At the mountaintop, Li Mai, who was sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed, twitched her ears and slightly twitched the corners of her mouth!
She had sensed someone following her from a distance, but since they didn't seem to have any intention of killing her, she didn't pay them any attention. They were probably just ordinary people gathering firewood.
Unexpectedly, it was someone from the Heaven and Earth Alliance.
This boss, who had never shown his face, was someone she and Zhou Quan had secretly observed. He was a young man in his twenties, a few years older than them, with an ordinary appearance and eagle eyes that held a dark and brooding quality. Just by looking at him, you could tell he was no good person.
Moreover, he was alone in the courtyard at that time, and what she and Zhou Quan saw was him cutting his wrists to bleed himself.
Put half a bowl of medicine in the wound, then apply the medicine yourself, and then cover the wound with a wristband.
It's likely that the people in their Heaven and Earth Alliance don't know this secret of his.
Because they weren't familiar with each other, and because everyone has their own secrets, the couple didn't pry into the other person's privacy. As long as they were sure that this person wouldn't oppose them because of what happened before, she wouldn't take the initiative to challenge the Heaven and Earth Alliance.
Since her Li family mansion was located not far from the Heaven and Earth Alliance, those people in the town have become more restrained and no longer frequently go out to steal chickens and dogs and disturb the lives of the people.
Their attempt to test her came on the day two people secretly checked on her, and she beat them up. After that, no one else tried to test her anymore.
What puzzled her was that there was no further news from them. Then, she and Zhou Quan went to investigate one day and saw the "boss" they had mentioned bleeding himself.
Strangely, after bleeding himself out, he went to a secluded spot, dug a hole, and poured the blood into it, instead of using it to save someone.
Thinking of this, Li Mai opened her eyes and saw that Chu Yan and Zhong Hui had almost finished circulating their energy.
She stood up and strolled around the hilltop, no longer protecting them.
They were only protecting the two of them because they were worried that someone might suddenly come up from below and hurt them.
In front of the mountain is Qing Shi Town, but behind the mountain, there are still endless mountains stretching as far as the eye can see.
This was her first time seeing the view from behind the mountain. She should bring Zhou Quan to see it another day; he should like the mountains.
Suddenly, Zhong Hui let out a soft sound of pain.
Li Mai quickly returned to his side, and when she saw the faint red flames appearing on his mind, she was stunned.
"It was me who helped him. Thank you for giving him such a precious Spirit Gathering Pill. I formed a fire-type spiritual root in my dantian, and I directly helped him awaken it."
"The rest is up to you!" A red-robed man who looked taller than Zhou Quan appeared in front of Li Mai. Li Mai recognized this man; he was the phoenix who had helped Zhou Quan awaken his fire-type spiritual root.
Li Mai was surprised; it turned out that the box of pills in his trunk was a medicinal pill.
"Senior, I'd like to ask about my husband." Li Mai looked at Chu Yan and Zhong Hui, but the two seemed to be asleep, their eyelids not even moving.
"Don't worry, they're in hibernation, you say," Phoenix said, glancing back at the two people.
“My husband used to be a dual-elemental cultivator of water and fire. Some time ago, his aura became disordered. I want to ask if his water-elemental spiritual root can be prevented from awakening at his own will? Will this have any impact on him?”
Her concern was whether the previous incident would happen again if he didn't awaken his water element.
Actually, Zhou Quan has awakened both water and fire elements, making him the strongest. However, he seems to be suppressing it and doesn't want to awaken the water element. She wants to ask Phoenix for her opinion.
Phoenix glanced at her and said, "Just do as he pleases. With you by his side, it's fine if he doesn't awaken. Even if he does awaken, as his wife, you will suppress his water element. It's better if he doesn't awaken."
He naturally knew that Luo Ying was most powerful when he awakened both water and fire elements, but he also knew that Luo Ying didn't want to be the same Luo Ying he used to be in this life. He only wanted to be Zhou Quan, her husband. So, he respected his thoughts and said this to Li Mai.
Li Mai silently looked at Phoenix and asked, "So, in my past life, it's possible that I was actually a person created through research? My existence was solely to suppress Luo Ying?"
Phoenix nodded without speaking. She was sad, but there was nothing she could do. It was the truth: she was an experimental subject created by those perverted humans to control Luo Ying.
Unfortunately, he and Qilin wiped out that group of people together. However, when they saw the innocent big eyes of the little girl still in swaddling clothes, they couldn't bring themselves to kill her. That's why they spared her life, found her a family, and raised her as an ordinary child.
Unexpectedly, they were still too stupid. The family members they found for her were also a group of scientists, and they eventually discovered that she was an experimental subject of that research result.
Fortunately, they developed feelings for her after raising her for several years. Her parents died to cover up the truth about her identity, and her grandmother also died to help her grandfather take her away.
Later, her grandfather was burned by Luo Ying and sealed her away, but he also died.
Looking at Li Mai in front of her, Phoenix thought about these things for a moment, then said with a faint smile, "Life is short. Just enjoy your happy life together and don't worry about anything else."
After saying that, the phoenix disappeared.
Li Mai stood there, stunned and in a daze.
Although Phoenix didn't say it explicitly, she had already guessed most of it based on Zhou Quan's words last time and Phoenix's words just now.
There was a group of people who discovered Luo Ying's identity as an ancient divine beast. Unable to use him or kill him, they wanted to control him.
Their solution was to create a woman with a water-based body to control him.
But something went wrong, and the plot took a turn for the worse, stretching out by a hundred years. It also resulted in the protagonist and Zhou Quan dying one after the other, their souls traveling through time and space to be reborn in this ancient society.
As she thought of this, something flashed through Li Mai's mind, but she couldn't quite grasp it. Suddenly, she felt an itch in her heart, a kind of restless, agonizing discomfort.
However, no matter how hard she tried to recall, she couldn't remember what she had overlooked.
Li Mai stomped her foot angrily.
"Master, what's wrong?" When Chu Yan and Zhong Hui opened their eyes at the same time, they saw their master gritting his teeth and stamping his feet. Their hearts trembled. Had something gone wrong?
When Li Mai saw that the two people had woken up, she quickly went over to check on them. She raised her palm and placed it on their wrists, then closed her eyes and focused on examining them.
After checking the two people, she let go, took two steps back, and looked at Chu Yan, saying, "Ayan, you haven't developed a spiritual root yet. From now on, you need to be more careful about your safety. When you get home, use the leaves from the pot of spiritual herbs I left for you to make tea."
"Yes, Master!" Chu Yan replied calmly, unsurprised, as he had always felt it was impossible to succeed so quickly.
Li Mai turned to Zhong Hui and nodded. "I didn't expect you to be someone with a destiny for immortality. You have successfully condensed a fire-type spiritual root and awakened a fire-type spiritual vein. Now, try it out using the method I taught you and you'll see."
Then, as Li Mai spoke, Zhong Hui followed suit.
Following her words, Zhong Hui immediately felt her whole body begin to warm up.
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