Chapter 182: Healing and Overthinking! Senior Sister, Your Filter is Set Way Too Thick!

Inside the underground cave, magma churned, and the heat wave was scorching.

In a safe zone by the shore, Gu Lan lay on the ground, hissing sharply from the pain.

Just now, to forcibly withstand the repulsive Sword Qi of the taie sword, his arms and lower abdomen were cut with several bloody gashes by the golden light, and the scorching Haoran righteous qi still lingered at the wounds, feeling as if countless needles were pricking him.

Jiang Wanqing knelt beside him, her eyes bloodshot, and tears pattered down.

She moved directly, tearing open Gu Lan's already tattered white robes on his chest with a "rip" sound.

"Senior Sister! Don't tear it! This magic robe is quite expensive!" Gu Lan was startled and quickly reached out to grab his clothes.

"Shut up! Is your life more important or are your clothes more important?"

Jiang Wanqing glared at him. Although her tone was fierce, her movements were inconceivably gentle.

She pulled out a white jade bottle from her storage ring, poured out crystal-clear healing medicinal liquid, and carefully applied it to Gu Lan's wounds.

The icy medicinal liquid made contact with the burning wounds, emitting a puff of white smoke, and the stinging pain immediately lessened quite a bit.

"Hiss— Ah, that's comfortable." Gu Lan let out a long breath and simply lay flat, letting her fuss over him.

However.

Jiang Wanqing's gaze moved up along his chest and suddenly stopped at the junction of his collarbone and neck.

There, there was a clear tooth mark, even bearing a bit of blood stasis.

This tooth mark was definitely not caused by Sword Qi; it was clearly left by someone taking a vicious bite!

Jiang Wanqing's hand holding the medicine bottle suddenly paused, and the surrounding air instantly turned cold.

The taie sword discarded aside also emitted a low hum, as if sensing its master's murderous intent.

"Gu Lan."

Jiang Wanqing's voice was as cold as ice shards.

"What is that on your neck?"

Gu Lan touched it following her gaze, and his heart instantly skipped a "thump".

Holy crap!

That tooth mark the madwoman Ye Hongzhuang bit him with on the bed the night before yesterday!

At that time, he was too busy guarding against her random touching and forgot to use spiritual energy to erase this mark!

"This… um…"

Gu Lan broke out in cold sweat, his brain spinning rapidly like a top, and blurted out:

"This was bitten by a mutated mosquito!"

"Senior Sister, you don't know, that place in the Heavenly Demon Palace is dark and damp, with lots of venomous bugs! Those mosquitoes are as big as fists, and when they open their mouths, there's a row of sharp teeth!"

Jiang Wanqing stared fixedly at that tooth mark.

Mosquito?

Are there mosquitoes shaped with human teeth?

She stretched out her finger and gently stroked the bite mark.

It was bitten very deeply; clearly, the person at the time used all their strength, even carrying a sense of venting and possessiveness.

Aside from that capricious Female Demon Lord, who else could it be?!

Jiang Wanqing's eye sockets turned red in an instant, and tears smashed onto Gu Lan's chest like broken-threaded beads.

"Junior Brother…"

Her voice was filled with endless heartache and anger.

"You don't have to cover for her anymore."

"I know, this was bitten by that Old Hag!"

Gu Lan: "…"

Since you knew, why did you still ask just now?

How am I supposed to respond to this?

While wiping her tears, Jiang Wanqing said through gritted teeth:

"That Female Demon Lord is actually so perverted! Not only does she treat you as a Cauldron and a slave, but she actually tortures you with such beastly actions!"

"Does she often abuse you like this? Leaving wounds on your body at every turn?"

"What kind of inhuman life are you living every day?!"

The more Jiang Wanqing spoke, the more excited she became, even imagining a miserable picture of Gu Lan being bound hand and foot, with Ye Hongzhuang holding a whip and candles to crazily torture him.

Gu Lan opened his mouth, truly not knowing how to refute.

Abuse?

Actually, aside from this bite, she basically acts as my hand warmer and free masseuse…

"Senior Sister, actually it's not that miserable…" Gu Lan weakly tried to salvage Ye Hongzhuang's image.

"Don't speak!"

