Chapter 13 Trust I want to continue to trust you, okay?
The people who were attacking her suddenly stopped. As the deer's cry became louder, black liquid began to flow out of the seven orifices of the people in the village. The thick liquid scattered all over the ground, becoming limp like water and unable to gather again.
Good opportunity!
She condensed her spiritual energy onto the sword blade, and countless illusory sword shadows floated in the air. As soon as she finished speaking, thousands of swords were launched at the same time, chasing after the monster on the ground.
The scent of evaporating monsters was everywhere. After an unknown amount of time, the sky gradually brightened and she could no longer find any trace of monsters in the ice cave.
She was so exhausted that she just lay down on the ground, looking sideways at Xiao Hei who had been standing outside the ice all night. Qi Danxuan, with tears in his eyes, was holding the ice wall and shouting something, and Luo Zisheng, who was holding Bai Lu, also had a worried look on his face.
She raised her hand to disperse the ice wall and untied Xiao Hei. Seeing the people around her gradually waking up, she fell asleep peacefully.
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When she woke up again, she saw Qi Danxuan sitting beside the bed with her eyes red and swollen from crying. "I was scared to death, Senior Sister. What was that thing?"
Luo Zisheng saw her wake up and knelt down excitedly, saying, "Thank you, Fairy, for saving my village!"
Xiao Hei, who was standing by the door, was thinking about something. He didn't look at her or say a word.
Xu Xingxing opened her mouth and felt dry. Perhaps it was because she had consumed too much spiritual energy. After all, in the battle last night, she did not use the techniques she was familiar with, but simply swung her sword to kill.
Qi Danxuan hurriedly brought over a glass of water. After drinking it, Xu Xingxing quickly asked Luo Zisheng to stand up and then asked, "Has anyone in your village been in trouble?"
"Three people died."
Luo Zisheng frowned slightly, a look of pity on his face, then adjusted his expression and said soothingly, "If it weren't for the fairy, I'm afraid my village would no longer exist today."
"Where's the White Deer?"
"In my room. It originally insisted on waiting for you to wake up and thank you, but it was exhausted, so I sent it back to its room to rest."
Xu Xingxing stood up and asked, "Why is Bai Lu so weak? Do you know anything about this?"
"The doctor I hired said Chuxue is a benevolent spirit beast. The people in the village have committed too many evil deeds and worshipped it as a divine beast, which is why it has suffered backlash," Luo Zisheng blamed himself. "I had intended to send it away before, but it secretly returned. Now its condition has become more serious, and I have no way to treat it..."
“That’s one of them.”
Yesterday, when she was treating the white deer, she checked all the meridians in its body. After all, she had been learning from Yue Baiyin for several months, so she could see the problem right away.
Monsters have monster pills, and beasts naturally have beast pills as well.
There was only half of the beast pill on the white deer.
"You said you were attacked by a wild beast in the mountains when you were young and almost died?"
Luo Zisheng nodded.
"Do you remember how you survived?"
"I only remember seeing the first snow while I was unconscious. I can't remember anything after that. When I woke up, I was in the village."
"When did you meet Hatsuyuki?"
"When I was very young, around five or six, I often went to play in the forest. I met Chuxue a few times and brought it food a few times, and then we became familiar with each other." Luo Zisheng seemed lost in memory, his eyes very soft. "I saw that it was as white as snow, so I called it Chuxue. How did the fairy know that we knew each other before?"
Xu Xingxing didn't answer, but waved at him: "Come here."
Luo Zisheng was a little puzzled, but he also walked closer obediently.
"Closer."
Xiao Hei at the door raised his eyes and looked over.
Luo Zisheng's face flushed slightly, but he came closer obediently. Xu Xingxing stretched out two fingers and covered his neck, closing his eyes to check his meridians.
Sure enough, the answer was found within him.
"To put it simply," Xu Xingxing said, sitting upright, "I gave you half of Bai Lu's inner elixir, so you were able to survive."
Luo Zisheng's body stiffened immediately and he looked at her in disbelief, as if he had not heard clearly what she said.
"The people in your village revere it as a divine beast, and they've actually placed you in its place as well. Although doing evil will cause it to retaliate, if it were alone, it could simply leave. But it's secretly returned, probably to absorb the backlash from you into its own body."
"During the time you sent it away, did you feel unwell?"
Luo Zisheng was stunned and said blankly: "Yes..."
He had frequent high fevers at the time and had been lying in bed for more than half a month. Later, he was unconscious and talking nonsense. In the middle of the night, he was in a daze and saw the first snow beside his bed. He thought it was an illusion caused by the fever.
"Okay, now that we've found the root of the problem, it's up to you to decide."
Knowing that Luo Zisheng would definitely give it serious consideration, Xu Xingxing clapped his hands and started to chase people away, "Clear the place, clear the place, I want to sleep."
Seeing Qi Danxuan's reluctant expression, Xu Xingxing smiled and pinched her face: "I will send you out of this mountain tomorrow so that you can go to celebrate your brother's birthday."
Only then did Qi Danxuan smile slightly.
