After a while, Moon Shadow seemed to realize something.
Her delicate body trembled slightly. Blushing faintly, she released him and took a small step back.
Two faint flushes rose on her exquisitely beautiful face, spreading all the way to the tips of her pointed elven ears.
She raised a hand to smooth her somewhat disheveled silver hair, her gray eyes lowered.
Unable to meet Xu Jingming's gaze, she spoke softly, with a trace of embarrassment in her voice:
"Sorry, I got too excited just now."
The usually aloof and proud elven Princess now seemed somewhat at a loss.
Indeed, this was the first time she had ever been so intimate with a man.
Xu Jingming could not help smiling at the sight and teased:
"It's fine. I don't mind."
With Moon Shadow's curvaceous, slender figure, he believed no man could refuse holding her a little longer.
That single remark made Moon Shadow's already shy face turn even redder.
Seeing this, Xu Jingming stopped teasing her and said with a smile:
"Come on. Let's find somewhere to rest first."
A great deal of mud and grass clippings clung to Moon Shadow's pale green combat uniform.
Her silver hair was disheveled, with several strands stuck to the corners of her sweat-dampened forehead.
Though her breathing had steadied, the subtle trembling of her body had yet to completely cease.
She clearly needed rest urgently.
"Okay." Amid her embarrassment, Moon Shadow also understood her own condition and nodded.
Xu Jingming swept out with his Mental Strength and soon discovered a concealed natural cave several hundred meters away.
"Can you still walk? There's a cave over there. It'll be safer to rest there," Xu Jingming said.
"I can still... I seem to be a little weak."
Moon Shadow had intended to say she could still