332: Stuttering Stone

“I... I didn't... didn't mean... to... to fight you for it... I... I just wanted... ah... to... ah... to share!”

The burly man with a stony face laughed and scratched his head.

The woman, furious, pointed at his head and said, “Stop spouting nonsense! You've been pestering me and following me around all day... what are you trying to do?”

“Don't... don't... don't spout nonsense... be... before... it was always you... you... you pestering me... when did I... pester... pester you... I... I am just... just a... rock... not... not... not a vine!”

The burly man laughed, stuttering.

The girl was about to go crazy and shouted angrily, “Get lost! When did I ever pester you?”

“Just... ah just, ah just... at... at... at the mountain pass, didn't you... wrap... wrap yourself around me?”

The burly man chuckled.

“Ahhh... I'm going to kill you! That wasn't voluntary! The Spiritual Qi underground surged, and my tree body grew rapidly; that wasn't something I wanted!”

A long whip suddenly appeared in the girl's hand, and she lashed out at the burly man.

The burly man smiled and kept dodging amidst the whip shadows. However, even if he didn't dodge, he wouldn't be hurt. When the long whip hit him, it was like two iron objects colliding, sparking bursts of fire.

“I... I... I'll stand here and let you... let you hit me... you... don't be angry!”

The burly man chuckled.

The girl's anger remained unabated. The long whip in her hand created countless afterimages, destroying everything within a radius of thirty or forty meters, except for the burly man in front of her, who didn't even suffer a scratch on his skin.

Tang Ku and Yang Jian stood to the side, watching the scene before them, and couldn't help but look at each other in bewilderment.

The Void Eye and Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye had, in fact, already discerned the true forms of these two.

That woman was clearly a tree spirit, and that man, needless to say, was a stubborn rock in his true form.

And Tang Ku actually recognized this stubborn rock...

That's right, it was the mountain he had lifted to block the Flaming Mountain, and the girl just said that this guy was called Heishan... Uh, wait...

A strange combination suddenly occurred to Tang Ku... the combination of a tree demon and Heishan...

“Alright, how did I end up in A Chinese Ghost Story?”

Unable to help himself, he let out a light cough. Tang Ku said loudly, “Hey, you two are disturbing the peace, you know that?”

...

Silence!

From extreme motion to extreme silence, the two... no, the two demons, their necks stiff, turned their heads one after another. Seeing two glittering figures standing to the side watching the show, they couldn't help but tremble like chaff.

Heishan was almost crying. He fell to his knees with a thud and wailed, “Two... two... two great deities... up... above... we... we... we didn't... do anything...”

Tang Ku waved his hand and said, “Alright, alright, stop crying. I didn't say you two did anything bad. Come to think of it, there's no Evil Qi on either of you, and there's a faint, shimmering light of Karma. You must have done many good deeds and never harmed any living beings. If not, I would have already taken care of you!”

Heishan finally cried; this was out of being moved. He stuttered in response, “Tha... thank you... Holy Monk... I... I... grateful... grateful...”

“Endlessly!”

The girl finished the sentence for him, rolled her eyes, and said, “You'd better stop talking. Just nod if there's anything to ask you...”

After speaking, the girl looked at Tang Ku and said excitedly, “Benefactor Immortal... do you still remember me? My name is Xiao Cui, and I am a Bodhi tree spirit from the mouth of the Flaming Mountain. If you hadn't taken away the Source of Fire Essence back then, I would have died and vanished long ago...”

Tang Ku tilted his head, then couldn't help but curl his lip and say, “I... why do I have absolutely no memory of that?”

Heishan also tilted his head, looking at Tang Ku with a confused expression.

The girl, Xiao Cui, slapped Heishan on the back of his head and said, frustrated by his lack of progress, “This is also your benefactor, why don't you hurry up and kowtow?”

Heishan looked at Yang Jian with dazed eyes and suddenly shivered: “Where is the benefactor? This one can split mountains!”

Great, this guy was not only scared incoherent by Yang Jian, but his speech had also suddenly become fluent.

Yang Jian was completely confused: “You, a rock spirit, can actually recognize me?”

“My... my great-uncle's... Peach Mountain... was split open by you!”

Heishan said with a crying tone.

Yang Jian had black lines on his forehead: “I didn't try to split you, can you stop crying?”

“You good-for-nothing!”

Another slap to the head, Xiao Cui said angrily, “I'm talking about the other one! If this benefactor hadn't thrown you onto the mountain pass, onto me, letting you absorb the underground Spiritual Qi, you would still be a stubborn rock right now. You really are a blockhead!”

Heishan finally looked properly at the bald man in front of him. Suddenly, his mouth drooped, and he rushed up to hug Tang Ku's thigh and cried, wiping his snot all over Tang Ku.

“Uh... benefactor... I... I have long... long wanted to repay... repay you... wuu wuu... I... I have finally seen you again!”

Tang Ku had black lines on his forehead: “I am not your benefactor, okay? Don't wipe your snot on me, I just washed these!”

The girl pulled Heishan aside and smiled sweetly at Tang Ku: “The fact that we can shed our original forms and turn into humans today is all thanks to your help. We waited here just so that one day we could meet you and repay your great kindness!”

Tang Ku curled his lip: “It was just an unintentional act that bore fruit. I really didn't think I would create the two of you... Hm, wait, we were talking about you two disturbing the peace, how did we get to this?”

“That's right!” Yang Jian suddenly came back to his senses, cleared his throat, and said, “You two didn't do anything majorly wrong, but disturbing the peace is not right. Fighting every day, the aftershocks of your battles can cause local earthquakes. Are you two human or not?”

“We... we...”

Heishan was cut off halfway by Yang Jian's glare.

“We were never human to begin with!”

Xiao Cui said, blinking her cute big eyes.

Yang Jian was speechless. In fact, he had been muddled by Heishan's actions earlier, and his words were truly a bit off-base.

Tang Ku looked at the two with a headache. After a long time, he looked at these two guys who didn't seem very bright and said helplessly: “Since we're on this topic, let me ask you, why do you fight every day and disturb the people? Although you are unintentional, you know that cultivators must not easily affect secular life, right?”

“This...” Xiao Cui blushed, “It's just that there is a Fire Lotus Seed in the forest ahead. I've been guarding it and cultivating by its side, but this guy keeps coming close and fighting with me for this tiny bit of resources. Don't you think that's infuriating?”

“I... I didn't mean... didn't mean... to fight for it...”

Heishan hurriedly defended himself, but when he saw Xiao Cui glare at him, the sound of his last word was as small as a mosquito's.

“Alright, I think I roughly know what's going on!” Tang Ku rubbed his temples and smiled bitterly helplessly.