Chapter 94: Unexpected Guest

  "Dinner's ready!" someone shouted loudly.

  Su Tang gathered his fist, walked towards the cave, and when he reached the creek, he lightly jumped over it. His figure was like a wisp of clear wind drifting across the water, landing in front of the dinner table.

  The table was made of wooden stumps and stones, very rough, but the dishes placed on it were extremely sumptuous, with mushroom soup, braised meat, bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, stir-fried bee pupae, and since there were bee pupae, there must also be honey, except for the meat dishes, all the others were fragrant and picked from the forest.

  It turns out that with or without a woman to take care of him, the quality of life is vastly different. If it were just Su Tang alone, he would definitely spend his days eating salted meat and getting by, as long as he had enough physical strength, why bother with anything else.

  "You've been busy for almost two hours, aren't you tired?" Xiang Jiao looked at Su Tang with a scolding gaze.

  "Now I just feel like I have endless energy, not afraid of being tired." Su Tang said with a smile, then sat down on the stone, picked up several bee pupae with his fingers and threw them into his mouth.

  The girl and the woman, the essential difference is very big. Just a few days ago, Wen Xiang still couldn't understand Su Tang's double meaning words, but now she can immediately understand, and when teased by Su Tang, she won't be overly shy either, with a flirtatious and charming expression flowing between her eyebrows and eyes.

  "I'd be better off if you dropped dead!" Wen Xiangyi said.

  "You guess... which one of us will die first?" Su Tang said, the person who shouted 'I'm going to die' last night wasn't him, Su Tang.

  This remark was too straightforward, and Wen Xiang couldn't take it, so he had to change the subject: "Where's Xiao Bu Dian? Can you be serious for once?"

  "What does it understand?" Su Tang glanced at Xiaodidian, he suddenly found that Xiaodidian had been unusually quiet since morning, and now was the same, not making a fuss or throwing a tantrum, lying by the plate, honestly eating honey.

  Actually, Xiaobudian clearly felt that the relationship between Su Tang and Wen Xiang had become very strange. Last night was so abused, but today there was no anger at all, as if nothing had happened. He didn't understand, so of course he would rather be safe than sorry.

  "It tastes good." Su Tang grabbed a handful of bee pupae and nodded while eating.

  "Slow down, no one is competing with you." Wen Xiang smiled and said: "Here we can only make do, if there's a chance to go to the city, I'll cook delicious food for you again."

  "Is there an opportunity?" Su Tang smiled slightly.

  Xiang was slightly dazed, and then her gaze slowly shifted elsewhere, with a hint of melancholy flashing in her eyes.

  Su Tang and Wen Xiang were too clever, they could always see a lot from an unexpected action or a word from the heart. Su Tang knew what Wen Xiang was thinking, and Wen Xiang also understood that Su Tang had figured it out.

  "Aren't you going to teach me how to decide life and death? We don't have much time left." Su Tang said softly, "Do you think I can learn in such a short time?"

  "Alright." Wen Xiang's gaze turned back again, staring at Su Tang with an unwavering gaze, and said very seriously: "But you have to promise me one thing."

  "You said," Su Tang said.

  "You can't practice the Life and Death Decision if I... really have an accident, you find someone to replace me and pass it on." Wen Xiang said word by word.

  "Why?" Su Tang furrowed his brow.

  "Because you've taken in the source of life!" Wen Xiang let out a soft sigh: "You still don't quite understand the significance of the source of life. Let me put it this way, if the elders of the Nature Sect were to see you, they would definitely treat you as a treasure and take you back to the sect to cultivate you with all their might! With your talent and speed of cultivation, in just three years at most, you'll be able to rise from an outer disciple to an inner disciple. And after another five or six years, you'll become one of the core disciples of the Nature Sect. By then, what's the Hu family, the Xi family, and that Summer family we offended before? They'll all have to tuck their tails between their legs in front of you!"

  "Has it already been arranged for me?" Su Tang asked with a smile.

  "Sutang, I didn't arrange anything, but this... is indeed the most suitable path for you!" Wen Xiang said in a low voice: "So you absolutely cannot practice the life and death decision, the strong of the Natural Sect are the most sensitive to aura, once you have the breath of death on your body, it's hard to deceive them."

  "We'll talk about this later." Su Tang picked up a handful of wild vegetables and slowly chewed on them, after a long while, he said slowly: "After leaving here, I will go to Red Leaf City, Xiangxiang, come with me."

  "You know I won't go with you." Xiang said with a bitter smile.

  "I know I know." Su Tang let out a light breath: "But...I want to hear you say it yourself." In fact, he had felt it last night, Xiangxiang actively taking off her undergarments was undoubtedly a kind of encouragement, but here there was clearly a sense of reciprocation and comfort. If Xiangxiang had made up her mind that from now on they would be inseparable in life and death, then what was the need for reciprocation or comfort?

  "Sutang, are you going to be a naive child or a true strongman walking in the world?" Wenxiang asked softly.

