Chapter 13 Blood Moon Secret Realm (Part 8) Do you want to challenge my humanity? ...
Upon arriving at the entrance to the third secret realm, a pungent smell of sulfur assaulted their senses, and Shi Xianxue pinched her nose and hid behind Wu Xiutang.
The smell of sulfur was pungent. Lava continuously erupted from the top of the barren mountain, slowly flowing over the mountains and valleys, spreading to the surface, and roaring into the endless underground from under the black bricks and stones. The Ember God Tree with its black and red branches stood in the crater, silently occupying the entire mountain along the lava's veins. Its branches were soft, without flowers or leaves, and the tree was full of bright red fruits. With the violent tremors of the volcanic eruption, the heavy fruits fell into the lava.
Aside from the earthquake lava flow, no flamingos were seen.
Shi Xianxue covered her face in distress.
My back was quickly soaked with sweat, and the surging blood seemed to be ignited by flames. The high temperature almost dried up the moisture in my body.
Looking at the steep, narrow, and precarious passageway and the flames surging like ocean waves, ready to engulf her at any moment, she decisively took a large step back, her flowing skirt brushing against the cracks in the ground.
The boy's face had long since returned to normal. A barely audible cold sneer escaped his throat, which he tossed lightly into Shi Xianxue's ear like a willow catkin. He glanced at her contemptuously, then crossed his arms and walked forward to investigate the enemy's situation.
What kind of look was that, like he was looking at trash?
Yes, that's right, she's trash, so he goes first.
Shi Xianxue's mentality is terrifyingly strong. She obediently hid behind Wu Xiutang and cowered away. Suddenly, an unusually strong smell of burning rushed into her nose.
How should I put it?
The intense smell was as if she herself had spontaneously combusted. Shi Xianxue was sweating profusely from the heat, and her eyes throbbed from the heat. She began to look around.
Wu Xiutang was completely unaware of what was happening behind him. His deep gaze swept over the only stone steps leading to the Emberfire Divine Tree. With a flick of his wrist, two silver butterflies fluttered out from his palm and slowly flew towards the stone steps.
Wu Ying had already smelled the unique burnt smell from the magma. Sitting on Wu Xiutang's shoulder, it bared its teeth and watched the stupid woman jump around like a monkey after her butt caught fire, trying to fan out the flames.
Finally, with her perseverance, the fire was extinguished, but the poor fabric was burned with a large hole, revealing her private white undergarment. The skin on her palms was burning painfully. When she opened her palms, she found that there were two transparent blisters on the base of her thumb, and she could even clearly see the flowing red flames at the bottom.
Although the flames burning from the Emberfire Divine Tree are not as powerful as the Mountain-Protecting Fire that must be returned to the mountain, they are still not ordinary fire. Once one is tainted by its fire poison, one will also be unable to withstand it.
Shi Xianxue's palm swelled up like a bun in an instant. She was in so much pain that tears streamed down her face, and she stood there silently wailing, clutching her hand.
Wu Xiutang was directing Silver Butterfly to search for the fire stork's trail beneath the lava when a sudden, intense burning sensation in his hand made him abruptly pull his hand back.
Shi Xianxue felt the pain in her palm gradually spread to her entire arm, and her scalp began to tingle. She felt that her left arm was almost unable to move. The person in front of her turned around quickly with a dark face and stared at her with a fierce look as if he were looking at his father's killer.
Her heart skipped a beat at that fierce look, and even the pain lessened a bit. Confused, she asked, "What's wrong?"
"What are you doing?"
Shi Xianxue was in excruciating pain. When she heard someone ask, she bit her lip, raised her swollen hand (which looked like a bear's paw), and said with tears in her eyes, "I got burned by the fire."
I got burned.
Wu Xiutang lowered his long eyelashes, his left hand trembling slightly from the pain, and at the same time, a not-so-good guess gradually formed in his mind.
He stepped forward and took out a black pill from his bag: "Eat it."
Although Shi Xianxue was in pain, she still had some sense: "This is an external injury. Don't you have any topical medicine?"
Since what just happened, she has secretly vowed never to eat anything that Wu Xiutang offers her again.
Wu Xiutang was too lazy to even give a perfunctory reply. "Don't make me say it a second time."
