Ten-Day Flower Protection Pact

At that moment, the man holding her suddenly mumbled a couple of words. The hard object between her legs nudged her private parts, and the large hand on her buttocks also restlessly squeezed her full flesh.

Yao Rao's delicate body stiffened. She abruptly got up and pushed Qi Bei away, darting back like a rabbit.

Qi Bei bumped his head against the cave wall and cried out, rubbing his head, "Wow, are you trying to murder your husband? You clung to me desperately when you wanted something, and now you kick me away once you're done. Is there any justice?"

"It's you... you saved me?" Seeing it was Qi Bei, Yao Rao inexplicably felt a sense of relief. But how did he break free from the Wind Binding Technique she had used on him?

"Nonsense. I repay kindness with grievances. I won't hold it against you for using me as bait and saving you from danger. I won't even mention being almost frozen solid because you clung to me. But as soon as you woke up, you repaid my kindness with enmity." Qi Bei looked utterly wronged. He didn't know Yao Rao had lost her magic and was afraid she'd tear him to shreds in a fit of rage.

Yao Rao snorted coldly and glanced at Qi Bei's prominent crotch.

"Uh, that's a normal physiological reaction. Don't you understand? Men are like this in the morning. You can't blame me." Qi Bei said righteously.

"Did you take advantage of me last night?" Yao Rao pointed Qi Bei's chest with the magic staff in her hand.

"What do you think I could do to a block of ice?" Qi Bei retorted impatiently.

"It's good if you didn't. Actually, I was kind of hoping you would do something." Yao Rao walked over to Qi Bei, tilted her head back, and hooked his chin.

Looking at Qi Bei's bobbing Adam's apple, Yao Rao giggled.

Qi Bei's face was filled with grief and indignation. He was being teased. How could a dignified man endure this? He pushed Yao Rao away.

With that push, Qi Bei froze, and Yao Rao froze too.

"I didn't mean to, that push just..." Qi Bei gestured with his hand, his palm hovering in the air towards the prominent chest he had just touched.

Yao Rao's icy blue eyes stared at him fiercely. She wanted to reprimand him, but she couldn't right now.

Qi Bei, already incredibly intelligent, rolled his eyes and suddenly chuckled, "You've lost your magic?"

"Even if I lost my magic, killing you would be as easy as flipping my hand. Do you want to try?" Yao Rao said charmingly, her voice incredibly seductive, but she felt a flicker of unease.

"You're just bluffing. I'm done playing with you. Here, take this Undead Bead back. From now on, you go your separate way, and I'll go mine." Qi Bei threw the Undead Bead dropped by the Specter to Yao Rao and turned to walk towards the cave entrance.

"Stop," Yao Rao commanded. Though her voice was soft, it now carried an irresistible authority.

Qi Bei paused, waved his hand behind him, and then continued to walk.

"You... don't go..." Yao Rao's tone softened, tinged with a hint of pleading.

Qi Bei stopped as if on cue. Yao Rao's yielding satisfied his male ego.

Such a peerless beauty, a high-and-mighty Earth Grade Mage, had to beg him with a soft voice.

Qi Bei had some experience in chasing women. The more noble a woman was, the tougher you had to be.

No matter how powerful a woman was, she secretly longed for a stronger shoulder to lean on. If you couldn't match her in strength, you had to be strong psychologically.

"My body's cold poison will act up for ten days. During these ten days, I'll have no magic. I need your protection." Yao Rao spoke, feeling a subtle strangeness within her. A woman asking a man for protection was inherently ambiguous.

"You're not my woman, why should I protect you?" Qi Bei turned around and smiled.

"Taking advantage of someone's weakness is not gentlemanly," Yao Rao said.

"I'm not a gentleman, I'm just a man," Qi Bei smiled.

"You're just a boy!" Yao Rao looked at Qi Bei's somewhat youthful face and wanted to laugh, but his deep black eyes, so incongruous with his age, made her unable to.

"A man's essence isn't about age, but about this," Qi Bei pointed to his chest.

Yao Rao smiled this time, laughing heartily.

"A man's essence lies in whether he can attract a woman. If you can make me fall in love with you within these ten days, then I don't mind becoming your woman," Yao Rao said, her eyes full of allure.

"That doesn't seem fair," Qi Bei raised an eyebrow.

"There's no sense of accomplishment without a challenge. The men I admire must be like this," Yao Rao looked at Qi Bei with a challenging gaze.

"You don't need to provoke me, I accept," Qi Bei shrugged. Making this enchanting woman fall in love with him within ten days, even with the Dragon Seal, seemed unlikely. He'd agree for now.

At this moment, Qi Bei had little understanding of the Extreme Yang Fire generated by cultivating the Yang Heart technique. Although he knew that without supreme Yin essence to harmonize it, the Extreme Yang Fire would burn him to ashes, he was just starting his cultivation and lacked a sense of impending danger.

Seeing Qi Bei agree, Yao Rao smiled charmingly, exuding a soul-stirring allure. Her eyes seemed to overflow with moisture.

"Xiao Bei, where are we?" Yao Rao asked.

Xiao Bei?

Qi Bei shivered inexplicably and quickly said, "Still call me Qi Bei. Calling me Xiao Bei makes me feel like you're my mom."

Yao Rao blinked, then burst into unrestrained laughter, shaking with mirth.

"If you call me mom, I'd really like to have a lovely son like you." Yao Rao giggled, laughing so hard she was out of breath. Her full chest heaved, making her even more alluring.

"Sons need milk, do you have any?" Qi Bei grinned mischievously, his gaze fixed on Yao Rao's prominent breasts.

Yao Rao's laughter abruptly stopped. She glared at Qi Bei in embarrassment and annoyance, defeated!

Their current location was not far from the Blood River. It was late last night, and undead roamed everywhere. It was a stroke of luck that Qi Bei, carrying Yao Rao on his back, had found a cave in such a short time.

"This place isn't safe. We need to leave and move towards the outer edges of the Undead Mountain Range," Yao Rao said.

"I was thinking the same thing. The commotion last night was too big. This cave is too shallow; it's easy to be discovered." Having survived in the Undead Mountain Range for so long, Qi Bei was more cautious than Yao Rao.

Qi Bei, carrying a longbow and holding a knife and spear, emerged from the cave.

As soon as they stepped out, two wandering zombies rushed towards them.

Qi Bei didn't even blink as he swung his blade down, severing two heads that rolled to the ground.

Yao Rao followed behind Qi Bei, watching him continuously kill scattered undead to clear their path. A sense of security she had never felt before welled up in her heart.

From childhood to adulthood, she had never experienced what it was like to be protected.

It was the same when she was wandering, and it was the same when she was adopted by her master. Her master had said that only in the most brutal environments could a person's greatest potential be unleashed, and only in life-or-death situations could one grasp the true meaning of life.