Chapter 189: An Old Friend With Red Eyes and White Hair, Is There an Immortal Method in This World?
Bai Xianwu was stunned by Li Mo’s words!
Then her face turned cold again.
The chill in her eyes almost seemed tangible.
A faint cracking sound came from the lake.
The lake water visibly started freezing.
Li Mo did not resist this cold, and soon a layer of white frost appeared on his face.
Now he understood.
This dead woman could freeze a person into a popsicle without deep interaction!
“So how do you plan to capture me?”
Bai Xianwu’s hair danced wildly, her voice icy.
If Li Mo hadn’t had his uses, she would have already killed him.
“Expose the massacre you orchestrated twenty years ago and ruin your reputation.”
“By then, with public opinion pressing, the Hann Emperor would have no choice but to strip you of the general’s position.”
“Without an army of one hundred thousand to rely on, dealing with you becomes much easier.”
This was the line Li Mo had prepared in advance.
He knew that Bai Xianwu would ask him these questions, and he couldn’t avoid answering them.
Bai Xianwu stood by the lake, as cool and elegant as a ghost, and confidently said, “You think you can deal with me this way? Wishful thinking.”
Seven of the ten main generals had been turned into puppets by her.
The other three were supporters left by Bai Yifei.
The situation in the borderlands was entirely under her control.
Even if she were to be removed from her position as general, those people would still obey her every command.
Thus, this position was now of little importance to her.
When Li Mo returned to his residence, the sky was already slightly bright.
He first went back to his room, and the sound of the door opening woke up Fei Yan, who hadn’t slept all night in the adjacent room.
Fei Yan gently moved Yan Lingji’s limbs that were draped over her and sat up.
Li Mo waited in his room for a while, and only when he sensed that the person Bai Xianwu had sent to monitor him had left did he go to the next room.
“Husband.”
Fei Yan came to Li Mo’s side and looked him up and down. She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he was unharmed.
Li Mo felt a wave of emotion in his heart.
Fei Yan’s concern for him was palpable at every moment.
“Didn’t sleep all night?”
Li Mo held Fei Yan’s soft and warm little hand and sat down by the bed.
He had sensed that she had sat up as soon as he returned.
It seemed she had been worrying about him the entire time.
Unlike Yan Lingji, who was still sound asleep on the bed.
This little ingrate didn’t seem worried at all.
It wasn’t that Yan Lingji didn’t care about him.
It was just that she and Fei Yan had different mindsets.
If you can’t help, the best thing to do is not to cause trouble.
You have to take things in stride. At worst, if he dies, I’ll just die with him.
What’s the big deal!
Fei Yan leaned gently against Li Mo’s shoulder and spoke softly.
“I slept, only woke up when husband left.”
Then she looked up at him and asked, “How did your meeting with Bai Xianwu go? Did she notice anything?”
Li Mo pondered, “Probably not. She tested me many times.”
“Did she ask you to do anything?”
Li Mo shook his head and replied, “No, she just called me over tonight to make sure I wasn’t under her mind control.”
“Drunken God” and the puppet technique are quite different.
The former can only control the target for a short period.
Each time, the special flute sound must be used after dark to activate the drug’s effect within the body.
It loses its effect as soon as the sun rises.
It’s far less simple and convenient than the puppet technique.
Bai Xianwu had intended to call Li Mo out tonight to turn him into a fully controlled puppet.
But Fei Yan’s appearance during the day had disrupted her original plan.
The Yin-Yang School also practiced puppet techniques, and Li Mo spent every day with Fei Yan.
Puppets have no emotions.
If Li Mo showed even the slightest difference from before, Fei Yan, the Dongjun of the Yin-Yang School, would notice it.
So, Bai Xianwu dared not act rashly.
Fei Yan nodded lightly, “Given this, her true motives will be exposed the next time she tries to lure you out.”
As soon as the words left her mouth, Yan Lingji’s sleepy voice came from behind them.
“What exactly does she want you to do?”
She was only half awake, disturbed by their conversation.
Her consciousness was awake, but her body was still asleep.
With her eyes closed, she mumbled a question.
Li Mo pursed his lips and said firmly, “It’s definitely not to have my child.”
Yan Lingji snorted with her eyes closed.
“Whether she can have children is still a question.”
After speaking, she stroked her flat belly and mumbled, “Why do I have no movement either?”
Then she reached out and touched Fei Yan’s belly.
Puzzled, she said, “You don’t have any movement either.”
Fei Yan’s face instantly turned red.
She looked up at Li Mo, then lowered her head and softly said, “It’s not that fast, and we might not be that easy to conceive.”
Hearing this, Yan Lingji sat up suddenly.
“Why?”
Fei Yan’s beautiful eyes flickered, and she seemed a little embarrassed.
Li Mo chuckled, “Because of your physique.”
The two of you are so warm that my children are probably getting overheated.
Yan Lingji was not foolish; she understood as soon as she heard those words from him.
“Then wouldn’t we have no one to take care of us in the end?”
