Chapter 72

Cheng Nuo was sure that what he touched just now was not an illusion. Bai Rui did grow a small patch of silver scales the size of copper coins on his back. And not only on his back, similar scales appeared on Bai Rui’s waist, arms, and thighs, reflecting a silvery white light under the illumination of the magical artifact.

Cheng Nuo couldn’t help touching them carefully again. The scales were somewhat like jade to the touch, hard and smooth, and colder than body temperature.

He suddenly remembered that Liu Guang had transformed many years ago. Could it be that Bai Rui was also the so-called ancient race? However, Bai Rui was obviously not the same species as Liu Guang.

When he was in Qinghua Sect, he used to read a lot of books, but there was no record of ancient races at all.

Li Yue once said that ancient race people could transform after the age of fifteen. In that regard, Bai Rui had indeed just pa.s.sed his fifteenth birthday…

Seeming to feel his touch. Bai Rui moved his body in his unconscious state. Cheng Nuo quickly retracted his hand guiltily, wiped Bai Rui’s blood-stained body with a soft cloth dipped in water, and changed him into clean clothes.

When Bai Rui was finally settled, he breathed a sigh of relief, closed his eyes and began to cultivate.

The two of them stayed in the cave for nearly a week. Bai Rui was constantly asleep, and his breathing and heartbeat became much slower than before. Those scales on his body were increasing more and more, and some even grew on his neck and cheeks. His ears changed, becoming pointed and long. His ears were obviously Bai Rui’s sensitive spot. When Cheng Nuo’s hands touched his ears, he’d tremble for a while, so Cheng Nuo pinched them when he was bored.

Bai Rui’s current half-human, half-beast appearance was not good-looking, but for some reason Cheng Nuo didn’t find it weird, and he curled up next to him every night. Although Bai Rui’s body temperature was lower than his, it was still warmer to lean on him than to be on his own.

Cheng Nuo was also very worried about Liu Guang. Although he didn’t even know Liu Guang’s birth date, he was clearly almost fifteen years old. If Liu Guang also fell unconscious for so many days, who would guard him? Wouldn’t it be dangerous to be found out…?

What bothered him the most was the relationship between the three of them. It was impossible for him to leave Liu Guang behind, but now… he couldn’t let go of Bai Rui either.

Cheng Nuo smiled bitterly. He simply didn’t want to think about it for now. Now, waiting for Bai Rui to wake up, it was most important for the two of them to find a way to leave this bizarre sealed land first.

After these few days, there was still some food in the storage bag, but water had already run out.

It was clearly impossible to be without water. Cheng Nuo cheered himself up and prepared to go out to find water. It was not safe to leave Bai Rui alone, so he sp.a.w.ned some vines to wrap Bai Rui firmly on his back, removed the stone at the entrance of the cave and walked out.

The surrounding scenery was still a gray and dreary landscape, overgrown with weeds and swarms of wild beasts.

Cheng Nuo jumped onto a tree and looked around cautiously. It had been several days; those ice snakes were probably done. He didn’t want to become snake food.

Somehow, this time he was tired and thirsty after walking a short distance while carrying Bai Rui on his back. Bai Rui seemed to be much heavier than before. Cheng Nuo was puzzled; obviously Bai Rui hadn’t eaten for several days ah, how could he still get fat? Was that also related to the ancient races? Completely inconsistent with the law of conservation of ma.s.s…

Walking around, Cheng Nuo finally saw a shimmering lake in the distance, and his heart was immediately surprised. Compared with this forest covered in mist, this lake was really beautiful.

He didn’t dare to approach rashly, so he first moved on the trees and observed his surroundings for a while, then jumped down after determining that there was no movement. However, Bai Rui felt heavier. He had difficulty mastering his balance mid-air. He fell to the ground, and when he landed, there was a crisp “click” sound under his body. The vine also broke, and Bai Rui was thrown to the other side.

