Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 767 - 755: Heart Protecting Lock

Chapter 767: Chapter 755: Heart Protecting Lock

As Shig Lingrou walked back toward Shi Feng, she held two skewers of candied hawthorns in her hand. Then, she handed one to Shi Feng, smiling, "Here you go!"

"Candied hawthorns!" Shi Feng murmured with a smile, but he did not decline her kindness and reached out to take it.

Seeing that Shi Feng had accepted the skewer of candied hawthorns, Shig Lingrou started to eat her own, biting half a berry into her mouth, and then she said, "Mmm! Sour and sweet, really tasty!"

On that gorgeous face, her lively eyes half-closed, she spoke as if savoring and intoxicated by the experience.

Shi Feng shook his head with a smile, watching Ling Rou, who resembled the girl next door, took a look at the candied hawthorn in his hand, and bit into one. It was indeed sour and sweet and tasted pretty good.

Afterward, Shi Feng looked again at her clear and fair complexion, which was no longer the cold and indifferent face she had when she first saw him.

While watching this white figure, an image of another girl suddenly surged in Shi Feng’s mind.

That girl, when he first met her, bore a cold demeanor as well, but as they spent more time together, she gradually showed more smiles.

From some perspectives, Shi Feng felt these two women were quite alike. Both harbored their own burdens, and beneath their beautiful exteriors, they concealed various hardships.

He only wondered how that unfortunate girl, burdened with deep-seated hatred from the Blood Sea, was faring now! When they met again in the Death Forbidden Land, he had seen her once beautiful black hair turned stark white.

And she had even taken up the Poison Technique!

He had initially entered the Ancient Relics to find her, only to fail in tracing her whereabouts.

He hoped nothing had befallen her! When he saw Qin Rufan later, he resolved to inquire about her background and the source of her deep-seated hatred from the Blood Sea.

He had once promised her that no matter where her enemy hid, he would seek vengeance for her!

"Eh? What’s the matter with you? Why did you space out while eating candied hawthorn?" Just then, Shig Lingrou noticed Shi Feng’s distraction, her face showing curiosity as she asked.

She stretched out her left hand and gently waved it in front of Shi Feng.

Shig Lingrou’s words snapped Shi Feng back to reality. Seeing her childlike gestures, he chuckled and shook his head, "It’s nothing, just thinking about some things."

"Oh!" Shig Lingrou opened her mouth, "Oh," she voiced, nodding at Shi Feng.

"Let’s go," said Shi Feng.

"Okay!" Shig Lingrou nodded in agreement.

Following that, the two continued walking down the street ahead. However, it wasn’t long before Shi Feng saw Ling Rou divert to a stall selling jewelry.

Shi Feng shook his head helplessly. The once cold woman seemed to transform into a different person upon arriving here.

All he could do was follow after her, somewhat helplessly.

"Young lady, why not buy something to take back with you? Everything here is carefully crafted," said the stall owner, a woman in her forties with a plump face and figure, greeting Shig Lingrou with a beaming smile the moment she arrived.

"Take a look, miss, these bracelets. They are carved from fine jade. You’re so beautiful, they would really suit you!" The stall owner picked up a pair of jade bracelets and handed them to Shig Lingrou with a smile.

Shi Lingrou took a look at it, then placed it back on the stall.

"Look here, young lady, this phoenix hairpin also suits you very well."

Shi Lingrou took it over for a look, but soon after, she put it back on the stall again.

Seeing that Shi Lingrou didn’t seem interested in buying anything, the vendor, noticing Shi Feng standing beside her and deducing the intimacy of their relationship, had a flash of insight and said to Shi Lingrou with a smile:

"Young lady, why not buy a Heart Protecting Lock for your sweetheart here? Get him a Heart Protecting Lock and lock his heart up forever!"

As the vendor spoke, his hand pointed towards a nearby display, which included several sets of Heart Protecting Locks, made of gold, silver, and bronze.

Upon hearing the vendor’s suggestion, Shi Lingrou’s face immediately flushed with two shades of red, and she shyly lowered her head.

Shi Feng also became instantly embarrassed.

The expressions on the couple’s faces suggested to the vendor that these were two shy lovers.

Then, seizing the moment, the vendor continued to strike while the iron was hot:

"Young lady, take a look. My own spouse used to have a wandering heart, so back when we were young, I put one of these locks on him, and it locked his heart up tight. Now, he listens so well, you wouldn’t believe it."

Shi Lingrou’s face was still a sheet of crimson, yet her gaze stealthily shifted towards the Heart Protecting Locks.

Seeing where Shi Lingrou’s eyes were pointed, the vendor sensed an opportunity and handed over two gold locks and two silver locks, "Take a look, young lady! Choose carefully."

With a blushing face, Shi Lingrou took them from the vendor’s hand and actually began to look over them carefully.

Hearing the vendor’s words about locking up a lover’s heart.

Shi Feng’s mind was flooded with memories of the beauty far away in the Eastern Domain, the day in the cave of the Demon Beast Mountain Range when she removed the gold lock, revealed her true identity as a woman, and then presented the gold lock to him.

Was that her intention all along?

It didn’t take long for Shi Lingrou to actually choose a silver Heart Protecting Lock. She held it in her hand for a close look, her cheeks still flushed with color, and then she paid the vendor with a red face.

The vendor grinned and said to them with a smile: "Young lady, you have a good eye indeed. The two of you really are a perfect match, a fine pair made in heaven. I wish you a long and happy life together, harmony and joy! Hehe!"

Upon hearing the vendor’s words, Shi Lingrou’s pretty face turned even redder. She turned her head and stealthily glanced forward, noticing that he seemed to be lost in thought again.

Shi Lingrou quietly handed the silver lock she was holding to Shi Feng, gently placing it in his hand.

"Ah?" Shi Feng suddenly felt a heavy object in his hand and was jolted from his reverie, looking down to see a silver Heart Protecting Lock in his grasp.

"This..." Shi Feng looked at the silver Heart Protecting Lock in his hand and for a moment didn’t know what to say, but at that moment, he saw Shi Lingrou had already walked off alone, leaving him a fleeting white silhouette.

"This..." Shi Feng walked towards the white silhouette, wondering how he should handle the object in his hand.

The once Emperor Nine Nether, the once strongest under these skies, who had vanquished the Demon King and brought peace to the Human Clan, was facing this kind of situation for the first time and didn’t know what to do.

Suddenly, Shi Feng saw the white silhouette walking ahead stop abruptly, and a sleazy, lewd man’s laugh echoed from up ahead, "Hehe... hehehe..."

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