Chapter Ninety-Five: Why Help Me?

  Luo Yu said calmly and slowly: "If you want to become a useless person, you can detoxify yourself."

  The color of the green vine was lush and dripping, exactly the same as the color of the green ring he saw that day. When the green vine stretched out, Hou Yong didn't think twice and immediately shook it off.

  He realized that the green bangle on Huang Shi's wrist must have been made from this vine. He glanced at the green vine with a lingering fear, and Hou Yong bitterly smiled. It was this demonic plant that had ruined him, otherwise he wouldn't have ended up in such a helpless state. Now, however, he still had to ask it for help... At this point, there was no room for hesitation. Hou Yong sighed, rolled up his sleeves, revealing his arm, and lowered his eyes: "Please help me detoxify."

  Receiving Luo Yu's gaze, Hong Mi reluctantly stretched out the green vines and suddenly pierced Hou Yong's arm, with blood flowing freely. The pain twisted Hou Yong's face, but he didn't make a sound.

  The green vine shook violently and sucked out all the toxins, but the red rice did not withdraw from the green vine.

  Hou Yong's face began to pale, and this strange plant was taking advantage of the situation to suck his blood! A blood-sucking plant, truly unheard of. Could it be a mutant species? He looked at Luo Yu with an even more wary gaze.

  He had never looked down on Luo Yu, and to be sure of success, he specially built his foundation before coming to find her. Of course, he could have gone into seclusion to build his foundation before the small competition in the sect, but only by staying in the Qi Refining stage would he have a chance to obtain a quota for the Qing Huang Secret Manual.

  She was incredibly powerful, far surpassing the average practitioner of the Grand Circle. Moreover, she had a fierce determination to fight to the death. The explosion that occurred when she approached his side was something even she couldn't dodge in time - it was a move that would bring about mutual destruction.

  'Dare to die' - easy to say, but truly able to do so are few and far between, let alone a female cultivator!

  If it weren't for the awakening of Jianhun, he would have been burned to ashes long ago. She escaped the inevitable outcome due to the protection of her law clothes, but was seriously injured and on the verge of death, with only a thread of life left. In this forest full of crises, this thread of life was equivalent to nothing.

  Then she first begged, arousing his sympathy, seeing that he would not let her go, and then retreated to ask for the next best thing. She implored him to hand over the legacy, and he finally agreed.

  He guessed that there would be a trap, but he thought she would leave a secret signal on the green ring to tell her brother who had harmed her, and he was confident that he could get rid of the signal. If not, then destroy the green ring! What's there to fear?

  However, he guessed the beginning but didn't guess the ending. The trap was on the green ring, and the one who took revenge wasn't her brother, but herself!

  What a brave and resourceful female cultivator! He had already looked up to her as much as possible, but it seemed that was still not enough!

  Four days have passed since then. Her injuries have fully recovered, and there is a hint of breakthrough on her body. How did she do it? What secrets does she hide in her body?

  "Alright, Hongmi." Luo Yuman said casually as she saw that Hongmi had almost finished drinking.

  She knew that she and the strange plant were intentionally punished, Hou Yong didn't say a word, and took out the medicine powder to stop the bleeding on his own. He poured two Replenishing Blood Pills into his mouth, and when his face slightly recovered, he cupped his hands and said: "I'm weak now, I'd like to borrow your cave to rest for a few days, in return, you can focus on cultivating during your closed-door training period, and I'll guard it for you."

  Luo Yu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "Alright, but after I successfully build my foundation, you're not allowed to follow me anymore."

  Whatever he thinks, anyway, he won't be unfavorable to me. And I really need to find a place to build my foundation now, the signs of breaking through on my body are becoming more and more obvious, this is because after the meridian was damaged and repaired by the purple gas, the meridian has expanded a lot, and the several adventures in the past half year have also improved my state of mind a lot, finally I can start building my foundation.

  Five days later, Luo Yu and Hou Yong arrived at a vast expanse of Gobi Desert. The terrain was undulating and flat, with the ground covered in large areas of gravel. Sparse thick-palmed thorny green plants could be seen, and although the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was not very thin, it was much weaker than that of the forest and grasslands.

  Luo Yu's eyebrows slightly furrowed: "You really did build your foundation here last time?"

  The spiritual energy on the Gobi is comparable to the concentration of spiritual power in her outer courtyard house, which is obviously not conducive to her foundation.

  She wants to build a perfect foundation, but she can't take the Foundation Pill, so she needs to mobilize a large amount of spiritual energy to enter her body, break through the barriers and complete the foundation. If she fails due to insufficient spiritual energy, she may regress in her cultivation, and it's unknown when she'll be able to build her foundation again next time.

  Hou Yong's lips curled up slightly, his handsome and elegant face: "I'm indeed building a foundation on the Gobi Desert, under the mound in front of you to the left, there is a cave where I used to stay, follow me inside and you will understand that what I said is not empty words."

  "Hmm, mysterious!"

  Hou Yong smiled wryly, recently Luo Yu had not given him a good look, like a child, but she was only fifteen years old, facing her former enemy, having some temper was normal, only by venting out, would she be calm and peaceful when building the foundation, and succeed in one move.

  The scorching sun shone brightly on the Gobi, plants were listless, and strange beasts had vanished without a trace. If it weren't for the thin spiritual energy, this would indeed be a suitable place to build a foundation. Luo Yu silently sighed, places with no one to disturb were hard to find, but the density of spiritual energy directly affected whether building a foundation could succeed. However, since he was so certain, she decided to trust him for now.

  After walking for five miles, they finally arrived at the earth mound that Hou Yong had mentioned. The reddish-brown soil was dotted with a few stunted pines.

  Move a boulder, still the reddish-brown soil, Hou Yong's ten fingers stir, drawing an abstruse pattern in the air, and then his index finger points down, revealing a half-meter square hole on the ground.

  Hou Yong took out a moonstone and turned around to look at Luo Yu with a serious expression, saying: "Follow me, not one step can go wrong."

  Treading in the footsteps of Hou Yong, Luo Yu made her way through the winding tunnel, which seemed to be excavated towards the depths of the earth. The two walked for nearly two hours before finally seeing a massive gate, neither gold nor wood, with a black dragon carved into it.

  Luo Yu stared at the black sword on Hou Yong's back, lost in thought.

  The black dragon on the door is exactly the same as the black dragon shadow that appeared that day, and it must be related to the Black Sword.

  Hou Yong took down the black sword, and struck a spiritual light on its surface. The black sword instantly burst into brilliant light, which converged into a strong beam of light in an instant, shooting onto the giant gate. The black dragon on the gate swirled around once, slowly disappearing from view. A dull rumbling sound echoed out, as the giant gate slowly creaked open from within.

  "It was my sword that brought me here," Hou Yong explained. "Inside is a senior's cave, there are no mechanisms or traps, you can enter with peace of mind."

  Luo Yu nodded and walked through the giant gate. Before her was a cave dwelling about 100 meters in size, with walls inlaid with precious gems that emitted a faint, eerie glow.

  The cave was spotlessly clean, without a single object, except for a formation array in the center, which was carved into the ground with special materials.

  "I've put away everything in the cave, the formation in the middle is an ancient gathering spirit array, it can mobilize the spiritual energy of the underground spiritual veins to help you successfully build your foundation."

  Luo Yu looked at Hou Yong with a complex expression: "Why help me?"