After the Villainess Awakens

Chapter 52: Staring with eyes wide open

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Xiao Mian came up to You Zishu and asked him. You Zishu stared at him with a pair of dead fish eyes and said in confusion: "What? I didn't call you."

Xiao Mian suddenly panicked and looked in the direction of Leng Mushi, only to find that she and the cultivator from the Shadow Sect were nowhere to be seen.

He was extremely anxious and searched around for a long time before he saw Leng Mushi standing alone on the edge of a cliff.

The robe she was wearing was scattered on the ground at her feet, and half of it was blown down the cliff by the mountain wind. Part of the robe was still hanging on Leng Mushi's feet, and it looked like she was about to be entangled by the robe and thrown off the cliff.

Xiao Mian's heart was beating faster than a drum. He was frightened to death by her behavior.

All the trees in this area were swept into a mess by the five-tailed dragon's tail. The place where Leng Mushi was standing seemed too close to the edge and was really dangerous.

Xiao Mian ran over in a panic, grabbed Leng Mushi who was staring blankly at the edge of the cliff, and pulled her back to a safe area. He then picked up the robe that was about to fall off the cliff and put it on Leng Mushi to cover the wound on her lower back that had not yet fully healed. Then he asked anxiously, "Why are you here? Did that shadow cultivator drag you here? What is his purpose!"

Xiao Mian's voice was unusually loud, and he used considerable strength to grab Leng Mushi's shoulders. Leng Mushi clasped her hands together at the cuffs of her own sleeves, with a small crimson disc pressing on her palms.

This was given to her by the shadow cultivator just now. The name of this thing is Kunlun Plate. On the plate, there are runes representing different races. According to Yin Yi, it is an ancient instrument for identifying demons. It is more accurate than the Demon Recognition Array and can even identify humans.

Each rune representing a tribe has ten scales in front of it, with a total of five red needles as thin as hair. You can use it to identify the person or monster you want to identify, or even objects that are tainted with a certain smell. There is no need to activate spiritual power, just get close to it. The scale in front of each red needle represents the strength of the aura and bloodline of the species you want to identify.

The ethnic runes represent the human race, the ghost race, the demon race, the monster race, and the cultivators who possess spiritual powers beyond the human race.

When facing the human race, only the red needles of the human race will move, while the others will not move. The same is true for identifying other races. When facing people with both demon and monster bloodlines, the red needles of both demon and monster races will move. Leng Mushi has already tested this on himself and other demon beasts.

Now she was holding the Kunlun Plate in her hand and slowly approached Xiao Mian.

She felt the red needle moving, but did not look at it immediately. Instead, she looked up and met Xiao Mian's panicked and worried eyes, which were filled with an ominous bloodshot color.

"Did he hurt you?" Xiao Mian had already determined that it was the shadow cultivator who surrounded him as if he couldn't be seen by anyone, who secretly held Leng Mushi hostage with ill intentions.

People are always like this. When facing someone they like from the bottom of their hearts, they are always particularly tolerant and trusting without the need for logic.

Leng Mushi looked into Xiao Mian's eyes and clenched the Kunlun Plate in her hand tighter. She could tell that something was wrong with Xiao Mian without even looking down.

It was obvious that if she didn't say anything, Xiao Mian would go to challenge that Shadow Sect master. She chuckled and said, "Brother Xiao, I'm so scared by the way you look like you caught someone having an affair."

Xiao Mian choked. He would be dizzy if Leng Mushi said the slightest soft and gentle words, let alone calling him Brother Xiao.

Leng Mushi said, "Who can kidnap me? That cultivator from the Shadow Sect is more seriously injured than me. He is the one who will lead the training this time. We can get out this time."

Gathering the leaders of the four sects together can open the secret realm. They don't have to wait for rescue. With so many puppet beasts escorting them, there will definitely be no danger.

"But he deliberately sent me away, and the senior brother didn't even call me," Xiao Mian said, "What did he do to you?"

Leng Mushi curled her lips helplessly, "What can he do to me? He was just curious about the Huansheng Pill. I gave him two and sent him away."

Xiao Mian trusted Leng Mushi 100%. After hearing her say this, his tense expression relaxed, and the ominous red marks in his eyes disappeared from the corners of his eyes.