Xu Xingxing lay down and closed her eyes. She heard the sound of people leaving one after another, and then heard the door close. She was about to go to sleep peacefully when she suddenly felt someone sitting beside the bed. She had no choice but to open her eyes, which she had just closed. "I said clearing the area includes you, too."
"Xiao Hei."
"Am I not your natal spirit beast? Shouldn't I take good care of you while you rest?"
He didn't look at her, his slightly drooping eyelids half-covered his very dark pupils, and his words were teasing, with no extra expression on his face.
For some reason, she knew that he was feeling awkward, but she was too tired and didn't have the energy to argue with him.
"Thank you very much." He turned sideways, closed his eyes, and forced himself to fall asleep quickly.
But the more she forced herself to sleep, the faster it dissipated. So when her mind started automatically playing pop songs, she reluctantly got up, leaned against the headboard, and looked at Xiao Hei, who was leaning against the bed rail with his eyes closed:
"Do you have something you want to tell me?"
Xiao Hei opened his eyes slightly, and the confusion in his heart suddenly found an outlet.
All he could think about was the "Don't worry" she said last night, which was like a curse that made him feel annoyed. But now that she asked him directly, he didn't know what to say.
Xu Xingxing didn't have much patience. Seeing that he didn't answer, she leaned forward and twisted his head with one hand, forcing him to look directly into her eyes. She asked, "Can I trust you from now on?"
The woman's expression was serious, and her eyes were like bright gems, which suddenly reminded him of the extremely clear sea under the sunlight that day.
Xiao Hei's heart obviously skipped a beat, and when he realized it, he couldn't help but get angry:
Why does she always seem to be able to easily influence my mood?
He reached out and slapped the woman's hand away, then stood up and pretended to straighten his clothes. When he raised his eyes, there was no more emotion in them. He returned to his previous indifferent demeanor and said,
"Why do you ask?"
Xu Xingxing took back the hand that was slapped, but he was not annoyed: "If I can't, I will let you go."
He plucked the bell on his neck. The golden bell rolled under his collarbone several times and then stopped, silently and without a sound. His eyes were full of mockery, and he curled his lips and said:
"You're letting me go like this?"
"Sorry, this can't be opened for the time being. Actually, if I'm not by your side, its only use is to remind me when you do something bad. It won't be of any other use."
"Just a reminder?"
"Um... I'll judge whether I need to temporarily suppress your spiritual power."
Xiao Hei's eyes were already cold, and he sneered: "That really is no problem at all."
"No, why do you have to do evil?" Xu Xingxing rubbed his eyebrows.
"Why should my good and evil be defined by you? Is your good necessarily good?"
"Not necessarily, but at least better than you."
"All immortal cultivators are as self-righteous as you."
"Fortunately, not all spirit beasts are like you, unable to distinguish right from wrong!"
"you--"
"Stop, stop, stop!" Seeing that Xiao Hei was about to go crazy with anger, his pupils turned slightly red, and Xu Xingxing quickly stopped him.
After reviewing the ineffective communication between the two of them, I felt a sense of powerlessness, as if I was back in my dream of elementary school students bickering.
She reorganized her thoughts and tried to make her tone as gentle as possible:
"Maybe you misunderstood what I just said. Let me put it another way."
Xiao Hei stared at her, his eyes full of impatience.
The tiredness of a loving mother educating a naughty child surged into her heart again. She calmed herself down and said word by word:
"I want to continue to trust you, okay?"
Xiao Hei's pupils shrank slightly, and his expression froze on his face. For a moment, he didn't know how to start.
"Actually, before the incident with the white deer, I completely trusted you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have kept it from you and asked you to find the spirit beast." Xu Xingxing was patient for the first time in her life. "And I'm only telling you this."
"Perhaps because you are my natal spirit beast, I have a natural trust in you and have no guard against you. Of course," she smiled slightly, "I don't plan to be on guard in the future. I don't want to be on guard when interacting with people close to me, so if you don't agree, I'd be fine with letting you go."
"Aren't you afraid that I will pretend to agree, but actually--" Xiao Hei didn't finish his words, but just stopped and looked at her.
"No."
Xu Xingxing's eyes were filled with composure. "Although I disagree with some of your actions, I've also thought about your recent behavior. You're just being spontaneous and doing whatever you want. You're not a completely evil person."
"You know it very well." Xiao Hei sneered.
"After all, I want to know more about you, so I tried to figure it out. If I'm wrong, please feel free to correct me." Xu Xingxing said very patiently.
Is that wrong? It seems not. Xiao Hei looked at her gentle face and swallowed his stinging words.
Seeing that Xiao Hei's aura had calmed down, Xu Xingxing continued, "If you tell me clearly today that I can trust you, then I will trust you as much as before. So, will you accompany me from now on?"
Xiao Hei looked at her eyes that were as clear as water, and suddenly felt at a loss.
"Then what good will it do me?" He tried to look calm.
"You've lost your memory, haven't you?" Xu Xingxing smiled and extended her hand. "I'll help you find your memory, and you help me find the divine beast, okay?"
Xiao Hei looked at the person in front of him, was silent for a moment, then reached out and grasped the tender hand:
"good."
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