Leng Mushi breathed rapidly, tears flowing madly from under Xiao Mian's palms, her chest heaving rapidly, but her limbs were out of control and too stiff to move at all.
Xiao Mian covered Leng Mushi's eyes with one hand, and put the other hand around her shoulders, holding her in his arms, hugging her tightly, and constantly whispering comfort.
"It's okay, it's okay," Xiao Mian said, "It's all fake. This is a heart-searching formation. Everything is an illusion."
Xiao Mian was very upset. He had been here for a while. This place was created based on the tester's greatest fear and the most difficult decision in his life.
Xiao Mian first entered his own illusion, and became a dried skeleton on the roadside who was about to starve to death. It was a nightmare he often had. He could not remember many things, but he clearly remembered someone told him when he was dying that he could come back to life as long as he ate the corpses of the people around him.
Xiao Mian didn't know how many times he had faced such a choice, but in the end there would always be someone whose face he couldn't see clearly, pouring water on his face and stuffing cakes into his mouth.
In the nightmare, water could no longer save his life, and he couldn't swallow the pastry in his mouth at all. But because of the water and the pastry, he finally held back and did not listen to the voice and eat human flesh.
He broke through his own conscience and was able to find Leng Mushi.
He found her too late. When he found her, she was already in deep pain. Her cultivation was still insufficient and her spiritual awareness was too weak, so she was frightened by this heart-searching formation.
He held Leng Mushi like this for a long time, and they stood together in the dark room filled with the smell of decay. Xiao Mian didn't know what Leng Mushi was most afraid of, but based on the appearance of the environment, he could guess it.
The woman who was already dead in the curtains on the bed should be her mother. Xiao Mian had no memory of his parents, but at this moment, because of Leng Mushi's painful crying and trembling body, he could empathize with her pain when she lost her mother and the shadow that this incident brought to her.
But her heart test was forcibly interrupted, and Xiao Mian didn't know what choice she would face in the end. Unable to bear to let her watch any longer, he held her to comfort her, until the surrounding scenery gradually fell apart under Leng Mushi's calming, and the two of them gradually placed themselves on the flat ground in the formation. Xiao Mian could no longer feel Leng Mushi trembling, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm fine." Leng Mushi exhaled slowly, reached out and patted Xiao Mian's arm, trying to get him to let go.
Her eyes were blocked by Xiao Mian's hands, so she couldn't see anything. She was secretly grateful to him, but actually... she had never really seen the scene in the illusion.
That year, she was covered by heavy snow and fainted. She also had a high fever and was unconscious for several days. When she woke up, her mother had already been buried.
Leng Mushi hated her father so much because she didn't even see her mother for the last time. She even knew what Wen Xinguan wanted to ask her.
Xiao Mian slowly opened her eyes, but did not let go of the arms that were holding her.
The two men stood one in front of the other. Leng Mushi's eyes had been covered for too long, and when Xiao Mian took his hand away, everything became blurry for a short time.
She raised her hand and rubbed it, and when she could see clearly, she looked down and found that Xiao Mian's arm was still around her, passing over her right arm, around her front, and grabbing her left shoulder.
Leng Mushi has completely calmed down. After she calmed down, she thought back and realized that everything in the illusion just now did not stand up to scrutiny. It was as if all the hatred and resentment had been magnified.
Although her mother had been dead for so many years, Leng Mushi was not actually so deeply trapped in the past that she could not extricate herself. She just lost control for a moment.
But she recovered and slapped Xiao Mian several times, but Xiao Mian still didn't let go, and even put his cheek close to hers... This was a bit strange.
Thinking of how Xiao Mian had grabbed her hand regardless of anything in the Five Grains Palace, Leng Mushi gradually stiffened.
"Brother Xiao..." She paused, cleared her throat, and said in an unprecedented serious tone, "Xiao Mian, I'm fine, please let me go, I want to go out."
Xiao Mian was quietly reveling in this rare intimacy. He opened his eyes upon hearing that. Naturally, he was unwilling to let go. After a month of long and repeated analysis of himself, he had already understood his feelings for Leng Mushi.
Although he was a little embarrassed to speak out, at their age and level of cultivation, they should not think about such love affairs and should practice well, but it was hard to suppress the emotions when they were young. Since he was in love, he naturally would not escape.
Therefore, not only did he not let go of Leng Mushi, he hugged her even tighter and even put his other hand around her waist to prevent her from breaking free.
"Can I hold you for a while longer..." Xiao Mian said, "I'll go to the cliff to wait for you every day. I have something to tell you."
Leng Mushi had now completely gotten rid of the shadow of the illusion just now, but fell into another horrifying situation.
After hearing what Xiao Mian said, she quickly shouted, "No, let go quickly, don't say anything, I won't listen to anything you say!"
Xiao Mian's breathing suddenly paused as he gently brushed Leng Mushi's face, and then he laughed softly.
His words were like the sound of wind chimes knocking in my ears: "I'm sorry, did I scare you that night?"
If Leng Mushi's hair wasn't too long, it would have all been flying up into the sky by now.
Xiao Mian released his hand that was hugging her waist, held Leng Mushi's chin, and in such an intimate posture, he turned her head towards him. His voice was very low, with a sweetness that almost turned into substance: "I should have asked for your opinion first, I'm sorry."
