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Published at 6th of November 2020 10:00:48 AM


Chapter 86
HEART PROTECTION: CHAPTER 86

 Qing Qiu's doctor was very shocked when he came and examined Yan Hui's wound . He only said one sentence: "The wound almost completely healed itself . " He just prescribed two types of calming medicine for Yan Hui before leaving .

Yan Hui's heart was only influenced by Tian Yao's scales and his magic . No wonder why Su Ying wanted his armored scales for Liu Mu Sheng to wear . It was able to heal a wounded heart so fast . For an ordinary person, this indeed would be like a miraculous life-saver .

After the doctor left, Tian Yao quietly stayed by Yan Hui's side and didn't leave . Yan Hui didn't go back to sleep either . She kept her eyes on Tian Yao and silently watched him . The room's atmosphere was somewhat stiff . Yan Hui thought a little and asked: "That Liu Mu Sheng . . . . . . . . what are you going to do with him?"

Tian Yao lightly looked at Yan Hui: "That's for the nine-tailed fox demon clan to decide . "

Yan Hui couldn't help being surprised by what she heard . She inspected Tian Yao's expression for awhile before saying: "You don't feel any hatred towards him?"

"Although the enmity between Su Ying and I are because of him, in the end it has nothing to do with him . Hatred toward that person is out of the question . However, I don't want to see him . That's all . "

"But looking at Liu Mu Sheng, it seems like he harbors a strong hatred towards Su Ying . He actually wanted to come to Qing Qiu even if that meant being a chess piece . " Yan Hui was silent for a moment . "Su Ying murdered so many demons, killed so many people . She had scheme after scheme, but she still couldn't live the life she wanted to have . . . . . . . . . "

"When you say it like that . . . . . . . " said Tian Yao . "It sounds pretty happy . " 

Yan Hui gave him a look but didn't add to what she said .

When night came, Yan Hui dizzily fell into a dream . All around her was swirling blackness, but she faintly see that there was a swaying gray light up ahead . She walked towards it . As Yan Hui continued to stare at the light, she could finally see the person clearly .

Black hair . Grasping a jian . Still wearing Chen Xing Mountain's clothes . He looked like how he always did . He stood there with a ramrod-straight back .

"Head Senior Disciple . " Yan Hui stopped in place when she clearly saw his face . She just stood with that distance between him and looked . She no longer flusteredly chased after him . Yan Hui quietly looked at him for a while then actually quirked her mouth into a smile . She was relaxed: "Head Senior Disciple, look, I revenged you . I killed Ling Fei . You can move on in peace . "

Zi Chen just stood there and looked at Yan Hui . His expression was sorrowful .

Yan Hui's smile became a little stiff when she saw that: "You're not happy?" She asked, "Why? I avenged your injustice . I settled the hatred and unwillingness from that day at Chen Xing Mountain . I broke off my 10-year ties with Chen Xing Mountain and left the xian cultivation pathway . I even listened to your words and came to Qing Qiu . I started to live with the demon clans . . . . . . . . . " As Yan Hui talked, she smiled . "I rarely used to listen to you . " 

However under Zi Chen's still distressed frown, the smile Yan Hui forced out faded away again .

"But why aren't you happy? Are you not happy for yourself or for me?"

Zi Chen didn't reply . His figure became fainter and fainter in the swirling darkness until Yan Hui woke up . It seemed like she could hear an almost unheard sigh in her mind, but when she opened her eyes, she was still in her room . Nothing had changed .

The reality of her surroundings made her dream seem even more fake . But even though she knew it was fake, Yan Hui couldn't go back to sleep .

The moonlight outside her window was just right . Yan Hui's thoughts were in turmoil . She might as well no longer stay inside . Draping on her outer clothing, she headed towards the spring .

When Yan Hui was almost at the spring, she sensed a dragon aura settled in that area, but she didn't try to avoid it . She just calmly continued towards the spring . She could sense Tian Yao, so that meant he would've sensed her long ago . Since Tian Yao didn't try to avoid her, she had even less reason to avoid him .

Yan Hui reached the spring but didn't see hide nor hair of Tian Yao . She called out: "Tian Yao . " The spring's water rippled, and a dragon spine broke the water's surface . It was covered in blue-green scales . Some of the scales were still twisted and torn, which looked sinister . However, those wounds were now covered up by the scales and out of sight .

The long dragon body moved in the water . The back sank under water again before Tian Yao's head raised up out of the water .


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The night of the Autumn Moon Festival was too chaotic . All Yan Hui remembered was mud and blood . Even though she had fed her blood to Tian Yao to drink, she didn't take a good look at Tian Yao's dragon head .

Eyes like a finishing touch . Whiskers fluttering in the wind . Horns straight and tall . He really looked as formidable as the legends say .

"Why are you here?" The dragon didn't open his mouth, but his voice was heard in Yan Hui's mind .

"Couldn't sleep, so I took a stroll . " Yan Hui cocked her head and looked at him for a long time . Her fingertips moved, and she curiously asked: "I suddenly want to feel you . "

When Tian Yao heard those words, his mighty head rigidly reared towards the sky for a moment . It seemed like an inner struggle . Following which, he dipped his head back down and stretched to Yan Hui . He closed his eyes .

Sure enough, Yan Hui didn't hesitate . She raised her hand and placed it right on the dragon's head . Soft fingertips started from the horns and slide down to the nose, drawing a playful circle at the end . Yan Hui smiled in amusement at her own actions . She laughed out loud, and Tian Yao opened his eyes .

