HLnovel Chapter 457 He was just too perfect.
Chapter 457 He was just too perfect.
In the pitch-black cave, a wounded young man leaned against the stone wall, surrounded by various kinds of pills.
Lu Feng tried to move his body slightly, but a sudden, intense pain shot through his limbs and bones, making it impossible for him to stand up.
The young man licked his lips, filled with deep regret.
He had become complacent after spending so much time with Xue Lan and the others, and ended up alone in the Wan Gong Fang, a place teeming with cultivators. Unexpectedly, he encountered his former rival among the wandering cultivators there. He was chased by the three of them and eventually fell off a cliff, accidentally ending up in a cave.
"I thought it was a narrow escape from death," the young man said hoarsely.
Unexpectedly, upon entering the cave, he encountered a sixth-realm Swiftwind Wolf kept by the cave's owner. This Swiftwind Wolf had been guarding the cave for a thousand years, and had become tainted by demonic energy, losing its mind. It had driven him into this desperate situation.
The young man gently opened his eyes and gave a bitter laugh.
I wonder which is more pitiful: being beaten to death while breaking through the barrier with Xue Lan, or dying alone here.
This is probably my own retribution.
Lu Feng gently closed his eyes, recalling scenes from Lu Family Village when he was a child.
Thinking back, I remember that figure who was always busy at home.
Gonna die here.
Just as the young man was about to lose his temper, a clear and lively voice suddenly rang in his ears:
"Xue Lan, Xue Lan, I've found the person."
Lu Feng suddenly opened his eyes, his voice hoarse and rough:
"Little Tong!"
Suddenly, a warm light shone from the endless darkness before him, and Lu Feng saw Xue Tong standing not far away and the little girl floating beside her.
Xue Tong held a warm yellow ball of light in her hand and slowly walked up to Lu Feng.
"Oh dear, look how miserable the child is!" Seeing Lu Feng's disheveled appearance, Xue Tong immediately took out a bottle of pills from her storage bag and poured them into Lu Feng's mouth as if they were free.
The pill, containing pure medicinal power, entered his body and quickly repaired the damage to his meridians. Lu Feng opened his eyes and looked at Xue Tong with surprise:
"Miss Xiaotong, why do you have so many high-grade pills?"
Xue Tong shrugged: "It's for Xue Lan. You know how reckless she is."
Lu Feng's smile froze, and the young man awkwardly changed the subject:
"Where is Miss Xue? I haven't seen her."
"Yes, they should have arrived by now!" Xue Tong tapped Xue Lan:
"What have you been doing?"
"I'll be there in a bit."
Xue Lan gave Xue Tong a brief reply, then turned to look at the Gale Wolf lying at her feet, covered in blood.
Although it was a sixth-realm demon beast before, it had long lost the ability to take human form due to the erosion of demonic energy over the long years.
It lay down at Xue Lan's feet, as if it had found its childhood comfort. Its lifeless eyes looked at Xue Lan, and a single, cloudy tear rolled down its cheek.
Xue Lan squatted down and stroked its thin, bony body.
Xue Lan's voice was calm and gentle, like that of an elder who had lived for many years:
"Do you need me to save you?"
Even if all life force has vanished from this body, she still has a way to save it.
The Gale Wolf lying at Xue Lan's feet gently shook its head upon hearing this. Xue Lan then heard an extremely hoarse voice:
"Thank you, senior... I want to stay with her forever."
"I recently lost my temper and injured a fellow Daoist. I would be grateful if you could apologize on my behalf, senior."
The Gale Wolf slowly stood up from Xue Lan's feet and walked towards a coffin not far away, next to which leaned a skeleton dressed in tattered clothes.
The Swift Wolf slowly walked over and lay down at the feet of the skeleton.
It was very comfortable to stay by that senior's side; the pain of years of demonic energy erosion seemed to disappear in an instant.
It felt like returning to my clan.
But it no longer wants to go back.
They were together many years ago when it was still young.
Even though it's dying, they still want to be together.
Xue Lan stood not far away, watching the thin, lone wolf lie at the feet of the skeleton, slowly losing its life.
The woman gently raised her hand, and a wisp of spiritual energy flew from her fingertip to the dead Gale Wolf. In an instant, its mottled fur became glossy and smooth, and its withered body became plump again.
The woman's voice was soft:
"What if I'm too thin and someone mistakes me for someone else in the underworld?"
"Your master loves you very much..."
After doing all this, the woman concealed the sadness on her face, turned around, and disappeared in a wisp of green smoke.
Xue Tong and Lu Feng waited for a short while before Xue Lan arrived. The woman, dressed in black, was quite dashing. She was startled when she saw Lu Feng.
"What's going on with you?"
"Oh. I'm..."
"wait!"
Just as Lu Feng was about to tell Xue Lan about his experience, Xue Tong suddenly jumped out from the side and interrupted him.
Xue Tong looked somewhat excited:
"Don't tell me, let me guess."
Seeing the girl's excited expression, Lu Feng couldn't help but speak:
"How could anyone have guessed that?"
Xue Tong gave a strange smile:
"I might not be good at guessing others, but I'm always right when it comes to guessing you. First of all, did you run into an old enemy in the Wan Gong Fang area?"
Lu Feng nodded in surprise:
"Yes!"
"Then you fight desperately, but are ultimately defeated and fall off the cliff. By a twist of fate, you enter a cave, only to find yourself unable to get out!"
Lu Feng was completely stunned.
Xue Tong looked at Lu Feng with satisfaction, then at Xue Lan:
"Am I awesome?"
Xue Lan smiled gently:
"To be able to lose something right under my master's nose, isn't that just how the male lead is?"
Xue Tong nodded:
"All male protagonists in cultivation novels are like this." The girl pointed at Lu Feng:
"He's just too perfect."
After saying that, the girl began searching around with the ball of light in her hand.
"Logically speaking, there should be treasure inside!"
"Treasure! Treasure! We've found it!"
Lu Feng looked in the direction of the sound and saw that Xue Tong was holding a tattered pill formula.
The girl could barely make out the handwriting on it:
"Barrier-Breaking Pill!"
Xue Lan slowly took a step forward:
"The Breakthrough Pill is a top-grade elixir developed by a master alchemist from the upper realm a thousand years ago. It can keep people or demons corrupted by demonic energy conscious, but it cannot eradicate the demonic energy. It must be taken again every thousand years."
Xue Tong beamed with joy as she held the prescription:
"That's a really good thing. We can give it to Shishi later."
The girl then looked at the pills scattered on the ground and the overturned alchemy furnace not far away:
"I wonder if the owner of this cave ever succeeded in refining the Breakthrough Pill?"
Xue Lan spoke softly:
“She succeeded!”
Such dense demonic energy was too much for a sixth-realm Gale Wolf to withstand for even a thousand years.
Xue Tong smiled brightly:
"That's good!"
"Lu Feng!" Xue Lan called out to Lu Feng, her voice gentle:
"The Gale Wolf inside the cave asked me to apologize on its behalf."
Lu Feng didn't react for a moment and nodded stiffly.
Xue Lan smiled softly:
"Let's go back to the Xuanhuang Sect."