Chapter 243

The place where the two people fell was a mountain forest.

The trees here are towering and the leaves are dense. Only a thin light falls from the gap, but it is difficult to penetrate through the thick fog. The smell of blood and putrefaction is everywhere, and it is retained by the thick fog, fermenting in the humid and hot forest. It is like being enclosed in a big jar, making people feel extremely disgusted.

Their two stomachs were churning while being fumigated and almost unable to breathe. Their faces were red at first and then white again.

Xie Bi An held the tree and retched.

"I don't know how many dead bodies are responsible for this miasma. Let's leave as soon as possible." Fan Wu She took out two elixirs and stuffed them into their mouths. They swallow the elixir and quickly mobilize their breath to make the drug properties enter their spiritual veins.

The miasma produced by the long-term accumulation of dead bodies is highly toxic to living creatures, not to mention that this is the ultimate zone of death. The two of them are already very uncomfortable at this point.

Covering his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, Fan Wu She said, "If the human and ghost realms are the same continent but in different spaces, then the location of the underworld is Fengdu, which is seven hundred miles west of here. Let's have a try at it and keep going west."

Xie Bi An lifted his head and vaguely saw a blood-red full moon through the forest leaves: "That's the only way to go."

They didn't know how deep and wide the dense forest was. It's so foggy that they can't fly on their swords. Fortunately, Fan Wu She has Wuya. Otherwise, if they only depend on walking with two legs, they may get poisoned alive.

Wuya possesses supernatural powers and can distinguish directions better than them. No matter how fast it ran or how fast it rushed, it could dodge the trees and rocks in the dense forest with extremely low visibility. After running, the air circulated and the elixirs also took effect. They finally felt less stuffy in their chest.

When his dizzy mind regained a trace of clarity, Xie Bi An realized that at some point he had been wrapped in Fan Wu She’s arms. His back was pressed against that hard, hot, broad chest, and his waist was encircled by a strong iron arm, and he couldn't stop feeling Fan Wu She's hot breath at the base of his ear.

Xie Bi An’s scalp suddenly went numb. He grasped the saddle and wanted to sit up straight, but Fan Wu She’s arm didn't move.

Two flirtatious chuckles came from behind his ears: "We used to ride like this. Has big brother forgotten?"

"... Let go."

"Wuya runs so fast. If I let go, big brother will fall off."

"I'll take the reins."

"Sure, but if I don't tug on the reins, I'll fall, then I'll have to hug big brother tightly." He said, wanting to pass the reins to Xie Bi An's hand.

Xie Bi An was so angry that he hit his hand away.

Fan Wu She tightened his arms again and even pressed his palm against Xie Bi An's chest and pushed him back, so that the two of them were tightly pressed together.

"Let go." Xie Bi An warned in a low voice. They were too close to each other, so close that he seemed to be able to faintly feel Fan Wu She's heartbeat.

"Is it not okay to hug big brother?" Fan Wu She murmured against Xie Bi An's ear, "Just to hug like this, not doing anything else?"

"..."

"Is it that when big brother rides on Wuya, you will remember us doing it while riding a horse?"

"You shut up!" Poking directly at the center of the matter, Xie Bi An became annoyed and struggled.

Wuya was slightly staggered by this sudden action, and almost fell down. Xie Bi An exclaimed and immediately grasped the saddle.

Fan Wu She's legs clamped down on the horse's belly to stabilize its body, and then he put a stronger grip on Xie Bi An: "Don't move. I said you would fall."

Xie Bi An gritted his teeth.

"Big brother don't be angry." Fan Wu She said innocently, "I know you don't want to remember it, but no one can control what they think, right?"

Xie Bi An was already doing his best to avoid thinking back to that ridiculous sexual encounter, yet Fan Wu She wanted to bring it up on purpose. He didn't know how to shut Fan Wu She up, or how to completely erase those unpleasant images from his mind.

This bastard!

"Same for me, I can't stop thinking about it. I remember it was big brother who was curious about Wuya in the first place, so I took you for a ride, and you got angry again."

"I did a lot of bastard things back then and forced you to ... but I really couldn't help it. I wanted you anytime and anywhere."

"I'm sorry, I will never treat you like that again." Fan Wu She’s voice lowered.

Xie Bi An glanced at the hand that was pressed against his chest: "Not forcing me? So what are you doing now?"

"I'm just afraid that big brother will fall." Fan Wu She said without changing his expression.

Xie Bi An couldn’t express his anger. He knew that he had never been this person’s opponent. When he was a child, he always compromised because he acted like a spoiled child and showed off his cleverness. Later, when he faced the Supreme Demon, there was no room for resistance. And later, they became martial brothers. Based on his understanding and past experience, this man played him around. Now, it's the same. He can't escape, he can't hide, he can't avoid it. He's always forced to face these turbulent feelings. He's always at a loss.

Fan Wu She hugged his beloved big brother tightly and looked at his tight jaw and stiff back from the back. He felt sweet and sour in his heart. It doesn't matter, he told himself, as long as they stay together like this, that’s enough. No matter how much he craves, he is not qualified to ask for more.

