Chapter 35

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Ning Yuechan stood where she was like a wooden puppet, not saying anything.

Gongsun Zhi suddenly thought of something and started looking around anxiously as he quietly muttered, “Did she lose her soul? Could it be a Heaven Demon…”

He took out a maroon-colored, small formation disk and used his fingers to press on it several times in a row.

There was no reaction from the formation disk.

Gongsun Zhi was relieved. He looked at Ning Yuechan, then at Gu Qingshan, then he kept quiet.

Since it wasn’t a Heaven Demon eating at her heart, there was nothing wrong with Ning Yuechan. This matter was between Ning Yuechan and Gu Qingshan, so Gongsun Zhi wasn’t going to interfere.

There were consequences to all choices made. Choosing whether to accept Gu Qingshan’s kind gesture of saving her life or not had huge consequences, and Ning Yuechan had to make her own decision on this matter. Nobody else could make this decision on her behalf.

But Gu Qingshan was getting anxious as he looked at Ning Yuechan.

The demon army was already on their way, but this woman was still in a daze instead of quickly choosing to treat her injuries.

The moment the demon army got there, things would get tricky, even if just a Faceless Giant got there, never mind the rest of the army.

The moment Gu Qingshan thought about this, he couldn’t stand it anymore. He grabbed Ning Yuechan’s pretty hand and put the Demonic Python’s gall bladder into it.

He said loudly, “Why are you still in a daze? If you don’t want to die, then you need to treat your injuries right now!”

Gongsun Zhi’s face twitched as he looked nervously at Ning Yuechan and was all prepared to step in and counsel her if necessary.

This boy had actually grabbed Ning Yuechan’s hand. Did he really not know what Ning Yuechan did to men who touched her?

All these years, any man who dared to do something like that had all been rendered useless by her and couldn’t cultivate any more.

After the two of them stared so hard at her, Ning Yuechan finally started moving.

She looked intently at Gu Qingshan and said, “Give me five minutes. I’m going to meditate and treat my injuries.”

Gongsun Zhi raised an eyebrow in surprise.

Since when was the Celestial Pole Sacred Lady, Ning Yuechan, so cooperative?

Gongsun Zhi shook his head quietly. Women were always so fickle-minded and were even harder to understand than formation techniques.

But Gu Qingshan was satisfied with this answer. He quickly replied, “That’s the right thing to do.”

To him, that should have been the first reaction she’d had. She would have the energy to fight only after her body was all healed up.

He didn’t know how powerful Ning Yuechan was, but since she could still fight five demon generals for an entire day and night despite being so heavily wounded and without supplies in his previous life, then her battling ability couldn’t be poor.

Ning Yuechan hung her head and quietly started speaking, “Thank you for the—”

But before Ning Yuechan could finish speaking, Gu Qingshan didn’t look at her anymore and pulled Gongsun Zhi to one side instead.

He started speaking to Gongsun Zhi. “Since we’ve got a bit of time, General Gongsun, I have some experience with combat strategy, and I know a bit about this, so I have some questions I was hoping you could help me with.”

Gongsun Zhi was a Formation Grandmaster and a strategist of the human combined army. He was a very famous legend in history.

There were many historians who said that he had passed on too early. Otherwise, the battles wouldn’t have ended the way they had.

Gu Qingshan had also been a battle strategist in his previous life, so when he met with Gongsun Zhi, it was like meeting a rival chess player, and he really wanted to have a round with Gongsun Zhi.

Gongsun Zhi was a little stunned when he saw how intensely Gu Qingshan was looking at him and said, “Sure.”

Gu Qingshan immediately started asking, “When the battle first started, why did you arrange for the Five Element Mages from both the southern camp and western camp?”

Gongsun Zhi replied, “Well, to answer your question, I felt that placing them this way had three benefits…”

The two of them quickly started getting into deep conversation.

Ning Yuechan sat down in front of the sitting mound. She hesitated for a while before removing the silver mask on her face.

She used her Divine Sense to watch the other two men carefully. But neither of them turned to her and neither had used their Divine Sense to watch her either.

Gongsun Zhi was famous for being obsessed with formation strategies and techniques all his life. He didn’t even bother himself with finding a partner because he said it was a waste of time.

