Chapter 125: Seeing You in Pain, I Will Also be in Pain
Lou Mu Yan was startled. She found that Ming Xiu’s narrow and long phoenix eyes were filled with an inexplicable anger.
“You followed me down here?” Aside from this reason, she couldn’t think of other reasons for why Ming Xiu would go deep into the lava pool.
Ming Xiu walked up to Lou Mu Yan and stretched out his hand to gently stroke her chin that still had some dried-up blood. Seeing her in a daze, he chuckled gently: “Naturally.”
As soon as Lou Mu Yan lowered her head, she saw Ming Xiu’s distinctively bony, white, and slender hands stopped by the side of her lips.
The force on his hand was very light, and his fingertips carried a thin layer of calluses left from practicing swords, but they weren’t rough. It stroked past her lower lip, and her heart felt as if it was being tickled by a feather, tingling and numb.
“Just why are you so bold?” Ming Xiu’s hands continued to rest on Lou Mu Yan’s soft, tender face, and sighed slightly.
Lou Mu Yan was dumbfounded, “What?” Why she was so bold? What did that mean?
“You actually dare to absorb and refine the Purple-Gold Spirit Fire without anyone else with you. Do you dislike having a long life?” Ming Xiu raised an eyebrow and the strength in his hands increased a little.
Lou Mu Yan furrowed her brows. She was still a little uncomfortable with such intimate actions, so she turned her head away from the hands that were making mischief and said leisurely: “Thank you very much for your help, but I also did it because I had confidence.”
Ming Xiu used his wood attribute Elemental Energy to help relieve her of the scorching pain and helped her suppress the Purple-Gold Spirit Fire, which indeed reduced the time required for her to refine it, as well as reducing the pain, but even without him, she’d just need to spend some more time and she’d still be able to succeed.
“I know, but seeing you in such pain, I will also be in pain.” Ming Xiu’s boundless, deep eyes carried some emotions, as if a spring breeze trying to enter into the depths of the woman’s heart opposite.
Lou Mu Yan didn’t expect that Ming Xiu, this devilish man, could say such cheesy words. Her face was unconsciously dyed with a layer of light pink, and there was an indescribable feeling in her heart, like sweetness, but she was also at a loss.
“How did you come down here? What about the Ice Luan that fought with you?”
Ming Xiu didn’t want to scare the little woman back either, so it was better to take their relationship slowly. He had already woven a big net, and at the same time as placing himself in the net, he’d also pull the woman he loved into it.
“After I dealt with that bird, I felt your aura gradually weaken. When I rushed over, I was still too careless and let you be shot down into the lava pool by a sneak attack. I was afraid something would happen to you, so I followed.”
Ming Xiu indeed blamed himself inwardly. He destroyed the self-destructing blood and flesh fireball, but he didn’t prevent that small side character who suddenly appeared. In the end, he was slow by half a beat and let Lou Mu Yan be injured.
Speaking of Hu Fei, Lou Mu Yan’s eyes grew cold. At the time, it wasn’t that she didn’t detect Hu Fei’s killing intent, but her Spiritual Energy was completely exhausted, and she wasn’t able to respond to the sneak attack.
“Who would’ve thought that Hu Fei would risk his life to kill me. He was very close to me at the time, and his sneak attack was too fast, so it’s normal for you to not have been able to stop it.”
She didn’t blame Ming Xiu, and instead, thanked him in her heart.
If it weren’t for his golden sword aura annihilating the attack of that black-clothed man, she might’ve already used Soul Seal.
“By the way, did you deal with Hu Fei when you came down?” Based on her understanding of Ming Xiu, this man shouldn’t have let Hu Fei go so easily.
Ming Xiu took out a black porcelain bottle from his interspatial ring and handed it to Lou Mu Yan, “I shattered his body and threw his Soul into this Soul Confinement Bottle.”
He had absolutely no worry that Lou Mu Yan would feel that his actions were cruel. He believed she understood him.
Sure enough, Lou Mu Yan took the bottle without a change in expression, opened it and used her Mental Energy to probe into it. She found that Hu Fei’s Soul was currently very weak and was on the verge of collapse—he was probably deliberately tortured by Ming Xiu’s methods.
