In the woods overgrown with weeds, Zi Yang, with disheveled hair and tattered clothes, stumbled around with a wine bottle in his hand.
The dense forest leaves blocked the moonlight, and the entire forest was dark and silent, with not a trace of light visible.
But Ziyang didn't seem to notice this, or maybe he was already drunk and didn't care at all. He continued walking along the path and kept mumbling: "Good wine, good wine!"
"Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick!"
"That woman is right in front, don't let her escape."
After hearing the sound, Zi Yang looked forward with blurred eyes and said casually: "Woman?"
As he spoke, he shook his head, his eyes widened, and after a closer look, he found a group of men in black wearing night clothes and masks rushing towards him.
However, before he could escape, he was surrounded by others.
Zi Yang looked around, his face as calm as water, and there was no trace of panic in his eyes, because the people in black around him were all from the three realms of reincarnation, and there were not many of them, only a dozen or so.
Also, they had long swords hanging from their waists. It looked like they were a group of sword cultivators.
The leader was a man from the Fifth Realm of Reincarnation. He glanced at Ziyang casually and asked, "Boy, have you seen a woman wearing a black mask and dressed in black?"
"What kind of woman is not a woman? How can there be a woman like this in vain? Besides, what does it have to do with you looking for a woman? Get out of the way, get out of the way, don't block the way." After Zi Yang said this, he walked forward, but was led by The man pushed back.
He was so angry that he took a sip of wine and said helplessly: "What are you doing? I'm not the woman you are looking for. Why are you stopping me?"
The leader took out a portrait and placed it in front of Zi Yang, and said coldly: "Look carefully, have you seen her?"
Zi Yang stretched his neck, and his face almost penetrated the portrait. He looked at the tall woman with slender legs, indifferent beautiful eyes, and wearing a mask.
The leading man put away the portrait and asked again: "Have you seen her after looking at her for so long?"
"I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it." Zi Yang shook his head and pointed behind him, saying, "I've walked all this way and I haven't even seen a bird, let alone a human being."
The man standing next to the leading man reminded: "Boss, I don't think this guy is telling lies. Let's continue chasing. The woman is seriously injured and can't escape far."
Zi Yang opened his mouth wide, raised the wine bottle and poured it for a long time, without even a drop of wine flowing down. He put the wine bottle to his ear, shook it, smacked his lips, and then threw it on the ground.
He smiled at the leader and said, "Do you have any wine in your hands? Look, I've told you everything I know. Can you give me a jug of wine to drink?"
A man in the four realms of reincarnation held the scabbard with his left hand and the hilt with his right hand, saying: "Boy, I think you want to die!"
The leader said: "Hey, our mission is to find that woman, so we don't want to be like her."
After saying that, he hurried away with the men in black around him.
Zi Yang turned around and saw that they had completely left, then he untied his belt with both hands and walked towards the woods on one side.
"Ouch, what is this?" He was about to take off his pants to pee, when he kicked something under his feet and tripped to the ground.
Of course, he didn't pay much attention to it. He took a casual look and thought it was a tree stump or something.
When he finished urinating, he turned around and knelt down to take a look, and found that the person lying on the ground seemed to be a person, which shocked him.
Zi Yang pushed her shoulder with his hand and asked, "Hey, could it be you were the woman those men in black were looking for just now?"
Perhaps because of the serious injury, the woman lying on the ground did not answer his words, and her breathing was very weak.
Zi Yang frowned and thought to himself, if I save her, if those people come looking for me, they will definitely not give up. This will undoubtedly cause trouble for myself.
He was not afraid of those people in black, but he was afraid that there were strong people behind them. He had just arrived in the Western Continent, and he didn't want to offend the big forces here.
When he was in the Northern Continent, he was hunted down, and he had no choice but to come to the Western Continent. If he was hunted down by people here again, where could he escape?
Even before he could escape from the Western Continent, he was killed on the way to escape.
After all, the God of Luck will not always favor him. He was very lucky to have escaped last time.
When he thought of this, he immediately stood up and prepared to leave the woman alone. When he turned around, he did not lift his feet to leave.
He cursed in his heart, Ziyang! You could have saved her, but you were afraid of getting into trouble and chose to leave her here alone. What kind of man are you doing?
Zi Yang hesitated for a while, then turned back to hold the woman's neck and found that her chest was covered with blood, and her face was very pale, which seemed to be caused by excessive blood loss.
He looked at the woman whose eyes were about to close and couldn't open them at all, and discussed with her in a low voice: "Can I take off your mask?"
