Sword Shatters Stars

Chapter 21 It's Better to Be Human

In his sleep, Lin Xiufeng suddenly heard a sad weeping sound.

"Mom, you'll get better, you'll get better..."

"Don't leave me! Don't abandon me—I promise I'll study even harder and get into the best university! Mom—"

"Dad, get up quickly, Dad, get up quickly..."

Lin Xiufeng felt that her neck and the back of her neck were covered in warm liquid.

It flowed down his back, but became even colder.

Lin Xiufeng woke up with a start, feeling herself being held tightly in a hug, and hearing Zhao Youyue's sorrowful sobs beside her.

'Nightmare...'

"Wake up! Haven't you taken advantage of me enough?"

Lin Xiufeng deliberately shouted loudly.

Zhao Youyue suddenly woke up, unaware that she had murmured in her sleep. She only realized that her face was covered in tears, and as she was worrying, she heard Lin Xiufeng say with obvious disdain:
"Are you kidding me?! You drool in your sleep?! It's drooling all over my neck!"

Zhao Youyue was furious and said angrily:

"Who's drooling in their sleep!"

"No way! No way! If it's not saliva, is it snot?! Don't disgust me!"

"You're the one..." Zhao Youyue choked, and it certainly wasn't tears!

So, suppressing his frustration, he whispered, "It's saliva."

"That's too much of a loss! I'm going to spit on your neck too!"

"Are you crazy?! I didn't do it on purpose!"

Zhao Youyue screamed in fright!
"Then say sorry properly, and I can be magnanimous and not hold it against you."

Lin Xiufeng changed the subject, and Zhao Youyue really wanted to kick this petty guy to death!

But she was in the wrong after all, and she felt that Lin Xiufeng was really capable of doing it, so she had no choice but to say:

"sorry!"

"After all, we're partners, so I won't hold it against you. Normally, I adhere to the principle of equality."

Lin Xiufeng guessed that Zhao Youyue had recovered from the nightmare.

"Yes, yes, you're the most generous! I've never met anyone as generous as you!"

Zhao Youyue was so angry she wanted to bite her teeth.

"Let's get down to business..."

Lin Xiufeng recounted her discovery before going to sleep.

Zhao Youyue immediately put aside all her displeasure and said impatiently:
"Hurry! Break free of these restraints as soon as possible. I don't want to be the armadillo king forever!"

"I don't know how long we've been asleep. If we go out now, there might be a group of people there."

"Then we'll just wait?"

"You can sleep a little longer."

Lin Xiufeng knew that rushing wouldn't help; he had to be patient, as acting rashly would only be dangerous.

Zhao Youyue switched to the Armadillo King's perspective and discovered that its size had shrunk considerably.

"Can you see if it's getting smaller?"

Lin Xiufeng changed her perspective and looked at the situation, then rejected it.

Do we have to move around to burn calories?

Zhao Youyue was unwilling to give up and pondered.

Lin Xiufeng quietly pondered a way to deplete the Armadillo King's Heavenly Martial Power...

Suddenly, a sound came from above.

"There are no traces of the armadillo king rolling down below, so it should still be hiding on the summit."

"As the people behind come up, they will conduct a thorough search! The armadillo king is good at digging holes and hiding, and looking for unusual traces."

Have you re-examined the traces along the edge of the snow-capped peak?

"I've seen it. It looks like it rolled down and made a crater, and it's full of snow."

"Hard work with the Gale Blade and Twin Dragon Sword to search the cliff below, in case the Armadillo King falls down and digs through the ice and snow to hide somewhere on the cliff."

Lin Xiufeng felt that he couldn't hide for much longer.

Once the cliff face and summit area have been searched thoroughly, someone will surely examine the ice and snow in the pits along the cliff edge and discover that they are hiding in the pits.

But it's too early to rush out now.

'Let them waste time and energy; it might take them even longer to find it.'

After a while, someone suddenly shouted from above:
"There aren't any anywhere!"

"They wouldn't have gone down the trail they came from, and instead dug a hole somewhere at the bottom of the mountain to hide, would they?"

"The Armadillo King is a mutated beast! It's not human, so how could it have such a mind?"

Beneath their feet, inside the blue armadillo king Wang Guang in the pit, Zhao Youyue couldn't help but exclaim, "This is a brilliant idea! We didn't think of that before!"