He gathered Leng Mushi's robe and whispered, "The Huansheng Pill is so difficult to refine, why give him two..."

Leng Mushi was feeling a little uncomfortable at first, but when he lowered his eyes and grumbled to her like a child throwing candy, her heart suddenly felt as soft as if it were stuffed with cotton.

She took off her storage bag and handed it to Xiao Mian, "I won't give it to him. I'll give it to you."

Xiao Mian paused, knowing that he was being childish. Leng Mushi curled her lips at him and said, "Whatever good things I refine in the future, I will give them to Brother Xiao. That shadow cultivator has made great contributions in dealing with the demon dragon. I just gave him two pills to play with. Doesn't everything I have belong to Brother Xiao?"

Leng Mushi said this casually, and Xiao Mian's originally shy expression became stunned. He moved his lips quickly. He didn't dare to have any more wishful thinking, but he couldn't help asking: "What... are all mine?"

"Tianyin, Tianyin, what's wrong with you!" Yi Tu suddenly shouted from not far away. Leng Tianyin's whole body was twitching. Yi Tu and Xingzhou held her down, and the disciples also surrounded her.

Leng Mushi and Xiao Mian looked over together, and then passed behind Leng Tianyin and met Yin Yi's gaze. Yin Yi made a gesture to her and Leng Mushi nodded slightly.

Xiao Mian looks like an immortal, but he is actually a kind-hearted person. Leng Tianyin is his junior sister after all, so when he saw this, he quickly wanted to pull Leng Mushi over to check.

He also said: "Disciples are ready to set off. We have puppet beasts to escort us, so we will definitely be able to get out smoothly this time."

Xiao Mian came to hold Leng Mushi's hand, but Leng Mushi shook him off, "I'm not going, you go first."

Xiao Mian knew that Leng Mushi actually cared about Leng Tianyin very much and had helped her a lot in both open and secret ways. It was really surprising that Leng Mushi said she couldn't go.

He hesitated slightly, not knowing what Leng Mushi was up to. Leng Mushi smiled and pushed him, "Go quickly, I'll follow."

Xiao Mian did not suspect anything and found a place for Leng Mushi to sit before leaving. He guessed that she was in pain from her injury and turned around and ran towards Leng Tianyin where the disciples were gathered.

Leng Mushi did not sit down at the place Xiao Mian arranged, but took out the rules from the storage bag and said, "The plot cannot wait until five days later. We will head towards the exit of the ruins soon. There is no cliff for me to jump off, so I will just jump now."

The law paused, but finally came into effect.

"Don't forget what you promised me. After this wave of plot is over, you will teach me how to suppress other spiritual roots." Leng Mushi said again.

The law also complied, but the tone inexplicably made Leng Mushi feel it was depressed

No matter what, seeing Xiao Mian obediently running towards Leng Tianyin to check, Leng Mushi stood up and walked to the edge of the cliff. She quickly began to read the plot in a low voice, "Brother Xiao, if you go to see her again, I will jump from here!"

The law couldn't help but say: "He can't hear it at all!"

Leng Mushi argued, "The plot doesn't say that the male protagonist must hear it!"

As she spoke, she jumped off the cliff without saying a word. She was still wearing Xiao Mian's clothes. After she jumped off, the mountain wind blew the robe up to the top of the cliff, like a desperate butterfly in the gale.

Xiao Mian ran halfway towards Leng Tianyin's direction. Just as he was looking back at Leng Mushi worriedly, he saw Leng Mushi jumping off a cliff. He froze in an instant.

In just a moment, the blood in his limbs and bones rushed at a high speed again, almost breaking his heart. He opened his mouth and shouted in a shrill voice: "Nianci!"

Then he turned around without hesitation, and used his spiritual power to fly towards Leng Mushi, but Leng Mushi had already jumped down, and he could only jump on the robe that was blown towards his face by the mountain breeze.

When Leng Mushi jumped down, she had carefully observed the terrain of the cliff for a long time to make sure that even if there was no such thing as rules, even if the rules were to trick her into death, she would not die if she jumped down.

