Note : I'm back, I'm back !

Back at the present time..

The Sun had just set, making a timely disappearance to the appearance of it’s other half, the moon.

*Caw*Caw*Caw*

High up in the sky, the cawing sounds of crow like creatures echoed throughout the night. As these beasts were nocturnal creatures, their cawing sounds had long become a signpost that signaled night has arrived in the Mythical Beast Forest.

Deep in the forest, lies an ordinary cave that is currently resided by a human girl. Suddenly, a mysterious, invisible energy whooshed over the entire area, the cave included.

That mysterious, invisible energy was of course none other than Li Zun's Divine Energy. With a flash, Li Zun arrived at the entrance of the cave.

As he arrived, his eyes naturally fell upon the only other living being beside him in this cave, which is of course none other than Ru Wuxi, still snuggling down with the make-shift bed he created.

Letting out a brief sigh, he murmured. “ Just what had she gone through really…”

The Croupia fruit he used to put her to sleep is one of the few sleep-inducing fruits that almost had no side effects. In fact, because Croupia fruit is an extremely rare fruit found only in areas where Heaven-Earth Qi along with Earth & Wind Elemental Qi is abundant, It creates a mind-calming effect that could also help in cultivation.

However, Croupia fruits are very rare in the Floating Cloud Continent, this is why such a well-honed assassin like Ru Wuxi did not even recognize the Croupia Fruit. But from the strong Magical Beasts who he had personally ‘asked’, Li Zun knew the details of all the rare, precious fruit in the forest.

One must know that these magical beasts whom Li Zun could categorize as ‘strong’ is at least a magic beast of the 3rd Realm! It had an intelligence just a bit less or equal to humans, they are only lacking the vocal system required to talk in human language.

Therefore, Li Zun knew the effects of the Croupia fruit clearly. According to his information, the Croupia fruit could only cause a 4 hour sleep, after 4 hours had gone by, the one who ate it would naturally woke up. This is especially true for strong cultivators, they might only need less than 4 hours to wake up.

But as for Ru Wuxi ? 5 hours had already passed by..and she still hadn't woke up. Just from this, Li Zun could somehow guess just how though a life she had gone through..

The expression the girl currently wore is extremely cute. Others might look at him weirdly in the eyes if he said that out loud, because all they see was a decently faced girl with a burnt mark covering half of her face. ‘Cute’ couldn't be used to describe her.

But within his Divine Awareness, nothing could escape his eye. A beauty that would not lose to the artists of his original world is currently sleeping right in front of him.

“ This is an assassin? All I see is a sleeping cute little girl.. “ He lamented. Wondering just what did this girl right in front of him went through to create a cold, distant personality when she currently looked like a frail, beautiful woman in her 18s.

If she was in his old world, she might currently be smiling and laughing together with her friends, or perhaps falling in love might not be so far off ? Experiencing a life like a normal teenager should have.

With her beauty, it was easy enough to imagine countless of suitors flocking to her. Or even just by passing by, glances and stares would be everywhere.

But in this world, if you do not have power beauty might just be your doom fall. This, Li Zun clearly knew.

From the memories of the two he soul scoured, he could have been said to have understood just how the world works in this world.

There are no systems and regulations, the strong lives and the weak dies that was it!

This dog eat dog world, perhaps the current Li Zun who had only seen it from a third perspective* do not fully understand what it truly meant to be living in a world like this.

[ Referring to him watching the world through the soul scour, hence third perspective ]

Seeing such a rare beauty in front of him, someone like Li Zun could not help but become tongue-tied. He continued to stare for quite a moment before shaking his head to wake himself up.

Do not forget that in his last life, he was a bachelor with no friends! How could he possibly ever have a girlfriend? That is why with such a beauty in front of him, how could he not help but stare?

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But don't mistake him, while he may admire young beauties but admiring was admiring, that was it! Only admire, not love!

Do not forget that in his last life, he is practically a 30 years old man!

He definitely do not want people to call him an old farmer who picks on young sprouts..

[ Note : Basically Lolicon lol ]

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It was not until the next morning that Ru Wuxi woke up.

With a faint ' mm..’ Her eyes opened and her body rose up.

When she had just woke up, this time, she was not alert at the slightest. the feeling she felt at the time is something that she would probably remember for countless years to come..

It was simply…Refreshing! It was to the point where she was about to stretch her arms wide.

How long had it been since she was able to wake up as peacefully as this ? She no longer knew.

For her who had almost lived a life on the borderline of life and death, there is no way she could have a peaceful sleep in the night. At the very least, a strand of consciousness will keep her awake.

But this sleep she had, it was simply...refreshing. Perhaps it was because of the Croupia fruit’s mind calming effect or because during her sleep and when she woke up, she did not feel a sense of vigilance at all. This, no one knew.

For her to be able to continue to live on while having a sleeping habit like this is only possible because she is a cultivator of the second realm, a quite high one at that. If it wasn't for that, she might have already encountered various sickness along the way.

At the time, even she did not realize she had already unconsciously accepted that mysterious figure as someone she could lower her guards a little with.

Do remember that she, Ru Wuxi is someone who had lived alone for more than half of her life! She trusted no one, rely on no one and fought solely for herself. For her to even subconsciously ‘ open ‘ the doors by a little towards her heart is already somewhat of a miracle itself!

Not to mention that she had only met Li Zun just for a single day!

Little did she know that this subconscious action would change her life forever..

At that moment she was about to stretch her arms, her sleepy eyes suddenly opened wide and quickly scanned her surroundings.

Where..am I ?

it did not take her long as her mind jolted up and her body shot up!

Sensing that there was no one around, she sighed in relieve and her eyes fell upon her leftovers.

With a quick check and sniff of her food, she found out that..she had been drugged to sleep!

For her to come into such a conclusion was extremely natural, she was after all a very well trained assassin

Currently, her face had a very complexed expression.

Naturally, with a quick check, she found out that her belongings are at the exact same position, that man did not do a thing against her. Even if he did, why wait till now ? When she just passed out, he surely had a lot more opportunities to do anything to her, why trouble himself to put her to sleep ?

This made her truly confused..

Ah! Forget it! For an assassin in my caliber to be drugged to sleep is very shameful in itself!

She gritted her teeth with anger. Whether she was more angry at Li Zun or herself this was simply a mystery already.

She continued to pout out in anger until she quickly realized that this was currently..the right moment to escape!

How could she probably stay at a place where she did not know? With a stranger at that, if she chose to stay then it would be weird instead..

Her eyes eyed on the cave entrance, and her body quickly propelled herself upfront.

But at this moment..a slight, or maybe a tiny tingle of hesitation bloomed in her heart. Unfortunately, with a ‘ hum?’ She quickly shrugged it off as something currently unimportant.

But at the moment she stepped out of the cave, her eyes bulged wide as she saw something she would have never dreamt of..

Note : Ah..i know that my release speed is very slow, especially since TWG is a slow-paced novel it is very hard to get into it..I'm really sorry..sigh. This is a short chapter so expect another tomorrow or the next day.