Beloved
“Then, then… my master…” Ren Xiangxiang never imagined that Shu Huixin, one of the Six Immortals of Qiling Mountain, would have such a past.
She had been healing demons, and thought she owed them a debt of gratitude, but who would have thought it would turn out like this?
“Master has never mentioned it…never…” Ren Xiangxiang murmured.
“That’s her heartache.” Fuyi said with a sense of loss.
Perhaps even Shu Huixin herself could not have imagined that she would end up like this.
She gave a bitter smile.
Shui Buyun asked, "So your eyes..."
"Yes." Shu Huixin nodded. "I was already physically weak, and I was blinded by the smoke back then."
The last glimmer of light was frozen in painful memories.
She was unconscious for a long time and thought she would die. Even Liao Wanchuan, who rescued them, wanted to give up on her.
It was only after Ah Rong pleaded and begged and searched everywhere for a solution that she was finally saved from the brink of death.
"Liao Wanchuan?!" Shui Buyun's teeth itched at the mere mention of that name. It was a pity that the old man died too young, otherwise he would have made him experience what it meant to wish he were dead.
“At that time, we all thought he was a good person because the people he saved had all had similar experiences…”
Shu Huixin said slowly.
"Eat, eat. Don't worry, I'm here. Don't be afraid..."
The boy gave the little girl the only food he had, while he ate monster meat like everyone else.
"Remember how you became like this? It was all because of those vile demons. They killed our families and destroyed our homes. We must take revenge!"
She remembered the voice of a righteously indignant sorcerer.
It turns out that everyone here was harmed by demons, so they hate demons and are willing to do anything to avenge them.
"This child is too weak and probably can't handle it. There's no point in keeping him around!"
She heard a helpless sigh, followed by the boy's hurried words: "I can do it, I'll do it for her, I can handle it, as long as I can keep going, you can't throw her out!"
"You?" The voice was tinged with doubt.
She reached out to the boy, gripping his arm tightly. "Brother Rong, what are you doing? I can do it too, I really can, I want revenge too!"
"Be careful, you're too young. We'll talk about it when you're older."
She felt a warm hand gently pat her head.
"No, Brother Rong! Where are you going? What are you going to do? I can do it! I can do it too!"
As Shu Huixin finished speaking, she took a deep breath, her eyes stinging – she hadn't felt this way in a long time.
Shui Buyun didn't urge her, but quietly stayed by her side.
On the other side, Ren Xiangxiang suddenly remembered that Liao Wanchuan had used demons to attack villages and caravans, creating conflict between demons and humans so that he could develop demon gu.
The host of the demonic gu can only be a human, but all those who are possessed die tragically.
"After all, they are human, how could they withstand the demonic gu? The longest they survived was no more than a month. Before they died, they didn't even have a single piece of good skin left on their bodies, and their internal organs were all eaten away by the demonic gu. They must have died in excruciating pain," Fuyi explained.
Ren Xiangxiang nodded. She had learned a lot from the classics and the Yang Palace, so Liao Wanchuan's scheme was exposed before he could succeed, and he eventually died by self-immolation.
"Then my master..."
Shu Huixin took a deep breath. She could clearly feel Shui Buyun's anger growing stronger. She wheeled herself to his side and gently took his hand.
"It's all in the past."
Shui Buyun was taken aback. "You... sigh... why did I ask you to comfort me? I just... just..."
"I did it willingly, to share Brother Rong's pain, I willingly accepted the demonic curse," Shu Huixin said calmly. "I just never expected that Brother Rong would..."
He couldn't hold on, and no one knew that she also had a demonic Gu inside her. They told her to burn the body and then bury it.
She couldn't bear to part with him, so she simply buried him.
The demonic insect cannot die. At that moment, she thought, what if Brother Rong comes back to life? He will come back to life, won't he!
Later, having no one to rely on, she was allowed to live in the Yang Palace. Because of the demonic curse, she lived on thin ice every day, devoting herself to studying demon-refining techniques. Eventually, she became an old demon refiner and left Qiling Mountain.
At that time, she thought about revenge countless times, about using demonic poison to destroy everything, and about making the entire Qiling Mountain perish with her.
Until they encountered water, which was not permitted.
"Thank you, but I can't." Shu Huixin suddenly said, "If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have lived this long."
"Don't say that to me!" Shui Buyun suddenly became agitated. "I don't want to hear your words, which sound like a deathbed declaration! I'm doing this because I love you!"
Shu Hui's hands froze.
Now that the truth was out, Shui Buyun decided to stop pretending. She pulled Shu Huixin's hand to her chest, "Did you hear that? I love you! I don't care if the trouble at Qiling Mountain has anything to do with you, I won't allow you to meddle. This has absolutely nothing to do with you. You don't owe them anything, you owe me! You—"
"I am a demonic Gu, the nemesis of demons. If you like me, you will die," Shu Huixin said slowly.
Shui Buyun was furious and gripped Shu Huixin's hand even tighter. "If you want me to die, I'll die. Anyway, you're the one who saved my life."
"Are all you flower fairies so stubborn?" Shu Huixin tried to pull her hand back, but Shui Buyen refused to let go.
"You're so stubborn, yet you still brought so many back. You brought this on yourself!" Shui Buyun's heart was pounding like a drum. She lowered her head and gently touched Shu Huixin's forehead, and Shu Huixin immediately stopped struggling.
I'm begging you.
Shu Huixin opened her mouth, but suddenly didn't know what to say.
Time seemed to rewind to that day in Zhexian Town when I accidentally encountered a daffodil that had come to life, standing out conspicuously among a bunch of flowers and plants.
