Missing Thoughts Literature

Chapter 30: Thinking of Ways to Kill You (Page 1/2)

From drawing the sword to sheathing it, the entire process took less than half a breath.

As the long sword slid back into its scabbard, the giant snake crashed to the ground, severed into two pieces at its seven-inch mark.

Pei Yanqing reached out, and a demon core the size of a fist landed in his palm.

After storing it in his dantian space, he turned to Yun Luo and said, "Let's go."

Yun Luo snapped back to attention and pointed at the giant body of the demon snake. "Don't you want the corpse?"

This was a Nascent Soul demon beast; its skin alone was worth a lot of spirit stones. Wasn't he a poor sword cultivator? Last time, he had haggled with her over a few hundred high-grade spirit stones.

Pei Yanqing wasn't refusing it, but his dantian space was already full, and he didn't have any extra Qiankun pouches on him. "It won't fit. If you need it, you can take it."

Yun Luo unceremoniously took out a Qiankun pouch and, with a bright smile, began stuffing the corpse into it. She planned to take it back and give it to her third senior sister to make a small whip out of the snakeskin.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Pei."

Seeing her smile, Pei Yanqing was momentarily stunned. Wasn't she very wealthy? Why was she so happy over a demon beast? He quickly recovered, "You're welcome."

For the next half-day, the two encountered two more Nascent Soul demon beasts. Pei Yanqing killed them both with a single move. For the demon beasts he killed, he only took the inner core, leaving the corpses for Yun Luo.

Yun Luo felt like they were a pair of perverted killer duo: Pei Yanqing did the killing, and she handled the "burial."

However, after two days of walking and killing, they still hadn't reached the edge of the forbidden zone. Yun Luo wasn't even happy picking up corpses anymore. Why haven't we gotten out yet? Are Senior Sister and the others still alive?

Pei Yanqing thought she was tired. He summoned his spiritual sword from his dantian and made it hover in front of her.

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"This is my first time in the Red Forbidden Zone too. I can only rely on my intuition. We might not be able to get out for a while. If you're tired, you can stand on it." The Red Forbidden Zone could encounter killing formations at any moment. If one was flying on a sword too fast, it would be very difficult to react in time. That's why he had been walking previously.

Yun Luo glanced at the spiritual sword before her. According to the cultivation forums, Pei Yanqing's lifebound sword was the Chengying Sword, ranked third on the Spirit Artifact list, an artifact-level weapon. It was said that the Chengying Sword could cleave mountains and split seas, turn water into ice, and was unpredictable. Just standing next to it, she could feel a chilling aura.

"I've already suppressed it. Get on." Artifacts that recognized their masters would backlash against strangers if not suppressed by the owner. It was a free ride, so Yun Luo thanked him and lightly jumped onto the sword.

Pei Yanqing walked ahead, and the Chengying Sword followed leisurely behind him, perfectly mimicking his movements. Yun Luo stared at the back of his head and silently gave him a thumbs-up in her heart. As expected of the number one genius in the cultivation world. Both his face and his personality are more pleasing than others.

They say that once people stop doing physical labor, they start overthinking. After standing on the Chengying Sword for less than fifteen minutes, Yun Luo suddenly remembered her shattered four spiritual roots. And the person who could repair her water spiritual root was right in front of her... She touched the Qiankun pouch at her waist, which contained the water-attribute pills refined by Mu He. As long as she swallowed it and absorbed Pei Yanqing's primal yang, she could establish her foundation.

Pei Yanqing was usually a man of few words. If left undisturbed, he could remain silent indefinitely. However, Yun Luo hadn't spoken for fifteen minutes, and he found it rather unaccustomed. For the first time, he initiated a conversation with someone.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Thinking about how to 'gan' you."

"..."

The atmosphere suddenly turned awkward. The Chengying Sword beneath her trembled violently at that moment, nearly shaking Yun Luo off.

Chapter 30: Thinking About How to 'Gan' You (Page 2/2)

Realizing she had spoken out of turn, she felt a moment of embarrassment before calmly jumping down.

