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Chapter 123 Secret
Chapter 123 Secret
"Whoosh!"
A bizarre scene suddenly unfolded!
A stream of red and green blood suddenly flew out from the wound on the forehead of the first monster and instantly entered his outstretched palm.
Then, it disappeared!
However, this bizarre scene did not end there!
Blood continued to gush from the monster's wound, forming a thick column that connected the human and the beast.
It burrowed into his palm with terrifying speed!
The whole scene looks bizarre and absurd!
At this moment, not only was Shangguan Yunman stunned.
The two monsters opposite, who had just been so aggressive and ready to strike, were suddenly stunned.
Watching the blood gush out and feeling its strength rapidly disappear, the wounded beast stood frozen for a few seconds before suddenly panicking.
"Aww—"
It immediately roared and prepared to pounce.
But at this point, it already felt dizzy and weak all over.
Then, it hurriedly turned its head and roared at its companion, urging it to pounce on the terrifying human and kill it!
However, its companion next to it remained frozen in place, staring at it with wide, terrified eyes, completely still.
Because at that moment, an even more bizarre and terrifying scene unfolded!
Its enormous body was rapidly shrinking as blood spurted out!
In the blink of an eye, its limbs went limp, and it collapsed to the ground, turning into a emaciated and terrifying dried corpse!
"Waaah————"
Its companion let out a horrified whimper, and without any hesitation, it immediately tucked its tail between its legs, turned around, and darted into the nearby woods, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
The forest returned to silence.
Luo Qingchen withdrew her hand, went over and picked up the dried corpse of the magical beast, examined it from head to toe, and put it into her storage bag.
"This is my secret."
He turned his head and looked at the woman who was still standing there, dumbfounded.
"Therefore, I command you to swear an oath by blood that you will not tell anyone."
Once a blood oath is sworn, even if the blood oath is later broken, the oath must never be broken, otherwise the person will suffer the backlash of their own blood and die instantly.
Upon receiving the order, Shangguan Yunman immediately bit her index finger and swore an oath to the blood pact: "Anu swears that she will never tell anyone about this secret of her master! Otherwise, may she die a violent death on the spot and be condemned to eternal damnation!"
After she finished speaking, she looked up at him with a complicated expression.
Luo Qingchen picked up her sword from the ground, weighed it in her hand, and then swung it around a few times, but couldn't release any sword light. Feeling that she was showing off her limited skills, she walked over and handed it to her, saying, "Want to continue hunting?"
Shangguan Yunman reached out and took the sword, seemingly wanting to get up, but suddenly her body trembled and she sat down again.
At that moment, she felt a sharp pain.
The second monster's fierce attack just now broke her newly repaired right arm and ribs again.
At the same time, the wounds on her abdomen and thighs reopened.
Fresh blood had already seeped through her clothes.
"I—I can't take it anymore—"
She endured the pain, her voice trembling slightly.
At this moment, even though the boy in front of her did not threaten her, her attitude and tone suddenly seemed to have lost their previous arrogance and sharpness.
Are you injured?
Luo Qingchen smelled the strong scent of blood on her body, glanced at the bloodstains on her abdomen and thighs, and could only say, "Alright, let's go back first."
As he spoke, he gripped the knife and walked ahead.
But after taking a few steps, he realized that the other person was not following.
Turning his head, he saw her still sitting in the same spot, staring blankly at him.
"What's wrong?"
Luo Qingchen asked.
Shangguan Yunman, her face pale, said, "I can't get up."
Luo Qingchen turned back, reached out and touched her right arm, then her chest on the side, and then her abdomen.
"What are you doing?"
Shangguan Yunman blushed and glared at him.
Luo Qingchen said, "I'm seeing if you're faking it."
As he spoke, he reached out and put his arm around her armpit, helping her up, and asked, "Can you walk?"
Shangguan Yunman tried to take a step, and her body trembled immediately. A look of pain appeared between her brows, and she couldn't help but let out a groan.
"This is really troublesome."
Luo Qingchen couldn't help but mutter something to herself, then squatted down in front of her and said, "Get on, I'll carry you."
