13: Chapter 13: Inside the cave, a deadly threat looms.

The next day, early morning, the dilapidated wooden door of Shed No. 10086 was pushed open with a creak.

Qin Feng tightened his coarse linen clothes and strode into the cold wind.

Bai Yuhe followed closely behind. She had specially changed into a neat, tight-fitting outfit, which outlined her voluptuous and alluring curves to perfection.

"Brother Feng, we are finally going to get that huge sum of money today. I was so excited last night that I couldn't sleep at all."

Bai Yuhe stepped forward and very naturally took Qin Feng's arm, her voice so soft and charming it could drip water.

"Indeed, you couldn't sleep because you were excited, but I was the one who suffered."

Qin Feng rolled his eyes at her in annoyance and reached out to flick her pert nose.

"How annoying, you blame everything on me..."

Bai Yuhe laughed coquettishly.

The two walked side by side out of the Menial Laborer shed area and plunged into the dark and deep outskirts of the Luanzang Mountain Range.

The light in the jungle was dim; the towering trees were like ferocious ghosts baring their fangs and brandishing their claws. The thick layer of fallen leaves and humus underfoot felt soft and mushy, emitting waves of poisonous miasma.

Qin Feng walked in front, holding a sharpened wooden stick to scout the path through the grass.

On the surface, he appeared extremely cautious, even a bit jumpy, but in reality, relying on his Cultivate at the fourth stage of the Mortal Realm, his five senses were already extremely sharp.

A hundred paces away.

"Snap —"

An extremely faint sound of a dry branch breaking, despite the heavy tree shadows and the sound of the wind, reached Qin Feng's ears with absolute precision.

"Ouch —"

Bai Yuhe suddenly let out a soft cry and fell onto a moss-covered rock, rubbing her ankle with a look of grievance on her face.

"Brother Feng, how much further is it? My legs are so tired..."

"Good things are naturally hidden deep. If they were placed on the side of the road, would it ever be our turn?"

Qin Feng turned his head and reached out to grab Bai Yuhe's arm. "Who told you to be so excited that you couldn't sleep? Now you know what it's like to be tired. Just hold on a little longer."

"Hmph, it's all your fault."

Bai Yuhe bit her red lips and rose following his pull.

Meanwhile, in the bushes more than a hundred paces behind them, Chen Xiaodao was lying in the mud like a wild dog, his whole body covered in bloody cuts from thorns.

His eyes were fixed on the two figures flickering in the distance ahead. Especially when he saw the intimate sight of Bai Yuhe holding Qin Feng's arm, the veins on his forehead throbbed, and his knuckles gripping the mountain-cleaving firewood chopper turned white.

'Bastard, once we find the place, I'm going to slice the flesh off your body, one blade at a time!' He gritted his teeth, roaring crazily in his heart.

After walking for half an hour, Qin Feng finally stopped.

Ahead was a steep slope covered in moss and thick poisonous vines. The surroundings were dark and damp, and even the calls of birds and beasts were completely gone, appearing deathly silent and eerie.

"We're here. This is it." Qin Feng pointed to the bottom of the steep slope.

"Here? Apart from a bunch of rotten vines, where is even a shadow of a spirit tangerine? Brother Feng, you didn't remember the path wrong, did you?"

Bai Yuhe looked around, her face full of suspicion, and her tone already revealing a hint of undisguised impatience.

Qin Feng did not explain. Instead, he stepped forward, grabbed those thick, poisonous vines with both hands, and pulled them hard to the sides.

"Whoosh —"

As the vines were pulled apart, a hidden cave entrance that only allowed one person to crawl through suddenly appeared!

At the same time, an extremely rich, sweet fragrance of spirit orange fruit, so sweet it made one's pores relax, gushed out from the cave like a bursting flood!

"Heavens! This... this is..."

Smelling this fragrance, Bai Yuhe froze in place as if electrocuted, her eyes instantly widening. She couldn't care about maintaining a lady's image at all; like a madwoman, she pushed Qin Feng aside and rushed directly into the cave.

