Free Web NovelA water bed condensed from tens of tons of Cold Pool water streaked across the sky.
Looking at the scenery outside the windshield, Li Xuan's face was ashen; he had already given up resisting. Unless he could instantly teleport his beloved car a hundred meters away, it would be difficult not to be affected.
However, just as his beloved car was about to crash head-on into the water bed descending from the sky, the water bed suddenly paused in mid-air, and then collapsed with a crash.
Water surged like a river pouring down from the heavens, violently crashing against the asphalt road and the mountain wall, making a deafening roar.
For a moment, on the deserted highway late at night, thick fog filled the air, and the humidity was so intense it felt like drowning. freewebnoveℓ.com
Following closely, water droplets splashed everywhere, wrapped by some force, turning into water spouts, like gently parting a rain curtain, avoiding Li Xuan's beloved car, and flying to both sides.
“Clang—!”
A figure of a young girl tied up like a /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ zongzi emerged from behind the rain curtain, hitting the hood with a dull thud.
The hood instantly twisted and deformed.
The dull thud reached his ears, and only then did Li Xuan snap back to reality, slamming on the brakes.
“Screech—!”
The tires rubbed violently against the road surface, emitting a harsh sound, and a wisp of blue smoke drifted out from the gaps in the wheel hub.
The car stopped abruptly, and the girl on the hood was thrown into the air, arcing through the sky before hitting the ground hard, bouncing a few times like a rubber ball, landing headfirst, and sliding over ten meters along the wet road, finally stopping when she hit a stone pillar.
Through the windshield, Li Xuan looked at his Junior Sister Hua Sang, whose name he had heard for a long time but never met, and a thin layer of sweat quietly appeared on his forehead.
The girl, in tattered clothes and messy hair, lay face down in the grass by the roadside, motionless, her shoes having flown far away, looking just like a murder and body dumping scene.
Although a Psychic's body is much tougher than an ordinary person's, it is still flesh and blood.
Even an A-level Spirit Ability User can be sent to another world by a car accident if they don't actively defend themselves.
“What should I do? Master hasn't forgiven me yet, and now I've run over Junior Sister. Maybe I'll be expelled from the sect this time.”
Li Xuan muttered to himself with a serious expression, opened the door, got out of the car, and cautiously approached Hua Sang.
Could it be... she's dead?
He had long heard that Junior Sister Hua Sang never made big mistakes in the sect, but made small ones constantly. The Elders detested her. Is it possible that the sect sent her over this way because they originally intended to clean house?
Like throwing away trash... Li Xuan thought to himself, but then reconsidered, feeling it was unlikely.
If they really wanted to clean house, there was no need to send Hua Sang to Hua City. If the Sect Leader was willing to act, he could even send her directly beyond the atmosphere, making her a human-shaped orbiting satellite.
Just then, Hua Sang, who was lying on the ground, suddenly wriggled, turned her head, and looked at Li Xuan with drooping eyelids, asking weakly, “Senior Brother Li?”
“Uh, I am. You... are you okay?” Li Xuan asked blankly.
For a moment, he was actually curious about Hua Sang's Spirit Mark. Without activating her Spirit Mark, she had endured such an impact and was completely unharmed.
“I'm fine.”
Seeing this, Li Xuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a frown, “You fell from such a height, why didn't you protect yourself? You scared me to death.”
“Didn't want to move,” Hua Sang said slowly, then changed the subject, “Oh, right. The Sect Leader said that when I got here, you would untie me.”
“Uh, this... right! Wait, I'll untie you right away,” Li Xuan said, quickly walking forward and undoing the spell ropes on Hua Sang.
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Half an hour later, on a tow truck from a certain auto repair shop in Hua City.
After Li Xuan listened to Hua Sang explain the whole story, he asked in surprise, “So, you were sent to Hua City this time to assist on behalf of the Sect Leader?”
Being able to assist in Hua City on behalf of the Sect Leader not only showed that Hua Sang was powerful, but also that she was deeply trusted by the Sect Leader.
However, what puzzled Li Xuan was, shouldn't Junior Sister Fu Xinyi have been the one for this kind of mission?
After all, she was a once-in-a-century genius of Da Chunyang Palace, rumored to be already as strong as some Elders, while this Junior Sister Hua Sang...
When Li Xuan was in Da Chunyang Palace, he had heard of her name.
But at that time, he had already completed his apprenticeship and was about to go down the mountain to report to the Night Watch soon, while Hua Sang had only just entered the sect three years ago. Their daily cultivation courses were completely different, so they didn't have the chance to interact.
However, he had heard some things about what Hua Sang had done from his Senior Brothers and Junior Brothers.
Her studies were mediocre, she was often absent from morning lessons, she would steal chickens from the mess hall and fruits from the herb garden every few days, and she would fish for turtles in the back mountain when she had nothing to do...
She didn't sound like a proper cultivator at all, and even seemed to be developing into a sect degenerate.
Li Xuan found it somewhat unbelievable that such a Junior Sister would be entrusted by the Sect Leader to come to Hua City to assist.