She even held out hope that the laws were not real, and that they were just individual demons sealed in stone trying to cause trouble, and that the world was not a storybook, so she could do whatever she wanted.

But she never expected that before she even waited to the bottom, Xiao Mian jumped down from above like dumplings.

Leng Mushi was carried by the mountain breeze and turned around when she heard him calling her. When she turned around, Xiao Mian had already jumped off the cliff without hesitation.

This really shocked her. What was Xiao Mian doing

The two people did not touch each other in mid-air. Soon Leng Mushi felt the mountain breeze suddenly disappear, and she hit something. It felt very soft and elastic, but she saw nothing and lost consciousness instantly.

Xiao Mian watched Leng Mushi disappear in front of him. His eyes widened in fear, and the blood in his eyes began to run wildly again, until he quickly bumped into something and then disappeared into the vast cliff.

The disciples who rushed over here climbed up the cliff and looked down, but they could not see anyone alive or dead.

Leng Tianyin's inexplicable convulsions suddenly stopped. When she heard that her sister and Xiao Mian had fallen off the cliff, she ran over like crazy, but saw that there was nothing under the cliff, only Xiao Mian's disciple uniform left on the edge of the cliff.

Everyone was shocked and astonished. The original plan to open the Demon Ruins under the escort of the Puppet Beast had to be postponed. You Zishu personally rode the Puppet Eagle down to the bottom of the cliff to check, but he did not find any traces, not even a trace of blood.

Most of the disciples, grateful for the favor from Leng Mushi and Xiao Mian, were reluctant to leave and went to the bottom of the cliff to check again and again, but found nothing.

At nightfall, You Zishu and the leaders of the other three sects discussed and decided to search for another night and leave the secret realm early the next morning.

He comforted everyone and analyzed rationally, "Without the bodies, we cannot prove that they died. We also did not sense that their life-binding belts were broken. They may have been captured by some birds. The puppet beasts have already started looking for them."

"I have sent a message back to the sect via the spirit bird. The disciples coming to rescue us will enter the secret realm to help us find it. Now it is most important for us to get out first. It is not suitable for low-level disciples to stay in this secret realm for a long time."

You Zishu's tone was flat and emotionless, but the disciples all understood one thing: there was really no benefit for them to stay here. Their cultivation was too low, and they couldn't even get down from the cliff. Although they were protected by the puppet beasts now, if another demon beast similar to the five-tailed demon dragon appeared, they might not be so lucky to survive.

So the next morning, the disciples got ready and set out, escorted by puppet beasts, towards the exit of the demon ruins.

Leng Mushi and Xiao Mian had just woken up in a daze. They didn't know where they were and it was grey everywhere. It wasn't so dark that they couldn't see, but they didn't know the change of day and night. The first thing they tried to get out after waking up was to go out, but they couldn't.

No one knew what this thing was. The spiritual energy in their bodies had dissipated to almost nothing. The spiritual energy was completely isolated here, and there were thick walls of flesh all around. They didn't know what demon had swallowed them.

As for why she knew it was a demon, it was because Leng Mushi tested it with the Kunlun Plate.

Xiao Mian chopped at the monster several times with the Shuiyun Sword. The flesh wall was ridiculously thick. After one sword penetrated, it automatically closed again. The monster did not cry out in pain, but he could feel that it was moving, but very slowly, and he did not know where it was moving.

Two people were trapped inside, and their lives were not in immediate danger, but they were arguing.

Or rather, Leng Mushi was arguing unilaterally, "Is there something wrong with your brain? Why did you jump down with me?"

Leng Mushi summoned the law in her mind, and the law had been pretending to be dead. According to the contents of the so-called "storybooks" that Leng Mushi had read, she should have been slightly injured in this jump, but now she didn't know what demon's mouth she had jumped into!

She couldn't go out, and could have argued with the law to fight for her rights, but perhaps because Xiao Mian was here, the law remained silent.

Leng Mushi could only vent her anger at Xiao Mian, mainly because she couldn't understand, "Are you trying to commit suicide for love with me? You..."

"I didn't think about anything at the time." Xiao Mian was scolded by her many times, but he still explained in a good-tempered manner.

