Bai Ze hesitated. The reason why beasts and humans made a contract was to help humans fight, and at the same time, to make humans support them so that they could become stronger. With someone like Yuan Shui by Xu Yuehuai's side, whether he would nurture him was indeed an unknown.
Seeing Bai Ze hesitate, Xu Yuehuai made up her mind. She stood up and walked away in the direction Yuan Shui had left without looking back. Bai Ze followed behind with his head down, deep in thought, and did not choose to chase after her.
Yuan Shui wandered through the forest and smelled a familiar scent—the scent of spirit stones! Still wondering where these spirit stones came from, Yuan Shui followed the scent.
Xu Yuehuai followed Yuan Shui all the way, and finally caught up with him, pulling him up from the ground. "Why are you running?"
Yuan Shui angrily kicked her legs, "Put me down! This is outrageous! I advise you to put me down right now, or I'll get rough with you!"
Xu Yuehuai found it amusing, so she picked him up and played with him for a while before putting him down just as Yuan Shui was about to explode. Yuan Shui stormed off ahead, leaving Xu Yuehuai with only an angry backside.
Suddenly, Yuan Shui stopped in his tracks, his expression serious. "Wait, there's a dangerous aura ahead."
Xu Yuehuai also dropped his nonchalant attitude and began to observe his surroundings.
"Help...help me." A faint male voice came from the bushes. Xu Yuehuai thought the voice sounded familiar, so she moved closer to the bushes. However, she had only taken two steps when a hand reached out from inside and grabbed her foot. "Girl, help me."
Xu Yuehua almost instinctively pulled out a knife to chop off the foot. She pushed the man's hand away and then parted the bushes, revealing the person inside. "It's you!?"
Xu Yuehuai was surprised. She didn't expect that the person she hadn't seen for so long would appear in front of her covered in blood and on the verge of death.
Yuan Shui leaned closer for a look. It recognized the man vaguely but couldn't recall where it had seen him before.
"Girl, please save me," the man chuckled softly, pleading for help.
Xu Yuehuai and Yuan Shui took him down the mountain and found an inn to stay at. After not seeing each other for a long time, she poured him a cup of tea and fed him a few pills. "How did you end up here?"
Xu Yuehuai's eyes were filled with curiosity. The person in front of her was Ying Ziping, the kind person she had met when she first arrived in this place. The two had never met again after they parted ways in the town.
Ying Ziping's eyes cleared, and he finally saw the person in front of him clearly. When he saw that it was Xu Yuehuai, he couldn't help but be surprised. "I didn't expect that after only a few months apart, the girl's temperament is completely different."
At this moment, only Xu Yuehuai and Ying Ziping were in the inn. In order not to expose their identities, Yuan Shui had returned to his space early and was leisurely playing around.
“This man has quite a few spirit stones on him. You can ask him for some later.” Yuan Shui was certain that the scent of spirit stones she smelled was coming from the man in front of her.
It's only right to give something in return for saving someone's life.
"Well, I've finished rescuing people, so I'll be leaving now." Xu Yuehuai stood up, pretending to prepare to leave.
As expected, Ying Ziping tried to persuade her to stay, saying, "I have not yet repaid your life-saving grace, young lady. Is there anything you wish for? Or is there anything you cannot do and need to take care of?"
Xu Yuehuai turned her head and said with a hint of disdain, "If I can't do it, do you think you can? If you really want to repay my kindness, just give me some spirit stones."
Xu Yuehuai spoke casually; it was all part of her calculations.
Ying Ziping was clearly taken aback when he heard this, then smiled and said, "I do not have any of the spirit stones that you mentioned."
Xu Yuehuai narrowed her eyes. She didn't doubt that Yuan Shui was lying to her. The only possibility was that the man in front of her was lying. She sneered, "If you don't really want to repay the favor, then don't pretend to be so sympathetic here."
Ying Ziping was surprised that Xu Yuehuai was so confident. Could it be that she had some kind of magic weapon?
"You flatter me, young lady. It's not that I'm unwilling to give it to you, but this thing is useless on the third floor. I don't want to exchange such a great favor of saving me for a few useless things." Ying Ziping truly thought so.
Xu Yuehuai said expressionlessly, "It's alright, I don't want anything for the time being, except for spirit stones."
Finally, Xu Yuehuai left the inn with a large bag of spirit stones.
Moreover, they are all top-grade spirit stones, which are very rare.
Xu Yuehuai took the things and didn't know where to go for a moment. Suddenly she remembered Linghu Zhou's invitation, which she had accepted earlier. With that in mind, Xu Yuehuai randomly found a passerby and asked for directions to the Linghu family's house.
"Young lady, you don't even know where the Linghu family is? You must be from out of town." The passerby looked Xu Yuehuai up and down, and didn't think she was a bad person.
Xu Yuehua nodded. "Yes, I'm from Qingcheng. I have some business with the young master of the Linghu family. So, young friend, where is the Linghu family?"
A passerby clicked his tongue twice. "That guy from the Linghu family is already dead. You should go back and not waste your time here."
"I can tell at a glance that this is another person attracted by Young Master Linghu's face and strength." The passerby was quite certain.
Xu Yuehuai frowned and pressed on, "What do you mean?"
"The Linghu family was wiped out yesterday. If you go there now, you'll probably see a pile of ruins. That used to be the Linghu family's territory," the passerby kindly explained.
Xu Yuehuai was taken aback. Yuan Shui looked at him with a hint of schadenfreude. "What a joke. He went out for a trip and came back to find his home gone."
Xu Yuehuai had no time for that. After finding out how to get there, she immediately rushed over.
The Linghu family lived in the west of the city, in a huge open space, which was razed to the ground in an instant, and there were even traces of fire on those things.
Xu Yuehuai was shocked, wondering what kind of person could do such a thing.
She looked around and figured Linghuzhou was nearby.
The Linghu family was surrounded by prosperity, and the destruction of the family did not change the prosperity of the surrounding area in the slightest.
Xu Yuehuai casually walked into an inn, where everyone was discussing the recent disaster that had befallen the Linghu family.
"Every time I pass by here, I still feel sorry for the Linghu family! It is said that the person who wiped them out was from the upper class. Otherwise, who would have such great power to make such a large family disappear in an instant!"
"I wonder who the Linghu family offended, that not a single descendant was left! It's such a pity, the old man Linghu was a decent person when he was alive!"
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