It's just that sometimes the surging desire in his chest was so strong that even he would be frightened. He knew that this had something to do with the Heavenly Secret Talisman. He gets a huge amount of Yin energy from the Heavenly Secret Talisman, at the cost of which he will gradually become a demon. At first, it seemed that he was controlling the Heavenly Secret Talisman, but when he is insatiable or has difficulty controlling himself, the Heavenly Secret Talisman may control him instead, just like in his previous life when he tore open the Fengdu boundary and barged into the underworld alone. The outside world thought that he was killed by Great Emperor Beiyin, but in fact, he was killed by the Heavenly Secret Talisman after he fell into the devil completely. So this time, he will never abuse or misuse the Heavenly Secret Talisman. But every time it caused a strong fluctuation of his mood, making the Yin energy, which was dormant in his body, stir and erode his mind, it all had to do with Xie Bi An.

The so-called demons in the heart are just unfilled desires. The deepest desire in his heart has always been the desire for his big brother. He is very afraid that the Yin energy in his body will wait for the opportunity to enlarge the desire again and eventually become an uncontrollable infringement.

If that day really comes, he would rather die than hurt his big brother again.

Thinking until here, Fan Wu She’s heart was severely oppressed. His desire and restraint were pushing each other violently. Finally, he moved his hand down from Xie Bi An’s chest, but he was still hugging that thin waist. In order to leave the Ghost Willow Forest as soon as possible, Xie Bi An had to bear it for a while.

Not knowing how long they’ve been running, Wuya suddenly neighed. It was loud and shrill. The surrounding Yin energy fluctuations gradually intensified, and the miasma became gradually thicker. Behind the heavy fog, there were several green firefly glows floating one small bit by one small bit, and then one patch by one patch. Under the rapid running of Wuya, it still could not shake them off.

The greenish lights were still moving unusually, and when they looked at them carefully, they were not fireflies. They were pairs of ghost eyes.

Xie Bi An suddenly felt cold all over.

"What is it?" Fan Wu She said in a deep voice.

"Fierce ghosts." Xie Bi An clutched the saddle tightly, "Those fierce ghosts who were born in the Hell Path are more powerful than those who were punished in the 18th level in Hell. They are resentment itself."

Ahead of them appeared large patches of greenish ghostly eyes floating in the fog, hanging from trees, squatting on rocks, and crawling on the ground. Countless ghostly eyes, and countless life-threatening and fierce spirits.

Fan Wu She tightened the reins, and Wuya stopped its four feet in a long whistle.

Those fierce ghosts crawled out from the thick fog. Their bodies were rotten and stinky. None of them were intact. In their deep eye sockets, there are pairs of green eyes. Their hair is sparse, their exposed bones are black, and they are crawling on all fours. They almost have no "human" appearance.

All of them were heinous before they died, and only after they died would they suffer the harshest retribution ---- to "live" forever in this way.

Unlike Xie Bi An, who was in a state of great hostility, Fan Wu She was calm, almost profound. Looking at the fierce ghosts hanging on the tree trunks, he whispered, "Big brother, you know, if I didn't escape from hell, I would be one of them."

Xie Bi An's body stiffened. Looking at those rotten things, he completely couldn’t think and didn't dare to think that he would have become like this.

"It was only because I kept thinking of you in my heart that I didn't lose my mind and was able to cross the Wangchuan River and return to your side."

Xie Bi An slowly turned his head back and ran into Fan Wu She's profound gaze, which was so focused and persistent that it seemed to have released an invisible net preventing all escape, capturing him firmly, making it impossible for him to avoid it. He paused: "If you don't want to be punished, then don't do evil."

"For you, doing evil is nothing." Fan Wu She lightly hooked the corners of his lips, "Barging into the underworld was for you, going to hell was for you, and returning to earth was still for you."

"You only have yourself to blame. Don't talk to me about this again." Xie Bi An chided.

Yet Fan Wu She insisted on saying it. He said aloud, "I crawled back from Hell to earth for the sake of loving you."

Xie Bi An's heart shuddered and turned his head once again: "Now, now is not the time to talk about this. There are too many fierce ghosts. We can’t handle them. We must escape."

"No need, I can ..."

"No, don’t use the Heavenly Secret Talisman." Xie Bi An stopped him and said, "You have never encountered fierce ghosts. You do not know how powerful they are. If you use the Heavenly Secret Talisman, you will need to release very strong Yin energy in order to suppress them. In this way, the five ghost emperors will be aware of it. The ghost emperors are likely to have colluded with Jiang Qu Lian. Before we achieve our goal, we cannot take the risk."

Fan Wu She frowned, put away the Heavenly Secret Talisman and took out the soul-hooking chain. He tightened the reins with one hand, "Then be sure not to get off the horse. We’ll kill our way out.”

Xie Bi An gripped Wuqiongbi in his hand tightly. His gaze was firm and persistent, "Okay, let's kill our way out."

"Wuya, go!"

Wuya once again threw up its four hooves and rushed out.

 

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Edited on 13 June 21 (Emzie)

 

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