Dark clouds covered the moon, and the ground beneath their feet was shaking. Xihe was dragged by Shaoheng towards the official road with great difficulty. A sharp whistle came from behind him. He turned around and his pupils shrank. A huge, ferocious black shadow howled towards the sky, and countless birds and beasts fled in all directions under the sky.
Xihe's face turned pale, and he held the boy's hand tightly: "Shaoheng..."
The old woman looked back when she heard the sound, and her face changed instantly: "Oh my God!" She ran wildly with the chicken in her arms. Her two thin legs ran faster than them, and the distance between them was instantly widened.
Shao Heng glanced at her quickly, his face grim: "Don't look back." He grabbed her tightly and ran.
Xihe turned back as he ran. It was a huge, crimson-colored, mutated Eastern bell-toad. It screamed and immediately fixed its crimson eyes on the fleeing beast.
With a roll of its long tongue, the running rhinoceros was immediately pulled into its mouth.
Xihe gasped. How could such a monster exist in Tianning Mountain? This size definitely didn't grow in a short period of time.
In her previous life, the original owner returned home early and then went to the immortal sect to practice. Seeing that his daughter was so promising, Mr. Hua also took his family with him. He had no memory of this at all. Shao Heng had his dantian dug out and his cramps and veins pulled out in the plot, and he knew nothing about it.
She gritted her teeth secretly. What were these immortal sects doing? They actually let this monster grow so big under their noses!
At this moment, the toad that had swallowed more than a dozen wild boars and goats turned its gaze to the official road. Seeing Xihe and the other two, its eyes lit up, and it moved its huge body, causing the ground to shake with every step, and soon it was right in front of them.
Xihe yelled "Fuck" and frantically urged his spiritual power - now he didn't care whether he would be exposed or not, he just wanted to survive first and talk about other things later. However, this urge made him spit out a mouthful of blood!
Shao Heng was so frightened that his heart and liver were broken. He hurriedly hugged her and said, "Miss! What's wrong with you?"
Xihe almost vomited blood. She never expected that her heart, which had been calm all this time, would suddenly riot the moment spiritual power came in!
She devoured spiritual energy crazily, and wherever her veins passed, they became broken roads.
Xihe pushed Shaoheng: "...you should leave quickly."
Anyway, she won't die, but if Shao Heng dies because she changes the plot, the Heavenly Dao of this world will fight her to the death.
How could Shao Heng leave her here alone? He hugged her tightly, and even when the toad was close at hand, he didn't turn around. He smiled, although it was very ugly: "Miss, I'm sorry, it's all my fault. If you hadn't saved me, you wouldn't have been injured and suffered all these things."
"Miss, in my next life, I want to stay by your side from the beginning, okay?"
His eyes were gentle, and he looked ready to die as he said his final goodbye to her.
Xihe: ...I can’t help but be moved.
"Okay," she said.
Shaoheng hugged her and closed his eyes.
The toad's foul-smelling tongue curled towards them—
"How dare you, you evil creature!"
A clear sword light came from the air and hit the toad.
Feeling a pain in its tongue, the toad subconsciously retracted its tongue, its eyes glaring at the culprit with anger - in mid-air, two blue-robed monks had their sleeves flying and flying swords under their feet.
Xihe paused with his fingertips, and the slightly distorted space under his palm collapsed in an instant.
Shao Heng was also stunned and looked up at the immortal in the night sky.
The bearded monk had already started fighting with the toad. The unrestrained young swordsman immediately said to them, "We are monks from the Lingshan Sect. We cannot stay here for long when a monster appears. Please leave quickly!"
After saying that, a rainbow light flashed and he went to help his senior brother.
The toad actually had some tricks up its sleeve. The slime it sprayed landed on the grass, emitting a toxic cloud of smoke. Fortunately, both of them were Foundation Establishment cultivators, so dealing with a late-stage second-order spirit was no problem.
At the same time, two monks and a monster fought, causing huge rocks to roll and dust to fly, which shocked the mortals.
Shao Heng stared blankly for a long while, then retracted his gaze and helped Xi He up: "Let's go."
The sky was dark, and the trees on both sides were deep and gloomy. Shao Heng ran with Xi He on his back. Along the way, there were people from the town fleeing with their families. Everyone felt the earthquake and was so scared that they packed up and ran away.
After an unknown amount of time, the sky gradually brightened and they finally arrived at a town two towns away from Tianning Mountain.
Everyone was exhausted and sat down on the ground, panting and discussing what had happened.
"Oh, now that I think of it, I always feel like the ground is shaking for a while every year. I wonder if this earthquake is the one!"
"Now that you mention it, it's true. I remember when I was pregnant two years ago, I was standing perfectly still, but suddenly I swayed and almost dropped my little baby."
"Oh, this is too scary. It seems I can't live in Tianning Mountain anymore. I have to go to my cousin in Yunzhou."
Finally, they all decided to leave here and make a living somewhere else.
Shao Heng carefully fed Xi He some water, wiped the corners of her mouth, and said softly, "Miss, let's go back to Yunzhou. You'll be fine once we get home."
Xihe nodded and looked at her arms tied with wooden sticks. She was truly disabled now. Not only did she suffer internal injuries, but when the toad was about to roll over them last night, she was already prepared to give it the final blow.
Before she could make a move, a cultivator from Lingshan Sect suddenly appeared, so she didn't die, but her hand was crippled.
Shao Heng also looked at her hands, his lips tightly pursed, his eyes full of sorrow and regret. It was all his fault.
After deciding to leave, Shao Heng found a flatbed cart, bought a donkey and a quilt, and got on the cart with Xihe in his arms. Just as he was about to leave, the old woman grabbed the cart and insisted on following him: "Look at how old I am. If something happens on the way, you will be so guilty...blah blah blah."
This old woman is extremely lucky. Despite the dangerous situation last night, she managed to escape here safely.
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