"Boss, I'd like this daffodil."
On the other side, Ren Xiangxiang finally learned the whole story. It turned out that the resurrected demon Gu was actually someone her master had known since childhood, named Wang Rongku.
However, Wang Rongku, as the Gu King, has not yet been fully resurrected and needs his offspring Gu to provide him with demon cores to accelerate his recovery.
Therefore, the master had no way to help them, nor could he do so.
Based on her understanding of her master, even if her master died, he would not stand against the Gu King.
That's why the master said that only she could do it, only she could kill the Gu King.
So, Master knows how to deal with the demonic Gu.
Ren Xiangxiang got excited and was about to go find Shu Huixin to ask her what was going on, but after taking two steps, she stopped in her tracks.
She's going to deal with the love of her master's life!
“You shouldn’t waver,” Fu Yi said softly from behind her. “She knows better than you what to do, otherwise she wouldn’t have said those things to you. She hopes you can end all of this once and for all.”
Completely... over...
Ren Xiangxiang suddenly had a bad feeling.
at the same time.
Gu Lang's death razed the Tunning Bay area to the ground. When Kou Huai and He Wenwen finally arrived, braving the heavy rain and insulting each other, they found the place in complete disarray.
The torrential rain was washing over the ground, and the noise made it impossible to hear what the other person was saying.
"Achong, go and look for him!" Kou Huai shouted at the top of his lungs, his face wet with rain.
He Wenwen wiped the water off her face and looked around with difficulty.
Are they all dead? He dared not say that.
Suddenly, Kou Huai slapped him hard on the shoulder and shouted, "Found it! Come help!"
He Wenwen's ears rang from his shout, and just as he was about to yell back, the figure of She Liuying appeared in front of him through the rain.
She Liuying held Ren Fenghong tightly; she was still breathing, but Ren Fenghong was already...
"What if we can't separate them?" Kou Huai tried to pry She Liuying's hands apart, but even though She Liuying was unconscious, she still held Ren Fenghong tightly.
He Wenwen rushed over and looked at everything before her. Suddenly, she was overwhelmed with mixed feelings and couldn't speak.
"Uncle-Master, he's dead! Let go, we'll take you back, or else you'll... Uncle-Master!" Kou Huai shouted in She Liuying's ear.
“It’s no use,” He Wenwen shouted at him.
Kou Huai asked anxiously, "Then what should we do?"
"Uncle-Master." He Wenwen knelt beside She Liuying, looking at her pale face filled with grief, and said softly, "Let go, we will take both of you back, and we will make sure that the first thing you see when you wake up is him. You have to believe us, Uncle-Master."
The torrential rain, accompanied by lightning and thunder, seemed to be lamenting the injustice done to someone.
Just after He Wenwen finished speaking, Kou Huai tried to pry open She Liuying's hand again, and this time, the hand actually loosened.
Kou Huai's eyes widened in surprise. "That's great! Junior Brother He, how about this, I'll carry Uncle on my back, and you take responsibility for Uncle."
After saying that, he immediately hoisted the Stream Shadow onto his back and ran away as fast as he could.
With a dark expression, He Wenwen watched his departing figure, then quickly picked up Ren Fenghong and disappeared into the forest.
Fortunately, Gu Lang was dead, and without the harassment of the Dragonfly Claw, the two encountered no trouble along the way, allowing them to smoothly enter the treacherous peaks of the mountains.
This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Most of the people from Yangdian have settled here temporarily, but there are also quite a few stubborn people who still stay in the original Yangdian and send letters from time to time to report on the situation at Yanshi Ridge.
Sheliuying's old wounds had not healed before she was injured again, and she was unconscious for three days and three nights. Ren Fenghong's death was unexpected by everyone, but the good news was that the demonic gu was not without weaknesses and could still be killed.
However, relying on brute force would result in too many losses. Moreover, even Ren Fenghong, with his formidable strength, lost his life. How many Ren Fenghongs could Qiling Mountain have? In this light, the demonic gu's power is still too great, especially since it is only a sub-gu, not the gu king.
Sunlight streamed through the window and fell onto the bed.
The woman on the bed twitched her eyelids slightly, and images from the past flashed through her mind, finally settling on the rain curtain, where Ren Fenghong's cold fingertips gently stroked her cheek.
Tears silently slid down her cheeks.
"Master, Uncle-Master, Uncle-Master is awake!" Kou Huai rushed into Kou Qiyu's room in one breath.
"Where is he?" She Liuying asked He Wenwen, who had just entered the courtyard, with a calm expression.
He Wenwen's heart skipped a beat, and she turned her gaze to the next room.
No one dared to dispose of Ren Fenghong's body without authorization, so the body was kept in the room next to She Liuying's.
"Thanks."
This thank you caused He Wenwen, who was usually indifferent, to suddenly feel a pang of pain in her heart.
What a desperate and helpless look that was, desperately trying to hide it beneath a calm exterior.
"Maple leaves turning red..."
Sheliuying gently grasped Ren Fenghong's cold hand and placed it next to her cheek.
Why is it so cold?
Tears streamed down her face, but she forced herself to remain silent.
I regret it, Maple Red.
I really regret it... but it's too late... I regret it, I...
"Jet Shadow She—"
"Senior Sister!"
Kou Qiyu and Lan Fengguang arrived at the same time, while only He Wenwen was in the courtyard.
He Wenwen looked at the door and shook her head.
The door opened, and She Liuying came out carrying Ren Fenghong. She remained calm, but her eyes were a little red.
"I want to leave for a while."
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