Li Mo patted her head to comfort her: “No, in the future, Jing Ni’s children will still call you ‘Little Mother’. There will be someone to take care of us.”
Fei Yan could not help but grin and said to Yan Lingji: “You should focus on your cultivation and not be so playful.”
“Once you reach the Tongshen realm, you will be able to regulate it with Qi.”
She was now just a step away from the Tongshen realm and was already in the process of transformation.
It was not that Yan Lingji lacked talent.
Previously, she did not have a proper cultivation method; a mere fire enchantment technique could only be considered a side path.
Now, with Fei Yan’s guidance, she had made rapid progress.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible for her to reach the ninth grade so quickly.
“The Tongshen realm—I don’t even know if I can live that long,” Yan Lingji said sorrowfully as she hugged Li Mo from behind, resting her chin on him.
Only demonic prodigies like Li Mo and Fei Yan could cultivate so quickly.
Other than the two of them, any known cultivators who reached the Tongshen realm did so at ages of seventy or eighty.
Many experts in the Xiaoyao realm found themselves stuck at a bottleneck unable to breakthrough.
That blockage could last a lifetime, until their life force was exhausted.
Yan Lingji’s words suddenly sent a shock through Li Mo’s heart.
He had never considered this issue before.
But now, Yan Lingji’s casual remark had brought it to his attention.
He and Fei Yan were in the Tongshen realm, with lifespans far beyond those of ordinary people.
And ordinary people naturally included Sister Zi and Humeiren.
Jing Ni was making rapid progress, and Yan Lingji’s talent was not weak.
They had a chance of reaching the Tongshen realm, but it was just a possibility.
What about the others?
Li Mo did not care about their aging appearances.
He cared that one day, they would turn into a mere pile of dirt.
While he would remain as he was.
Li Mo might be a man of many feelings, but he was not heartless.
To see his beloved ones wither away and return to dust would be a torture more painful than death for him in the future.
“What’s wrong?” Yan Lingji noticed the sudden melancholy that arose in him as she hugged him.
She stopped being playful and looked up at him with concern.
Fei Yan also sensed his anomaly and worriedly asked, “Did Bai Xianwu do something to you?”
Li Mo was pulled back to reality by their words.
He shook his head with a smile and said, “Nothing, I was just thinking about how to deal with Bai Xianwu.”
He lifted his hand and caressed Yan Lingji’s warm face.
How could he bear to watch her leave him?
He could not detach himself from love and desire, remaining indifferent to the demise of those at his side.
But this was why he was a normal person.
Otherwise, like Bai Xianwu, if one became an emotionless zombie, living thousands or tens of thousands of years would have no meaning.
In the end, he was just an ordinary person.
Different pursuits lead to different life joys.
Ying Zheng’s pursuit was his ambition and grand vision.
His own pursuit was the blessings of celestial and human happiness.
Their thoughts and pursuits were different.
If he could not even protect his family, how could he protect the world?
Ying Zheng was straightforward.
In his eyes, there was only the world!
The Linglong Tower could preserve a person’s soul, but it was not complete.
There were also many drawbacks to it.
The tower could only be considered a cage for imprisoning souls.
Li Mo wanted them as living beings, not controlling their souls.
“Don’t overthink it. No matter what, Fei Yan will always stay by husband’s side.”
Fei Yan seemed to have understood something, but she chose not to say it outright.
She gently leaned on Li Mo’s other shoulder, speaking softly.
“Don’t worry, I’m fine.”
Li Mo squeezed her hand and smiled to comfort her.
As daylight fully broke, the three of them got ready and went out.
After breakfast, they ran into Bai Xianwu.
“Good morning, General Bai. Have you had breakfast?”
Li Mo greeted her as if he knew nothing about last night’s events.
Bai Xianwu scrutinized him coldly and said, “We should get going.”
Apparently, she wasn’t interested in answering Li Mo’s question.
Li Mo raised an eyebrow.
He had forgotten that the dead don’t need to eat.
They don’t need to drink water either.
So, they don’t need to urinate.
By this logic, do they also not have periods?
Hence, one could conclude that this dead woman can’t have children!
Li Mo smiled confidently.
He was really a genius of logic!
Bai Xianwu noticed that he wasn’t angry at her attitude. Instead, he was quite composed.
This made her regard him a bit more highly.
No wonder he became a high-ranking official in the Qin State at such a young age, his mindset was indeed extraordinary.
If she knew that Li Mo was speculating about her ability to have children, she would probably think differently.
They were two days away from Xinzhen.
To be precise, two days and one night.
They would reach Xinzhen before dark tomorrow.
During the day, they traveled in the carriage, and at night they still slept separately from Fei Yan and the others.
Li Mo was content whether he had meat to fill his belly or not.
Moreover, even if he could physically endure it, he had to let the two women rest.
Although they say, only cows die from overwork, not the fields.
But even cows can’t plow every day!
