Lu Qingyan's body temperature rose higher and higher, and she became increasingly confused. The summer forest was especially cool at night, but Lu Qingyan burned like a ball of fire, curled up in the grass.
A flash of white light appeared, and Xi Bo appeared there. He looked at Lu Qingyan, who was delirious with fever, with a gloomy gaze, and held her in his arms.
"I'm not not by your side now, why do you have to be so stubborn all by yourself?" Xi Bo felt very sorry for Lu Qingyan, but his first words were somewhat reproachful.
“I don’t know what the future holds, but I’m here for you now. You can rely on me completely whenever you want to.”
He wanted her to become stronger, because he couldn't always be by her side or protect her immediately. Therefore, Lu Qingyan needed to have the ability to protect herself.
There are many ways for a person to grow, the fastest being through bloodshed, but Xi Bo did not want Lu Qingyan to suffer even the slightest harm.
This idea may seem contradictory, but these are his true feelings.
Lu Qingyan couldn't hear Xi Bo's murmurs. She was feeling unbearably hot. When Xi Bo hugged her, she felt a cool breeze around her, which made her want to get closer.
She strained with all her might to get closer to that cool sensation, her chapped lips pressed against his thin face, then moved to his lips.
The moment they came close, Xi Bo felt a jolt of electricity run through him. His heart was pounding so hard he almost wanted to jump out and run away somewhere.
"Xin'er, do you know what you're doing right now?" Xi Bo asked Lu Qingyan in a hoarse voice, his eyes blazing with anger.
"So cool, so sweet." Lu Qingyan smiled dreamily, not hearing what he was saying at all. As she smiled, she showed her teeth, wanting to take a bite of Xi Bo.
"Xin'er!" Xi Bo exclaimed in surprise, quickly knocking the person unconscious.
Lu Qingyan's current appearance clearly indicates that she is not normal, as if she has been poisoned by some evil spirit and wants to suck human blood.
He felt a lingering fear. If he hadn't seen her like this and had let her bite him, they would both be dead. He still didn't know who wanted to kill him.
He looked back. In the moonlight, a large, sharply defined rock emitted an eerie glow.
This mountain is Phoenix Mountain, said to have been transformed from a dead divine beast, the phoenix. For thousands of years, this mountain has been rich in spiritual energy, a gathering place for cultivators, and such evil creatures have never appeared before. It seems that someone deliberately tampered with it.
Although we don't know what that person's purpose was, someone who could use such an evil object was definitely not a good person.
If we can't find that person, we don't know who else will suffer such harm in the future.
Xi Bo waved the wide sleeves of his Taoist robe, and the stone turned to dust and vanished.
Under a bright moon and sparse stars, Xi Bo carried Lu Qingyan to a pool on the mountain.
The area around the pool was rich in spiritual energy, especially the water itself, which was shrouded in a thin mist, giving it an ethereal feel. Xi Bo bent down and scooped up a handful of water to wash Lu Qingyan's leg wound. After looking around, he bent down and carefully searched for something in the grass beside the pool.
Xi Bo reached out and parted the dense grass, tapping the ground a few times. Suddenly, a glowing cave appeared before him, but Xi Bo was not surprised at all.
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