Chapter 73 For once, Li Xiao became curious about a human.
Li Xiao was unconscious for a long time.
Given Li Xiao's physique, such an injury would only look scary and wouldn't cause any real harm.
But Yu Qingzhou took away the half of his eyeball that contained the blood of a demon.
As a child born from the union of a monster and a human, without that, it's roughly equivalent to regressing into an ordinary human with a relatively long lifespan, but one who is utterly powerless.
Therefore, when Li Xiao woke up again, there was a pain all over his body.
However, his injuries have mostly healed.
Li Xiao looked around at the unfamiliar place; it was a cave.
Then look at the human who almost killed him; he was sitting cross-legged not far away, eyes closed, doing something unknown.
—Is she asleep?
Li Xiao was puzzled, but as soon as he moved, he saw the other person suddenly open his eyes and look at him, his eyes clear and without the slightest trace of weariness.
"You're awake," the young man said.
"..."
Li Xiao thought to himself, isn't this obvious?
In addition, the pain was so intense that he simply kept his mouth shut. He figured if the other party wanted to kill him, they would have done so already; there was no need to go through all the trouble of bringing him unconscious to this place and giving him such treatment.
—Although the one who actually used such ruthless force was the guy in front of me.
Seeing that the boy didn't respond, Yu Qingzhou wasn't angry. Instead, she took something out of her waist and shook it in her hand.
Although Li Xiao could only see with one eye, his eyesight was excellent, and he immediately recognized it as his jade pendant.
He suddenly sat up from where he was lying, and without noticing, he tumbled to the ground, getting his face covered in dust.
Even so, the boy still raised his head and stared intently at the thing in Yu Qingzhou's hand with one eye.
Yu Qingzhou walked over, bent down a step away, brought the item close to the boy's eyes, watched as the boy struggled to raise his arm, and then put the jade pendant back into his hand.
"Do you want it?"
Li Xiao met that calm face with a hint of a smile, his chest heaving with resentment, and finally nodded in surrender.
"Alright, I have a few questions. Just answer yes or no, and I'll give them back to you."
Before Li Xiao could figure out what the other person meant by "answered," he heard the young man ask, "Have you seen a young woman dressed in black? She has black hair and black eyes, very fair skin, a ponytail, and is about up to my chin. She is carrying a black sword."
Li Xiao shook his head.
The young man, seemingly unwilling to give up, pressed on, "You've never even heard of it?"
Li Xiao shook his head again.
He wanted to say that the young man was the only living, healthy person he had ever seen here. The rest were either completely dead or already missing limbs, carried into their nests as food or as provisions.
"I see."
Upon hearing this, the young man showed an expression of disappointment.
Seeing the emotional fluctuations on the other person's face, Li Xiao suddenly felt a strange sensation.
It felt somewhat novel, somewhat irritating, and yet somehow familiar.
A thought suddenly entered Li Xiao's chaotic mind: the young man in front of him was worried about the young woman in black he had mentioned.
Why?
What is their relationship?
It was unusual for Li Xiao to become curious about a human being.
Perhaps it was because the person before him reminded Li Xiao of his mother, the mother who gave birth to him and died for him. Her flesh and blood had a fragrance and sweetness that even the monsters here did not have, and the young man before him had a very similar scent.
It wasn't until later, when Li Xiao followed the other party into the Hidden Immortal Sect, that he realized that it was actually the aura of an immortal cultivator.
The purer and more refined a cultivator's spiritual power, the sweeter and more delicious the scent emanating from their body.
However, there are exceptions. For example, there is Shen Yingxue, a woman with profound cultivation. Her cold floral fragrance can make Li Xiao sneeze from a distance.
Of course, it could also be due to preconceived notions. Among the more than one hundred disciples and elders of the Hidden Immortal Sect, including even the sect leader, Li Xiao felt that Yu Qingzhou smelled the best, without exception.
After asking about her senior sister Shen Yingxue's whereabouts, Yu Qingzhou asked the boy a few more questions, all about the jade pendant and the boy's background.
Things like the mother's surname and given name, whether she is still alive, and how the boy survived in this place...
Whether he knew or not, the boy nodded or shook his head in response.