Cheng Nuo hurriedly got up, only to find that his clothes were covered with wet egg liquid. It turned out that an animal egg had been crushed by him. He didn’t think much about it and wanted put Bai Rui on his back again. A chill suddenly struck, and he hurriedly raised his head, meeting a pair of crimson eyes not far away.

After his whole body stiffened for a few seconds, Cheng Nuo finally realized something – what he had just crushed was an ice snake egg!

The ice snake was looking down at him from above, spitting out its tongue, and its huge snake tail whipped the ground angrily.

Cheng Nuo’s heart thumped with fear. He jumped up to hold Bai Rui and started to run. Bai Rui seemed to be heavier again. He couldn’t even leap to the tree with Bai Rui in his arms, so he could only run forward, panting and struggling.

The ice snake quickly chased after him. Its long body formed a circle to surround him in the middle, and its two creepy crimson eyes stared at him angrily.

But the strange thing was that although the ice snake was very angry, it did not leave or approach, as if it was afraid of something.

Cheng Nuo could clearly feel the bone-chilling cold from the ice snake. He was freezing and shivering, clinging to Bai Rui tightly. Cold sweat emerged on his forehead drop by drop. Now what? He was afraid that once he touched any part of the ice snake, he would immediately freeze…

After a long stalemate, the ice snake finally could not resist, and opened its mouth to reveal two sharp fangs, rushing towards Cheng Nuo. Cheng Nuo quickly sp.a.w.ned some plants in front of him to block, but the moment those plants touched the ice snake, they all turned into shattering ice. His body also froze into a popsicle under the oncoming cold, and he could only watch the big mouth get closer and closer to him.

At this moment, Bai Rui in his arms moved, and suddenly let out a long, sharp whistling sound.

Cheng Nuo was shocked and fell to the ground, covering his ears in pain, and the ice snake retracted its neck in shock.

When the place fell silent, Cheng Nuo was surprised to find that the Bai Rui in his arms was gone, and a strange monster was fiercely biting the ice snake!

His mouth opened wide in amazement and he looked at the rags on the ground and his empty hands. That beast… was Bai Rui!?

“It” was about the size of an adult cheetah. It had silver-white scales all over its body, sharp ears, unusually sharp claws on its limbs, and silvery hair on its head and tail. It was somewhat similar to the legendary Qilin*, elegant and beautiful, but it had no horns. Its movements were so fast that it was almost impossible to see clearly. For some reason, the ice snake shrank frightened and remained motionless under its attack. It was quickly torn from its abdomen, and its snake guts were pulled out.

(* Qilin: a creature from Chinese mythology. Here’s the wiki page if you want to know more about it.)

The beast swallowed the snake guts in one bite, proudly raised its silver-white head, and stared at Cheng Nuo with unblinking golden vertical pupils, as if to identify whether he was an enemy.

Cheng Nuo watched in amazement. He didn’t know if Bai Rui, who had become a beast, could still recognize him… If it was the usual Bai Rui, he would definitely not eat raw meat…

The beast approached him step by step with an elegant and slow pace, and his heartbeat became faster and faster.

At this moment, an unfamiliar voice suddenly appeared in his ear, laughing wildly with a gloating tone: “Hahahaha, I didn’t expect to see the purebred BingLi ancient race from the descendants of the Bai family… Be careful, it is now in estrus!”

The voice was quite mature and sensual, as if it was close to his ear. Cheng Nuo looked around in surprise, but found nothing. Before he could recover, the beast pounced on him head on.

Bai Rui retracted his claws and pressed Cheng Nuo’s shoulders with his two front paws. Cheng Nuo was suppressed and couldn’t move at all, but he was not injured. He shouted in panic: “Bai Rui, wake up!”

The current Bai Rui was clearly more beastly. His tongue and teeth curled around his clothes, pulling hard, and a large area of skin on Cheng Nuo’s chest was exposed.