Shangguan Yunman paused for a moment, stared at his back for a few seconds, stretched out her arms to go up to him, then pulled them back, and said coldly, "You don't need to worry about me, it's fine if I die here."
Luo Qingchen stood up, bent down, and picked her up in her arms.
"ah----"
Shangguan Yunman was startled and asked, "What are you doing?"
Luo Qingchen carried her towards the waterfall, saying, "You have injuries to your chest and abdomen, and your arm is broken, so I can only carry you like this."
Shangguan Yunman lay stiffly in his arms, glaring at him and saying, "I don't want you to hold me! Put me down!"
Luo Qingchen said, "You think I want to hug you? You're covered in blood, filthy and smelly, and you have a terrible temper. If I didn't need you later, I would have preferred to leave you there to die."
"you----"
Shangguan Yunman glared at him, both embarrassed and angry, but he wouldn't even look at her. He even stretched out his arms as if afraid her body would touch his chest. She immediately snapped, "You have such a bad temper! And your words are so awful! If you hadn't used the blood pact to control me, do you think I would have saved you just now?"
Luo Qingchen ignored her and continued walking forward.
The two had come out quite far apart, and it was nighttime, a time when magical beasts and hunters frequently appeared.
Now, she is injured again and cannot move.
If they encounter monsters or other hunters again, they will probably die here.
Therefore, he must avoid all dangers.
At this moment, he was holding someone in his arms, gripping a knife in his hand, his eyes warily observing what was in front of him, and his ears constantly listening to the sounds around him, not daring to relax for a moment.
Shangguan Yunman stopped talking and lay silently in his arms. Her tense and stiff body gradually relaxed, and her watery eyes stared at him quietly in the darkness.
"Rustling sound—"
At this moment, the only sounds are the footsteps touching the bushes and grass, and the whistling wind in the forest.
Of course, there were also the sounds of their breathing and heartbeats.
Shangguan Yunman felt her heart beating faster for no reason.
She closed her eyes and stopped looking at him.
Finally, the two returned safely to the cave at the waterfall.
Luo Qingchen first placed her on the ground in the corner, then blocked the passage with rocks and placed hidden weapons.
Back in the cave, they lit the oil lamp.
At this moment, Shangguan Yunman finally couldn't help but ask, "You can absorb the blood of demonic beasts? What kind of technique is that? Where does the blood you absorb go?"
These questions probably lingered in her mind the whole way.
Luo Qingchen ignored him, took off her coat, sat down on the quilt, and began to examine the contents of her body.
Within his body, the amount of gilded blood had increased from 5/1000 to 55/1000, a sudden increase of 50.
point!
It seems that the monster we just saw was indeed very powerful.
The cultivation progress has also increased from 2600/3000 to 2620/3000.
Although it only increased by 20 points, it was still a pleasant surprise.
"Besides drinking the blood of monsters, what other blood can you drink? Can you drink human blood?"
Seeing that he was ignoring her, Shangguan Yunman endured for a while, but finally couldn't help but speak up.
Luo Qingchen then looked at her and said, "Of course you can drink human blood. After you've taken your revenge, if you want to commit suicide, come and do it in front of me. I'll drink you dry until you're a dried corpse, then skin you and sell your skin so it won't go to waste."
Shangguan Yunman snorted coldly and said, "Who said I was going to commit suicide? I didn't say that."
Luo Qingchen said, "For someone like you, wouldn't living a life worse than death if you didn't commit suicide?"
Shangguan Yunman coldly replied, "I am a member of the Demonic Sect. Members of the Demonic Sect would rather live a life of ignominy than die. Don't you know that?"
Luo Qingchen ignored her and got up to look outside in the passageway.
It was getting light outside.
He returned to the cave, took out some charcoal, put it in the stove, and prepared to start a fire to brew medicine.
Shangguan Yunman stopped talking.
She hid in the darkness of a corner, took off her coat, and silently tended to her wounds.
"Glug, glug—"
Soon, the water in the pot boiled.
Luo started adding medicinal herbs early in the morning.
