Chapter 87: Shouldn't he be held responsible for her taking his essence? ...

In the next few days, Xie Yanyu did not go to the trial field again.

She fought against Helan Wei, and her swordsmanship improved rapidly. In just a few days, she could already take on several of Helan Wei's moves.

This day.

Xie Yanyu fought with him as usual.

Amidst the sword light, Helan Wei stabbed at her with the sword. Xie Yanyu took a step back, raised the sword to block his attack, and then dodged his sword energy.

At that moment, the sword energy passed by her ears, ruffling her hair.

She seemed to suddenly hear the subtle sound of wind brought about by the sword energy, as if she had suddenly awakened. Her five senses suddenly became sharper, as if she could feel the spiritual energy flowing between heaven and earth and within her body. Even her consciousness seemed to briefly merge with the sword in her hand -

She seemed to have mastered the Wuxiang Sword.

Xie Yanyu turned around again to take Helan Wei's move. Her eyes quickly swept over him, finding the weakness in his body movement. Then, she tightened her grip on the sword and attacked without warning. The sword energy broke through the surrounding wind and hit Helan Wei directly in the heart!

*

Xie Yanyu forced out the blood from Helan Wei's heart.

Using sword moves as a formation and sword wind to perform magic, he actually forced the blood and energy of Helan Wei to surge out of his body in an instant.

The blood in my heart condensed into a bright red blood bead, floating in the air.

The system screamed in Xie Yanyu's head: [Is the Wuxiang Sword so powerful? You actually injured Helan Wei and knocked him unconscious! He's the hero, almost reaching the Spiritual Transformation Stage. I...]

When it called out to this point, it suddenly paused, realizing that its reaction was not right, as if it had inexplicably been praising Xie Yanyu a little too much.

Then it screamed even louder: [No, wait, you knocked him unconscious! Why did you take his heart blood?!]

Xie Yanyu said calmly: Because I want to see if I have mastered the Wuxiang Sword.

System: [There are so many ferocious beasts in the trial field, why don't you use the ferocious beasts to test yourself, but use him? ]

Xie Yanyu raised the corner of his eyes.

She didn't say anything, but the system was getting to know her better and better, and didn't need her to say anything. Just by seeing her reaction, it understood that she had done it on purpose.

He deliberately wanted to hurt Helan Wei to see where his bottom line was.

She deliberately wanted to take his heart blood because the heart blood of a cultivator is more useful than the heart blood of a ferocious beast. After refining it, it has many uses. Even if it cannot be used temporarily, she can keep it for emergencies. She will not refuse good things that come to her door.

System: [You...]

Xie Yanyu: Hmm?

System: [Ah, I really can't control you, but can you please consider the progress of the plot? ]

Xie Yanyu: The progress has been pushed forward.

As soon as she finished speaking, the next second, the system seemed to have received some prompt.

It reported: [Because you've mastered the Wuxiang Sword, which fits in with the original plot where Helan Wei teaches you magic, the plot progress has been pushed from 49% to 51%...]

Xie Yanyu: Yes.

The system was silent for a long moment, its momentum weakening. […But you finally managed to ease the relationship with him a little, and now you're taking his blood. Isn't that too much? He'll be angry, and what if he gets angry and ignores you? You're not going to leave him alone again, are you? I think the previous time was enough, and this won't work again. He's too arrogant, he really can't give in again and again.]

Xie Yanyu: Yes, that makes sense.

System: [What should we do then?]

Xie Yanyu: Then let’s wait until he wakes up and see his attitude.

Her tone was nonchalant as she took a step forward and collected the drop of blood in her palm.

*

When Helan Wei woke up, he found himself lying in the room.

The bed curtain was half-dropped. When he turned his head, he could vaguely see a figure. It was Xie Yanyu sitting beside his bed.

Probably because she heard him wake up, she opened the bed curtain and looked towards him.

Her face was as pale as ever, her eyes half-lidded as she checked on his condition.

Helan Wei sat up.

Xie Yanyu saw his action and said, "Young Master."

She picked up the medicine bowl beside her and said, "I was careless before and didn't notice it. I accidentally hurt you, young master, and caused you to be injured. I just made some medicine. If you drink some, you will get better faster."

She quickly admitted her mistake, held the medicine, scooped up a little liquid with a spoon, and put it to his lips.

Helan Wei smelled the bitter taste of the medicine.

Doesn't smell very nice.

His expression was indifferent as he lifted his eyelids to glance at her. She had regained some of her usual submissive demeanor, unlike her recent cold, stranger-like demeanor.

