My wrist hurts a little because it's not one of my kind.
"Dad, what are you eating?"
The bright moon shone on a vast lake deep in the forest.
The lake surface resembled a sacred silver plate, reflecting the boundless night.
Yu Xiaoyu watched the fishing line remain motionless, then devoured a bowl of fish soup porridge given to her by a fellow angler, while the small fire at her feet swayed in the wind.
Upon hearing his two-year-old son ask this question, he replied without looking up, "Shit."
The child, smelling the aroma, drooled and soaked his clothes, then snuggled into his father's arm.
Looking at the delicious-looking food in his bowl, she said innocently and longingly, "Dad, I want to eat shit too."
Yu Xiaoyu slurped up a mouthful of fish soup, impatiently pushed him away, and said:
"Your good days are yet to come. I'm so much older than you, and I'll die before you. The good stuff has to be given to me first, you know?"
The child, unable to hide his longing, said with drooling, "Oh... Dad, our mice are sick."
Yu Xiaoyu: "Huh? The rat is sick?"
"Um."
The child stared longingly at the bowl of fish soup, his bright eyes shining even brighter than the silver longevity lock around his neck.
"Mom said she'd buy rat poison for me."
Knowing that her son was young and had mistaken rat poison for medicine to cure rats, Yu Xiaoyu couldn't help but laugh and said, "Alright, alright, when I catch some fish tonight, I'll go back and see if the rats in the house are better after taking the medicine."
The child said, "Mother said she bought it for you to try first. If you eat it and your illness is cured, then we'll give it to the mice."
Yu Xiaoyu felt a chill in his heart.
He just likes fishing, but his wife said such harsh things to him in private, and even said them in front of their son. What if this corrupts his son?
If his wife hadn't angrily gone back to her parents' home because she disliked his fishing and left the child with him, he wouldn't have brought his son to this remote mountain forest to guard their home.
It's been a whole day and not a single fish has taken the bait. He's unwilling to go back and strongly suspects that the fish are afraid to bite at night because he wants to see the fire his son has lit.
After he finished eating the fish soup, he took out a small pot of goat milk from the small fish basket next to him, heated it over the fire, poured it into a bowl, and then soaked a soft sweet cake that he had specially bought that day into it.
Take a small wooden spoon, hold the child in your arms with one arm and feed him goat milk bread, blowing on the food in the spoon while keeping your eyes on the mirror-like calm lake surface.
At that time, all around was quiet, with only the chirping of insects.
The little boy ate his slightly sweet soup obediently, while blinking his big, dark eyes at the lake.
Suddenly, I caught a glimpse of a golden light flashing across the deep, silvery surface of the water.
Yu Xiaoyu saw it too, and instantly held her breath, staring intently at the lake.
Judging from its shimmering scales, it might be an extremely rare large golden carp.
He threw in a lot of fish food, and several earthworms were hanging on the hook. At this point, he suddenly wondered if he had put in too little.
If he could catch this golden carp, he would naturally show it off in town for ten or more days.
Thinking of the astonished looks and expressions on everyone's faces, Yu Xiaoyu felt a surge of excitement rush to her head, almost blowing her head off.
Yes, we still need to take it to Grandpa's grave and show it to him.
Ever since he caught a big grass carp with his rod when he was four years old, the old man would take him fishing every time he went fishing, and proudly told him about this glorious feat for decades.
Tonight, he's going to let everyone know who the most gifted angler in Tai'an Town is! Who is the true fishing saint!
Another flash of golden light appeared.
With a solemn expression, Yu Xiaoyu placed her son aside, cupped her hands around the fishing rod at her feet, and stared intently at the fishing line.
Three golden lights flashed by.
Yu Xiaoyu was so excited that her heart was about to explode.
The luster of its scales is so captivating even underwater in the moonlight; I can only imagine how beautiful this giant golden carp must be.
The fishing rod suddenly trembled violently.
Now!
With quick eyes and hands, Yu Xiaoyu yanked the fishing rod and pulled it slowly and forcefully towards the shore, dragging the large golden carp in the water.
Suddenly, a golden light leaped out of the water, and the thick, vine-like golden mist shook off the lake water on its body.
More golden mist emerged from the water, densely churning beneath the surface and growing wildly under the moonlight.
Upon seeing this, Yu Xiaoyu's heart tightened and her legs went weak.
He's caught all sorts of things: shoes, wooden spoons, clothes, corpses.
This is the first time I've encountered a swarm of snakes that has almost filled half the lake!
Judging by the scene, could it be a snake demon passing through?
Under the bright moonlight, the others who were night fishing around the lake all gasped in surprise. Someone shouted, "Run! There's a swarm of snakes!"
The echoes drifted back and forth, and Yu Xiaoyu instantly snapped out of her daze. She immediately dropped her fishing rod, picked up her son, and ran out of the mountains.
But it's human nature to keep looking back to check what's behind us when we're in danger.
Yu Xiaoyu swiftly swung her legs across the tall grass, quickly glancing back.
Under the moonlight, two people appeared to emerge from the lake bottom from the golden snakes and hang on the water's surface, their fates unknown.
Yu Xiaoyu's heart sank, and she thought to herself, "A bunch of demons, they actually dared to come to the human race to eat people. If we don't find someone to exorcise them, the people in the town at the foot of the mountain will probably be eaten up."
Pei Xuanzhi watched the fishermen fleeing in all directions, but because he had absorbed the Thousand Year Seed, he was unable to retract his divine soul golden mist for the time being.