When asked about his mother's whereabouts, the boy fell silent, a rare occurrence. His long eyelashes drooped down, obscuring one of his jade-like eyes.
While the boy was unconscious, Yu Qingzhou bandaged his wounds and also did some basic cleaning.
Then, to some surprise, I discovered that the other person's messy hair, after being cleaned, was a light gray that was almost silvery-white, and even the skin covered in blood and dust was actually snow-white.
After changing into the smaller disciple's robes from his storage ring, he looked like an ordinary, somewhat sickly boy.
Well... if I had to put it that way, it's not exactly ordinary.
Yu Qingzhou grew up by her senior sister's side. Over the years, she has fought demons and monsters and seen quite a few demons and ghosts who are good at disguising their skin. Therefore, she has very high standards for judging beauty.
Even so, he had to admit that the boy was indeed good-looking.
Thinking of her senior sister whom she hadn't been able to contact for a long time, Yu Qingzhou's heart sank even further.
Not long ago, during the joint freshman trials of several major sects, one of the competitions was held here. What was supposed to be a small competition unexpectedly turned into a disaster when communication was disrupted midway through. Not only many of the participating disciples, but also several accompanying experts went missing.
Shen Yingxue was not a participant, but went along as a team leader.
Such small-scale trials are held every two years, and the Asura Domain is not a place of no return, so no one took it seriously.
Team leaders are usually senior brothers and sisters who have participated in the trials in previous years. I don't know about other places, but the Hidden Immortal Sect has always relied on luck, and they are assigned one by one according to the order of the draw.
Yu Qingzhou was also fortunate enough to guide her once.
The process was rather boring, and the organizers took into account that the participants were all newcomers, so they did not set particularly difficult questions.
Therefore, almost no one expected such an unexpected situation to occur.
Although a large-scale search was launched immediately near the original match location, it yielded no results, forcing an even larger search to be conducted.
That is, to go deep into the truly dangerous area.
Yu Qingzhou also participated in this search.
It can be said that the Hidden Immortal Sect suffered the least loss in this incident, because only one person went missing in total, and that person was Shen Yingxue.
The returning disciples expressed their lingering fear, saying that it was because Senior Sister Shen stood in front of them the moment danger struck that they had the chance to escape.
One of the girls was so moved that she exclaimed that she never expected that Senior Sister Shen, who usually seemed so cold and aloof, would be so selfless in such a critical moment.
Yu Qingzhou wasn't surprised at all; he had always known that his senior sister was a very responsible person.
He only regretted not going with them.
Mingming had a vague premonition of something bad before she left.
If we could have gone together, even if I couldn't have turned the tide on my own, at least I wouldn't have been alone when my senior sister was in danger.
Yu Qingzhou arrived at this place according to the compass's directions, expecting to find traces of her senior sister, but unexpectedly made a discovery.
Li Xiao, a half-human, half-demon boy, also carries with him a spirit jade, a specialty of the Hidden Immortal Sect's back mountain.
If Yu Qingzhou is not mistaken, the other party's mother should be a former disciple of the Hidden Immortal Sect.
As for who it would be, he already had a general idea in mind.
Because it concerned a matter weighing heavily on her master's mind, Yu Qingzhou decided to give the young man another option. If he was willing to go back with her, then she would spare his life.
Of course, if you don't want to, you can just kill him and take the jade pendant back with you.
Judging from the outcome, the boy was quite sensible.
Yu Qingzhou was not skilled in healing arts, but fortunately, although the other party had lost most of their demonic power, their vitality was still considerable. However, the healing speed had become extremely slow.
Yu Qingzhou didn't think there was anything wrong with this; in fact, it reduced the possibility of the other party launching a sudden counterattack.
He really didn't want any unexpected situations to occur before he successfully found his senior sister.
Therefore, despite maintaining a relatively peaceful demeanor on the surface, Yu Qingzhou never let her guard down around the boy.
In his mind, the other party was always that monster who wielded sharp claws and fangs wantonly, and frantically wanted to devour him.
It wasn't until she witnessed the boy's dejected expression because of his birth mother that Yu Qingzhou began to have a slight sense that the other person also possessed half-human blood.
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