An unexpected surprise
The dense forest shook violently, and Lin Yueyao, sitting on the wolf's back, could not find any trace of Rong Yan.
The fog was thick, and Rong Yan ran desperately, his knees aching and sore.
I tripped over some weeds, which turned out to be a cluster of poisonous thorns. I got cut and bled.
"Thump—thump—thump—"
The giant monster took a step, slowly growing larger before our eyes, and gradually being enveloped by darkness.
His clothes were entangled in sharp spikes, and Rong Yan struggled to stay put, unable to escape, as a giant foot slammed down on his head.
He lunged forward, and with a tearing sound, one end of his clothes was ripped apart by the demon's foot.
The demon picked up the piece of cloth, gently rubbed it into powder, and continued chasing Rong Yan.
The dripping blood leaves a trace, is absorbed by the soil, nourishes the plants, and causes them to raise their tender buds in a winding path.
Dogs are sensitive to the smell of blood. Benben suddenly raised his head, pricked up his ears, and sniffed, having made a discovery.
Lin Yueyao knew he had discovered something. She patted her neck, clenched her fists, and urged the gray wolf to run deeper into the area.
Rong Yan tried his best to escape, but the modified monster was tireless and easily found him no matter how he hid.
Rather than running away, it's better to face the attack head-on. Even if it's like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, we must fight with all our might.
Even if he couldn't escape death, he didn't want to disappoint his senior sister.
Rong Yan stopped and stood at the other end of the dense forest, holding seven or eight yellow talismans in his hand. He threw them out, using them to spit flames, control water, and immobilize the demon. They only trapped the demon for a moment before it moved freely and caught up with him again.
When the talisman paper ran out, he reached into his spirit pouch and found a cooking utensil—a frying pan.
The city lord's face darkened, especially when Rong Yan threw the frying pan.
Finally, having exhausted all other options and even running out of cooking utensils, he reached into his pouch and found something slippery—a fresh piece of beef shank. He gritted his teeth and threw it two miles away.
Smelling the aroma of meat, the minotaur turned around, picked up a piece of fine beef from the ground, and began to tear it apart.
The tendons in beef shank are tough and difficult to chew, and they are also prone to getting stuck in your teeth.
The minotaur, now in a different body, was clearly not used to horses' hooves. The beef tendon he was biting got stuck between his teeth. After finally managing to pry it off, it fell to the ground with a thud. When the horses tried to retrieve it, they only kicked it further away.
This gave Rong Yan a chance to escape. Taking advantage of the minotaur's inattention, Rong Yan hid deep in the forest.
Benben was not far away. The smell of blood and meat mingled together. He sniffed the ground and said, "It smells like ingredients."
"The master must be nearby."
The human and the demon searched everywhere.
This outcome was not good. The city lord secretly cast a spell, and a red light flashed in the minotaur's eyes. Its remaining consciousness was erased, and it mechanically drove its body to chase after the fleeing Rong Yan.
Rong Yan ran out of the dense forest in one breath. The demonic aura dissipated, and further ahead lay an unfathomable cliff.
Standing on the side, the sand and gravel beneath my feet loosened and fell without a sound.
Birdsong echoed through the valley. After a while, a white gull flew out, amidst layers of clouds and mist, obscuring its true form.
The chances of survival by jumping from here are no greater than dying at the hands of the minotaurs.
Rong Yan closed his eyes in despair. The sound of the earth shaking grew closer and closer. With each step the minotaur took, the sand and gravel on the ground trembled until they slid into the valley.
With the minotaur close at hand and seeing no way to retreat, Rong Yan took a few steps back, only to have the minotaur swing his large hand and knock him to the ground.
Rong Yan shakily got up, wiping the bright red from the corner of his lips. He wanted to leave this place, but the minotaur blocked his way, forcing him back towards the cliff.
"Bang--"
Once again, Rong Yan was only half an inch away from the cliff. His clothes caught on a tree branch, and he struggled to stand up, only to be knocked to the ground again.
The city lord frowned, but did not stop.
No matter how many times he was knocked down, Rong Yan persisted in resisting until this time, when he was unable to get up again.
He gripped the wooden stakes on the edge of the cliff, his body dangling in mid-air, covered in dust and wounds.
Without hesitation, the minotaur stomped down. If they couldn't escape this time, they would only face death.
In the face of danger, Rong Yan shouted out with all his might, his spiritual power surging through his body, breaking through the shackles, and gathering from his spiritual veins into the lines of his palm.
Using all the little spiritual power he had, he bound the minotaur to the spot.
The internal energy bestowed upon him by the city lord opened up his body, facilitating the flow of spiritual energy that had been previously blocked.
The two forces collided, leaving the body extremely exhausted afterward.
The minotaur collapsed with a crash, and in the blurred vision, there was a man wearing a Nuo opera mask.
The old wooden stakes could not withstand the weight, the soil softened, and they were gradually pulled out of the ground.
With a loosening of his grip, Rong Yan's body slumped down, and he fell into a coma.
As he fell, a force lifted him up, and he floated back into a strong embrace.
"Sleep well, child." He gently patted the child's back, wiping away the wounds from the child's sleep.
The illusion dissipated, and Lin Yueyao rode Benben at breakneck speed.
The city lord held Rong Yan in his arms, carefully protecting him, while Lin Yueyao flew over from afar, her murderous aura palpable, and slashed with her sword.
He remained calm, holding Rong Yan in one arm and firmly gripping the tip of Wenqing with the other, then gently waving it.
She flew out along with her sword, and Lin Yueyao, carrying Wenqing, staggered back a few steps.
