Chapter 18 (1/2)

Chapter 18 - Meeting Later

A moment later, a rich smell of meat came from above the cliff. Shen Aojun raised his head and looked up, only to see that not far away, Lei Yang had left a large chunk of pure meat on the corpse of the gigantic Fire Demon Bear, and was currently roasting it until it was sizzling oil.

The meat was golden in color, and when the flames landed on it, it released a rich smell of meat that couldn't be dissolved. The fragrance a.s.saulted her senses, especially at this moment, when it entered Shen Aojun's nose which was rumbling with hunger, causing her, who had always been reserved, to be unable to resist swallowing her saliva.

Lei Yang happened to see all of this at the same time. He looked at Shen Aojun and grinned, causing Shen Aojun to quickly lower his head in embarra.s.sment.

In order to resolve this awkward atmosphere, Lei Yang took a large piece of roasted bear meat and walked over, extended his hand and gave it to Shen Aojun, and said: ”Miss Shen, please!”

”This... Then we'll have to trouble Young Master Yue Yang. ” Shen Aojun slightly hesitated, but very quickly, he generously received the barbecue meat from Lei Yang.

When she was even closer, the golden color of the meat, and the fragrance immediately entered her nose, causing her to feel an intense hunger. Shen Aojun could no longer endure it, she turned her body a little, no longer caring about her elegant appearance, and started to eat.

Right now, her eyes were filled with roasted meat. How could she have the time to care about her image? She herself was unaware of it, causing Lei Yang to sigh from the bottom of his heart: ”So a reserved beauty has such a crazy side to her!”

Shen Aojun took three pieces of roasted meat in a row from Lei Yang's hands. After he ate all of them, he felt that he was no longer as hungry as before, as if he had just realised that something was wrong with his body. Furthermore, he vaguely saw the shocked expression on Lei Yang's face, and immediately reacted as he immediately covered his mouth with his hands and shyly lowered his head again.

The atmosphere on the cliff became awkward once again. The two of them fell into a short silence on the cliff under the moon. They were unable to find a suitable topic of conversation for a while.

”I can see that Lady Shen's cultivation isn't weak. How did she receive such heavy injuries and fall to such a state?” After a while, Lei Yang was the first to break the depressing atmosphere, and asked.

Shen Aojun looked at the doubtful Lei Yang, smiled, thought for a moment, and straightforwardly told him the whole story.

It turned out that two years ago, Shen Aojun's father had suffered a serious hidden injury when he broke through, although he had managed to breakthrough successfully, the hidden injury had suddenly appeared half a year ago, and was becoming more and more severe.

Every time his internal injuries flared up, his father would go crazy. He would kill anyone he saw, and even the elders of the clan would be unable to cure him. In the end, there was nothing he could do but to use a metal cage to imprison his father.

Not long ago, Shen Aojun had heard from the elders that there was a type of medicinal pellet called the ”Hundred Spirit Pellet”.

Although the Shen family had their own medicinal field, they had only collected eighty-seven medicinal herbs required to concoct the ”Hundred Spirit Pill”. There were also thirteen medicinal herbs that could not be found after going through the entire Shen family.

Although they were all spiritual medicines, their ranks were not very high, and it was not difficult to find them. The elders ran all over the place, and they even used a lot of connections to buy them at a high price in many large clans. Finally, they gathered all 12 of the remaining 13 types of spiritual medicines, but they could not get the only type of spiritual medicine which was called the Four Leaves Silver Moon Gra.s.s.

Seeing her father's crazed state becoming more and more intense each time, Shen Aojun felt more and more upset. When she thought about how her father had treated her well in the past, she couldn't help but burst into tears.

She swore to herself that even if she had to search through the entirety of the Falling Dragon Mountain Range and the entire South Vietnam, she would definitely find this final medicinal herb called Silver Moon Gra.s.s and refine it into a Hundred Spirit Pill to fight against that last sliver of hope for her father.

From then on, she would often enter the mountain by herself and continued to search for the Four Leaves Silver Moon Gra.s.s, one of the rarest grade five elixirs in South Vietnam. Perhaps it was because of her persistence that the heavens were moved, or perhaps her father's life was undeserved, and her hard work did not come to fruition.

It was three days ago when she found a valley in the mountain range 50 kilometers away from the cliff. Coincidentally, there was a spirit spring in the valley, and beside the spirit spring grew a four-leaf Silver Moon Gra.s.s.

At that time, she was so happy that she was on the verge of tears. Her heart was in ecstasy as she walked forward to pluck it, but she didn't expect that the moment she turned around, she was stopped by a humongous blazing bear.

She was forced to fight it with her cultivation at the peak of the sixth level, only to discover that this Fire Demon Bear's strength was comparable to the peak of the seventh level.

In the end, she found an opportunity to turn around and flee, but the blazing bear continued to chase after her, as if it wasn't willing to give up until it died. It spat fire all the way and nearly burned her several times.

It was only when they had flown more than five kilometers and saw that the demonic bear was still closely following them did she suddenly realize that the fellow was actually targeting the Silver Moon Gra.s.s in her hands.

So it had been protecting this stalk of spirit medicine all along, when it matured, it would consume it, thus raising its own cultivation. Seeing the spirit medicine that originally belonged to it being taken away by Shen Aojun, it naturally viewed her as its enemy, and made a life or death feud with her.

But how could Shen Aojun be willing to give a spirit medicine that he painstakingly searched for to a demonic beast? It was not only containing her heartache, but also his father's hope, so how could he give it up? She gritted his teeth and fled all the way until this place.

Unfortunately, her back was caught by the demonic bear's huge palm, causing her to lose her balance and accidentally fall off the cliff. Fortunately, she managed to grab onto the cypress by the cliff wall, and was lucky enough to escape this calamity!

”This is what happened. When you saw me, I had already been on the cliff for two days and one night. You already know what happened afterwards.” After Shen Aojun finished speaking, he gave Lei Yang a bland smile, as if this kind of life and death experience, to her, was not really anything big.

”Oh, so that's how it is. No wonder that Fire Demon Bear acted like an enemy the moment it saw you. Miss, since you've already eaten it, it should be good enough to get rid of your hatred.” Lei Yang looked like he had suddenly realized something, and joked around.

”Haha, Young Master sure knows how to joke around. I wonder why Young Master Yue Yang is here?” Shen Aojun laughed, and casually asked Lei Yang. She lightly touched her hair in front of her forehead, and a feeling of transcendence rose up within her.

”Oh, I am a man of the unruly clouds and wild cranes. I have nothing better to do. I was wandering in the mountains when I suddenly heard faint cries for help from the mountains. That's why I came here.” Lei Yang replied.

”Young master is also from Wuyuan Town?”

Lei Yang smiled but did not comment. He really wanted to nod, but when he thought of his reputation as the town's good-for-nothing, he dispelled the thought in his heart.