Published at 27th of November 2020 07:48:05 PM
Chapter 89
HEART PROTECTION: CHAPTER 89
The fox fire lit up Qing Qiu's entire night sky and overpowered the moonlight . No one in the mountain's forest spoke, but the atmosphere was extremely heavy .
In midair, Qing Qiu's king coldly asked: "You are Su Ying?"
Su Ying looked up into the sky . The briliance surrounding the king was dazzling to the eyes, but Su Ying didn't blink . She just stared right at him: "And what if I am?"
With those five words, an enormous pressure heavily pressed down . Yan Hui already started cultivating again . However compared to everyone present, her cultivation level was really too weak . Immediately she felt a pressure in her chest but couldn't even let out a groan . Her legs felt weak . The intense pressure forced her directly down towards the ground .
Tian Yao transformed from his dragon form back into a human . He didn't hesitate to wrap Yan Hui in his arms and cover her ears with his hands . It gave her warmth while at the same time helped Yan Hui block a lot of the pressure .
In a flash, Su Ying's magic was suppressed . She immediately released an icy barrier to protect herself .
"You came alone to my Qing Qiu, yet you think you can escape unscathed?" The king's voice was chilly . "Reckless . "
When Qing Qiu's king said those words, Tian Yao immediately clasped Yan Hui and leapt backwards into the cold spring . Before Yan Hui and Tian Yao completely sank into the water, a white light rushed out of the king's sleave and touched the ground . Just like a cool breeze sweeping the ground, the grass and bushes, everything, bent .
Su Ying's gaze became even frostier . Her barrier's light increased sharply and competed against the king's power . The enormous xian power and demon power met in attack . The resulting light was blinding, and it produced a loud rumbling sound . The vegetation was destroyed . In an instant, the vast forest was disintegrated and became an overgrown piece of land .
The strike of the two formidable magics was like the power of an earthquake .
After the light and rumbling, the surroundings once again fell silent . Su Ying stood in the middle of a pit of sunken ground . The earth and rocks were cracked . Su Ying stood ram-rod straight in the center like a thorn stabbing upwards . What changed was only that her lip colour had pale to a hard-to-conceal white .
"Since I dared to come, I've already thought of the consequences," said Su Ying . She moved her gaze to the cold spring where Yan Hui and Tian Yao hid . "No matter the consequences, I will never left off those two . "
Saying that, the shore of the spring was suddenly covered in a layer of frost . Ice crystals formed in the water .
Tian Yao was protecting Yan Hui . It was difficult to avoid the knife-sharp crystals, and they were forced out of the water . However the moment they broke the water's surface, an enormous, earth-shattering xian power immediately rushed forward to sever Yan Hui's and Tian Yao's head .
As the power rushed over, from the side suddenly charged over two people . With a wave of their sleeves, Su Ying's icy killing magic was turned aside . Those two people were Qing Qiu's princes . They stood in front of Tian Yao and looked at Su Ying with a sneer: "Did you really think to trick Qing Qiu's people?"
Seeing the situations, Yan Hui, who was still in Tian Yao's arms, thought of Princess Yun Xi, whom Su Ying murdered . The princes and the king present probably hated Su Ying to their core . Tonight in a fit of impulsiveness, Su Ying would probably pay a bitter price . . . . . . . .
However this thought was still forming in Yan Hui's mind when suddenly, a xian aura hurried over in the sky from a distance .
If it was anyone else, Yan Hui probably wouldn't be able to sense it . However, this xian aura was something Yan Hui couldn't be even more familiar to . Yan Hui, still in Tian Yao's arms, turned her head to look in that direction . Not a moment later, a xian cultivator, wearing white robes with wide slealves, arrived with the Propelling Sword technique . The cultivator landed by Su Ying's side .
Yan Hui's gaze fell on the cultivator and lingered there for a long time .
Ling Xiao . . . . . . . .
He actually came . Furthermore, he came alone . No one else followed . But thinking over it, it did make sense . Aside from cultivators with their tier of power, who else could cross over San Chong Mountain so quickly and enter Qing Qiu .
Su Ying turned and looked at him . Her eyes trembled, and she seemed touched: "I acted rashly . You had no need to follow me . . . . . . . and burden yourself with me . "
Exactly, with this kind of circumstance, Ling Xiao actually rushed over . . . . . . . .
To save Su Ying .
"Zhenren Su Ying, there's no need to be polite . " Ling Xiao said that, but his tone itself was polite to Su Ying . He didn't make much small talk and look around to clearly see the situation .
Aside from Qing Qiu's king and a few princes in the air, there were Tian Yao and Yan Hui . Ling Xiao's gaze quickly fell on Yan Hui not by accident . However, it only paused there for a moment before moving on .
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It was like seeing an insignificant stranger .
Yan Hui couldn't help tightening her grip on Tian Yao's arm . Tian Yao looked down and saw her lips were slightly trembling . He didn't know if it was because she was cold or due to stirred up emotions .
Still looking down, Tian Yao circulated his magic to make his embrace even warmer and ease Yan Hui's tremors .
"The daughter of Qing Qiu's heir, Xian Ge, was taken taken captive during a battle . " Ling Xiao's gaze was somewhat cold . He didn't waste any words but rather went straight to the point . He handled it with his usual style . However, Yan Hui felt like the chilliness around his body was even colder than before .