Hearing Li Xuan's question, Hua Sang, who was slumped in the seat, nodded slightly with the smallest possible movement, “Yeah, I was sleeping, got tied up, and thrown over here to keep the peace.”
As she spoke, she glanced in the rearview mirror at the sports car on the tow truck, its front end twisted and deformed, and slightly furrowed her brows, “Speaking of which, Senior Brother, is your car okay?”
Although the car is broken, Senior Brother Li probably won't ask me to pay, and I don't have the money to pay anyway. At most, I can compensate him with two turtles from the Cold Pool in the back mountain, but that would mean owing him a favor.
The hardest thing in the world to repay is a favor. Just thinking about it feels very troublesome... Hua Sang thought.
Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, looked at Hua Sang, his eyes trembling slightly, filled with mist.
After so many years, this was the first time something had happened, and someone cared if his beloved car was okay. To be honest, he was so moved he almost cried.
This is what family is like!
Completely different from that bunch of demons and monsters in the Hua City Si Ye Hui!
Li Xuan opened his mouth, about to say something to Hua Sang, when the tow truck driver suddenly laughed.
“Hahaha, Miss, you don't need to worry about this little problem. Little Li is an old customer at our repair shop, he comes at least eight times a month!”
Li Xuan, “......”
Hua Sang glanced out of the corner of her eye at Li Xuan, who had a 'P' face, nodded thoughtfully, and then closed her eyes.
She had always believed in the principle of 'life lies in rest'. Seeing that she didn't need to worry about Li Xuan's beloved car, she decisively entered standby mode and began to meditate.
As she meditated, her thoughts gradually drifted away. In a trance, a huge, vague shadow with a turtle body and a snake tail appeared in her mind. The snake tail was lifelike and ferocious, flicking its tongue, while the turtle body was faint and ethereal, like a ball of mist that could dissipate at any moment...
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After falling into the dark vortex, Lu Yibei felt like she had been drifting in the darkness for a long, long time.
Then, she opened her eyes and saw the moonlight outside the window.
Dust detached from the wooden ceiling, dancing in the dim firelight of the fireplace. The air was filled with the unique scent of burning fruitwood, and the occasional gentle crackle of firewood could be heard.
What is this place? Lu Yibei thought blankly, sitting up and looking around.
This was a plain, simple, almost boring room, tidily arranged.
However, there wasn't much to arrange. The entire room only had a single bed with a few messy women's clothes thrown on it, a desk with a coffee pot and a thick envelope, and an old-fashioned television in the corner that seemed unused for a long time, covered in a layer of dust.
The entire room seemed to convey a message to Lu Yibei—the Master of this room lived a simple, plain life with low desires, like a monk.
Is this where the core of the special space is located?
Doesn't TA feel lonely living alone in a place like this?
Just as Lu Yibei was thinking, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open, and with a soft 'creak!', a familiar face came into her view. Her pupils immediately constricted slightly.
The person who entered was a woman, whose gentle eyes and eyebrows were eight or nine parts similar to hers, giving her the illusion of looking in a mirror for a moment.
In an instant, without any prompt, that sense of closeness from the depths of her soul let her know who the woman in front of her was.
But, is this Ms. Wang Meili?
Isn't she a bit too young? Lu Yibei thought. In her imagination, Ms. Wang Meili should be no longer young, like Old Dad.
In fact, from the first second the woman entered the room, Lu Yibei had been staring at her but couldn't tell her age.
Her delicate skin felt like that of an eighteen-year-old girl, while her temperament felt like a light mature woman in her early thirties.
“Are you awake? If you're awake, come eat?” the woman said with a smile, “I made king crab, just caught from the sea, it's very fresh.”
Hearing the words “king crab”, Lu Yibei had a flash of understanding. Facing the woman's back, she tentatively called out softly, “Old Mom?”
Hearing this, Wang Meili, who was walking towards the kitchen, paused, turned around, tilted her head, and smiled, “What's wrong?”
“......”
Gazing at that familiar yet unfamiliar face, Lu Yibei's thin lips parted. Her thoughts and emotions surged violently as if the sky and earth were collapsing, but she couldn't utter a single word.
After a long while, she shook her head, “Nothing, nothing.”
How could it be nothing? It's just that she had too much to say, and it all felt very important, so she didn't know where to start for a moment.
“Silly child, if it's nothing, hurry and come eat?” Wang Meili smiled, “Seafood gets fishy when it's cold, and it won't be tasty.”
Saying this, she turned and left the room.
Watching Wang Meili's departing back, Lu Yibei hesitated for a few seconds before following. frёeωebɳovel.com
She really wanted to rush up and hug the woman who had disappeared from her life for nineteen years and suddenly reappeared.
But, she raised her hand, then slowly lowered it, and clenched her fists tightly, until her fingernails dug into her flesh, her body trembling slightly.
At this moment, she remembered a lost puppy she had seen on Peony Street when she was a child. That puppy had waited in the same spot for its Master to return, and it only ate a very small amount of the food and water given by the neighbors each time.
However, when its Master came looking for it more than two months later and reached out to it, it showed hesitation, backing away warily...