After a while, the medicinal liquid in the pot began to boil.
The strong smell of medicine immediately filled the entire cave.
After holding back for a while, Shangguan Yunman couldn't help but speak again: "Your medicinal bath requires fresh blood. Where's your blood? Are you going to cut yourself later?"
While stirring the medicine in the pot, Luo Qingchen said calmly, "If you'd like, use yours."
Shangguan Yunman immediately said, "I don't want to!"
"Then shut up."
Luo Qingchen said coldly.
Shangguan Yunman glared at him for a while, then spoke again: "Are you sure you'll let me leave in two months?"
Luo Qingchen replied, "Yes."
Shangguan Yunman didn't speak again, her eyes flickering as she looked at him in the darkness.
Luo Qingchen brought over the bath tub and began pouring the boiling medicinal liquid from the pot into it.
He got ready to take off his clothes and prepare for the medicinal bath.
At this moment, he looked up at the corner and said, "Want to come and take a bath together?"
Shangguan Yunman was taken aback upon hearing this, then immediately gritted her teeth and said, "Don't even think about it! If you dare to order me around, I'll bite my tongue and kill myself!"
Luo Qingchen looked disgusted: "If you don't want to come and bathe with me, why are you staring at me like that? I'm going to take off my clothes now, can you close your eyes or turn around?"
"----oh."
The anger and shame on Shangguan Yunman's face instantly froze, and she quickly closed her eyes.
Luo Qingchen took off her clothes, got into the bathtub, and muttered, "This is the first time I've seen such a presumptuous woman."
Upon hearing this, Shangguan Yunman's cheeks flushed, and she opened her eyes to glare at him.
Luo Qingchen secretly cut her finger in the water and squeezed out 25 drops of gilded blood.
The blood reacted immediately with the magic stone as soon as it fell into the medicine.
A surge of powerful energy suddenly appeared.
He immediately closed his eyes and began to absorb the energy intently.
soon.
The strong medicinal liquid in the bathtub turned into a light color.
"Whoosh!"
Luo Qingchen got out of the bathtub, immediately returned to bed, sat cross-legged, and began to refine the medicinal energy within her body.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
After dark, he began practicing his swordsmanship again.
Five days later.
The medicinal energy absorbed into the body has been completely refined.
At this moment, the cultivation progress within his body has increased from 2620/3000 to 2720/3000.
280 points away!
Take a rest for the night.
After getting up, he saw that it was already daylight outside, so he continued to start a fire and brew medicine.
Seeing that he had "freed up," Shangguan Yunman finally spoke up from the corner, "How's your cultivation going?"
As Luo Qingchen started the fire, she asked, "Are you in a hurry?"
Shangguan Yunman paused for a moment, then said, "Although you can directly absorb the blood of magical beasts, which is amazing, if you really just broke through to the Nourishing Spirit Realm, which is only a little over three months ago, I still think it's absolutely impossible for you to break through to the Strength Realm in two months. That's simply impossible."
Luo Qingchen fiddled with the charcoal under the stove and said, "Just remember the time. If it's been more than two months, you can leave directly. I won't stop you."
Shangguan Yunman asked again, "Really?"
Luo Qingchen got up and added water to the pot, saying expressionlessly, "Now, all you need to do is focus on healing your injuries and then help me hunt magical beasts. If you want to leave sooner, don't try to be perfunctory."
Shangguan Yunman touched the wound on her abdomen and said, "I should be fully healed in a few days."
Luo Qingchen looked at her and asked, "What about your cultivation level?"
Shangguan Yunman seemed to hesitate for a moment, but still confessed: "My cultivation has now been fully restored."
The cave suddenly fell silent.
Shangguan Yunman knew what he was worried about and said, "Don't worry, even if my cultivation is fully restored, I can't lay a hand on you. Besides, I have no reason to lay a hand on you if you keep your promise."
Luo Qingchen asked, "What if I don't keep my promise?"
Shangguan Yunman's expression was resolute: "Then I'll die with you!"
Luo Qingchen withdrew her gaze, her expression calm, and began adding medicinal herbs to the pot.
