Chapter 4 The Most Beautiful Lie
Zhuohuo spoke, his voice was like cracking ice, cold and emotionless. He just stared at Zheng Qiuyu, his eyes as if he was looking at something strange.
"you......"
He paused, as if searching for words.
...Why are you protecting me?"
This question made Zheng Qiuyu's heart rise to her throat. It was over. When he asked this, her head was buzzing and she was scared to death. The answer was very important. If she got it wrong, she would die.
She tried hard to calm herself down. Her face was still pale, but her eyes were red. She didn't know whether she was scared or acting, but she looked quite pitiful.
She didn't answer directly, but asked a question first, her voice trembling a little: "My...husband, have you forgotten?"
She sniffed, trying to sound aggrieved. "Protecting you, this... this seems to be my instinct. I don't quite understand it, but I just want to do it."
After she finished speaking, she saw that Zhuohuo was still confused, and she felt even more uncertain. She thought of his white hair. That's right.
She forced an unpleasant smile and said with tears in her eyes, "Ten thousand years ago...you blocked the heavenly punishment for me. When your soul was about to fall apart, you said...you said that if there was an afterlife, it would be my turn to protect you."
She slowly raised her hand, a little trembling, and pointed at the burning hair, "Your white hair... was dyed for me at that time." She didn't dare to touch it, and her hand stopped an inch away, "You said... this is the proof of our... love." She said tentatively, her voice getting smaller and smaller.
The words "instinct, proof of white-haired love" hit Shaohuo's empty head one by one, but he still couldn't understand them. But when he saw the sadness in Zheng Qiuyu's eyes, it seemed real. He also felt a little strange in his heart, as if he was pricked by something and felt uncomfortable.
He touched his white hair, which felt cold, but also had a different feeling.
The system's voice suddenly rang in Zheng Qiuyu's mind, coldly: [Lie credibility +5%, target emotions: confusion, reminiscence, reward of 200 deception points.
Zheng Qiuyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as if... he had made the right bet.
Just when he was about to take a breath, a loud roar suddenly sounded outside the cave! It was much scarier than the one from the Wang family cultivator just now! The whole cave was shaking, rocks were falling down, and a cold and evil spirit rushed in, freezing Zheng Qiuyu so much that he shivered and his eyes went black.
She felt that she couldn't take it anymore. Her body couldn't stand this place. She had to take medicine quickly, the Yi Jin F Sui Dan, but... the medicine was very strong. A mortal could easily die after taking it. She had to be protected by someone. If anyone protected her, there would only be burning fire here.
It's not okay to ask him to protect me! If he knew I was so weak, he would crush me to death immediately.
But the demon outside the cave was getting closer and closer, and it felt like it would rush in at the next second. Zheng Qiuyu was holding the pill in his hand, sweat all over.
She looked at the burning fire beside her that was still "remembering" the past, gritted her teeth, and thought, forget it, let's fight!
She forced out a pitiful expression, her voice soft and weak, with a strange hint of coquettishness: "Husband..."
"Our child...he seems...hungry," she said slowly, hardly believing it herself, "he needs...a little...strength."
"The child is hungry." When Zhuo Huo heard this, he froze. He didn't understand what "hungry" meant and how the child could eat.
His bloodshot eyes moved away from Zheng Qiuyu's face and stared intently at her belly. It was flat there, and he couldn't feel anything. But the words "my child" were like a stick that pierced his blank mind, making it impossible for him to think of anything else.
Zheng Qiuyu looked at him nervously, and the air seemed to be still.
Suddenly, the burning fire disappeared! There was no movement at all, and it disappeared on the spot.
Zheng Qiuyu was startled.
The next second,
"Roar!!" The scary demon outside the cave yelled halfway, and suddenly the sound stopped, as if it was cut off by something.
Then the burning fire reappeared, still in the same spot, as if it hadn't moved. He stretched out a hand, holding something dark and the size of a fist, throbbing! A violent force surged from it, shaking Zheng Qiuyu so much that he couldn't stand still. It was a demonic heart!
Zhuo Huo handed the terrifying demonic heart to her like a steamed bun, and said only one word: "Eat."
Zheng Qiuyu's scalp was exploding! Eat this! The energy of this thing would explode into ashes if there were a hundred of them!
She was so frightened that she quickly waved her hands, her face twisted, and she forced a "loving" smile: "No, no! Husband, you are wrong!"
Her voice was shaking badly, "The child... the child is too young! Can't bear such a strong force!" She spoke quickly, "I have to... I have to turn it around, make it gentler, and then... give it to the child again!" She was afraid that the burning fire would do something else, so she quickly sat down.
She quickly stuffed the life-saving pill into her mouth. The medicine dissolved immediately and rushed into her body like fire. It hurt! It felt like all the bones in her body were breaking and reorganizing! She gritted her teeth and held back from crying out.
She stretched out her trembling finger and touched the beating black devil heart, then closed her eyes and pretended to "absorb energy".
A miraculous thing happened. The demon's murderous aura, like poison, collided with the power of the elixir, holding it back on both sides and making it less likely to explode. She felt something dark and smelly coming out of her pores. It felt like something in her body was opening up, becoming stronger. A small, warm energy seemed to emerge from her dantian.
I have completed the first level of Qi Refining Stage! I feel a little lighter and my surroundings are clearer.
She just opened her eyes,
An old man's voice with a strange accent sounded at the entrance of the cave, and it sounded malicious.
"Tsk tsk, it's the God of Burning Fire..." An old Taoist priest dressed in rags and as skinny as a skeleton walked out from the shadows, his triangular eyes rolling around like a poisonous snake.
It's the ancestor of the Wang family! He's not dead!
As soon as the old man came in, his thieving eyes were glued to Zheng Qiuyu. Seeing the spiritual light on her body and the terrifying demon heart in front of her, his eyeballs glowed green!
"A pure Yin body... and it has also absorbed the power of the God..." His mouth was almost drooling, "Top-grade! A top-grade furnace!"
He didn't take Zhuohuo seriously at all, thinking he was useless. The old man turned to Zhuohuo with a look of revenge on his face: "Zhuohuo, do you recognize me?"
"I was the one who drove the 'God-Suppressing Nail' into your bones!" he said proudly.
"Your woman is mine!" He pointed at Zheng Qiuyu. Zhuohuo hadn't reacted to the previous words, and the "Suppressing Nail" had no recollection. But when he saw the old man's disgusting look at Zheng Qiuyu, and heard the words "Your woman is mine," his bloodshot eyes suddenly blazed with an unprecedented rage! Pure, all-consuming rage!
His voice was as cold as ice, and he slammed out word by word:
"Who are you looking at?"
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