Jiang Wanqing covered his mouth with one hand, her gaze exceptionally resolute.

"You are just too kind, still enduring for the greater good at a time like this."

"Rest assured, with me here from now on, I will never let her touch a single finger of yours again!"

Finishing her words, she lowered her head and actually gave a gentle kiss right beside that tooth mark.

The warm and soft touch parted the moment it made contact.

Gu Lan froze all over.

Jiang Wanqing's face was as red as a monkey's butt, but her gaze was unusually stubborn.

"I will help you cover this mark. From now on, your body can only have my traces."

Gu Lan only felt his scalp go numb.

It's over.

Why is the possessiveness of these women more outrageous than the last?

If I take off my clothes in the future and my body is covered in all sorts of tooth marks and hickeys, how will I go out and face people?

Just when the atmosphere was extremely ambiguous.

"Clang—!!!"

The taie sword on the ground nearby suddenly burst into a strong golden light, its blade vibrating crazily, emitting an extremely piercing sword cry.

A powerful repulsive force slammed directly towards Gu Lan's waist.

"What's going on?!"

Jiang Wanqing was startled and hurriedly gripped the taie sword.

The tip of the taie sword pointed dead-center at Gu Lan's waist, where the "original-scented scabbard" given by Ye Hongzhuang and the mandarin duck sachet given by Saintess Ji Wushuang hung.

The Righteous Path divine weapon generated extreme hostility towards these two items contaminated with top-tier Devilish Qi.

"Junior Brother, what are you hanging from your waist? The Devilish Qi is actually so dense that even the taie sword can't suppress it?"

Jiang Wanqing frowned and reached out to untie the things at Gu Lan's waist.

Gu Lan clutched his waist.

It's done for, it's done for, his cover is going to be blown again!

This scabbard was made from the Female Demon Lord's personal soft armor, and this sachet was sewn by the Saintess herself.

If Great Senior Sister discovers them, I wouldn't be able to clear my name even if I had ten mouths!

"Don't touch! It's dangerous!"

Gu Lan shouted loudly, putting on an extremely nervous look.

He clutched those two things tightly, his face full of solemnity.

"Senior Sister, these two things are 'tokens of trust' I managed to get out of the Heavenly Demon Palace with great difficulty!"

"Tokens of trust?" Jiang Wanqing's movement paused.

"That's right!"

Gu Lan's imagination ran wild as he began making things up.

"This scabbard is the Demon Lord's personal item, and this sachet is the Saintess's portable Magic Treasure."

"I am isolated and helpless in the Demonic Cult. To gain their trust and freely enter and exit the Demonic Cult's Forbidden Land to find a method to break the Seal inside your body, I could only endure my nausea and carry these two evil-filled things close to my body!"

"As long as these two things are present, the Demonic Cult's Formations and Elders wouldn't dare touch me."

"This is what I call knowing oneself and the enemy, enduring humiliation for a heavy burden!"

Gu Lan spoke with stirring passion, almost believing it himself.

After listening, Jiang Wanqing was stunned in place.

She looked at Gu Lan's wounds all over his body, and then at his action of desperately protecting those two demonic items.

Her tears breached the dam once again.

"Junior Brother…"

Jiang Wanqing let go of the taie sword and pulled Gu Lan into her embrace.

"You're so foolish! Why do you carry everything all by yourself?!"

"You carry this kind of evil object every day, how can your Meridians stand it? No wonder you were hurt by the taie sword just now; your Meridians must have been polluted by these evil qi!"

"You are not allowed to carry them anymore! I have already pulled out the taie sword and my strength has greatly increased. I will protect you from now on!"

Gu Lan leaned on her shoulder and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Whew… This Heaven-Defying filter saved my life once again.

Just as the two were tightly embracing.

"Rumble—!!!"

The entire underground cave suddenly shook violently.

In the magma lake, the giant beast phantom condensed from the earth's core malignant fire had not been blown to death by Gu Lan's karmic fire just now.

Instead, it absorbed more magma energy, its body swelling to over thirty zhang high, completely condensing into a physical entity!

A massive molten lava head poked out of the lake surface, opened its bloody maw, and spat out a magma fire pillar several zhang thick, directly blasting towards the two people on the shore!

