The girl bit her pale lips, her rain-soaked hair sticking to her cheeks, accompanied by the color of pain, making her look all the more pitiful.
Bitten?
Jiang Shouzhong was sowhat taken aback.
He squatted down and said, "Take your hand away, let have a look."
Yelü Miaomiao hurriedly covered herself with her skirt, her apricot eyes wide open with anger and bla, "You’re a grown man... how can you casually look... look at a woman’s that place?"
"We have already beco husband and wife in deed, do we still care about this?"
Jiang Shouzhong frowned.
Yelü Miaomiao ground her teeth, "No ans no!"
Jiang Shouzhong glanced at the small snake he had crushed into mush and asked, "What’s your physique like, are you immune to all poisons? If that’s the case then I won’t look, and it doesn’t matter whether or not this snake was venomous."
"If I had the power of my divine form, I would definitely be alright, but now..."
Upon hearing the words "venomous snake," fear overflowed from Yelü Miaomiao’s eyes, and, whether it was psychological or not, she felt as though there were fire burning at the root of her leg and she even lacked the strength to stand.
Could it be that she was really poisoned?
The girl began to feel uneasy.
Jiang Shouzhong didn’t have the heart to forcibly pull up her skirt to look, so he stood up and said, "Then you wait, I’ll go call Er Liang to take a look at you."
He had just planned to leave when his sleeve was gently tugged by a white jade hand.
Yelü Miaomiao looked frightened and anxious, her voice trembling, "Jiang Mo, don’t go, I feel like there’s sothing wrong with this place, don’t leave here alone."
"How about I carry you into the cave and let Er Liang take a look?"
Jiang Shouzhong suggested.
"No!"
Yelü Miaomiao flatly rejected, her tone mixed with embarrassnt and stubbornness, "There are other people in the cave, I... I’m too embarrassed."
A look of helplessness crossed the man’s face.
She won’t let him look, he can’t leave, and she won’t let him carry her back to the cave... alright, alright, this must be the classic princess syndro, right?
Jiang Shouzhong laughed out of irritation, "Fine, then you can just wait for the poison to take your life, it would also save the trouble of taking you to Yanrong. Even if the poison doesn’t take your life, I guess the wound is going to fester, and turn to pus... yeah, that’s great."
Yelü Miaomiao’s lips trembled, her slender fingers clutching her skirt tightly.
In the end, the girl’s voice was faint as a mosquito’s hum, brokenly saying, "Then... Jiang Mo, you... you look."
He was right anyway, since they had already been husband and wife, and she had even sat on his face before, there was nothing to shy away from.
Having realized this, Yelü Miaomiao suddenly let go of her reservations and modesty, releasing her skirt and staring at the man as she warned, "You... you can only look, do not touch randomly."
"Got it."
Jiang Shouzhong rolled his eyes.
To better examine the wound, he lifted the girl onto a protruding boulder, then ticulously inspected the injury, lifting her clothes scrupulously.
Although Yelü Miaomiao had steeled her mind, she couldn’t suppress the nervousness within, silently biting her lip. She felt a warmth rising from the bottom of her heart, gradually spreading to her cheeks.
"It doesn’t look like it’s from a venomous snake bite," Jiang Shouzhong observed the wound carefully and spoke.
The heat of the man’s breath on the girl’s skin made Yelü Miaomiao tense up in an instant.
The girl’s legs involuntarily drew together.
And then—
Bang!
Jiang Shouzhong didn’t react in ti and was hit on the side of his head by a knee, his head buzzing.
"Sorry... sorry Jiang Mo..." Yelü Miaomiao was startled and hurriedly straightened up to apologize.
And Jiang Shouzhong, in a knee-jerk reaction to the pain, turned his face to the side...
Unexpectedly, their lips touched in that mont.
Yelü Miaomiao’s apricot eyes widened in shock, as if struck by lightning, stupefied beyond words with her mind going blank.
Jiang Shouzhong was also dumbstruck.
Ti seed to freeze in that mont.
The love between a man and a woman arises from the heart as affection, and from the body as desire...
Even though Jiang Shouzhong had been restraining himself, trying to keep his composure, at tis, under certain temptations, his reason was involuntarily suppressed by desire.
In the pouring rain, amidst the flashing lightning and thunder, it seed to foreshadow sothing about to happen.
Neither of them moved.
Jiang Shouzhong’s hands slowly encircled the girl’s waist.
The girl felt dizzy, the astonishnt in her eyes gradually covered by confusion and moisture, but then it transford into terror—as if she had seen so frightening sight.
Jiang Shouzhong reacted swiftly, pulling the girl into his arms, and with a flicker of movent, they were already at one side.
Where they had just been standing, the sight was horrifying—an unending stream of small snakes wriggling out from the crevices in the rocks, as though propelled by so invisible force, pouring out in succession.
What was happening?
A bad premonition suddenly rose in Jiang Shouzhong’s heart, and he said to Yelü Miaomiao in his arms, "Can you walk?"
Yelü Miaomiao’s lips turned pale, "I... I seem to have no strength..."
Jiang Shouzhong quickly adjusted the girl’s clothes and carried her towards the cave entrance.
But to his shock, he couldn’t find the entrance.
The cave seed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no trace behind. Jiang Shouzhong looked around, only to see continuous solid rock walls wherever his eyes landed, no other way out.
Jiang Shouzhong’s heart was filled with astonishnt as he repeatedly confird their location, yet he still couldn’t find it.
"How did the cave vanish?"
