Unrivaled Miracle Doctor: The God-Defying Demonic Consort

Chapter 731 - 166: Corpses Everywhere (Second Update)

"The person I like is not her." Mu Qingge said with a darkened face, gritting her teeth to Ji Yaohua.

Ji Yaohua was stunned, his expression was quite remarkable.

After a long pause, he uncertainly said, "What did you just say? Say it again."

"I said, the person I like is not her." Mu Qingge rubbed her forehead helplessly. She had admitted having someone she liked in front of Ji Yaohua and Ying Ze before, and now encountering Xi Qianxue surely led to a misunderstanding between the two.

"You don’t like Xi Goddess? Then who?" Ji Yaohua asked in shock.

He seemed to feel that he had worried about Mu Qingge for nothing.

Mu Qingge shook her head speechlessly, "Can you stop being so nosy?"

Ji Yaohua laughed playfully, "I’m just concerned about you, right?"

"Thank you for your concern, but from now on, you should only worry about yourself. Also, if you like Xi Qianxue, you can go ahead and pursue her boldly, I will definitely not fight with you for her. If you want to compete for her, I’ll walk with you and support you all the way." Mu Qingge said helplessly.

Ji Yaohua’s expression changed immediately, his eyes turning horrified. "Qingge, did you misunderstand something?"

Mu Qingge’s lips curled with a somewhat mischievous smile in her eyes, and a sense of revenge surged in her heart!

Let this brat gossip freely all day!

Ji Yaohua coughed lightly, lowering his voice, "I don’t have any feelings for her, besides, I’m not blind; it’s clear she likes you."

"Are you not daring to pursue her because of her Goddess status?" Mu Qingge teased.

She was originally joking, using the same speculation Ji Yaohua had used on her, turning it back on him. Unexpectedly, Ji Yaohua’s expression turned serious, telling Mu Qingge, "If I truly liked a girl, and she liked me too—never mind if she’s a Goddess—even if a king tried to stop me, nothing could hold me back!"

Mu Qingge raised her eyebrows, a bit surprised.

However, thinking about it again, it was not surprising at all. Ji Yaohua’s personality was just naturally independent, treating rules as if they were nothing.

Mu Qingge laughed, "You’ve been worrying all day about this marriage, worrying about that marriage, but why aren’t you concerned about your own affairs?"

Ji Yaohua suddenly slumped down, squatting on the ground, and sighed towards the sky.

’A story!’ Mu Qingge’s eyes brightened, she squatted down with him, her clear eyes looking at him, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Ji Yaohua looked up at the sky, his eyes seeming to drift into distant memories. "When I was little, I met a fairy sister. Since then, I’ve been indifferent to matters of love between men and women."

His ’transcending worldly concerns’ demeanor made Mu Qingge slap him on the back of the head.

"Ouch!" Ji Yaohua covered the back of his head, exclaiming in pain.

A pair of eyes looked at Mu Qingge with sheer grievance. "I’m serious, why does no one believe me? I told it to the old man in my family, he didn’t believe me, told Pianpian, she didn’t believe me either, told Ying Ze, all he did was give me a disdainful look! Now I’ve told you, not only do you not believe, but you also hit me!"

Mu Qingge scoffed at him mercilessly, "Don’t you think about it, with what you said, paired with the look of utter hopelessness on your face, how can people believe it?"

"But I’m speaking the truth!" Ji Yaohua insisted seriously.

He put away his usual playful expression, looked at Mu Qingge earnestly, "I was only thirteen when I met her, and it was by chance. I was cultivating in the mountains outside Wankai City, and she, covered in blood, fell unconscious from the sky right in front of me. She was really beautiful, enough to dazzle me—can you imagine how beautiful she was? I carried her to a nearby cave to help heal her wounds. Ahem... I saw what I should and shouldn’t see, touched what I should and shouldn’t touch, but it was all for healing!"

Ji Yaohua’s face turned embarrassed as he coughed twice, "At that time, I thought, since I touched her, a real man should be responsible. Though I was young, I would grow up, and when I did, I would marry her and bring her home! But unexpectedly, when I went again the next day, she was gone, leaving nothing behind, not even a bit of information..."

As Ji Yaohua spoke to this point, the expression on his face had already become somewhat forlorn and disappointed.

"To this day, I still remember when she fell in front of me, the mottled blood on her white dress, like blooming petals..." Ji Yaohua finished, with a hint of reminiscence in his eyes.

Mu Qingge, after listening to his story, didn’t know how to describe her feelings for a moment.

She truly did not expect such a melodramatic event to happen to Ji Yaohua! He seems like a carefree person, how could he look like someone who’s deeply in love? "So, all these years, you’ve never given up looking for her?"

Ji Yaohua nodded heavily, "Even though I know the hope is slim, I will continue to look for her! If I find her, and she hasn’t found someone she loves, I will marry her!"

Looking at his determined gaze, Mu Qingge chuckled awkwardly, "Good luck!"

"Yes!" Ji Yaohua looked at her with fighting spirit.

