Martial Arts, the Little Master of the Ancient Tomb, Becomes Stronger When You Drink

120: Chapter 120 Take off your clothes! It’s time to change your dressing!”What else? You saved me, so it’s only right that I give you something in return. What do you want?” The Empress’s tone turned slightly cold as she looked seriously at Su Xuan.

She didn’t want to have too much to do with Su Xuan.

In the Empress’s view, Su Xuan was too strange. Getting involved with him might bring her many unknown troubles, so it was better to clear their relationship as soon as possible.

Su Xuan raised an eyebrow, naturally sensing the Empress’s thoughts. He didn’t stand on ceremony and named his price directly, ”Fifty hundred-year-old medicinal herbs!”

”Fine.” As soon as Su Xuan finished speaking, the Empress agreed immediately without the slightest hesitation, while also feeling a sense of relief in her heart.

It was better that he could say what he wanted directly; it would be more troublesome if he didn’t...

The hardest thing in the world to repay is a favor, let alone the debt of saving one’s life...

A hint of surprise flashed across Su Xuan’s features. ”So straightforward?”

He thought the Empress would first decline or ’haggle’ a bit, but he hadn’t expected her to agree so quickly?!

Were hundred-year-old medicinal herbs no longer valuable? Or was the Empress too rich and he had asked for too little?

The Empress turned her pretty face away, avoiding Su Xuan’s gaze, and curled her lips. ”If I didn’t agree, you would surely kill me directly and then use my head to exchange for even more things!”

The Empress’s words sounded like a complaint, but her tone revealed a hint of certainty.

Su Xuan couldn’t help but touch his nose awkwardly. ”Am I really that bad?”

”Yes!”

Regarding others, the Empress couldn’t be sure, but for Su Xuan, she could guarantee he definitely was!

Su Xuan clicked his tongue and didn’t continue to argue. He found another place to sit down. ”Rest well for now. In about an hour, I’ll change your dressing!”

’Change the dressing’?

A seductive flush appeared on the Empress’s cheeks. ”You... you just prepare the medicine for me, and I can change it myself when the time comes...”

As she spoke, the Empress felt a warmth spreading over her body, as if she had been touched by someone...

Realizing this, the Empress became even more bashful...

It was fine as long as it wasn’t mentioned, but once it was, the Empress’s serious expression was once again filled with shame and indignation. She looked dissatisfied at Su Xuan, who had his back to her.

While poking at the campfire, Su Xuan shook his head. ”That won’t do. Your injuries are too severe, and there are many intricacies to applying the medicine. If anything goes wrong, you might as well pick out a nice burial spot for yourself, and I’ll bury you when the time comes.”

As he spoke, Su Xuan didn’t forget to turn back and smile at the Empress. ”Don’t worry, I won’t charge you for that.”

”You...” The Empress’s face was beet red, and steam was almost rising from her head. However, for the sake of her safety, she nodded and replied softly, ”Alright...”

Su Xuan wasn’t lying to her; her injuries were indeed very serious. Even when applying medicine, it had to be accompanied by a certain amount of Internal Energy, using techniques like ”rubbing, pinching, kneading, and squeezing” to ensure nothing went wrong, otherwise...

After the Empress finished speaking, silence fell over the cave once again.

As the air grew quiet, the only sound left was the ’smacking’ sound of Little Eagle eating meat.

The Empress tilted her pretty face slightly, her beautiful eyes widening in surprise.

This is an eagle? Why is it so big?!

She had been so focused on ’matching wits’ with Su Xuan that she hadn’t noticed there was such a large bird in the cave!

The Empress looked at the charcoal fire with roasted meat hanging nearby. Is it... eating roast meat?!

It seems this must be that weirdo’s bird! A strange bird for a strange person, a perfect match!

The Empress clicked her tongue and said nothing, but even if she didn’t speak, her stomach wouldn’t let her off.

Since being targeted by the Ghost King, she hadn’t eaten for over three days.

Not to mention she had gone through such an intense battle and suffered such heavy injuries.

She was already starving and exhausted to the extreme, but she had been so annoyed by Su Xuan just now that she hadn’t even noticed.

Now that this big bird was putting on a real-life ’mukbang’ right in front of her, it would be strange if she wasn’t hungry!

The Empress forced herself not to look, but the sounds made by Little Eagle’s unrefined way of eating meat still made her feel very embarrassed.

Ultimately, her stomach couldn’t help but be the first to issue a vocal protest.

”Gurgle, gurgle.”

Su Xuan’s movements as he poked the wood paused. He stood up, intending to cut a piece of meat from the roasting rack.

Just as he was about to cut the meat, Su Xuan’s hand was grabbed by Little Eagle’s large claw, its big eyes constantly flashing a warning.

It seemed to be saying, ”Yours is already finished, this is mine!”

Su Xuan slapped away Little Eagle’s big hand and laughed, ”If it’s not enough, I’ll just roast more for you later. Why are you so protective of your food?”

Hearing Su Xuan say he would roast more for her, Little Eagle finally withdrew its dissatisfied claw.

Humph~ As long as there’s more~

Otherwise, if he worked her like an ox every day and even snatched away her ’wages’, she would definitely throw in the towel~

With Little Eagle no longer blocking him, Su Xuan successfully cut off a large piece of roast meat, wrapped it in a lotus leaf, walked over to the Empress, and placed it on a nearby boulder. ”Eat up~”

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A few question marks appeared on the Empress’s fair forehead. Although she was truly hungry, she still forced herself not to look at the roast meat, instead pausing before saying, ”Is... is this for me?”

While wiping his hands, Su Xuan said, ”Otherwise? Just eat. If you starve to death, who’s going to pay me my medicinal herbs?”

After saying that, without giving the Empress a chance to respond, Su Xuan went back to his original spot and sat down to poke at the fire.

The Empress’s beautiful eyes flickered, and a hint of warmth unconsciously rose in her heart. ”Thank you~”

Since her brother, Qi Wang, left for Raojiang more than ten years ago...

She had never felt the concern of others.

Su Xuan’s casual gesture also very casually touched the softest part of the Empress’s heart.

Su Xuan’s body stiffened for a moment. To be honest, the Empress really was quite pitiable.

Her own brother had gone to Raojiang for sixteen years for ’unknown’ reasons.

In those sixteen years, the Empress had gone from an innocent and happy little girl to a cold-blooded noble, step by step.

She not only had to face the country’s internal and external troubles as the King of Qi but also had to deal with various Jianghu factions as the Empress.

She lived a truly exhausting life, but she had persevered on her own, using her fragile shoulders to hold up the sky for the Qi Kingdom.

This was also why Su Xuan had been so obsessed in his previous life.

But obsession aside, their relationship in this life hadn’t reached that level yet.

Su Xuan could only do what he could to help without affecting his own journey; anything else would have to wait for the future.

After all, there was plenty of time ahead; there was no rush.

While eating the roast meat, the Empress asked with feigned nonchalance, ”Was that taking things out of thin air just now?”

”Hmm... let’s just call it a Storage Technique for now...”

The Empress’s movement of eating roast meat paused for a moment. She gave an ”oh” and then continued eating.

After finishing the roast meat, the Empress even licked the oil off her fingers, still wanting more.

Truth be told, in this deserted cave, the Empress would occasionally reveal a hint of a young girl’s charm.

”Are you full?”

”Yes...”

”Take off your clothes. It’s time to change the dressing!”

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