Chapter 234 We Die Together
"Then...what about the second result?" Jiu's voice was trembling.
Chu Xuanyi's gaze shifted back to Xiao Yu's snow-white face, and a hint of regret flashed in his eyes.
"The second result is..."
"The prince... to save you, he first forcibly detonated his dragon energy to resist the backlash of the restriction, and then exhausted the last trace of his dragon energy to cleanse your soul. The dragon veins in his body... are like glass shattered by a huge force, already... broken into pieces."
"He is now no different from a useless person. His cultivation has been completely dissipated, his dragon energy is gone, and even the vitality in his body is fading at a terrifying speed."
"He... is entering the countdown of his life."
"boom--"
The dragon vein...is broken inch by inch.
No different from a useless person.
Step into...the countdown of life.
"No……"
Ajiu shook her head violently, tears streaming down her face again. She struggled to break free from Chu Xuanyi's hand like a madman and threw herself to Xiao Yu again.
"No... My Lord, you are lying to me... You must be lying to me..."
She grabbed Xiao Yu's cold hand and pressed it against her face, crying uncontrollably.
"Brother Xiong Xiong, did you hear that? The adults said you were going to die... He was lying, wasn't he? Wake up and scold him. Get up and beat him."
"Aren't you the most powerful regent? How could you possibly die..."
"You promised to buy me the best candied haws in the capital, you promised to take me to see the snow in the north, and you also promised...when I reach the age of 15..."
Her words got stuck in her throat and she couldn't say any more.
The remaining words were the secret hidden deep in her heart, the girlish thoughts that had quietly sprouted at her coming-of-age ceremony and that she dared not speak out loud.
She thought they still had a very long time.
She thought that she could always follow him around, get into trouble, act like a spoiled child, and then watch him sigh helplessly while shielding her from all the wind and rain.
But now, the mountain that protected her from wind and rain seemed to be collapsing.
Chu Xuanyi looked at the scene before him, his heart aching. He turned his head away, unable to bear to watch any longer.
He had seen life and death in his medical practice and practiced Taoism, and his heart had long been tempered to be as hard as a rock. But at this moment, facing this heartbroken little girl and the man who had risked his life for her, his heart was still deeply hurt.
"grown ups."
Ajiu's crying gradually stopped. She slowly turned her head and stared at Chu Xuanyi with her red and swollen eyes.
"Tell me, is there any other way?"
"Since our lives are tied together, I can't let him die. If he dies, I can't live either. If we die, we die together."
"But as long as I am alive, I will never let him die before me."
Chu Xuanyi was shocked by the ruthlessness in her eyes.
Is this still the little girl who usually looks confused and silly?
At this moment, he seemed to see again the girl who turned the tide on the altar with the power of her divine eyes. She was just as petite, but just as... stubborn and heartbreaking.
"What to do..." Chu Xuanyi laughed bitterly, "The prince's dragon vein has been broken, and his life force has been cut off. This is equivalent to defying the will of heaven and changing his fate. How easy is that?"
"That means there is a chance." Ah Jiu keenly grasped the slightest flaw in his words, "Even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance, you have to tell me."
Chu Xuanyi was silent.
He looked at Ajiu's eyes that refused to give up, then looked at Xiao Yu whose breath was getting weaker and weaker, and finally he sighed deeply.
"That's all."
"Come with me."
He turned and walked towards the bookshelf in the side hall, and took out a thick and ancient book from a secret compartment.
The cover of the book was made of unknown animal skin, with two large characters written on it in ancient cinnabar - "Xuanshu Miyao".
This is the only copy of the book that has been passed down secretly by successive masters of Qingyun Temple. It records countless strange stories and secrets of heaven and earth.
Chu Xuanyi placed the book on the table, and his slender fingers quickly flipped through the yellowed pages, finally stopping at one of them.
There was a picture of a plant with a strange shape on that page.
Its entire body is light golden in color, its leaves are like dragon scales, its roots are like dragon claws, and on the top is a drop of crystal clear dew that seems to still be warm.
"What is this?" Ajiu came over and asked softly.
"Ambergris."
Chu Xuanyi pointed at the plant and said solemnly, "A divine object from ancient legends. It's said that this fruit grew where a true dragon fell, absorbing the essence of dragon soul and blood. It takes a thousand years to grow. The dewdrops on its tip are called 'Ambergris', and they have the miraculous power to reshape dragon veins and reverse life and death."
Ajiu's eyes lit up instantly.
"Then...then where can I find it?" she asked anxiously.
"I don't know." He shook his head. "The classics only say that this creature was born in the place where dragon veins converge in the extremely yang land, but the exact location has long been lost. For thousands of years, countless people have searched for it but have returned empty-handed. Whether it exists in the world is just a legend."
"Legend..." The light in Jiu's eyes dimmed little by little.
"But..." Chu Xuanyi couldn't bear to see her despair. He pointed to a line of small words next to the map and said, "There is also a clue recorded here."
Ajiu looked over quickly.
There was only a line of small characters that read: Ambergris fruit is extremely yang in nature, but its companion object must be the extremely yin and evil 'Nine Netherworlds Soul-Guiding Gu'. The Gu and the fruit are born from each other and serve as each other's imprints.
"Nine Nether Soul-Guiding Gu?"
"That's right." A gleam of light flashed in Chu Xuanyi's eyes. "This is a long-lost ancient Gu from southern Xinjiang. It has the same origin as the 'Soul Pulling Curse' you were hit with before, but it's a hundred times more vicious and overbearing. I know this because I found the secret aura left by this Gu on Yun Wende's corpse."
"Yun Wende." Ajiu's pupils suddenly shrank.
"That's right," Chu Xuanyi said with certainty. "Yun Wende went to great lengths, even going so far as to steal the country, to set up that evil altar. His ultimate goal was probably to cultivate the 'Nine Nether Soul-Guiding Gu.' And the reason he wanted to cultivate this Gu was most likely to find its companion, the divine object - the Ambergris."
"so……"
Jiu's breathing suddenly became rapid.
"Perhaps the only clue to finding Ambergris is..." Chu Xuanyi's gaze deepened, "It lies with the deceased Yun Wende."
"Sir, let's go to the prison now."
Ajiu stood up from the ground and wiped the tears from his face.
"good."
Chu Xuanyi walked over to Xiao Yu, took out a white jade porcelain bottle from his bosom, poured out a pill, and carefully fed it into Xiao Yu's mouth. Then he took out a set of silver needles and quickly pierced several acupuncture points on Xiao Yu's body.
"I'm using the 'Turtle Breath Locking Yuan Pill' and the 'Seven Star Meridian Sealing Needle' to temporarily seal the prince's internal acupuncture points, buying us seven days at most." Chu Xuanyi said in a deep voice as he performed the acupuncture. "If we can't find the Ambergris Fruit within seven days, even a Daluo Immortal will be powerless to save him."
Seven days.
Jiujiu's heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by a big hand, and the pain was so severe that she could hardly breathe.
It would be a pipe dream to travel from the capital to the unknown place where the clues were found, and then to find the legendary divine object in seven days.
But even so, she will never give up.
"Let's go." Chu Xuanyi put away the silver needle and turned to say to Ajiu.
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