Chapter 135

Chapter 135: In My Dream, There’s You

Qingwan and the Big White Goose, one human and one goose, each held a skewer of rock sugar hawthorn, walking and eating on the street.

Every time Qingwan bit into a hawthorn, her beautiful peach blossom eyes would squint from the sourness, and her white, delicate neck would shrink—just like when she was a child.

It was only at these moments that Ming could find some familiarity in the already graceful young lady that reminded him of her childhood.

“Is it delicious?” Ming asked.

“Yes~” Qingwan nodded, extending the rock sugar hawthorn towards Ming’s mouth, “Do you want to try?”

Ming: “…”

This girl, you’ve already eaten it, are you going to give it to me, a guy?

“Thank you for your kindness, but I don’t really like sour things,” Ming shook his head, deliberately pretending not to notice the girl’s intimacy.

“If you don’t want it, fine.” Qingwan also noticed her overly intimate behavior, took back the rock sugar hawthorn, cheeks slightly red, “I won’t give it to you anyway~”

Ming changed the subject: “Miss He, what connection does this rock sugar hawthorn have with the materials you need for the magic array?”

“Of course there is~” Qingwan hummed, lifting her head, “You see, I have this characteristic: when I’m in a good mood, my control over spiritual energy gets better, and my thoughts become clearer. Lord Xu, you wouldn’t want me to ruin the magic array because I’m in a bad mood, right?”

Ming: “…”

“What? Is what I said unreasonable?” Qingwan asked.

“It makes sense.”

Ming nodded.

Since we were kids, everything you say has made sense.

“Hmph~~~” Hearing Ming say this, Qingwan continued walking ahead, “By the way, Lord Xu, do you know what Qin Senior Sister likes to eat the most?”

Ming nodded: “If I’m not mistaken, it’s the rock sugar hawthorn in your hand.”

Hearing Ming answer correctly, Qingwan felt secretly pleased inside but didn’t show it: “So even Qin Senior Sister likes rock sugar hawthorn.”

“Isn’t that right.” Ming smiled, “When we were kids, even though her teeth were already rotten, she still wanted to eat rock sugar hawthorn. I always secretly brought it to her. Once, Lady Qin found out, she quickly handed the bamboo stick to me, claiming it was mine, but the hawthorn juice on the corner of her mouth wasn’t even wiped off.”

“…” Qingwan mumbled with a slightly red face, “Why do you remember things from our childhood so clearly?”

Ming glanced at the girl beside him: “Some people, every single thing they do, is worth remembering.”

“I-I feel so grossed out! I’m telling Qin Senior Sister!”

Qingwan’s cheeks turned even redder as she hurriedly walked forward to avoid being seen by Ming.

The Big White Goose looked at Ming.

Ming looked back at the goose: “What’s wrong?”

Big White Goose: “Goose (You’re so油腻啊.)”

Ming: “…”

What Ming actually meant was “I have few friends, so I remember every single thing they do.”

But it seemed like he had expressed himself incorrectly somehow…

When Ming was thinking about whether he should explain to Qingwan, she came back, holding onto the hem of Ming’s clothes with one hand and pointing to a pastry shop not far away with the other: “Lord Xu, I want to eat that!”

“Alright.”

Ming did not refuse.

As for whether he should explain what he just said…

Let it be, she looks happy anyway.

In the next half an hour, Ming took Qingwan to eat at one shop after another.

Where is she buying magic array materials? This is entirely just strolling down the snack street.

“Do you know? When I was a kid, I had a dream, which was to eat happily without any constraints from anyone~” Qingwan said cheerfully.

“Shouldn’t this dream be easy to achieve?” Ming asked.

“How easy is that?” Qingwan moved her long legs under her skirt, “When I was little, my family had strict rules, not allowing me to go too far, and definitely not letting me eat whatever I wanted.”

Ming: “Then after growing up?”

“After growing up…” Qingwan stopped, using her left foot as the center, spinning around with both hands stretched out, her skirt fluttering gracefully like a blooming Blood Rafflesia, “After growing up, I never went shopping either.”

Ming: “Because cultivation left no time?”

Qingwan: “That’s one reason, but not the main one.”

Ming: “What’s the main reason?”

“Not telling you~” Qingwan spun around again, happily walking ahead.

“Idiot.” Qingwan, walking ahead, stole a glance at Ming behind her, “You can’t even guess, because in my dream, there’s you…”

“Clang.”

“Clang.”

“Roar!”

“Roar!”

Outside Baiwa City, deep within the mountain, was a hollow Lava Heart Cave.

Inside this vast Lava Heart Cave, on the rock walls, there were hundreds or even thousands of cages, with monsters’ hands and feet bound by chains.

These monsters kept struggling, trying to break free from their shackles.

At the center of the Lava Heart Cave stood a massive lava platform connected by eight stone bridges.

Below the platform, scorching magma gathered into a sea, continuously churning.

Several beams of light shot out from the magic array.

A group of cultivators draped in black cloaks hurriedly activated the magic array, extracting one cultivator after another from the white light.

These cultivators had all previously disappeared in Baiwa City.

However, their bodies were in a semi-transparent state, appearing somewhat physical yet ghost-like.

The black-cloaked cultivators stepped forward, grabbing one of the missing human cultivators from Baiwa City and tossing them into the center of the magic array.

Next, upon the signal from the lead black-cloaked cultivator, they released several monsters from the cages on the rock walls.

The black-cloaked cultivators forcibly dragged a monster into the center of the magic array!

“Aaaaaaaaah!!!”

“Roarrrrrr!!!!!!”

As the magic array activated, both the human cultivator and the monster screamed in agony.

The semi-transparent human cultivator and the monster began merging continuously.

The bloodlines of human and beast gradually intertwined, their bones slowly connecting.

Their flesh first shattered, then fused together.

With a loud explosion, the human cultivator and the monster simultaneously burst into a mist of blood!

“Next.”

The leader among the cultivators didn’t care about the failure of the fusion.

One pair after another of cultivators and monsters were placed into the magic array; more than ten humans and more than ten monsters died successively, none succeeding, all turning into nothingness.

Scream after scream echoed endlessly within the Lava Heart Cave.

“Beasts! You will surely receive retribution! Beasts! Beasts!”

On the other side of the magic array, a woman witnessing all this shouted loudly, her voice hoarse, her eyes bloodshot.

The leading cultivator walked up to the woman, grabbing her hair, forcing her to look at him:

“Don’t say such things. This magic array was created by you.”