Their stance was firm and there was no room for negotiation.
It seemed she only had two choices: either eat it obediently, or be forced to eat it obediently. Shi Xianxue thought with a cynical mind, now that their lives were intertwined, although Wu Xiutang wouldn't joke about his own life, this dark pill was probably not a good thing. But right now, her backer was in the first level of the secret realm. If she angered him, there was a 90% chance that he would beat her up and force her to eat it.
After weighing the pros and cons, she chose to eat it herself, not giving the villain a chance to go crazy.
However, after she took the pill, not only did she not experience any adverse reactions, but the injured and ulcerated area on her palm also healed rapidly.
She looked at Wu Xiutang with surprise and gratitude, only to see that his expression was even worse than before.
The words of gratitude were instantly swallowed back.
She's even more unpredictable than her menopausal boss.
Wu Xiutang naturally couldn't give her a good look, because he finally understood what the difference the immortal had meant.
Ordinary love potions would only make two people fall deeply in love and become inseparable, but the twin flowers in this sea of boundless flowers would also make him feel Shi Xianxue's pain. In other words, before the love potion is removed, he must stay by Shi Xianxue's side and not let her suffer any harm.
Otherwise, he too will suffer the consequences of her incompetence and recklessness.
The system detected a key point: "Xiaoxue, why do I feel like Wu Xiutang can sense your pain?"
Shi Xianxue: "Huh?"
Is there really such a good thing?
Remembering the old man's words, Shi Xianxue suddenly understood. Her face lit up with joy: "Can the love potion make you feel my pain?"
No wonder Wu Xiutang's expression was so strange, and he even unusually cared for her and gave her pills. Does this mean that Wu Xiutang can no longer harm her in private?
Lava surged and crashed onto the shore, the suffocating mountain ash filling the air. Something seemed amiss at the Emberfire Divine Tree, the raging flames making the tree burn even brighter. The Immortal Fruits of Unwavering Fate ripened and fell one after another into the lava.
Wu Xiutang remained silent with a dark expression. Shi Xianxue, feeling awkward, wiped her nose and was about to remind him to take care of the important matters first when she saw Wu Xiutang grab her arm in a fit of anger.
He has a habit of assuming the worst of others.
He treated Shi Xianxue badly; he had just wanted to kill her. But in the blink of an eye, her life was firmly in his hands. He would even suffer twice the pain that Shi Xianxue endured.
This feeling of being controlled made him extremely unhappy, not to mention that he felt Shi Xianxue was gloating with a sense of petty triumph. All of this was unbearable for him. He even felt that Shi Xianxue would take advantage of this and use it to hinder him at every turn.
His expression darkened further, and with a chilling warning, he increased the force of his blows, saying, "I will soon break the seal."
The tunnel was engulfed by molten lava, and something seemed to be trying to break out of it. As the fairy fruit fell, it exploded with a loud bang, sending sparks flying.
He finished speaking through gritted teeth, then curled his lips into a smile with a cruel, indifferent quality, "Will you challenge my humanity then?"
Wu Ying sensed the danger and jumped off Wu Xiutang's shoulder, her azure cat eyes warily fixed on the molten lava.
The silver butterfly flapped its wings, causing the passageway to collapse with a deafening roar, shattering boulders. The silver butterfly transformed into a silver longsword, letting out a crane's cry in mid-air before plunging straight into the molten lava. The next moment, a crimson Kun bird escaped from the ground, dodging the attack of the Xuanhe Sword and lunging towards the shore.
The temperature had reached its limit, and Shi Xianxue was having more and more difficulty breathing. She immediately forgot about arguing with him and pointed behind him, shouting, "Wu Xiutang, behind you!"
More and more flamingos escaped from underground, but this guy remained unmoved, his dark eyes terrifyingly calm, stubbornly staring at her.
It seems they're waiting for her to back down.
The flamingo was getting closer and closer.
Shi Xianxue held his hands in her own, and blew on them with heartfelt sincerity: "Baby, I was wrong. Please don't hold it against me. Blow on them."
The girl's breath was light yet scalding, which also made Wu Xiutang feel inexplicably agitated. When the girl raised her wet eyes to look at him in a pleading manner, it was like a soft feather falling on a silvery lake and creating ripples.