The two chatted for a while before returning to their resting place. They had been away for a long time, Ying Ze was aware, but Xi Qianxue was a bit worried. Several times, she wanted to go see what was going on but was stopped by Ying Ze.

"Are you all right?" Xi Qianxue asked Mu Qingge softly.

Mu Qingge slowly shook her head, lifted the hem of her robe, and sat down.

Ji Yaohua also sat beside Ying Ze, transmitting his voice, "We guessed wrong, Qingge and Xi Goddess have nothing. Being good to her is simply because she is the only girl here with us, and because she can’t use spiritual power at the moment."

Ying Ze glanced at him, features taut and sharp, transmitting his voice, "You guessed wrong, I’ve never guessed."

Ji Yaohua was speechless by his retort, the corners of his mouth twitching, eyes smiling like crescent moons, "Okay, okay, you never guessed, it was me who guessed wrong, alright?"

Ying Ze quietly retracted his gaze, ending the topic decisively.

The four of them rested for a while until they felt their strength had been restored, then they got up and left.

No one had a map of the Ancient Battlefield, and they didn’t know how big it was. So, they could only move forward based on intuition.

Ahead, the fog thickened again.

The gray-white fog, like clusters of condensed death energy, hindered their path.

"Be careful," Mu Qingge reminded them before entering the fog.

Even with her heightened senses, she couldn’t see more than three meters ahead in the fog, let alone the others.

"I think we should hold hands to avoid getting separated," Ji Yaohua suggested.

However, Ying Ze next to him gave him a look of disdain.

Ji Yaohua immediately looked dissatisfied, "Hey! What’s that supposed to mean?"

"No need for such trouble; we can use spiritual power to connect with each other," Mu Qingge suggested directly.

"But my spiritual power..." Xi Qianxue said awkwardly.

Mu Qingge, however, flipped her hand and revealed a red silk ribbon in her palm, holding one end while grabbing the other. "This will do."

Xi Qianxue looked at the red ribbon and nodded with a slight smile.

Mu Qingge stepped into the fog, the ribbon in her hand linking her to Xi Qianxue.

Though she promised not to reject Xi Qianxue for three months, she wouldn’t do anything that could be misunderstood.

Holding hands felt too intimate for her, as it did for Xi Qianxue.

The four stepped into the fog and were instantly swallowed by it, unable to see each other’s silhouettes. Fortunately, they were able to discern each other’s positions by using their spiritual power to connect before entering.

After walking in the fog for a while, it gradually thinned, and their vision became clear again.

However, when they finally saw their surroundings, they were stunned.

Gray-white snowflakes fell densely around them, seemingly never stopping for tens of thousands of years.

All around them, there were gray ice pillars, some standing upright, some fallen.

The ice layer beneath their feet was also very thick.

"It’s so cold here, even colder than the path we walked before, with heavier death energy," Xi Qianxue couldn’t help but rub her arms. She couldn’t use her spiritual power to protect herself from the cold, so she felt the temperature change most keenly.

Mu Qingge glanced at her, flicked out a Taichu Urgent Fire that floated beside Xi Qianxue. Instantly, the warmth of the Taichu Urgent Fire drove away the cold within her.

Xi Qianxue, feeling more comfortable, gratefully looked at Mu Qingge and said, "Thank you."

"Look at what’s inside those ice pillars!" Suddenly, Ji Yaohua made a discovery and shouted to the other three.

Mu Qingge looked up, peered closely, and her eyes narrowed sharply. Inside those ice pillars were fragmented human corpses.

These corpses were no longer Beast Clan, but human!

The body parts were frozen in the ice pillars; some still clenched weapons in their hands.

The dense ice pillars, full of countless corpses, were hard to imagine how many died in that battle!

"It’s so eerie!" Ji Yaohua murmured to herself as she continued forward.

Xi Qianxue slowly walked alongside Mu Qingge, observing everything around her, speaking softly, "These people might have been the soldiers of the Divine and Demon Clans from back then. But why are their bodies in pieces? And why are they frozen in these ice layers?"

Everything in the Divine Demon Ancient Battlefield was too bizarre, too beyond reason.

This made them remain on alert, even though they had not yet encountered any danger.

"The death energy here is very heavy." Suddenly, Mu Qingge stopped and said with a frown.

"Death energy?" Ji Yaohua, not understanding, turned her eyes to her and mumbled, "Is there any place in this Divine Demon Ancient Battlefield where the death energy isn’t heavy?"

Mu Qingge shook her head with furrowed brows, musing, "The death energy here is different from before."

"Different?" Ji Yaohua did not understand Mu Qingge’s meaning, but her eyes cautiously watched her surroundings.

Ying Ze also took out his weapon, silently moving closer as the three surrounded Xi Qianxue, who was temporarily unable to use her spiritual power.

’What’s different?’ Mu Qingge didn’t know how to explain it, but she could keenly sense that the death energy here was different from before.

It was as if—

The death energy they encountered before was dead, while here, the death energy was alive!