Chapter 76 One eighteen years ago, one five years ago
Seeing that Yu Sui had been bowing her head several times and struggling to wipe her tears, Mei Liangyu took matters into her own hands and gently wiped away the tears on her face by grasping her sleeve.
He added, "A few months ago, you almost died in the outer city, and you didn't cry like this."
He spoke casually, and it was impossible to understand what he meant.
Yu Sui's heart trembled.
Mei Liangyu had no ulterior motives in saying this; he was still thinking about how to cheer her up and distract her from the burning sensation caused by the thunder and fire.
Yu Sui lowered her head and said with a slightly nasal tone, "Because no one came to save me when I was in the outer city."
Her voice trembled as she spoke. Mei Liangyu's warm fingertips brushed away the tears at the corners of her eyes and gently pressed the water stains onto her skin.
Yu Sui had been hiding in the cave, and from the falls and bumps, her fair and delicate skin was covered in red marks and stained with dirt.
Mei Liangyu used the tears on her fingertips to wipe the dust off her face.
“Someone will come to rescue you later,” he said.
Yu Sui recalled that last time in the outer city, Gu Gan had also used the slow slicing method on Mei Liangyu. Although he hadn't succeeded in killing him and his senior brother had put up some resistance, his hands were still slashed and bloodied. His palms were still wrapped in white bandages, with only a section of his fingertips showing.
Even though she had no wounds this time, she felt a deep sense of empathy. Yu Sui's gaze followed Mei Liangyu's hand. The fingers that had once appeared to her as having distinct knuckles and slender, fair skin were now barely visible. Perhaps beneath the bandages, the flesh and bone were still separated.
My senior brother's five elements were in disarray at the time, yet he remained calm and composed. He was such a good actor.
Yu Sui was trying to loosen his stiff fingers and said softly to Mei Liangyu's comforting words, "Thank you, Senior Brother."
Mei Liangyu gently stroked her cheek with his slightly curved fingers, his deep, clear eyes reflecting the swaying tassels on her head. After a moment, the man added in a tone that was neither too loud nor too soft, "It is only right for a senior brother to save his junior sister. You should accept it with a clear conscience."
Yu Sui seemed amused by his words, and a smile appeared in her still watery eyes.
"Thank you so much, senior," she said.
Mei Liangyu laughed when she heard this and told her not to thank him, but she insisted on going against him. It seems she's feeling a bit more energetic now.
Yu Sui gently moved her fingers, which were still stiff and sore. She loosened her grip on the clothes and slowly tucked them into her sleeves.
Mei Liangyu noticed the subtle movements of her hands out of the corner of her eye, but did not interfere. After wiping the water off Yu Sui's face, she withdrew her hand and said, "The city-guarding king of the Dragon Fish Soldier Formation is on a boat on the water. Although it is a high-level armored formation of the thirteenth realm, fortunately, it is not controlled by a master and is a dead formation, so its strength has been greatly reduced."
He planned to finish quickly and get out as soon as possible to have Shi Yuezhen remove the lightning seal from Yu Sui.
But they were worried about leaving Yu Sui alone in the cave.
When the black ships arrive, there will be a continuous barrage of attacks from the puppet army formations.
Just as Mei Liangyu finished thinking, he saw another black ship land in the Fish Scale Mouth Cave. The paper figures rushed down and transformed into puppets holding swords and knives.
Yu Sui began to feign weakness, unwilling to show off in front of Mei Liangyu, after all, she felt that "the lightning seal was too painful". If she could still fight without changing her expression, her senior brother would see her in a different light.
Mei Liangyu glanced at the puppet soldiers chasing after her into the cave. Seeing that Yu Sui was too weak to stand up, she turned to the side, took Yu Sui's hand and put it on her shoulder, telling her to hold on tight, and then carried her on her back.
Yu Sui nestled against Mei Liangyu's back, her arms bent and her fingers gently gripping his shoulders.
The man's broad shoulders and back provided a strong sense of security, like a sturdy piece of driftwood in a turbulent sea. Yu Sui noticed the golden five elements energy protecting Mei Liangyu, which enveloped her as well.
A ghostly blue light illuminated the constellation array beside Mei Liangyu, and the Void Constellation General, the Frost White Python, rushed out from the void and launched a fierce attack forward.
