“Hey, aren’t you afraid of catching a chill?”
Shui Miao suddenly had an idea and changed his way of addressing Su Xue, hoping it would help her regain her senses.
Indeed, hearing Shui Miao call her this way sent a jolt through Su Xue’s heart, instantly transforming some of her vague affection into familial feelings.
“I’m dressed warmly enough!” Su Xue had come fully prepared.
Shui Miao smiled slightly, somewhat hesitantly. “Sis, it’s pitch black outside—you won’t see a thing if you follow me. I think you should go back and rest. Tomorrow morning, you’re leading the team, after all.”
“Enough! I’ve made up my mind, don’t argue with me. Shui Miao, just take me with you!”
Suddenly, Su Xue started acting coquettish.
Coquettishness was a woman’s secret weapon against men, and immediately, Shui Miao felt his bones go weak. “Alright, alright. If you really want to suffer, then come along with me.”
The Hummer sped northward, lights off, racing through the pitch-black night.
Suddenly, Su Xue laughed excitedly. “Shui Miao, I originally didn’t believe you were a cultivator, but now I totally believe it. You’re amazing—you can drive with your eyes closed. I’m impressed from head to toe!”
“Hehe, my vision is just good—20/10 vision. Don’t be so surprised.” Shui Miao licked his lips. “Oh, by the way, sis…”
“Wait! Comrade Shui Miao, I’m not that old. Please don’t call me ‘sister,’ just call me Xiaoxue.”
Su Xue was not one to give up easily.
Sometimes, women are like this: the more persistently you chase them, the less they value you. But when a man shows no interest and doesn’t even bother to look at them, women turn around and start trying to figure out why they’ve lost their sense of superiority.
It’s like curiosity killed the cat.
As a result, many women end up falling for cold, aloof, self-important men.
Right now, Su Xue was exactly like that. The more gentlemanly Shui Miao acted, the more she liked him, and the more she tried to get close to him.
“Hehe, but you really are older than me!”
Shui Miao’s mind was spinning, but he had a different perspective and understanding of emotions. He believed that everything was driven by the human instinct to reproduce. This instinct, in order to help humans find better mates for the next generation, would cause the body to produce estrogen and testosterone, stimulating intense sexual desire, naturally leading people to be attracted to beauty, attractiveness, and handsomeness, then pursuing them, which in turn creates what is called love.
Precisely because Shui Miao understood the essence of human nature, he had been rather indifferent to the opposite sex recently.
The best way to eliminate such thoughts was to reveal one’s ugly side, making attraction disappear and abandoning the instinct to reproduce.
“Old? How old do you think I am? You’ve made me feel old! I’m a girl, can’t you be a little more considerate?”
Su Xue was starting to get serious.
Alright then!
Shui Miao had no choice but to prepare to counter her with a new ultimate trick he had recently figured out.
Suddenly, Shui Miao turned on the interior light, parked the car, opened the door, and stepped out to relieve himself.
Inside the car, Su Xue waited for a full five or six minutes before Shui Miao got back in.
Trying to make conversation, Su Xue asked, “Didn’t you take a big dump? Took you so long…”
“No, it’s just… never mind, I won’t say anything.” Shui Miao smiled awkwardly.
Curious, Su Xue coquettishly asked again, “Tell me! Tell me everything! Shui Miao, tell me!”
“Alright, alright. I’ll tell you. I have a problem ‘down there,’ it’s in the late stage, and it hurts a bit when I pee, so I was a bit slow.” Shui Miao deliberately made a very embarrassed expression.
Hearing this, Su Xue was instantly shocked!
A problem ‘down there’! And in the late stage!!
Shui Miao didn’t speak for a while, then awkwardly said, “Xiaoxue, don’t worry, this disease generally isn’t airborne. You know, as a rich second-generation kid, sometimes you just run into all sorts of problems. I hope you can understand and won’t look down on me.”
When it came to acting, this was the most realistic performance Shui Miao had ever given in his life.
