"Dragons??"
"How could there be so many dragons in this world??"
Li Xian stood there, slack - jawed, watching Wu Wang transform into a majestic dragon. He even forgot what he should do next.
Taking advantage of his momentary daze, Shen Qing used a teleportation talisman. In an instant, she broke through the siege of the mermaids and came in front of Li Xian.
Shen Qing shouted, "What are you staring at?!"
Then, she slapped the sword out of Li Xian's hand.
Caught off - guard, Li Xian's sword flew behind him, and his face contorted in a fierce expression.
"No no no!! My sword!!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Li Xian's body spasmed, and he fell weakly to the ground. He opened his mouth, and a rush of black smoke poured out of it.
After the black mist left Li Xian's body, it drifted aimlessly in the air for two circles. Then, as if it couldn't find a suitable host, it obediently returned to the sword.
Shen Qing rushed to Li Xian's side, picked him up in her arms, and desperately pinched his philtrum. "Li Xian, wake up!"
Ling Zhou, who was in Shen Qing's mind, saw that Shen Qing was pinching so hard that Li Xian's skin turned red and there were even faint bruises. He gasped in empathy.
"Little apprentice... there's no need to be so forceful... Just feed him a Clear - Heart Pill..."
"Really?" Shen Qing was skeptical because when she was in a coma after sword - training, Master Heng Ling and her senior brothers had treated her like this.
But more often than not, they just threw her back into her small courtyard and let her wake up on her own.
So, in fact, Shen Qing only had a half - baked understanding of many things in the world of immortality.
However, Shen Qing always listened to Ling Zhou. So, she took out a Clear - Heart Pill from her storage bag and stuffed it into Li Xian's mouth.
Before long, Li Xian's body twitched twice, expelling the remaining black mist from his body, and he slowly woke up.
He opened his eyes. Seeing Shen Qing, he panicked and pushed her away. "Shen Qing! Run! Something's wrong here. Let's get out of here quickly!"
Shen Qing quickly grabbed Li Xian's flailing hands and feet and said, "It's too late. I'm already here."
Li Xian squinted his eyes and observed his surroundings. He found that he was still in the inheritance land. His mind was a bit muddled at the moment. He shook his head and desperately tried to recall what had happened.
After separating from Shen Qing, he came to the center of this formation. He was just about to awaken the sword spirit in the sword, but as soon as he held the sword, he was completely frozen in place and couldn't move.
Before he lost consciousness, he heard a voice in the black mist say that it wanted to bring Shen Qing here and kill her.
After that, he remembered nothing.
Shen Qing looked at the sword lying quietly on the ground in the distance, showing no sign of movement. And the crazy mermaids behind them were cowering on the ground, trembling under Wu Wang's intimidation.
So, Shen Qing took the time to briefly tell Li Xian what had just happened.
When Li Xian heard that he had been possessed and almost killed Shen Qing, his eyes immediately turned red.
"No wonder you're so badly injured. Does it hurt? We can't use spiritual medicine in the water. Have you taken any pills?"
Reminded by Li Xian, Shen Qing just remembered that besides applying spiritual medicine, one could also take pills to heal the wounds faster.
Wasn't her act of applying medicine while running just now a bit stupid?
So, Shen Qing fell silent.
But after a moment of silence, she still stubbornly said, "Of course I took them. It's just that the injuries are relatively serious, so it takes longer to recover."
Seeing Shen Qing turn her eyes away uneasily, Li Xian immediately knew that she was lying.
He sighed irritably. "In that case... take two more pills..."
Shen Qing blinked twice, then took out two pills from her storage bag and stuffed them into her mouth, gnashing them loudly as if to vent her frustration.
"Didn't you hear what I said just now? Your father lied to you. All this is a conspiracy. Aren't you angry?"
Shen Qing was originally a bit hesitant. She didn't know if she should tell Li Xian all the truth, afraid that he would be depressed because of this.
But after thinking about it, she still felt that Li Xian had the right to know the truth, so she told him everything.
However, the expected disappointment didn't appear on Li Xian's face. Instead, his eyes were only on Shen Qing's wounds, as if he hadn't heard that Li Yuan had deceived him at all.
"So what? Whether it's a conspiracy or a scheme, he at least gave me a life."
If he didn't have this life, how could he have met Shen Qing.
"If there's disappointment, there must be. But more of it is the disappointment of being schemed against without seeing through it."
Li Xian said so, his eyes full of calmness.
In fact, in Li Xian's life, the two people who played the role of parents were both a bit abnormal. His childhood was spent in darkness. In his darkest moments, he even thought about killing these irresponsible parents and ending it all together.
He even hoped that he was an orphan born of nature, so that he wouldn't have to suffer from his parents' torture anymore.
So, these two people with no affection for him appeared in his life like strangers. Now that he was schemed against by strangers, Li Xian didn't feel much disappointment.
After treating Shen Qing's wounds, Li Xian helped Shen Qing stand up.
"Now, it's time for us to deal with other things."
"Okay."
Li Xian and Shen Qing both looked at the sword lying on the ground. The sword seemed to tremble in fear.
The closer they got, the more violently the sword trembled, as if it had consciousness.
Li Xian was wearing black boots with dark patterns. He stepped hard on the sword, looking down at it with cold, emotionless eyes.
"How dare you scheme against me..."
"You're seeking death."
Li Xian gritted his teeth and stepped harder, almost breaking the sword.
The sword stopped trembling but showed no reaction at all, as if it had curled up like a turtle in its shell.
Li Xian sneered. "You think you can just pretend you can't talk? Since you're completely useless, I won't be polite."
Saying so, Li Xian hooked his foot and kicked the sword into the air. He stretched out two fingers, gathered his spiritual power, and then waved his hand. The spiritual power attacked the sword.
The sword vibrated twice, floated in the air, and dodged the attack in a hurry.
"Not pretending to be dead anymore?"
Seeming to know that pretending to be silent was useless, the sword obediently twirled twice. Then, a column of black smoke rose from the sword body and gradually formed a transparent figure.
"Sword spirit?"
"Was it the sword spirit of this sword that possessed you just now?"
Shen Qing had guessed from the clan chief to the saintess, but none of her answers were correct.
The transparent sword spirit lowered its head fearfully, respectfully bowed to Shen Qing and Li Xian, and said, "I'm the sword spirit, Chen Xi. Greetings to you both."