He then carried Yan Huanyue onto the lakeside table, dragging a menacing golden mist as they disappeared into the mountains in the opposite direction from where the others had fled.
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Yan Huanyue never expected that she could regain her five senses after her soul was scattered.
The spiritual energy circulated within my body. The sound of the wind rustling through the forest, along with the chirping of insects and the soft flapping of birds' wings, came from afar, hazy yet increasingly clear.
A hoarse caw pierced the ripples on the water, seeped through the cracks in the window, and reached her ears. She suddenly opened her eyes.
The bird of reincarnation grieves for death and weeps for life.
She stared blankly at the beams of moonlight streaming through the windows, the dilapidated house exuding the stifling atmosphere characteristic of old mud-brick houses.
The clothes she was wearing didn't seem to be the same ones she wore in the Ghost Market, but she couldn't quite remember where she was.
She heard a rustling sound and squinted warily toward the source of the sound.
Seeing Pei Xuanzhi kneeling at her feet with the moonlight behind him, holding her feet in his arms, grasping her ankles and massaging her calves, several golden wisps of mist mimicked his attentive help.
Yan Huanyue slowly turned her head and lay back down in her original position, somewhat dazed.
Could he escape from the ley lines? Even if she found the gap connecting the ley lines to the secret realm, how could she possibly solve it?
"Huanyue, can you feel your feet now?"
He noticed she had woken up, so he knelt up and leaned forward slightly.
A shadow rolled in like a tide, engulfing her chest.
Yan Huanyue's face was bathed in moonlight, her body hidden in his shadow. She looked at him expressionlessly and said softly, "Has the molten gold formation within the Ghost Market been broken?"
Pei Xuanzhi held her foot in his sleeve and gently kneaded it, saying casually, "Yes, it's broken. No one died there because of the formation."
Yan Huanyue asked, "Where are we now?"
Pei Xuanzhi coughed for a while and said, "If you come out of the Ghost Market through another exit, you should be near Xiling."
The ghost market has another exit?
Yan Huanyue looked at the outline of his face hidden in the shadows, her voice slightly cool, "It seems you really are a master of disguise."
Pei Xuanzhi stopped what he was doing, remained silent for a long time, and then said in a low voice, "I... only used some golden mist. Their range is wider than mine."
Upon being praised, Jinwu immediately shook his head and leaned heavily on her shoulder, eager to claim credit.
Yan Huanyue wouldn't believe him even if she used her toes, and couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.
"Then you truly possess an indestructible body... However, whatever your purpose, at least no one in the Ghost Market died because of that formation... Did the Sect Leader send you here?"
Pei Xuanzhi smiled casually and said, "I came here on my own initiative."
Yan Huanyue tried her best to calm herself down and asked softly, "Then what is your purpose in returning to the Tianyan Sect?"
Pei Xuanzhi leaned down to look at her and said calmly, "In the end, are we still people who are not of our kind? Are their hearts necessarily different?"
Looking at his slender figure, Yan Huanyue murmured softly, "No..."
A barrage of kisses, accompanied by his increasingly disordered breathing, pressed down on her without warning, the jade belt around his waist digging painfully into her lower abdomen.
Yan Huanyue grabbed him by the back of his neck and flung him away, but several golden wisps clung to her hands, feet and waist with great reluctance.
Pei Xuanzhi climbed up from the ground and then climbed back onto her, lowering his head to kiss her lips fiercely.
Yan Huanyue grabbed his neck, turned her knees, and flipped him over, pinning him beneath her.
He removed his belt, tied his hands above his head, and cast a spell.
Then he straightened up and sat on his jade belt, tearing off all the golden mist that wrapped around his body.
Pei Xuanzhi gripped her belt tightly with all ten fingers, calmly watching her tear at the golden mist with a sullen face.
The restless desire struggling in her eyes clung tightly to her.
Hidden beneath that bluster was a barely perceptible look of grievance, spreading silently.
Yan Huanyue cleared away all the disturbances, waved her hand to summon her long sword, and bent down to lie on it.
She still couldn't feel her calves, but she could fly back to her sect on her sword.
Before she could even move, several wisps of golden mist wrapped around her and bound her to Pei Xuanzhi.
Pei Xuanzhi lowered his head, his thin lips brushing lightly against the strands of hair on her head, the ticklish sensation instantly stirring his heartstrings.
He coaxed in a low voice, "Wait until you're fully recovered before you leave... If you run into anyone on the way, you won't be able to escape in time."
Yan Huanyue was entangled with him so tightly that she could feel everything clearly through the thin fabric of their clothes.
He seemed to ignite several blazing flames within her, making her breathing somewhat erratic.
Yan Huanyue moved her leg to try to avoid him, which made him whimper.
She felt her face burning and couldn't help but bump her head against his chest a few times.
Pei Xuanzhi held back, let out a slow sigh, and asked softly, "Did you really never think of me, sister?"
Yan Huanyue recalled several dreams about him, feeling somewhat ashamed and unable to speak of it. She gradually calmed down, nestled in his arms, and remained silent.
She rarely thought about such things in her daily life, and even didn't expect it because she couldn't bear the overwhelming feeling of being overwhelmed. But naturally, the things she dreamed about probably couldn't lie.
She didn't dislike his closeness, but she suddenly realized that he wasn't just the same person she knew, and naturally became wary of him.
The moonlight was like water, and between the two intertwined breaths, there was a damp, warm, and suppressed throbbing.
The two remained silent for a long time.
Pei Xuanzhi broke the silence first, his high nose brushing against her hair as he carefully said, "Sister, my wrist hurts a little."
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