13: Burrowing rat

"Please, Fairy Sister, just help me this once, please, please~"

Wang Feng clasped his hands together, begging Jiang Hanxi. At this moment, Wang Feng seemed to have suddenly thought of something.

Then he said with a grin, "Fairy Sister, I suppose you still can't cook, right?"

Based on Wang Feng's eight lifetimes of understanding of Jiang Hanxi, it would be a ghost if this woman could cook.

She rarely even consumed those heavenly materials and earthly treasures. With her current cultivation, she would definitely be hungry.

Jiang Hanxi was stumped by Wang Feng's question. She indeed could not cook.

She naturally knew what Wang Feng meant by saying this.

"Fairy Sister, are you going to eat the meat of this horse-sheep raw? That won't do; it will be especially fishy if eaten raw."

Wang Feng's words carried a hint of a challenge. Seeing Jiang Hanxi deep in thought, Wang Feng did not disturb her.

She was an Empress after all; she wouldn't be so foolish as to not understand such simple words from him.

"Think about it, since you originally came out to hunt demonic beasts, and the trapped hunting party might be facing a large demonic beast."

"When you kill it, I'll cook for you. Saving the hunting party is just a A handy thing (a matter of convenience). Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"

Seeing Jiang Hanxi subtly wavering, Wang Feng pressed on.

This was a powerful, free helper; he absolutely could not let her go.

"Follow me."

Jiang Hanxi was finally swayed. At her current realm, she still needed to eat.

Moreover, she really wanted to eat those fragrant roasted meats and other foods again.

Having never eaten such things before, her previous taste had left her wanting more.

Although pills could increase cultivation, their taste was truly too unique.

Looking at Jiang Hanxi's retreating figure, Wang Feng's heart filled with joy. This meant she agreed.

It seemed he didn't even need to look for the mark, after all, Jiang Hanxi had said last night that a group of people were trapped in a certain place.

Even if that group of people wasn't the hunting party, it didn't matter. He would save those beneficial to him, and for those harmful to him, he would directly tell Jiang Hanxi to kill them and then collect their bodies.

Wang Feng followed behind Jiang Hanxi and arrived outside a cave.

Wang Feng looked at the large hole at his feet and asked Jiang Hanxi with an uncertain tone, "Is this it?"

"Mm."

Jiang Hanxi responded, then jumped down without another word. Wang Feng scanned the surroundings outside before following her down.

What he didn't know was that a Gathering Spirit Realm Tree Leopard, whose skin was almost indistinguishable from tree bark, was quietly watching them jump into the cave from a tree.

The Tree Leopard raised its paw and licked it, then smoothed its fur, resting its head between its paws and feigning sleep...

Down below, Jiang Hanxi, who had landed first, saw Wang Feng rapidly plummeting towards her from above, and quickly dodged out of the way.

"Ah~! Fairy Sister, help!"

Wang Feng yelled frantically in mid-air, hoping Jiang Hanxi would catch him, but obviously, he was overthinking it.

Bang!

Dust flew everywhere. Wang Feng stood up, clutching his backside in pain. His comical appearance caused a slight change in Jiang Hanxi's expression.

But in an instant, she reverted to her cold demeanor. It was unclear whether she had been about to laugh or felt some other emotion just now.

"Hiss~, cough, cough, cough!"

Wang Feng rubbed his backside and inhaled sharply, but instead, he inhaled a mouthful of dust and started coughing violently.

He was in a posture where one hand clutched his throat, coughing madly, while the other clutched his backside, unsure which place to attend to first.

Jiang Hanxi unleashed a burst of cold wind from her hand, dispersing the dust around Wang Feng, and he finally stopped coughing.

Instead, he shivered for a while from the cold, then finally returned to normal after circulating the Chaotic Overlord Body Technique.

Only then did they have time to survey their surroundings. There were dense, intricate passages, no fewer than ten visible from where they stood.

Wang Feng and Jiang Hanxi instantly thought of the Drilling Rat. This type of demonic beast loved to dig incredibly complex tunnels, and it could clearly remember the paths of its own tunnels.

It especially liked to lure prey into its tunnels to kill them, as if the tunnels it dug were like an illusion array.

No wonder the hunting party from the village couldn't return; it was clearly trapped by the Drilling Rat.

However, its cultivation should not be higher than the hunting party's captain, after all, the mission still had more than a day left.

"Stay close to me."

Jiang Hanxi said, then drew her Cold Sword, casually picked a passage, and walked in. Wang Feng quickly followed.

The Cold Sword began to tremble again upon seeing Wang Feng. Jiang Hanxi could only inwardly instruct the Cold Sword.

She told it that Wang Feng was not a bad person and to stop acting like that.

When the Cold Sword heard Jiang Hanxi say that Wang Feng was not a bad person, it almost directly shook Jiang Hanxi's hand away.

However, it then obediently stopped trembling.

But the Cold Sword's abnormal reaction also made Jiang Hanxi carefully examine Wang Feng.

An indescribable emotion surged in her eyes.

Wang Feng was calculating the cultivation of the Drilling Rat based on the number and area of these passages. This stinky rat should be around the Body Tempering Ninth Layer.

As he looked, he met Jiang Hanxi's gaze. He was all too familiar with her scrutinizing look.

This Jiang Hanxi was definitely thinking about something again.

Bang!

Just then, the passage they had entered through was suddenly blocked by a giant boulder.

"This stinky rat."

Wang Feng cursed, then stepped forward and punched the giant boulder. With a thud, his fist went in, but it didn't shatter the boulder, showing how tightly and thickly it was blocking the way.

"Keep going deeper."

Jiang Hanxi called Wang Feng back, and the two casually picked another passage and entered.

Rumble!

A giant boulder flew down from above. Jiang Hanxi split it with a sword. When she looked up, she only saw a rat's backside scurrying back into the hole, chattering.

"You old six, this stinky rat!"

Wang Feng cursed angrily. Seeing Jiang Hanxi walk further away, he quickly followed. The two rapidly darted through the passages.

Along the way, boulders, foul odors, venom, trash, and other things all assailed them.

The most outrageous was a pile of feces that flew over, thankfully not hitting them.

Wang Feng got angry. Under Jiang Hanxi's astonished gaze, he tore off a piece of his clothing.

He then wrapped up a pile of feces from the ground and carried it with him.

Jiang Hanxi immediately moved at least three meters away from him. Did this man have some special fetish?

Wang Feng saw her strange look, and his mind abruptly thought of the cow dung hotpot from Blue Star.

His mind twitched, and he quickly explained, "I'm not taking this to eat, I'm..."

"Mm, I know you're not taking this to eat. Besides, I didn't say you were taking it to eat."

Jiang Hanxi interrupted Wang Feng's words. This time, she was even more certain that Wang Feng might have a special fetish.

She hadn't even spoken, and this man started explaining, and his explanation was about eating.

It was over; he couldn't explain it clearly now.

"Oh, you'll know in a moment."

Seeing that Jiang Hanxi wasn't listening to his explanation, Wang Feng decided to show her with his actions later.

The two ran through a few more passages. Finally, in one spot, the Drilling Rat dug another hole from above, preparing to throw stones at them.

Wang Feng listened to the rustling sounds inside the wall, secretly gathering Chaotic Spiritual Power in his hand.

With a pop, the wall broke open.

A rat's head emerged, just about to throw a stone at them, but Wang Feng's movements were faster.