"Cough cough... Holy crap, it's so cold!"
Jiang Luoxue fell into the icy pool and choked, swallowing two mouthfuls of water. She shivered from the cold and couldn't help but utter a curse word before realizing she was still alive.
She was overjoyed, as excited as if she had suddenly won the lottery.
She thought she was going to die, but unexpectedly there was a deep pool at the bottom of the cliff that saved her life.
Hahaha!
This can be considered a way of saying that she was destined to survive!
Before she could even finish celebrating, she felt a murderous aura approaching.
What the hell!
It's another case of the man dying after playing the victim!
Is this ever going to end?
Jiang Luoxue mentally complained, but dared not stop. She leaned to the side, narrowly avoiding a fatal blow, and swam quickly to safety.
Turning around and standing on the water's surface, she saw a man wearing a demon mask and with his upper body bare, standing in the center of the cold pool.
As for the lower body!
She glanced down instinctively.
Hmm! It's hidden in the water and can't be seen.
Ye Xuanchen's expression darkened when he saw her movements, and he instinctively hid himself in the water.
Struggling to suppress the metallic taste rising in his blood from using his inner energy, he asked in an icy voice, "Who sent you to assassinate this general!"
"If you dare to utter a single lie, I will kill you right now."
Jiang Luoxue looked up and, through the two holes in the mask, saw the man staring at her with a look as if she were a dead person; his aura was quite frightening.
Without a doubt, this is the person who just ambushed her.
Jiang Luoxue was furious.
Damn it!
This grown man stripped naked in broad daylight and is even bullying a weak woman.
It's obviously not a good thing.
She sneered, "Heh! General!"
She looked at him up and down dismissively and said, "He's putting on quite a show."
"Is this world really this chaotic? A perverted exhibitionist, a scumbag who uses despicable means to hurt people behind their backs, dares to impersonate a general. It's laughable."
Jiang Luoxue wiped the water off her face and realized that her aura was not as strong as her opponent's. She immediately tried to straighten her body and raise her aura, wanting to suppress her opponent's arrogance.
Ye Xuanchen: "...!"
He's a pervert!
Exhibitionist!!
You despicable person!
This woman, who looks like a water ghost, dares to curse me like that; she really doesn't know what's good for her.
In his anger, he disregarded the doctor's warning that practicing internal energy would worsen the poison's effects.
He raised his hand and attacked the woman.
Jiang Luoxue was always on guard against him.
Seeing the man attack, she immediately used modern martial arts to counter him.
Fortunately, the cold pool water temporarily suppressed the effects of the medicine in her body, so it didn't affect her fighting much.
In addition, although her opponent possessed internal energy that she lacked, he didn't seem particularly powerful, so she could manage to hold him off for the time being. (Actually, the male protagonist was affected by the alluring poison, which reduced his power by more than half.)
The two fought evenly, one using modern martial arts and the other using ancient martial arts, and after a few moves they were evenly matched.
In the midst of the fierce battle, Jiang Ruoxue heard the sound of many footsteps and shouts coming towards her from outside.
Upon hearing footsteps, the man hurriedly went to retrieve his clothes from the shore, clearly not wanting anyone to see him in his current state.
Jiang Luoxue had a sudden inspiration. She quickly stepped forward, snatched the man's clothes, rolled them into a ball right under his nose, and threw them far away with a "whoosh".
"court death!"
Ye Xuanchen was furious. He tried his best to slap the woman who threw his clothes away, and at the same time, he flew up to pick up the clothes.
Jiang Luoxue was worried that if he put on his clothes and met up with the people outside, she would definitely be doomed.
To save her own life, she quickly chased after him and, without thinking, reached out and grabbed the only piece of clothing on the man's body, tearing it off forcefully.
Hiss!
Jiang Luoxue clutched the torn piece of underwear and saw the man's white bottom. Her first reaction was... well... they were quite white!
Ye Xuanchen was gathering his Qi when he suddenly felt a chill on his bottom. Sensing something was wrong, he instinctively looked down and saw himself completely naked.
His head suddenly exploded with a "buzz".
That damn woman!
Who's the real scoundrel here?!
Afraid of being seen in his embarrassing state by his subordinates, Ye Xuanchen hurriedly jumped into the water, covered his genitals with his hands, and shouted at the guards who rushed over.
"Get out of here, everyone. No one is allowed to come in without my order."
"General, are you alright?" the guards asked anxiously.
"I am fine, you may all leave."
Ye Xuanchen was worried that his sharp-eyed subordinates would see his disheveled state, so he gave them a special instruction.
"Stand back, everyone turn your backs to the cold pool and do not turn around. Anyone who disobeys will be punished with thirty lashes."
"Yes—!" No one dared to disobey the order. They immediately retreated to a distance to keep watch, not even daring to turn their heads.
The attendant Yanqing looked ahead with a worried expression and asked, "Yanmo, what do you think Master is doing inside?"
Why is he making such a loud noise, and why won't he let us get close?
That sound was like someone throwing a huge rock down from a great height; it was terrifying to hear.
"Do you think there might be assassins who could harm the general?"
Yanmo glanced at his worried companion, his face somewhat speechless: "If there are assassins, would our master stop us from going in?"
"Besides, all the roads here have been blocked by our people, and there's a steep cliff on the other side. How could an assassin possibly get into the icy pool?"
Yan Qing scratched his head and smiled sheepishly: "That's true. It seems the general can't stand the fiery poison and is taking it out on the stone wall."
When the topic turned to the poison in his master's body, Yanqing's face fell again.
"Yanmo, the water in this cold pool is icy cold and extremely harmful to the human body." It takes our master several days to recover after each bath; this can't go on forever!
Speaking of this, Yanmo frowned: "What else can we do? The general would rather soak in the cold pool than have a woman near him."
"This imperial edict has been posted for half a year, but not a single doctor has been able to cure the general's poison."
"I think if we can't find an antidote soon, General will stay in this cold pool forever."
As they talked, both of them couldn't help but feel worried.
If this continues, even if their master's body is made of iron, he won't be able to withstand it in the long run!
This is really worrying them.
In the cold pool
With his last fig leaf torn away, Ye Xuanchen's anger was so intense it seemed to burn through his mask.
His eyes were fixed on Jiang Luoxue: "You...you, how can you be so shameless!"
What woman with a sense of shame would pull down a man's pants!
This woman must be a spy sent by someone else; i must eliminate her in a moment.
"Um... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to," Jiang Luoxue said, offering a half-hearted apology.
After all, she did it on purpose.
But you can't blame her for that.
Given the situation, if she didn't pull down the man's underwear and wait for him to come in, she would lose her life.
Faced with the choice between living or embarrassing the man, she would, of course, choose the former without hesitation.
As the old saying goes, "It's better to die for your fellow Daoist than for yourself!"
Moreover, he was a fellow Daoist who wanted to kill her.
Therefore, Jiang Luoxue felt even less burdened by making the man lose face.
The look in his eyes seemed to want to poke holes in her.
Jiang Luoxue waved the tattered piece of innerwear in her hand and said in a slightly roguish tone, "How about I give it back to you?"
"But on the condition that you can't lay a hand on me again."
The gesture of raising your hand may not be very harmful, but it is extremely insulting!