Flaming-tipped Spear? Mm! Flaming-tipped Spear!

Hu Liena looked at the two men in confusion.

"Grandpa Gui, Grandpa Ju, why are you both acting like this?"

"Little Brother Li Zha looks like he's suffering so badly. Didn't you say you'd protect him?"

"Why are you just standing there watching him suffer now?!"

As soon as those words left her mouth, Gui Mei's expression turned as ghastly as a ghost's.

Li Zha was suffering?

Of course they knew Li Zha was suffering!

But for the two of them to help Li Zha resolve that particular suffering?

Wasn't that a little too perverse?!

Although Yue Guan was usually rather effeminate and did not look much like a man,

if he were really asked to do that sort of thing, he absolutely could not do it!

"If neither of you is willing to go, then don't stop me! I'm going to help Little Brother Li Zha!"

Hu Liena stepped forward, but Gui Mei and Yue Guan refused to let her pass no matter what.

Let Hu Liena go over?

What kind of joke was that?!

Although the two of them could stop her,

there was a high chance they would have to hurt Li Zha in the process.

"Nana, we only let you come in for a look because you insisted on making sure Li Zha was all right."

"What Li Zha is suffering from now isn't the kind of backlash you think it is!"

"I have to go over and make sure Li Zha is all right with my own eyes!"

Hu Liena was unyielding.

"Teacher entrusted him to my personal care! I can't just watch something happen to him in less than half a day!"

Gui Mei and Yue Guan wanted to stop her, yet they did not dare forcibly restrain her.

In the end, after all the tugging and struggling, Hu Liena somehow got closer and closer to Li Zha.

"Li Zha, how are you? Why is your body so hot? I'll help you!"

Just as Hu Liena was about to activate her martial soul and help Li Zha suppress the abnormally high temperature in his body,

Li Zha's voice finally came through.

"Hu Liena, you... leave..."

His voice was suppressing a certain excitement.

Hu Liena froze for a moment, then grew somewhat displeased.

"I came to help you. Why are you acting like this?"

"Grandpa Gui and Grandpa Ju aren't willing to help you. I'm the only one willing to."

Hearing that, Li Zha's tightly shut eyes twitched violently.

Was it that the two of them did not want to help?

It was that they couldn't!

Hu Liena really could help.

But he absolutely could not let Hu Liena help him.

First of all, Hu Liena did not understand his current condition.

And even if she did,

he still would not choose to let her do it.

This little fox was naturally brimming with seductive charm.

If she came to help, she would only make him sink deeper into the side effects of the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue.

Besides, she was Bibi Dong's only disciple.

If Bibi Dong, whose state of mind was somewhat crazed these days, found out

that he had consumed Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue and then gotten involved with her sole disciple, Hu Liena,

he felt that not only would he die,

but Gui Mei and Yue Guan would also undoubtedly be killed by the crazed Bibi Dong.

Li Zha took a shallow breath and forcibly suppressed the blazing heat within him.

"I understand what you mean. Just... leave first. I'm fine here."

"No. I have to see for myself."

Hu Liena pushed and pulled her way closer to Li Zha again.

The main reason was that Gui Mei and Yue Guan spoiled her too much.

Had it been any other Title Douluo,

they would have bundled her up and taken her away long ago.

But their relationship with Hu Liena had long surpassed that of mere guardians.

It was more like the relationship between grandfathers and their granddaughter.

That made them keep yielding to her.

And so Hu Liena truly made it right in front of Li Zha!

When she saw Li Zha's fair skin flushed completely red and his forehead covered in beads of sweat,

Hu Liena's heart clenched sharply.

She was genuinely worried that something would happen to Li Zha.

After all, she had just promised her teacher that she would take good care of him.

And Li Zha was someone she had forcibly "asked for" herself.

Earlier, he had seemed inclined to ask Grandpa Gui to take care of him instead.

So when she saw him in such a state,

she felt awful inside.

"Little Brother Li Zha, don't worry. My martial soul is the Demon Fox. Aside from the Fox Charm I secretly used on you before,

it also has an effect that can calm the mind. I'll help you right now."

"Don't!"

Li Zha, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei spoke in unison!

All three stopped Hu Liena at once.

"I know you mean well, but can you... leave first?"

Li Zha's voice was gritted and harsh.

He really was about to lose control.

He could feel his heartbeat soaring to two hundred beats per minute!