Soon, the medicine was brewed and poured into the bathtub.
This time, he didn't remind her again, and Shangguan Yunman turned her head away and closed her eyes.
"Whoosh!"
Luo Qingchen took off her clothes and entered the bathtub.
Then, gilded blood was dripped into the water.
Shangguan Yunman's gaze returned to him, and she couldn't help but ask, "Have you been using your own blood the whole time? Monster blood shouldn't last this long, right?"
Luo Qingchen closed her eyes and began absorbing the energy from the medicinal liquid, ignoring her.
"You must have your own drug users, right? How many do you keep?"
Shangguan Yunman asked again.
Luo Qingchen still ignored her.
Shangguan Yunman had no choice but to quiet down and stare at him blankly.
"Whoosh!"
Not long after, Luo Qingchen came out of the bathtub.
She immediately turned her head away.
Luo Qingchen dressed, walked to the bed, sat cross-legged, and looked at her, saying, "If you don't hunt a magical beast and bring it back in three days, I will use your blood for a medicinal bath."
Shangguan Yunman looked at him and said, "I have venereal disease, and my blood is poisonous."
Luo Qingchen closed her eyes and began to refine the medicinal energy within her body, ignoring her completely.
Two days later.
While Luo Qingchen was cultivating, Shangguan Yunman stood up and said, "My wounds have almost healed, I'm going out hunting."
Luo Qingchen said, "Go, and remember not to waste the blood from the magical beasts."
Shangguan Yunman walked towards the cave entrance, but after taking a few steps, she turned back to him and asked, "May I go to an area fifty miles away?"
Luo Qingchen said coldly, "When we exceed 49 miles, I will crush your heart."
"snort!"
Shangguan Yunman snorted coldly and quickly left the cave.
After dark.
She returned empty-handed, complaining, "The distance was too close, the area too small, and we couldn't find any monsters at all."
Luo Qingchen was cultivating and ignored her.
After resting for an hour, she emerged from the cave again and continued hunting in the woods.
After daybreak.
She returned empty-handed once again, looking at him with resentment, and said, "It's not my fault. I could hear the roars of several magical beasts in the distance, but they were all more than 50 miles away."
Luo Qingchen still ignored her.
She lay down in the corner to rest.
She slept until noon before sitting up in bed, staring at him for a long time, her eyes flickering, and then asked, "Is it true that if I don't hunt a magical beast and bring it back in three days, I'll have to take a blood bath?"
Luo Qingchen was meditating cross-legged in the corner, seemingly ignoring her words.
Shangguan Yunman stared at him for a while longer, then stood up and said, "I'm going hunting."
She didn't return home, exhausted, until dawn the next day.
This time, she still failed to hunt any monsters.
"sorry----"
Seeing the boy still sitting motionless in the corner, she surprisingly apologized.
I'll go out again this afternoon.
Seeing that he still ignored her, she went to a corner, lay down, opened her eyes and thought for a while, then turned to look at him again.
After watching for a while, she closed her eyes and fell asleep, exhausted.
fifth day.
All the medicinal energy in Luo Qingchen's body has been completely refined.
Within his body, the cultivation progress has increased from 2720/3000 to 2800/3000.
200 points away!
Only 5 points of the gilded blood remained in his body.
At this moment, Shangguan Yunman returned, panting, and said, "I encountered a group of cultivators, disciples of your Demon-Slaying Sect. They attacked first. I killed two of them and ran back."
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Luo Qingchen's expression was solemn.
After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "Did you hunt any magical beasts today?"
Shangguan Yunman looked embarrassed and said, "No."
Then he complained in a low voice, "The scope is too small—and there are more and more cultivators—"
Luo Qingchen remained silent.
Shangguan Yunman stole a glance at him for a moment, then cautiously asked, "You don't have any more blood for your medicinal bath, do you?"
Luo Qingchen remained silent and ignored her.
Shangguan Yunman looked at him with watery eyes, hesitated for a while, and then suddenly stretched out her arm and said, "My injuries have healed and my cultivation has fully recovered. Why don't you use my blood first?"
