Chapter 97 – The Ice Sword Cliff (1/2)

Xuanyue widened her eyes and said, “How dare you treat your meowster so rudely!” Her eyes only grew larger.

Li Qingshan stared at Xuanyue. “You’ve never mentioned this before. You clearly hid it from me.”

Xuanyue avoided his gaze. For some reason, she felt frantic inside. She avoided the main point. “Haha, have I? You never asked!”

Li Qingshan sat and crossed his legs. “This is it.”

“What? Why don’t you say that again?” Xuanyue extended her claws and threatened him.

Li Qingshan said, “You have tremendous abilities. When you come across danger, you can use your Shadow Displacement to just walk away from it, but we’ll most likely die. If you want to kill me, then kill me. I don’t want to be used by you anymore. As long as Xiao An can leave safely, I don’t mind anything you do to me.”

Xiao An grabbed Li Qingshan by the sleeve and shook his head desperately.

Xuanyue said, “Do you think I won’t?” She swung down with her claws, as swift as lightning. Li Qingshan had decided on not trying to avoid it. His hide was no tougher than that rat daemon’s.

The claws stopped near Li Qingshan’s neck, only a millimeter away. Xuanyue’s chest heaved up and down. She turned around and said, “Hmph, I can’t be bothered killing you. If you want to leave, then leave! Do whatever you want!”

Li Qingshan looked at her deeply before turning around. He was just about to leave.

Xuanyue grabbed Li Qingshan’s little finger and said gently, “The Dragon province is close. We promeowsed!”

Li Qingshan turned around. All he saw was her looking elsewhere and not at him. The sunlight fell on her eyelashes, casting a shadow on her eyes that were as clear as lakewater. She seemed melancholic and fragile, which tugged at Li Qingshan’s heart.

After a long moment of silence, Li Qingshan answered her, “Fine then. I’ll send you off one last time, just to complete our promise.”

Xuanyue immediately cheered up. She stuck out her tongue and smiled craftily. “How easy to coax!” She did not seem melancholic and fragile at all.

Li Qingshan lowered his head, and his expression immediately darkened. Xiao An looked at Li Qingshan rather sympathetically.

“It’s a promeowse! A promeowse!” Xuanyue leapt around Li Qingshan complacently before jumping onto his head in the end. She urged him, “Let’s go!”

Li Qingshan glared at her viciously before continuing on his way.

It had been quite some time since he had travelled under the sun. The sunlight in winter was warm. Before he knew it, a very long time had already passed. He had grown completely accustomed to his body as a daemon now.

Xuanyue said, “There’s no need to feel ashamed! There’s nothing embarrassing about losing to my ultimeowte move!”

“Ultimate move?!”

Li Qingshan said, “But in the end, you still left.”

Xuanyue said complacently, “That’s because I’m rather cold-hearted!”

Li Qingshan said, “That’s not something you should be proud of! If you’re coldhearted to others, they’ll be cold-hearted to you too.”

“Really?”

On the Black Rat mountain, the rat king laid on the ground with his head completely buried in the earth. The quiet sounds from five or even fifty kilometers away reached his ears. Li Qingshan and Xuanyue’s conversation obviously failed to escape his ears.

Most of the innate abilities awakened by daemons were for attack or defence, but he knew the extremely rare ‘Earthen Auditory’, matching his prudent personality that was as timid as a mouse.

Suddenly, he pulled his head out of the ground and said with a face full of soil, “Something really is off!”