Chapter 52 - You Like Me
"Regarding the Sorrowful River Blood Pool inside your body, do you have any solution?"
"......"
Su Huanhuan stared into Luo He's eyes, then slowly said:
"I do. I plan to refine it myself, although I can't do it right now."
"A more specific plan?"
"Very simple. I mentioned before, to make the Sorrowful River one's own requires two conditions: one is the aptitude of a Sect Master, the other is to refine its resentment qi."
"But the essence of these two conditions is simply to be able to suppress the Sorrowful River and obtain its submission."
Su Huanhuan looked at her own chest, which was constantly in scorching pain, then looked at Luo He to the side.
"I already have the Demonic Seed you gave me back then inside my body. As long as I find a few more things... I'll have a way to make the Sorrowful River feel a sharp pain, to let it know who the real boss is."
"This is my plan, and also the reason why I snatched this Sorrowful River from that dog thing Si Yu in the first place."
"Alas, doesn't that mean you actually didn't need to carry this thing on you and torture yourself."
"Heh... This young lady was just born loving to do things that harm others without benefiting myself."
Facing Luo He's light sigh, Su Huanhuan just smiled.
"That Si Yu dared to have designs on me; how could I possibly not let him have a taste of having his treasure snatched away?"
"He wanted to use me as a sacrifice, so I insisted on smashing all his schemes to pieces. For this, even suffering a bit is worth it."
"Because people, ah, are just that contemptible."
"If they don't take a heavy blow, they'll never learn their lesson."
"I want to make him understand clearly just who he provoked..."
The leaping flames were reflected in Su Huanhuan's bright red pupils, making her gaze somewhat difficult to fathom.
Luo He remained noncommittal about the ruthlessness and vengefulness in her words, merely nodding his head.
"Then what a coincidence, I can help you."
"So, what is this business you spoke of?"
Facing Su Huanhuan's somewhat hesitant question, Luo He replied calmly:
"As a ghost spirit now, I need to absorb the vitality of the living."
"But for one, I am unwilling to act against mortals, and for another, I am unwilling to engage in petty thievery. So I thought of finding a cultivator willing to provide me with vitality to travel together as a companion."
"The amount I need to survive is but a drop in the ocean for a cultivator."
"And as repayment, I will, on the premise of not going against my own will, help you achieve your goals as much as possible."
"Including, but not limited to, assisting you in cultivation, facing enemies with you, or other such matters... Mm, you can just consider it as having a ring-spirit old grandpa from a storybook along with you.”
"Besides that, there's one more thing I only recently discovered... Let me inside for a moment first."
Returning once again into Su Huanhuan's body, Luo He began to circulate the Remnant Moon heart method.
Su Huanhuan felt a little person appear in her spiritual platform.
Her expression was somewhat puzzled, somewhat hard to describe, but afterwards... it immediately transformed into a shock that pierced her understanding.
Su Huanhuan's dantian was actually being activated by Luo He, and was currently absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy at a quiet yet extremely terrifying speed.
Even that Demonic Sarira began to slowly revolve along with Luo He's circulation of his cultivation, further boosting this frantic absorption speed…
Clearly, Luo He's Remnant Moon heart method was still something she had taught him, and the Demonic Sarira had also been in her body for six years.
Why couldn't she do it!
In just a few breaths of time, Su Huanhuan's originally extremely barren dantian instantly recovered by twenty to thirty percent. Even though the speed slowed down later, it was still a level she herself was far from able to achieve.
Even the progress of her realm cultivation had quickened by several degrees.
This, is this the difference in talent...
"Right now I am parasitic in your spiritual platform and can hear your inner voice, so be a bit mindful."
"!!"
"Don't panic, I can only hear the most superficial of your inner thoughts... Alright, the main point I want to make isn't the speed of absorbing spiritual energy."
"But rather time. This means that as long as I am inside your body, you will have an automatic cultivation machine."
"You can free up this time to do other things, or to rest, which is equivalent to you having much more disposable time than other cultivators."
"This point is very precious."
As soon as Luo He's voice fell, he also stopped circulating his cultivation and came out of Su Huanhuan's body.
Su Huanhuan stared at him blankly, only feeling that her head was currently brainstorming.
To be able to increase one's cultivation just by lying down—this was sleep talk that others would only laugh at if they heard it.
But if it could come true, which cultivator wouldn't want it to come true?
And today, for her, Su Huanhuan, it seemed like it was about to come true.
As for having her slightest thoughts heard... Su Huanhuan actually didn't mind; she had nothing to hide from him in the first place.
Although she had repeatedly presented an image of being skilled in scheming and extremely cautious, she actually didn't mind being open and honest with each other.
She even vaguely looked forward to this feeling of trust and entrustment... This was something she had always lacked and longed for.
But, how to put it.
Su Huanhuan felt the benefits for herself were too great, so great that even someone as thick-skinned as her felt a little too embarrassed to accept it all at once.
"You... do you have any interest in this?"
Su Huanhuan looked at Luo He and asked tentatively.
"Interest, you mean... I am equivalent to borrowing your spirit root to cultivate. I can extract a trace of the cultivation gained from circulating the art to strengthen myself."
"However, the efficiency can't be considered high; after all, spiritual power is not my native cultivation resource."
"......”
Su Huanhuan was silent for a good while, staring fixedly at Luo He.
Being stared at by her for half a day without a sound, Luo He thought she was carefully deliberating.
Indeed, after all, he and Su Huanhuan couldn't be said to have a relationship where they knew each other inside and out, one that would last for eternity.
Calculating carefully, it was no more than "you help me once, I help you once"; by now, all favors were cleared up.
No matter what, this involved letting Luo He enter and exit a place that was a cultivator's gate of life and death.
With her cautious and meticulous nature, needing to properly consider it for a while was also unavoidable.
However, Luo He still very much hoped she would agree.
One reason was that it was very convenient; he and Su Huanhuan knew each other.
The second reason was... he truly did want to help her out a bit.
She wasn't a good person, but she was a cute person.
Luo He felt that cute people should, after all, be worthy of a cute ending.
Since waking up in the bamboo forest, Luo He had been constantly thinking about what he wanted to do.
Besides seeing the multicolored splendors of this world, letting Su Huanhuan always be that cute Su Huanhuan, without being changed by some other things.
This was perhaps also something he wanted to do.
"That is to say..."
Finally, Su Huanhuan spoke again.
She took a deep breath, an inscrutable smile on her face:
"You can help me cultivate, help me face enemies."
"Correct."
"Can accompany me to complete my goals, protect my safety."
"Correct."
"Can appear when I need you most, just like before, to help me solve problems?"
"Correct."
"And for this, the repayment you need is just some insignificant vitality, and that little bit of spiritual energy you cultivate yourself but can't fully utilize?"
"That's right."
"Stupid fox."
Her expression suddenly became somewhat rich, all sorts of emotions intertwining on her face.
Her tone carried a hint of disbelief and expectation, and she then continued to speak:
"You... you don't happen to like me and want me to be your Dao companion, do you?"
"?”