Chapter 193 Misty Rain Pavilion (Twenty-One)
A warm feeling gradually filled the cave. The pills he had taken were finally starting to take effect. Although the jade bracelet could not be opened, it was constantly repairing his primordial spirit. His bones were gradually being covered by new flesh, and Jiang Gu finally had a bit more strength.
Wei Feng had already fallen asleep next to him, but his long legs and feet insisted on curling up in the corner between him and the cave wall, his hands still tightly gripping his sleeve, his face covered in ash, like a little spirit beast that had fallen into ashes and rolled around.
Jiang Gu stared at him for a moment, then reached out and wiped the dust off his face.
Perhaps he caught a whiff of his scent, for Wei Feng mumbled "Master" indistinctly before falling asleep again.
Jiang Gu initially tried to stay awake, but perhaps because the cave was too warm, or perhaps because his body desperately needed rest, he unexpectedly fell asleep.
He had a rare dream.
Thick fog filled the dream. He seemed to be searching for something. He wasn't in a great hurry, but he was definitely concerned. He knew the other person should be nearby, but he couldn't find them.
"Immortal Lord... Little Immortal Lord... It's time to go..."
"Wait a little longer," he said.
"We can't wait any longer... What are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for..." Jiang Gu only got halfway through his sentence before he heard himself say, "Never mind."
A slight sense of disappointment welled up inside him. He wanted to turn back and take another look, but then felt it was unnecessary.
A sharp, piercing whistle suddenly came from behind him. He turned around expectantly, only to be met with an endless expanse of black mist.
Jiang Gu suddenly opened his eyes, and in front of him was Wei Feng's handsome face magnified. "What are you doing?"
Wei Feng tried to remain calm, his lips were unnaturally red, and he subconsciously pursed them. "I didn't do anything."
A faint stinging sensation on his lips, as if something sharp had been grinding against them, made Jiang Gu slowly narrow his eyes. "Tell the truth."
Wei Feng looked at him with a pitiful expression and said softly, "Master, I was wrong."
One hour ago.
Wei Feng didn't sleep well; his body ached terribly. He was forced to open his eyes and saw Jiang Gu sleeping soundly. He carefully touched Jiang Gu's hand, which was icy cold. So he simply pulled Jiang Gu back into his arms and became a proper pillow for him.
Jiang Gu was too badly injured to be awakened by his movements. He swore that he had no wicked intentions at first.
Time seemed to drag on endlessly. As he looked at Jiang Gu, he inexplicably began to count how many times they had held hands, kissed, and shared a spiritual connection. He couldn't help but recall the moments and feelings they had shared. As he thought about it, his mind began to wander. Jiang Gu's sneer at the end of the night felt like a feather constantly scratching at his reason, and his instincts were urging him to put his thoughts into practice. He struggled with himself for a long time before finally calming down the overwhelming desire.
But Jiang Gu was right in his arms, his faint breath everywhere, making every moment an ordeal for him. He lowered his eyes to stare at Jiang Gu, then leaned in and gently kissed his cheek.
"I'll just kiss you once," he told himself silently.
He nervously observed Jiang Gu's reaction, and finding that he was still asleep, he boldly kissed him a second time... By the time he realized what was happening, he had already kissed Jiang Gu, and only when Jiang Gu frowned and groaned did he open his eyes as if waking from a dream.
Now, Wei Feng stared at Jiang Gu's reddened lips, his face showing a docile and apologetic expression, but in his heart he was thinking that if he had known he would be discovered, he might as well have kissed her to his heart's content.
Jiang Gu was amused and annoyed by his unrepentant attitude. "Taking advantage of someone in distress, Wei Linming, is this how I taught you?"
Wei Feng felt a chill run down his spine when he heard him call him by his full name. He instinctively straightened his back and argued, "But you also taught me that if I want something, I have to fight for it and grab it, otherwise I won't get anything."
Jiang Gu's face darkened. "You dare to talk back?"
Wei Feng shuddered and softened his voice, saying, "Master, don't be angry. My saliva can also heal wounds. Relying on those pills to help flesh and blood grow is too slow. Look, your external injuries have already healed."
"Nonsense! This flesh and blood was already—" Jiang Gu's voice stopped abruptly. His face turned pale, then green, then black, and his voice was so cold it seemed like he wanted to kill someone. "What did you do while I was unconscious?"
Wei Feng's fair face instantly turned bright red.
Jiang Gu suddenly understood why Wei Feng blushed when he met his gaze as soon as he woke up. He had thought it was because the guy was ashamed of his stupidity, but it turned out that it was because this scoundrel had been disrespectful and had secretly treated his injuries, even pretending to be a respectable person in an attempt to deceive him.
"Master, please don't be angry." Wei Feng's ears were so red they looked like they were about to bleed. He explained in a panic, "Those hemostatic talismans couldn't stop the bleeding from your body at all. I... I really couldn't think of any other way. I thought my saliva could heal external injuries, so I... I resorted to this desperate measure. Besides, I didn't look or touch anything inappropriate."