Yan Hui touched his horns again: "Last time I touched these, I was too rushed . I didn't really feel them, but this time I do . Your head is really hard . " Saying that, she moved her fingers to his whiskers again . She grabbed it and rubbed it . Then she ran her hand from the base to the tip, "How come your whiskers disappear when you turn into human form? It feels pretty good touching it . " 

 Tian Yao's whiskers moved and avoided her hand: "Go soak in the spring . I'll leave . "

He was about to get up when Yan Hui hurriedly waved her hand: "Stay . You just got your scales back . You probably need a good soak in the waters . I just came here to sit, not to undress . Why are you so shy . " Yan Hui patted his head . "Relax, I won't take advantage of you . "

Tian Yao: " . . . . . . . . "

 Thus, his dragon body sank back underwater . Only his head was visible, which he rested on the shore . Yan Hui sat by his side . She removed her shoes and socks and soaked her feet in the spring's waters .


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It was autumn, so the chirp and cries of insects were much less than a summer night . It was especially quiet at night . Yan Hui playfully splashed her feet in the water, filling the night with the sound of water . She looked at the night sky and sighed: "Thinking back, we seemed to have journeyed quite a bit . But sitting peacefully together like this, it seems like we haven't journeyed that much . "

No one would refute that . The two of them on their journey gambled with their lives at all times . The tacit understanding between them two was far beyond any other person . However, this understanding wasn't because they chatted with each other a lot . It seemed to be because they had a natural understanding of each other .

Tian Yao didn't reply . Unknown to him, his tail was automatically swaying back and forth in the water at the same rhythm Yan Hui was swaying her legs in the water . It was a leisurely and happy rhythm .

"Tian Yao, have you thought of what you would do after you got revenge and killed Su Ying?"

The swaying dragon tail slowed down and then stopped . Tian Yao stayed silent for a long time . Then his voice appeared in Yan Hui's mind: "I haven't thought about it . "

Yan Hui let out a long sigh towards the sky again: "I had another dream about Head Senior Disciple today . He just stood in the black swirls and looked at me from afar . No movement, no smile . I told him I killed Ling Fei, but he didn't have an especially happy expression . "

Tian Yao consoled Yan Hui: "It was just a dream . "

Yan Hui was silent and touched her heart: "Tian You, do you still remember that it was your heart protection scale that pulled me from the gates of hell? That's why I can see ghosts . " She said, "I have never dreamt a meaningless dream . Even if the first time was, then the second time wouldn't be . The third time even more wouldn't be . " Yan Hui looked down, " . . . . . . . . . Head Senior Disciple didn't leave peacefully at all . He probably really doesn't approve of me killing Ling Fei, entering the demon pathway, and abandoning those 10 years of learning the xian cultivation methods . "

"So do you regret killing Ling Fei now?"

Yan Hui was silent for a moment: "You know, when I was facing off with Ling Fei, there was an opening where I could've used my knife to behead her . But I actually hesitated for a moment . " Yan Hui mockingly laughed at herself . "I realized when I saw Chen Xing Mountain's clothes on her that I couldn't completely remove myself from those 10 years . Even though I've come to where I am now, I didn't want to part with it . I guess that feeling is like what those ordinary people say is homesickness . Even though the meaning is far from it, but that's the most suitable word . "

"And in that moment, a hole was punched in my heart . In that kind of situation where only one could live, the hatred was really deep . I killed Ling Fei without the slightest bit of regret . " She said, "Su Ying is well-known in the cultivation world . No matter what wrongs Ling Fei did, as long as she is Su Ying's little sister, Su Ying will protect her . No one in the cultivation world can punish Ling Fei and make her pay a life for a life . That's why in that situation, I had to do it . In that moment when my knife plunged into her chest, I knew how freeing those two words, 'releasing hate', felt like . "


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"I guess getting revenge on such a big grudge feels like that . I got my revenge, and my hate was all released . My grudge against Ling Fei ended like that . The world has one less person I hate, but up till then, it also had one less person I loved . No matter what I do, I can't save and get him back . . . . . . . . . . " Yan Hui raised her head and sighed . Her voice was bitter, "Head Senior Disciple became a scar on my heart . I can't cure him . "

Tian Yao stayed silent for a long time after hearing Yan Hui's words: "Yan Hui . " He called out with focus . Yan Hui snapped out of her thoughts and looked at him .

"I will heal your scar . "

Those resounding and powerful five words shocked Yan Hui . For a moment, the quietness of the forest was alarming .

"If you say that the real revenge is not killing another but is to heal yourself, then I will help you heal your wounds . "

Yan Hui blankly gazed at Tian Yao for a long time . Then she patted Tian Yao's head and smiled: "You understood wrong . I meant the real revenge is killing your enemy and then healing yourself . "

Because those who made a mistake would have to be punished . If there was no one to mete out the punishment, then Yan Hui would do it herself .

"However, I'm looking forward to you wanting to heal he scar on my heart . " Yan Hui thought a bit, "But since I said that I wouldn't take advantage of you, then I'll take care of your wounds in the future . " Yan Hui rubbed Tian Yao's head . "Don't worry . I'll work hard to heal you . "

She said that last part like a joke, but under her gentle caress, Tian Yao lightly closed his eyes .

Actually, she didn't have to work hard .

Doing as she wanted and going through the motions a few times was enough .

Because she long ago already healed so many of his wounds . . . . . . . . . .

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