C13 Visit to the village head
This was the end of the play like fight between youngsters.
However, the youths of the Rock Village were not completely empty-handed. At least, Shi Meng and his promise to battle for the past three days had filled their hearts with anticipation.
In comparison to the expectations of the young man from Rock Village, the rest of the Redbud Village were actually worried.
Anyone could tell at this moment that Li Ye, who had not merged with his native beast spirit, was definitely not a match for Shi Meng.
"Night …" Brother Ye, are you really going to duel with Shi Meng in three days? " Ah Yue frowned, his face filled with worry.
Li Ye shrugged indifferently, but looked towards Ah Yue and asked instead, "Could it be that we really have to watch your sister marry him?"
"But, but …"
"Don't worry. Although my realm is inferior to his, it will not be easy for him to defeat me. Otherwise, with his domineering nature, how could he be so careless today?" Li Ye laughed.
In that exchange between him and Shi Meng just now, he also clearly felt the abnormality of the stone egg in his body.
Although the moment of contact was extremely short, Li Ye could clearly feel the wave of suction force that came from the location of the stone egg.
That faint suction force had actually absorbed a wisp of nature's Origin Energy condensed in Shi Meng's palm.
Although Li Ye did not know much about the changes in the stone egg, he was certain that it urgently needed energy, energy that could help it hatch.
Earlier, the broken sword's cold aura and the spirit energy on Shi Meng's palm were similar.
It was just that he did not know what terrifying things were born from this stone egg.
"Li …" Big Brother Li Ye, you actually don't have to get involved in this at all. " Jing Wuhui, who had been silent for a long time, lightly pursed her lips.
Hearing that, Li Ye's body trembled, he looked at Jing Wuhui, and the expression of despair suddenly appeared in his mind.
"You have saved my life. Consider this as me repaying your debt of gratitude." he said in a deep voice.
Just to repay the favor?
For some reason, a hint of disappointment surfaced in Jing Wuhui's heart.
She muttered to herself as she looked at Li Ye, but laughed at herself, and said: "Let's return to the village, I'll bring you to see the village chief."
Redbud Village, just a few dozen households, with a population of no more than a hundred.
At the northernmost part of the village, where the branches crossed each other, there was a wooden house with clearly more exquisite and spacious buildings.
This hut was where the Redbud Village's village chief, Jing Mo, lived. At the same time, it was also where the Redbud Village's villagers discussed the important matters of the village.
Inside the wooden house.
An old man with white hair and a benevolent appearance sat at the seat of honor. Below him were a few elderly villagers.
At this time, they were staring at Jing Wuhui and Li Ye who were standing in the middle of the arena with serious expressions.
"So you're saying, you two have really agreed to the three day battle agreement that Stinky kid Shi Meng asked for?" After being silent for a long time, Jing Mo, who was seated on the main seat, finally let out a long sigh, and looked at Jing Wuhui worriedly.
Jing Wuhui nodded, but anxiously said: "Village Chief, please don't blame him, this … This is all a fault without regrets. "
"What did you do wrong?" Jing Mo shook his head and laughed bitterly: "You can only blame our village for being weak. In order to defend against the beasts, we need the protection of the Rock Village."
Jing Mo stood up, and slowly walked to Jing Wuhui, and intimately patted the latter's shoulders, "Forget it! "You miserable child, just because you don't want to marry Shi Meng, if you say so, no one in the village will force you."
"It's just that, it's just that, in the future, if we encounter the invasion of demon beasts again, without the protection of the Rock Village, how are we supposed to act?" Jing Wuhui muttered to herself, "If she gave her life to the village for the sake of her own selfish desire, how could she feel at ease without regrets?"
"Village head." Li Ye who had been silent the entire time suddenly spoke out, his eyes flickered, he looked at Jing Mo and continued: "Now that my family has been destroyed, I have nowhere to return to, as long as I am ignorant and unabandoned, I am willing to stay here to protect the village."
At this moment, Li Ye could roughly see the strength of the Redbud Village's villagers. For a hundred odd people to not even wake up from their Soul Bone, wanting to survive in a dangerous place like that was truly a little difficult.
With Li Ye's strength at the peak of Yellow Rank Soul Man, it was more than enough to protect Redbud Village from demon beasts.
Besides, the current him had nowhere else to go. Since the heavens allowed him to come here, then he might as well leave.
"This …" A hint of happiness flashed past Jing Mo's eyes. He muttered to himself, turned to look at Jing Wuhui, and hesitantly said: "It's not that this old man is not willing to accept you, it's just that this Redbud Village has always been against foreigners, and does not wish to interact too much with outsiders …"
Hearing Jing Mo's words, Li Ye was stunned, he stood there in a daze and could not help but laugh bitterly in his heart. The old elder's words had already revealed his rejection of Jing Mo.
