NOVEL WEB Chapter 59
Although he was excited, Lin Feng still waved his hand, “Junior Sister is joking. I have no interest in this spiritual soil.”
As soon as he finished speaking, “Although I’m not interested, I could take some to study,” he quickly added, worried Qingning might refuse again.
Qingning didn’t respond, just smiled again.
Lin Feng didn’t hesitate. He rolled up his sleeves and immediately got to work!
But as soon as the shovel went down, the spiritual shovel specially made for digging treasures was bounced off by the Zijun blood soil!
“Kid, you really have no experience, do you?” Old Man Tianji chuckled, “I told you, this Zijun spiritual soil is as heavy as a thousand jin! If you take it out, it could directly crush Initial Formation cultivators to death! With soil this heavy, how can you dig it without using vital energy?”
“Why didn’t you say that earlier?!” Lin Feng cursed inwardly.
He glanced back at Qingning, and seeing that she seemed oblivious to his awkwardness, he then channeled his vital energy into the shovel and began to dig vigorously.
Shovel after shovel, he dug with great enthusiasm.
Soon, he had dug a rectangular pit just big enough for a person to lie down in.The Zijun blood soil lived up to its reputation for heaviness. Lin Feng was already drenched in sweat and his vital energy was depleted.
He didn’t plan to give up but decided to rest for a while before continuing.
“Stop digging, that’s enough!”
Old Man Tianji advised, “You have enough spiritual soil. If you keep digging, you’ll pass out! And…”
“And?” Lin Feng asked, suddenly alert.
“I sense danger looming!”
Danger?!
Lin Feng was immediately startled and looked around warily!
But no matter how much he looked left and right, he couldn’t find any sign of danger apart from Qingning still smiling at him!
Still, Lin Feng always trusted Old Man Tianji’s premonitions.
Despite their usual bickering, they shared weal and woe, and the Old Man Tianji had saved his life on many critical occasions!
Dropping the shovel and holding the black blade, Lin Feng was on high alert.
But no matter how long he waited, the anticipated danger never arrived. “Junior Sister Qingning, did you see any bad guys?” Lin Feng asked Qingning.
“Yes,” Qingning nodded.
“Where?”
Lin Feng’s heart skipped a beat, and he gestured, “Come behind me quickly, Senior Brother will protect you!”
Qingning didn’t respond, just smiled.
Suddenly, a white shadow flashed and a huge paw appeared in front of Lin Feng.
He instinctively tried to dodge, but due to his vital energy being depleted, he couldn’t keep up with the speed of the claw!
The next second, the white claw struck Lin Feng’s cheek, sending him spinning rapidly into the air!
Just as he was about to fly away, the white figure suddenly leaped up, pressing its front paws against Lin Feng’s chest and pushing him into the deep pit!
“???”
Lying in the pit he had just dug, Lin Feng was utterly bewildered.
It was only now that he could see clearly that the white figure attacking him was Qingning’s White Tiger!
“You beast! So it was you!” Lin Feng raged.
“Pretending to be innocent with those blinking eyes? I always wondered why you seemed so adorably dumb, so it was all an act! Wait until I slaughter…”
“Qingning, come quick! I’ve got him pinned down!” The White Tiger turned its head to call out and spoke in human language.
“You can talk?!”
Lin Feng was shocked, and what did that mean?
What surprised him even more came next.
Qingning approached slowly, picking up the spirit shovel that had fallen to the side.
She still wore a smile while humming a tune, but the sight of her sent shivers down his spine.
She shoveled up the spirit soil, then dumped it all over Lin Feng.
“Burying someone alive is quite interesting,” Qingning said with a grin.
Her smile was still charming, but her words gave him goosebumps and made his scalp tingle!
Lin Feng felt like he was dealing with a lunatic! He had never imagined that the usually sweet and innocent Qingning could have such a hidden side!
He tried to struggle, but the weight of the Zijun blood soil and the strength of the White Tiger, comparable to a Heavenly Origin cultivator, left him immobile!
“Old Man Tianji, hurry! Use your soul power to help me escape!” Lin Feng shouted in his mind.
But the response was silence as still as death!
It was then that Lin Feng remembered.
Besides being heavy, Zijun blood soil could also suppress soul power!
Does that mean he dug his own grave and buried himself alive?!
“You plotted against me?!” Lin Feng gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with rage.
“Did I?”
Qingning blinked her large eyes, looking innocent.
“I saved your life!” Lin Feng roared again.