She withdrew her Mental Energy and smiled: “Can you temporarily keep it so that his Soul won’t be destroyed? I suspect that he’s related to the group of people in black who tried to assassinate me.”
“Mm, leave it to me.” Ming Xiu thought the same way, so after torturing Hu Fei’s Soul, he didn’t destroy it directly.
“Alright!” Lou Mu Yan nodded with a smile. She believed that with this man’s methods, Hu Fei would spit out the clues he knew very soon.
When she found the culprits behind them, and when the time was right, she’d definitely personally arrive at their door and properly calculate their total debt.
After that, Lou Mu Yan cast her gaze on the scattered Heavenly Frost Golden Essence where the Purple-Gold Spirit Flame was before. She raised an eyebrow and said to Ming Xiu: “How about half-half?”
“Sure!” Ming Xiu glanced at the Heavenly Frost Golden Essence and didn’t conceal the fiery desire in his eyes. His temperament was so that he didn’t like to be quarrelsome—this thing was of great use to him.
Lou Mu Yan grabbed in that direction, then the Heavenly Frost Golden Essence was divided into precisely two portions in front of her and Ming Xiu.
The two put away their portions, then Ming Xiu took out the three pieces of Heavenly Frost Golden Crystals he successfully snatched earlier, “Take these.”
“You sure are generous.” Lou Mu Yan knew that the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal wouldn’t be of much use to Ming Xiu now that he had the Heavenly Frost Golden Essence. So she wasn’t polite and accepted it.
With these Heavenly Frost Golden Crystals, she was now able to arm her close ones in the Lou Clan from head to toe.
A clear and sexy voice spilled from Ming Xiu’s lips as an eyebrow was slightly raised, and he was stained with a devilish, amorous charm, “Didn’t you tamper with the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal early on?”
Lou Mu Yan glared at him, and raised an eyebrow, saying: “How could my little Array fool you?”
Yes, when the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal was born, and when she froze the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal, she added an Array of Spiritual Energy Condensation. If they didn’t have her to crack it, even if others snatched it, they wouldn’t be able to use it.
Of course, she was certain that her Array could be solved by Ming Xiu. This was just an instinctive feeling, and her intuition had always been very accurate.
Ming Xiu carried a mysterious and noble temperament. She had seen people with this temperament back in the Spirit World, on the people of the Grand Immortal Cultivator’s Clan, or on the proud children favoured by the Heavens.
This man had an extraordinary background, and the force or story behind him might not just be a mere Ming Chamber of Commerce Alliance.
But Lou Mu Yan didn’t intend to ask more. The more mysterious he was, the more challenging he was, wasn’t it?
This man, for her, could disregard danger and dive deep into the bottom of the lava pool—at the same time as making her heart tremble, there was also a recognition.
“Your knowledge in Arrays is very deep. Although I can crack it, but I also need to use some means to do it.” There was admiration in Ming Xiu’s eyes.
The little woman’s attainments in Arrays were even stronger than the enshrined Array Master in the Nine-Layers Hall. Given time, when her cultivation base reached a certain level, she definitely would blossom in radiant splendour on Tian’ling Continent.
He would take her beneath his wings, but he wouldn’t hinder her from flying freely. His woman didn’t need to hide behind him. He knew that she wanted to stand with him shoulder to shoulder.
His, Ming Xiu’s, woman, would naturally be the best. The stronger she was, the more he liked her.
Lou Mu Yan smiled lightly and indifferently. Her mastery in Arrays was stronger than her talent for Alchemy. After she forms her Nascent Soul, she could then perform some of the other Arrays and restrictions. By then, one would probably not be able to find any who could crack them on Tian’ling Continent.
“Let’s go out first. After staying in here for so long, I’m afraid that Eldest Brother and the others would be anxious.”
“Alright.”
Ming Xiu took a step towards Lou Mu Yan and held her in his arm. A layer of light blue Water Elemental Energy shield enveloped the two of them. He tapped his foot and the two disappeared in this space.