Inside the cave, the spirit tangerine tree, ripened by the "Water of Maturity," was like a large, opened umbrella, with lush branches and leaves.

The canopy was densely covered with golden spirit orange fruits, each the size of a fist! A rough count showed there were definitely no less than a thousand!

Under the dim light, the faint halo circulating on the surface of the spirit fruits made it look like a treasure mountain built of pure gold!

"We're rich, we're rich!!!"

Bai Yuhe's voice became sharp and piercing due to extreme excitement.

She threw herself onto the tree trunk, stretched out her trembling hands to hug it tightly, and a tangible greed and madness erupted in her eyes!

"Thirty-year-old spirit fruits, they are all thirty-year-old top-grade fruits! A thousand... no, there are at least fifteen hundred!"

She violently tore off a spirit tangerine, stuffed it to her mouth, and took a huge bite. "Mmm! So sweet, so fragrant."

"Yuhe, how is it? I didn't lie to you, did I?" Qin Feng said with a smug smile.

"You didn't lie, of course you didn't! Brother Feng, you really are my lucky star." Bai Yuhe turned around, looking at Qin Feng with a fanatical expression.

Just then, a voice, extremely coarse and filled with endless resentment and ecstasy, suddenly exploded from outside the cave!

"Hahaha... Rich? That's right! I have struck it rich!!!"

Along with this sound, heavy footsteps came from outside the cave entrance.

Qin Feng immediately put on a look of extreme terror, turned around abruptly, and retreated repeatedly. "Who?! Who is outside?!"

The poisonous vines at the cave entrance were completely torn apart by a pair of rough, large hands.

Covered in mud, his clothes torn to shreds, Chen Xiaodao stood there holding a gleaming mountain-cleaving firewood chopper, blocking the only exit of the cave like a god of plague.

His eyes were covered in scarlet bloodshot veins, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken from seven days of jealousy and torture. Coupled with the hideous scar on his face, he looked just like an evil ghost crawling out of Hell.

"Chen... Chen Xiaodao?!" Qin Feng's pupils shrank, and he pointed at him with a trembling voice. "You... how did you follow me here?!"

"How did I follow you here?"

Chen Xiaodao sneered, shouldering his firewood chopper. His gaze passed over Qin Feng and fixed tightly on the tree full of golden spirit tangerines, his Adam's apple rolling violently.

"Idiot! Don't you understand even when you're about to die?!"

Chen Xiaodao snapped his gaze back to Qin Feng, the greed in his eyes instantly turning into monstrous hatred. He gritted his teeth and said, "Do you really think that as a lowly piece of trash, you could make Bai Yuhe devoted to you?! It was all arranged by me! For these seven days, I have been guarding outside every night, just waiting for you to reveal this treasure location!"

"What?!"

Qin Feng was "struck by lightning," turned his head back in disbelief, and looked at Bai Yuhe under the tree, his voice shrill. "Is... is what he said true?! Everything you've said to me these past few days, was it all a lie?!"

Facing Qin Feng's "desperate" questioning, Bai Yuhe did not show the slightest panic.

She leisurely threw the remaining tangerine peel on the ground, took a handkerchief from her bosom to wipe the corners of her mouth, a hint of complexity in her eyes.

"Brother Feng, it wasn't all fake. I also just wanted to survive well. I'm sorry..."

Bai Yuhe swayed her waist and walked step by step to Chen Xiaodao's side. She didn't say anything else, but it was as if she had said everything.

"You... you pair of scumbags."

Qin Feng roared "in grief and indignation," and he suddenly raised the wooden stick in his hand, aiming it at the two of them.

"Curse all you want! Curse loudly! The more miserably you scream, the happier I will be!"

