Chapter 267 A Lone Shadow Protects His Beloved
Once the gate was closed, only a few of them remained in the courtyard.
"mother."
Huaiyin immediately stepped forward and helped her mother up.
First, he knelt down to brush the dust off the woman's skirt, then helped her to a chair to sit down before looking up at Zhu Qi.
"You just said you cured my mother, that was a lie." Her gaze was calm. "Why did you lie to them?"
Zhu Qi nodded, "It's fake, but if I don't say it, the stalemate will continue indefinitely."
“Since we’ve come here to solve a problem, we should naturally know where the key to this matter lies,” Fu Yan added clearly and logically.
The steady voice dropped a bombshell: "She has indeed been tainted by dark energy, and for quite some time now."
Huaiyin remained silent.
She knew all along that she could keep this a secret from others, but not from the eyes of these immortals.
She and her mother depended on each other since childhood. Although the family was poor, her mother knew how to sew and wash, and she always managed to keep the family clean.
But as she grew older, her mother insisted that she go to school. The neighbors all tried to dissuade her from studying, saying it was no use and that it would be better for her to learn some skills, get married early, and then life would naturally get better.
But her mother refused to do it no matter what.
My mother said that girls should also study and understand principles, so that they won't be taken advantage of or cheated.
But tuition fees were required for studying, and everything from writing brushes and inkstones cost money. Her mother didn't want her to be looked down upon, so she used the same things as everyone else.
To raise money, her mother secretly took a job washing clothes near an abandoned mine outside the city...
The wages there are high, but no one dares to go because there are rumors in the neighborhood that there are evil things there.
She never noticed until the dark spots on her mother's hands could no longer be hidden...
Thinking of this, Huaiyin wiped away a handful of tears.
Before anyone could react, she knelt down with a thud and kowtowed three times in the direction of the four people.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
When the girl looked up again, her forehead was bruised and purple.
But her eyes burned like fire, and despite the thin lines of blood trickling down them, she declared resolutely, "As long as you all have a way to save my mother, I'm willing to do whatever it takes, no matter the cost!"
Huali took a step forward instinctively, but Fuyan blocked her way first.
His cold voice, like ice falling from the heavens, declared, "I've already tried, and the outcome is already decided."
Seeing Huaiyin's disbelief, Fu Yan raised his hands, his spiritual power surging wildly, and a dazzling golden talisman suddenly appeared. The demon-suppressing and soul-pacifying patterns on it flowed continuously, radiating a powerful and pure purifying force!
"Break the evil!" Fu Yanqing shouted, pointing a finger at the woman's forehead!
Buzz—
A burst of brilliant golden light, like a miniature sun, instantly engulfed her brow.
The dark aura beneath the woman's skin rapidly dissipated from her pores, and Huaiyin's eyes flashed with light!
However, the light only lasted for a single breath.
Just as the black mist was about to dissipate, it seemed to be summoned by an invisible force and suddenly swirled back.
The golden talisman was devoured, turning into a piece of waste paper devoid of magic.
"Why?" Huaiyin stared blankly at everything. "Can't you do it either?"
Over the years, she has tried every method imaginable.
She even secretly went to Princess Mu Feng's side and knelt down to beg that young master to come and save her.
But apart from suppression, even he couldn't eradicate it.
Watching Zhu Qi perform his magic today, even knowing it was fake, she still felt a glimmer of hope. Perhaps... perhaps...
“Since you know about the black energy, you must have tried it with many cultivators.” Fu Yan shook his head. “Our power can only suppress the appearance. The source of this energy is strange. Fortunately, your mother was not deeply infected at the time, so the herbs you bought over the years have accidentally suppressed it.”
"It's good, but it's not good either."
Huaiyin looked up in a daze.
"All kinds of poisons and evil spirits in the world, regardless of their form or nature, follow the same principle—" Fu Yan's voice carried a calm chill, "The more forcefully it is suppressed, the more external forces are used to block it, the thicker its backlash will accumulate, and the more unstoppable it will be when it breaks free."
Karin clenched her fist tightly.
Lotus leaf wash.
Since arriving in Linfeng County, she had been trying to find time to detoxify him, but he suddenly became unpredictable and hasn't appeared at all in the last two days.
This is not normal.
As soon as Fu Yan finished speaking, Huaiyin swayed violently, and just as she was about to fall, a hand steadily supported her.
Huaiyin turned around and saw her mother, who had somehow walked out of the chair, steadily supporting her body and reaching out to touch her head.
"How did you get hurt? Did you run out and get into a fight again?" the woman asked anxiously. "Get up quickly, let me put some medicine on you."
"I've told you so many times, fighting is fine, but we can't let ourselves get the short end of the stick, the other side..."
