"Ah!" Li Xiu was thinking when suddenly there was that soft sensation under his palm again, the sa slippery mushy feeling as before, making Li Xiu’s hairs stand on end. He swiftly pulled his hand back as if shocked.
"What’s wrong with you again?" Sha Chu asked from ahead upon hearing Li Xiu’s exclamation.
Because the passage was too narrow, Sha Chu couldn’t turn around to check and could only stop to inquire about Li Xiu’s situation.
"Nothing... nothing..." Li Xiu looked at the spot his palm had just pressed against; there was nothing there, making him doubt whether his previous sensation was an illusion.
But he knew in his heart that it was not an illusion. Although he had never liked soft creatures and even stayed away from them, it was certainly not a fear-induced hallucination; it was a real tactile sensation.
However, after observing for a while with the light from Sha Chu’s body, he still found nothing, leaving him very puzzled.
"Don’t scream without a reason." Sha Chu snorted coldly and continued to crawl forward.
This ti, Li Xiu no longer let his mind wander and watched the passage ahead carefully, fearing he would miss seeing what he touched as before.
After crawling for a while, Li Xiu didn’t encounter that sensation again, making him sowhat doubt if he really had a hallucination earlier.
Just as Li Xiu was beginning to relax, his body suddenly stiffened; it felt as if sothing crawled into his pants by the ankle and was moving up his calf.
The thing was cool and soft, making Li Xiu feel as if a very large caterpillar was crawling on his calf.
Li Xiu felt himself on the verge of exploding. He was afraid of such creatures — no matter how ugly those giant steel beasts or demonic spirits were, he wasn’t scared of them, but soft-bodied creatures like this genuinely unsettled him.
This might have sothing to do with his childhood experiences; back then, Li Xiu feared nothing and was quite the reckless child.
Once, while playing in a small grove, Li Xiu suddenly found a colorful, semi-transparent caterpillar which looked very beautiful.
Ignorant at the ti, he reached out and picked up the caterpillar, playing with it in his palm.
The caterpillar crawled over his small hand, even climbing up his arm.
Li Xiu was ecstatic and even wanted to keep the caterpillar as a pet, but before he could make it ho, he collapsed to the ground.
That incident left Li Xiu in the hospital, hovering between life and death for over half a month, barely clinging to life. His entire arm was swollen thicker than his thigh, with black spots erging where the caterpillar had crawled. After those spots festered, they oozed pus continuously.
The pain tornted Li Xiu, creating a psychological shadow. From that point on, he kept his distance from soft-bodied creatures, eliminating any that posed a threat.
The sensation on his leg now was very similar, as if a larger caterpillar was wriggling on his calf.
Li Xiu was instantly on edge. With his movents restricted, he couldn’t reach his calf and could only frantically shake his leg, as if powered by an electric motor.
After several shakes, he felt the thing on his leg finally co off, and Li Xiu desperately crawled forward.
So unknown surge of strength enabled him to speedily crawl despite the Fire Lotus Sword’s usual weight feeling significantly lighter.
"There’s a bug... there’s a bug behind us..." Li Xiu shouted as he pushed Sha Chu from behind.
"What bug?" Sha Chu felt Li Xiu pushing her butt and was instantly furious. But upon hearing there was a bug behind them, her face changed, and she quickened her pace.
Both of them scrambled forward with all their might. Shortly after, Li Xiu felt nothing below his hands and tumbled out of the passageway.
It turned out the passage had ended, opening into a hollow space.
"Where’s the bug?" Sha Chu stood at the passageway’s entrance, scrutinizing its interior before turning around to glare coldly at Li Xiu.
Li Xiu ignored her, rolling up his pant leg to inspect the area where the soft thing had crawled over.
Examining it over and over, his leg seed fine, without so much as a trace.
Lowering his pant leg, he looked up at Sha Chu, seeing her staring at him with icy eyes, he could only clear his throat and say, "Perhaps the bug didn’t catch up."
"Li Xiu, I’m warning you, not just because you’re not yet a formal mber of the Eternal Heaven, but even if you beco one, I sponsored your entry. I’m your direct superior, and your life is still in my hands," Sha Chu said coldly.
"I understand, but there really was a bug," Li Xiu admitted, knowing he was at a disadvantage.
Sha Chu glanced into the passageway again, still seeing nothing, then looked at Li Xiu, unable to discern anything.
"Move on, don’t waste ti," Sha Chu said no more, stepping forward.
With Sha Chu’s light, Li Xiu finally saw that this cave wasn’t too large, at most two ters high and the size of a room, with a mud wall embedded with stones that housed a pink door.
Unlike the Trial Gate Li Xiu had seen before, this door was very small, less than a ter high, entirely pink, appearing like a hybrid of jade and stone, and there was no telling what it was made of.
Sha Chu approached the small pink door, pulled out a plastic bag, and took out several pink spinals, embedding them one by one into the grooves of the door.
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