“No, I won’t!” Su Xue said on the surface, but the passion in her heart had instantly vanished. She suddenly realized: how could a normal man not be interested in women? This Shui Miao was clearly abnormal! He must have AIDS or something. Even if he’s a cultivator, AIDS can’t be cured. Maybe he came to Tibet because his time was up and he wanted to die here!
The more Su Xue thought, the more frightened and disgusted she became.
A few minutes later, she couldn’t help pulling out her phone, quickly setting an alarm for five minutes later, then casually comforted Shui Miao a few times. When the alarm went off, she hurriedly picked up her phone and pretended to take a call, deliberately saying that someone in her team was feeling unwell and she had to go back urgently, then looked helplessly at Shui Miao.
Shui Miao immediately turned the car around to send Su Xue back.
But inside, Shui Miao was somewhat stunned. This person was too… He had only used a simple little trick, yet completely defeated the seemingly passionate Su Xue!
When they reached the hotel, Shui Miao asked the hurriedly exiting Su Xue, “Xiaoxue, do you want me to walk you up?”
“No, no, no! I can manage by myself.” Su Xue had just walked a few steps when she turned back. “Oh right, Shui Miao, younger brother, thank you for the horned dagger today, sis!”
“Such a small thing…”
Shui Miao let out a long breath. “She’s already calling herself ‘sister,’ yet still says ‘Xiaoxue’—this is reality! But on the other hand, at least this taught me a clever trick, right? Next time I’ll use this trick to make Sister Tang give up too.”
The Hummer roared and sped straight north.
Back at the hotel, Su Xue immediately took a shower and threw away her clothes…
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This was a mountain about three hundred meters tall, steep on the north side, with thick snow cover.
At midnight, endless cold and yin energy quietly surged from deep beneath the snow-covered mountains.
The temperature plummeted, and yin spiritual energy spread like a flood.
Under the thick snow on the northern slope, the corpse of the Tibetan sky-burial master was undergoing some inexplicable transformation…
The decaying black blood trapped inside his body had merged with a large amount of yin energy. Under the influence of this energy, his corpse gradually turned white, and white hairs slowly began to grow all over his body. Meanwhile, his soul was rapidly nourished by the yin energy. Everything was undergoing mysterious changes under the influence of the yin spiritual energy.
Suddenly, the corpse’s fingers twitched!
Under the moonlight, the corpse of the sky-burial master opened its eyes again—it was a terrifying pair of eyes filled with decaying black blood!
“Dad has awakened!”
Hearing the rustling sound, the Tibetan woman who had been guarding the mountaintop suddenly stood up excitedly.
The other two sky-burial masters, dressed in thick cotton coats and dozing off, also opened their eyes.
However, there was no movement from the snowy expanse.
The two sky-burial masters turned on their flashlights and looked at the snow. One of them shook his head and said, “Impossible. Even with the Dragon Scale Knife, it would at least take two hours. It’s only been twenty minutes since midnight—it’s absolutely impossible for him to revive yet.”
“Yeah, Ai Ma, rest for a while. Later we still need to perform the ritual to call your father’s soul back. I’ve already set the alarm clock. Just relax,” another sky-burial master said.
The Tibetan woman was named Ai Ma; she was the daughter of the deceased sky-burial master.
The two middle-aged sky-burial masters were her uncles.
Ai Ma looked at the snow and anxiously said, “Uncle, Second Uncle, I have a feeling my dad has already awakened. Maybe the Dragon Scale Knife is more powerful than expected? Why don’t we start chanting the spell now? Anyway, there’s no point in sleeping for two hours!”
“Ai! Ai Ma, we understand how you feel. We’ve been sky-burial masters our whole lives—do you think we could possibly get the timing wrong? Normally, it takes at least three days for someone to transform into a zombie and revive. Even with the Dragon Scale Knife, your father would at least need two days. Saying he could come back in two hours is already being too optimistic.”
