Chapter 66
HEART PROTECTION: CHAPTER 66
Yan Hui pushed the door to enter the room . The door creaked as it swung open . Tian Yao was inside drinking tea . He was slightly started by the sound . He turned to look at Yan Hui and immediate frowned .
"You're covered in dirt . What did you do?"
"I dug a grave . " Yan Hui walked into the room . She sat across from Tian Yao with a solemn expression . "When are you going to launch the surprise attack on the Sky-Splitting Seal?"
Tian Yao set down his teacup and evenly replied: "The moon will be full in ten days . My dragon tendons will fall under my influence and cause the lava under San Chong Mountain to roil . At that time, we can draw out the xian sects' guards . We'll enter the spell array at midnight and retrieve my tendons within two hours . After that, we'll destroy the spell and leave long before dawn breaks . "
"You know where the dragon tendons are?"
"When I went to San Chong Mountain to bring back you and Pu Fang, I also discerned where they are . It was about 500 meters east of where you were but also hidden deep . It might be underground . "
Yan Hui lightly frowned: "Under San Chong Mountain is all lava . Are you saying that your dragon tendons might've been sealed in lava?"
Tian Yao placidly took a sip of tea: "It's nothing out of the ordinary . " Speaking of this, he seemed much more natural than earlier . "Lava is extremely hot and also fiery . Sealing my dragon tendons there would be so convenient . "
"I'll help you get them . " Yan Hui said it firmly with no trace of hesitation .
"Alright . " Tian Yao had already planned for her to come along with him, so he wasn't surprised . What made him curious was, "Why did you suddenly make that decisions?"
He thought with Yan Hui's personality, she would've delayed until the day of . Then she would just silent follow behind him and accompany him into aciton .
Yan Hui paused for a moment . She then spoke with a slightly chilly voice: "Xi Feng cut his meridians in front of Pu Fang's grave . "
Tian Yao was also silent . "Suicide?" It seemed like he also couldn't believe it . "That cultivator?"
Yan Hui nodded: "Yes, that xian cultivator . "
Tian Yao fell silent again .
"I'm willing to enter the Sky-Splitting Seal with you . I'll even help you break it, give you my heart's blood, and also help you retrieve your dragon tendons . But . . . . . . . . " Tian Yao saw a rare sight, murder flash across Yan Hui's eyes . "You have to help me capture Ling Fei . "
Tian Yao raised an eyebrow: "Why all the sudden do you want to catch her?"
"She went too far . If she wasn't there, Pu Fang wouldn't have died . That cultivator also wouldn't have been bound by that so-called righteousness," said Yan Hui . "I want her to kneel and bow down in recognition of all her wrongs . "
Tian Yao looked at Yan Hui: "What wrongs do you want her to admit to?"
"I want her to know, demons are worthy of being sincerely waited for . Anyone is worthy of being sincerely waited for . Except for evil people, like her . " Yan Hui fixed her eyes on Tian Yao . She looked at herself reflected in his black eyes . In his eyes, she was always clearly seen . Yan Hui paused, then spoke again: "Also like her sister . "
Tian Yao's eyes slightly trembled .
"Those sister did terrible things . One day, I also want Su Ying to apologize to you . "
Tian Yao lowered his eyes in escape and looked at the tea in his cup . It was so Yan Hui couldn't see his eyes . The tea in the cup tremored, like how his heart was also shaken .
She actually wanted to protect and shield him . . . . . . . . . .
It was clearly an impractical and naive way of thinking, yet in his reflection in the tea, he could see the corner of his mouth faintly curve upwards .
She wanted to protect him .
Like a heroine .
During the long silence, Tian Yao merely swirled his teacup, breaking up his reflection . He said: "The heart technique training will need to speed up these five remaining days . "
Five days passed in the blink of an eye . Before midnight on the night of the full moon, Qing Qiu's demons were already hidden in the forest along the border .
Yan Hui looked at the bright full moon and then looked at Tian Yao . His forehead was covered in sweat and his lips were compressed to the point of turning purple . She had seen him before on full moon nights where he shook in pain, so she especially understood how hard it was for him to endure the pain right now .
"How about I cut some blood out for you right now?" asked Yan Hui . "It might help a little?"
Tian Yao glanced at Yan Hui . He saw her eyes shine in the moonlight, and her pink lips enticed him . In that body was blood that could remedy his pain and give him more power . . . . . . .
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Tian Yao looked again and closed his eyes . He took a moment to collect himself: "There can't be a scent of blood before entering San Chong Mountain to avoid being discovered . "
"Then I'll lead you?"
Yan Hui extended her hand . Tian Yao was slightly stunned . He froze for quite awhile . Yan Hui grew impatient and grabbed his hand: "Before when I didn't let you touch me, you insisted on hugging and biting me . Now I'm letting you hold my hand, and you insist on delaying . I'm letting you hold it today because we're going to do important matters . Later on, you're going to have to rely on luck to get your dragon tendons . " Yan Hui laced her fingers through his . Her voice was more serious than usual .
"If I can help you endure it, then just use me . From the beginning we've been dependent on each other . "
That's right, from the beginning their fates were . . . . . . . . . . deeply intertwined .
