Bai Weiwei calmly continued: “Later, when shifu wanted to possess my body, I had no way to resist . And he came to save me once again . At that time, I thought, this man is the one I want . I like him . ”
Ning Yishu’s pounding against the furnace stiffened . His eyes flashed with shock .
“Of course, he never appeared again . Being the cold-hearted person that I am, I forgot about him in less than a few years . ”
When Bai Weiwei spoke to this point, her calm voice finally cracked, revealing extreme sorrow .
She let out two short, mocking laughs . “I achieved my dream . I formed a nascent soul by the time I was a hundred years old . All the people in Grand Heavens Mountain were my followers1 . Yet I accepted a disappointing2 disciple . ”
Ning Yishu opened and closed his mouth several times, but he couldn’t say anything .
Refined by Bai Weiwei’s lifespan, the bloodstained sword standing in the middle of the furnace turned into a golden dragon and began to circle around Ning Yishu . Once the golden dragon entered Ning Yishu’s body, he could reform his spiritual root .
But he didn’t feel the slightest bit of happiness, only an endless cold and all-encompassing despair .
Bai Weiwei said: “This disciple was truly a disappointment, ah . I noticed the abnormality in his body very early on . People like me who dislike troublesome things would never accept such a disciple . ”
Ning Yishu begged weakly: “I know, I’m a waste, I’m useless . So don’t save me . ”
Bai Weiwei sneered: “I also know you’re a waste . If you didn’t look so similar to him, I would have killed you . ”
Ning Yishu didn’t understand what she was saying .
“You and that senior who saved me look completely the same…”
Ning Yishu couldn’t help but repeat: “Completely the same?”
Bai Weiwei: “I knew you weren’t him, but there were times when I would run to your bedside late at night and look at you . There was another time when you were more seriously injured . Seeing you rolling around in pain, I couldn’t help but give you medicine . ”
Ning Yishu finally recalled . That time, he was delirious from a fever, and he had torn off a piece of her skirt and smelled that familiar fragrance .
So then he began to suspect that she was the one who saved him, and broke into her room for the first time .
It was the first time he had received good will and help during his stay at Grand Heavens Mountain . The person who had shown him kindness was the same person who had caused him torment .
Bai Weiwei watched the green flames with narrowed eyes, listening to the countdown for her lifespan .
“When you ripped out your spiritual root to save me, I suddenly remembered what happened in the dreamworld . ”
“The Labyrinth of Dreams has the power to turn back time and space . In other words, instead of falling into an illusion, you went back in time one hundred years and saved me . ”
Bai Weiwei watched the green flames slowly burn out .
And the pill furnace shined with a dazzling gold light .
The burning of a thousand years of life allowed Ning Yishu to temper a heavenly soul spiritual root .
Bai Weiwei approached the pill furnace, listening to the man struggling desperately inside .
“A’Ning, in the last one hundred years, there hasn’t been a single moment that I forgot about you . ”
She reached out a hand, placing it on the pill furnace’s door .
“But I never thought that you were the A’Ning who stayed by me during my most hopeless days one hundred years ago . I used all sorts of methods to torture and abuse you…”
Bai Weiwei finally couldn’t hold back the quiver in her voice . “Ha, this whole time, I’ve been torturing the man I love . ”
Inside the furnace, Ning Yishu completely stopped moving .
He stood there, covered in wounds . For a moment, he forgot to stop the golden dragon from approaching him .
There was only one thing echoing in his mind .
The man I love…
1: 徒孙: disciple’s disciple . Again, I’m assuming that she doesn’t mean it literally, but rather it refers to the fact that she’s the eldest or has the highest authority in the sect .
2: 不争气: to fail to live up to expectations .