Gu Xiao quietly watched Mu Anxiao's various casting gestures, then looked at the wounds on Feng Qishi's body. He whispered, "He's not going to die, is he?"
Mu Anxiao continued to cast, "If he died that easily, he wouldn't have lived so long."
Gu Xiao looked down at the bleeding wound on Feng Qishi's arm and said, "He's bleeding."
At this moment, Mu Anxiao could not stop, because once she stopped, she would have to start all over again, which would only waste her spiritual energy.
So, she remained silent.
At the same time, Gu Xiao was still observing Feng Qishi's wounds and kept asking, "Mu Anxiao, what should we do?"
"What can you do? If you think it's serious, bandage him yourself."
"If I bandage him, I won't be able to support him."
"Then shut up." Mu Anxiao was sweating profusely.
Gu Xiao pursed his lips.
A quarter of an hour later...
Mu Anxiao's face was pale. She slowly withdrew her hands from Feng Qishi's back and asked, "Is it still bleeding?"
Gu Xiao shook his head. Suddenly, he heard a monster's cry, but just as he was about to tell Mu Anxiao, the sound disappeared again.
So, he thought, "Perhaps I was hearing things. Never mind, I won't bother her."
Then, Mu Anxiao breathed a sigh of relief, crawled to Feng Qishi's side, raised two fingers, and gently tapped his wound. In the next moment, his wounds completely healed.
Seeing this, Gu Xiao said, "You must have used a lot of spiritual energy to do this."
Mu Anxiao retracted her trembling fingers and said, "What else could I do? He helped me, and if I didn't help him, wouldn't I seem too selfish?"
"Generous."
"Alright," Mu Anxiao sat on the ground, tilting her head back to catch her breath, "I need to rest for a bit."
Gu Xiao slowly laid Feng Qishi down on the ground and said, "That demon you were talking about, didn't you say you were taking him to recuperate? Why isn't he here?"
Mu Anxiao pursed her dry lips and said, "Who knows? This place," she looked around, "is indeed quite eerie."
"This is the demon realm, of course it's eerie."
"Alas, I guessed earlier that it was an illusion, but I didn't think deeper. You idiot actually got controlled."
"I don't even have any memory."
Hearing Gu Xiao's reply, Mu Anxiao realized that Shen Xian was indeed different from the demon she had met before.
She thought that other demons were skilled at fighting themselves, but he was skilled at using the method of controlling demonic souls to hold back opponents.
However, she thought that the demonic souls he needed must be powerful. If they were like Gu Xiao's, they would be of no use to him!
Thinking this, she stood up and said, "Alright, let's go in."
"What about him?" Gu Xiao pointed at Feng Qishi.
"You carry him."
"Me?"
"Not me, you mean me?" Mu Anxiao pointed to herself.
Gu Xiao did not dare to disobey Mu Anxiao's command, so he helped Feng Qishi up.
In the next moment, Gu Xiao, carrying Feng Qishi on his back, followed Mu Anxiao and walked gracefully into the cave.
Then, the moment they entered the cave, the red lanterns in the cave suddenly lit up together, making the cave exceptionally red and bright.
But the decorations here were different from those for a wedding, which puzzled Mu Anxiao.
"Strange!" she stopped.
Gu Xiao stopped behind Mu Anxiao, with the same expression as Mu Anxiao, and said, "Are these wedding decorations? So terrifying."
As Gu Xiao said, the candlelight and the coldness in the cave were indeed chilling.
Mu Anxiao shivered and said, "It's not as scary down here as it is here."
"Mm."
Then, Mu Anxiao glanced at Gu Xiao and asked tentatively, "Is... anyone here?"
"Not a person," Gu Xiao reminded her.
Mu Anxiao repeated, "Shen Xian, are you here?"
The moment Mu Anxiao called out Shen Xian's name, Gu Xiao's entire soul began to tremble.
At the same time, Feng Qishi slowly opened his eyes and said, "Can you stop trembling? I'm about to throw up."
Hearing this, Gu Xiao was no longer so scared. "You're awake." Saying this, he gently put Feng Qishi down.
Feng Qishi stood firm, looked down at his arm, then looked at the blood-red lanterns on both sides, and walked forward, saying, "Silly Mu, we're in."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao said, "You're awake."
"Why aren't you surprised?"
"I healed you like that. If you didn't wake up, wouldn't all my efforts be in vain?"
"That's true."
Mu Anxiao looked at Feng Qishi and continued, "Shen Xian, are you there?"
Immediately, the moment Mu Anxiao called out, Feng Qishi quickly reached out and covered her mouth, asking anxiously, "Why are you calling him?"
Mu Anxiao glared up at Feng Qishi, then pulled his hand away, saying, "He told you to recuperate well, but he left without a word. Even so, he didn't send anyone to guide us. If I don't call out to him, he'll forget about us."
"Don't you think this place is strange?"
"Strange?" Mu Anxiao repeated, looked around, and then smelled the air, "It is strange."
"Strange, and chaotic..."
Mu Anxiao covered her mouth.
Seeing this, Gu Xiao quickly walked behind Feng Qishi and shut his mouth tightly.
Then, the three of them stopped in place.
Mu Anxiao looked around again and noticed that the rows of red lanterns looked festive, but even more like blood red.
The air in the cave was also strange. Sometimes it was fragrant, and sometimes the smell of earth and fishiness drifted. What made Mu Anxiao most confused was that there was no echo here.
As she observed, she suddenly realized that everything around them was so bizarre, including Shen Xian's words before he left, which were also very strange.
Thinking about it, she grabbed Feng Qishi's sleeve.
Feng Qishi said, "This place is a ghost cave."
"Ghost cave?" Mu Anxiao was startled, then stepped closer, "Isn't this Shen Xian's old lair?"
"Do you think he would easily take us to his old lair?" Feng Qishi's gaze began to wander.
Mu Anxiao said, "But he told me to take care of you, and..."
"A diversion," Feng Qishi interrupted.
A diversion?
Thinking about it this way, Shen Xian was indeed acting strangely.
So, she thought again, perhaps Shen Xian's so-called recuperation was just another name for death.
He actually wanted them all to die here!
Upon realizing this, Mu Anxiao became scared.
"What should we do?" she asked.
Feng Qishi retorted, "Can you still manage?"
At this moment, Mu Anxiao did not feel unwell. On the contrary, she felt that her spirits were better than before. She didn't think much of it.
"I'm fine."
"You're fine?"
"Yes, I'm fine. I feel quite comfortable."
"Comfortable, what do you mean?"
"It means I don't feel as bad, and I'm not dizzy. Instead, I feel like I haven't used any spiritual energy."
Gu Xiao then remembered the monster's cry he had heard outside earlier.
So, he quickly said, "Um, I heard a monster crying just now, but it only cried a few times."