"What does the city lord mean?" she demanded coldly, and seeing the mess on the ground, she knew what had happened.
"I like this kid." He wore a mask, concealing his true identity, making people doubt his real identity.
"Fairy, there's no need to panic." He held Rong Yan in his arms, turned around, and looked at him warily, baring his teeth as a warning.
"What did you do to your junior brother?" The sword was level with the mask, and Lin Yueyao stood on the opposite side, demanding that he hand over the person.
The silly wolf howled a few times, intending to cheer on its comrades.
"I have cleared his spiritual energy." He cast a spell, and Rong Yan's body floated lightly onto Benben.
Lin Yueyao took a few steps back, held her sword to the side, grabbed the little hand that was hanging down to Benben's belly, and clenched her wrist. A gentle spiritual energy flowed through her.
"Why did you do this?" Lin Yueyao wanted to ask even more what benefit he would gain from doing so.
"This is a gift I gave him; I just happen to feel a connection with this child."
He acted as if he were a harmless person, like a so-called good person, but little did he know that the fallen minotaur made Lin Yueyao not believe his words at all.
"It's merely unleashing the child's potential," the city lord explained. "Life and death are intertwined. Everything in the world is like this. Do you understand, fairy?"
"Put yourself in a desperate situation and you will survive." Lin Yueyao continued, putting aside her questioning and still saying, "You are still suspicious."
"I will keep my promise to you," she said coldly. "You are not allowed to get close to my junior brother."
Otherwise, we will show no mercy.
The city lord remained standing, raised his hand to dispel the mist that filled the forest, and shadows appeared in unison, kneeling behind him.
"Escort them away without letting them notice."
"yes."
Running through the woods, Rong Yan fell into a coma. Lin Yueyao held him, touched his head, and found that his face was rosy and not hot, as if he were asleep.
He woke up after an unknown amount of time, in his senior sister's arms.
Rong Yan looked up and saw that his senior sister had her eyes closed, resting.
Noticing his awakening, Lin Yueyao slowly opened her eyes. Their gazes met, and she spoke first, "You're awake."
"Senior sister..." Rong Yan pulled away from her embrace. "Did I fall asleep?"
She hummed in response.
"Then what happened just now...?" What was it about him being chased by the minotaurs?
Are they all fake?
“No.” Lin Yueyao looked at him, her arm numb. “You were being chased by demons. When they found you, you were already unconscious.”
He did indeed faint in his memory, and he still remembered the city lord, the man wearing a mask.
"That person..."
"Do you know him?" Lin Yueyao asked him in return. The scenery on both sides rushed past rapidly, and the clumsy, galloping limbs quickly left the border of Blackwater City.
He shook his head. "I don't know him." He didn't even know what he looked like.
Lin Yueyao fell silent for a moment, saying nothing.
Once they left the border of Blackwater City, they approached the human realm.
Darkness falls quickly in the human world, and since they haven't reached any inhabited areas, the three of them have no choice but to find a cave to spend the night.
As the weather grew warmer, it wasn't cold at night, and Rong Yan, who had slept for half a day, felt much better.
We lit a fire outside, took out the stored food, roasted it over the fire, and baked a few flatbreads in the fire. Together with fresh berries, we enjoyed a delicious dinner.
After a long day of running around, Benben was so tired that he kept yawning. After dinner, he turned back into his original form, curled up into a ball, and cuddled the two of them before going to sleep.
The moon is bright and the stars are few; crows and magpies fly south.
As dawn broke, Benben woke up first, licked Rong Yan, and then went to lick Lin Yueyao.
They were literally licked awake.
After washing up, Benben complained that he was hungry and asked his owner for food.
The spirit pouch was full of ingredients. After eating barbecue last night, Rong Yan made stewed vegetables and tofu and cooked meat porridge early this morning to cleanse his stomach.
After a good meal and plenty of water, we set off.
During his journey, Rong Yanqing was surprised to discover that he could now use his spiritual power.
He used to be able to throw pebbles very far, but now, infused with spiritual power, he can hit birds on branches with pebbles.
This means he can successfully cultivate and enter the Qi Refining stage.
With the help of the cultivation techniques and mental cultivation methods taught to him by his master, Rong Yan practiced diligently, and his vision became clearer day by day, and the turbid energy on his body dissipated.
So this is how wondrous the realm of immortals is. What he was even more curious about was how he would appear in the eyes of the supreme being.
Rong Yan gradually learned to use spiritual power and knew how to control it, although it was insignificant to Lin Yueyao.
But at least, everything is moving in a positive direction.
In the past few days, she has been sending everything that happened to her master telepathically, trying to get answers from him, but in fact, even Master Xuantong was puzzled.
He secluded himself after adulthood, rarely interacting with the outside world. He had no contact with many people, and even laypeople had almost forgotten about him.
As for the Lord of Blackwater City, Master Xuantong believed that he had no ill intentions towards Rong Yan, and perhaps this was a stroke of good fortune for little Yan'er.
If we think about it too deeply, then it's not worth exploring further.
Back to reality, Rong Yan has made rapid progress in cultivation, but he is timid and trembles when he sees a demon.
Lin Yueyao attributed all of this to the lack of magical artifacts. Even if her strength was weak, she still had to put on a show of face.
One should not show weakness, otherwise one will lose the initiative.
After much thought, there was only one suitable place, where Rong Yan might be found.
But because of that incident, her senior brother had to go to the extremely cold northern border. Lin Yueyao looked at the instigator beside her, and Rong Yan grinned foolishly at her.
A clueless little kid.
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