Lin Xiufeng disagreed.

"If we had hidden on the way here, we wouldn't have been able to escape once we were discovered. But from this location, even if we were discovered, we could just tumble off and head straight for the ice cliff."

"You've thought this through so well..." Zhao Youyue felt that Lin Xiufeng was more and more reliable.

Then, some shouts came from above.

"Let someone take another look at the pit on the edge of the cliff!"

"I've seen it..."

"It's alright, I'll go down and take another look."

After the last woman finished speaking, she jumped into the pit at the edge of the cliff.

The shape of the pit bottom looks like it was formed by the impact, tilting outwards towards the cliff, as if it had been thrown out directly.

The pit was filled with ice and snow, as if the edge of the pit had collapsed.

Those who came down earlier made this judgment, and so they went up again.

The woman, with a mindset of complete confirmation, tried to venture into the ice and snow.

We searched everywhere, but couldn't find any trace of excavation.

Zhao Youyue, inside the pit, tensed up, knowing she was about to be discovered, and quickly said:

"Charge out?"

"Wait, let people emerge from the ice and snow before you charge."

Lin Xiufeng figured the people coming down might not be very attentive, so it wouldn't make a difference if he waited a little longer.

Zhao Youyue waited anxiously, hoping for a chance to turn things around.

But after a short while, the snow and ice pile at the entrance of the cave made a sound as people crawled inside!

"There's no escaping it now!"

Zhao Youyue suppressed her nervousness and prepared to curl into a ball and dash forward.

But I was still a little scared. What if I rushed out and got stopped by the Heavenly Warriors before I got far? Then I would be doomed!

Just as he was about to rush out and escape, an idea suddenly flashed through Lin Xiufeng's mind!
"Let's try consciously absorbing the Heavenly Martial Power from the Azure Armadillo King Guang's body!"

"Can you make it?"

Zhao Youyue felt it was worth a try, but she was also afraid of missing the chance to escape.

"It's not too late if you fail."

Lin Xiufeng judged that a little longer wouldn't make a difference; once he rushed out, no Heavenly Martial Soul could stop him.

The snow piled up at the cave entrance was moving, and it was clear that someone was going inside, intending to explore further!

Zhao Youyue quickly aligned herself with Lin Xiufei, absorbing the power of the Heavenly Martial Arts like she was 'eating' in the plaza of the southeast branch of the Linhai Home.

The Heavenly Martial Power within the Azure Armadillo King Guang's body flowed rapidly towards Lin Xiufei's right palm and Zhao Youyue's left palm!
In just three seconds, the azure armadillo king's aura rapidly contracted and then completely disappeared.

Lin Xiufeng and Zhao Youyue sat up in the pit, looked at each other and smiled.

They all said the same thing without prior arrangement:

"It's actually that simple..."

Yes, after struggling with this for so long, the solution turned out to be so simple.

As the two sat up, Lin Xiufeng suddenly grabbed Zhao Youyue's left hand.

Zhao Youyue was taken aback and was about to speak when she saw Lin Xiufeng staring at her palm.

"Is there anything?"

In Lin Xiufeng's eyes, there was half a bead of blue light in his palm.

He looked at his right palm again, and there was half a bead in the center.

'No wonder the Heavenly Martial Power of the Armadillo King's Light Body wasn't absorbed by its body; it was actually absorbed by the Light Orb!'

'The hands were invisible when I was inside the Armadillo King's body, but I've only just noticed them!'

"That cyan light bead, half in your palm and half in mine, I reckon if we put them together it will turn into the Cyan Armadillo King."

"Is it that fun?"

Zhao Youyue was eager to try, but she remembered her current situation.

Just then, a hand reached out from the ice and snow in front of the pit.

Lin Xiufeng immediately cupped Zhao Youyue's face in his hands, placed his thumb in front of her lips, and leaned his head close to hers.

Zhao Youyue was startled and realized that her fingers were between her lips, so she didn't push Lin Xiufei away.

The scene that the woman saw as she emerged from the snow:
It was Lin Xiufeng's slightly swaying back of his head, combined with the distance and movements between him and Zhao Youyue...

It was clearly a passionate kiss!

(End of this chapter)