Chapter 222 It Exploded

As expected, Lin Du had another dream.

This time, Xia Tianwu in the dream was not lonely and he was just an ordinary acquaintance with other people in the sect.

It was not like now, when they would go down the mountain together to listen to operas and have meals. Even when Lin Du forced him to read a storybook that had no medical background, he would read it carefully before giving his opinion. Even when the alchemy furnace exploded, Lin Du and Yan Qing would not come over with a smile to pick up the waste materials and test the pressure to build a new alchemy furnace.

There was nothing, except that Lin Du was close to her because he was weak and often took medicine.

But that's all.

Lin Du in the dream was more taciturn, and he was not at all like the eloquent and unconventional person he is in modern times in order to make a living.

Xia Tianwu was like this, his eyes only lit up when he saw Wu Xi.

After they became a Taoist couple, they did not live together. Most of the time, it was Wu Xi who came to the Supreme Sect more often.

Lin Du watched with his own eyes as Xia Tianwu gave birth to a child. Her always cold face gradually began to soften and radiate a maternal glow.

How could a medical practitioner not know that pregnancy would cause one's cultivation to regress? All the spiritual energy in the body would be used to nourish the child's growth, and from then on, one's cultivation would stagnate. Even if one tried desperately to nourish the body, the strength of the physical body and one's own cultivation would drop significantly.

Even though she knew it, she was still very happy.

Lin Du looked at that smile and suddenly felt uncomfortable.

The person who taught her how to kill a red dragon, and taught her that a female cultivator's body is her own and that she has the right to make decisions, would actually voluntarily give up nearly a hundred years of cultivation, lose her spiritual energy and blood essence, and even voluntarily give the essence of the alien fire to the unborn baby.

It was also one such night when she was sitting on a solitary peak thousands of feet high, looking down at the world from above, when she heard a rare disturbance in the usually peaceful sect.

She saw her senior brother with a bad temper, who had always been a hermit in the mountains, not even bothering to pay attention to the alchemy furnace, and hurriedly rushed out of the sect. She saw her furious third senior brother holding a spear with a murderous aura, and she saw her eldest and seventh senior sisters hurried out of the door with frosty faces.

Xia Tianwu, who had been rubbing his belly and smiling gently before, was seen with a pale face being wrapped in a cloak and carried back to the sect by Feng Chao. There were glaring bloodstains on the snow fox fur cloak.

Lin Du moved his fingers, stood up, and rushed down.

There are very few people in the Supreme Sect, even less than the number of disciples in a peak of other large sects. However, there are a lot of people in the Supreme Sect. No matter who gets into trouble at any time, everyone will show up to save those who are there and to support those who are there.

Lin Du always carries pills with him, sometimes even more than Jiang Liang. She stuffed the pills for replenishing his energy and saving his life into Xia Tianwu's mouth, and there was a lot of noise in her ears.

But such noise, falling on Lin Du's eardrums in his dream, was like the sound of the shore heard across the water, distant and dull.

Jiang Liang, who almost never talked to outsiders, was now talking loudly and scolding non-stop.

"I don't care what Wu Xi's reasons are. It is a fact that my only disciple was harmed. This is a murder! How is it different from those evil sects? After all, those evil sects have never concealed their evil intentions!"

"And you, with such vile means, are actually a direct disciple of Guiyuan Sect. Wushang Sect thinks they treat you well, but you actually acted like this and turned the child I entrusted to you into this!"

"This matter is definitely not something that can be resolved by simply taking responsibility. The pain of pregnancy, the separation of the soul, the loss of the essence of the alien fire, and the caesarean section! Wolves are loyal creatures who are monogamous and stick together through life and death. You are really a piece of shit!"

"You little bastard! Why didn't you cut open your mother's belly when she gave birth to you? All those years of teachings from the classics have gone to waste! Today I want to save my disciple so I won't kill you, just wait! Sooner or later I will throw you into the pond to feed the fish for three hundred years, so that you can experience the real pain of a caesarean section!"

Jiang Liang had probably never said so many words in one breath in his life. Lin Du remembered that Xia Tianwu's hand also grasped her wrist in a trance, cold and slippery, just like the previous demon.