Luo Qingchen was taken aback upon hearing this and looked at her.
Facing his gaze, Shangguan Yunman's cheeks inexplicably flushed, and she quickly explained in a cold voice, "You saved me, so giving you some of your blood is just to repay your kindness. Besides, the faster you cultivate, the sooner I can leave."
Luo Qingchen said, "I not only saved you, but I also imprisoned you with a blood pact. Is that considered a favor?"
Shangguan Yunman looked at him and said, "You said you would give me my freedom in two months."
Luo Qingchen said, "Didn't you say you didn't believe me?"
Shangguan Yunman paused for a moment, then said, "I believe you."
Luo Qingchen looked puzzled.
Shangguan Yunman looked at him with complicated emotions: "If it were anyone else who controlled me with a blood pact, they would have used up all my blood long ago, or they would have already taken my life—so, I believe what you said before, and I believe your promise."
Luo Qingchen stared at her for a while, then hesitated for a moment before saying, "Come here."
Shangguan Yunman immediately came to him.
"Kneel down."
Luo Qingchen gave the order again.
Shangguan Yunman bent her knees and knelt in front of him, then raised her beautiful face and looked at him with her watery eyes.
Luo Qingchen looked at her strangely and said, "Why aren't you glaring at me this time? Every time I made you kneel down before, you would glare at me, and you looked extremely humiliated, as if you wanted to die of shame."
Shangguan Yunman lowered her head, seemingly gathering her emotions, and when she raised her head again, she glared at him with a face full of shame and indignation.
Luo Qingchen pondered for a long time before making her decision, saying, "You may go hunting again tonight. This time, you are allowed to leave your 50-meter-deep lair."
The area outside the li (里).
Shangguan Yunman looked up, a look of disbelief on her face: "Really?"
Luo Qingchen said, "I need Warcraft."
Shangguan Yunman said, "Aren't you afraid that after we've gone more than 50 li, I'll take the opportunity to run away and never come back?"
Luo Qingchen met her gaze for a moment, then said, "Since you trust me, I'll trust you this once. Besides, I'm in dire straits now, and you're the only one I can trust. If you really run away, it's okay, I'll rely on myself."
"A desperate situation?"
Shangguan Yunman looked puzzled.
Luo Qingchen said, "I violated the brotherhood pact and killed many teammates. I'm already a red name in the Demon Extermination Sect."
Shangguan Yunman was taken aback, then suddenly realized: "So that's how it is. No wonder you've been hiding here cultivating—I naturally know about the red name of the Demon Extermination Sect. No wonder there are suddenly so many cultivators outside—"
Luo Qingchen said, "Get up, we'll go out when it gets dark."
Shangguan Yunman got up from the ground, glanced at him a few more times, and went back to the corner to rest.
Outside the cave, it soon got dark.
"I'm going out."
Shangguan Yunman got up from the corner, ready to go out.
Luo Qingchen nodded without saying anything.
Shangguan Yunman hesitated for a moment, still wanting to confirm his previous statement: "Can I really walk more than 50 miles away?"
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"Can."
Luo Qingchen said calmly.
Shangguan Yunman glanced at him again, said nothing more, and walked out of the cave.
At this moment, Luo Qingchen suddenly said, "Could you leave me the 20,000 taels of silver you promised me before? If you don't come back, at least I'll still have some silver."
Shangguan Yunman stopped at the cave entrance.
After a moment of silence, she emerged from the cave, turned back to the cave entrance, and said, "I'm sorry, I lied to you before. I only have two thousand taels of silver on me. If you want it, I'll give it to you when I return tomorrow."
After saying that, she quickly left.
After walking a distance, she touched her chest.
The other party did not become angry or punish her.
"Is he really a disciple of the Demon-Slaying Sect?"
She continued walking into the woods, thinking to herself.
"Whoosh"
She sped up.
Soon, she had darted more than 50 miles away.
Sure enough, she could now clearly feel that the blood pact left in her body by the other party had become very weak and could no longer control her body, consciousness, or life and death.
"I can run now—"
She thought to herself.
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