The woman's eyelashes trembled slightly and her mouth moved slightly, but she didn't say a word.
Ziyang was worried that she wouldn't be able to hold on any longer, so he immediately said, "If you don't speak, you're acquiescing. I'm doing this to save you, so you can't blame me."
After saying that, he took it upon himself to take off the woman's blood-stained black mask, bit off her fingertips, and stuffed them into her mouth.
But the woman's teeth were tightly closed, and he could not put his fingers into her mouth. After several attempts, he still failed.
In desperation, Zi Yang said in her ear: "My blood can save you. If you don't cooperate with me, then I can only leave you here alone."
"Be obedient and open your mouth quickly. If those men in black come back, we will be in trouble."
"I have good intentions to save you, but you can't harm me, right? Am I right? You will die if you don't drink my blood, so why don't you just ask me to beg you?"
After a while, the woman's silver teeth became loose, and he finally put his bloody fingertips into her mouth.
After a long time, he carried the almost unconscious woman on his back and disappeared into the quiet and dark forest with her.
Because he was afraid that the men in black would come back again, he walked a little hastily, and the black mask full of blood was forgotten in a pool of blood.
Back in the thatched cottage, Zi Yang laid the woman flat on the bed. When he stood up, he glanced at the bloody hole in her chest and said helplessly: "You are injured so badly, I have to go out to collect medicine for you."
He pushed open the door, stood under the doorframe, and said, "Oh! Forget it, forget it, just think of it as a good deed."
In a few days, he had already walked around the surrounding mountains, so he knew where there were herbs to stop bleeding and heal injuries.
After an unknown amount of time, he returned to the room with a few herbs in his hand. He casually glanced at the woman lying quietly on the bed and found that her face was covered with blood stains.
He found a piece of wet cloth and wiped the blood off her face. After that, he ground the collected herbs and prepared to apply them to the woman's wounds.
As he sat beside the bed with ground herbs in his hand, he said, "Let's just say it first. I just want you to recover as soon as possible. I don't mean to take advantage of you."
After a few breaths, the woman didn't respond. He said again: "If you don't speak, you agree. I'm going to take action."
When Zi Yang's palm touched the woman's clothes, she suddenly raised her slender jade hand and grabbed his wrist tightly, but it only lasted for a moment before she weakly said: "Goodbye."
He hurriedly explained: "What else? Those men in black don't know if they will find us here yet. You can't always stay here."
"If they find out, I will be killed by you. For the sake of my safety and yours, I can only do this."
The woman's lips moved slightly and she said weakly: "No... I want..."
Zi Yang immediately refused: "No! I risked my life to save you. If you stay with me for one more day, you will increase my risk."
"I'll apply some medicine on you a few times and let you drink some blood. You'll be able to walk around freely in two or three days."
The woman squeezed out a sentence through her teeth: "You...can't..."
"I'm not doing anything for you, I'm just giving you medicine. Go, I don't care about that much." He shook off the woman's hand, unbuttoned her clothes, and complained: "It's good for me to save you. Now, you still care about this and that.”
"Besides, if I hadn't seen that you are a weak girl, I wouldn't have bothered to save you."
As he spoke, he took off the woman's clothes and applied the ground herbs in his hand to her wounds.
Immediately afterwards, he put on the woman's clothes without even looking at her.
After finishing these tasks, he stared at the bed that was only for one person to rest. Obviously, the woman was lying on his bed, so naturally there was no extra space for him.
"This..." Ziyang stood up anxiously and frowned: "It seems that I can only sleep on the ground tonight."
Zi Yang walked out of the room, looked up at the bright moonlight in the night sky, and said with a smile: "Today was not bad. I saved a seriously injured woman."
With that said, he sat on the ground, took out the Thunder Soul from the water basin, and looked at it with a heavy expression.
Zi Yang recalled the conversation Pei Yuanlin had with him before he died. He took a deep breath and said, "The throne that no one has touched? This challenge is quite interesting. However, I haven't fully thought about what I want to do yet."
"Pei Yuan, please give me some more time. If one day I figure it out, I will definitely take you to the peak throne."
I have to say that the conversation he had with the old blind man today made him very emotional. If he is not strong enough, he should be bullied by others.
If you are powerful enough, who would dare to bully you at will?
But if you want to pursue the ultimate power, you must step on the heads of countless geniuses and be ready to die on this road at any time.
The cruel practice made Ziyang understand that death is around him, and if he is not careful, he will die.