Leng Mushi was in Xiao Mian's arms, like a real puppet, being turned and controlled by him. If her eye sockets were bigger, her eyeballs would have popped out by now.
She stared at Xiao Mian closely, and tried her best to lean back to avoid his approach. However, Xiao Mian smiled and hid his unbearable impulse, and asked her: "I was not sober that day, but I am sober now."
"Can I kiss you?" He asked politely, but his action lagged only a little behind his voice, and his lips had already pressed down towards the corner of Leng Mushi's lips.
Leng Mushi felt like a cauldron that had produced an elixir and was about to explode on the spot.
Xiao Mian was always polite, silly and gullible, but Leng Mushi had never seen him so aggressive and tough!
Seeing that their lips were about to touch again, it was not because they had taken medicine and could blame it on the effects of the medicine. If they kissed each other while being sober, Leng Mushi would pout on the spot.
So she gritted her teeth and stepped hard on Xiao Mian's spotless boots. Then, while Xiao Mian was relaxing due to the pain, she squatted down and broke free from his embrace. Then, before she could even straighten her waist, she rolled forward and reached the edge of the formation, trying to slip away again.
She was just like a slippery little fish. As soon as Xiao Mian's arms were empty, she had already reached the edge of the formation. But he couldn't let her go like this. He had something else to say!
Xiao Mian participated in the arrangement of the formation, so he was naturally very familiar with it. If he tried to chase her, he might not be able to reach the exit of the formation before he could change direction.
So Xiao Mian mobilized his spiritual power and slapped the formation next to him. Red-gold runes flowed, and the exit of the formation closed and moved instantly. Leng Mushi bumped into the formation headfirst, got up dizzy, and hurriedly patted the barrier in front of him, his heart in his throat.
It's over.
Her mind was full of these words, and she didn't even know what she was afraid of. Even when she was on the verge of life and death in Fenlian's belly, she didn't have this feeling.
Xiao Mian's attitude is too scary.
Mother, save me!
However, no one could save her. Seeing that she couldn't get out, Xiao Mian was so anxious that he kept slapping the barrier, with a smile in his eyes.
She is so shy!
So cute.
Xiao Mian looked at Leng Mushi's red ears and mistook her shock for shyness and her escape for interest. After all, Leng Mushi had always told him that she liked him very much.
I'd even jump off a cliff for him.
Xiao Mian always knew that although most of the pills Leng Mushi gave him were torture, Xiao Mian could benefit from every torture.
Therefore, Xiao Mian has always been willing to be her medicine man. Even if it is of no help, Xiao Mian is willing to do this test as long as it can help her. The grace of saving her life... cannot be repaid.
But Xiao Mian really didn't know that all this would get out of control. Every time they met at night, they got closer to each other. Her concentration and positivity, as well as her curved eyes when she smiled, suddenly fell into his dream one night, and everything began to get out of control.
At first he just liked looking at her, but later... he just wanted to be closer to her, wanted to see her smile, and when the elixir took effect, listen to her vividly recounting how she fought against demons and beasts in Cangsheng Courtyard in order to divert his attention.
Xiao Mian knew that she had consumed more of these pills, and with her low level of cultivation, the torture must have been ten times worse than his.
But she never said how much suffering she had endured. Just like when she was in the monster's belly, she was resourceful and tough. Even though she was burned on her face, the part of her body that girls care about most, she never resented anyone.
She was like a blade of grass that could stand upright again and radiate vitality in the morning dew even after being crushed countless times. From the very beginning, she attracted Xiao Mian's attention more than the flowers, until he didn't know when she grew all over the mountains and plains in his heart, covering every inch of cracks and land.
But she has always been very straightforward, bold to an extreme... Xiao Mian never knew that she could be so shy, like a little fox whose fur stood up when being petted.
"You can't get out. I changed the formation's structure," Xiao Mian stood not far behind Leng Mushi, trying hard not to smile, but his bright eyes betrayed him.
Leng Mushi stood with her back to Xiao Mian, her facial features focused on the whole situation, and she didn't turn around for a long time.
Xiao Mian was not in a hurry either. He slowly approached Leng Mushi, then put his hand on her shoulder and pulled her shoulder to make her turn her head.
Leng Mushi lowered her head, hunched her shoulders slightly, her face flushed, and she looked very embarrassed.
Xiao Mian had already made up his mind and had rehearsed it repeatedly in his mind, wanting to appear dignified and steady to give her a sense of security.
But seeing Leng Mushi so embarrassed and at a loss, he also began to curl his fingertips, and his breath sprayed on the top of Leng Mushi's head. His breathing was a little disordered, and he tilted his head slightly and sighed, then he spoke.
"I won't scare you again." Xiao Mian said, "It's me... I can't help my emotions, don't be angry."
Xiao Mian said: "Don't leave so quickly, I want to tell you..."
"Don't say that!" Leng Mushi raised her hands to cover her ears with a blushing face. She blushed not because she was shy, but because she was anxious.
What the hell is going on!
This is different from the plot. What's going on? She can't possibly be unclear with Xiao Mian. He is destined to be a couple with Leng Tianyin...
Xiao Mian was amused by her behavior and thought she was so cute. He reached out and grabbed her wrists that were covering her ears.
He quickly pulled it down, deliberately put it close to her ear, and quickly said, "Don't be shy, I like you too."
As he spoke, his lips couldn't help but touch Leng Mushi's red earlobe.
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