Hey release your hands" Tan Jiki coldly sneered, realizing shadow look like baby had no feet, she give him deathly glared and keenly heed the opponent moves. Looking to his mistress cold aura he abruptly pull his hands and walk at her back. If she knows this fool is waste she will never bring him in this dangerous place.
Now, I become a babysitter of little idiot.
"Stupid!" Tan Jiki push him quickly to fall him down at the grass and dodged. If she did not quickly make a move absolutely shadow turned to cold corpse. The first dagger gripped on the huge trunk of a wild tree. Seeing Tan Jiki moves, shadow feel embarrassment; he saved by his mistress and he become an exceed baggage to her. When the culprit sees Tan Jiki moves he plaster his evil smirk and throw his second daggers towards Tan Jiki's body. Shadow and the crook did not almost caught Tan Jiki's steps as few seconds Tan Jiki holds the dagger and ran towards her opponent and pressed the metal on his throat. Her murderous aura spread in her body. Tan Jiki's eyes full of bloody intent.
"P-Please don't kill me!" The young man protest not to spare his life.
"Hmm..you know I don't have mercy if you want to take my life." Her cold voice echoed in shadows and hunter ears. After she finished uttered her words she pushed the tip of metal directly in hunter throat and pulled it off as blood spitting on the ground. Shadow stunned in his place and his eyes widen in shocked. The scent of blood whiffed on his nose that sent cold air down to his bones, its his first time seeing someone takes one life.
"Mo Li!" Hearing someone calling, Tan Jiki dragged shadow and ran off in the deep trees of Black Jungle Forest. She sensed his companion are strong that she can't deal with beside shadow is not strong enough to fight.
Panting
Panting
"Mistress why you killed him?" As for Tan Jiki if someone want to take her life, she will never left by them alive.
"Because that man is a beast hunter, he wanted us be his bait to catched beast, the scent of blood attracts spiritual beast in Black Jungle Forest because he sensed were are not strong enough to be his opponent besides I had no spiritual qi while you are in first stage of earthly realm" Tan Jiki explained while dragging shadow.
" He deserved it! Killing him is a piece of cake!" He happily exclaimed, Being with this fool shadow, Tan Jiki felt her patience tested.
As they ran, she noticed some blood soaked on her robe, it turns her white robe become as bloody red.
"We need to find the blue river" Tan Jiki carefully scrutinized the formation of grasses and its growth, as grass healthy it means much of water source. Judging the currency of water in plants they should head to north.
As light getting dark, Tan Jiki and shadow did not noticed the soft spot of Black Jungle Forest and both of them stepped in, shadow stumbled on large hole; fortunately Tan Jiki grabbed his hand.
"Mistress! Help me!" Shadow cried out as he holds Tan Jiki hands. Her free hand immediately grabbed the wild vines but the vines fuses hot steam that burned Tan Jiki's palm. Tan Jiki purse heavy sighed as she looked the pitiful face of shadow.
"I'll help you tossing up, shadow you should swing your body and use your free hand to climb up, got it?"
Before shadow can react, he definitely pushed by Tan Jiki's to swing, as his body response he quickly snag on the holes of old walls. They fallen in ancient graveyard of emperor in Yuan dynasty.
As Tan Jiki felt shadow weight fall in wall she released her hands on vines, she can't handle her heavy blisters in her hand, she felt her little fingers are already cooked. Falling to the high ground her bones almost caught shuttered, luckily she is an assassin in previous life, she had knowledge how to land her body without fractures.
"Mistress?! Are you alive?!" Shadow bawl as he swinging himself in hole wall. Enduring her wounds she stood up and spoke louder as shadow can heard her.
"I'm good! Try to climb yourself out. I will head out to find the exit, if I will not appear in two days, you will help yourself to go home, and tell Grandpa I will keep my promise." After she gave her statement she strode inside of ancient graveyard leaving shadow stunned behind. Before shadow can react Tan Jiki was in few meters away searching the place.
There are few skull around here, some of their skeleton formation are still intact, it shows they are not harmed by this place traps, neither killed by human nor beast but they are died in starved to death.
Her footsteps echoed the graveyard hall, as she walked inside; she sights the Black Dragon Grass, this grass used to nullify the long time poisoned in her body. She took one bunch of it and elegantly chew it and drunk it essence, she don't know how to refine pills for now but she know the fastest way to get rid the poisons it is practically apply acupuncture in acupuncture points in her body. A few hours later Tan Jiki body reacts in medicinal plants and her acupuncture points opens, intense pain strike her stomach down to her bones and veins caused her so much pain that made her to kneel down and clenched her fist not to scream louder. By seconds she vomit mouthful black blood last for one hour, her frail body ready to fall down.
She can't let herself to be unconscious especially in dangerous area, running for life or death she will definitely stand alone to stay alive.
Two days of waiting in the hole, shadow lazily stand his feet. Guilt strike off in his heart, he thought his mistress maybe in harmed at dangerous graveyard, if anything happened in his mistress in the future, he should pay it for his life. But the most painful thought in shadows mind was his mistress sacrificed herself in order for him to keep alive and he will never let down his mistress, if his mistress believed in him he should not fail her. He know her mistress is not a cold blooded as his first impression towards her. Tears flowed in his big eyes, he swipe his brim tears and start to ran as sun light scattered in deep forest.