What's the Relationship Between You Two?

These Fire Salamander Beasts had all come to lay eggs. After laying them, they had stayed here to watch over them.

Whenever the noise outside grew too loud, they would immediately crawl out of the water to investigate.

Qin Yi stood guard at the water hole. The instant he saw a Fire Salamander Beast appear, he thrust his longsword down at it.

Before setting out on the mission, each of them had brought a weapon. Qin Yi had taken a sword, which he carried on his back.

Now his sharp sword left its sheath with a ringing clang and struck the Fire Salamander Beast's skull.

But this enormous Fire Salamander Beast truly had thick skin and tough flesh. Just like Xu Xinran's earlier attack, his first strike failed to pierce its skin.

Its skin was like iron plating. Without enough strength, piercing it was simply impossible.

"Then there's no other choice."

Since ordinary strength could not pierce it, Qin Yi could only use his full power.

He immediately poured all his peak Foundation Establishment power into the longsword. With a wet squelch, the blade, bolstered by the power of the peak Foundation Establishment realm, abruptly became more than ten times sharper.

It pierced into the Fire Salamander Beast's head like a knife cutting through tofu.

"Die!"

With its brain damaged, the Fire Salamander Beast's life came to an end.

Qin Yi immediately hauled on its corpse, dragging its remaining half out of the water hole.

Once he had dragged out the first beast, the second and third caught the scent of blood in the water and grew even more frenzied.

Qin Yi repeated the same trick, striking again with the power of the peak Foundation Establishment realm. Two sword strikes, two kills-he slew three Fire Salamander Beasts in succession.

After killing the Fire Salamander Beasts, he followed the description on the map and made a cut at the back of a beast's neck. Then he grabbed its white spine and pulled it out.

Strangely enough, the spine slid out of the Fire Salamander Beast's body smoothly, without any resistance.

He had seen four Fire Salamander Beasts earlier, but after he killed three of them, the remaining one kept hovering at the mouth of the water hole, baring its sharp teeth without daring to poke its head out. Whether it had sensed the danger, he did not know.

Seeing that it would not come out, Qin Yi did not insist.

His mission only required three spines anyway, and he now had enough materials.

When he found Xu Xinran with these materials, she was crouching on a rock. She smiled sweetly at him. "Husband, did you find them?"

The first time he had asked her to call him husband, she had struggled to say it. But after saying it so many times, she had grown used to it.

Qin Yi smiled and showed her a full waterskin. "There really is deep yin water and rhinoceros horn stone in here."

Rhinoceros horn stone, as its name suggested, was stone shaped like a rhinoceros horn.

It formed from the rock in this special place through thousands of years of dripping limestone water condensing upon it. Unlike ordinary stalactites, it naturally carried a yin chill.

It was easier to find than deep yin water. Using the Ultimate Detection Technique, Qin Yi had found plenty beneath a pile of scattered rocks.

"Can we leave this place now, then?" Xu Xinran looked at him with shining eyes.

When a woman gave her whole heart to a man, this was how she became. Even simply looking at him in silence would fill her heart with warmth and sweetness.

Seeing her like this, Qin Yi sighed inwardly.

Such a good woman could only be found in this era.

In later times, where could he find a woman so obedient and understanding?

At that thought, he could not help pulling her into his arms and planting a hard kiss on her. "All right, we'll head back now."

Even if they were heading back, they could not return with Gu Yiyi. He could only escort Xu Xinran out of the Nine Turns Mountain Range by another route.

He would have her return alone first to a small town nearest the Famous Sword Sect.

Once Qin Yi turned in his mission, he could make time to see her.

Just as the two of them were kissing, beginning to lose themselves, footsteps suddenly sounded at the cave entrance.

Soon, a figure stopped ten meters away from them.

They turned toward the sound, only to see a man glaring at them, his face filled with fury.

The man was powerfully built, and his eyes looked ready to split at the corners.

"Bitch... you shameless pair..."

The newcomer was none other than Song Xianming.

Wasn't he supposed to have stayed behind?

How had he found his way here?

At Song Xianming's sudden appearance, Xu Xinran cried out, her delicate body trembling with fear.

Even though her heart already belonged to Qin Yi, she was still Song Xianming's Dao companion in name. Being caught now inevitably gave her the guilty feeling of having been caught in bed with another man.

Yet when Qin Yi saw that it was him, rather than releasing Xu Xinran to avoid suspicion, he tightened his arm around her waist and planted a hard kiss on her fragrant lips.

Only then did he pull her behind him. "As you can see, the man Xinran likes is me, not you. If you know what's good for you, bow out on your own."

Song Xianming ground his teeth and roared in fury, his longsword leaving its sheath with a ringing clang.

He had traveled all this way to find Qin Yi and teach him a lesson.

Yet after finding Qin Yi, he had discovered his own woman in the man's arms, being kissed by him.

What was their relationship? That went without saying.

Ever since Xu Xinran had agreed to become his Dao companion, even he had never touched her so intimately.

Since ancient times, there had been four great hatreds that allowed no sharing of the same sky.

The destruction of one's nation, the extermination of one's family, the murder of one's father, and the theft of one's wife.

As a man, if faced with his father's murder, he might say that even ten years was not too late for revenge.

But the hatred of having one's wife stolen-how could that wait even a night?

"Adulterer! Whore! Die!"

Seeing Song Xianming charging at them with murderous fury, Xu Xinran's pretty face instantly turned deathly pale.

She clutched Qin Yi's clothes, feeling a wave of despair.

Why despair?

Because she had barely recovered any spiritual power, and Qin Yi had said earlier that he had little spiritual power left either.

With both of them so depleted, how could they resist Song Xianming's killing attack?

"Xinran, could you give me a little strength?"

Qin Yi suddenly asked her gently.

Strength?

How am I supposed to give you that?

Xu Xinran's eyes were filled with confusion.

"Give me a kiss. Maybe it'll help me recover enough strength to defend myself," Qin Yi said.

A kiss?

Would that really work?

Though she did not know whether it would work, a woman in love was not very bright.

Besides, in such an urgent situation, Xu Xinran did not stop to think at all. She rose onto her tiptoes and kissed his cheek.

Her action was like pouring oil on a fire.

When Song Xianming saw it, his lungs nearly burst with rage.

His sword technique erupted, sending sand flying and stones hurtling through the surroundings.

[Jade Pivot Sword Art]!

Jade within and pivot without, a layer of blue Sword Qi followed his sword's afterimages like a water dragon, closing in on Qin Yi.

With Xu Xinran's sweet kiss bolstering him, Qin Yi now had an excuse to unleash his peak Foundation Establishment strength.

Clang!

His longsword suddenly left its sheath as well. He swept it in a swirling motion before him, and nine streaks of flaming Sword Qi abruptly soared up, attacking his opponent.

[Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique]!

Since ancient times, fire and water had never mixed; each countered the other.

Since Song Xianming was using the Jade Pivot Sword Art, he would use the Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique!