As soon as my chest moved, the pain enveloped my heart, making my mind become somewhat muddled. Then my body fell uncontrollably into Mo Qing's embrace. I rested my forehead on his chest until the feeling of light-headedness subsided for a little bit.
As far as Mo Qing was concerned, it was as if on my body, there was a branding iron that burned him, making him tremble slightly. His palm held my arm, as if he was trying to control his emotions with all his might.
I gritted my teeth, tenaciously restraining the blood in my throat: "Luo Ming Xuan is still alive."
He became somewhat contemplative, and said in an ice-cold voice: "He won't live for long."
As Mo Qing's hand circled my body, his warm palm pressed against my back. I only felt a force being transmitted from his palm, it flicked around and shattered the Demon Vanquish Curse in my heart. The pain that seized my heart immediately vanished. Along with it came his unique strength, it was warm and thick, filling up my absolutely empty internal aura.
As my forehead rested on his broad chest, I could not help myself and turned obliquely towards the hollow of his neck, finding a more comfortable position for myself.
Mo Qing's body stiffened slightly, and the energy that was flowing into my body suddenly stopped, and then, he relaxed immediately after.
I had never imagined that one day I would rely on another person, while fighting on the battlefield…
All of a sudden, I noticed that the seal I placed on Luo Ming Xuan's heart was getting further and further away.
I suddenly came back to myself, this was not good, I only had four hours, it was very likely that the fight from before had already wasted more than half of the allotted time. Right now was not the time to take advantage of Mo Qing.
As I clenched my teeth, my hand pushed against Mo Qing's chest to move him away: "Can't let him get away, chase after him!"
"You'll stay here." Mo Qing withdrew his hand and got up to leave, but I pulled him back: "I crawled out from Hell with much difficulty, so I didn't come back to mess around."
He pursed his lips, but did not try to stop me again. He only removed Wan Jun Sword hanging from his side. He handed it to me like he was gifting me a wildflower by the side of the road.
I was stunned and dumbfoundedly raised my head, gazing at him. In my mind, I suddenly remembered a certain evening when I was in Zhi Yan's body. That day, I told him that Lu Zhao Yao wanted to come back and seek revenge on him, and yet he said, if Lu Zhao Yao did come back, he would readily surrender the sect leader position.
At that time, when he said it, he downplayed it, so when I heard it, I did not heed it. But I did not think that he could actually have such determination…
It was unlikely that he did not know what Wan Jun Sword signified, otherwise during that year, I would not have placed this life on this sword.
"Wan Jun Sword recognizes its owner." I said, "I can't use it."
"It'll protect you."
Just to protect me? But this life of mine only had about an hour left, how sufficient was it to make him protect it in such a way…
Mo Qing saw that I did not take it, so he simply hanged Wan Jun Sword on my waist. Five years ago, I wore this outfit to the Sword Tomb to fetch the sword, but was not able to get it at that time. Now through a freak combination of factors, this sword was hanging on my waist, but my mood was not as good as it was then.
It really gave someone… No other choice but to sigh in sorrow.
I suppressed the feelings in my heart, closed my eyes and sensed the direction of Luo Ming Xuan's escape. As soon as I opened my eyes, I grabbed Mo Qing's wrist. After winking, I stopped Luo Ming Xuan in a dense forest. He held Liu Su Ruo in his arms, the bloodstains on his face were frightening. Following behind him were the four celestial sect grandmasters, equally in a sorry state.
After seeing me, Luo Ming Xuan's pupils constricted, and wanted to use the Instantaneous Travel Technique again. However, during the moment of his action, a huge, black magical array flashed simultaneously from the sky and the ground. As Luo Ming Xuan groaned, his magical powers were bombarded back into his body, causing him pain.
I turned my head to glance at Mo Qing: "Did it pretty well." These celestial sect guys always use that magical array to suppress us, they really must have thought that we would not use the same move on them. "You deal with those four, leave Luo Ming Xuan to me."
As soon as I finished speaking, the four celestial sect grandmasters immediately appeared to be wrapped up by the demonic energy boring out of the ground. The demonic energy flooded their mouths and noses, making it impossible for them to control their wildly gesticulating body, as if they were becoming demonic.
I was stumped for words, amazed at Mo Qing's fast movements.
In their painfully anguished cries, Mo Qing's voice echoed steadily in my ears: "They're no longer worth any worry." He turned his head to look at me, "For the rest, I will face it with you."
Mo Qing… You, really, in a situation like this, how could you make me feel like I was being pampered by someone…
If you kept playing like this, where would I go play, with my former sect leader's awe-inspiring authority?
Seeing me not answering him, he turned grave for a moment: "It was because these four grandmasters had already fought with you to the point of exhaustion, so they were easily controlled by me."
Mhm… As it turned out, when I was secretly thinking of a way to get out of this embarrassing situation, letting myself take a step down…
As I could not help it but laugh, I could not help it but remember those details that I thought I had forgotten so many years ago.
