Bai Xue collapsed onto the ground, looking rather weak. Her foot had actually been injured.
She had stepped on a bone atop the mountain of corpses. The bone had pierced through her shoe and cut her foot. She had been enduring it all this time.
"Bai Xue, why didn't you say anything just now?" Chen Qing said reproachfully.
"Enough. Hurry up and bandage her!" Chen Renfeng shouted, silencing him as he began taking out the gauze.
Chen Qing removed Bai Xue's boots and socks, washed her wound with water from the kettle, then wrapped the gauze around it and tied it off.
"You're so foolish. You injured your foot and didn't say a word. Aren't you afraid of losing too much blood? This is the wilderness, and the medical conditions are terrible..." Chen Qing couldn't help lecturing her for a while.
"Chen Qing, I'm thirsty. I want to drink the water from the lake. It looks delicious." Bai Xue said.
Chen Qing nodded and carried Bai Xue on his back.
Just as the three of them were about to head toward the lake, they suddenly heard an angry curse: "Useless fools!"
The three were greatly startled. There's someone else here?
Chen Renfeng led the other two toward the voice. They reached the edge of the grassland, where a barrier stopped them. It was like glass: they couldn't get out, but they could see outside and hear the world beyond.
They saw... saw...
A White-Robed Woman dressed in ancient clothing pointing and scolding a pair of male and female stone statues in a flower bed. The two statues were holding hands and gazing at each other. Looking closely, their facial features actually resembled...
Chen Qing and Bai Xue.
The three of them stood there in stunned disbelief.
Looking around from the stone statues, they saw a garden filled with grass and flowers. Colored specks of light swirled around the blossoms and leaves. The garden's winding paths were paved with jade, and red, blue, and green specks of light emanated from the ground.
A wall more than ten meters high surrounded the garden. It was made of white jade, and by looking outward along the wall, they could see the roof of a palace.
The garden's view was blocked, and they could see no farther.
"Professor, is that another world over there? Is that Spiritual Energy?" Chen Qing asked in shock.
Chen Renfeng wasn't sure. He muttered, "Could this really be the Primordial World? System? Cheat ability?" There was still no response.
The White-Robed Woman seemed unable to see them. Pointing at the male stone statue, she cursed, "You were about to ascend and become an immortal, yet you fought over some emperor's throne! All the effort I put into arranging things was wasted..."
A figure a zhang tall suddenly rose from the male stone statue. It looked like a baby and shouted clumsily, "Master, where is this? Why can't I move? Master, save me..."
Nascent Soul? Chen Renfeng's heart filled with doubts.
"You know to look for your master now? What were you doing before?" The White-Robed Woman kicked the male stone statue several times, still unsatisfied.
She turned around and began berating the female stone statue. "If you dare seek death again in your next life..."
A baby a zhang tall also rose from the female stone statue.
Another Nascent Soul. Before she could speak,
a bold, hearty laugh approached from far away: "White Deer, do you want to suffer another defeat?"
The newcomer was nine chi tall, with phoenix eyes and dragon cheeks. His wide sleeves fluttered in the wind. The White-Robed Woman immediately stamped her feet. "Lü Chunyang! All you know is how to make fun of me!"
Behind the barrier, Chen Renfeng sucked in a breath. "Lü Chunyang... immortals really exist?"
Chen Qing and Bai Xue motioned for him to be quiet and pointed toward the other side. Since the two people over there seemed unable to see them, there was no need to worry.
Lü Chunyang walked over and circled the two stones once. The Nascent Souls had already been frightened back into the bodies of the stones.
Lü Chunyang said with a smile, "The Princess of Great Righteousness and Peaceful Nation and the Great General, White Deer's direct disciples. With such excellent innate foundations, instead of cultivating properly, they obsessed over a mortal's throne."
"On their wedding night, the Great General rebelled and killed the Emperor, the Princess's elder brother, intending to become emperor himself."
"While fleeing, the Princess was caught by the Great General. The two of them perished together!"
"Wonderful! Truly wonderful!"
After hearing this, the three behind the barrier sucked in a sharp breath. Could the immortal be talking about those two ancient corpses at the bottom of Fuxian Lake?
Upon hearing this, the White-Robed Woman's face turned livid. She asked angrily, "Lü Chunyang, how do you know all this so clearly? Could this have been your doing?"
"Haha! White Deer, how can you be so foolish? For a pair of Immortal Stones to undergo tribulation in the mortal world, how could someone at the level of a Golden Immortal like you accomplish it alone?" Lü Chunyang mocked.
The three behind the barrier once again heard explosive information: Immortal Stones undergoing tribulation.
The White-Robed Woman's brows furrowed, and she retorted, "So what if they died? You're just a busybody meddling in other people's affairs!"
Lü Chunyang's expression turned solemn. "White Deer, do you know your crime?"
"I act as I please. What business is it of yours? Hmph!" White Deer shot back.
Lü Chunyang said coldly, "Good! Very good! Without permission from this palace, you took the Spirit Repository's Penglai Star Sand and Cloud-Patterned Robe to help them undergo tribulation. You committed such an act of theft. Leave Penglai immediately!"
White Deer panicked at once. The keeper of the Spirit Repository must have reported her.
With her weakness in someone else's hands, White Deer turned around and replied pitifully, "I... Emperor, please don't drive me away! Queen Mother of the West will punish me severely!"
Seeing that she had begun begging, and that her expression was sincere, Lü Chunyang advised her, "I know what you intended, but mortals have a mortal cause-and-effect burden. Qing Shi... Bai Yu... Even if they had your help..."
White Deer covered her ears with her hands and closed her eyes, unwilling to listen to his lecture.
Lü Chunyang shook his head and sighed. "Unless the Chart of Heavenly Karma is altered."
Seeing a chance for things to turn around, White Deer suddenly opened her eyes and asked with a grin, "Emperor, what did you just say?"
Lü Chunyang replied with a smile, "I was joking with you!"
White Deer grew angry and suddenly transformed into her beast form. She raised her head and charged at him.
Inside the Small World, Chen Renfeng, Chen Qing, and Bai Xue were so frightened that they fell onto the ground. Their eyes were as wide as bells as they stared fixedly at the unimaginable scene outside.
Outside, when the pair of sharp antlers was only a fist's breadth from Lü Chunyang's abdomen, he moved! His hand shot out like lightning and seized the base of the antlers with precision. The two tacitly refrained from using magic power and competed purely through brute strength.
White Deer dug in with all four hooves and charged, yet she couldn't move her opponent even an inch. She angrily swung her head from side to side, but still couldn't break free of that iron-clamp-like hand. Furious, she let out a low whine and suddenly opened her mouth, spitting a large mouthful of saliva at Lü Chunyang.
"Ptooey—" A large patch of the Taoist robe's hem was instantly soaked. Lü Chunyang's expression darkened and turned livid. He shouted angrily, "Brute deer, today I'll definitely teach you a lesson!"
Before his voice had even faded, his right leg swept out like lightning. With a clean and decisive sweep, it struck with a muffled thud. White Deer lost her balance and toppled onto her side. Lü Chunyang's left knee followed through, pressing against White Deer's neck and pinning her firmly to the ground. Both hands still held tightly to her antlers, and no matter how she struggled and wailed, he refused to let go.
With White Deer restrained, she couldn't break free for the moment and let out one mournful cry after another.
Behind the barrier, Chen Renfeng widened his eyes. Is this really an immortal?
"This really is the Primordial World. I really didn't die? System, cheat ability, come out already?" There was still no response. He had to give up.
Chen Renfeng thought, Damn violent man. Someone, please save poor White Deer!
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