202: 137 Hua Tian_2 202: 137 Hua Tian_2 Fang Zhixing spoke frankly, “I am a martial artist and need an absolutely quiet place to seclude myself and comprehend cultivation techniques.”

Hua Gu understood and, after thinking for a moment, asked, “I have a cellar here, how long do you want to rent it for?”

Fang Zhixing replied, “Just one month, I might leave early, but I will pay for a full month’s rent.”

Hua Gu nodded, lifted her hand to point towards the east side of the flower field, and said carefully, “Over there I have built several small farmhouses for the temporary florists I employ.

Next to the farmhouse, there is a cellar, which was used for storing flower seeds for a while but was abandoned later on.”

She reminded him, “That cellar hasn’t been cleaned for a long time, it’s quite dirty, and there might be rats and insects inside.”

Fang Zhixing asked, “How is the cellar’s seal, does it let in light?”

“It doesn’t leak,” she replied.

Hua Gu said with a faint smile, “The cellar is built very solidly, it is lightproof, waterproof, and doesn’t get damp.”

Fang Zhixing was satisfied, “That’s fine, I’ll clean it myself.”

“All right, I’ll take you there now to have a look.”

Hua Gu opened the Picket Garden and stepped out.

The big black dog darted out, came up to Xigou, and stared incessantly at Xigou, intermittently growling low in its throat.

Xigou rolled its eyes and ignored it.

Ever since becoming a dog, what Xigou hated the most were other dogs!

Hua Gu led Fang Zhixing towards the east.

The big black dog followed Xigou all the way, both alert and curious, occasionally trying to get close, sniffing at Xigou’s rear end.

“Grr!”

Xigou glared angrily and barked, baring its teeth, looking fierce and menacing.

“Woo~” The big black dog was frightened, its neck shrinking back, its ears drooping, as it hid trembling beside Hua Gu.

Hua Gu couldn’t help but take a deep look at Xigou and stroked the big black dog’s head to comfort it.

“You, are you a dog or a wolf?” Hua Gu couldn’t help but ask.

Fang Zhixing laughed, “He is Xigou.”

“Xi…”

Hua Gu’s eyes widened slightly as she began to understand something, her cheeks reddening a bit, but she did not pursue it further.

Seeing this, Fang Zhixing’s lips curled up, quickly changing the subject, and casually asked, “Hua Gu, is this entire flower field yours?”

Hua Gu responded, “Yes, it has been passed down from my grandmother.”

Fang Zhixing understood and sighed, “Everything outside is in chaos, with countless common folk displaced, but here it’s peaceful, uninvolved with the world.

It’s really nice!”

Hearing this, Hua Gu glanced at Fang Zhixing, chuckled lightly, and said, “Is there such a place in the world that is uninvolved with the world?

Apricot Blossom Village is not as peaceful as you imagine.”

Fang Zhixing was taken aback at first, just about to ask in detail when Hua Gu suddenly quickened her pace, pointing to a row of bamboo houses ahead, “Here we are, there are a total of eight bamboo houses.”

Fang Zhixing looked, the bamboo houses were all empty, uninhabited, cleaned inside, looking particularly tidy.

Hua Gu walked to the side of the farmhouse, bent down, and lifted a bamboo cover from the ground.

In an instant, a dark hole was revealed.

Fang Zhixing leaned in to look, beneath the hole there was a wooden ladder leading down, nearly three meters deep, enough for a person to stand upright.

He slid down the ladder, looking around.

The cellar was about four meters in length, the bottom spread with a layer of sand, and the surrounding walls also smeared with a layer of paste, the surface treated very smoothly, dry.

There was no particular odor in the air.

But the sunlight shining through the hole exposed layers of interwoven cobwebs.

Fang Zhixing looked up and said, “Apart from the spider webs being abundant and needing a clean-up, there’s nothing else.”

Hua Gu immediately said, “Wait a moment, I’ll get you a broom.”

Very soon!

The spider webs in the cellar were all swept clean.

The two agreed on the rent, and Fang Zhixing swiftly paid it.

Afterward, Hua Gu went off on her way with the big black dog.

Fang Zhixing squatted down, looking at the cellar, and sighed, “Ah, I just need to squat in the ‘Heavenly Prison’ for seven days.”

Xigou cleared its throat and said, “Well, I don’t need to squat with you in prison, do I?”