  "I want to be a kid." Su Tang was crunching on some wild vegetables with a cheerful expression.

  "You..." Su Tang's current lazy appearance was indeed like a child, making Wen Xiang somewhat helpless. She shook her head: "Su Tang, you know what I am, the remnants of the God-Slaying Temple... If I go with you, then I'll become the most poisonous poison in the world, and you've already willingly drunk me down!"

  Su Tang could no longer eat, his fingers pinched a bamboo shoot, motionless.

  "You have no idea when the toxicity will strike, maybe... just when we are happiest and most joyful, they suddenly come to our door, and everything we own will be completely destroyed." Xiang's tone was very gentle, but her words were heart-piercing, not only piercing Su Tang's heart, but also her own: "You want to protect me, but because we are together, you can't even protect me, let alone yourself."

  "I'm not afraid," Su Tang said slowly.

  "Aren't you afraid?" Wen Xiang smiled: "You have to think clearly, I... am making an enemy of the entire world..."

  "There will always be a way." Su Tang continued to persuade Wen Xiang.

  "Of course, there's a way. I'll abandon my life and death decision, follow you to Red Leaf City, hide from everyone during the day, make your bed at night, do laundry and cook for you during the day... but would I still be me?!" Wen Xiang said softly: "Su Tang, I can do anything for you, if this is what you want me to do, then I'll follow you!"

  Su Tang revealed a bitter smile. Would he rather give up on life and death? Spend the rest of his life hiding and not seeing anyone? He would never be happy again, forcing Xiang to follow him, what's the point?

  "Wen Xiang, you don't know how much I like you..." Wen Xiang stood up and sat into Su Tang's arms, using both hands to hug Su Tang's neck, her head against Su Tang's chest, whispering: "So, I absolutely won't let them harm you, even more can't tolerate it because of my reason...Su Tang, I have no choice, from the moment I was born, I carried all the hatred, and I made a life-and-death decision. Even if I wanted peace, they wouldn't let me go, but...we two people can have another choice!"

  "What choice?" Su Tang asked slowly.

  "I'll let you know where I am and what I'm doing, and if I get into trouble, you'll be the first one I turn to for help." Xiangxiang smiled and said: "Besides, I can also do some things secretly to help you. Isn't that great? Why bother taking risks and sticking together all day?"

  "In other words, we can only continue to sneak around?" Su Tang said.

  "It's not necessarily so." Wen Xiang raised her head to look at Su Tang: "Perhaps one day, I will avenge my hatred and let the Temple of Extermination rise again in this world. Let Moyun Ridge flourish once more, then no one can threaten us! And, hehe... you become the master of the Natural Sect, your orders, no one dares to disobey, so I can rest assured to bring everyone to rely on you."

  "This... is really a hundred-year-old plan!" Su Tang let out a long sigh, his previous ideal was to surpass that great master, thinking that his own idea was too crazy and arrogant, but he didn't expect Xiangxiang to be even crazier! Rebuilding the Temple of God's Wrath, challenging the Three Great Heavenly Gates? And making him, Su Tang, the master of the Natural Sect? Don't even get him started, to be honest, he himself had never dared to think about it...

  "Don't underestimate me, I'm a descendant of the legendary Master Wen Tian!" Xiang said with a soft voice, although her tone seemed to be joking, but her eyebrows and eyes revealed a few points of pride and determination.

  Su Tang gently lifted Wen Xiang's chin with his fingertips, quietly gazing at her. This was a strong-willed, determined and wise woman, he liked her, genuinely liked her!

  "Go, bring out the wine jar." Su Tang pushed Wen Xiang out and then patted Wen Xiang's butt: "Today, let's have a good drink together."

  Xiang revealed a smile, she knew that the small knot that had just formed between the two people had been untied.

  Soon, Wen Xiang brought out the wine jar and poured a full bowl for himself and Su Tang. The little one who had been quietly sitting on the side for half a day finally moved, looked up at the wine jar, and deeply sniffed the wine aroma that filled the air.

  Su Tang found that Xiao Dian was a bit tipsy today, and asked him once, but Xiao Dian couldn't explain it either. He knocked on the wine jar and said to Xiao Dian: "From now on, I won't stop you from drinking anymore, you can drink as much as you want." Originally, Xiao Dian could have drunk secretly, but he had never been excessive, proving that he already had a certain degree of self-control.

  "Really?" Xiaobudian immediately straightened up, assumed a charging posture, and was ready to shoot out at any moment.

  "Of course it's true, but if you get drunk again, I'll make sure you don't touch wine for a whole year." Su Tang said.

  "Hurray......" Xiaobudian let out a cheer, then pounced towards the wine jar, but halfway through, he flashed back like lightning and directly drilled into Su Tang's collar.

  Su Tang furrowed his brow at the same time, and Wen Xiang suddenly realized that something was wrong. He asked urgently, "What's wrong?"