Chapter 88: Crisis Averted

  At this time, in another tree hole, Luoyu Pan sat on a mat, her eyes fixed on the delicate flower petals stuck to the tree wall. Under the reflection of the moonstone, Hongmi felt that Luoyu's eyes were deep and eerie, and she couldn't help but feel afraid, wishing she could hide inside the tree wall.

  As an ancient demonic plant, it doesn't expose all its mental activities to its master like ordinary demonic pets. Its relationship with Luo Yu is more like a contract of equals, and in some ways even freer than that.

  Equal contract, the contracting parties are completely equal and must not interfere with each other's life and cultivation. This is a mutually beneficial contract where neither party can harm the other. If one party dies, the other will be severely injured or their cultivation will decrease or their lifespan will shorten.

  Hongmi was certain that she had not betrayed her master in any way. If it were said that it could be seen from her expression, then it would be even more absurd, because she was just a flower, where did the expression come from? Of course, except for the activities in her heart, but she couldn't read my mind, right? But now, why is her gaze so terrifying, as if she knew everything. Could it be that when she first opened her eyes, she discovered my intention, rather than the crowd outside the cave that triggered her vigilance?

  "Red rice, why are you trembling?"

  A faint voice awakened Hong Mi, who tried hard to stop trembling, but to no avail. The delicate leaves on the rattan emitted a soft rustling sound.

  "No, no, I'm not trembling, it's just a habitual twitch." Hongmi hastily explained, every word and action was crucial now, whether she could bluff her way through or not was right in front of her.

  "Are you still deceiving me?" Luo Yu sneered, "My inferior talent is truly not worthy of your noble status. Let's dissolve the contract."

  Luoyu narrowed her eyes, with a demonic pet that could overthrow its master at any time staying by her side, she was truly unable to eat or sleep in peace.

  "No, I disagree!" The red rice excitedly waved the rattan whip, hitting the tree wall with a loud noise, and faintly visible scars appeared.

  "Then I'll kill you, and see if this backlash will get me killed. If I die, one life for another, it's also a clean deal, so I won't have to be startled in the morning and worried at night, and accidentally become your meal in my belly. Then I'll become the laughing stock of the Xiuzhen world, the first cultivator to be eaten by a demonic beast, enough for them to laugh for hundreds of years!"

  Looking at Luo Yu's pale face with a hint of anger, her eyes biting into people, Hong Mi was shocked and immediately retracted the vine whip, her whole body trembling, the rustling sound getting louder and louder. She knew everything, what she said was true. She really intended to kill me!

  For a moment, Hong Mi forgot about everything else, he crawled on the ground and begged bitterly: "Master, please don't kill me, I was wrong. I really know my mistake, I won't dare to do it again."

  Luoyu gripped the Golden Hoop Rod tightly, her hand's veins bulging, and coldly snorted: "Last time you crawled on the ground, it was to change the contract pattern. What are you preparing to do this time? Are you going to take the initiative?"

  "No, no!" Hong Mei hastily lifted the flower bud and retreated backward. "I am truly repentant, you opened your eyes to warn me two days ago, after that I understood, my heart is set on being a loyal servant to the master. Moreover, there is a contract between master and servant, I dare not and will not do anything detrimental to the master."

  "Is this contract that you've altered beyond recognition still called a master-servant contract? If not for the spatial seal within my body, I would be the servant and you would be the master by now!"

  Hongmi cried out: "At the time, I wanted to modify it, but your space suppressed me and I couldn't change it. The contract will become like this. It's really because of my ancient demon plant bloodline, not because I modified it."

  Looking at the tears flowing down from the petals, Luo Yu sighed, "This contract has how much binding power, how many loopholes can be exploited, heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know, if you can't make me truly feel at ease, I'll have no choice but to kill you and wait for the backlash to arrive."

  Last time she leveled up, she had barely restrained herself from killing it; otherwise, the backlash of the contract would have arrived, coupled with the backlash of her spiritual energy, and she would have undoubtedly died.

  Hongmi held back tears, gazing at Luo Yu's calm face. The flower pillar suddenly contracted violently. At this moment, the fear was even greater than seeing the giant trees around him turn to dust in an instant. It knew that if it really couldn't satisfy Luo Yu, then it would truly have only one path left - to die and disappear. And with that, the ancient Redmi tribe would also truly vanish from the world.

  The wilted petals swayed, and the red rice sighed: "Put me in your space, as long as I enter the space, plus the master-slave contract, I will be your true servant, absolutely obedient to orders, not daring to rebel; as long as you want to listen, all my thoughts will be exposed in your heart; as soon as you move your mind, I can make myself die and disappear."

  Luoyu stared at Hongmi, pondering whether what she had just said was true or not.

  "No need to doubt, what I'm saying is true. Your space has just been born and hasn't developed spiritual intelligence yet, so it can't communicate with you, or else it would tell you that what I said is not false. However, since you're only in the refining qi stage, your space already has a certain level of spirituality, but it's something I've never heard of."

  Luoyu wondered: "What kind of cultivation usually produces spirituality?"

  "I don't know either, these memories are in my inheritance, and currently the only unlocked memories are just these vague pieces of information." Hongmi said weakly: "Put me into your space, and you can read my memories, if you want to know something, you can check for yourself. Actually, entering the space is good too, at least my leveling speed will increase a lot, as for freedom, what else do I have to ask for?"

  "Hmph, if you hadn't deceived me multiple times, would I have ever thought of completely binding you? For now, I'll believe you once and put you into the space."

  Luoyu threw the red rice in, but as soon as it entered the space, a purple pattern appeared in the gray sky above, exactly the same as the master-slave contract pattern before, except that the latter was red.

  A purple figure suddenly drilled into the pistil, and the red rice violently shook, spewing out a mouthful of red **, which was half of its origin. It fell on the barren land and was immediately absorbed completely.

  Suddenly, a red thread appeared in Luo Yu's mind, extending invisibly to the stamen of the red rice flower. She felt that with just a thought, she could break the red thread and cause the red rice to disappear completely. This was something that had not happened before; previously, her connection with the red rice had only been vague and indistinct, unable to be controlled at will. It seemed that what the red rice had said earlier was not false.

  The crisis was lifted, like a huge mountain peak removed from her back, Luo Yu felt refreshed all over, and a faint smile appeared on her face.

  "Master, I just spat out the origin of the universe, and my body is extremely weak. I need to recover in space for a while to restore my strength." Red Rice's voice was extremely weak.

  "It's all right now, there's nothing wrong, you can rest assured and take a good rest." Luoyu was in a good mood and didn't intend to make things difficult for it.

  Hongmi heard this and immediately took root in the barren land, closed her petals, and began to absorb spiritual energy.

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