It wasn’t surprising that Gongsun Zhi wasn’t distracted by her. But why didn’t that young fellow turn either?

Ning Yuechan consumed the gall bladder in small bites and would steal a glance every now and then. But Gu Qingshan continued to ask Gongsun Zhi about military strategies very seriously.

Ning Yuechan pricked up her ears to listen carefully for a while to find that Gu Qingshan wasn’t just putting on an act. He was asking very serious and difficult questions, so even Gongsun Zhi took a while to think about his questions carefully before answering.

But this had successfully caught Gongsun Zhi’s attention, and he started to discuss various battle strategies with Gu Qingshan.

Gongsun Zhi was much more senior in this aspect and always held extremely high standards, so he normally didn’t even bother talking to people from other sects. But now he was having a very serious discussion with this young boy about battle strategies, and they seemed to be getting more and more excited as they exchanged words.

This was really rare.

Besides being surprised, Ning Yuechan was also a little depressed.

She wasn’t wearing her mask now.

There were so many cultivators who had yearned to see her face so badly that they were distracted in battle, made mistakes, and some even lost their lives as a result.

She wore a mask to prevent others from seeing her face. She had taken it off now, so why didn’t he turn to look?

After Ning Yuechan had finished eating the gall bladder, she quietly put her silver mask back on.

She only felt confusion in her heart that she didn’t know how to describe.

But after a short while, Ning Yuechan closed her eyes and started to heal her injuries, so all these messy thoughts slowly disappeared from her mind.

At the army camp.

Zhao Liu had taken apart half a small hut and piled the wood up neatly.

Winter was coming, so he was going to use this as firewood.

There weren’t any supplies, but there was plenty of clean water and condiments for cooking.

He also had quite a bit of demon meat stocked up. Gu Qingshan had only taken a little when he had left, so Zhao Liu took the time to marinate and wax the rest so that he could keep it for a long time.

The formation was working well. Zhao Liu counted the days carefully and added Spirit Stones when necessary.

Zhao Liu felt that life was good and he felt at ease.

As long as the human combined army made one or two attacks in the next few days, he would be rescued.

If a mere cook like him managed to be the sole survivor at a frontline army camp that had fallen to the enemy, he would probably be the talk of the town.

If he became a hero, then all his relatives back in the village would definitely welcome him with great fanfare.

Then, with this reputation, he could even marry a pretty good woman, and then he would have lived a fairly glorious life.

Just as Zhao Liu was thinking about these things, there was a huge blast outside the camp. A titanic foot stepped down from the clouds, and the ground kept shaking.

Soon enough, another massive foot landed on the ground.

After a while, the booming sound faded.

Zhao Liu watched the giant creature walk away and suddenly felt that he had become bolder after he had seen more of these things.

That boy said that this was a Chaos Species demon—a Faceless Giant.

But regardless of what terrifying demon it was, Zhao Liu was confident that he was safe within the Magic Concealment Formation.

After seeing it so many times, Zhao Liu didn’t think this demon was anything great.

But strangely enough, this creature seemed to have come around more and more often.

It seemed to be trying to look for something but simply couldn’t find it.

Just as Zhao Liu was still deep in thought, that was a huge boom from afar again.

The footsteps drew near again.

Zhao Liu sighed in annoyance and was prepared to wait for the footsteps to disappear before going back to rest in his room.

After a while, those footsteps disappeared again.

Zhao Liu yawned and started making his way back to his room.

He happened to glance at the entrance of the army camp and immediately froze on the spot.

That pair of terrifyingly huge feet were now standing at the entrance of the army camp without moving.

The sky suddenly turned dark, and the entire army camp was shrouded in darkness.

Zhao Liu looked up to see a horrifying, enormous hand coming down from the sky and blocking all the light.

The thin, glowing layer around the army camp flickered, then burst like a bubble as the huge hand approached.

Oh no.

Zhao Liu watched as that terrifying, huge hand came closer and closer, and he suddenly remembered what Gu Qingshan had told him.

An immense feeling of regret overwhelmed him, and Zhao Liu started screaming in despair.

“No! Don’t eat me!”

That was the last thing Zhao Liu was able to shout.