“Child, we know your eagerness for revenge, but you can’t rush things like this!”
The two elders scolded Ai Ma in unison.
Ai Ma had a fiery temper and suddenly shouted, unable to hold back: “How can you say that! My dad is dead, dead! If you two hadn’t always been scheming to harm others and rob them of their money, would my dad have died? Now that he’s gone, I ask you to do something, and you keep complaining. What are your real intentions? He was your own brother—how could you sleep soundly, how could you bear to sleep at all?”
“Ai Ma, how dare you speak to us like that? We are your uncles!” One sky-burial master angrily stood up and shouted back: “Your dad brought it upon himself. Someone looked at him a few times, and he wanted to kill them immediately. What does that have to do with us? You’re just a child, how dare you scold us? If you’re so capable, why don’t you go take revenge on that person yourself?”
“Enough, enough! That person is no ordinary man. To deal with him, we might have to use guns.” Another sky-burial master tried to mediate.
Upon hearing this, Ai Ma quickly exclaimed, “Didn’t you say that if my dad became a zombie and revived, he could take revenge? Why are you talking about guns now? Does that mean our method won’t work? No, impossible! My dad is the strongest. There’s no way he can’t kill an ordinary person. You don’t really want to save my dad, do you?”
Ai Ma was losing emotional control.
The sky-burial master sitting on the ground shook his head and said, “I’ve never seen such fast movements before. He must be…”
“Thud!”
Suddenly, a white shadow pounced forward, slapped the speaking sky-burial master’s head, and instantly shattered it. Blood and brains splattered everywhere!
“Father!”
Ai Ma saw the white shadow and was instantly shocked.
“Whoosh!”
The white shadow grabbed toward Ai Ma, but was tackled by another sky-burial master and rolled down the snowy mountain.
At the same time, the sky-burial master shouted loudly, telling Ai Ma to run quickly.
Ai Ma seemed to have a missing screw in her brain—instead of running, she rushed down the snowy mountain.
“Whoosh!”
The white shadow suddenly leapt into the air, directly jumping and grabbing Ai Ma’s neck. Before Ai Ma could call out “Father” again, a crisp sound was heard—that was the sound of bones breaking!
Meanwhile, the sky-burial master who had tackled the white shadow was wrapped in a snowball and landed hundreds of meters down the mountain, already dead.
In the blink of an eye, all three were dead.
It was only then that Shui Miao arrived at the mountaintop. He knew he had come too late.
“Whoosh!”
The white shadow suddenly leapt high into the air and directly pounced toward Shui Miao!
Shui Miao was greatly startled. Instinctively, he immediately focused all his concentration. Time seemed to slow down, and in an instant, he fully activated his spiritual energy, using the Wind Riding Technique, continuously jumping and dodging down the mountain. The white shadow chased relentlessly behind him.
This white shadow was none other than the corpse of the sky-burial master. Thanks to the Dragon Scale Knife, it had accumulated yin energy at an extremely fast rate.
Within just a few dozen minutes, it had become as powerful as a superhuman.
The sky-burial master’s soul had been corrupted by the yin energy. He no longer recognized anyone, and his body was covered with long white hairs, making him look like a highly agile snow monster.
Moreover, every time this snow monster landed, rocks shattered and trees broke, showing how immense his strength was.
Here, surrounded by mountains and yin energy everywhere, he grew stronger and more ferocious.
He had become a monster, no longer human.
Shui Miao rolled and climbed, even appearing quite desperate, continuously jumping down the mountain. In a moment of desperation, Shui Miao suddenly thought of an idea. He quickly activated yin spiritual energy throughout his body to evade the monster’s pursuit.
This trick indeed worked. Soon, the monster stopped chasing. Standing on a rock, it used its blood-red eyes to search around everywhere!
Shui Miao was exhausted, slowly making his way toward the car…
As soon as Shui Miao started the car, the monster sensed the engine’s heat, roared furiously, leapt high into the air, and directly smashed down toward the car!
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