At this time, there was only one thought left in Bai Rui’s chaotic mind. The prey under him was delicious! Really want…

Cheng Nuo’s red face was about to drip blood. The beast was now sticking out its wet tongue to lick his chest non-stop ah! f.u.c.k! You just ate raw meat, okay! Humans beasts have such heavy tastes?! And there was a mysterious third party watching here!

Before he could recover, his pants were also rolled down by Bai Rui and his flexible, warm, rough tongue kept licking his lower abdomen and thighs, making him itchy and numb. His sensitive spots were suddenly touched; Cheng Nuo couldn’t help but let out a few uncontrollable gasps, and he was about to explode with shame.

He desperately kicked and punched the beast on the head, yelling: “Bai Rui! You stop for Laozi!”

The beast clearly didn’t understand what he said, and took the opportunity to turn him over, licking all the way down his sensitive spine from his shoulders. Cheng Nuo could feel that there seemed to be two hard giant things on his b.u.t.tocks. He was pushed forward a little, and the hairs all over his body were about to stand up. The beast was covered with a jade-like warm and slightly cool touch, hot and frightening.

Cheng Nuo was going crazy with fear, not caring about his image anymore, and his voice was out of tune when he hissed loudly: “Stop! Help! Bai Rui, you beast! Help!!!”

Bai Rui was usually so indifferent and calm, but now that he had become a beast, he was more beastly than actual beasts!

The voice sounded again, laughing wildly as if watching a comedy: “Hahaha…fun, fun, fun. You can hold on. Don’t die.”

Hearing this voice again, Cheng Nuo was almost mad, twisting his waist and turning around desperately. The beast began to lick his face again, and the wet saliva covered his face, and those disharmonious parts began to rub against him indiscriminately. Cheng Nuo was about to burst into tears. It would be miserable to die if he went on like this!

He yelled, “Which senior is it? Help! Help!!”

“Well… dying would indeed not be fun.” The voice murmured. “This should be the first time he has transformed, right? Just let him e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.e.”

… e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.e?

Cheng Nuo looked down with difficulty, and suddenly his face almost fumed – a beast’s was indeed more exaggerated and scary than a human male’s…

He took a deep breath and plucked up the courage to use his two hands to hold them. The beast clearly stiffened for a moment, and then obediently lay down and exposed his abdomen to let him do it.

Cheng Nuo gritted his teeth angrily. Bai Rui, this b.a.s.t.a.r.d!

He ignored the problem of his exposed b.u.t.tocks. He quickly rubbed with his hands vigorously. The beast stretched out his limbs to embrace him, but it seemed as if he was afraid of hurting him and didn’t dare to hold him, but just tilted his head and stared unblinkingly at him with those golden vertical pupils, panting softly with his mouth open.

Cheng Nuo seemed to see Bai Rui’s shadow in those big golden eyes, and after the thought popped into his mind, he quickly hung his head while mechanically doing it, his ears smoking. G.o.d bless that Bai Rui won’t have memory of this. He hadn’t figured out what to do in the future, so he made such a shameful scene.……

f.u.c.k, this d.a.m.n beast in heat!

After doing it for a long time, Cheng Nuo was panting from exhaustion, and his wrists were sore.

The beast narrowed his eyes but it felt very comfortable, cooperating with the incessant rubbing of his hands, his movements becoming faster and faster. Cheng Nuo was out of breath and said: “b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Laozi’s hands are going to be ruined!”

As if understanding his complaint, the beast accelerated his movements, then let out a low growl, his body suddenly tensing.

Cheng Nuo’s tired hands were spasming. He looked down at his hands stained with the strange liquid, his entire body not feeling very good.

The beast seemed tired after venting and fell to the ground. Then Cheng Nuo watched ‘it’ dumbfounded; just like magic, the scales on his body slowly faded, his pointed ears disappeared, and his limbs regained their human adult appearance.

The naked Bai Rui was like a satisfied child, sleeping peacefully on the ground, and standing right next to him is his naked self!

Cheng Nuo burst into tears; no, there was a third party hidden somewhere peeping at the show.