At the same time, the top of the cave began to collapse over a large area, with countless giant rocks mixed with fire rain crashing down.

"Not good! This place is going to collapse!"

Gu Lan's expression changed drastically, and he pushed Jiang Wanqing away, preparing to draw his sword.

"Don't move! Your injuries aren't healed yet!"

Jiang Wanqing pressed down on his shoulders, her gaze instantly turning exceptionally fierce.

She turned around, facing the overwhelming magma fire pillar crashing down, and lifted the taie sword with one hand.

At this moment, she was no longer that weeping little woman from just now.

She was the Great Senior Sister of the Qingyun Sect and the new sword master of the taie sword!

"A mere beast dares to act presumptuously!"

Jiang Wanqing gave a clear cry, channeling the true qi of the half-step Nascent Soul within her body into the blade without reservation.

The taie sword erupted with a golden light as brilliant as the scorching sun.

"Slash!"

She gripped the sword with both hands and swung fiercely forward.

A hundred-zhang-long golden Sword Qi, carrying the kingly majesty of leveling all evil spirits, roared out!

"Boom—!!!"

The golden light collided with the magma fire pillar.

There was no suspense whatsoever.

That indestructible fire pillar was split straight down the middle, and the remaining momentum of the sword radiance fiercely cleaved onto the molten giant beast's head.

"Roar!!!"

The giant beast let out a despairing scream, its massive body actually split clean in two by this single sword strike, and then exploded into a sky full of fire rain, falling back into the magma lake.

Instantly killed with a single sword!

Gu Lan sat on the ground, dumbfounded by the sight.

The taie sword combined with Jiang Wanqing's Ice Marrow Sword Physique had terrifying power to this extent.

Jiang Wanqing now probably truly had the qualifications to openly challenge Ye Hongzhuang face-to-face.

"Junior Brother, let's go!"

After slaying the giant beast with a single sword, Jiang Wanqing didn't linger at all.

The cave was about to completely collapse.

She wrapped her arm around Gu Lan's waist, holding him entirely in her arms (the posture was very much like a man holding a woman, except it was reversed now).

The taie sword in her hand swung upward once more.

"Break!"

The golden light directly blasted a huge hole through the dome above where giant rocks were constantly falling, revealing the gloomy sky outside.

Jiang Wanqing tapped her toes on the ground, turning into a stream of golden light with Gu Lan, and soared straight up into the sky through that hole.

The moment they rushed out of the cave.

"Rumble—"

The underground world below completely collapsed, submerged by endless magma.

The two flew into mid-air, landing steadily on the edge of a desolate canyon.

All around were burial mounds stuck with broken swords, cold wind howled, and not a single person was in sight.

Clearly, the terrain here had changed due to the underground tremor just now, and they had deviated from the original main group.

Gu Lan leaned against a giant rock, panting heavily.

After the recent tossing about, he was indeed quite exhausted.

Jiang Wanqing put away the taie sword, walked to his side, and took out a handkerchief to meticulously wipe away the dust on his face.

Her eyes were shockingly bright, staring fixedly into Gu Lan's eyes.

"Junior Brother."

Her tone was unprecedentedly serious.

"I have now obtained the taie sword, and my cultivation has also reached the half-step Nascent Soul."

"When this Sword Tomb trial ends, even if I have to carve out a bloody path, I will bring you back to the Qingyun Sect."

"I will never let you return to that demonic den again, and I will never let you suck up to that Old Hag again!"

Gu Lan's heart twitched.

Return to the Qingyun Sect?

Big Sis, if I go back with you, Ye Hongzhuang can lead people to flatten Qingyun Mountain tomorrow!

By then, not only would my undercover mission fail, but I wouldn't please either side, and I'd definitely be skinned and deboned.

"Senior Sister, don't be impulsive."

Gu Lan hurriedly grabbed her hand and earnestly tried to persuade her.

"The Heavenly Demon Palace has a profound foundation, and Ye Hongzhuang is even more unfathomable. She is definitely not something a half-step Nascent Soul can deal with."

"We cannot fight head-on; we must plan long-term. I will continue to lurk in the Demonic Cult, and we can coordinate from the inside and outside. Only then can we…"

Just at this moment, from the mist not far ahead, a burst of fierce fighting suddenly came through.