The Martial God who started at Mantuo Manor

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Her perfectly shaped lips completely swallowed the food that was filled with Wang Meng's flavor.

She didn't chew.

Or rather, Wang Meng couldn't see her chewing at all.

All he could see was a very subtle, blush of pleasure appearing on her fair, beautiful cheeks.

She tilted her perfectly curved neck slightly, and a subtle, incredibly sensual swallowing motion was clearly visible at her throat.

She closed her eyes, her long eyelashes fluttering gently like butterfly wings.

After a few breaths, she slowly opened her phoenix eyes, which could see through people's hearts, and her gaze calmly fell on Wang Meng's face.

With her delicate, clove-like tongue, she gently and slowly scooped up the last glistening, white trace of something from the corner of her mouth and savored it.

Then, her beautiful, otherworldly voice, with a hint of satisfied languor and a languid magnetism, softly rang out: "So many years have passed..."

She smiled slightly, a smile that was breathtakingly beautiful, yet it sent Wang Meng plummeting into an icy abyss.

"...The taste is still the same."

Those words, though seemingly light, struck Wang Meng's already shattered mind like an invisible hammer forged from icy ice.

She turned her head, revealing her phoenix eyes, calm and still as a deep well.

Once again, it landed on Wang Meng.

Wang Meng could sense that the gaze seemed to have a tangible quality.

It wasn't "looking" at him, but rather "examining" him.

Like a skilled pharmacist examining a precious medicinal herb that has just been used, assessing its remaining value.

Then, she moved.

Her body, suspended in mid-air, floated lightly and silently toward the tall bookshelf on one side of the room.

Her movements were so casual, yet so elegant.

Reaching out from the dazzling array of bookshelves, he randomly pulled out a book wrapped in precious brocade.

She casually unwrapped the brocade cloth, her gaze sweeping over it.

Just a glance.

She shook her head slightly, with a barely perceptible hint of disappointment, as if she found it boring.

Then, he casually put the martial arts manual back in its original place, like throwing away a useless rag.

Her attitude was so matter-of-fact, as if to say: What these ordinary people pursue throughout their lives is nothing but trivial, childish scribbles to me.

After doing this, she turned her head again, her unfathomable eyes locking onto Wang Meng once more.

A faint, subtle smile, yet enough to captivate all, curved the corners of her lips.

"take it easy!"

She spoke softly, her voice seemingly possessing a strange magic that caused Wang Meng's muscles, tense from extreme exhaustion, to involuntarily relax slightly.

Then, she said something that made Wang Meng's mind go completely blank.

"I also want to thank you."

Her smile now carried a more genuine and playful undertone.

She hovered in mid-air, watching the man from whom she had drained all her essence, and slowly revealed the mystery in a statement of facts, devoid of any emotion.

"if not you……"

"When I'm possessed by demonic possession, I will kill everyone here."

Wang Meng's Adam's apple bobbed with difficulty, his voice hoarse as if it had been sanded: "You...remembered everything?"

This question was filled with complex meanings that even he himself couldn't quite decipher.

Wang Meng hoped that she would remember and become a communicative and rational being again.

He was also terrified that she would remember, because the version of her that remembered "everything" could be a million times more terrifying than the one that had simply gone mad.

After all... Wang Meng's method of pulling her out of her demonic possession state was rather peculiar.

Li Canghai's body, which was suspended in mid-air, paused slightly.

She nodded slowly.

That was a gesture of affirmation, acknowledging his question.

But then, almost imperceptibly, she shook her head. It was a gesture of denial, contradicting her earlier admission.

She performed these two seemingly contradictory actions—a nod and a shake of the head—with effortless grace, carrying a Zen-like, ineffable mystery.

It's as if it's saying: I remember, but what I remember isn't the "everything" you're thinking of.

Wang Meng's brows furrowed even more deeply.

He couldn't understand it at all.

Is this woman... asleep and confused?

What... a riddle teller has appeared!

Li Canghai, however, did not seem to intend for him to understand.

Her eyes, which seemed to reflect the stars and the universe, fell back on Wang Meng, as if she were looking at an interesting but somewhat naive student.

She parted her cherry lips slightly and asked a completely unrelated question.

Do you know how old I am?

Wang Meng subconsciously shook his head.

How could he know?

Judging from her appearance, she was only in her early twenties, but her seniority and her earth-shattering martial arts skills made her seem like an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years.

Seeing Wang Meng's bewildered expression, Li Canghai laughed.

That smile was no longer the playful and aloof one of before, but rather carried a genuine, ancient quality, a sense of having seen through the vicissitudes of time and... loneliness.

"Up to today..."

Her voice became somewhat ethereal, as if it had traveled from another time and space, through endless years, to reach Wang Meng's ears.

"I'm actually... over three hundred years old!"

"boom!"

A thunderbolt seemed to explode in Wang Meng's mind.

Over three hundred years old?

How can this be?

Even the legendary immortals of the land could not possibly have such a long lifespan, let alone maintain such a young, girlish appearance!

However, before he could recover from this earth-shattering shock, Li Canghai uttered another sentence that plunged him into complete confusion.

“However, if we count from the time I was ‘born’…” She emphasized the word “born,” her tone filled with a strange, intriguing meaning.

"I should only be in my seventies!"

Wang Meng couldn't understand it at all.

What does it mean to say that someone is "actually" over 300 years old?

What does it mean to be over seventy years old "according to birth count"?

What do these two completely contradictory figures and these two completely different time scales mean?

His mind was a complete mess, like a lump of paste that had been stirred up by human hands.

But in the midst of this chaos, a thought, like the coldest icicle, suddenly and fiercely pierced into the deepest and most hidden corner of his heart!

His heart suddenly tightened!

A fear a hundred times stronger than the one he had felt when the three women had ganged up on him, a fear that came from the depths of his soul, instantly gripped his heart!

Could it be... could it be that her so-called "over three hundred years old" refers to another... completely different time system?

She... isn't from this world either?

Once this thought arises, it can never be stopped.

It was like the wildest vine, instantly entangling all of Wang Meng's thoughts.

Then, an even more terrifying conclusion, one that sent chills down his spine, came to mind.

She...she knows she has a cheat code?

She knew that she wasn't a purely "worldly" person either!

What she just said, those contradictory paradoxes about age, wasn't explaining herself at all!

At this moment, Wang Meng truly and deeply felt fear.

But Wang Meng quickly dismissed the idea.

Just before his heart, gripped by fear, was about to stop beating due to excessive tension, Li Canghai uttered another sentence lightly.

A single sentence brought all his chaotic and horrified thoughts to an abrupt halt.

She said, "I'm dying."

These four words are so calm, so natural, as if they were saying "dawn is coming soon," without the slightest sadness or resentment.

Wang Meng was completely stunned.

His muscles, which had been taut like iron from extreme fear, relaxed uncontrollably in an instant.

A tremendous, surviving feeling of exhaustion swept over his entire body.

died?

Is she going to die?

So... what she said just now wasn't meant to enlighten me, nor was it meant to expose my secret.

She was just... a pathetic old monster who started talking nonsense because her time was coming to an end?