"In my hometown, 'gan' means to fight or spar. Seeing as you, fellow Daoist, have profound cultivation and skilled swordsmanship these past two days, I've been very impressed and wished to spar with you. It's just a pity my cultivation is shallow right now. I was contemplating how to improve my cultivation so I could have a good 'gan' with you in the future."

Pei Yanqing saw her candid expression, devoid of any awkwardness, and actually believed her.

"Fellow Daoist, there's no need to be so self-deprecating. I observe that you are less than twenty years of age and already at the ninth level of Qi Refining. Breakthrough is only a matter of time."

"I'll take your good words."

Yun Luo appeared comforted. Recalling his stunned expression from her earlier outburst, she couldn't resist teasing him.

"Fellow Daoist, they say customs vary a hundred miles apart. I haven't been away from home for many years, so my speaking habits are hard to change immediately. Seeing your reaction just now, does the word 'gan' have another meaning where you come from?"

Pei Yanqing's relieved heart tensed up again.

He uncomfortably turned his head, looking towards the wilderness ahead.

She seemed so innocent; he couldn't possibly corrupt her with such vulgar knowledge.

"It's nothing, I must have misheard."

"Oh."

Yun Luo suppressed a laugh. "That's good then. I was afraid my dialect might offend you, fellow Daoist. If that's the case, when my cultivation improves, I'll come to 'gan' you. Please don't refuse, fellow Daoist."

Pei Yanqing: ...

She couldn't possibly mean anything else, right?

Under her expectant gaze, he couldn't help but respond. Gritting his teeth, he nodded.

"Alright, I'll wait for you to 'gan' me."

Yun Luo: (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)

After teasing Pei Yanqing to her heart's content, Yun Luo felt satisfied. Her waist no longer ached, her legs didn't hurt, and she could walk on her own.

Thinking they wouldn't be able to get out anytime soon, she decided to look for treasures.

She had been too worried earlier.

They reported their locations to Elder Qingheng daily.

Furthermore, everyone had left a drop of their heart blood with him, making it easier to find them in case of an accident.

Now that she and her Senior Sister had been out of contact with the outside world for two days, Elder Qingheng must have already noticed something was wrong.

It would be more reliable for those elders to come in and search for them than for them to rely on themselves.

Pei Yanqing clearly sensed this as well. He stopped fixating on finding a way out and began to pay attention to the heavenly materials and earthly treasures within the Secret Realm.

Since they were here, they couldn't leave empty-handed.

The red forbidden zone was indeed filled with heavenly materials and earthly treasures. After walking with Pei Yanqing for another three days, they collected many Earth Grade spirit plants, rare ores, and high-level beast bones.

Looking at the treasures that filled several storage pouches, Pei Yanqing proposed to split them equally.

Yun Luo didn't want to take advantage of him.

"You fought the demon beasts, so you take seven and I'll take three."

He insisted, "Your Treasure Seeking Mouse found the treasures, and the pills you gave me earlier are also quite valuable. It's only reasonable for you to take half."

Yun Luo couldn't refuse him. Thinking of what he had said earlier about his Dantian Space being full, she gifted him two Qiankun Pouches.

This time, he didn't decline.

There was no night in the red forbidden zone, and being inside made it easy to lose track of time.

Pei Yanqing estimated the passage of time and realized they hadn't had a proper rest for five or six days.

He didn't feel tired, but he could see obvious fatigue on Yun Luo's face.

"Let's rest for a bit. We'll set off again in six hours."

Yun Luo had been relying on Spirit Return Pills to keep going these past few days. Upon hearing this, she didn't refuse.

Natural caves might be dangerous. Pei Yanqing found a mountain with a relatively open view and, halfway up, used his sword to carve out a temporary Cave Abode.

It was Yun Luo's first time seeing someone excavate a Cave Abode on the spot, and she couldn't help but applaud inwardly.

With such skills, it would be a waste not to build subways.