#135 - In my dream, there is you - Cultivating Immortality, Starting from Childhood Sweethearts

Qin Qingwan and the big white goose, each holding a skewer of candied hawthorns, walked and ate on the street.

Whenever Qin Qingwan ate a hawthorn, her beautiful peach blossom eyes would squint from the sourness, and her fair, slender neck would shrink, just like when she was a child.

Only at times like this could Xu Ming find some familiarity from the graceful and beautiful young woman she had become.

"Is it good?" Xu Ming asked.

"It's good~" Qin Qingwan nodded, holding the candied hawthorn to Xu Ming's mouth, "Do you want to try some?"

Xu Ming: "."

This girl, you've already eaten it, and you're offering it to a man like me?

"Thank you for your kindness, but I don't really like sour things," Xu Ming shook his head, deliberately pretending not to notice the girl's closeness to him.

"Fine, if you don't want it," Qin Qingwan also realized that her actions were too intimate, and she took back the candied hawthorn, her cheeks slightly red, "I wouldn't give it to you anyway~"

Xu Ming changed the subject: "Miss He, what's the connection between this candied hawthorn and the array materials you want to buy?"

"Of course, there is a connection~" Qin Qingwan raised her delicate chin with a humph, "I have a special trait, which is that when I'm in a good mood, my control over spiritual power is better, and my thinking is clearer. Young Master Xu, you wouldn't want me to fail the array because I'm in a bad mood, would you?"

Xu Ming: "."

"What, am I not making sense?" Qin Qingwan asked.

"You are."

Xu Ming nodded.

Ever since childhood, everything you've said has made sense.

"Hmph~~~" Hearing Xu Ming say this, Qin Qingwan continued walking forward, "By the way, Young Master Xu, do you know what Senior Sister Qin likes to eat the most?"

Xu Ming nodded: "If I remember correctly, it's the candied hawthorn in your hand."

Hearing Xu Ming's correct answer, Qin Qingwan felt happy, but she didn't show it: "So Senior Sister Qin also likes to eat candied hawthorns."

"Of course," Xu Ming smiled, "When she was little, her teeth would rot, but she still wanted to eat candied hawthorns. I would always secretly bring them to her. Once, Madam Qin found out, and she quickly handed the bamboo stick to me, saying that I was the one eating it, but she didn't even wipe the hawthorn from the corner of her mouth."

"." Qin Qingwan muttered, her cheeks slightly red, "Why do you remember things from when we were little so clearly?"

Xu Ming glanced at the girl beside him: "Some people, everything they do is worth remembering."

"That's so cheesy! I'm going to tell Senior Sister Qin!"

Qin Qingwan's cheeks turned even redder, and she quickly walked forward, avoiding being seen by Xu Ming.

The big white goose glanced at Xu Ming.

Xu Ming looked back at the big white goose: "What's wrong?"

Big white goose: "Goose (I feel like you're so greasy.)"

Xu Ming: "."

Xu Ming's meaning was actually, "I have very few friends, so I will remember everything they do."

But it seems like my meaning was expressed a little differently...

Just as Xu Ming was wondering whether to explain to Qin Qingwan, Qin Qingwan turned back, grabbed the corner of Xu Ming's clothes with one hand, and pointed to a pastry shop not far away with the other: "Young Master Xu, I want to eat that!"

"Okay."

Xu Ming didn't refuse.

As for whether to explain what he said earlier...

Forget it, she seems pretty happy.

In the next half an hour, Xu Ming took Qin Qingwan to eat at one shop after another.

This wasn't buying array materials at all; it was completely a food tour.

"Do you know? When I was little, I had a dream, which was to eat my way through an entire street happily without any restrictions~" Qin Qingwan said joyfully.

"That dream should be easy to achieve, right?" Xu Ming asked.

"It's not that easy~" Qin Qingwan moved her long legs under her skirt, "When I was little, my family was strict and wouldn't let me go too far, let alone eat things casually."

Xu Ming: "What about after you grew up?"

"After I grew up," Qin Qingwan stopped, using her left foot as a pivot, and turned around with her arms outstretched, her skirt gently fluttering, like a blood-red mandala in full bloom, "After I grew up, I didn't go shopping either."

Xu Ming: "Because you didn't have time due to cultivation?"

Qin Qingwan: "That's one of the reasons, but not the main reason."

Xu Ming: "What's the main reason?"

"I'm not telling you~" Qin Qingwan turned around again and walked forward happily.

"Silly girl." Walking in front, Qin Qingwan secretly glanced at Xu Ming behind her, "You can't even guess that. It's because you're in my dream."

"Clang."

"Roar!"

Inside the mountains outside Baiwa City is a hollow lava cave.

In this vast lava cave, on the rock walls, there are hundreds of cages, with魔兽 (demon beasts) chained by their hands and feet.

These demon beasts were constantly struggling, trying to break free from the chains on their bodies.

The center of the lava cave is a huge lava platform, connected by eight stone bridges.

Below the platform, hot lava gathered into a sea, constantly churning.

Several beams of light shot out from the magic circle.

Several cultivators wearing black cloaks quickly operated the magic circle, extracting one cultivator after another from these white lights.

These cultivators were the ones who had disappeared in Baiwa City before.

However, these cultivators' bodies were in a semi-transparent state, as if they had flesh, but also like souls.

A black-cloaked cultivator stepped forward, picked up a human cultivator who had disappeared from Baiwa City, and threw him into the center of the magic circle.

Immediately afterward, at the signal of the leading black-cloaked cultivator, they released several demon beasts from the rock wall cages.

The black-cloaked cultivator forcibly dragged a demon beast to the center of the magic circle!

"Ahhhhh! ! !"

"Roar! ! ! !"

As the magic circle activated, both the human cultivator and the demon beast let out painful screams.

The semi-transparent human cultivator and the demon beast merged continuously.

The bloodlines of humans and beasts gradually became connected, and their bones gradually joined together.

Their flesh first disintegrated and then merged.

"Bang!" With a loud explosion, the human cultivator and the demon beast simultaneously exploded into a cloud of blood!

"Next one."

The leading cultivator didn't care about the failure of the fusion.

One pair of cultivators and demon beasts after another were placed into the magic circle. More than a dozen people and more than a dozen demon beasts died one after another, none of them succeeding, and all turned into nothing.

Screams echoed continuously in the lava cave.

"Beasts! You will definitely suffer retribution! Beasts! Beasts!"

On the other side of the magic circle, a woman witnessing all of this roared. Her voice was hoarse, and her eyes were bloodshot.

The leading cultivator walked up to the woman, grabbed her hair, and made her look him in the eyes:

"Don't say that. You created this magic circle."