Tan Rui lowered his eyes, thought for a moment, looked up at the Red Willow Demon, and said, "I will stay as your apprentice, but I want to ask you to agree to a condition."
The Red Willow Demon looked at Tan Rui and didn't speak for a long time. There was still no expression in his eyes.
"It's very hard to stay in this place. You may be blown away by the raging wind and sand at any time. If you don't rush back to the cave in time before dawn, you will also be burned to death by the sun."
For a long time, the red willow demon looked at Tan Rui and said.
"I'm not afraid!" Tan Rui shook her head firmly.
"Tell me about your condition first!" Red Willow Demon looked at Tan Rui and said.
"I want to go back and see my husband again. I promised him to go back in the next two days. If I don't go back, he will definitely be anxious!" Tan Rui said, looking at the Red Willow Demon.
"Ah!"
Red Willow Demon sneered, "You still don't want to believe that your man only has you in his heart?
Since you don't give up, why don't we make a bet.
I can send you back, and not just as your soul, but as a living person.
If you can convince your husband to give up everything and come here to be my slave after you go back, I will teach you the true skills of cultivation. After you come back here and practice for a hundred years, you will be like me, with a physical body and the ability to walk during the day.
Go out.
If he refuses to come back with you, you won't have to come back either, and your body will slowly rot and stink, and eventually your soul will be gone."
The red willow demon stretched that beautiful face forward, approached Tan Rui, and asked in a deep voice: "Do you dare?"
Her voice sounded like it was coming from hell, "Even if your husband is willing to come to my place with you, I won't treat him well because I hate men. He has to come and do hard work for me for twenty years. I
Only then will he be free."
Tan Rui looked at the red willow demon's beautiful face and shuddered.
She did not doubt what the Red Willow Demon said.
A person who could slaughter an entire city would not be a good man. Even if Liu Dong was really willing to follow her back here, she would not be willing to let Liu Dong suffer.
However, if she agrees to bet with the red willow demon, she can go back and go back like a living person.
She can spend a few more days with her beloved husband.
Tan Rui had an idea in mind.
She looked at the red willow demon and said, I am willing to bet with you!
She is willing to gamble, even though she knows that she will be the loser of the gamble, and the final outcome will be that she will be driven out of her mind.
The red willow demon looked at Tan Rui, dumbfounded for a long time, and then laughed again.
At the end of her laugh, there was finally some fluctuation in the indifferent eyes of the Red Willow Demon staring at her.
It's anger.
"Ignorance! Extremely stupid! If I had known this, I shouldn't have saved you and let you be destroyed by the sun!
Do you think a man would give up everything for you, a dead person?
Will not!
In the end, you will only end up in a state of despair! You will even lose the chance to be reincarnated as a human again!" Red Willow Demon said coldly.
"Even if he doesn't want to come back with me, even if I really lose my mind in the end, I won't regret it," Tan Rui said.
The Red Willow Demon said nothing more, staring at Tan Rui's face with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes.
The man in red clothes flashed, stood up, and disappeared.
"Great Immortal——"
Tan Rui thought that the red willow demon was angry and wanted to call her to stop her, but he was even more afraid that she would suddenly change her mind and not want to bet with him anymore.
The cave was empty, but the Red Willow Demon had long since disappeared.
Tan Rui lay slumped on the stone table.
The spiritual energy in the cave is very strong, and Tan Rui's soul has been nourished, but what's the use? Maybe she will never go back and see her husband and son for the last time.
Tan Rui started to cry.
The atmosphere in the cave became gloomy and cold because of Tan Rui's crying.
"why are you crying?"
After an unknown amount of time, the red willow demon's somewhat impatient voice sounded in Tan Rui's ears.
Tan Rui raised his head and saw the red willow demon standing beside the stone table. On the other end of the stone table, another Tan Rui was sitting.
She opened her eyes wide, it was her body that was already cold.
There was no blood on his body, and no wounds were seen, but his eyes were empty and lifeless, opened dully.
"I'll take you back!"
The Red Willow Demon raised his hand and Tan Rui found that his soul had returned to his cold body, a little stiff, but moving as usual.
"Remember, if he can't come back with you, your body will slowly stink, until finally, your soul will be gone!"
The red willow demon looked at Tan Rui and said word by word, "The bet you chose yourself, even if you fall in my eyes again, I will never help you again!
If he is willing to come back with you, you only need to burn this and you can return to this cave."
The red willow demon said, and gave Tan Rui a small section of red willow branch, which was covered with slender spikes of flowers. It was not the common purple-red, but a dazzling bright red.
The same color as the red dress and ruby bracelet worn by the Red Willow Demon.
"thank you!"
Tan Rui silently put away the red willow branch, knelt down and kowtowed to the red willow demon to thank her.
She knew that she would never burn that small branch of red willow, let alone tell Liu Dong about the bet she made with the red willow demon.
Although she really wanted to become the Red Willow Demon's apprentice and be able to extradite the souls lost in the Gobi Desert like the Red Willow Demon, she couldn't be so selfish.
Liu Dong still has a long life, including a job he likes and their filial son.
She has no regrets about being able to accompany Liu Dong on his last journey.
The Red Willow Demon looked down at Tan Rui who was lying on the ground. He didn't say anything more and only raised his hand gently to wave.
Tan Rui felt a sudden darkness in front of her, and her whole body floated up, as if she was weightless.
Around her, there were countless tiny lights shining like stars in the sky.
I don't know how long it took, but Tan Rui was surprised to find that she had returned home.
Fortunately, Liu Dong was not at home when she came back.
When Tan Rui said this, she looked up at me and said, "Brother Dong behind you should have already told you that I originally planned to leave when he finds out.
But who would have known that these days, he would actually take sick leave and stay with me every step of the way, and he wouldn't even mind the stench on my body getting worse day by day."
"So, what do you want me to do for you?" I asked Tan Rui.
"I can feel that I don't have a few days left. I would like to ask you to help me take care of Brother Dong's health after I leave. I'm worried that my current condition will affect him." Tan Rui replied.
"Don't worry, I can do it." I nodded.
"Actually, Liu Dong loves you so much that he should be willing to go to Northern Xinjiang with you. Why don't you ask him before making a decision?"
I spoke again: "That red willow demon doesn't seem like a bad person, and she doesn't necessarily treat him as a slave. Maybe she just wants to test Liu Dong's determination."
The decision this woman made is really heartbreaking.