen were speechless. Since they had nothing to say, they simply went to sleep.
After they fell asleep, the sound of food shoals came from the surrounding swamp again.
Luo Yuan let out a low roar, and the food-eating creatures were so frightened that they turned tail and ran, disappearing into the depths of the swamp and never daring to show themselves again.
Qi Wu chuckled, seemingly finding it quite amusing.
The two people, fast asleep, had no idea what had happened.
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