Dual wielding volcanoes, killing through the west

In some ways, this is more frightening than giving a precise number.

Zhang Renfeng had never heard of the dynasty he mentioned; it must have been a very, very long time ago. Such a long period of time had made Qasim lose the will to live.

Perhaps, like Theonado, he yearned for an "exit" from this world, but that woman, for whatever purpose, "blocked" his emergency exit.

"As you can see, I don't need to eat, I don't need to sleep, and I have no desire for men or women. What flows in my veins is no longer blood. To be honest, I don't even know what it is... Living like this day after day is just me not being dead yet."

Even when stating his core demands, Qasim's tone remained completely unchanged, like a rigid, mechanical machine.

The long years have completely worn away his emotions, like faded patterns.

"Unfortunately, I am just a swordsman, completely ignorant of powers beyond the mortal realm. I don't know where to find that woman, so I wander aimlessly through the world."

"Sometimes, to keep myself occupied, I deliberately get involved in some human conflicts and briefly connect with people. Only in this way can I feel that I am alive."

"Unfortunately, after about a hundred years, most of the people I knew were dead, and I had no choice but to leave. This cycle repeated itself until, on the Water Demon, I met someone from your country..."

Do you remember that monk in black robes?

……

"what!!"

Zhang Renfeng suddenly realized something, feeling as if he had connected everything.

Two years ago, when he fled his hometown, the black-robed monk was already on the Water Demon. He not only helped Zhang Renfeng heal his wounds, but also gave him a series of very insightful words of advice, helping him to successfully emerge from his depression.

Just by looking at his demeanor, he is clearly a master among masters.

Before leaving the fleet, he told me that fate and destiny are intertwined and cannot be forced. He said that as long as I settle down on the coast at the right time, a benefactor will come to help me to accomplish this.

After saying that, he walked away on the rope and disappeared into the clouds.

"After the captain died, the Istavo Fleet was disbanded. I followed his advice, found a secluded place, and settled along the coast... Day after day, I finally met you today."

Qasim's gaze finally settled on Zhang Renfeng, filled with a strong sense of conviction, "Now I believe it, the two of you are my benefactors."

“From now on, I will help you to the best of my ability, on the condition that…”

“When the time comes, you must also help me to enter into my destined death.”

Chapter 834: Bathing Together

"Wow————"

Boiling hot water was poured into the wooden tub. Zhang Renfeng and Lang stood in front of the tub, staring at each other, both somewhat at a loss.

Due to his extremely unique physiological structure, Qasim can maintain his mobility without food or water. However, his house still contains containers such as iron pots and buckets.

He drew several buckets of water from a nearby well, heated them, and poured them into a wooden bucket that had been stored for who knows how long. Luckily, he had a special constitution and was completely insensitive to hot and cold; even touching the hot iron bucket handle with his bare hand was no problem for him.

Stimulated by the boiling water, a unique fragrance wafted from the wooden tub.

"This is made of pine wood. Most of the furniture in this room is from the Water Demon. I'm used to the old things and too lazy to replace them. Generally speaking, there's nothing better than what's on the ship."

Kasim demonstrated what it meant to have a "ruthless iron hand" by pouring a pot of freshly boiled water directly into the wooden tub, saying, "This tub has been empty for a while, so make do with it for now and use it to wash your body."

"Washing..." Wolf seemed to only then realize what was happening, his little face turning bright red. "You mean... we... we're going to wash together?"

“I have another bucket for pouring alcohol, which is a ‘life solution.’ In theory, human blood is even more effective, but I don’t want to kill anyone for that,” Qasim said expressionlessly. “You wouldn’t want to be soaking in corpse water either, would you?”

Strictly speaking, Qasim wasn't a corpse. If he were a decaying zombie, he would have naturally decomposed over the years. The two of them hadn't smelled anything unusual, even though they were so close, but the lack of a heartbeat and breathing was rather strange.

but……

This mental hurdle is ultimately very difficult to overcome.

Zhang Renfeng composed himself and nodded, saying, "Alright, thank you for your trouble, Qasim."

"Senior brother?" Wolf looked up in surprise, not expecting Zhang Renfeng to agree so readily.

"It's alright." Zhang Renfeng hesitated for a moment and said softly, "It's an emergency, and they're already very kind of them to help us with food and lodging. We have nothing to complain about."

"This tub isn't too small. Once inside, we can sit back to back and just wash ourselves."

"You two..." Qasim squinted, "...aren't you in that kind of relationship?"

“That’s not the case,” Zhang Renfeng said in a deep voice.

"Okay, I understand." Kasim nodded decisively without saying more. "I'll go make your beds."

……

He turned and left, leaving the steaming pine resin bucket filled with hot water to the young couple.

"..."

Wolf subconsciously swallowed. Despite the peaceful and comfortable bath, she felt inexplicably nervous. Not only nervous, but also with a dry mouth, especially in her lower abdomen, where a strange, tingling sensation emanated from her dantian (lower abdomen). She needed to swallow repeatedly to stay calm.

After falling off a cliff and into the sea, struggling miserably in the ocean currents, he was finally pushed ashore by the tide and forced to keep walking forward... He was rescued by Qasim and waited in the hut for several days without getting any sleep.

After going through this process, even something made of iron will be worn down into a nail.

Even though the girl was exceptionally talented, she was exhausted. When people are too tired, all they want to do is fall asleep and have no other thoughts.

Now, she has had a good night's sleep and eaten a lot. With the help of the Rama Sutra, she has almost fully recovered the energy and blood she lost.

Realizing that she was about to have an unprecedentedly intimate encounter with her senior brother, her body instantly became excited, and her heart pounded.

