At that moment, the man holding her suddenly muttered a couple of words. The hard object nudged the intimate place between her thighs, while the large hand resting on her buttocks also restlessly squeezed her full flesh.
Yao Rao's delicate body stiffened. She abruptly rose and shoved Qi Bei away, darting backward like a rabbit.
Qi Bei's head slammed into the cave wall. Rubbing it, he cried, "Wow, are you trying to murder your husband? You clung to me desperately when you needed me, then kicked me away the moment you were done. Is there any justice in this world?"
"It was you... You saved me?" When Yao Rao saw that it was Qi Bei, she inexplicably felt relieved. But he had clearly been immobilized by her Wind Binding Technique. How had he broken free?
"Of course. I repaid your resentment with virtue and didn't hold it against you for using me as bait to save yourself from danger. I even let go of the fact that you clung to me so tightly I nearly froze into an icicle. But the moment you woke up, you repaid kindness with enmity?" Qi Bei wore an aggrieved expression. He didn't know that Yao Rao had lost her magic power, and was terrified that she might chop him to pieces in a fit of anger.
Yao Rao snorted coldly and glanced at Qi Bei's bulging crotch.
"Uh, this is a normal physiological reaction. Don't you understand? All men are like this in the morning. You can't blame me." Qi Bei spoke with righteous solemnity.
"Did you take advantage of me and do anything to me last night?" Yao Rao tapped 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 replied irritably.
"Good that you didn't. Actually, I rather wish you had done something." Yao Rao walked over to Qi Bei and lifted his chin.
Watching Qi Bei's Adam's apple bob up and down, Yao Rao giggled coquettishly.
Qi Bei wore an expression of grief and indignation. He had been teased! How could a dignified man tolerate such a thing? So he shoved Yao Rao away.
At that shove, Qi Bei froze. Yao Rao froze too.
"I didn't mean to. That shove just..." Qi Bei gestured with his hand, his palm hovering in the air before the lofty breasts he had just touched.
Yao Rao's icy-blue eyes glared fiercely at him. She wanted to teach him a lesson, but she was currently unable to do so.
Qi Bei was exceptionally clever to begin with. His eyes rolled, and he suddenly chuckled. "You've lost your magic power?"
"Even if I've lost my magic power, killing you would be as easy as turning over my hand. Would you like to try?" Yao Rao's voice was incredibly seductive, but unease stirred in her heart.
"Keep bluffing. I'm not playing with you anymore. Here, take your Undead Bead back. From now on, you follow your broad road while I cross my single-plank bridge." Qi Bei tossed the Undead Bead dropped by the ghost to Yao Rao, turned around, and walked toward the cave entrance.
"Stop right there." Yao Rao shouted. Her voice was soft and delicate, yet it now carried an irresistible majesty.
Qi Bei's body paused. He waved his large hand backward, then started walking again.
"You... Don't go..." Yao Rao's tone softened, carrying a hint of entreaty.
Qi Bei stopped in his tracks. Yao Rao's concession satisfied his chauvinistic pride.
Such an unparalleled beauty, a lofty Earth Grade Mage, still had to beg him in a soft voice.
As for pursuing women, Qi Bei had some experience. The nobler a woman was, the tougher a man had to be.
No matter how powerful a woman was, deep down she yearned for a shoulder stronger than hers to lean on. If he couldn't win through force, then he had to win psychologically.
"The cold poison in my body will flare up for ten days. I will lose all my magic power during that time, and I need your protection." Yao Rao spoke, feeling a subtle strangeness in her heart. A woman asking a man for protection was, in itself, somewhat ambiguous.
"You're not my woman. Why should I protect you?" Qi Bei turned around and smiled.
"Taking advantage of someone in distress isn't 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 slightly immature face and wanted to laugh, but the deep blackness of his eyes, so unlike his age, kept her from doing so...
"A man's essence isn't determined by his age, but by what's here." Qi Bei pointed at his heart.
Yao Rao laughed this time, laughing so hard that she trembled like a flower in the wind.
"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 what's wrong with me becoming your woman?" Yao Rao's eyes were as captivating as silk.
"That doesn't seem fair." Qi Bei raised his brows.
"There can be no sense of achievement without a challenge. The man I admire has to be like that." Yao Rao gazed at Qi Bei provocatively.
"You don't need to provoke me. I agree." Qi Bei shrugged. Making this enchantress-like woman fall in love with him within ten days—despite the Dragon Seal, it was probably impossible. He would agree for now and think about the rest later.
At that time, Qi Bei had little understanding of the Extreme Yang Fire produced by cultivating the Extreme Yang heart method. Although he knew that without supreme-grade primal yin to harmonize it, the Extreme Yang Fire would burn him to ashes, his cultivation had only just begun, and he lacked any sense of danger.
Seeing that Qi Bei had agreed, Yao Rao smiled seductively. Her entire body radiated an alluring charm that could steal souls, while the watery light in her eyes seemed ready to overflow.
"Xiao Bei, where are we?" Yao Rao asked.
"Xiao Bei?"
Qi Bei inexplicably shuddered and hurriedly said, "You'd better call me Qi Bei. Whenever you call me Xiao Bei, I feel like you're my mother."
Yao Rao froze, then burst into helpless laughter, trembling like a flower in the wind.
"Just call me Mom, then. I really would like to have an adorable son like you." Yao Rao giggled nonstop, laughing until she was almost out of breath. Her lofty breasts heaved violently, becoming even more enticing.
"A son needs milk. Will you give him any?" Qi Bei gave her a strange smile, his gaze fixed squarely on the two lofty mounds before Yao Rao's chest.
Yao Rao's coquettish laughter abruptly stopped. She glared at Qi Bei in embarrassment and annoyance, then retreated in defeat!
The place where the two of them were was not far from the Blood River. Last night had been deep, and undead wandered everywhere. For Qi Bei to find a burrow in such a short time while carrying Yao Rao on his back had already been a stroke of incredible luck.
"This place isn't safe. We have to leave and move toward the outskirts of the Undead Mountain Range." Yao Rao said.
"I was thinking the same. We caused too much commotion last night, and this burrow is too shallow. We could easily be discovered." Qi Bei had survived in the Undead Mountain Range for so long that he was no less cautious than Yao Rao—in fact, he was even more so.
Qi Bei carried his longbow on his back and held a saber and spear as he crawled out of the burrow.
The moment he emerged, two wandering zombies charged over from the side.
Without even blinking, Qi Bei swung his saber. Two heads came rolling down with a rumble.
Following behind Qi Bei, Yao Rao watched him continuously kill scattered undead to clear their path. A feeling of security she had never experienced before welled up in her heart.
From childhood to adulthood, she had never tasted what it meant to be protected by someone.
It had been the same when she was wandering, and the same after her master adopted her. Her master had said that only the most brutal environments could draw out a person's greatest potential, and only amid life and death could one comprehend the true meaning of life.
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