Jiang Gu had too many wounds, so he quietly kissed them all and even covered his eyes.
Jiang Gu laughed angrily, "Is the Heavenly Pool water in my storage bag just for show?"
"I've tried, but I don't have spiritual power, so I can't activate it," Wei Feng said, feeling aggrieved.
Jiang Gu was caught off guard and choked on his words.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Wei Feng became even more uneasy. He cautiously raised his head, tears welling up in his eyes. "As long as Master's injuries can heal faster, I'm willing to endure any beatings or scoldings."
Jiang Gu gave him a disapproving look. Wei Feng usually pretended to be well-behaved and pitiful, but he had done a lot of things that were disrespectful and rebellious. Deep down, he was an unruly and willful scoundrel.
"Get lost." Jiang Gu said succinctly.
Wei Feng's tears fell in a flash. He didn't say anything, just kept crying. He still had one arm around Jiang Gu's waist and wouldn't let go. When he cried, he really cried. His tears fell like beads from a broken string. His whole body was shaking. Jiang Gu could even feel the vibrations coming from behind him when he sobbed.
"Stop crying," he said, his head aching.
Wei Feng rubbed his eyes haphazardly and said in a hoarse voice, "Master, my feelings for you are impure. You've hit me and scolded me, but I just can't control myself. But even so, I would never take advantage of you to hurt you. I really just licked your wounds to heal you, and when I kissed you just now, I was trying to transfer the love poison in my saliva back to you. Then I couldn't help but gently bite you..."
He became increasingly aggrieved as he spoke, his words filled with nothing but kisses and licking, his foul language making Jiang Gu's forehead veins throb. "Shut up."
Wei Feng immediately stopped talking, staring at him intently with a face full of guilt and self-reproach.
But his sharp eyes caught a glimpse of a faint blush on Jiang Gu's ears, and his eyes lit up instantly, the bitterness of being caught red-handed vanishing in an instant.
However, Jiang Gu's aura was too low, so he didn't dare to be too presumptuous. He could only reluctantly pull his arm away, find a place in the cave that was far away from Jiang Gu, and consciously kneel down to face the wall and reflect on his mistakes.
The firewood in the cave gradually turned to ashes, the flames slowly died down, and the faint morning light shone in through the cracks in the cave.
Jiang Gu's external injuries have mostly healed, with only a few serious ones remaining. His lower back and shoulders are still healing slowly, but he can now barely stand up by holding onto the cave wall.
"Master!" Sensing the movement behind him, Wei Feng turned around abruptly and tried to get up, but was stopped in his tracks by a cold glare from Jiang Gu.
He knelt down dejectedly, but turned to face Jiang Gu instead, saying worriedly, "Master, please walk slowly, the wound on your thigh is so deep—"
Realizing he had said the wrong thing, he immediately shut his mouth guiltily, but his eyes were glued to Jiang Gu, as if afraid that Jiang Gu would drop him.
Jiang Gu was enraged by his gaze and said in a deep voice, "If you look at me again, I'll gouge your eyes out."
After saying this, the two fell silent, clearly recalling the memory of someone in the illusion where someone's eyes were gouged out.
Wei Feng whispered, "I'll give it to you if you dig it, Master."
"..." Jiang Gu ignored him, walked to the cave entrance, lifted the windproof magic treasure, and repositioned the concealment talismans that he had pasted on messily.
Wei Feng couldn't hold back any longer. He got up from the ground and limped to the cave entrance to help Jiang Gu put on the talisman. Taking advantage of his height, he stretched out his arm from behind Jiang Gu, peeled off the highest talisman, and handed it to him eagerly. With his other hand, he loosely supported Jiang Gu's waist, afraid that he would fall.
"Align it perfectly with the one next to it," Jiang Gu said coldly.
Wei Feng immediately complied.
While he was affixing the talisman, Jiang Gu turned to look at his surroundings, took out a palm-sized compass from his storage bag, squinted at the sun overhead, and then took out some magical artifacts that Wei Feng couldn't understand from his storage bag, and began to deduce them.
Wei Feng couldn't understand it; the more he looked, the more confused he became, so he could only secretly memorize it.
"If we encounter this situation again in the future, and we lose all our magical powers and are unable to determine our location, we will use this method of deduction and positioning." Jiang Gu slowed down his movements to teach him, "but this algorithm has a large margin of error."
After he finished his demonstration, seeing that Wei Feng was listening attentively, he switched to a more time-consuming method of deduction. "This method requires the use of blood, but it is time-consuming, complex, and not suitable for situations where time is tight."
Wei Feng nodded repeatedly.
"You can do the rest." Jiang Gu handed him the magical artifact.
Wei Feng nervously took it and began to deduce the problem, beads of sweat appearing on his nose.
"Wrong, start over."
"Wrong again, let's try again."