"Before I left, I instruction someone to keep watch of the time . If after two hours Zhenren Su Ying and I don't return to Central Plains, my subordinates will take actions . They will cut out her neidan, scoop out her heart, drain her blood, and leave her corpse out under the sky . "
All of Qing Qiu's princes were silent at Ling Xiao's words . The mood was agitated . Some looked towards the heir . Some looked towards the king .
None of them were willing to let Su Ying go, but Xian Ge's life was in the enemies' hands . . . . . . .
Ling Xiao was done talking . He supported Su Ying, and without saying another word, he turned to use Propelling Sword to leave .
Yan Hui couldn't endure her stirred-up emotions anymore and blurted out: "Using Qing Qiu's nine-tailed fox demons' strong bloodline ties as blackmail, is this Zhenren Ling Xiao's so-called righteous xian cultivation pathway?"
Ling Xiao slightly paused when he heard Yan Hui's words .
Su Ying moved her gaze and lightly looked at Ling Xiao . His expression hadn't changed the slightest . He didn't even glance at Yan Hui before using Propellig Sword and rising up into the air . Yan Hui clenched her jaw when she saw those two were going to leave . Qing Qiu's princes still hadn't stopped them . Su Ying actually waved her hand to signal Ling Xiao to stop .
"Hold on . " She turned around and looked at Qing Qiu's king . "I want to exchange Qing Qiu's Xian Ge's life with Liu Mu Sheng who Qing Qiu had captured . Does Qing Qiu's king agree?"
The scene fell silent again . Although the princes' were extremely angry, none of them dared to give in the urge to speak . All of them silently waited for their king to speak .
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Let alone the princes, Yan Hui also was furious and resentful .
After a long time, the king's voice finally came from the sky: "In three days, there will be an exchange at San Chong Mountain . "
That implied he would left them leave tonight, and then they would return Liu Mu Sheng to Su Ying in exchange for Xian Ge to live .
Su Ying nodded . There was nothing else to say, and she followed Ling Xiao away . Their figures receded into the distance . All that was left was a gradually fading streak of light in the sky .
"I!" Qing Qiu's heir knelt down . His face was filled with grief and guilt . "I am guilty! I caused Qing Qiu to be humiliated!"
Qing Qiu's king looked towards the cold spring . With a wave of his hand, the vegetated that had been blasted with demon magic was revived back to life . Some places sprouted new grass and vegetation . Broken brances regrew with astonishing speed . The cold spring's waters flowed with brilliant water . It was like the violent clash had never occured .
"Nothing is equal to our nine-tailed fox demon's bloodline . " The king's voice was light and had no reproach for the heir . His figure disappeared into the night .
After that, Tian Yao still holding Yan Hui landed back down around the spring .
Yan Hui quietly stood there with a dipped head for a long time . When Tian Yao thought that Yan Hui had fallen into a silence that she wouldn't break, she suddenly gave a hollow laugh, both bitter and cold . "Tian Yao, do you know how much I once loved Ling Xiao . . . . . . . . He was the only one that I could see out of thousands of people . "
Tian Yao was completely unguarded when he heard those words . He felt his heart throb . Clearly there was no attack, yet there was a constant anguish . With every beat of his heart, there was also a stabbing pain permeating through every inch of his chest .
He silently listened and endured the pain . He endured it like how he had endured pain before . He pressed it down and acted like it didn't exist .
"When Head Senior Disciple was suffering through that pain yet still protected me, I was practically kneeling on the ground in hope . I was hoping he would come save Head Senior Disciple, save me, save the last remaining expectation of him in my heart . But he didn't come . "
"But today, he came from so far, and regardless of the methods, he saved Su Ying . . . . . . . . " Yan Hui coldly laughed . "Tian Yao, it turns out the person I adored could disappoint me so much . "
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Tian Yao looked down at Yan Hui, whose head drooped down . He involuntarily raised his arms and wrapped them around Yan Hui's back . Yan Hui's head rested against his shoulder .
"Don't adore him anymore," said Tian Yao . "Don't even remember that you once adored him . "
Yan Hui bitterly laughed: "That's 10 years worth of memories . How am I going to forget that?"
"There will be many 10 years in your life later on . "
Yan Hui shook her head: "But there will never be a person like that again . "
"There's me . "
Those two words Tian Yao had blurted out without thinking shocked both people .
Yan Hui suddenly raised her head and looked at Tian Yao . She saw his eyes were also opened wide, like he had been scared by his own words . In his pupils, Yan Hui saw her own expression . It was also startled .
"Tian Yao . . . . . . . . " Yan Hui slightly stepped back . "You . . . . . . . "
The franticness in his eyes lasted for only a moment before Tian Yao immediately calmed back down . He steadily said: "There's me to look for you . There's me to teach you how to forget those past 10 years . "
Yan Hui's startled gaze calmed back down . She blinkingly looked at Tian Yao for awhile . Her originally unsettled emotions settled down a lot . She patted Tian Yao's shoulder: "Alright, I noticed that when you saw Su Ying just now that you weren't as bitter as before . It looks like you have some experience in letting go of emotions . Then let's consider this as part of your treatment to curing my wound . "
Yan Hui smiled . "It's been eventful . I'm going to go back and sleep . " She turned to leave .
Tian Yao silently watched Yan Hui's back for a long time . Not knowing why, he suddenly had the urge to sigh in dejection . . . . . . . .