“Hey, hey~”
Zhuang Xuangan patted his shoulder and said calmly, “Just say a couple of words and be done with it. Don’t be such a busybody, acting like a gossiping village woman.”
“I’m not being a busybody.”
Han Qinghong retorted, “I’m just talking.”
“Heh~” Zhuang Xuangan shook his head and laughed, “You, you, sooner or later you’ll suffer a great loss because of that mouth of yours.”
At this moment, Xue Feihong suddenly smiled: “Sect Leader Han, actually, at first, Feihong did fall for Li Hai because of his appearance.
But—there’s no helping it, Feihong’s empty heart has always been too small, so small it can only hold one person. So no matter the reason, that empty space has already been occupied by Li Hai.
Once occupied, it’s occupied. Unless—Feihong’s heart suddenly shatters one day, otherwise, even if Li Hai reverts to a common mortal, Feihong will still be unwavering.”
“But—” Han Qinghong interjected again, “What if this Li Hai is unwilling?”
“Oh~” Xue Feihong’s expression turned cold, and she said lightly, “Then he won’t have a choice.”
Inside the Qilin Palanquin—
“Big Brother Li, who are those people?” Feifei asked curiously.
Li Hai slowly sat upright in the center, and said indifferently: “Unrelated individuals.”
“Oh~” Feifei nodded and asked no further questions.
“Huh?”
Li Hai looked at Feifei, his face showing surprise, and said, “Your—Realm cultivation, why did it suddenly increase so much? And you even Awakened another Divine Ability?!”
Indeed, under his gaze, the information on Feifei’s personal interface had visibly undergone drastic changes in a short period of time.
First, her martial Dao Realm had, without any process, jumped from Acquired Seventh Level to Acquired Tenth Level.
At the same time, her spell cultivation level also suddenly advanced from Soul Gathering to Spiritual Focus.
Finally, Feifei’s Divine Abilities, their number had suddenly increased from the two, Fatal Cat Demon and Illusionary Realm, to three.
And that newly appeared Divine Ability was a High Grade Divine Ability named Eighteen Arhats.
As the name suggests, this Divine Ability can summon eighteen bald, muscular men with blurred faces covered in scales, maintaining them for about a quarter of an hour.
During this quarter of an hour, the summoner can freely command these strong men, making them kill or even kill each other.
At the same time, the bodies, souls, and other characteristic strength values of these strong men will be a lower Realm version of the summoner.
In the System’s words, it’s one Rank level lower.
For example, after Li Hai learns and possesses this Divine Ability, he can summon eighteen bald, muscular men equivalent to the peak Thousand Army Grade.
Although it provides almost no overall combat power increase for Li Hai, it is somewhat useful for handling daily chores and clearing out minor enemies.
So Li Hai didn’t hesitate and learned this Divine Ability from Feifei in a single thought.
However, while learning the Divine Ability, Li Hai was also extremely puzzled by Feifei’s transformation happening right under his nose.
So he asked: “Feifei, did anything strange happen just now? Like a ball of light suddenly flying in and entering your head or something.”
That’s right, Li Hai suspected that Feifei might have been possessed by some System, which was why she suddenly changed so much.
“No.”
Feifei shook her head blankly and said, “Nothing happened. I’ve been sitting here honestly the whole time. I just got out of the carriage a moment ago to look down.”
“Alright.” Li Hai pursed his lips.
If he couldn’t figure it out, then he simply wouldn’t think about it.
Immediately, he spoke again: “Let’s go to the Red Soil Forest now, Feifei, you lead the way and take me to that Mystic Gu Workshop.”
“Mm.”
Feifei nodded resolutely, “I will definitely not lead you astray, because the experience of that escape over the past decade or so constantly revolves in my mind.”
“That’s good.” Li Hai said in a deep voice, “I also hope that this time I can get a satisfactory answer.”
Dusk shrouds the forest, obscuring the moonlight, dense leaves cover the sky, hiding roosting crows, a few scattered stars hang in the sky, a lonely, deep dreamland.
At midnight, the Red Soil Forest was as if covered by an endless black silk, every part and every area inside and out was pitch black with hardly any light.
Only by looking up while traversing it could one glimpse a few faint streaks of moonlight and starlight cast down from the high heavens, struggling to penetrate through layers of leaf gaps.
Therefore, even the night owls, bats, and wild beasts relied on their hearing and smell to freely move through this boundless forest.
But at a certain moment, from the depths of this silent night forest, a huge black shadow, like a locomotive, suddenly burst forth.
As soon as this black shadow appeared, it carried rolling winds and explosive sounds at an extremely fast speed, crushing large trees and roaring towards the depths of the other end of the night forest.
It left behind only a wide path made of countless wood chips and mud, seeming to cut through countless plants of the entire forest.
Because the black shadow’s speed was too fast, many wild beasts fortunate enough to encounter it were often crushed into countless blood spatters before they even had time to hear a sound.
Then, mixed with the even larger quantity of wood chips and dust, they either flew into the sky or scattered onto the ground, eventually becoming indistinguishable.
And this black shadow was precisely the colossal Qilin Palanquin, carried at full speed by the Dao Ge Four. Of course, Li Hai and Feifei were sitting inside the carriage.
At this moment, they were recklessly speeding at supersonic speeds through this vast Red Soil Forest.
Under such terrifying speed, along the way, no matter how thick the ancient trees or how sturdy the rock walls and earthen mounds, they would be shattered and ground into dust by the Qilin’s thunderous impact.
But even relying on this speed, Li Hai still spent an hour and a half to find the location of the Mystic Gu Workshop under Feifei’s guidance.
It was a cluster of dark green buildings located in a deep valley in the Red Soil Forest, about eight thousand li away from Jin Fu Town.
“Big Brother Li, this is it.”
Feifei stood on the cliff, looking far down at the densely packed, closely arranged green buildings below, covered in countless dark red, vein-like vines, and said contentedly, “I never thought I would return here one day.”
As she spoke, her willow-like brows furrowed tightly, and she clutched her chest, breathing with difficulty.
Li Hai felt that her condition was a bit off, so he walked over and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
“Perhaps it’s a bit of ‘homesickness’,” Feifei joked, “After all, this place holds too many painful memories for me.”
“Hmm~” Li Hai mused, “Then how about this, you sit on my Qilin Zither, and let Dao Ge and them carry you back to town?”
“No need for such trouble.” Feifei shook her head, “I can go back myself—”
Before she finished speaking, her body suddenly trembled violently, sending out a visible wave of air that quickly swept around, stirring up dust and wood chips.
“Your Realm has increased again?!”
Li Hai looked at Feifei’s personal interface with surprise in his eyes, discovering that her martial Dao level had indeed leaped to the Innate Maniac Realm.