CH 218

"Where did you get that horse bone? Don't bring random things, I've skinned myself almost completely, there's nothing left to feed it to."

Mantou clearly didn't understand Li Huowang's words, lowering its head and using its black nose to nudge the horse hoof towards Li Huowang's feet. "Woof?"

Li Huowang patted its head with his hand and turned to look at Sun Baolu on the opposite side. "Alright, we're almost done eating. You can go now. I know the place is different and the food is different, so just choose some locally produced and storable food."

With a chin lift towards Bai Lingmiao, the white-haired girl handed him a money bag made of broken cloth from her arms.

Sun Baolu weighed it with his hand, stood up, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and walked out. "Okay, it's on me!"

"It's getting late. Let's go to the inn and rest in a single room. It's tiring to be outside all the time." Li Huowang said as he stood up with his crutch. However, he soon encountered a new difficulty. Without Sun Baolu, they didn't know anything about what the people of Qingqiu said.

After some gestures from Gouwa, they finally settled in.

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Mantou followed Li Huowang to this tent-like guest room, turned a few circles, and sat down with its front paws holding the horse bone and gnawing on it with relish.

Lying on the grass mat, Li Huowang breathed a sigh of relief, closed his eyes, and his body involuntarily lay back, feeling a little relaxed from the tension.

A pair of delicate jade hands gently lifted Li Huowang's head and rested it on the soft legs. The equally soft fingers rhythmically pressed his newly grown hair.

Taking a light breath of that familiar fragrance, Li Huowang was about to fall asleep in a daze.

"Wait, your nails seem a bit long." Li Huowang held those hands and slowly opened his eyes, only to find that he was not really Bai Lingmiao but Twin Soul.

Li Huowang found that he could barely see the inside of the red cover from his lying position.

It was very dark inside the red cover, and even with Li Huowang's excellent vision, he could only see eyes that looked like foxes glowing with a faint light.

However, the number of eyes seemed a bit off, not symmetrical, but three eyes, one large and two small.

Immediately afterwards, something inside the red cover gently pulled it, cutting off Li Huowang's line of sight.

"What do you want?" Li Huowang looked at her calmly.

The trouble with Twin Soul in the past may have been an extremely vigilant thing for him, but after experiencing everything before, her matter became less important compared to those things.

"Hehe..." Twin Soul grabbed Li Huowang's hand without a fingernail and slowly brought it into her red cover.

Li Huowang felt snake scales, animal fur, and also felt the "hairpin" that was tied up and painful to touch.Suddenly she grabbed Li Huowang's hand and quickly pulled it down, stuffing it into her bulging clothes.

Then she slowly bent down, and the red veil got closer and closer to Li Huowang's face.

Something was appearing through the red veil, faintly visible to Li Huowang.

There were skeletons, animal skulls, and some indescribable things.

Li Huowang looked at those things calmly and said, "I don't know where you came from or if there are any immortal conspiracies behind you, but I only need to say one thing: if you dare to lay a hand on Bai Lingmiao, I won't let you off!"

"Since you've been watching from the sidelines so many times, you must understand that I have this ability now, even if... using this ability requires a huge price."

Li Huowang threatened her and then waited for her response.

To his surprise, Twin Soul didn't show anger or fear in the face of his threat. She suddenly cried.

The sound was like the eerie cry of a female ghost, making people shudder. Although it was terrifying, Twin Soul was really crying.

She leaned against Li Huowang and continued to sob.

Li Huowang unconsciously hugged her under the red veil, and he didn't know why he did it. It was as if the one crying in his arms was not Twin Soul, but the white-skinned girl who shared life and death with him.

Li Huowang hesitated and then reached out his hand, gently stroking her head after a moment of contemplation.

In the faint crying, exhausted Li Huowang fell asleep.

After traveling all the way, sleeping rough and eating simple, his body was indeed tired and needed rest.

"Senior Brother Li, wake up, we've arrived at Niu Xin Mountain, we're finally home!"

"Home?" Li Huowang opened his eyes and looked at the huge mountain in front of him, as well as the small village under the mountain and the large golden rice fields nearby.

This scene was so harmonious, completely unlike the Peach Blossom Spring.

His gaze moved upward, looking at the appearance of the high mountain. Feeling good, he asked in surprise, "This doesn't look like Niu Xin Mountain, why did you guys give it such a name?"

As he turned around, he saw Bai Lingmiao standing beside him, showing her half-horrifying face with a smile.

Green snake scales crawled on the white fox fur like centipedes, and the black spikes between the fur couldn't stop their movement.

However, when the snake scales finally crawled to the center of her face, they couldn't climb up anymore because two beast eyes that glowed with eerie green light blocked their way."Senior Brother Li, what's wrong with you?" Bai Lingmiao took a step forward while Li Huowang took a step back.

With his sensitive perception, Li Huowang suddenly felt something behind him. He turned around abruptly, and the two distorted beast faces were once again in front of him. "Do you dislike me for looking like this, my dear?"

"Ha!" Li Huowang, covered in cold sweat, suddenly opened his eyes and saw the grayish tent above his head.

Seeing Bai Lingmiao sleeping with her hands clasped to her chest, and Jinshan and Peng Longteng standing in the corner, Li Huowang realized that he must have just had a nightmare.

"It felt so real. I haven't had a nightmare in a long time." Li Huowang turned to embrace Bai Lingmiao and closed his eyes again.

"Was it just a nightmare earlier? Or is this a new nightmare now?" Li Huowang shook his head, "No, this isn't a nightmare now because Peng Longteng and Jinshan are here."

But not long after closing his eyes, Li Huowang suddenly opened them again. He sensed someone lying behind him.

A forked red tongue twisted and extended from behind, gently licking Li Huowang's neck with its white and red spots. "Do you dislike me for looking like this, my dear?"

Li Huowang tightened his embrace around Bai Lingmiao and buried his face in her white hair. He closed his eyes and said slowly, "I don't dislike you, but you're not Bai Lingmiao."