Chapter 47

For several breaths after saying these words, Dong Xia did not shift her attention away from Li Qing.

If Li Qing’s inner demon was still present, he would not be able to face this statement calmly.

However, contrary to Dong Xia’s expectations, Li Qing blinked and asked innocently: “What if I still find you like I did this time?” He asked this question that made Dong Xia roll her eyes, like a child who had just entered school.

Dong Xia: “…Then I’ll beat you to death.”

Li Qing honestly reminded her: “You’ve tried to kill me before.”

“So if you’re smart enough, you should stay far away.” Dong Xia snorted and turned her head to continue walking, abandoning this topic.

Dong Xia felt it would be easier to find a way to brainwash Li Qing.

So in the following days, she recklessly tried various possible methods on Li Qing.

No matter what she fed into Li Qing’s mouth, as long as it was handed over by her, Li Qing would swallow it without a word, without any questioning, not even furrowing his brows.

Only after the first feeding, when Dong Xia instinctively stroked Li Qing’s face, every time after eating strange pills and worms, Li Qing would stare at her expectantly.

If Dong Xia didn’t stroke him, he wouldn’t say anything, but he wouldn’t be as cooperative next time.

Unless she made up for the missed stroke from last time.

Dong Xia felt that Li Qing had not only lost some memories but also some of his brain.

The only thing he hadn’t lost was his cultivation.

Li Qing’s cultivation was still within him, but it was like a frozen block of ice, neither flowing nor operating.

Only when encountering a life-threatening crisis would it suddenly burst forth.

For example, when Dong Xia fed the soul-snatching worm into Li Qing’s stomach, his innate true energy crushed that poor little worm into powder in an instant, as if cleaning up trash.

The action was so fast that Dong Xia hadn’t even had time to remove her hand from Li Qing’s head.

Li Qing blinked innocently under her hand: “What’s wrong?” Dong Xia expressionlessly withdrew her hand: “Go away, just looking at you annoys me.” — How is this person so hard to brainwash??

In a month’s time, Dong Xia tried all the methods that might have an effect on the two pieces of paper, but none of them worked on Li Qing.

Angered, Dong Xia tore up the paper: This is too much! Why could Li Qing use it on her, but she couldn’t use it on Li Qing?

Li Qing cautiously handed over a cup nearby: “Calm down.” Dong Xia casually took the cup and drank it to the bottom, only to find that it wasn’t tea but wine, and frowned immediately: “Where did you get the wine?” Li Qing showed her the storage ring on his hand: “I don’t know how it suddenly opened, there are many things inside.” Dong Xia: “…” Li Qing’s wine actually still had inventory? “Bring out all the wine.” Li Qing responded with an “oh” and obeyed, and suddenly half the room was filled with uniformly white wine jars.

“Confiscated.” Dong Xia waved her hand, casually summoning a jar to her hand and opening it, drowning her sorrows in wine.

Dong Xia had always had a good alcohol tolerance, even without cultivation it was frightening, and after recovering her cultivation, she could drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, holding the wine jar and drinking with her head tilted back, not wasting a single drop.

Li Qing watched as she drank twenty jars in a row, her stomach not even swelling a bit.

He silently handed over wine jars on the side.

But as the alcohol took effect, Dong Xia held the wine jar and began to curse Li Qing to his face: “If it weren’t too troublesome to kill you, based on what you did to me before, I would have killed you the first time I saw you a month ago.” Li Qing humbly asked: “What did I do to you?”

“Don’t speak,” Dong Xia imperiously knocked on the table twice, “You just need to know that your death wouldn’t be enough in my eyes.” “But you still formed a Hehe contract with me,” Li Qing said calmly, “That’s something only the most intimate people would do.” Dong Xia glanced at him and slapped the dagger on the table: “You reminded me, you still owe me a drop of blood, pay now or on credit?” That was the special dagger Dong Xia had personally brought to Li Qing’s face more than a month ago, forcing him to give up his heart blood.

Li Qing lowered his eyes and stared at the dagger for a while before picking it up.

Dong Xia squinted her eyes slightly and instructed: “Against your own chest, hmm, half an inch more to the left.” Li Qing smiled, lightly tossed the dagger once, grasped the tip of the blade, and handed the handle to Dong Xia: “I don’t know how, you do it.” Dong Xia took the dagger from between Li Qing’s fingers without thinking.

She sneered and aimed at Li Qing’s heart position and stabbed down, casually saying: “How many times have I tried to kill you? That time I stabbed in…” Before she finished speaking, Dong Xia’s voice suddenly stopped.

The dagger, just like last time, steadily pierced Li Qing’s chest.

In the moment Dong Xia was stunned, blood had already flowed out along the blood groove.

Li Qing was pretending to have amnesia, otherwise how could he control the most basic survival instinct?

This thought flashed through Dong Xia’s mind almost instantly.

But if Li Qing was really clear-headed, how could he willingly give her the chance to break the Hehe contract?

As these two contradictory options were about to clash, Dong Xia’s drunkenness suddenly receded, she quickly pulled out the dagger and preserved this hard-won and somewhat mysterious heart blood.

Li Qing covered his chest, showing no sign of pain on his face: “It feels a bit strange.” Dong Xia twirled the dagger skillfully: “How strange?”

She had already thought about turning around to break the Hehe contract, putting aside the matter of brainwashing Li Qing for now.

“I don’t usually feel pain,” Li Qing said very slowly, his expression indeed quite puzzled.

“You have no sense of pain, half of the spirit realm knows that.” Dong Xia stabbed the dagger she had grown tired of playing with into the table, absent-mindedly responding to Li Qing’s words, while examining whether he had tampered with his blood to be so generous.

