Li Zihang glared, but found himself unable to refute their arguments. Finally, he said angrily, "Aren't you just worried about running out of food? I'll share my rations with you, and I'll go catch rabbits. I promise you won't starve, alright?"
His words made Chen Bin, Lin Jie, and Peng Lei glance up at Li Zihang before looking away again.
Wu Weizi waved at Li Zihang and sighed, "Zihang, we've already wasted too much time. We must find the Phoenix Tail Grass within five days to save your master!"
"But we only have two days left. If we don't find the Phoenix Tail Grass and return, staying in this mountain will be useless..."
Li Zihang was anxious and quickly said, "Don't worry, martial uncle. I believe we will find the Phoenix Tail Grass within these two days to save master!"
Wu Weizi nodded and said, "Let's not worry about whether we're being pursued. The most important thing now is to find the Phoenix Tail Grass in the next day or two!"
"Right."
Li Zihang nodded, then called out to Xu Lingwei, Duan Yingying, and Jiang Tingxia, who were searching in the woods and grass in the distance, "Senior sisters, please come back quickly. We need to head north."
Xu Lingwei nodded, brought Duan Yingying and Jiang Tingxia back, and followed Wu Weizi and Li Zihang as they changed direction, heading north towards the Kunlun Mountains...
This time, they slowed their pace, their eyes wide, paying attention to the ground and the surrounding grass along the way, hoping to encounter a stalk of Phoenix Tail Grass that could save Abbot Duan Wuyu...
"I wonder how Senior Sister and Junior Brother Wan are doing!"
On the road, Jiang Tingxia, with a furrowed brow, couldn't help but murmur.
Li Zihang comforted her, "Senior Sister Jiang, Junior Brother Wan and Senior Sister Zhou will definitely be fine, so don't overthink it."
Jiang Tingxia nodded, but she felt a strange unease throughout the day, having a premonition that Senior Sister Zhou and Wan Yunting were in trouble...
At this moment, at the bottom of a cliff in a valley deep within the western Kunlun Mountains, as time passed, it was suddenly six o'clock in the afternoon. Night was falling, and the circular valley sky was gradually covered by darkness. From the thick clouds, raindrops began to fall...
A drop of rain, as cold as a knife, landed on the heads and noses of Wan Yunting and Zhou Ruoxi, instantly waking them from their meditation and cultivation. As they opened their eyes, they realized it had gotten dark. They looked up at the dim valley sky, where rain was continuously falling, hitting the snow on the surrounding trees and creating ripples on the surface of the hot spring pool...
"It's raining, Junior Brother Wan. Let's go over there to take shelter. This rain is too cold..."
Saying this, Zhou Ruoxi quickly got up and helped Wan Yunting up. The two of them hurried towards the cliff behind them to find a place to shelter from the rain.
Wan Yunting could now stand up with some effort, but due to his severe internal injuries, he was very weak. Seeing the bonfire and the dry firewood nearby, he quickly said to Zhou Ruoxi, "Senior Sister Zhou, quickly bring the dry firewood over, don't let it get wet by the rain. It might get colder tonight."
"Okay..."
After helping Wan Yunting to a place by the cliff face that could shield them from the rain, Zhou Ruoxi quickly returned. Braving the cold rain, she hurried to gather the dry firewood she had collected earlier, and then brought over a few burning pieces from the bonfire...
Although they had a lighter, they didn't want the fire to be extinguished by the rain. Wan Yunting sat down leaning against the cliff. Being able to move a little, he took charge of arranging the smaller pieces of wood, and Zhou Ruoxi lit them with the fire she brought back...
"And the clothes..."
Suddenly remembering their cloaks and Wan Yunting's daoist robe, which were still on the grassy bank of the hot spring pool, Zhou Ruoxi returned again. She brought back the clothes that had been drying in the sun. With all this running back and forth, she had aggravated the knife wound on her right shoulder and the back of her neck. Her eyebrows furrowed, but she gritted her teeth and endured the indescribable pain as the cold raindrops fell on her wound...
"Senior Sister Zhou, please sit down quickly. Let me examine your back injury."
Wan Yunting had already noticed the knife wound on Zhou Ruoxi's right shoulder and the back of her neck. Her clothes were soaked red with blood.
"I'm fine..."
Zhou Ruoxi forced a smile and shook her head slightly.
Wan Yunting said sternly, "Senior Sister, let me examine the wound quickly. If it gets infected, it will be very serious."
Zhou Ruoxi's autumn eyes widened. Looking at the man's serious expression, for some reason, her heart felt warm. She nodded and hummed in agreement. She sat down, turning her back to him...
Wan Yunting looked closely at her wound, but she was still wearing her clothes, so he couldn't see the exact condition of the wound. He said, "Senior Sister Zhou, can you pull your clothes aside? I can't see your wound clearly right now, but this knife wound is quite serious, and I need to treat it."
Upon hearing that she needed to pull aside her clothes, Zhou Ruoxi's pretty face turned slightly red, and she showed a look of hesitation. However, she also understood the severity of the wound on her back shoulder. So, Zhou Ruoxi nodded. With a somewhat nervous hand, she untied the sash of her light gauze skirt and pulled her right shoulder clothing down. But she was still wearing a white tight-fitting t-shirt...