After several unsuccessful attempts, Wei Feng grew anxious, but Jiang Gu remained calm. He grasped Wei Feng's sweaty hand and said, "Calm down, let's deduce the Heavenly Vein first."
Jiang Gu guided him step by step to begin the deduction. Wei Feng finally grasped the mystery and quickly became proficient. Half an hour later, looking at the deduction results in front of him, he felt relieved. "Master, we should now be about eight thousand miles northwest of the Fuquan Ancient Temple."
"Hmm." Jiang Gu nodded. "It's acceptable."
Wei Feng wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Should we continue northwest?"
The Fuquan Ancient Temple is theoretically the most recently discovered temple, and the vast western area is still unexplored. Generally speaking, the further west they go, the safer they should be.
“No, head southeast.” Jiang Gu did the opposite. “The northwest is full of unexplored ancient secret realms and temples. We have lost all our cultivation. If we go there rashly, our lives will be in danger. It is relatively safer to go back.”
Wei Feng asked, "Back to the Heaven and Earth Pavilion?"
“No, we are now closer to the city where the Tower of Life and Death is located,” Jiang Gu said.
Upon hearing the name "Life and Death Tower," Wei Feng subconsciously frowned.
“You’re most familiar with the Tower of Life and Death, so it will be easier for us to infiltrate,” Jiang Gu said in a deep voice. “It’s a mixed bag there, perfect for hiding our identities.”
“Okay.” Although Wei Feng loathed the Tower of Life and Death, he understood that this must be the result of Jiang Gu’s careful consideration.
"We'll rest for three more days and then set off," Jiang Gu said.
Having finalized the plan, Jiang Gu entered the cave without looking back. Wei Feng hurriedly followed, but was refused when he tried to sit down next to Jiang Gu. "Go to the other side."
Wei Feng was naturally unhappy and said aggrievedly, "Haven't we already made up?"
"Do you think this is a three-year-old playing house?" Jiang Gu's face turned cold.
Wei Feng clung to him, refusing to let go, "Master, it's cold and dark at night, I'm scared."
That was pure nonsense. The cave was bright and warm at night with firewood burning and the wind blocking it, making it more comfortable than during the day. But he was good at lying through his teeth. Taking advantage of the fact that Jiang Gu didn't have much strength to beat him up, he shamelessly sat down next to him.
Jiang Gu was too lazy to pay attention to him anymore and began to think of ways to recover his cultivation as soon as possible.
Wei Feng had no choice but to calm down and try to mobilize his spiritual power. The wound on his primordial spirit instantly hurt even more. As darkness fell outside the cave, he actually managed to circulate some spiritual power, at least enough to stop him from freezing. Suddenly, a strange aura came, and he abruptly opened his eyes, got up, walked to the cave entrance, and squinted to look outside.
A spirit beast about three zhang tall was limping towards them, its body covered in wounds from its hoarse cries. Wei Feng raised an eyebrow, threw a soundproof shield at Jiang Gu, grabbed the broadsword he used to chop wood at the cave entrance, and left the cave.
Before long, the roars of the spirit beasts echoed through the sky.
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Jiang Gu was repairing the wounds on his meridians when he suddenly smelled a very faint scent of blood. He opened his eyes and saw Wei Feng standing shirtless with his back to him. Several bloody claw marks were visible on his lean waist, and his pants were torn. He seemed to be chewing something. When he noticed Jiang Gu's gaze, he turned around abruptly, the fierce glint in his eyes still lingering.
"Master, you're awake?" He swallowed the meat in his mouth, licked the blood off his lips, threw the bone in his hand aside, casually wiped his hands on his pants, took out a golden spirit beast core from the fire, and presented it to Jiang Gu's mouth like a treasure.
Jiang Gu frowned slightly at the smell of blood on him.
"This is the inner core of a metal-attribute spirit beast. Its cultivation level seems quite high. Master, if you refine this inner core, it will be of some use. I'll find you more tomorrow." He held it to Jiang Gu's mouth again, his face full of anticipation.
Jiang Gu looked at him, reached out and took the inner core. It was indeed full of spiritual energy, but his gaze fell on Wei Feng's bright red lips. "What were you eating just now?"
Wei Feng licked his lips with lingering satisfaction, "The meat of that spirit beast was quite delicious and very nourishing."
“…Then it should be roasted and eaten.” Jiang Gu frowned even more deeply.
"I'm hungry." Wei Feng touched his nose somewhat embarrassedly. If Jiang Gu hadn't been the other person in the cave, he would have swallowed him whole last night.
"Don't stuff all sorts of random things into your mouth." Jiang Gu split the Yuan Dan in two and threw one half to him.
Wei Feng caught it, his gaze still tinged with lingering lust. His once bright eyes now held a deep, aggressive intensity. He chuckled hoarsely, "I'll listen to you."
He stared at Jiang Gu, then stuck out a long, forked tongue and slowly licked the half of the golden Yuan Dan.
Jiang Gu inexplicably recalled how his injuries had been healed, and looked away with a sense of unease and discomfort.
Little beast.
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