Hand in hand, Ning Yishu and Bai Weiwei arrived at the array formation they had previously used .
They activated the simple, unadulterated version of the dual cultivation array .
Ning Yishu was the first to speak . “I, Ning Yishu, am willing to be forever bound with Bai Weiwei in sacred matrimony . With the heaven and earth as the medium, and all living things as witness, let my soul be my offering, to live and die as one . ”
Bai Weiwei disdained sentences that were too long . She straightforwardly spoke a single sentence . “I, Bai Weiwei, am the same . ”
With this, the array was activated, and both parties were branded with a faint mark .
Without Ning Yishu’s overbearing revision, this mark could easily be revoked, and could easily dissolve the relationship between dual cultivation partners .
As his soul was being marked, Ning Yishu suddenly said softly: “Weiwei, I love you . ”
Bai Weiwei froze for a moment, and then she couldn’t help but smile .
“Come, I have a wedding gift for you . ”
Although he didn’t get a response, Ning Yishu was not upset .
Considering her character, her agreeing to marry him was the best answer he could get .
Bai Weiwei led him into the alchemy room . An enormous pill furnace was already lit .
Ning Yishu didn’t understand .
Bai Weiwei said flatly, “The meridians in my body are very difficult to repair . ”
Ning Yishu naturally knew how damaged her meridians were . Especially after she saved him, blocking a Void Refining stage cultivator’s strike and activating the great defensive array .
It was simply forcing her on the road to death .
Ning Yishu’s heart was full of pity . “I will definitely find a way to save you . ”
Bai Weiwei laughed in delight . “That’s good . It’s a little embarrassing to say this, but didn’t you say that your body still had a bit of spiritual energy left? My pill furnace is ready . Go inside and I can use the power in your flesh to refine a pill and transfer it to my body . ”
Ning Yishu didn’t respond for a moment . He stood there in a daze .
Finally he asked softly: “You married me for this?”
Bai Weiwei’s eyebrows rose . “You can’t say that, either . I like you just a tiny bit, so I had the good intention to fulfill your last wishes . That way you could die happy . ”
The light in Ning Yishu’s eyes dimmed . He gave a strained smile, and he seemed to lose all the strength in his body .
“If that’s what you want, I can give it to you . ”
She liked him a tiny bit .
He had nothing to be dissatisfied about .
He should have known . She had always been like this .
Ning Yishu walked towards the pill furnace . His footsteps were weak and unstable, nearly stumbling on the road .
Bai Weiwei paid no heed . She waved a hand to open the pill furnace’s door and shoved him forward .
Ning Yishu fell into the furnace . Before he was engulfed by the flames, he suddenly reached out with all his strength, wanting to touch her one last time .
But Bai Weiwei easily shook off his outstretched hand and expressionlessly shut the door .
She was so cruel, to be too impatient to handle one last send-off .
As the flames licked at his body, he only felt pain . The pain in his heart was overwhelming1 .
Bai Weiwei stood outside the pill furnace, and she heard the sound of the favorability dropping .
【Ding . The male lead’s favorability has fallen to 95 . 】
Ning Yishu truly loved her . He went through hell so many times, and the favorability only fell this much .
The system warned, “The male lead isn’t preparing to break out of the pill furnace . He doesn’t want to live, and only wants to die . ”
Bai Weiwei: “He won’t die . Eventually he’ll cry and beg for me to open the furnace and let him escape . ”
With that, she waved her hand .
The flames in the alchemy room began to glow green . These were sacrificial flames .
Bai Weiwei said, enunciating every word: “I, Bai Weiwei, am willing to give up a thousand years of life to remold Ning Yishu’s spiritual root . ”
This oath, each word as heavy as a mountain, crashed into the furnace .
Ning Yishu, who was thrown into the furnace, realized that something was not right . The flames weren’t eating away at him .
Instead, a powerful healing energy began to repair his meridians, preparing him for the reshaping of his spiritual root .
He looked up in shock, only to discover a bloodstained sword standing in the center of the furnace .
The spiritual root in the sword body, along with the heavenly soul, was called by a powerful summons and returned to his body .
Then Ning Yishu heard her voice .
“…willing to give up a thousand years of life to remold…”
Ning Yishu’s spiritual root .
Ning Yishu froze . A Nascent Soul stage cultivator’s lifespan was exactly a thousand years .
He rushed to the edge of the pill furnace and struck the walls with all his strength .
He shouted desperately: “Bai Weiwei, let me out! I forbid you from sacrificing yourself!”
Bai Weiwei stood outside the furnace, telling the system: “See, I told you he’d be crying and begging me to let him out . ”
System: I suddenly feel sorry for the male lead .
1: 铺天盖地: blot out the sky and cover up the earth .