“That’s why I’m sending you off!” she replied.
That logic is too strong! There was no room for rebuttal!
Just as Lin Feng was about to say something else, Qingning’s delicate eyebrows furrowed, and she raised the shovel high.
Then, with one strike, she knocked Lin Feng unconscious! “Isn’t he noisy?” Qingning continued to shovel the soil while asking the White Tiger.
The White Tiger’s whiskers twitched, and he nodded.
Women are truly frightening…
……
As dawn began to break, a fresh mound of earth was formed.
Qingning dusted the soil off her hands, her pretty face showing a satisfied expression.
The White Tiger lay behind her, licking its paws before yawning and revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth that glinted coldly. It was quite terrifying.
But when he closed its mouth, its round eyes and fluffy ears made him look somewhat dumb and adorable again.
“Qingning, why did you bury him alive?”
After pondering for a long time, Xiaobai finally asked.
“Because he’s a bad person,” Qingning replied without turning her head.
“How bad?”
“Bad enough to want to eat you!”
“That bad?!”
Xiaobai was shocked! That was intolerable!
Anyone else saying this might be doubted, but would Qingning lie to him?
Although Qingning seemed a bit off now, she was still the person he trusted the most!
Moreover, he had always felt that Lin Feng would occasionally sneak glances at him and then show a strange expression.
Thinking back, Lin Feng must have wanted to eat it all along!
“Quick, Qingning! Dig Lin Feng out while it’s still warm, then I’ll eat him first!” Xiaobai said, eyes gleaming fiercely.
“We can’t dig him up. He’s not dead yet,” Qingning shook her head.
He’s not dead yet?
Xiaobai was shocked again!
“Not only is he not dead, but something will come to save him,” Qingning added.
“What?” Xiaobai pressed.
Qingning did not respond but simply looked up at the sky and then opened a red umbrella.
“Boom!”
Suddenly, the sky flashed with lightning and thunder, and a heavy rain poured down.
The rainwater dripped down the edge of the umbrella, falling onto the purple blood soil that surrounded the mound, merging with it to form a bloody water that flowed outward.
(TLN: Zijun Blood Soil is a sixth-grade spirit soil. It appears purple with hints of red and turns to blood when it meets water.)
Watching all this, White Tiger’s eyes widened in disbelief.
If Qingning hadn’t opened the umbrella in time, the purple blood soil covering Lin Feng would have also turned into bloody water and flowed away, giving him a chance to escape!
Everything was proving that the heavens wanted to help Lin Feng get out of trouble!
“So… we buried a Son of Destiny?” Xiaobai felt his head buzzing.
“Mm-hmm,”
Qingning nodded, “And this Son of Destiny wants to eat you.”
Xiaobai was horrified!
He had stayed in the Hengduan Mountain Range for a hundred years, and countless cultivators had wanted to eat him, but he had never been as scared as he was at this moment! Because he was a Son of Destiny!
A being favored by the heavens and the earth!
Xiaobai felt wronged!
He had finally grown from a little demon to a big one, and just when he had hopes of advancing to a demon king, was he going to be fed to the Son of Destiny by the heavens?
Was his life not a life too?!
“Xiaobai, do you want to live?” Qingning asked again.
“Qingning, there’s no need to say anymore,”
Xiaobai shook his head, interrupting her with a fierce look flashing in his tiger eyes: “I know that if I want to live! I must defy the heavens!”
Qingning smiled with satisfaction and, with the help of vital energy, planted the red umbrella on Lin Feng’s ‘grave.’
“Xiaobai, I need you to stand guard here, no matter how long it takes. You must not let the wind blow down this red umbrella and eat any cultivator who dares to come close! Can you do it?”
“I can!” Xiaobai nodded solemnly.
His tiger life was at stake. That’s why he dared not be careless.
“Very good.”
Qingning patted his head and then turned to leave.
“Qingning, where are you going?” Xiaobai called out from behind.
“I’m going to find Eldest Senior Brother,” Qingning replied.
“Can he help me defy the heavens?” Xiaobai asked again.
Qingning did not respond this time, and her figure gradually disappeared from Xiaobai’s view.
Xiaobai felt that he probably could.
Because Qingning’s departing figure was so resolute!
She must be going to help him defy the heavens!
“Sigh!”
Squatting beside Lin Feng’s ‘grave’, Xiaobai’s ears drooped down as he sighed mournfully.
How had he managed to provoke a Son of Destiny…
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