The space they were in, that is, the belly of this demon, was actually not small, but it was cut layer by layer, and its self-healing ability was very good, and the cut flesh walls would quickly return to their original state.

"You just jumped down without thinking." Leng Mushi was so angry that her head hurt, but she couldn't say anything more extreme. She couldn't deny that apart from the anger that had almost dissipated, she felt more sour in her heart.

She was afraid of crying, so she used anger to cover it up. She had never met a fool like Xiao Mian, who actually dared to follow her and jump off the cliff.

No matter how high a monk's cultivation level is, he is afraid of the knife. Before they ascend to heaven, even if they age very slowly, they will still grow old, get sick and die. If they jump down rashly, even if they are injured beforehand, they will die.

Leng Mushi knew that Xiao Mian liked her and cared about her, and that his youthful enthusiasm had not yet won her over, so she was naturally extra eager. However, she really didn't expect that Xiao Mian would risk his life without hesitation. His display was too grand, and it frightened Leng Mushi's heart.

But it seems that there are some clues. Leng Mushi had already seen Xiao Mian's true feelings when he took care of and protected her in the fox's lair.

She just didn't understand why they, who were so young in the world of cultivation, had to be so affectionate and affectionate to each other. This made her... what should she do

"Then why did you jump?" Xiao Mian put away the Shuiyun Sword and tried to condense his spiritual power, but failed again. He didn't know how many times he asked Leng Mushi this question.

"I've already told you, I was too thin and got blown down by the wind..." She even felt that what she said was bullshit. Xiao Mian, who always had no doubts about what she said, didn't believe her. He just looked at her with an unclear expression, feeling helpless.

Leng Mushi simply stopped talking and sat cross-legged on the ground, or to be exact, on the flesh wall. The monster's belly was filled with flesh wall from top to bottom and left to right, but it was not pitch black, but emitted a gray light.

It's strange that it feels dull but not suffocating.

Leng Mushi patted the slowly moving flesh wall, "What on earth is this thing? If we are inside its stomach, why is there no digestive juice that all monsters and beasts have?"

"I haven't read about this kind of monster in ancient books either," Xiao Mian also sat down next to Leng Mushi. He sighed slightly and said nothing more.

The two people sat there silently with their arms very close to each other. Under the dim light, time passed silently.

After a long time, the two stopped quarreling and just sat there quietly. An unknown atmosphere was spreading, surrounding them endlessly, making Leng Mushi's heart confused.

It made Xiao Mian's heart area feel tearing and painful.

"Don't be angry with me," Xiao Mian really couldn't coax Leng Mushi, so he had to use his trump card. He took out a handful of white flowers from the storage bag that looked a bit like mushrooms, but had curved edges and felt as hard as bones.

"This is for you," Xiao Mian said flatteringly with a gentle smile, "Haven't you been looking for this?"

Leng Mushi turned her head and was stunned.

"Huan Shenghua, you..." Leng Mushi choked up halfway through her sentence.

The illusion flower only grows on the bones in the illusion fox's lair. It is an important thing for practicing barrier-breaking and curse-removing pills, but the illusion fox's lair is really hard to find, and Leng Mushi has always wanted this thing.

But when they met the Fantasy Fox, the situation was always critical. Later, when she advanced, her nest collapsed. Xiao Mian had been protecting her before she advanced, and he stayed with her all the time after she advanced. He never left her sight after she advanced. He could only go to the white bones of the Fantasy Fox in the waterfall pool when the Fantasy Fox's nest collapsed to find the Fantasy Flower for her.

Leng Mushi looked at the flowers growing from the bones and felt her mouth dry and her heart stuffy.

She didn't dare to look at Xiao Mian, nor did she dare to reach out to accept such a deep affection that was so heavy that it was unbearable.

She made a deal with Yingzong, but she still had no confidence that she could retain Xiao Mian's consciousness.

"You... why bother?" Leng Mushi didn't know what to say. Xiao Mian handed the flower to her. She moved her fingertips. Many delusions and words to break them piled up in her throat, choking her and making her unable to say anything.

Xiao Mian was still talking, as if trying to comfort a tantrum-throwing child, "I know it's a little strange to give you the White Bone Flower for the first time. When we get back to the sect, I'll find you other fairy flowers and herbs. I know there are some in the back mountain. They're very pretty and can be used as medicine. We'll record their medicinal properties together then."