Helan Wei moved his fingertips and then lowered his eyes again.

He didn't take the medicine.

Xie Yanyu took the spoon and placed the medicine next to his lips. Maybe he was really unhappy, so he didn't give him much face.

Xie Yanyu didn't move or speak again. She began to wonder how unhappy he was and whether he would get better if she left him alone for a while. After all, her ultimate goal was to advance the plot. She could leave him alone once, but leaving him alone a second time might not be effective.

She was thinking,

But the next second, she heard Helan Wei slowly calling her name: "Xie Yanyu."

Xie Yanyu: "Hmm?"

Helan Wei looked at the white mist rising from the medicine: "It's very hot. How do you want me to drink it?"

He also didn't mention that she took his heart's blood.

The moment he fainted, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect that she would take his heart blood, but he was not angry about it. Regardless of whether she did it on purpose or not, it was just that he was careless when fighting with her and failed to defend himself.

If you really have to care about it, it's at most that she doesn't take him seriously enough.

Everyone looked up to him and treated him with caution. Who would dare to hurt him intentionally? How could she dare not take him seriously?

But she had already admitted her mistake once.

Although he couldn't tell whether she was sincere or not, whether she really admitted her mistake or was afraid, Helan Wei suddenly found that he didn't really want to care about these things. He even felt a little resistant deep down in his heart and didn't want to pick things apart and argue with her.

He didn't want to delve into why this happened.

But looking at her attitude now, he found that he seemed to have regained some power to find fault.

So he said calmly: "Let it cool down a bit before feeding me."

*

Xie Yanyu's attitude seemed to have really returned to what it was before.

Helan Wei asked her to let the medicine cool before feeding it to him, and she actually sat by his side, waiting for it to cool, and then fed him mouthful by mouthful. He asked her to take care of him until he recovered, and she actually agreed. In the next few days, she came to visit him every day and feed him medicine.

Why?

Because she took his heart's blood?

In fact, it was just a drop of blood from his heart. Although he was injured, he was not bedridden for several days. But realizing that she might feel sorry for him because of the blood from her heart, so she indulged him, Helan Wei actually developed a subtle sense of addiction.

He deliberately slowed down his body's healing process. Every time she fed him medicine, when she was by his side, when she used her spiritual power to check on his physical condition, he felt her touch and watched her, his vision growing increasingly dim. A thought grew like poison ivy, wanting to hold onto something for him—

If she knew...

Was he the one she was collecting essence from that day?

*

Several days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these days, Xie Yanyu would go to accompany Helan Wei.

He asked her to bring him medicine, but fortunately she didn't need to prepare the medicine herself.

She would ask her servants to prepare the medicine for her, and then she would bring it over, feed him a few sips, and then practice Wuxiang Sword in his yard.

After all, it doesn't require any thought.

Moreover, this also advanced the plot progress a bit, so since Helan Wei had been asking her to go, she went. Therefore, over the past few days, the progress of the plot line with Helan Wei has slowly pushed to 55%.

But this day,

Xie Yanyu did not go to find Helan Wei.

The secret realm of Shangqing Fairy Palace, which opens once every hundred years, will open tomorrow. She knows the priorities of things, so she stayed in her own residence to sort out her things, sorted out some magical tools and pills that might be used, and put them one by one into a mustard seed bag.

While helping her clean up, Chen Lang asked, "Miss, why are you sorting out these magical instruments?"

Xie Yanyu said, "The secret realm of Shangqing Immortal Palace will be open tomorrow, and I want to go there."

She had not mentioned this matter to Shen Lang before.

At this time,

Chen Lang was stunned when he heard her plan. "So, Miss, you have been learning the Wuxiang Sword these days just to go to that secret realm?"

Xie Yanyu: "Yeah."

Chen Lang looked at her, his amber eyes as clear as spring water, and said gently: "Miss, why are you going to that secret place? If you had told me earlier, you wouldn't have needed to learn. What do you want? I can go in and get it for you."

Xie Yanyu didn't intend to hide it: "I didn't go in to get anything. The other entrance to this secret realm is in the demon world. The demon king should enter this secret realm. I went there to see the demon king."

As soon as these words fell,

The servant suddenly fell silent.

Xie Yanyu mentioned this matter and was about to tell him some precautions after entering the secret realm. She was going to take him there, but before she could open her mouth, she saw that his expression was a little subtle.

So she asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Chen Lang quickly concealed the strangeness in his expression.

He lowered his eyes and continued to help her organize her things: "...It's okay."