"I chased them away with a stick."
The woman paused for a moment, then laughed and said, "You're truly my daughter! I'll take you to buy candy later! Remember, don't be afraid of anyone who bullies you. Fight back if you can. If you lose an arm or a leg, I'll make it up to you! But..."
"But if I encounter something I can't beat, I run away!"
"Find a place to hide..." Huaiyin's tears fell in large drops, "Wait...wait for Mother to come find me."
The woman wiped the blood off Huaiyin's face and smiled, "Yes, no matter where you are, your mother will definitely be able to find you."
As soon as she finished speaking, her focused gaze suddenly went vacant.
The remaining spiritual power of the talisman within her body completely disappeared.
The woman's eyes changed, and she reached out to grab Huaiyin's neck, but Zhu Qi stopped her halfway.
“If it were the beginning of the infection, when the evil influence was not deep and the roots were not firm, it might be possible to use domineering methods, supplemented by talismans. But now... the days ahead are filled with suffering.” Fu Yan looked at her.
“If this continues, your mother may be possessed by evil spirits at any time. The neighbors’ concerns are not without reason.”
"I......"
Huaiyin's voice was so hoarse it was almost inaudible.
She was aware of her neighbor's concerns, and it was indeed her fault, but... but she really had no other choice.
She worked day and night to earn money, but what was it all for? Just so her mother could stay with her a little longer... a little longer.
Huaiyin trembled as she grasped her mother's hand, which was slightly curled up in pain. It was this very hand that had lifted her to see a wider world...
"I can stop working for now... I can stay with her all the time... That way, those people won't be afraid..."
Fu Yan shook her head. "Have you ever thought that when you're eating, sleeping, or turning around to pour water, evil energy might take over her reason, and like now, she might instinctively kill you?"
He paused, then continued, "If you can understand this, I might be able to ease her suffering..."
"Don't even think about it!!"
"No one can hurt her!!" Huaiyin's eyes were filled with tears. "My life was given to me by my mother. The only person keeping me alive in this world is my mother." The girl's tears were still wet, but her eyes shone with an astonishing light.
"If that day ever comes, I will be with her."
“My mother raised me to where I am today with these hands and these bones. You can call me selfish or domineering, but I would never end her life prematurely just to live for myself!”
"no way!"
A slight ripple spread across the depths of Fu Yan's cold eyes, before quickly returning to silence.
There are too many things in this world that are hard to accept.
Humans are born, grow old, get sick, and die; the cycle of nature follows its own course. Going against nature only brings more suffering.
To follow the will of Heaven and abide by its principles is the right path.
This woman's life was already over; continuing the entanglement would only cost her her own life.
"Why don't you let me give it a try?"
Karin, who hadn't had a chance to speak until now, finally managed to interject, "What if it works out?"
Huaiyin suddenly looked up, "Huali!"
Karin gave her a reassuring smile, "I'll try my best."
Although that's what she said, she was 90% confident. This dark energy shared the same origin as her, and her wood-type card should be its nemesis.
But Huali couldn't speak too definitively; there's always a chance of something going wrong.
In addition, it cannot be ruled out that she genuinely likes this girl.
As Huaiyin and Fuyan talked, those little details from her memory surfaced one by one in Huali's mind.
When this girl was in Tianlan City, she stood at the front desk with a beaming smile; when she was in Yunshang Yinyu, even though those standing below were all formidable figures, she still earnestly and diligently asked them to leave promptly; and just now, the way she counted spirit stones one by one...
She is truly living a good life.
Like a small blade of grass growing tenaciously in a crack in the rock, it never complains, never asks for handouts, but silently uses all its strength to support its little family...
She's willing to give it a try because she's such a good girl.
Huali took out a wood-type card—
"Rosewood".
Fu Yan called her by her full name for the first time.
His eyes held a profound warning: "Everyone's path has a trajectory, and it also has its end."
"Have you thought about the consequences of forcibly interfering with someone else's predetermined fate?"
Upon hearing this, both Zhu Qi and Mu Chen felt a pang of worry.
Huaiyin, whose eyes had just begun to glean hope, opened her mouth but could not utter a single word.
She couldn't stop her from not saving her, but she also didn't have the face to ask her to save her...
Ultimately, we were just strangers who met by chance, so why should they...?
Huali quietly looked at Fuyan.
After a long pause, he suddenly laughed, "Fu Yan, you and Ran Ran, you two are a perfect match."
Fu Yan was taken aback. "What do you mean by that?"
"I just feel that you two have similar values and should have a lot to talk about."
A wood-type card flew out of Huali's hand, "Reincarnation of Life and Death, Accumulation!"
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