Leng Mushi didn't say anything, but she raised her hands, held them together, and finally took the Huansheng Flower from Xiao Mian's hand.

She lowered her head solemnly and took it upright, as if what she took was not a handful of illusory flowers, but Xiao Mian's heart that had been dug out of his chest.

But how ridiculous it was, he couldn't even give her his heart. Not even the heart of this body belonged to him.

Leng Mushi stared at the fantasy flowers in her hand for a long time before she opened the storage bag and put them in.

When she came, she prepared so many bags, wanting to store the things she found in this secret realm, but they encountered so many things, her bags were empty, Xiao Mian's storage bag was leaking, and even her Soul Control Pills were mostly consumed and broken, and there were only a few of the newly refined Illusion Pills left.

In her storage bag, there were only the illusion flowers that Xiao Mian had found for her.

"I actually looked for other things, but I don't know where they went," Xiao Mian said, taking out the things in the storage bag, half-kneeling in front of Leng Mushi, and said with a smile, "Look, luckily your robe has blocked some of the leaks, and luckily the snacks I brought for you were wrapped inside the robe."

Xiao Mian opened his robe and wiped his hands. "There is no way to clean it now, and I can't use the cleaning technique. You can just eat a few bites. There is still some water in the water bag. I couldn't take it out originally, with so many disciples around, but it doesn't matter here. You can eat a little."

As Xiao Mian spoke, he handed the snacks to Leng Mushi. They were all very small pieces, broken into pieces, the size of a thumb.

Leng Mushi looked at Xiao Mian infatuatedly. She stared with her eyes wide open, not daring to open her mouth, for fear that tears would fall before she could eat.

She wasn't sad at all, and there weren't any strong ups and downs in her heart, but for some reason, her tears just wouldn't obey. It felt a bit like the first few years after her mother passed away. She could clearly smile happily, but sometimes she would cry without warning.

Leng Mushi didn't like the feeling of being out of control, and her mother wouldn't like her being unhappy, so she even thought about refining some kind of elixir to control herself from crying, just like she had refined the elixir to eat up her menstrual period.

These things shouldn't exist.

But now she was a little overwhelmed. Xiao Mian was too annoying.

Xiao Mian was still chattering away, like thousands of frogs in a summer pond, croaking endlessly at her.

Leng Mushi wanted to tell her to stop talking, but she couldn't move. Once she moved, the tears that had filled her eyes would definitely burst out. How could she explain

So she listened to Xiao Mian still saying to himself: "There is still a whole piece here, you eat this, and give me the broken pieces." Xiao Mian thought that Leng Mushi despised him and that was why she didn't open her mouth. He stuffed a small piece into his own mouth and handed the whole piece to Leng Mushi.

In fact, he was also hungry. People above the Yuezhong level could practice fasting, but Leng Mushi didn't want to do it. It was not time for Xiao Mian to leave the mountain yet. After such a long time, Xiao Mian would also be thirsty and hungry.

It’s just that taking care of Leng Mushi has become his habit and pleasure, so he naturally wants to take care of Leng Mushi first. After all, even if he hasn’t practiced fasting, a cultivator will not starve to death in ten days or half a month.

Leng Mushi still didn't move, her eyes were wide open and she tilted her head slightly.

Xiao Mian opened her clenched hands and stuffed most of the whole dessert into her hands, "Eat it, it's very sweet."

Leng Mushi brought the snack to her mouth woodenly, and as soon as she opened her mouth, tears started to fall.

She took a bite, but didn't taste anything, so she couldn't help sobbing.

Xiao Mian thought she was choking and quickly handed her some water. Leng Mushi's expression was distorted as she tried to hold back her tears. She pouted and glanced at Xiao Mian, then threw away the pastry and hooked her hands around Xiao Mian's neck, biting his lips which were also stained with some pastry residue.

Xiao Mian half-knelt on the ground, frozen like a puppet. Leng Mushi held his face, pressed her lips against his, and cried with tears streaming down her face.

The author has something to say: Leng Mushi: I’m afraid that tears will flow before I even say anything.

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