Fang Zhixing glanced at Xigou and spread his hands, “It’s up to you, but just in case, I mean, if I level up and you don’t, you can’t blame me.”

“…”

Xigou hesitated for a moment, then gritted its teeth, “Fine, I’ve followed you this far, what’s seven more days of enduring.”

Fang Zhixing raised an eyebrow, “I think, me staying in the cellar and you watching over the entrance outside, making sure no one opens it casually, is also a form of companionship, isn’t it?”

Xigou thought about it and felt inspired, “Right, I’ll guard…”

The next instant, he violently came to his senses, blinking as he said, “Wait a minute, did you plan on having me guard the door for seven days right from the start?”

Fang Zhixing replied, “I never thought of it that way.

I can lock the cellar door from the inside; it doesn’t need to be guarded all the time.”

Xigou narrowed his eyes and said, “Aren’t you worried someone might forcefully open it from the outside?”

Fang Zhixing curled his lips and said, “If someone really wanted to do that, could a single dog like you stop them?”

Xigou snapped back, “Who are you looking down on?

I can sweep through the Power Transmission Realm with my strength.

Even if a martial artist from the Great Python Realm came, I could suppress one or two of them.”

Fang Zhixing nodded and said, “Okay, then you guard it.”

He hugged a water jar and jumped straight in, then he immediately closed the bamboo lid.

“…”

Xigou silently watched and, out of boredom, lay down on the bamboo lid.

It was pitch-black inside the cellar, so dark he couldn’t see his own fingers.

Fang Zhixing placed the water jar in a corner and spread a bamboo mat on the ground.

For the next seven days, he would stave off hunger with meat pills and had prepared drinking water.

As for urination and defecation, that’s what the water jar was for.

That was the condition, so he would just have to tough it out!

The first day passed quickly.

On the second day, it suddenly began to rain.

Xigou had no choice but to hide inside the farmhouse to stay dry.

This spring rain was gentle and endless, lasting for three days straight.

After the skies cleared, Xigou, bored out of his mind, wandered all over the garden.

The big black dog watched him from afar, seemingly always wanting to come over and play with him.

But Xigou had his pride and would rather die than play with another dog.

That evening, as Xigou was lying down sleeping, the sound of horse hooves suddenly carried on the wind.

He raised his head to look and saw three tall horses outside the door of Hua Gu’s bamboo building.

There were people on the horses.

However, they were a bit too far away for him to see clearly.

Xigou quickly lay back down.

But soon after, the big black dog’s frenzied barking resounded, animated and intense.

Xigou turned his head, covered his ears, and continued to sleep soundly.

Before long, the sound of horse hooves grew from distant to near.

Xigou looked up bewildered, fixing his gaze until his pupils involuntarily contracted sharply.

A horse came running over in a frightened panic, with a rein trailing behind it.

At the end of the rein, someone’s foot was wrapped.

That person was being dragged along, crushing a path of flowers.

Xigou stood up and took a careful look, discovering that the person was spitting blood, with a huge dent in his chest.

Right after, a figure sprinted over—it was Hua Gu.

She lightly tapped her toes, sprung high into the air, and gracefully landed on the horse’s back, steadying the frightened animal.

Then she dismounted, walked over to the person, looked down at him, and lifted her foot, violently stomping down.

Crack!

A sound of a spine being crushed echoed through the world.

Xigou shuddered, his ears drooping as he lay back on the ground.

Hua Gu glanced at Xigou, then withdrew her gaze, picked up the person’s body, led the horse away, and left.

Xigou watched from a distance as Hua Gu dug a hole in the flower field and buried the person.

After completing all this, Hua Gu wiped off her sweat, suddenly turned around, and walked over, making her way to Xigou.

At that moment, Xigou felt a wave of panic, calling out urgently, “Fang Zhixing, come out quickly.”

Fang Zhixing transmitted his voice back, “What’s wrong?”

Xigou found it hard to describe the situation in front of him and blurted out, “That Hua Gu might kill me.”

The next moment, Hua Gu squatted down in front of Xigou, gently touched his head, and smiled, “Look at my flower field, today it has three more people buried, the soil will definitely become more fertile, and it will grow even more beautiful flowers, don’t you think?”

Xigou lay on the ground, trembling, not daring to move an inch.

After a while, Hua Gu stood up and drifted away with light footsteps.

Xigou let out a long breath and exclaimed, “Damn, that crazy woman almost scared me to death!”