If he looked at Hu Liena even once right now, he felt that even his own willpower would no longer hold.

He suddenly understood how Huo Yuhao had felt back then.

Or rather, he was suffering even more than Huo Yuhao had!

At least Huo Yuhao had not resisted for long before Ma Xiaotao took control of him herself.

But he had to keep resisting now!

"Nana! Listen to Li Zha!"

Gui Mei urged.

Hu Liena frowned, unable to bear it.

She could not understand at all what these three men were doing!

Why were they unwilling to help him?!

Why could she not help either?!

"Damn it! You must be hiding something from me!"

"Fine! Look at me! Once I make sure you're all right, I'll leave!"

Hu Liena said, puffing out her cheeks.

Li Zha:?

You damned fox!

Do you have to force me to pin you down on the bed before you'll be happy?!

"No! Get out, now! I can suppress it myself!"

It was the first time Li Zha had ever spoken so harshly.

Hu Liena was visibly startled.

But the more Li Zha scolded her, the less willing Hu Liena was to leave.

She became even more convinced that this was proof he could no longer endure it!

At that moment, Li Zha could not calm down at all.

He had completely forgotten that Hu Liena had a bit of a masochistic streak.

Scolding her would only make her secretly excited.

"Just one look! Once you've looked, I'll leave!"

Yue Guan looked at Gui Mei, his gaze full of accusation.

"Old Ghost! Look what you've done! We never should have let her follow us!"

Gui Mei glared back at him.

"What could I do at a time like this?! Why didn't you just bundle Nana up and take her away?!"

"You said it yourself... bear the consequences... yourself!"

Li Zha had long reached the limit of his resistance.

Yet this damned fox kept tempting him right in front of him!

In truth, Hu Liena was not tempting him.

It was just that the desire stirred up by the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue was gradually devouring his reason.

Even if she merely spoke in front of him, it felt like she was seducing him.

Before Hu Liena could understand what was happening, Li Zha opened his eyes.

His eyes were bloodshot.

The instant he saw Hu Liena, Li Zha felt an unbearable heat surge through his heart.

A force drove him to stand up.

He stood up, and it was not just him that stood up!

"Ah!"

Hu Liena was startled by Li Zha standing up.

She took half a step back.

"Th-that is...!"

She pointed at Li Zha.

By now, Li Zha had half lost his reason and was moving toward Hu Liena.

All he could think was that this fox looked far too alluring dressed in human clothes!

Gui Mei and Yue Guan noticed what was happening and immediately slapped their foreheads.

This was bad.

"Nana, just pretend..."

Gui Mei transformed into a cloud of black mist and wrapped Hu Liena within it. He glanced sideways at Li Zha.

The corner of his mouth twitched as well. "...you didn't see anything."

Whoosh!

Gui Mei's black shadow instantly swept Hu Liena into the courtyard.

Yue Guan used his third soul skill.

"Third Soul Skill: Aura Barrier."

Soon, waves of chrysanthemum petals scattered down over Li Zha's head.

Li Zha's restless body was trapped within the barrier.

Yue Guan looked into Li Zha's bloodshot eyes, then glanced toward Hu Liena outside.

He shook his head slightly, withdrew his gaze, and looked back at Li Zha.

His expression was complicated.

"Kid, this is really hard on you."

Outside,

Hu Liena's heartbeat quickened, and a blush rose to her face.

"Grandpa Gui... just now... that thing on Li Zha that looked so aggressive... was that..."

Gui Mei furrowed his brows tightly, momentarily speechless.

What was that?

What else could it be?!

"Grandpa Gui, what exactly was that...?"

"A-a Flaming-tipped Spear!"

Out of options, Gui Mei blurted out a random answer.

After saying it, the corner of his mouth twitched hard twice.

Hu Liena stared blankly. "A Flaming-tipped Spear...?"

"Mm! A Flaming-tipped Spear!"

"Then why did he summon the Flaming-tipped Spear... there..."

"Maybe..."

Gui Mei looked into the room, his eyes twitching.

"That was his own unique way of suppressing the backlash."

"Oh, right. This is Li Zha's greatest secret, Nana. You must never tell anyone.

"Not even His Holiness the Pope..."

Hu Liena turned to look into the room.

She covered the chest that had inexplicably begun pounding just now.

Then she nodded slightly.

Mm...

What was that feeling of palpitations and racing heartbeat just now...

Could it... have been because of little brother Li Zha's Flaming-tipped Spear?