A thought like this made Ning Beichen restless. Most importantly, he didn't have Li Yuejing's contact information.
Just as Ning Beichen was sighing, he suddenly heard a familiar voice from outside.
"Innkeeper, are there any rooms left here?"
The person speaking was Li Yuejing. She had coincidentally arrived here as well and was staying at this inn, which made Ning Beichen overjoyed.
"Miss Li, what a coincidence."
Ning Beichen immediately walked over and called out to her.
When Li Yuejing saw it was Ning Beichen, she also showed a happy expression.
"Young Master Ning, you're here too."
"Yes, what a coincidence," Ning Beichen replied happily. He had been worried that something might have happened to Li Yuejing and was fretting about where to find her, when she suddenly appeared before him.
"Miss Li, are you also here to stay?" Ning Beichen asked her.
Li Yuejing nodded, but unfortunately, the inn had no spare rooms.
Just as Li Yuejing was about to leave, Ning Beichen panicked.
"Miss Li, if there are no spare rooms at the inn, how about we share one room?"
As soon as Ning Beichen finished speaking, he immediately wanted to slap himself.
Was that any way to talk?
She was a young lady.
Putting aside the current era, even in modern times, such behavior would be extremely impolite. She would surely give him a slap and call him a scoundrel.
"Okay, but will this disturb you, Young Master Ning?"
To his surprise, Li Yuejing happily agreed. She didn't slap him or call him a scoundrel.
"No... no, the room is very big. You sleep on the bed, and I'll sleep on the floor." Ning Beichen said.
"How can that be? Young Master Ning is my savior. I'm grateful to you, so how can I let you sleep on the floor? I'll sleep on the floor. Besides, as cultivators, we only need to meditate for a while, and the night will pass quickly." Li Yuejing said quickly.
"No, no, no, you are a young lady, and I am a man. Naturally, I should defer to a lady." Ning Beichen waved his hands immediately.
"No, you sleep on the bed, and I'll sleep on the floor."
"No, no, no... I'll sleep on the floor, and you sleep on the bed."
...
"Alright, alright, why don't you two stop arguing? Do you want me to give you my bed too?" The innkeeper said, unable to watch any longer.
Ning Beichen and Li Yuejing suddenly felt a bit awkward and stopped arguing.
Back in the room, Ning Beichen ordered a table full of food. Seeing Li Yuejing wolfing it down, he figured the girl hadn't had a proper meal in a long time.
"Eat slowly. There's more if you're not full," Ning Beichen said to her.
"It's enough, it's enough. I've been on the run from the Moon-Worshipping Cult's pursuit all this time and haven't been able to eat a good meal. I'm starving," Li Yuejing said somewhat sheepishly.
Ning Beichen only ate a few bites and then watched Li Yuejing, lost in thought.
If Li Yuejing were to die, would she have died at the hands of the Moon-Worshipping Cult?
But why did Jin Yuehe, who returned, forget Chang Qing? Was her memory faulty, or did she choose to forget?
The crucial point was that Ning Beichen couldn't tell Li Yuejing about these matters.
After dinner, the two began to argue again about who would sleep on the bed and who on the floor. In the end, Ning Beichen won because he truly couldn't bear to see a woman sleep on the floor while he, a grown man, slept on the bed.
However, neither of them actually slept. They were both meditating.
Suddenly, in the middle of the night, Ning Beichen, who was meditating, opened his eyes. Shortly after, Li Yuejing also opened her eyes, and they both got up simultaneously.
"There's someone outside." Ning Beichen sent a telepathic message to her.
"Could it be the Moon-Worshipping Cult?" Li Yuejing said.
Ning Beichen shook his head. He didn't know. The people from the Moon-Worshipping Cult were still humans, not monsters. They wouldn't write "I am from the Moon-Worshipping Cult" on their foreheads.
However, Ning Beichen could sense that the person outside wasn't very strong, at least not to him. But compared to Li Yuejing, the intruder's strength wasn't weak.
As expected, not long after, Ning Beichen smelled a faint scent and saw some smoke seeping in through the crack under the door. Ning Beichen immediately sent a telepathic message to Li Yuejing, telling her to block her breathing.
Following that, Ning Beichen quietly moved to the door and waited patiently. After a while, he saw the lock being picked from the outside. Several masked figures tiptoed in from outside the door. However, before they could get a clear look, several gusts of wind-like fingers shot towards them. The masked figures lost their strength and fell to the ground.
At this moment, Ning Beichen went over, tore off the black cloths from their faces, and then asked Li Yuejing to see if they were from the Moon-Worshipping Cult.
"Spare my life, Young Master, spare my life, Miss. We are not from the Moon-Worshipping Cult. We are just a few petty thieves. We saw the young master's generous spending during the day, so we wanted to come in and steal some valuables." The men hurriedly begged for mercy from Ning Beichen and Li Yuejing.
"Heh, you want wealth?" Ning Beichen chuckled coldly. These people really took them for fools. With such abilities, why would they be petty thieves? They were insulting his intelligence. The reason they collapsed as soon as they entered wasn't that they were too weak, but that Ning Beichen was too strong. If Ning Beichen hadn't been there, and only Li Yuejing was, even if she could avoid the sleeping incense, she wouldn't have been their match.
"Yes, yes, we only seek wealth." The men nodded repeatedly, as if they were truly just there for wealth.
However, Ning Beichen kicked the most talkative one on the temple. With a 'snap', this man's head exploded like an egg, and blood mixed with disgusting red and white matter splattered onto the faces of the others, terrifying them into urinating themselves.
"Please, don't insult my intelligence. If you don't tell me your real purpose, then none of you will leave today. You will all go down to accompany him," Ning Beichen said, pointing to the man he had kicked to death.
"I'll say it... I'll say it. We are the Gale Wind Bandits from nearby. The Moon-Worshipping Cult has issued a bounty on Miss Li. Whoever captures her will receive a generous reward from the cult. Our men happened to see Miss Li at the inn, so..." The Gale Wind Bandits confessed everything.
"Gale Wind Bandits? Miss Li, are there Gale Wind Bandits in this area?" Ning Beichen didn't fully believe their words and needed verification.
"I seem to have heard of it. There are indeed Gale Wind Bandits in this area, but no one knows where they are hiding," Li Yuejing thought for a moment and then said.