It's Really Just For The Child

It Really Was Only for the Child

When Ning Yechen hurried back to the wooden hut, he sensed a graceful figure speeding toward him from up ahead. He smiled faintly, quickly dropped from midair into the woods, and switched to strolling along at an unhurried pace.

Before long, Luo Ruying appeared anxiously in front of Ning Yechen.

"Thank goodness. I finally found you."

Seeing Ning Yechen safe and sound, Luo Ruying let out a breath of relief.

But when she saw his calm, carefree appearance, anger flared up in her again.

Worried there might be other demon beasts nearby, she had first sent Luo Hongye home, then hurried out to look for him.

And yet here he was, perfectly relaxed and leisurely, without the slightest sense of danger!

Luo Ruying gave Ning Yechen a slightly reproachful glare and said, "Next time, don't run off to bother with some insect."

"It's very dangerous around here!"

"Was my wife that worried about me?"

Ning Yechen asked despite knowing full well.

With a swish, Luo Ruying's little face turned crimson, and she glared at Ning Yechen in bashful annoyance.

"I—I just don't want the child to lose her father, that's all..."

"Mm? It really was only for the child?"

Ning Yechen leaned close to Luo Ruying, a meaningful smile appearing on his face.

The two of them were close enough to touch, their eyes meeting. With just one more step forward, they would be pressed together...

Luo Ruying's heartbeat sped up uncontrollably. Her feet shifted half a step back, and the blush on her face deepened by a few shades.

Yet she still glared at Ning Yechen with great defiance.

This fellow—even at a time like this, he was still thinking of teasing her!

She was the dignified empress of the Immortal Realm. How could she let a mere mortal tease her!

"It really was only for the child!"

"All right, hurry and come back with me..."

Luo Ruying said in shy irritation, then turned her head and was about to leave.

Watching Luo Ruying's angry, haughty back, Ning Yechen smiled faintly.

He lowered his head to look at his feet, and a flash of inspiration crossed his mind. He directly and gently twisted his own right foot until it broke.

"My wife, actually, I accidentally injured my foot just now..."

"I'm afraid... I can't walk back..."

Ning Yechen dragged his foot for two steps and said "regretfully" to Luo Ruying, who was walking ahead of him.

When Luo Ruying heard this, she turned back, panic flashing across her face. She hurried back to Ning Yechen and crouched down to examine his right foot.

The bones in his right foot had already fractured, and the injury was extremely serious!

When she had clearly seen him walking over just now, he had been perfectly fine!

"Why are you only saying this now! Honestly!"

"You're not careful at all!"

"What would you have done if I hadn't come to look for you!"

Luo Ruying scolded Ning Yechen in great anger, her eyes filled with worry.

Dragging along a broken foot like this—if he unfortunately encountered a demon beast in the woods, it would truly be ten deaths and no life!

"I made my wife worry. I'm truly sorry."

Ning Yechen gazed at Luo Ruying as she grew genuinely angry because she was worried about him. Instead, his heart was endlessly delighted, and the corners of his mouth never once came down.

Luo Ruying had no other choice. After first briefly bandaging and securing Ning Yechen's foot, she turned her back to him and crouched down.

"Get on. I'll carry you back."

Who knew how many powerful demon beasts still existed nearby?

The safest and fastest way was for her to carry Ning Yechen back.

Ning Yechen revealed a sly smile of success, then climbed onto Luo Ruying's back without the slightest politeness, wrapping both arms around her jade-like neck.

Luo Ruying's back was very warm, and her body carried a faint, wonderfully pleasant fragrance.

Ning Yechen simply pressed his cheek directly against her back...

Luo Ruying's face flushed slightly, but considering Ning Yechen was injured and there was nothing to be done about it, she said nothing.

She leapt up and swiftly flew through the forest in the direction of the wooden hut.

In just a few breaths, Luo Ruying carried Ning Yechen back to the wooden hut and had him sit on the bed.

"Father!"

"Yeye was so worried about you!"

The moment she saw Ning Yechen return, Luo Hongye threw herself into his arms and rubbed her cheek against him.

"I made our Yeye worry."

Ning Yechen held Luo Hongye tight with indulgent affection and rubbed her little head.

He had not come back with them, and that had made the little one worry...

Luo Ruying watched the scene with relief, a faint smile curving her lips. After telling Ning Yechen not to run around everywhere again, she turned and left the wooden cottage.

She needed to return to the Immortal Medicine Garden to pick some herbs and make a healing ointment for Ning Yechen.

While she was at it, she also had to carefully patrol the demonic beasts nearby once more and set down a barrier to isolate the area around the wooden cottage!

A single little wooden cottage had no security at all!

There was not even any measure for early warning!

Who knew how that fellow had survived living here for so long...

If he had run into a demonic beast even once, she was afraid they might never have met him...

In the end, she had to be the one responsible for protecting this home!

There were all kinds of medicinal herbs in the Immortal Medicine Garden, and Luo Ruying very quickly found all the herbs she needed.

After that, Luo Ruying began patrolling with the wooden cottage as the center, making sure there was no trace of any demonic beast within a radius of fifty li.

After patrolling most of the way around, Luo Ruying felt more and more that something was strange.

Forget seeing a single demonic beast; she could not even sense the slightest aura of one!

When she had come before, she had clearly been able to sense quite a few...

How had they all suddenly disappeared?

There was such a vast Immortal Medicine Garden here, with such dense spiritual energy and the fragrance of medicines, yet it had not attracted a single demonic beast?

This truly did not accord with common sense...!

There was not the slightest sign of that Black Scale Giant Dragon from before either!

Strange...!

This abnormal situation made Luo Ruying unable to help frowning.

However, with no demonic beasts around, it was just as she wished. It saved her the trouble of dealing with those demonic beasts herself.

Luo Ruying took the opportunity to bury spirit stones in various places fifty li away, using the spirit stones to form an array and activate them.

The spirit stones connected to one another, forming a massive barrier formation that enveloped the entire area around the wooden cottage.

After the barrier formed, it gradually faded into transparency. Even if one looked carefully, it would be very difficult to discover there was a barrier here.

After finishing all this, Luo Ruying felt much more at ease.

Although the barrier she had laid down with her current cultivation could not be considered very powerful, it was absolutely enough to block anyone below the Heavenly God Realm.

By the time Luo Ruying returned, night had already gradually fallen.

Ning Yechen and Luo Hongye, father and daughter, were still playing and fooling around, playing "lift her high."

Seeing Luo Ruying return, the two of them greeted her in unison:

"Wife is back~"

"Mother~"

Luo Ruying nodded with a smile.

Her beautiful eyes swept over the inside of the room again, and after hesitating for a moment, she blushed and asked:

"You, how do you ba-bathe here...?"

Ever since escaping the Immortal Realm, she had not bathed even once in the past several days...

When she had been in the Immortal Realm, she had bathed punctually every single day.

Going several days in a row without bathing was an extremely hard thing for her to endure!

She could go without eating or drinking, but she absolutely could not go without bathing!

But after carefully looking around the room, she saw no wooden tub for bathing at all, and there was no bathhouse set up outside for boiling water and bathing either.

This immediately put Luo Ruying, who wanted to bathe, in a difficult position.

The instant Ning Yechen heard that Luo Ruying wanted to bathe, his spirits rose.

"Wife, you want to bathe?!"

"This husband knows a good place!"