He pushed Shi Xianxue's face away expressionlessly and grabbed the neck of the swooping flamingo with his bare hands.
The fire ibis was engulfed in flames from the Ember God Tree. It never imagined that someone could catch it with their bare hands in its lifetime. It struggled in surprise, its sharp beak opening and closing, spewing flames, and its wings flapping as if trying to slash Wu Xiutang.
Wu Ying, who was originally sitting on Wu Xiutang's shoulder, suddenly jumped down. The little tufts of fur on its head swayed, and its body swelled up hundreds of times, becoming solid. It grew dragon horns like a small mountain, and its glassy eyes became long and narrow. With a dragon's head and a cat's body, its majestic fur moved without wind. It was not afraid of the raging flames on the fire ibis's body at all. Just as Wu Xiutang threw it over, it tacitly bit off the fire ibis's neck.
Shi Xianxue exclaimed in amazement upon seeing the real-life cat embroidered with needle and thread for the first time.
"Wow, it's so cool!"
This must be Wu Ying, the little cat that has no physical body and can only rely on Wu Xiutang for survival. How come it's so fierce and powerful? The original text didn't mention any of this. It was just a tool cat that Wu Xiutang used to get closer to Song Qingshu.
This drew sidelong glances from both the master and servant.
Coupled with the same arrogant and smug expression that was just as infuriating, Shi Xianxue's heart melted instantly. If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion, she would have wanted to go up and pet the cat.
Fearing that Shi Xianxue might accidentally die, Wu Xiutang took out the Six-Day Seven-Part Divination Qi Diagram from the Boundless Bag and made a small barrier. With a backhand push, Shi Xianxue was wrapped in the Divination Qi Diagram and pushed towards the boundary wall of the Third Secret Realm.
Isolated from the unbearable heat of the outside world, Shi Xianxue felt that she could breathe easily. However, the barrier was as narrow and cramped as a coffin, and she could not move freely at all.
Frostbell was summoned, forming icy currents in the air that pressed down on the ground, freezing the magma inch by inch. More and more fire ibises rushed towards this side, incredibly strong, one in each hand, completely disregarding their bloodied, burned skin.
Shi Xianxue looked curiously at the Wuliang cloth bag at his waist, thinking to herself that there were quite a few treasures inside. She shifted her body uncomfortably and heard a crisp beep behind her.
She stopped moving.
The system made a sound of surprise, "What was that sound? Did I accidentally touch something?"
Shi Xianxue wasn't quite sure either. She couldn't make any big movements, so she could only grope around behind her with both hands. Soon, in the uneven boundary wall, she touched a section of the boundary wall that felt distinctly different from the rest.
A small, square depression with a frosted texture, as cool as an unpolished bronze mirror.
She tapped it with her hand and tried to push it in, but after fiddling with it for a long time without any response from the bronze mirror, she gave up.
This whole ordeal left her exhausted. When she looked up, she realized that Wu Xiutang had already arrived in front of the Ember God Tree.
The glacier was spreading until it froze the entire Emberfire Divine Tree. The number of Fire Ibises seemed to have stopped increasing because the Emberfire Divine Tree was frozen. Wu Xiutang looked up, thoughtfully stretched out his hand, and a ripe fairy fruit melted into the frozen lake through his hand.
The corpses of the fire ibises piled up into a small mountain, which enraged the fire ibises. All the birds flew together and soared into the sky, transforming into a giant Kun bird wearing a crown and launching an attack on Wu Xiutang.
Wu Ying flew to block it, scattering the Kun bird with a palm strike. The cat and the bird then engaged in a fierce battle in the air, which gave Wu Xiutang time to approach the divine tree.
The Ember God Tree sensed the danger and instinctively launched an attack, wanting to kill any human who approached it. It manipulated its powerful strength to break through the ice layer, and its branches lashed out in the air, fiercely binding the boy's limbs. The flames reignited, and without saying a word, it dragged him into the dark tree hole.
Shi Xianxue watched helplessly as Wu Xiutang was devoured by the Emberfire Divine Tree, blurting out, "He's too weak!!!"
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