“But you can make me feel pain,” Li Qing continued.

Dong Xia looked up at Li Qing, she said with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes: “Now I want to stab you again.” Li Qing pondered for a moment, handed the dagger back to her, his posture composed and obedient.

But Dong Xia had no time to waste on Li Qing to vent her anger, she circulated her demonic energy to dispel the effects of alcohol, and by the time she stood up, her mind had already gone through a full circle of materials for breaking the Hehe contract.

Of course, in return, she also needed to find a safe place to bleed herself.

So when Dong Xia left Li Qing behind, she didn’t forget to take the special dagger with her.

“What do you need it for?” Li Qing held her back.

“To draw blood,” Dong Xia deftly twisted her wrist to escape his restraint, “The Hehe contract goes both ways.” Li Qing seemed to want to say something but stopped.

Dong Xia casually threw him a pill and changed locations to break the contract, feeling quite refreshed.

—Until she stabbed herself in the chest.

Dong Xia had suffered many injuries before, usually just frowning at most, but this was more unbearable than the most painful injury she had ever experienced, causing her to suddenly hiss and draw in a cold breath.

How did Li Qing manage to talk to her with an unchanged expression?

Twice?

Oh, right, he doesn’t feel pain.

Dong Xia cursed as she took her own heart blood, figuring it was probably because it was her first time stabbing herself, unfamiliar with the process, and didn’t think much of it, simply proceeding to break the Hehe contract step by step.

It wasn’t until the next day that Bai Zeyue learned what these two top powerhouses of the spirit realm had done.

“?!” Bai Zeyue’s pupils shook, “Don’t you know how much this damages your essence?”

“There are priorities,” Dong Xia had sufficient reason, “This was more urgent.” Li Qing had lost his memory but could still follow her like a little tail, wasn’t it because the Hehe contract had some sensing?

Once the contract was broken, let’s see how he follows?

“Didn’t you think about consulting with me in advance?!” Bai Zeyue couldn’t help but raise his voice, “After this, you won’t be at your peak for at least a few months…”

“But I can still kill you with one move.” Dong Xia coldly interrupted Bai Zeyue’s words.

The passionate and slightly angry Bai Zeyue immediately fell silent.

He looked at Li Qing, comforting himself: Well, anyway, the other strong one is now an idiot, no need to fear the Immortal Realm.

Bai Zeyue could bend and stretch, took a deep breath and changed the subject: “So what’s your plan after this? Go to the Gate of Inquiry?”

Dong Xia thought for a moment and said ambiguously: “In a few days. How is the Gate of Inquiry now?”

“They’re searching for someone,” Bai Zeyue lowered his voice, “They’ve sealed off the news of Li Qing’s disappearance, except for a few people in the Gate of Inquiry, others think he’s in seclusion.”

Dong Xia raised an eyebrow.

Of course the Gate of Inquiry wouldn’t dare to release the news of Li Qing being deeply trapped by his inner demon, especially when Dong Xia appeared again.

This was practically a disaster for the Gate of Inquiry.

Although…

Dong Xia turned to look at Li Qing, feeling that this disaster would fall on the Gate of Inquiry’s head no matter what.

“However…” Bai Zeyue paused, his voice even softer, “You haven’t been low-key these past few days, I’m afraid the news of you bringing him along has also reached the Immortal Realm.”

Dong Xia rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment, then smiled and said: “If there are any discerning individuals from the Immortal Realm who dare to come and snatch him back, wouldn’t that be quite lively?”

Bai Zeyue almost knelt before her: “My lady, please stop playing around.”

—Wasn’t last time enough of a mess?

Bai Zeyue didn’t dare to say the latter half of the sentence out loud.

Bai Zeyue looked warily at Li Qing sitting quietly not far away.

Although there was no dangerous aura from the other party, Bai Zeyue always felt a chill all over when looking at him, as if the Yuxu sword was right against his forehead.

Dong Xia let out a light chuckle: “There will always be a battle, either I move first, or the other side moves first.”

Sun Zhuo Er is probably running around in circles like an ant on a hot pan trying to find his lifesaver right now.

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“How can he not be found?!” Sun Zhuo Er was so anxious his face turned red, but just as he shouted out loud, he couldn’t help but cough violently, choking himself breathless.

Zhu Yin immediately frowned and went to check on his injuries.

Yue Fu Tu had to respond: “We lost track of Li Qing when he left. His sword energy is still within the sect, so there’s no danger to his life, but it has become somewhat dim since yesterday, possibly due to injury.”

“Where on earth did he go?” Sun Zhuo Er finally caught his breath.

Everyone’s gaze followed Sun Zhuo Er’s and turned to an elder skilled in divination.

This elder’s expression was quite peculiar. He opened his mouth but then sheepishly avoided speaking, hesitating several times before finally speaking uncertainly: “Looking at the trajectory, it seems he went… in the direction of the Demon Realm.”

Zhu Yin’s expression became more worried: “Not only the Immortal Lord, but Dong Xia has also disappeared together. Let’s hope they are together, otherwise…”

She exchanged a glance with Yue Fu Tu.

If Dong Xia were to be injured or perish in the Demon Realm, this matter would likely cause an uproar even greater than the war between immortals and demons.

Hearing Dong Xia’s name, Sun Zhuo Er showed a thoughtful expression.

“The Demon Realm has been in turmoil recently. The demoness has come back to life and is moving about ostentatiously,” another elder said, “She also has someone by her side, unclear if it’s a male pet or what, who never leaves her.”

Sun Zhuo Er raised his head, narrowing his eyes suspiciously: “What kind of man?”