Sitting behind her, Wan Yunting could now clearly see the wound on her back shoulder, as her tight-fitting t-shirt had also been cut by the knife, revealing a fifteen-centimeter long gash. Although it wasn't deep, since Zhou Ruoxi hadn't been able to treat the wound, it had become somewhat infected and looked quite serious.
Riiip...
Instantly, Wan Yunting reached out and tore open the opening in Zhou Ruoxi's t-shirt where the knife had cut, causing Zhou Ruoxi's delicate body to tremble. She quickly turned her head, her autumn eyes looking at Wan Yunting with great surprise.
"Senior Sister Zhou, your wound is a bit infected, and I must treat it. Ah, coincidentally, there are a few Blood Draw Grass plants over there..."
Wan Yunting said with a focused expression. At this moment, he completely regarded Zhou Ruoxi as a patient he was treating daily, with no regard for gender. He happened to see a few Blood Draw Grass plants in the grass in the distance, which had disinfecting and hemostatic effects. He struggled to stand up. Zhou Ruoxi only then reacted and quickly said, "Junior Brother Wan, don't move, I'll pick them..."
"It's okay, Senior Sister Zhou, I can still walk a few steps now. You sit down and rest properly."
Wan Yunting staggered towards the Blood Draw Grass plants, preventing Zhou Ruoxi from getting up. He pulled off two Blood Draw Grass plants and slowly returned, sitting behind Zhou Ruoxi. Weak as he was, he took a breath and then tore off the leaves of these Blood Draw Grass plants, chewing them directly in his mouth, saying, "Senior Sister Zhou, please tear off a strip of cloth. I'll bandage your wound later."
"Okay."
Zhou Ruoxi saw him chewing the medicine with his mouth, and she still felt a bit embarrassed, but she didn't say anything. She picked up the hem of her light gauze skirt. She had already torn off a large half of it to bandage Wan Yunting, and if she tore any more, it would almost be a miniskirt.
With a tearing sound, Zhou Ruoxi tore off two strips of cloth for Wan Yunting. He chewed the Blood Draw Grass leaves into a paste and said, "Senior Sister Zhou, I'll apply the medicine now. It will hurt a little, so bear with it."
"Mm, hiss..."
As soon as Zhou Ruoxi nodded, the sharp pain from the wound made her delicate body tremble uncontrollably, but she quickly gritted her teeth and endured it, refraining from making any more sounds...
Wan Yunting's expression was solemn. He carefully and meticulously applied the medicine to her knife wound, then wrapped the cloth strip around her right armpit and asked Zhou Ruoxi to hold the cloth strip and wrap it around her chest...
"All done, Senior Sister Zhou..."
After bandaging her, Wan Yunting smiled and said, "The wound has been treated. Are there any other injuries on you? I'll treat them all at once."
Zhou Ruoxi slowly pulled up her light gauze skirt and turned to smile at him, "No more, Junior Brother Wan. It's just this wound on my back shoulder that I couldn't manage myself. I've treated all other wounds myself."
Wan Yunting nodded, turned his head to look at the suddenly heavy rain. The cold raindrops falling on his body gave him a chilling sensation, and the temperature in the valley had suddenly dropped. Especially the hot spring pool, as rain was added, its temperature also dropped. Thus, the temperature in the entire valley quickly became 8 or 9 degrees Celsius and was still dropping towards zero...
"It's so cold, Junior Brother Wan, put on your daoist robe quickly."
Zhou Ruoxi, sitting by the campfire, could feel the damp cold. She quickly handed the daoist robe to Wan Yunting to put on, while she herself draped her tattered cloak. The two of them leaned against the cliff, basking in the fire, and watched blankly as the rain grew heavier and heavier, wetting the snow hanging on the surrounding trees and causing it to fall as cold water. Even they, hiding under the cliff, couldn't escape. The bonfire was being soaked by the water and was almost extinguished...
"Senior Sister, is that cave over there?"
Wan Yunting saw that this was not a solution. The temperature was still dropping. If they were to spend the night outside, without a fire, they would surely freeze to death.
Zhou Ruoxi nodded and said, "Junior Brother Wan, do you want to go into that cave?"
Wan Yunting looked at the sky that was about to darken and nodded, "The rain is so heavy now, and it will be very cold outside later. We need to go into that cave to take shelter."
Zhou Ruoxi said worriedly, "But I'm afraid there might be dangerous animals inside, like poisonous snakes. Ah, right, when you were unconscious, you were bitten on the neck by a dark green snake!"wΑp.kanshu伍.net
"Ah."
Wan Yunting's expression immediately turned astonished. Zhou Ruoxi, on the other hand, seemed a little embarrassed and pointed to his neck, where two small teeth marks were left, "It's on your neck, right there."
Wan Yunting felt his neck and indeed found two bite marks. He exclaimed, "Was it a poisonous snake?"
Zhou Ruoxi shook her head, "It shouldn't be a poisonous snake. If it were a poisonous snake, you might have already..."
"That's good then."
Wan Yunting also breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking about it, it made sense. Seeing Zhou Ruoxi's embarrassed look, he changed the subject, "Let's go and check out that cave."
"Mm..."
Zhou Ruoxi nodded and got up, wanting to help Wan Yunting up, but he said, "Let me make a torch first..."