Yelü Miaomiao felt the situation was equally implausible.
Jiang Shouzhong, without ti to ponder, urgently called out for ngniang, but received no response.
Thunder roared like violent landslides, and lightning in bizarre and grotesque shapes shot out in all directions, shattering the entire dark sky into fragnted pieces.
Jiang Shouzhong tried to calm himself down and suddenly rembered the Su family’s heir’s disappearance into thin air earlier. At that ti, Su Junwen had ntioned that it was a kind of "Blinding Skill" of the Taoist sects.
Could it be that Mr. Su had secretly set up a Blinding Skill on us?
Jiang Shouzhong summoned his flying sword and madly thrust it in every direction, attempting to break through the illusion, but to no effect.
The man beca anxious in his heart.
After all, Er Liang was still inside the cave.
At that mont, the tiny bell on Yelü Miaomiao’s anklet vibrated, emitting a crisp sound.
Imdiately after, a small and exquisite Flower Fairy erged from the bell, surrounded by a subtle glow like stardust, floating elegantly before Jiang Shouzhong and Yelü Miaomiao.
Unlike the usual tis when this little sprite was only interested in the bell, it seed to be communicating sothing with Yelü Miaomiao now.
Then the Flower Fairy circled in the air before heading toward the right, disappearing into a mountainside.
Seeing this, Jiang Shouzhong grew suspicious and reached out his hand, tentatively touching the seemingly solid rock wall, only for his hand to effortlessly pass through it.
The mountain wall before him was rely an illusion with no physical substance.
Jiang Shouzhong imdiately passed through the rock wall.
To his surprise, he found himself inside a mountainside once again, in a familiar scene, as if he had returned to the starting point.
The Flower Fairy continued to lead the way ahead.
——
Inside the cave, seeing that Jiang Shouzhong and Yelü Miaomiao had not returned for a long ti, Jin Ao wondered, "What are those two up to? Why haven’t they co back?"
Er Liang also wore a worried expression, occasionally standing at the entrance to peer out.
"Elder, should I... go out and look for them?" Tan Shuangshuang whispered.
Jin Ao waved his hand, "Never mind, I’ll go have a look. You all stay here, and don’t wander off."
Suddenly, Er Liang jogged to follow him, "Elder, I’ll co with you."
"No need, just stay in the cave. If your master were here, he certainly wouldn’t let you run around with ," Jin Ao said with a smile.
Hearing the word "master," Er Liang reluctantly waited in place.
Jin Ao stepped out of the cave and shouted several tis, but the pouring rain brought no response at all.
Even when he released his Divine Sense to its limits in an attempt to perceive the surroundings, he still couldn’t find any trace of Jiang Shouzhong and his companion.
Jin Ao proceeded further in the rain, continuing to call out.
Suddenly, Jin Ao sensed sothing amiss and rapidly turned around, only to discover the cave’s entrance had disappeared. In its place was a smooth, mirror-like rock wall with no trace of an entrance.
"Hmph, using Taoist Blinding Skill on , huh."
Jin Ao stepped forward briskly, concentrated his strength in his fist, and fiercely struck the seemingly impregnable cliff.
The mountain wall trembled and countless fragnts of stone peeled off.
Where there had been a smooth, unblemished cliff face was now a deep recess.
Yet the cave still did not appear.
——
The Colorful Taoist, leading Su Junyang, entered the cave.
Upon seeing this, Su Junwen and Tan Shuangshuang showed horrified expressions. Before they could speak, both were flung through the air and brutally slamd against the cave’s wall, producing a dull sound.
Er Liang and Long i’s expressions changed drastically.
"I shall not kill you," said the Colorful Taoist, waving his hand and sitting in front of the fire.
He took out a delicately-crafted bamboo cage and then a wine pouch from his waist, skillfully uncorking it, and gently sprinkled a few drops into the cage.
The wine, clear as crystal, turned into a mist as it hit the cage, dispersing and emitting a strange aroma.
The Colorful Taoist turned to look at Er Liang and smiled, "Little girl, have you ever caught snakes before?"
Er Liang curled up tightly, hugging the treasured sword in her arms firmly.
The Colorful Taoist chuckled, "In the past, I too had a granddaughter about your age, but alas, she passed away too soon. Life is unpredictable, those who wish to live can’t, while those who seek death... yet long to live."
Long courageously stepped in front of Er Liang, holding the girl tightly in her arms and watching the Taoist with a wary gaze.
Su Junyang kicked his brother Su Junwen’s body with his foot and then shot a cold smile towards Tan Shuangshuang, "Did you really think that with a big demon for help, I’d be helpless?"
Su Junwen kept his lips tightly sealed, not saying a word.
Tan Shuangshuang pleaded, "Mr. Su, if you want to capture us, just do it, but let them go. They have nothing to do with this."
Su Junyang was about to speak when the Colorful Taoist frowned, "Silence!"
Su Junyang fell silent, not daring to make another sound.
The Taoist shifted the snake-catching cage slightly backward, glanced at Er Liang, and sighed softly, "The body is like a boat that is not tied, allowed to drift and stop in obstacles. The heart is like wood already turned to ash, what harm is there in being carved and painted with fragrant mud?"
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a fragrant breeze swept through.
It was not ngniang who appeared, but a woman in a large golden robe.
She didn’t look at the Taoist but walked to Tan Shuangshuang and scrutinized her, the corners of her lips curling up slightly, "Hiding rather deeply, almost even fooling . What’s the matter? Grown fond of living as a woman? Luo Mingtang?"
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