After being forced to agree, Mo Tiange found that the person who was half dead a moment ago was suddenly full of vigor.
This cave was so narrow that they couldn't even lie down, so he took out his flying sword and cut a large piece of the rock wall, at least enough for the two of them to lie down.
Mo Tiange was dumbfounded.
Qin Xi put the stone he cut into his Qiankun Bag and noticed her gaze. "What's wrong?"
"So these stones can be cut?!"
He touched his nose and avoided her gaze. "This … Although the material is quite special, my sword isn't an ordinary sword …"
"Then why didn't you do it yesterday?!" The two of them squeezed in such a small place and couldn't move, so he took advantage of her a lot!
"It wasn't necessary!" Qin Xi looked innocent. "I just wanted to rest for a while. Was there a need to open an Immortal's Cave?
Both of us are injured now, so we have to rest here for a few days. That's why I wanted to make it more comfortable. "
"…" Mo Tiange swallowed her anger. "You swear you didn't do it on purpose?"
"Of course not," he said righteously.
"Think about it. Back then, your father and I, two men, didn't waste our strength even when we were squeezed in here.
These stones in Demonic Mountain aren't ordinary things. Look, I cut them and even wanted to take them out. These can at least be used to refine tools! "
"…" Why did she feel like something was wrong?
She felt like she was being fooled.
"All right, don't think too much," Qin Xi said, "Quickly put your things away. You have to change your habit of smashing people." Perhaps she had been repressed for too long?
If she wanted to vent her emotions, she could just slap him, but why did she like smashing people?
"… You really have a lot of demands!"
"I'm doing it for my own safety …" She changed her words halfway. "You really have a lot of medicinal pills."
Most of the things he picked up were jade bottles. He opened them and smelled them. They were all medicinal pills.
However, he felt something was wrong. The quality of these medicinal pills was too good. Even with his pill-concocting skills, he didn't think he could concoct them.
He remembered the medicinal pill he got from Ye Zhenji and gave to Xiaohuo.
Just as he thought about it, the medicinal pill in his hand was immediately taken away by Mo Tiange. She plugged the bottle and put it into her Qiankun Bag.
She didn't say, so he didn't ask.
It was impossible for the two of them to have no secrets. Besides, they weren't in that kind of relationship yet.
Silently, he collected his things, collected his things …
After a while, Mo Tiange was the first to break the silence.
She suddenly asked, "Why did your attitude suddenly change today?
Didn't you say that you don't think I have feelings for you anymore? "
Upon hearing this, Qin Xi just smiled.
Mo Tiange's curiosity was piqued by his smile. She couldn't help but glare at him. "Speak!"
"It's not like I can't tell you …" He held back his laughter.
Mo Tiange couldn't bear it anymore. She pounced on him and pinched him. "Don't keep me guessing. Tell me!"
"Alright, alright, I'll tell you!"
Hugging her, he laughed and said, "You … You definitely don't know that you talk in your sleep."
Mo Tiange was stunned. "Sleep talking?"
"Yes."
Sleep talking?
Cultivators rarely slept, and when they occasionally fell asleep, no one would be by their side, so she didn't know about it at all.
Thinking of this, she was a little nervous. "What did I say?"
Qin Xi was still smiling with his lips pursed. He lowered his head and brushed his lips against hers, but he said, "I won't talk about this."
"Speak!" He clearly knew what he said, but he didn't tell her. This kind of feeling was too uncomfortable.
Did he say something … very mushy?
"I won't talk." He looked determined not to talk.
"Are you going to talk or not?"
"If I won't talk, I won't talk!"
"Speak!"
"Ahem, if you throw yourself into my arms now, I can think about it."
After a moment of silence, things began to fly in the small cave again. "Go to hell!"
After tossing and turning for a long time, she still couldn't pry his mouth open. All the things were thrown away, and his wound opened again.
With no other choice, she stopped to bandage his wound again. The two of them continued to squat down and pick up things.
Suddenly, Qin Xi was stunned. He picked up a stone the size of a child's fist.
It was obviously a piece of ore. It was white in color, but there were many natural cracks on it. It looked no different from ordinary stones.
He looked at it for a while then suddenly opened his right hand. Flames appeared in his palm and surrounded the whole ore.
"What are you doing?" Mo Tiange was startled.
Qin Xi shook his head and didn't speak. He just focused on the ore in his palm.
After a while, this ore finally changed. The cracks on it turned into clouds!
Mo Tiange's expression changed.
Qin Xi put away the flames in his palm and handed the ore to her. "Qiyun Stone. Where did you get it?"
"Qiyun Stone?" Mo Tiange took it and was completely dumbfounded. "This is Qiyun Stone?!"
"Yes, I shouldn't be mistaken."
Qin Xi was also a bit surprised. "We've been looking for it for so long, but we didn't find it. Where did this come from?"
"This is …" Mo Tiange scratched her head. This was what they got from Ziwei's Immortal's Cave after they divided the loot with Daoist Fangzheng. It was actually the Qiyun Stone that they'd only heard about but never seen?!
In that case, didn't she have a chance to get her natal magic weapon?