“…You go in first.” Zhang Renfeng said, turning around. “You’ve been traveling for so long, you should rest.”

His second half of the sentence was typical of the nonsense uttered when one "doesn't know what to say, but doesn't want to stop talking." Zhang Renfeng wasn't as calm as he appeared; the warm white mist, while relaxing, also gradually blurred some things.

----

The moment my toes touched the hot water, they immediately opened up from their tense curl.

"Um……"

The wolf let out a soft groan, crossed its arms, and couldn't help but let its entire body sink down.

so comfy.

It was as if all the fatigue and pain accumulated in her body melted away in the hot water, and her tense muscles finally had a chance to relax. This relaxation made her feel drowsy, and the temperature of the hot water made her feel as if she were about to fall into a dream.

"Crash..."

The rippling water startled the wolf, causing it to instinctively shrink back a little.

But then she felt that she was being a bit unfair by doing this. She stared at her reflection in the water for almost several tens of seconds, then bit her lip, pushed the edge of the bucket slightly, and took a small step back.

The pine barrel was so small that when he stepped back, his back was pressed against Zhang Renfeng's.

"..."

True skin-to-skin contact was what they were experiencing right now. Because the water was too hot, she couldn't feel the other's body temperature; she only felt her heart pounding frighteningly fast. The wolf mustered her courage, but she dared not make any further moves, such as nuzzling or hugging.

Just being pressed against like this already made my face flushed, my heart pounding, and me slightly out of breath.

It must be because of hot water! — She thought to herself.

Zhang Renfeng fell silent.

You could clearly feel that his hand movements paused for a moment, but he quickly resumed normal, took a deep breath, but did not say anything to stop him.

He acquiesced.

……

The two of them tacitly agreed to each other, sitting back to back, washing their own bodies, occasionally touching each other.

For a moment, no one spoke, only the sound of rushing water. This should have been the gentlest sound, but when it reached our ears, it had a touch of allure.

The air felt like sticky honey.

----

"Senior brother."

"Ok?"

This atmosphere gave the wolf some courage, and she finally decided to take another step forward, wanting to enter Zhang Renfeng's world.

"Can I... ask you something?"

"You said."

"Rui'er, who is she?"

……

"..."

In reality, Zhang Renfeng remained silent for only a few seconds. But for the wolf, those few seconds felt like years. She worried that she had taken too big a step, hadn't measured the situation well, and had asked a question she shouldn't have.

"Little Wolf." Fortunately, Zhang Renfeng's tone was gentler than usual. "Where did you hear that name from?"

"On the beach, I helped you walk forward," the wolf said truthfully. "You mentioned this name."

"..."

"That's it..."

Zhang Renfeng sighed softly and smiled with relief.

"Bai Rui."

"That's my wife's name."

Chapter 835: Sword Wound

My first wife, my first wife, my husband and I.

So much time had passed, and Zhang Renfeng thought he had almost forgotten her, but after all, they were husband and wife, and even if their bones were broken, they would still be connected by tendons.

……

"I think I invited you to my wedding too." Zhang Renfeng sighed, recalling his wedding day, which was clearly more than ten years ago, but felt like a past life. "You should have met my wife before, right? Do you remember her?"

“She is a very quiet girl. When I go out to practice, she stays at home alone. Most of the time, she is very quiet. At night, we sleep in the same bed and do things that couples do... She doesn't have much patience in bed. Every time, after a few tries, she doesn't want to do it with me anymore, and then we turn off the candles and go to sleep.”

"Does this mean they don't want to do it with you anymore..." the wolf thought to himself, "You're the one who ruined it, okay?"

"I don't know who gave her the idea, but one night she suddenly asked me... when we're in bed, could you stop calling me 'husband'? We could call each other by our names instead, so that when we hug, it would be more intimate and feel more like a married couple."

Zhang Renfeng's tone was somewhat uncertain as he scooped up a bowl of hot water.

He seemed to be trying to grasp something, but as his fingers clenched, the water still slipped silently through his fingers.

As the water flowed past him, a faint, almost imperceptible, crimson hue spread across it.

"At that time, my mind was almost entirely focused on martial arts, and I was quite oblivious to matters of love and sex. Since she made that request, I continued to call her that at home."

“…'Rui’er'…”

The wolf repeated it softly, imagining Zhang Renfeng on the bed, calling his wife that, and perhaps even embracing her tightly.

Just imagining it, the tingling sensation of whispering sweet nothings felt almost familiar to her. The tingling sensation emanating from her lower abdomen intensified, like an electric shock coursing across the girl's skin.

She instinctively brought her legs together.

"And what about her? What did she call you?"

……

"She...she is..."

……

In the end, the wolf never got an answer to the question. All it heard was a thud, the sound of some part of its body hitting the wooden barrel.

"Senior brother?!"

Wolf disregarded all decorum between men and women and quickly turned around, only to see Zhang Renfeng kneeling on the edge of the wooden tub. Blood stained the surrounding hot water like ink. He clutched his chest, trying his best to appear normal, but his slightly rapid breathing betrayed him.

The sword wound that ran across his body was bleeding.

"I...I'm fine..." Zhang Renfeng said through gritted teeth, "Why don't you wash a little longer..."

"Stop joking, you're so badly injured!" The wolf quickly grabbed the edge of the barrel, and with a burst of strength, squeezed his way out of the pine resin barrel.

A series of water droplets dripped down his body with a crackling sound. The wolf didn't even have time to dry himself off; he simply wrapped himself in his clothes and reached into the wooden tub. "How are you, senior brother? Can you still move? Grab my hand, I'll pull you out!"

"..."