Li Ji felt that he had a long dream.

In his dream, he had been running in the dark, and the voices of countless ghosts came from behind him.

"Catch him!"

"Eat him!"

He ran as fast as he could, but the voices followed him like ghosts, and piercing smirks came from behind him.

"See how long that kid can run! Outflank from the front, don't take advantage of others! ”

"Good! When I catch him, I want his hand! ”

"Then I'll share one of his feet! Big brother, you can't forget your brothers when you are promoted to the heavenly rank! ”

"Whoever sees it has a share, go and arrest him! Catch and divide again! ”

Those shrill laughter came from behind, and he was so sick and sick that there was only one thought in his mind.

Those people really wanted to eat him!

He ran as fast as he could, where he felt most dangerous, but the men grew more and more excited.

"Hey, you actually dare to run inside, sure enough, that rumor is true, hurry up and catch him!"

His heart grew more and more frightened, only to feel that the people chasing him in the darkness were no longer people, but countless ghosts that opened their bloody mouths to him.

Come on! Come on!

He ran desperately in the darkness, but the next moment he tripped over a branch and fell headlong under a tree.

"Hey! That kid fell, and he got it! Bring a knife! ”

Excited laughter came from behind him, and he turned over in severe pain, only to see Xue Liang's blood-stained butcher knife.

"The head is mine, and the rest is yours!"

Countless dark shadows swarmed towards him, a haunting nightmare of his midnight. However, just as he closed his eyes in despair, a clear voice came from behind the shadows.

"You're going to eat people?"

Such a woman's voice actually came from the originally uninhabited dark forest, and the big man who was about to swing the knife was stunned, and everyone turned back in amazement.

He opened his eyes in a daze, and saw her in the gap in the crowd.

It was a girl in coarse clothes carrying a basket of firewood on her back, and a firewood knife in her hand.

But in this world, there are people who come to this forest to collect firewood?

And seeing such a large group of big men holding butcher knives, the woman was not afraid at all.

Everyone looked at this scene in amazement, and the big man holding the knife at the head woke up and squinted at the woman not far away.

"There are actually women in the Cloud Forest?" He sneered and waved the knife in his hand, "No matter what you are, you dare to speak when you are impatient?" Lao Tzu will clean up this kid first and then come to cut you! ”

However, the girl just raised her eyes and quietly glanced at the knife in the big man's hand, and her tone became determined, "You really want to eat people." ”

"Can you handle this?" The big man holding the knife sneered, "This kid is ......"

Halfway through speaking, he suddenly stopped, "Ouch, I almost leaked my mouth, this secret can't be known to other cultivators, it's better to eat early and rest assured, where is the girl, get out of the way!" ”

After saying that, no one paid any attention to the girl who seemed to be powerless, and the men turned and raised their knives to him again with a sinister smile.

The smell of blood came from the blade, and he watched it all with wide eyes, watching the last scenes of this filthy world leave him, and desperately welcoming his death.

And yet at this very moment.

He heard the softest voice in the world.

"Brother, close your eyes."

In the moment of life and death, he saw the girl looking at him and whispering through the gap between the shadows and ghosts.

He looked at the clear eyes in the distance, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes suddenly.

The next moment, blood splattered, and the girl withdrew the knife.

……

……

Under a tree outside the dry Jiulong Water Intake Waterfall in the depths of Tianmu Mountain, two people lay quietly, both of them with their eyes closed, as if they had been in a coma for a long time.

However, in the next moment, the man with his back to the trunk of the tree woke up first.

Yes.

Li Ji woke up from his dream, opened his eyes suddenly, and looked at his palms in a daze.

Was it really a dream?

But he hadn't dreamed so clearly in a long time.

His soul seemed to be recovering.

The dream eyes came to mind, and he took a deep breath and closed them.

But the next moment he opened his eyes, felt the weight on his legs, lowered his head slightly, and saw the girl lying on his lap.

Her clothes had been torn through numerous tears, revealing the scars she had left from yesterday's daytime battle.

And the scratches from last night's breakthrough storm.

Li Ji looked down at her quietly, and the next moment he took out the bronze mask from his arms again and put it on, took out another coat, and reached out to cover her body.

However, just as he stretched out his hand, Ying Baoyue, whose head was resting on his lap, suddenly opened his eyes.

Then she looked at him.

Looking at those clear eyes, Li Ji's hands shook violently.

"What's wrong?" Ying Baoyue looked at the man whose hands were frozen in mid-air, "What is your reaction?" Why don't you look like you've never seen me? ”

Li Ji paused, and the next moment he covered her clothes and withdrew his hand, "It's nothing." ”

"Yes," Ying Baoyue smiled, "That's good, I thought you wouldn't know anyone when you ascended to the Heavenly Rank." ”

"Nothing." Li Ji said.

Ying Baoyue turned her head to look at the clothes on her body, and then looked at the mask on Li Ji's face that she hadn't seen last night, "I've been wondering, do you have a space magic weapon in your arms?" ”

Otherwise, how could he carry so many things all day long......

Li Ji was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded.

"Sure enough," Ying Baoyue smiled, no wonder this person could carry such a big bag of candied fruit in his arms.

"By the way, I forgot to mention it, congratulations on your promotion to rank three," Ying Baoyue smiled.

Li Ji was stunned when he heard this, and then returned the salute, "Thank you, it's just ......"

He looked her in the eye for a fixed moment, then said, "I owe you my life. ”

Last night, although he didn't intend to implicate others, he actually implicated her.

"Didn't you save me once, even if it's even," Ying Baoyue said, "Besides, I came by myself, and you didn't ask me to come, what happened last night has nothing to do with you, you don't have to care." ”

Independent......

Li Ji didn't know what to say. She could have asked him for a huge favor on this matter, but she didn't expect it to be revealed so lightly.

"You ......," he took a deep breath, "why did you come last night?" Why ......"

Why save him?

In Qianqin, he grabbed her from the coffin, but this time she came over, it was not a gesture.

It's like fighting for your life.

"Why ......," Ying Baoyue thought for a moment, "because you gave me candied fruit?" ”

Li Ji was speechless again.

"You're risking your life for a few packets of preserves?" He took a deep breath and spoke.

"I didn't save candied fruit," Ying Baoyue smiled and said, "I said, you also saved me, and we don't owe each other." ”

Don't you owe each other?

Li Ji looked at her quietly and shook his head, "No, you're not right. ”

Ying hugged Yue for a moment, but saw him say lightly, "You have something you can do, and I will make up for the trouble I caused." ”

"Woe?" She repeated.

Seeing the serious appearance of the person in front of her, she didn't ask any more questions, but looking at the mask that was close at hand, she suddenly reached for his mask.

Li Ji's black eyes were stunned, but he didn't move away.

There was a slight touch between her fingertips, but the next moment she withdrew her hand.

"It's not good to ask other people's secrets." Ying Baoyue smiled and said.

Li Ji stared into her eyes and asked, "Do you want to see it?" ”