Qiyun Stone was found, and a thousand-year-old Chalcedony wasn't too rare. As long as they found Heavenly Aromatic Beans on Demonic Mountain, they could exchange them for Chalcedony.
"I got this the last time I went out to travel …" She slowly told him about Ziwei's Immortal's Cave, including how Wanderer Ziwei left a mark in her and Daoist Fangzheng's sea of consciousness and how he asked them to find Xiao Zilan's remains and bury them together with him within two hundred years.
She didn't take this matter too seriously because she still wasn't strong enough. For now, she still couldn't accomplish what Wanderer Ziwei entrusted to her.
Qin Xi's expression turned solemn. "So you're saying that there's a mark in your brain that will flare up in two hundred years?"
Mo Tiange thought for a moment then said, "It's been forty-nine years, so it should be 151 years later."
He nodded but didn't say anything. He just lowered his head in contemplation.
Mo Tiange played with the Qiyun Stone in her hand and said, "There's still 151 years left. Even if I can't form my Nascent Soul, I can at least reach the late stage of the Core Formation realm, right?
I'll have more assurance when I go there. "
Qin Xi shook his head, took her hand, and said, "Having a mark in your brain isn't a good thing. When we go back, we'll let Master see if he can remove it. If he can't, we'll have to think of a way to complete what he entrusted me with."
"… I know what I'm doing."
It was clear that he was rejecting him.
Qin Xi was silent for a long time before he sighed and said to her, "Tiange, can you not treat me as an outsider?"
"I … I don't." If he was an outsider, she wouldn't have said this kind of thing.
"Then why …" He paused, trying to find a suitable way to say it. "I think you don't trust me too much. You always want to make your own decisions and aren't willing to listen to me."
Mo Tiange was stunned. She withdrew her hand, turned around, and silently sorted out the other things she threw in the cave.
After she put everything into her Qiankun Bag, she said, "You … Maybe you haven't realized it, but you like to take the initiative too much. When I'm by your side, I … almost don't need my own thoughts. I just need to follow you."
"…" Qin Xi was a bit stunned. This … he really hadn't realized it.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Is there anything wrong with that?
There are some things you don't understand, but the things I know … "
Before he could finish, he was interrupted by Mo Tiange's chuckle. This chuckle definitely wasn't the relaxed kind of chuckle; it carried a bit of helplessness and worry.
She nodded and said, "You're right. This isn't a problem. If we were just companions, I'd think you'd be the best companion. However, this isn't the only time.
The most fundamental problem between us is that your cultivation level is much higher than mine, and your experience is also much richer than mine. I still have to learn how to deal with some things, but you've already passed that stage … But have you ever thought about it? If I stay with you like this, will I still need to grow in the future?
You'll be in charge of everything, but what about me?
I'll be fine as long as I follow you. This … isn't it like being a Human Furnace? "
He was dumbfounded for a moment before he said, "You … Even if you stay with me, you can still grow. If you encounter a lot of things, you'll naturally know what to do."
"It's not that I can't, but that I don't need to," she said quietly. "Do you think I just don't want to ask?
I don't dare. No matter what your answer is, I don't dare.
Just like now. You said … you said you have me in your heart, and I'm very happy, but … even so, what should I do in the future?
If we stay together, it won't just be … just a matter of feelings … "
His expression gradually darkened. After a long time, he said softly, "Could it be that you want to leave me because of this?"
Silence spread in the cave. Mo Tiange lowered her head and didn't say anything.
Her attitude made him more and more restless. He grabbed her wrist then whispered, "Then what do you want?
After what you said, do you still want me to let go? "
Mo Tiange shook her head softly. "No. Let me think about it. I still don't know what to do now. Let me think clearly …"
Although she didn't directly refuse, he was disappointed.
This represented a certain possibility — the possibility he was most afraid of.
The most frightening thing wasn't losing something, but losing it after obtaining it.
He remembered the story she told him just now. Wanderer Ziwei. Although he didn't personally experience it, he understood why this senior from several thousand years ago still lingered and refused to leave even after he passed away in meditation for several thousand years.
Because he obtained it, lost it, and couldn't see it for the rest of his life … so he couldn't forget it until he died.
If he didn't know her feelings just now, if he never obtained it and didn't know what it felt like to be in love with each other, maybe he would also slowly lose interest and walk on the road to becoming an immortal.
But, but …
"It's impossible," he said softly. "Don't do this kind of thing."
"I haven't …"
"But you think so!" He suddenly raised his voice and stared at her with a gloomy gaze.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Mo Tiange also raised her voice. "I can't do nothing!"
"So what if you just stay by my side?
Can't I protect you?
Why do you have to rely on yourself?
We're like this. I can help you, and you can continue to cultivate. Forming your Nascent Soul or even Deification isn't impossible! "
Mo Tiange didn't say anything. She raised her head and looked at him as if he was a stranger, saying nothing.
This kind of silence made him angry, but it also made him more restless. After a long time, he reached out and gently pulled her sleeve. "Tiange, say something.
Okay? "
She finally smiled, but it was a cold, unsmiling smile.
This kind of smile scared him.
She said, "You really don't understand anything."