"Yan Hui . " Tian Yao's voice dropped . "I said before, I wondered what the present would be like now if you were the one I met 20 years ago . "
Yan Hui was startled . She turned her head to look at him, feeling apprehensive . How was he going to confess to her in this situation? She silently looked on .
Tian Yao also turned his gaze: "You've been smart . You won't not understand what I mean . " He paused to endure the pain he was feeling . "If you understand, then it shouldn't be like this . After all, I won't be like how I was 20 years ago . . . . . . . . "
Yan Hui stared blankly at those words . How he was 20 years ago?
How he was?
He won't be sincere to a person like how he was 20 years ago?
Yan Hui stared at Tian Yao and frowned . As it turns out, from the beginning he was forceful . In spite of what she wanted, he brazenly followed her . He was always fair when she did what she wanted . Now that she was treating him a little better, he himself couldn't control his heart and was now hers, was that not it?
Yan Hui thought she had been wronged by this strange logic . Thus, she became a bit angry due to the circumstances: "I understand what you mean . " She still grasped Tian Yao's hand and didn't let go . "But me treating you well is my own matter . You loosing your heart is your own matter . We mind our own matters . You have to put up with your own emotions . Don't blame it on me . "
Won't like a person like you did 20 years ago . Yan Hui coldly snorted in her head . Who wanted your good opinion and love .
He said it like she would like him . . . . . . . .
Yan Hui turned her head back and didn't say another word . Tian Yao also didn't bring it back up .
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Midnight, the moon was at its peak .
Tian Yao's body-racking pain seemed to have also reached its peak . He gripped Yan Hui's hand with increasing strength .
At the same time, the lava in San Chong Mountain started to churn and roil .
Yan Hui could feel through their clasped hands that Tian Yao's inner breath violently circulate . She was faintly shocked . Under the bleak moonlight, Tian Yao's pupils glowed a harsh red light . Along with it came a bloodthirsty, murderous aura . One couldn't help shuddering in fear .
A short moment later, San Chong Mountain's lava became even more violent .
When the blood-red in Tian Yao's eyes grew even more intense, the lava suddenly spewed into the shape of a fiery dragon . The dragon leapt out of the abyss and in midair streaked into a formidable appearance .
Even though they were still a distance away, Yan Hui could still feel the heat radiating from that direction .
The xian cultivators guarding the mountains became disordered in the darkness . From the specks of torchlight, they were fleeing from the lava dragon .
"Enter the seal . "
When Tian Yao's order fell, rustles were heard from all around . Even Yan Hui couldn't see clearly how the surrounding demons moved . She just felt black figures leap into the wind and past herself . They leapt across the border and entered San Chong Mountain .
Tian Yao got up but also felt his hand pulling along another person . He serenely looked at Yan Hui and spoke a rare caution: "Entering the spell is dangerous . Protect yourself . "
Yan Hui still had a bit of the attitude from earlier . She rolled her eyes at him: "In the end, you're going to stick a blade into my heart . Why would I fear anything else?"
For a moment, Tian Yao felt that he couldn't say anything in response .
Of the Five Phases, both Tian Yao and Yan Hui had an affinity for fire . Since Tian Yao had recovered a majority of his body parts, the lava's heat wasn't enough to burn him . Yan Hui didn't even need mentioning . After training the heart technique under Tian Yao, her inner breath had stepped up a notch . Handling the lava's heart would be nothing .
In the plan, the demons would disrupt the Sky-Splitting Seal's spell nodes . Then, Tian Yao and Yan Hui would enter the seal itself .
After entering San Chong Mountain, they passed by where Pu Fang had been bound . This time, there wasn't a single xian cultivator in the forest . They had fled from the lava's heat . For now, there was no one to interfere with their plan .
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Yan Hui stopped at this area for a moment . Then she continued on into the forest where they found a hole in the ground . It was faintly venting heat, and in its depths was a red glow .
"Is this it?" asked Yan Hui to Tian Yao .
"Yes . " Tian Yao's eyes reflected the fiery light in the gave . It made his eyes, which was already shining red from using demon magic, look even more bloodthirsty .
They didn't hesitate longer and silently jumped in .
The hole went straight down . As they fell, it got hotter and hotter . Yan Hui could feel her magic gradually being used up .
It was caused by the power of the Sky-Splitting seal --- charging in to break the seal required power, which naturally must be used up .
Yan Hui felt uneasy . As they fell, a Soaring Technique was cast . It might help the two softly land when they reached the end . That way, they wouldn't smash into the ground and become a smear in the dirt .
When they reached the ground, Yan Hui couldn't help rejoicing . It was a good thing that Tian Yao intensified the Heart Technique training . Otherwise, halfway through their fall, her inner breath would've given out, and she would have no more magic to use .
The end of the tunnel expanded into a large cavern . It was like what was behind the small village at Tong Luo Mountain when she and Tian Yao went to break that water seal .
It was just compared to that cave of ice, this place was filled with smoke . Every inch of dirt here was like a scalding hot metal plate .
Even though her Five Phases's affinity was fire, Yan Hui could barely keep her eyes open in this kind of heat .
"Where are your dragon tendons?"
Tian Yao looked at the boiling lava: "In there . "
Yan Hui foolishly looked at the boiling lava lake . More steam and smoke escaped as the bubbles popped . "Inside?"
Tian Yao nodded with certainty: "Inside . "
" . . . . . . . . "
Can you even touch it?