After several days of traveling, Liu Erlong's injuries had more or less healed.
"Ye Li, I've actually pretty much recovered. You don't have to keep carrying me," Liu Erlong told Li Ye shyly, like a young girl.
"It's fine. I'm happy to carry you." Although she had said that, Li Ye had no intention of putting her down.
First, putting her down would not make him travel much faster; he might even have to slow down out of consideration for her injuries. Second, he had finally gotten a chance to hold a beautiful, mature woman in his arms. How could he just let her go?
"Ye Li, I really have almost recovered. I can leave the Sunset Forest on my own from here."
After spending several days together, Liu Erlong naturally knew that Li Ye was searching for somewhere that could make plants grow rapidly.
To avoid holding up Li Ye's journey, she could only say that.
"Since you're so eager to part ways with me, I'll put you down."
It was not actually because Li Ye wanted to put Liu Erlong down, but because he had already found Dugu Bo's poison formation.
Thinking of Dugu Yan, whom he had met before, Li Ye naturally had to put on an act. After all, he still wanted to enlist her help in persuading Dugu Bo.
At that moment, inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Yan was looking at Dugu Bo with utter disdain.
"Grandpa, do you actually understand these medicinal herbs or not? You won't let me eat this or use that, and when I ask about this one, you say you don't know its medicinal properties. You didn't get your title of Poison Douluo by fraud, did you?"
She had spent more than ten days straight cultivating inside the poison formation, hoping to use the environment and those mysterious medicinal herbs to make her Soul Power quickly surpass Li Ye's. Who would have thought Dugu Bo only recognized some poisonous herbs and the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum?
"All right, Yan Yan, you can't blame your grandpa for this. After all, I practice with poisons. I'm not like Chrysanthemum Guan, that fellow who loves fiddling with flowers and plants all day. How could I know so much?" Dugu Bo said awkwardly.
"Wait, someone actually dares enter my territory? Could it be that old fellow Chrysanthemum Guan?"
Dugu Yan had been about to say something else, but she immediately fell silent upon hearing Dugu Bo's words.
"Grandpa, b-be careful. If it really is Chrysanthemum Douluo, hurry back. Whatever you do, don't fight him." Dugu Yan nervously tugged at the corner of Dugu Bo's clothes.
"Don't worry, Yan Yan. I know what I'm doing. If that fellow Chrysanthemum Guan really has come looking for me, I have a clever plan to persuade him to leave," Dugu Bo reassured her.
To tell the truth, if Chrysanthemum Guan really had found this place, all he could do was take Dugu Yan and flee.
"Ye Li, that's not what I meant. I only said that because I didn't want to hold you up."
"All right, Long'er, I know. Fasten your clothes a little tighter." As he spoke, Li Ye pulled Liu Erlong over and personally wrapped her up snugly.
He certainly did not want that rotten old man Dugu Bo seeing his Long'er's body in a moment. Although Dugu Bo had no interest in such things, that still did not mean he could let him see.
Seeing Li Ye's actions, Liu Erlong also realized that someone must be coming.
It's actually this brat. Should I bring Yan Yan over? Once she sees that this brat already has a woman by his side, perhaps she'll give up on him. Seeing Li Ye and Liu Erlong a short distance away, Dugu Bo immediately had this idea.
He acted on it at once. Today, he had to make Dugu Yan see Li Ye's true colors.
"Yan Yan, come with me." With that, Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan and hurried toward Li Ye.
"Grandpa, why did you come back so quickly? Is Chrysanthemum Douluo here?" Dugu Yan asked nervously.
"It's not that old fellow Chrysanthemum Guan. It's that armored warrior you can't stop thinking about, and he's even brought you a present." With a meaningful smile tugging at his lips, Dugu Bo continued flying forward with Dugu Yan.
"The passing armored warrior? He's here, and he even brought me a present?" Seeing Dugu Bo's expression, Dugu Yan immediately guessed that the old fellow was surely brewing some foul scheme.
But when she saw Li Ye a short distance away, she still could not help calling out, "Passing armored warrior, what brings you here?"
After Dugu Bo set her down, she completely ignored Liu Erlong beside Li Ye and threw herself straight into his arms.
"D-do you think fate brought us together?"
Seeing Dugu Yan's innocent, carefree manner, Li Ye felt too embarrassed to deceive her. After all, Dugu Bo was watching right there.
"D-didn't I tell you before that I was looking for somewhere that could make plants grow hundreds or thousands of times faster? I just happened to stumble upon this place. Also, if you don't let go of me soon, that old man behind you might eat me alive." Li Ye spoke quietly, even saying the last sentence right against Dugu Yan's ear.
"He won't! He's my grandpa. If he dares hit you, I'll definitely pull out every last hair of his beard!" Dugu Yan said confidently.
"All right, Yan Yan, aren't you going to introduce this armored warrior to your grandpa?" Dugu Bo practically squeezed those words out through gritted teeth.
"Hmph, you rotten grandpa! You clearly already saw him when you were peeking before, and now you actually have the nerve to ask me to introduce him!"
Hearing Dugu Yan's words, Dugu Bo immediately felt miserable. His little padded jacket was letting in the wind far too quickly.
Give it another few days, and won't she strip the whole jacket off me?
"Senior Dugu, Your Eminence Poison Douluo, I am Feng Yeli. I happened to be passing through. Sorry for the intrusion." Since he needed a favor from him, Li Ye naturally had to be a little more polite.
"You're a reasonably polite brat. Take these and follow me." With that, Dugu Bo casually tossed Li Ye two antidote pills, signaling for him to bring Liu Erlong along, then turned and headed toward the poison formation with Dugu Yan.
Dugu Yan, however, seemed unable to see Liu Erlong and simply followed Dugu Bo forward.
Ah, that child Yan Yan actually keeps things buried in her heart now. Thinking of how Dugu Yan used to be and seeing how she was now, Dugu Bo could not help sighing.
"Boy, you just said you wanted to find somewhere that could make plants grow hundreds or thousands of times faster." After bringing Li Ye and Liu Erlong to the residence near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo turned and addressed Li Ye.
"Could it be that you know of such a place, Senior Dugu?" Li Ye asked, feigning puzzlement.
"Of course I do, because that place is right here," Dugu Bo said with an air of perfect composure.
"Then, then, Senior Dugu..."
"No. Not unless you leave the woman beside you and get together with my Yan Yan," Dugu Bo said seriously.
At his words, not only was Li Ye stunned, but even Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong were caught somewhat off guard.
"Well, Senior Dugu, Ye Li merely happened to save me, which is why I've been traveling with him. We aren't together."
To keep all these days of Li Ye's painstaking efforts from going to waste because of her, Liu Erlong could only force herself to say those words.
"Grandpa, how could you do this? I may like Ye Li, but you can't break them up for my sake!" Dugu Yan said angrily.
"Yan Yan, don't tell me you want to share a husband with her!" Dugu Bo said furiously.
He clearly had nothing but Dugu Yan's best interests at heart, yet she was now accusing him of being in the wrong. How could he not be angry?
"Grandpa, this is my business. Even if you have my best interests at heart, you can't do this."
With tears brimming in her eyes, Dugu Yan looked sadly at Dugu Bo.
"Um, Senior Dugu, could I say something?" Li Ye asked timidly.
"Ah, go ahead." Dugu Bo sighed.
"What I wanted to say is, could you take me to that place first? Could we leave this sort of thing for a few years from now? After all, you know how old I am," Li Ye said quietly.
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