He originally wanted to ask her why she was so sure that the Demon Lord would enter the secret realm, but he knew that it was a bit strange to ask this question. He was accompanying her as a servant, and asking such a question would easily arouse her suspicion, so he said nothing.

But he still felt uneasy.

It was as if he was standing on the edge of a bottomless abyss. He had no idea how deep it was or what lay beneath.

After a while, he couldn't help but probe: "Why does Miss want to see the Demon Lord?"

Xie Yanyu said: "Private matter."

Chen Lang: "Hmm..."

Shen Lang looked at her, thought for a while, and wanted to speak.

However, the next second, Xie Yanyu took out a magical instrument and handed it to him: "Please keep this for me too."

Chen Lang lowered his eyes.

This magical weapon was specially designed to restrain snake demons. It was shaped like a dagger and felt cool when put into the hand, but was soon warmed by body temperature. However, even so, Shen Lang still felt the coolness spreading along the palm of his hand, to his limbs and bones, penetrating into his bones and blood, making him feel cold all over. He had never felt this way even when he was at his weakest and met his natural enemy.

His heartbeat suddenly became very fast: "Miss, why... prepared this?"

Xie Yanyu glanced at him:

"Of course, it's because I'm afraid that after I meet the Demon Lord, he will strangle me with his snake tail."

*

Xie Yanyu felt that this servant was a little strange today, but he couldn't tell what was strange.

But before she could think about it carefully,

Then I received a message from Helan Wei: [Come find me.]

Xie Yanyu turned his attention to this and replied, "Not today. I have something to do."

On that side,

Helan Wei's eyes darkened when he received her message.

He was about to send something else when he received another message from her: [After all these days, Senior Brother should be feeling better now, right?]

So when he gets better, everything will return to normal.

She felt only a little guilty and wary. She had only taken his precious blood. He couldn't possibly stay bedridden for the rest of his life. As time went on, she would return to her previous state, cold and indifferent like a stranger. This would make him seem too calculative and greedy, and he would stay where he was, unable to extricate himself.

Helan Wei suddenly threw away the communication talisman.

But after a while, he looked at the empty room and the feeling of irritation in his heart became even stronger.

The thoughts that had been suppressed a few days ago began to resurface. Why had she just left him there like nothing had happened? Did she think that this was all about the blood in her heart? She had taken his essence, they were husband and wife. He had no intention of competing with that lowly attendant for the title of furnace cauldron, but shouldn't she be responsible?

Knowing that it was him who was taken that day, could she still treat him like this?

After a while,

He picked up the communication talisman again, his finger resting on it for a long time, his face dark: [Come here, I have something to tell you.]

Xie Yanyu quickly replied: [If you have anything to say, just message me.]

Helan Wei stared at the communication talisman.

His fingers seemed to be frozen, and he was unable to edit the words.

He took out a magical instrument, placed it in his palm, and injected some of her aura into it. This magical instrument looked like a mirror, but it was disposable. It was called the Past Mirror. Because it was infused with her aura, it would only work if she touched it.

Whenever he touched it, he would recall some forgotten memories, such as what happened that day when he was taking essence from him.

When you think about it, the mirror will shatter.

He studied the mirror of the past and sent her a message: "I have something for you. It's a magical artifact, and it has your aura on it. I wonder if you left it here. Come and get it."

*

Xie Yanyu didn't remember leaving anything with Helan Wei.

But seeing how determined he was, she recalled something.

Just as he was about to reply and ask what kind of magical instrument it was, he heard the attendant say, "Miss."

Xie Yanyu: "Hmm?"

Chen Lang looked at the message sent by Helan Wei,

I don't know why, but the uneasiness in my heart almost overflowed. This was the instinct of the demon race, almost like a premonition.

So he said, "I'll go. It's just to get something, so there's no need for you to go in person."

Xie Yanyu: "That's right."

Chen Lang looked at her for a while, then placed the magic weapon used to deal with the snake demon back in her palm: "I...my ancestors have some connection with the demon world. I know how to deal with the Demon Lord. You don't need to lead him, just take me there. I won't let the Demon Lord hurt you."

Xie Yanyu raised his eyes and asked, "How to deal with it?"

Shen Lang whispered, "It's not a special technique, it's related to my bloodline. Miss, take me with you. If you have any requests, maybe I can get the Demon Lord to agree to it."

Xie Yanyu heard this and said, "Then you are quite useful."

She said, "I was planning to take you there anyway. Okay, go get my things for me."

After saying this,

She replied to Helan Wei: [Coming.]