Chapter 4: Sneak Attack!

  Xuanyuan plunged into a small stream not far from the tree house.

  Gu Xing was guarding the items on the bank of a small stream, a set of hemp clothes for changing into, a bottle of wound medicine emitting a cool breath, and a rusty, pitch-black dagger.

  Xuanyuan took off the dirty clothes on his body in the small stream, and let them drift away with the current. Then he swam in the water like a fish.

  After a while, Xuan Yuan finally washed his body clean and got ashore stark naked. He grabbed the bottle of wound medicine that Yin Zhenluo had given him, opened the cap, and a refreshing breath rushed straight to his forehead, making Xuan Yuan feel extremely comfortable, as if smelling this breath could make his injuries much better.

  Xuanyuan applied a small amount of the healing medicine to his chest, where that gruesome wound was. The scabbed wound, which still had some bloodstains on it, slowly began to fall off.

  Xuan Yuan was extremely surprised at this scene.

  "My goodness, what kind of medicine is this? It's so potent!"

  Xuanyuan understood that being alone in this world, such a top-grade healing medicine could not be wasted at all. Every single drop was sometimes the key to saving one's life!

  Xuan Yuan was very frugal and only sprinkled a little of the medicine on several larger, more solid wounds. After that, he quickly put on his spare clothes, carefully hiding the bottle of healing medicine in a secret pocket inside his garment. Having done all this, Xuan Yuan rushed towards the tree house, shouting excitedly in his heart.

  "Beautiful master, I'm here..."

  Xuanyuan was just a middle school student after all, although he had been begging since childhood and had seen the coldness and warmth of human nature, the ups and downs of the world. At first glance, he could tell whether someone was good or bad. What is a beggar? A beggar is someone who begs for food every day. Occasionally, Xuanyuan would chat with a fortune teller, so he also learned some face-reading skills. He had no guard against Yin Zhenluo at all.

  Because on the one hand, Xuan Yuan believed in his own feelings, and on the other hand, in Xuan Yuan's view, a woman like Yin Zhenluo who wanted to kill him would only need one finger, but the other party actually agreed to teach himself to cultivate, which was a great kindness, he didn't dare to doubt anything.

  The sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it's just near dusk.

  A patch of sunset glow filtered through the tree window and spilled into the room.

  In the depths of a pit in the center of the treehouse, on a barbecue rack, a whole string of roasted suckling pigs was strung up, apparently Xuan Yuan's masterpiece. Having obtained the memories of his past life, he naturally did these things with ease. Various natural seasonings were sprinkled on top, and the aroma of meat that made people salivate wafted through the treehouse.

  On the other side, Gu Xing had already been drooling for a long time. Yin Zhenluo was sitting cross-legged on the ground, watching Xuan Yuan with great interest, and said slowly:

  "It doesn't show, but your craftsmanship is quite good."

  Xuanyuan glanced at Yin Zhenluo and smiled confidently:

  "Of course, definitely better than you."

  Yin Zhenluo was furious. What status did she have? These things didn't need her to do them, of course. She coldly snorted and directly stopped speaking.

  Xuanyuan smiled and didn't mind, after doing all this, Xuanyuan picked up the rusty dagger in his hand, cut the meat like mud, and carved the tenderest and most delicious part onto a wooden plate, handed it to Yin Zhenluo, and said with a smile:

  "Beautiful master, this is to show respect for you."

  Yin Zhenluo looked at Xuan Yuan's smiling face, although Xuan Yuan's appearance wasn't the type that was particularly handsome, but when he smiled, it gave people a special feeling of being exceptionally clean and pleasant to look at.

  "This is just right." Although Yin Zhenluo had already cultivated to a certain extent, she hadn't reached the point where she could go without eating or drinking. Now that there was delicious food in front of her, she naturally wouldn't resist.

  At the time of filial piety, Xuan Yuan's eyes still involuntarily drifted to Yin Zhenluo's collarbone, his heart pounding, Xuan Yuan took a deep breath and quickly gathered his thoughts, immediately shifting his gaze, and more firmly established his inner conviction.

  "Xuanyuan, Xuanyuan, from now on you must find a wife like Master Yin Zhenluo, so you must work hard to cultivate yourself. Otherwise, you won't even be able to defeat a woman and will lose face."

