Have You Fallen for Me?

"You're awake. Don't move, your injuries haven't healed yet. I'll help you up." Die's delighted voice came from outside the cave. Holding a medicinal herb in her hand, she swayed her waist as she walked over.

Perhaps because of their earlier kiss, Die's face inexplicably reddened whenever she saw Chen Mo after approaching him.

She hurried forward to support Chen Mo, draping one of his arms over her shoulder and helping him sit up.

Then she moved behind Chen Mo and untied the cloth bandage. "I haven't completely cleared the poison from your body yet. I'll clean it out again today and apply this herb. That should about do it."

"Medicinal herb? Have you recovered your memories?" Chen Mo asked with a frown.

"After you fainted that day, I seemed to remember some things. Then I somehow came to know a lot of things, like this herb—I know it can detoxify poison. But I still haven't recalled some of the important memories."

Die looked at the still slightly blackened wound, pursed her lips, placed both hands on Chen Mo's shoulders, and lowered her head to suck at it.

"Ah..." The sudden pain made Chen Mo let out an involuntary groan. The strange sensation made him realize what Die was doing. "Die, you...?"

"Pfft." Die spat out the poisoned blood in her mouth, then hurriedly crushed the herb with a stone and applied it to the wound. "If the poison in your body isn't removed, it could be fatal in the future. It's fine now. I sucked it all out."

"Poison? The arrow that hit me was poisoned?"

A cold sweat immediately broke out on Chen Mo's face.

Damn, I almost messed that up.

Chen Mo hastily took out a 1st-grade Detoxification Pill from his backpack and swallowed it. Whether there was any poison left in his body or not, he would take it first.

"Mm, thankfully the poison wasn't too potent, but it had seeped in deeply. I had to suck it out three times before I got it all," Die said as she rebandaged the wound.

"Three times?" Chen Mo froze, then asked, "How long was I unconscious? Where are we now? What about the pursuers?"

"Mm..." Die fiddled with her fingers. "About a day and a half. This is an underground cave in the desert. It seems the pursuers didn't follow us..."

"A day and a half."

Chen Mo narrowed his eyes. After so much time, how could the pursuers possibly have failed to catch up? And given his condition back then, Die should not have been able to get very far while carrying him.

Chen Mo found it strange.

But since he could not figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it. As long as he was still alive, that was enough.

Seeing Chen Mo suddenly fall silent, Die's delicate brows furrowed slightly. Then, as if recalling something, she clasped her hands behind her back and asked nervously:

"You risked your life to save me... Have you fallen for me?"

When Chen Mo turned around, he saw a shy blush appear on her face.

"Uh..."

Caught off guard by those words, Chen Mo did not know how to answer. Die was so beautiful that saying he did not like her would be a lie.

But if he said he did, her favorability had not reached a hundred yet. What if he made Die unhappy?

In the end, Chen Mo decided he should be true to his heart. Just as he was about to say that he liked her—

Seeing that Chen Mo had not answered, Die suddenly covered her red lips with a slender hand and chuckled. "Hehe, don't be scared. I'm just joking!"

Upon hearing that, the words at Chen Mo's lips immediately went back down his throat. He smiled and said, "I thought you meant it. You gave me quite a scare."

At those words, a barely noticeable darkness passed through Die's eyes. She pursed her lips and said nothing more.

The already quiet cave became silent to the extreme.

Neither of them spoke.

Chen Mo was afraid of saying the wrong thing and lowering the favorability he had worked so hard to accumulate. He decided to keep his head down and not get cocky.

Ding, favorability -1.

Chen Mo: "..."

What the hell? My favorability dropped even though I didn't say anything.

Chen Mo said, "Um..."

"Your injuries haven't healed yet. You need to rest. It'll be dark soon, so I'm going out to find some food." Die swayed her waist as she left.

"Then be careful," Chen Mo said.

There was no response.

Chen Mo: Which step did I mess up?

Unable to figure it out, Chen Mo simply brought up his attribute panel.

Then he was somewhat startled.

What exactly happened while I was unconscious?

Name: Chen Mo

Race: Human

Cultivation: Three-Star Dou Master

Host Level: lv1 (50/100)

Bound Goddess: Die, Favorability (49). When favorability reaches one hundred, you may become Dao companions.

Cultivation Art: Supreme Primordial Chaos Art

Skills: Kunpeng Wings (Upgradeable), Cloud Roaming Steps, Mystic Thunder Palm

Bloodline: Ordinary

Favorability Coins: 22

Physique: Qiankun Sword Body (Upgradeable)

Charm: Transcendent Aura

Chen Mo discovered that not only had his host level reached fifty, but the attribute panel had also gained Physique and Charm sections.

He remembered that he had not obtained this Transcendent Aura before losing consciousness.

Chen Mo tapped on Kunpeng Wings. It was currently at the Mysterious-Rank Initial Stage, and advancing it to the Profound Middle-Rank would cost fifteen Favorability Coins.

Chen Mo did not advance it. Instead, he looked at the Qiankun Sword Body.

According to the system's description, Chen Mo's Qiankun Sword Body was currently at Minor Mastery, with Major Mastery and Perfection above it.

Yet even a Minor Mastery Sword Body could condense Qi into a sword and produce Sword Qi. Any sword technique or Dou Skill below the Heaven Rank could be perfectly performed after only one glance.

Advancing the Qiankun Sword Body to Major Mastery required thirty Favorability Coins.

Upon reaching Major Mastery, one could condense a Sword Heart, wield swords with Qi, achieve Sword and Man as One, and command all swords under heaven.

Going from Major Mastery to Perfection required one hundred Favorability Coins, but the description was locked.

Comparing the two, Chen Mo felt that saving up thirty Favorability Coins to advance the Qiankun Sword Body was more worthwhile.

Chen Mo glanced at his backpack again.

He found a bottle of Marrow Cleansing Fluid, a 1st-grade Alchemy Skill, six Epiphany Incense, one 1st-grade Qi Recovery Pill, a Dou Emperor-level Azure Lightning Blood Eagle Beast Flame, and a One-Star Dou Emperor Experience Card.

Seeing all that, Chen Mo instantly felt as though he had become rich overnight. He even had the thought that he could take another arrow.

Chen Mo first used the Qi Recovery Pill and recovered a small amount of Dou Qi.

Then he used the Marrow Cleansing Fluid to cleanse his essence and marrow, widen his meridians, and improve his physique.

Then Chen Mo got diarrhea.

What came out was not only disgustingly colored, but also unbelievably foul-smelling.

Chen Mo hurriedly buried it beneath the yellow sand.

Not long after.

Die returned with some mushrooms. Although she was still angry with Chen Mo, after wrinkling her delicate nose and sniffing, she could not help asking, "What smells so awful?"

"Uh... I killed a really big stink bug," Chen Mo said.

"Where's the stink bug?"

"I buried it." Chen Mo pointed at a small sand mound in the distance.

Die did not think much of it.

Night fell.

After eating the roasted mushrooms, Chen Mo sat cross-legged and prepared to refine the Azure Lightning Blood Eagle Beast Flame.

Die placed her hands over her lower abdomen, lowered her head, and asked in a pleasant yet chilly voice:

"Do you think snake-people and humans can be together?"

Upon hearing that, Chen Mo immediately thought of the legendary hero Xu Xian and blurted out, "Of course they can."