On the third day at dusk, Li Mo was suddenly pulled out of his thoughts by Yan Lingji’s voice.
“Look, it’s that village. Jing Ni said she met that guy there,” Yan Lingji said, lifting the curtain and pointing out to Fei Yan.
“I lived there before. Jing Ni wouldn’t let me leave, nearly bored me to death,” Fei Yan said, looking in the direction pointed out.
The village wasn’t big, with only a few dozen households.
After looking at the desolate village, she turned to Li Mo.
For a moment, she felt a bit envious of Jing Ni.
“Did you all live there together before?” Fei Yan asked.
Yan Lingji shook her head while resting her chin on her hand. “No, it was just me.”
“Jing Ni secretly took me in at that time. It wasn’t until he suddenly came to get something from the old house that we met,” she added, as if she remembered something.
Her eyes suddenly lit up.
She leaned closer to Li Mo and asked seriously, “Be honest, did you peek at me bathing that time?”
Yan Lingji had always wondered how Li Mo knew she was a White Tiger.
Now she had an answer.
This guy was sneaky; he didn’t need to use his eyes to look at people.
Even walls couldn’t block his senses!
It must have been when she was bathing that he sensed it!
Li Mo touched his chin but didn’t deny it.
“Who told you to bathe in broad daylight, almost spilling water on me,” he said.
Yan Lingji suddenly jumped onto his lap, grabbing his ears angrily, “Alright, then when I moved in with you
did you watch every day?”
Li Mo scoffed disdainfully, “With so little to see, I wouldn’t bother looking every day.”
He actually didn’t peep every day.
There’s no point in looking if you can’t enjoy it.
It was better not to look than to be tempted.
Fei Yan looked at the two of them playfully.
But suddenly, her face changed too.
If Li Mo could sense Yan Lingji bathing, wouldn’t he have also seen her when they stayed at the same place in Xianyang?
Thinking of this, Fei Yan’s cheeks turned red.
This kind of ability, who could guard against it?
Riding at the front, Bai Xianwu heard the commotion from the carriage behind and glanced coldly back.
At that moment, the carriage curtain was suddenly lifted.
Yan Lingji stuck her head out and called for a stop.
The carriage slowed down, and the long convoy stopped as well.
“What’s the matter?”
Bai Xianwu turned her horse and looked at the three who had gotten off the carriage.
Li Mo smiled and said, “My lady wants to check out the village.”
Yan Lingji, stirred by memories, insisted on visiting the old house.
She was actually bored in the carriage and wanted some fresh air.
Bai Xianwu looked at him impassively.
“No,” she replied.
Yan Lingji tilted her head: “What if I insist on going?”
“I say no.”
Bai Xianwu’s words left no room for negotiation, not even an explanation.
Yan Lingji wanted to say something, but Li Mo suddenly reached out and grabbed her.
He stepped forward and said, “I am notifying General Bai, not asking for your permission.”
After speaking, he pulled Yan Lingji and walked towards the village.
Bai Xianwu instantly narrowed her eyes, a cold light flashing in her eyes.
“Follow them,” she coldly instructed the two generals beside her.
The two puppets acted entirely according to her orders, following at a distance along with some soldiers.
Li Mo’s former residence was at the far end of the village.
As they entered the village, they quickly attracted the attention of the villagers.
“That blind man looks familiar?”
“Yes, I think he looks familiar too. Haven’t we seen him somewhere before?”
It was dinnertime, and the sky was getting dark.
Most people couldn’t afford to light oil lamps.
They were all squatting at their doorsteps with bowls of food.
Seeing Li Mo accompanied by two fairy-like women and a group of officers, the villagers cast curious glances at them.
“Hey, I remember now. Isn’t that the blind man who used to live at the end of the village and moved away?”
“With beauties and guards, this blind man has made it big!”
Someone suddenly said this, sparking a wave of discussion.
Li Mo brought Yan Lingji and Fei Yan to their former residence.
He hadn’t brought the key to the old house and was about to break in.
Suddenly, a middle-aged man came running up.
He humbly bowed and said, “Sirs, sirs, I am the village head. I have met the sirs.”
Li Mo paused his action of breaking the door down.
He put down his leg and frowned: “You are the village head? Wasn’t it Uncle Li before?”
The middle-aged village head smiled and said, “Yes, yes, it was indeed Uncle Li before, but he fell ill and passed away before the end of the year.
So I took over his position.”
Li Mo’s expression suddenly changed!
“Passed away?”
The old village head had saved him, and before leaving, he had a sent some money to him through Jing Ni.
He had planned to bring him to Qin to enjoy a good life after dealing with Bai Xianwu.
Unexpectedly, he now heard the news of his passing.
After paying respects to the late village head, Li Mo returned to the carriage feeling lost.
Yan Lingji and Fei Yan noticed his low mood and lost interest in going back to the old house.
The carriage continued to move.
Li Mo sat by the window in silence for a long time.
Suddenly, he asked softly, “Fei Yan, do you think there is a way to live forever in this world?”
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