  She took the wooden plate from Xuan Yuan's hand, focusing her attention on the delicious food in front of her, Yīn Zhēn Luò. She was completely unaware of Xuan Yuan's gaze, nor did she know what he was thinking in his heart.

  Yin Zhenluo took out a small silver knife from her body, cut out a thin slice of meat, put it in her mouth, and chewed slowly, feeling extremely delicious.

  It wasn't until she looked at Xuan Yuan that she found Xuan Yuan and Gu Xing were sharing dried meat, Yin Zhen Luo was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion:

  "Why are you eating those dried meats? Isn't freshly baked meat better?"

  Xuanyuan still had a smiling face.

  "Today is considered my apprenticeship to you, of course, I have to treat the beautiful master to a good meal. Originally, this small wild boar was enough for me and Gu Xing to eat for two days. If we ate frugally, it could last even longer. Because in the magical beast forest, powerful magical beasts often appear, and not every day can we successfully hunt prey. The dried meat that Gu Xing and I eat is also the same."

  After finishing, Xuan Yuan broke the dried meat in his hand into two halves and shared it with Gu Xing. As they started eating, Yin Zhen Luo suddenly felt a pang of bitterness, thinking that her own family environment was much better than Xuan Yuan's.

  "Hmm, Xuan Yuan, what about your parents?"

  Xuanyuan stopped chewing on the dried meat for a moment when he heard Yin Zhenluo's words, and a hint of desolation flashed in his eyes. Whether it was his past life or this one, he had always been an orphan without parents. After a pause, Xuanyuan finally spoke:

  "I am an orphan with no parents, only the lonely star and the lonely moon. However, the lonely moon was killed by Yue Jue, the son of the lord of Moon Desolate City, not long ago."

  Yin Zhenluo looked at the desolation in Xuan Yuan's eyes, and her heart suddenly felt a pang of sadness. She let out a soft sigh, but didn't say anything else.

  Xuanyuan was gnawing on dried meat while watching Yin Zhenluo eat, every move, every chew, was slow and elegant, giving people a feeling of refinement, flawless.

  It wasn't clear how much time had passed, but the sky had already darkened. A patch of moonlight filtered through the tree window and spilled onto the center of the tree house. Yin Zhenluo sat cross-legged with her eyes closed, and under the illumination of the moonlight, she seemed like a celestial maiden from the heavens, detached from the world, unapproachable by any ordinary being. Xuan Yuan looked at her in a daze.

  For a moment, Xuan Yuan seemed to be enjoying this quiet feeling, if only it could last forever, just quietly watching...

  Yin Zhenluo opened her beautiful eyes and looked at Xuan Yuan with a dazed expression, pointing to the roasted suckling pig in front of her, saying:

  "Make it into dried meat, you eat what I eat, no need to prepare specially, from tomorrow on, cultivation begins."

  Xuanyuan drooled and nodded his head.

  Yin Zhenluo glared at Xuan Yuan with a mixture of anger and amusement, then stood up and walked step by step to the edge of the tree bed, lay down, and said:

  "Rest, I'll sleep on the bed, you sleep on the floor."

  Xuanyuan wiped his mouth and nodded hastily:

  "It's already good enough that I didn't have to sleep outside!"

  "Besides, since you've already made me your master, I'll set a rule first." Yín Zhēn Luò lay on the wooden bed, sideways, with a pair of bright big eyes, under the moonlight's reflection, gentle as water, making Xuán Yuàn infatuated again.

  "Starting from tonight, you can sneak up on me at any time and in any situation. If you succeed, do whatever you want."

  Yin Zhenluo's smile is as beautiful as a flower, stunningly beautiful.

  Xuanyuan heard this, and his eyes flashed with excitement. His body trembled, and he drooled profusely, like a starving wolf, as he pounced on Yin Zhenluo.

  "This isn't an ambush, it's clearly a suicidal charge."

  Yin Zhenluo silently sighed, her jade finger lightly plucked a strong gust of wind that directly hit Xuan Yuan's forehead, sending him flying out. He rolled on the ground three or four times, extremely disheveled.

  The lone star did not roar as before, but instead let out a threatening voice towards Yīn Zhēn Luò, with a hint of schadenfreude in his wolf-like eyes.

  Xuanyuan was not reconciled, and that night, Xuanyuan stealthily attacked Yin Zhenluo seventeen times. Each time, he didn't even touch Yin Zhenluo's hair, and the outcome was too miserable to look at.