"Village Head Grandpa!" Jing Wuhui frowned slightly, and said anxiously, "He … He has nowhere to go now, if we do not take him in, how can he survive in the 100 000 Wu Mountain alone? "
"You silly child! I didn't say I wouldn't take him in. " Jing Mo stared at the two of them meaningfully and laughed.
"Village Chief, what do you mean by that?" Li Ye asked.
"If you want to live in this place, it will not be difficult. However, you will still need a name." Jing Mo slowly walked in front of Li Ye, gently patting the latter's shoulder, then looking at Jing Wuhui, he continued: "Previously you said that you and Wu Sou had an engagement since childhood, and now you are here to fulfill it, in my opinion, if you don't want to, then go ahead and do it."
Li Ye and Jing Wuhui's bodies shook at the same time, but they were both speechless.
"After this, not only did you gain the right to live in the Redbud Village for a long time, you could also protect the Redbud Village from demon beasts, and …"
When Jing Mo said till here, he paused for a moment, looked at Jing Wuhui, and said: "Wu Se Sis and Sis, both of them have died since they were young, their lives are miserable, if you can marry her, then the siblings can be considered to have found someone to rely on in the future."
"This, this …" Li Ye muttered, but did not say anything.
In the depths of his heart, a delicate, fiery-red figure suddenly appeared.
Duan Surou.
That day at the Longmen Town's entrance, no matter how she treated him, Li Ye could not let her go.
She just didn't know I was playing dumb.
Li Ye said to himself repeatedly in his heart.
He had always believed that when he stood in front of Duan Surou again, this girl in red, who was as agile as the wind and was so beautiful, would still act as he had been at the start.
Just that he had lost the ability to awaken the Soul Bone, was he really worthy of her?
"Village head!"
After a short silence.
The red-faced Jing Wuhui finally opened her mouth.
Even though this silence was extremely short, Jing Wuhui could feel the unwillingness in Li Ye's heart.
The gentleness that appeared in Li Ye's eyes at that moment, was in her eyes.
Perhaps it was because of the embarrassment and anger that emerged from the bottom of her heart, maybe it was because of her unyielding nature of a girl, maybe it was because of a sudden tinge of jealousy toward the unknown person, she finally opened her mouth, looked at Jing Mo, and enunciated it word by word.
Her words were soft, but contained an indisputable decisiveness.
The forest was shrouded in mist.
Two figures, one in front and one in behind, one white and one black, swiftly flashed over like rays of light from the horizon.
Only when they got closer did they see that there were two demon foxes. Amongst them, the white fox was actually Hu Xiao Lian.
Whoosh.
The black demon fox panted violently. He suddenly stopped and there was a trace of fear in the depths of his eyes as he anxiously said, "Xiao Lian, you can't, you can't run any further! If he went any further, he would reach the territory of those humans. Let's, let's return to the Heavenly Fox Illusion Realm! If the elders and the rest were to find out that we have snuck out, it will definitely lead to another round of punishment! "
Hu Xiao Lian, who was flying in front, stopped and she did not turn back, "Hu Bugui, what are you afraid of? "It's rare that you've made up your mind to accompany me in sneaking out. Wouldn't it be a pity if you didn't have a good time outside?"
Hu Bugui's face was ugly, his eyes looking at Hu Xiao Lian, who was in front of him. He laughed bitterly, thinking to himself, you crazy girl, how would you know that I was only willing to risk the elder's punishment to accompany you out because I was afraid that something would happen to you outside?
These words at the bottom of his heart, would definitely not be spoken with Hu Xiao Lian.
After all, within the Fox, there was an insurmountable gap in status between him and Hu Xiao Lian, and it was destined that there would never be an outcome for it and Hu Xiao Lian.
Actually, it was already enough for him to just silently stay by her side and care for her and protect her.
It was said that her body also possessed the reincarnation mark of the tenth reincarnation of ancestor Hu, and was the only terrifying existence in the entire Nine Tailed Fox that had the qualifications to break through to the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox.
As for himself?
He smiled bitterly and looked behind him. It was empty and there was no one with a fox tail that symbolized a member of the Fox.
He was a tailed fox, a black tailed fox.
Amongst the Nine Tailed Fox, he knew better than anyone what being without a tail signified.
Unable to cultivate, it could only be an ordinary black fox for all eternity. A piece of trash that other foxes would carelessly humiliate.
If Xiao Lian had not bumped into him a few years ago, he would have been bitten to death by the other foxes.
"We're here!" Hehe, Hu Bugui, don't you always want to meet the Elder Brother Ye that I often talk about in front of you? " Xiao Lian looked at the towering ancient tree that was faintly discernable, and suddenly said excitedly.
That human?
Hu Bugui's eyes focused slightly as he looked at the towering ancient tree in the distance. An inexplicable sense of unhappiness rose in his heart, along with a faint sense of fear that even he himself felt for some unknown reason.