Chen Xiaodao could no longer suppress the rage in his heart. He stared at Qin Feng with fire in his eyes, approaching step by step. "These seven days, you've cuckolded me five or six times a day. Today, I'm going to get it back with interest! First, I'll chop off your limbs, then I'll pull out your tongue, and let you watch as I clear out all these spirit tangerines!"

"Die! You bastard!!!"

Accompanied by a beast-like roar, Chen Xiaodao exerted force with his legs, and his Qi and blood at the third stage of the Mortal Realm erupted suddenly!

"Hum —"

The mountain-cleaving firewood chopper tore through the air, bringing a harsh whistling sound, and slashed fiercely towards Qin Feng's shoulder like a streak of light!

If this strike landed, it would definitely be able to split Qin Feng in two, from shoulder to back!

A trace of panic flashed in Qin Feng's eyes. He let out a strange cry, seemingly scared out of his wits, and could only instinctively raise the wooden stick in his hand to block above his head!

He was showing weakness. Facing the blade-wielding, crazed Chen Xiaodao, plus Bai Yuhe who had practiced leg techniques and was watching like a tiger stalking its prey from the side.

Even with cultivation at the fourth stage, Qin Feng was worried about capsizing in the gutter.

He had to make Chen Xiaodao completely drop all his defenses and reveal his biggest opening!

"Snap!"

The firewood chopper split the wooden stick without any suspense, its momentum undiminished.

Qin Feng let out a "scream," his body using the recoil force of the broken wooden stick to roll backward in a sorry state to dodge.

"Bang!"

The firewood chopper slammed heavily into the stone wall where he had been standing, causing sparks to fly and gravel to scatter!

"Running?! In this small cave, where else can you run to?!"

Chen Xiaodao missed his strike but became even more excited. Holding his chopper, he approached step by step like a cat playing with a mouse.

Qin Feng hurriedly retreated to the dead end at the deepest part of the cave, his back against the cold rock wall, panting heavily, his eyes filled with "despair and fear."

"Don't... don't kill me, I'll give you all the fruit, just spare my life, okay?!" Qin Feng said softly, but there was a hint of calculation in his eyes.

"Spare your life? Hahahaha!"

Chen Xiaodao laughed wildly at the sky, laughing until tears were almost coming out.

"When you touched my woman, why didn't you think about today?! Bastard, now you can go to die..."

After speaking, Chen Xiaodao raised the firewood chopper high. The veins on his muscular, knotted arm bulged, and all his Qi and blood power was gathered into this one strike. He wanted to chop off Qin Feng's head with one blow!

However, at the critical moment.

A figure emitting a rich, powdery fragrance suddenly rushed over and grabbed Chen Xiaodao's arm that was holding the chopper...

"Xiaodao, wait, don't kill him, okay?"

Bai Yuhe grabbed Chen Xiaodao's arm tightly, actually wearing a look of imploring on her face.

The whole place fell into instant silence...

Even Qin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly.

Why did Bai Yuhe want to save him? Because he had the System, and the System naturally had its extraordinary aspects, carrying a certain persuasive function that could make people develop feelings over time. Subtly, he had already occupied a very heavy weight in Bai Yuhe's heart.

"Xiaodao, we have already gotten the money, and the fruit on the tree is all ours!"

Bai Yuhe's eyes shifted, and she persuaded in a low voice: "Will you spare his life? I... I can't bear to let him go..."

Boom!

If the previous Chen Xiaodao was just an active volcano on the verge of eruption, then Bai Yuhe's words "I can't bear to let him go" were like pouring ten thousand tons of gunpowder into the crater, instantly detonating it!!!

Chen Xiaodao's reason completely evaporated, his brain let out a "hum," and only endless humiliation and madness remained!

His own woman! Right in front of his face! Begging for another man's life!?!

"You can't bear it?! You fucking bitch!!!"

Chen Xiaodao was driven mad with rage, his eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets, and the dense bloodshot veins seemed to be about to drip blood.

He let out a roar that did not sound human, swung the firewood chopper in his hand high, and slashed heavily towards Bai Yuhe's head...