Seeing that the beast was already far away, the woman said with a slightly shy and angry tone: "You've held me for so long, isn't it enough? You can put me down now." It's clear that she felt very embarrassed being held by a strange man.

  Ye Tianfan only then realized he was still hugging her, so he quickly put her down. However, the wonderful hand feeling transmitted through her clothes made Ye Tianfan reluctant to let go for a moment. After all, Ye Tianfan was already sixteen years old, and under the influence of his intelligent brain, he had matured a lot earlier than others, and he was no longer ignorant about relationships between men and women.

  Glaring at Ye Tianfan with a hint of resentment, the female cultivator said: "Thanks for just now, if it weren't for you I might have lost my soul already. However, because you dared to hug me, your debt to me for saving my life is hereby written off. By the way, my name is Wang Xiaoling and I'm 20 years old this year, what about you?"

  In response to her attitude, Ye Tianfan could only smile wryly and then said: "My name is Ye Tianfan, I'm about to turn 17 soon. As for you, Miss, there's no need to say thanks or anything like that. I just did it on a whim, don't take it as something worthy of your gratitude."

  "Ah, you're so young and yet so formidable. Now that you mention it, I recall something - how did you end up here? Are you following me? Better tell me the truth." Wang Xiaoling said with a fierce tone, waving her fist as she spoke, clearly indicating that if Ye Tianfan didn't tell the truth, she would give him a good beating. She looked rather adorable while doing so.

  Ye Tianfan said with a bad tone: "My curiosity is not that heavy, seeing you wearing a bamboo hat and dressing up strangely, I must investigate you thoroughly. I am an inner disciple of the Danling Sect, came here to complete the inner door mission, and my mission is to kill the flame snake inside. What are you doing here?"

  "What's so special about the Danling Sect's disciples, not many people in our clan are willing to go anyway." Wang Xiaoling muttered softly, but immediately reacted and asked loudly: "Are you telling the truth? Are you here to capture this flame snake? Do you have confidence that if you capture it, you can give me the fire lotus guarded by that demon beast?"

  "Hmm, that depends on what you're going to use it for. If your answer satisfies me, I might give it to you. But if not..." Ye Tianfan was cut off before he could finish speaking.

  Wang Xiaoling hastily said: "If you're not satisfied, I can buy it with money. As long as it's not excessive, I can buy it."

  Ye Tianfan was left speechless for a moment, he didn't expect this young lady to be so imaginative, he himself didn't have such thoughts. So Ye Tianfan asked: "Alright, tell me what you want to do, let me hear it, I'm very curious, you'd rather die than give up, I want to know the reason."

  Wang Xiaoling tidied up her thoughts and said, "I'm from a family that I sneaked out of because it was too boring and suffocating at home. My family doesn't allow me to come out freely, but I've escaped many times before. This time, while I was playing around, I found a poor little girl named Meng Ling'er..."

  Wang Xiaoling had not finished speaking, when Ye Tianfan hastily replied: "Isn't it that your parents died, then you were bullied by others, and finally you met her, saw how pitiful she was, and took her in? But because she suffered from cold poison, her body is weak and she's about to die. You wanted to take her back to your family, but time didn't permit it, and coincidentally you knew that there was a fire lotus here that could cure her, so you risked coming here to pick some, right?"

  Although Wang Xiaoling was dissatisfied with Ye Tianfan's interruption, she heard that what Ye Tianfan said was reasonable and consistent with her own experience.

  "How did you know? Were you at the scene too? If so, why didn't you come out to help?" Wang Xiaoling hastily asked Ye Tianfan, clearly taking it very seriously.

  "Haha, aren't the plots in stories like that? What's so hard to understand? Besides, I've seen this kind of thing happen many times before, how could I not know?" Ye Tianfan explained with a smile as he looked at her serious expression.

  "Oh, so that's the reason. I thought you were one of those heartless people who wouldn't lift a finger to help others. If you really were that kind of person, I would...I would..." Wang Xiaoling trailed off, unable to bring herself to say something harsh. After all, she came from a family with strict discipline, where swearing was not allowed, and no one had ever taught her how to curse."

  Ye Tianfan had a mind to tease her a bit, so he said: "What will you do? Are you going to kill me or not?"

  Wang Xiaoling's face turned red with anger, and she couldn't speak for a long time. Finally, she managed to squeeze out a sentence: "If you're really that kind of person, I'll never talk to you again, and I'll even beat you up, humph."

  Ye Tianfan said wordlessly: "Please, my elder sister, now it's you who needs something from me, not me needing something from you. If you make me unhappy, I won't give it to you."

  "Ah, I suppose so. Alright, at most I won't ignore you in the future, but you must give me the Huo Lian." Wang Xiaoling said with a pretended obedient tone.

  Ye Tianfan was already somewhat immune to his ever-changing personality, so he simply said: "Don't worry, even if you don't say anything, I will still help you get the Huo Lian. After all, I'm not the kind of person who would abandon someone in need, as you imagined. Just watch me deal with it." With that, Ye Tianfan headed towards the magma.

  As he walked up to the lava, Ye Tianfan found that this demon beast was already waiting for him in the lava, apparently knowing that the person who came would not be willing to leave easily.

  Ye Tianfan didn't want to waste any more time either and wanted a quick resolution, after all the little girl Wang Xiaoling had saved was still waiting for Huo Lian's treatment.

  It's best to end this battle quickly, after all, the speed of this demon's recovery in the magma is at least 20% faster than on land. If it comes down to endurance, Ye Tianfan won't stand a chance if he doesn't reveal his true cultivation level, given the huge gap between their current displays of power.

  For such a demon beast, Ye Tianfan already had some experience, after all, there were many of this type in the external missions he executed. As for this demon beast, Ye Tianfan didn't pay too much attention to it.

  Ye Tianfan suddenly appeared in front of the demon beast, first using his palm to slap it several times, making it injured and slowing down its attack and movement speed. After Ye Tianfan slapped the demon beast dozens of times, it seemed to realize that this human was not easy to mess with, so it quickly dove downwards, apparently wanting to find a place to hide under the magma and wait for its injuries to heal before coming out again.