Chapter 245: 146, just say it, have you gotten stronger or not?
The girl clutched the object in her hand, her eyes filled with vengeful fire, eager to try.
After the incident with Tian Liuli, Xu Yuan would no longer actively seek someone to cultivate with, but he wouldn't refuse those who offered themselves.
Although, he wasn't sure whether Xue Lin would accept it.
After all, the idiot hadn't even realized that his unicorn identity was fake.
"That said, do you really know how to use it?"
Xu Yuan looked at her and asked.
"Of course, I know!"
The girl frowned, gesturing for him to stop talking while she focused intently on it for a while, then said, "If I'm not mistaken, the secret lies within that thing, right?"
Xu Yuan thought to himself, that was indeed the case.
However, wasn't that obvious?
Before he could speak, Xue Lin hesitated for a moment before springing into action.
With a furrow of her brow, as if a hair had tickled her nose causing an itch, she suddenly opened her mouth wide, as if she wanted to bite down.
Xu Yuan's expression immediately changed with fright.
"Achoo!"
The girl suddenly sneezed.
The sharp canine teeth that passed by her lips terrified Xu Yuan, making his legs stiffen.
If she really bit down, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"I don't believe it, let's try again!"
Before he could dissuade her, the girl repeated the action.
The way she opened her mouth wide to swallow, it had a majestic vastness, as if capable of engulfing mountains and rivers.
"Don't be in such a rush, listen to me," Xu Yuan said with a sigh of helplessness.
"Mmm, what?"
The girl looked up at him, puzzled.
"Our unicorn clan doesn't help others grow stronger in that way," Xu Yuan said, sighing but with a look as if he found it hard to broach the subject.
"Then how should it be done? Don't tell me, I need to eat it?"
The girl frowned, asking cluelessly.
Unfortunately, Xue Lin had no idea what he meant, only able to stare at Xu Yuan with wide, helpless, and bewildered eyes.
The bright firelight cast a pale golden glow on the girl's fair complexion, radiating with vitality. Amidst the fire, she appeared so pure, like a maiden waiting for divine salvation.
Xu Yuan couldn't claim to be unmoved; after all, even though Xue Lin's beauty wasn't on par with Lin Qingque and the others, she was still a rare beauty. Coupled with her Beast Girl identity and her clumsy and naive allure, she could be considered one in ten thousand.
Especially those innocent and ignorant eyes of hers were enough to stir sinful thoughts, not to mention her current desperate state for the sake of revenge. If it were someone else, they probably would have devoured her completely.
Xu Yuan didn't think he was such a person, yet the girl before him had, after all, once saved his life.
"Indeed, our unicorn clan can help people enhance their cultivation, but there are prerequisites," he stated.
"Prerequisites? What are they?" Xue Lin asked eagerly.
"Dual Cultivation," Xu Yuan uttered indifferently.
"Dual Cultivation?"
Just when Xu Yuan mistakenly thought she would either assume he was trying to deceive her by taking advantage of the situation or agree without hesitation,
Xue Lin tilted her head adorably but then shook it angrily and furiously said, "What does that mean? Can you explain it more clearly?"
Xu Yuan fell silent.
But indeed, it was his fault; after all, "Dual Cultivation" was a term from the human race, so it was understandable that Xue Lin didn't know.
"Does Dual Cultivation mean two people cultivating together?"
Seeing he didn't answer, Xue Lin asked again like a curious baby.
"Uh, not exactly, let's just say it means to combine," Xu Yuan said.
For some reason, Xu Yuan felt a strange sense of guilt rising within him.
"To combine?"
As expected, Xue Lin frowned, not quite understanding.
Xu Yuan felt a sense of relief. Explaining such a thing seriously to someone else, even for him, was a bit embarrassing.
Then, Xue Lin moved behind him, looked at his empty rear, and said, "So, does it mean to intertwine our tails? But you don't have a tail either."
Xu Yuan fell silent again.
Oops, he almost forgot; she was an idiot.
"Forget it, let me just demonstrate, and if you feel uncomfortable at any point during the process, just tell me to stop."
Suddenly, Xu Yuan had an inexplicable sense of crisis, and it seemed not far from where he was.
Without being prudish, he reached out, pushing the girl to the ground.
Then, under the girl's astonished and confused gaze, he leaned down.
"Hm!?"
In almost an instant, Xue Lin's face turned bright red.
She wanted to refuse, but the sight of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood around her ignited an unnamed flame in her heart.
"What, what are you trying to do...?"
Her voice was trembling uncontrollably, she turned her head away, not daring to look at him, but her tail was wagging furiously.
"Do it!"
After confirming her resistance was weak, Xu Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief.
The girl's soft face, like clouds, gradually turned crimson, and her sweet breath brushed his face through the gaps between her cute canine teeth.
"No, wait, wait a minute, I'm not mentally prepared yet!"