Yu Sui glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye. His senior brother's Zhou Tian Huo was climbing the wall to illuminate the darkness, but the cave was too long, and the area outside the Zhou Tian Huo was pitch black, so he couldn't see anything.
Xue Mushi should be in a very back position. If he were smart, he wouldn't have come out so easily after noticing that Mei Liangyu was outside.
Yu Sui planned to give Xue Mushi some more time, until Mei Liangyu finished dealing with the ship's puppet soldiers, before revealing his existence.
Mei Liangyu was about to rush out, using the massive body of the Frost Python as cover as he moved forward. Carrying Yu Sui on his back, he used the Wind Control Technique to instantly move forward, his figure disappearing from the spot in the blink of an eye, reappearing in the distance, and then constantly changing position according to the battle situation.
At first, Yu Sui gently held onto Mei Liangyu's shoulders with both hands. As he moved forward using his wind manipulation technique, she dodged several times the enemy puppets that leaped up and attacked with swords. When Mei Liangyu asked her to lower her head, Yu Sui lowered her head, rested her head on his shoulder, and wrapped her arms around his neck with her hands folded together.
The Frost White Python spewed out icy white vapor from its gaping maw, freezing the surrounding flow of the five elements.
The space inside the fish-scale cave was so vast that a single fish scale was the size of a city gate. The frost covered such a wide area that Yu Sui felt the temperature inside the cave plummet, even colder than a winter in the capital of Qingyang.
The puppet soldiers in the cave were all frozen. Some of the clever ones leaped up from the ground and came to block Mei Liangyu's path on the Frost Python, but they were also frozen by the frost.
Mei Liangyu, who was standing on the back of the Frosty White Python, stopped. A bewitching ice-blue light appeared in his dark eyes. The blue light flashed in the cave. In an instant, he saw through the death talisman that had immobilized all the puppets and destroyed it.
The puppets that tried to break the ice were bitten to pieces by the supporting Frost Python. In a short while, the stone cave occupied by the densely packed puppet army was cleared away.
Mei Liangyu carried Yu Suishunying from the Frost White Python to the ground, calmly harmonizing the turbulent Five Elements energy within his body.
He figured that if he used the Nine Streams Technique a few more times, the Five Elements would be in disarray, and he needed to kill the city's guard general and get out before that happened.
Mei Liangyu trampled the black paper boat to pieces. Just as he was about to rush out, Yu Sui called out softly, "Senior brother, wait a moment, Xue Mushi is still inside."
"Who?" Mei Liangyu asked, his expression inscrutable.
“Xue Mushi, a Taoist disciple who joined the academy with me this year,” Yu Sui explained to him. “My senior sister Su and I were able to get to the dragon’s belly so quickly thanks to Xue Mushi’s divination. When the puppet army attacked earlier, he lured some of them away. He was also injured, and we don’t know how he is now.”
Her words revealed obvious worry, implying that Mei Liangyu should go back and check whether the person was dead or alive.
Mei Liangyu said "Oh," then turned around and headed into the cave, asking as he walked, "What divination did he perform?"
"Our luck was good and bad, and we even had the blessing of Senior Sister Su's divine wooden divination sticks. So we were very lucky all the way. We didn't encounter any other people and even found quite a few teleportation arrays." Yu Sui began to lie through his teeth.
Mei Liangyu listened with interest, "Are the new Taoist disciples this year really that capable?"
Yu Sui warned him in advance, "He is very capable, but his temper is also very strange."
Mei Liangyu didn't take it seriously: "Really? I've never seen anyone stranger than me."
Yu Sui moved her eyes, thinking to herself, "You're quite self-aware."
Mei Liangyu didn't use the Wind-Riding Technique to travel, and although Yu Sui didn't know why, she didn't pay much attention. She let go of one hand to pick up the Wind-Listening Ruler, wanting to send a message back to Zhongli Que, otherwise she would be worried to death.
To avoid arousing his senior brother's suspicion, Yu Sui asked a question to divert his attention: "Senior brother, how did you also fall into this armored formation?"
Mei Liangyu replied, "Yan Xiaochuan found the sound of crossing the water and shouted it out. Everyone in Zhanlong Cave heard it, and they happened to be not far away."
He only remembered Sheng Fei after he finished speaking, and said, "Sheng Fei is here too."