After I saved Mo Qing rushing about along the journey, I was showing off my martial art techniques to him, but I accidentally fell down and it happened to be an extremely unsightly tumble. I felt so embarrassed, so I laid on the ground and did not get back up.
He was just like this, a tiny person squatting beside me, helping me find an excuse, saying so many bad things about himself just to not embarrass me.
He knew that I strived to be strong, knew that I was eager to win, and he still did his utmost effort to safeguard the excessive pride in my heart.
Before my heart was huge, so I had never thought that being treated by someone in this way was anything strange. Now, I understood why Mo Qing used such tenacity to gently treat me then. It was only just now that I realized a thing or two, on that day, when I told him that I must leave him to go look for Luo Ming Xuan, how terribly sad he was, how gloomy his eyes were…
Causing someone's heart to hurt.
However, when I thought about it again… I glared at Luo Ming Xuan, dumping all the burning guilt in my heart onto his body.
In short! Everything was his fault!
However, right at this time, Luo Ming Xuan abruptly waved Feng Ming Sword in his hand. When the clear sound rang, the earth trembled slightly. I raised my head to look, not far from Feng Mountain, between the mountain's depression, a resoundingly clear sound swept across the world.
I was surprised to see the godly bird slowly ascend like the sun rising between the mountains.
I had once heard that Feng Mountain had phoenixes, but this kind of mythological beast had always been a legend. Who ever would have thought that it actually existed!
Mo Qing also had a look of solemn concentration across his face. I wanted to remove Wan Jun Sword from my side and give it to him: "I haven't fought with this bird before, so I don't know if I can beat it. You had better take the sword back first…" Mo Qing pressed my hand down, but I did not hear him speak, while on the other side, Luo Ming Xuan was laughing quietly.
But this laugh made him spew out a mouthful of blood. Just as he pressed the blood at the corner of his mouth, it could be assumed that when he summoned this godly phoenix, it had already consumed all of his strength: "Lu Zhao Yao! You only wanted to come find me to avenge your loved one, that's just it."
I lifted my eyes to look at him.
"If you really want to take revenge, why not go find this phoenix." He was also staring fixedly at me. "After being injured by the Demon King's seal, my injuries have never recovered. During that year, the old man who came to save you was also burned to ashes by this godly phoenix that I had summoned."
The blue veins on the back of my hand suddenly burst. I gripped the hilt of Wan Jun Sword, only to feel a fishy taste rolling over and over in my throat. Disregarding the feeling of repulsion from Wan Jun Sword, I pulled the sword out of its sheath. Utilizing Wan Jun Sword's momentum, I slashed at Luo Ming Xuan.
He must die!
As Mo Qing's figure flashed beside me, the burning hot sensation above zipped past. The raging flames around the godly phoenix had yet to touch the ground, when it turned the entire dense forest into an extremely bright sea of fire.
The raging flames were like the churning fury in my heart. When Wan Jun Sword and Feng Ming Sword clashed with each other, the clanging sound created a powerful airflow that caused the nearby raging flames to momentarily extinguish. But when the godly phoenix in the sky returned again, the blazing fire immediately ignited once more. Even the earth was thoroughly roasted, making crackling noises.
However, even after flying past in this moment, the godly phoenix immediately soared towards the sky and did not swoop down again. Beside me, Mo Qing's presence also disappeared. I knew that he must have helped me lure the godly phoenix away.
Luo Ming Xuan was gravely injured, so he was not enough to really injure me. However, for me, the only difficulty was how to thrust the sword directly into his heart!
As I slashed the sword towards his heart, Wan Jun Sword's sword energy made the immortal body protection seal on his chest slightly crack open a tiny gap. While Liu Su Ruo was left aside by him.
At the same time, I also encountered resistance from Wan Jun Sword. The power from its entire body shocked the webbings between my hand to numbness, I almost could not hold the sword hilt. However, at this point, I could not let it go. With just one more strike, only one more strike, I would be able to shatter his immortal body protection seal!
I clenched my teeth tightly and gripped Wan Jun Sword unwaveringly: "Be a little bit more obedient." I said to it, "Be a little bit more obedient, maybe I'll even be your mistress in the future."
I was unsure if Wan Jun Sword could hear these words or not. I was also unsure if it could understand these kinds of words, then how would it react. I simply waited for the resistance from before to pass, then I held it tightly with both of my hands. With a wink, I delivered it towards Luo Ming Xuan.
With just a single strike, the edge of the blade cut vertically down before his heart. Luo Ming Xuan groaned and was suddenly thrown back by the sword's energy. At the same moment, his immortal body protection seal also broke!
