Chapter 89: Repaying with Peaches for Plums

  "How strange, Li Mang's lightness skill is quite impressive!" Looking at Li Mang floating back and forth in the cage, a strange color flashed across Guī Yī's eyes. With only twenty years of cultivation, his lightness skill was comparable to that of fifty years; if this wasn't strange, then what was?

  "It's not a wind-based ability, nor is it internal energy... It seems to be the body's natural state... What kind of ability is this?!" The more Ghost Doctor observed, the more shocked he became, as this surpassed his understanding.

  "Could it be a human body variation?" The Ghost Doctor indeed lives up to his name. Although it was just a vague guess, he wasn't wrong. Li Mang's ability was obtained after eating the puffer fish meat and is fundamentally a result of human body variation.

  In the arena, Li Meng and Xiao Pi Hai had already turned into two residual shadows, suddenly left and right, ordinary people could hardly catch a glimpse of them with their naked eyes, showing how fast they were moving. However, upon closer observation, it was clear that Li Meng was only slightly better at lightness skill, otherwise he would have been brutally beaten by Xiao Pi Hai long ago.

  But as time went on, there were new changes in the field. The previous high song was suddenly changed, and the speed of the little kid gradually slowed down, and the intensity was also slightly inferior. It was clearly weakening, and the decline was very rapid. The ferocious expression also showed a hint of fatigue.

  "Li Mengzi, one minute left." The ghost doctor outside reminded him.

  Li Mang's heart sank, no longer as calm and composed as before. If there was no turning point, the little kid would be dead in less than 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes, a very short time for a life, but so long for a TV commercial break.

  The little brat is mentally abnormal, but when he hears that he is in danger, he stands up and angrily asks the enemy: "Who dares to bully Li Meng!"

  Although he often means well but does bad things, the silly actions of this little kid still manage to move Li Meng.

  But now, he is about to die, just eight years old, an age when he should still be playing with his friends in school... Li Mang felt the cruelty and horror of fate for the first time... Li Mang could hardly accept this terrible news.

  Death is really scary, at least Li Meng is afraid of death. He trains himself desperately just to survive; he wants to get stronger constantly, not because he has any grand ambitions, but simply to stay alive.

  Fifteen minutes of life is far from enough, a hundred years is also not enough. If possible, he wants ten thousand years, to live forever! The little kid's encounter today has already stirred up Li Mang's certain brain nerve. He doesn't want to succumb to the fate arranged by heaven. He wants to live on, to live immortal. Coexisting with heaven is still not enough; even if heaven and earth are destroyed, he will still be living well, for in his body lies the Benshanhai Jing, giving him this opportunity, this confidence!

  Fate...

  Li Meng seems to have caught onto something.

  Fate, luck, it has come to this. Li Mang didn't know what medicine to give the little brat, but he could give him good fortune, which was the last thing he could do. At this point, he couldn't care about the astonishment of the people outside, so he lifted his shirt and took out a crude leather belt from inside, taking advantage of the little brat's weakness to tie him up, using all his strength to bind him tightly.

  Deer skin can bring good luck to people, Li Mang doesn't know if it's effective or not. Luck is a mysterious thing that he can't grasp. But no matter what, he has to give it a try.

  "What is this?" The people outside the iron fence saw Li Mang take out his waistband and suddenly felt inexplicable, a moment of bewilderment, even the ghost doctor couldn't understand what Li Mang meant.

  Instinctively, the Ghost Doctor's scrutinizing gaze fell upon the cortical waistband, and he couldn't help but let out a soft "hmm". The Ghost Doctor was absolutely deserving of his reputation as a polymath; while it couldn't be said that he recognized every substance in the world, when it came to animal hides, he dared say that he knew the vast majority. However, this time, he was certain that he had never seen this particular type of fur before.

  But this was not the time to delve deeper, so he didn't rush to look more, but instead furrowed his brow and stared at the little kid. At this moment, he was very puzzled, what on earth was Li Meng doing? What's the point of tying someone up with a strange belt? But because he himself had no way out, he did not stop Li Meng's bizarre actions, but quietly waited.

  At this time, the little brat's life had entered its final countdown of a few minutes, no one held any hope for him anymore, even the ghost doctor was silent.

  At some point, the little brat had stopped struggling, and his bloodshot eyes finally closed... Li Meng felt that his hands holding him up were heavy, very heavy.

  The cage inside and outside was finally silent, compared to the deafening roar and howl before. The current silence seemed so mournful. For a long time, no one spoke, they didn't dare break the illusion left in their hearts.

  "...No way! How can life be exhausted so quickly." The voice of the ghost doctor was extremely sudden, and he saw his body shrink, and he actually went through the narrow steel grid, and came to Li Meng's side in an instant, grabbing the little kid's wrist.

  "Ah!" The ghost doctor seemed to be choked by something and remained in this posture for a long time.

  "Did it actually work?" was the astonished exclamation of the Ghost Doctor.

  "What?" Li Meng woke up with a start, and the people outside were also disbelieving. Had he succeeded? The little kid who had been defined as dead by them had successfully escaped danger in the last few minutes of his life?

  "The energy inside the body is no longer in chaos, and as long as you take medicine and rest for a period of time, you can wake up." The ghost doctor quickly made a judgment, but before Li Mang could get excited, he poured out another basin of icy cold water: "But unfortunately, the little kid's life has been burning out, and now it's likely that there is only about one year of lifespan left."

  "It's only been a year." The excitement that had just been brought up cooled down, although having a year was better than nothing, but after a year, they would have to face the same situation as today again, which was a very bad feeling.

  "Is there a solution, Senior Guiyi?" Li Mang couldn't help but ask.

  "It's naturally available, and the elixir can even bring people back to life!" The ghost doctor gave a definite answer, but shook his head and said: "But this requires spiritual medicine, which is hard to find!"

  "As long as there's a way, it's fine." Li Meng didn't give up. The Shan Hai Jing gave him all the hope he needed. In one year, although it was difficult to find the spiritual elixir, but finding the wonderful medicine, he had confidence.

  Taking advantage of the Ghost Doctor and the people from the Rescue Institute treating Xiao Pihai, Li Meng quietly put away the deerskin belt behind his back without saying goodbye and left. Today he took out the deerskin, fearing that someone would be suspicious, but now he is already an official member of Yanhuang, so he has nothing to fear.

  Even if he knew it was dangerous, Li Meng would still do so, the little kid had treated him like that from the beginning, and he had to make this choice.

  People often say "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", but they overlook a more important philosophy: "repay kindness with kindness".