Before she could finish, the girl's eyes widened, those wild and fierce pupils slightly dispersed, like a broken doll, the little face losing all expression.
She could feel an unprecedented sensation eroding her heart.
Her mind went blank, and her already bewildered face grew even more confused.
At this moment, if someone had asked her name, she probably couldn't have answered.
This was a feeling she had never experienced before.
The next moment...
"Wait, you're trying to kill me, right!"
An image from her childhood flashed through her mind: a wolf on the grassland, pierced and killed by a rhino's horn, pinned gruesomely to a wall, its death utterly tragic.
She was about to open her mouth, to stop his action.
But what came out of that open mouth was a scream of pain!
"Ao!"
The previously clueless face of the girl twisted into a knot of pain.
"This guy must still be holding a grudge because I wanted to eat him this afternoon, so he wants to kill me, right?"
The thought flashed through Xue Lin's mind, just when she thought she was in extreme pain,
Xu Yuan merely moved slightly.
In the next instant, she suddenly raised her head and bit down on his shoulder.
At the same time, her nimble legs kicked out at his lower abdomen.
"Hiss!"
Felling the intense pain from his shoulder, abdomen, and back, Xu Yuan sharply inhaled a breath of cold air.
Is this guy part dog?
...It seems he actually is.
But he didn't stop, knowing full well the resilience of his body, he figured it would be better to finish this in one go rather than stopping and waiting for her to get used to it.
After all, this was just the beginning.
...
The surrounding fire burned more fiercely, its bright light flickering over them.
The upright tail, now in a battle stance, swayed like a windmill as if trying to please him.
Xu Yuan suddenly lifted his head to look into the distance.
For some reason, he felt a strange danger rapidly approaching them from afar.
A faint smell arrived with the night wind.
And within that smell, there was an almost imperceptible scent of blood.
It was likely the group of people who had killed members of the Snow Wolf Clan earlier.
It must have been Xue Lin's earlier scream that had drawn their attention.
Xu Yuan thought somewhat absentmindedly.
After the intense battle earlier, his Spiritual Power had recovered somewhat.
Although not as strong as in his heyday, and still likely to struggle against a Nascent Soul Stage demon, it should still be possible to escape with his life using the powers of the Illusory Realm.
"I don't want to get stronger anymore."
As he was thinking this, Xue Lin's intermittent voice came from below: "I can't go on anymore."
When he looked down, her face was once again in a state of bewilderment.
Clearly, the words she had just spoken were uttered while she was still dazed.
The fire dwindled, and the girl, now sweaty from the night breeze, shivered and became lucid.
She looked at Xu Yuan with complicated eyes.
"Xu Yuan, you're a scoundrel!"
After a long while, she puffed out a sentence and hung her head low: "Why does it have to be through such means to become stronger? Your unicorn kind is just too messy."
"Are you saying you didn't get stronger?"
The girl's mouth hung open, wanting to retort but not knowing what to say.
A moment later she managed to say: "But you didn't say it was by doing this sort of thing."
"I did say it, you just didn't understand," Xu Yuan replied innocently.
"Besides, didn't I say you could have just said no if you didn't want to?"
"You, you have the nerve to say that when you didn't even let me speak, how could I say no?"
"But you were yelling really loud!"
"..."
Xue Lin's face flushed red all over again.
"Anyway..."
"Anyway, what?"
"Anyway, forget it!"
She stomped her foot, her expression filled with an inexplicable sense of grievance.
"...Come with me for revenge!"
A moment later, she suddenly said.
"Oh?"
Xu Yuan looked at her with curiosity.
"Didn't you tell me to leave before?"
"I am not strong enough to seek revenge on my own." she said softly, a bit embarrassed.
"What did you say?"
He pretended not to hear clearly and leaned his ear closer to her.
"I said, let's do it a few more times. I'm not strong enough to seek revenge at the moment," Xue Lin said loudly, as if resigning herself. "Are you satisfied now?"
"Hmm—"
He feigned contemplation.
"Very well, after we get revenge, I'll accompany you to find the Peach Source Divine Tree, how about that?" she said, itching with frustration.
"That... I need to think about it."
"You?!"
She clenched her teeth: "Forget it then, I'll go by myself!"
Xu Yuan grasped her hand: "I was teasing you, how could I not go?"
After all, he had no idea where the Peach Source Divine Tree was, so any direction was fine by him.
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"Really?!"
The girl turned around, her eyes brimming with surprise.
"Really."
Xu Yuan sighed.
He didn't know what to say since she hadn't realized he was joking.
And it was at that moment, a sinister voice coldly emanated from the darkness: "I told you, the Snow Wolf Clan is missing a brainless one, and you didn't believe me."
"This is perfect. She didn't even realize this kid was tricking her."
"Hahaha!"
With these words, several figures emerged from the darkness.