"Third Brother?" Yu Sui was a little surprised. After sending the message, he put away the Listening Wind Ruler, waiting for an opportunity to comfort Zhong Lique.
Mei Liangyu replied, "We just happened to run into him, but he got into a fight with a disciple of a famous family on the way, so he was slow to arrive."
For the first time, Xue Mushi experienced the shared sense of death among the destroyers. The excruciating pain of being slowly sliced to death caused him to fall to the ground, his body, already wounded, smeared with blood.
Yu Sui lied.
With no puppet soldiers chasing after her, she fell behind, and the puppet soldiers' attack target became her alone.
The image of Yu Xian's breakdown and screams in his mind made Xue Mushi's face turn even paler. The man's cursing voice made his head buzz. The intense discomfort, panic, and anger made Xue Mushi sweat profusely. The feeling of collapse was also nagging at him, making him gasp for breath. He leaned against the wall, head raised, as if he was suffocating, wishing he could end this pain by committing suicide.
A faint red light flickered from the chest area hidden beneath his clothes. Red curse marks spread from his chest to his entire body, as if relieving his potentially fatal pain. Circles of red curse marks wrapped around his sweaty skin.
Far away in the Taiyuan Kingdom, the Holy Maiden of the Yin-Yang School sat atop the sea of stars, her brows furrowed as she looked down at the red curse mark that appeared on her wrist pulse.
The rapid, trembling heartbeats connected the pulses of two people separated by thousands of miles.
Xue Mushi knelt on the ground in the cave, his body covered in what appeared to be sweat or blood, his face a mixture of sweat and tears, too weak to even lift his hand to wipe them away.
When he wanted to go back to find Yu Sui, he saw Mei Liangyu rushing over, so he didn't dare to go forward rashly. Later, when the sympathetic connection came, Xue Mushi had no heart to think about Yu Sui anymore.
Yu Xian is dead.
But he wanted to live and experience the pain of death.
The moment the empathy ended, the pain was drained away, and Xue Mushi's strength was also drained away. He collapsed to the ground like a fish out of water, but his soul was still trembling.
In his dazed state, he slowly reached out and pressed his hand to his chest; the scalding hot curse mark instantly brought him back to his senses.
The gentle voice of the girl from before echoed in his mind: "Mu Shi, you can't tell anyone until I find a way."
"Hide yourself well, don't get discovered."
"I won't let you die."
Xue Mushi gritted his teeth and got up from the ground, supporting himself on the stone wall with one hand, stiffly wiping the water stains off his face.
His emotions were instantly calmed and suppressed, and when he looked up again, his usual composure had vanished.
Xue Mushi strode outside, seemingly dazed, but his mind was racing.
Nangong Sui also possessed a strange fire.
This is not bad news for him.
This was also the only gain he made after coming to Taiyi.
When the man spoke of two silent mute people during the empathy segment, he was referring to himself and Nangong Sui.
One was eighteen years ago, and the other was five years ago.
I only acquired the Strange Flame five years ago, while Nangong Sui acquired it eighteen years ago.
Eighteen years... Doesn't that mean she was pregnant right after she was born?
Xue Mushi was shocked and couldn't believe that Yu Sui had been living and accompanying such a strange fire for eighteen years.
He clutched his shoulder and staggered forward, not using his Wind Control Technique. As he walked, he pondered the upcoming meeting. The person who was coming was Mei Liangyu, Nangong Sui's senior brother. He should have stopped the attack of the puppet army formation and prevented her from being eliminated.
I wonder how Nangong Sui will explain this to Mei Liangyu.
I heard that her senior brother has a strange temper, a cold and cruel style, and is not easy to fool.
As Xue Mushi walked, he saw the stone wall illuminated by Zhou Tianhuo, and he also saw Mei Liangyu carrying Yu Sui towards him. He was stunned.
He looked at Yu Sui on Mei Liangyu's back. Yu Sui squinted and raised her chin slightly, a far cry from her usual gentle and obedient demeanor, even exuding a sense of oppression.
Then look at Mei Liangyu, who has no suspicion whatsoever about Yu Sui's actions and even asks her if she is in pain. Yu Sui obediently replies that she is still in pain, but her gaze towards him is cold and indifferent.
Xue Mushi hesitated.
This senior brother Nangong Sui is different from what I've heard.
[Author's Note]
I'll just post a short chapter for now, see you later tonight.
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