She lowered her head and saw Xia Tian mumbling silently. She said, "Master Junior, I don't have any children anymore, and I don't have a home anymore."

Lin Du suddenly felt the cold blood burning her wrist, causing severe pain.

Even though she had watched Wu Xi perform a caesarean section to take out the elixir to atone for his crime, watched him collect countless rare treasures and offer them to her, and saw Xia Tian finally forgive him.

Lin Du still felt that in the summer after this, there would never be such a smile and such bright eyes again.

Is that true forgiveness? Is it true love?

Lin Du later went to see Xia Tianwu and asked him this question.

At that time, Xia Tianwu's face was cold and indifferent, without any expression, and there was a dead silence in his eyes.

It was not the reservedness that Lin Du was familiar with, but the real loneliness and coldness.

"Master, I don't know. I just felt very painful. From that day on, my heart was completely empty. He owed Cui Yujun his life, but he can never repay me and the child in this lifetime."

"Death is too easy. Death is a relief. Let him feel guilty and regret every day, and live in the spit of the world every day."

When Lin Du was leaving, she brushed past Wu Xi. She turned around and saw Wu Xi kneeling in front of the bed, holding a bowl of something. He was trying hard to say nice things to coax the man to drink it. The man's back looked like a dog wagging its tail and begging for mercy.

But even so, Lin Du was still puzzled.

You want to owe nothing to each other, but in the end you owe each other.

And the person who appeared cold on the outside but was always passionate on the inside, finally fell into complete silence as the strange fire was extinguished.

"Tianwu, if you could do it again, would you still choose to be his partner?"

"I don't want to think about it anymore. It's better not to meet at all."

"I should have been helping the world and refining many different kinds of elixirs, and been at the top of the alchemy world." Xia Tianwusheng in his dream seemed a little dazed.

"Maybe it's me. I don't trust myself enough and I want perfection too much, so I want to pass on the strange fire to the next generation."

Lin Du woke up from a nightmare, still smelling of alcohol.

Feeling a warm hand approaching, she subconsciously rubbed it hard and mumbled, "It hurts."

Lin Tuan was stunned for a moment, his eyes became softer, and after signaling with his eyes, he quickly loosened the spiritual power rope, then gently touched Lin Du's hot forehead, poured spiritual power into it, and used spiritual power to dispel the remaining effects of alcohol for her.

Hou Cang originally saw that Lin Du was really planning to sleep soundly, so he wanted to use his spiritual power to get him out so that he wouldn't be a constant pressure on Lin Tuan.

But Lin Du didn't want to wake up, and Lintuan wouldn't let him move.

When Lin Du finally woke up, it was already dusk.

She slowly straightened up, first apologized to Lin Tuan, then turned to look at Hou Cang innocently, "Brother, I see the spiritual energy floating around your body, is it time to advance?"

Hou Cang: ...

He gathered his impetuous spiritual energy and said, "No."

Lin Tuan saw through Hou Cang's repulsive heart and patted Lin Du on the head, "You go first, your senior brother needs to be dealt with."

Lin Du stood up and walked past Hou Cang, reminding him tactfully, "Brother, please advance as soon as possible. The eldest, second, and third senior brothers are all in seclusion."

Hou Cang replied coldly, "Those who practice cultivation should not be greedy and reckless. Junior sister should also remember this."

Lin Du blinked his eyes, "I don't want to be greedy and make reckless progress, but I can't suppress it at this level."

After she finished speaking, she left in a flash, faster than a rabbit, leaving behind her with an icy face and an oppressive coldness emanating from her whole body.

As soon as she stepped out of the forbidden area, Lin Du heard a loud explosion, which blew her out of the desolate dream and into reality.

Lin Du landed at the foot of Tianrui Peak with familiarity.

Mo Lin had just arrived and was preparing to cut some bamboo to repair the roof.

Xia Tianwu saw Lin Du showing a slightly embarrassed smile, without any intention of being frustrated, "I was just thinking that I had a new pill recipe and wanted to make an advanced version of the pill that replenishes spiritual consciousness, and it exploded."

"But it doesn't matter. I can give it to you as a thunderbolt. It has great firepower! It should be twice as powerful as before!"

Lin Du looked at the burnt pills on the ground and smiled, "Then I'll give it a try."