During the moment that I was overjoyed, Wan Jun Sword suddenly protested violently, shocking the webbings between my hands, making my wrists go numb. I could no longer hold onto it and simply threw it aside. Now that Luo Ming Xuan was already like an arrow at the end of its flight. So even without Wan Jun Sword, just relying on brute force, it still would not be impossible for me to take his Tian Fa Feng Ming Sword, stab it into his chest, and incorporate a little bit of my demonic blood to seal him!
I did not have much time left.
So I flew forward, engaging in my last fight with him.
With one of my hands, I firmly pressed his left hand onto the ground, while my other hand tried to snatch his Feng Ming Sword. I gathered all of my strength to bend his wrist, forcing him to thrust his sword into his chest.
Luo Ming Xuan was also using the last of his remaining strength to wrestle with me.
All of a sudden, I felt my heart panic, my heart stopped beating for a moment. I knew this feeling very well. This was the feeling I got every time my soul was about to leave Zhi Yan's body.
This would not do…
How could I fail at the very last moment.
However, the sense of leaving in my heart had already made me do my utmost to maintain this current deadlock with Luo Ming Xuan. I absolutely could not make the blade of the sword penetrate his chest!
I could not reconcile with this… I…
The corner of my eye flashed. Off to the side, I saw Liu Su Ruo who was laying on the ground suddenly crawl back up, holding her remaining female sword, gathering all the strength that she possessed to rush at my back.
Right at this moment, I was pressing Luo Ming Xuan's body down, when suddenly, my heart came up with a plan. In the moment that she pierced forward with her sword, I released all of the strength in my body.
Just like a normal mortal who had never cultivated before, letting her sword directly impale my body and the tip of the sword entered into Luo Ming Xuan's chest.
My blood followed the blade of her sword to fall into the center of Luo Ming Xuan's heart, seeing Luo Ming Xuan's complexion suddenly turn deathly pale, I softly chanted the seal incantation.
Hearing my voice, Liu Su Ruo suddenly went crazy, forgetting to even draw out her sword. She immediately sealed her ears and shouted: "No! No! Shut your mouth! This cannot be!"
She remembered it. Luo Ming Xuan remembered it even more. That year at their wedding, after I had chanted this incantation, I made Luo Ming Xuan fall into a deep eternal sleep. Every word, every phrase, every pause made Luo Ming Xuan's body stiffened more and more. Until finally, his eyes closed completely. His breathing became faint as if he was fast asleep.
"Ah!" Liu Su Ruo screamed mournfully behind me, "Ah!"
She could not utter anything else, besides screaming as if she did not speak any other language.
While I bore her female sword, allowing her blade to penetrate through my cold heart, I sat on Luo Ming Xuan's body and turned my head to look at Liu Su Ruo: "Alright, this farce is finished."
It was her hand that had personally killed him.
Everything went back to how it was before.
Luo Ming Xuan continued his deep slumber, and Liu Su Ruo continued her madness. It was just that above the sky, among the clouds, a raging fire suddenly exploded, accompanied by the mournful shrill of the phoenix. The color of the sky was blood-red, but it was unknown whether it was due to being burned by the raging flames or being stained by the phoenix's blood.
I looked up at the sky and immediately saw a person descending from heaven in blood and fire. Beside me, Liu Su Ruo's ear-piercing screams faded away. Her aura was wiped out by the flames in the sky and she died on the spot.
I got up from Luo Ming Xuan's body and stumbled towards Mo Qing.
A body of black and red clothes, against a sky full of falling fire, this appearance of mine was probably pretty similar to the malicious spirits in the legends. Otherwise, how could Mo Qing, who was so formidable that he could empty-handedly deep fry the phoenix, be so afraid to such an extent as this.
My entire eyes were bloodshot; my whole face was pale.
"Mo Qing." I called out his name, stretched out my hand to caress his face, complaining to him: "Your Wan Jun Sword was really damnably disobedient." I grasped his chin, and the blade that had passed through my chest pressed against his chest, "Not like you…"
I grasped his chin, pulled him down, and immediately kissed him.
Biting his ice-cold, quivering lips.
Not like you…
You treated me too well and too good. So well, that when it was time for me to leave, my heart hurt even more than when it was pierced by this sword at this very moment.
"My time is up." I released him and took a step back, "Don't you cry."
Do not cry. I was already dead, so you do not need to be so sad…
In a split second, my heart failed and I could no longer control my body. As my soul left my body, I was suddenly pulled backwards. I could only see Mo Qing passing through my soul to pull that absolutely empty, collapsing body.
"Lu Zhao Yao!"
He called out my name again. He was terrified, helpless, at his wits' end, just like a child. However, when he called out, that body appeared to shatter, turning into tiny specks of glowing blood like the flames falling from the sky. A "boom" sounded, it floated away and disappeared in midair, not knowing where it went.
"Lu Zhao Yao! You come back here!"
I turned my head to look at him, wanting to touch his body. However, right after that, my mind suddenly went dark, my consciousness disappeared and everything seemed to no longer exist…
Translated by Sonrisa t.n.t