Chapter 86 Because You Are Here
Xihe woke up again in a warm embrace. Her body was no different from before she fell into a coma, except that there was a little more moisture on her cheeks.
It seems... to be tears.
"Little brother, are you...crying?" A warm internal force appeared in Xihe's body, nourishing the vital energy around him.
She looked at Xiao Mingxuan's slightly pale face, full of worry.
Xiao Mingxuan's lips were dry and his eyes were bloodshot. He looked extremely depressed, but his arms were very strong. He held Xihe tightly, as if he was afraid that the little girl would disappear if he was not careful.
"You're finally awake." Xiao Mingxuan startled everyone when he spoke. His voice was hoarse, as if he was in his seventies or eighties. "Does your body still hurt?"
Xihe shook her head and leaned a little closer into his embrace. "Little brother, did you... pass your inner strength to me?"
That internal force was so familiar, so familiar that Xihe was able to identify its owner at the first moment.
Xiao Mingxuan forced a smile. He was a little tired. He had lost most of his internal energy and his body was also very weak. "It's okay. I'll be fine after a few days of rest after I get out."
Xihe suddenly fell into coma, and Xiao Mingxuan didn't know how to clear her spiritual power, so he could only clumsily use his internal energy to warm Xihe's meridians.
As long as there is breath, there is hope of survival.
Xihe's two small hands held one of Xiao Mingxuan's hands. After just a few breaths, Xiao Mingxuan felt a little more comfortable all over.
After realizing what Xihe was doing, Xiao Mingxuan struggled to break free, "Xiao Xier, don't do anything stupid. Your spiritual power has just subsided."
Xiao Mingxuan was afraid that the other party's spiritual power would erupt again. He never wanted to experience the pain of death struggle again.
"Little brother, this is not spiritual power." Xihe has regained her usual lively appearance, but her voice has not recovered yet and is very hoarse. "This is the power of the sacred tree. I am using the power of Uncle Sacred Tree."
Xihe is a mortal, so if he wants to use spiritual power, he must rely on the sacred tree.
The sacred tree is a thousand-year-old tree with gentle and pure spiritual power that does not hurt anyone at all.
"What about your spiritual power?" Xiao Mingxuan asked worriedly.
"It disappeared." The little girl pouted, her face full of confusion.
"Disappeared?" Xiao Mingxuan was slightly stunned and asked suspiciously.
Xihe nodded, and once again grasped Xiao Mingxuan's hands, sending the power of the sacred tree into his body bit by bit. She said in a soft voice, "I don't know what happened. The spiritual energy had completely disappeared since I arrived here, but just now I was attacked by the poisonous incense outside, and my body couldn't bear it. The moment before I was completely poisoned, the spiritual power suddenly appeared and protected my heart meridian. It was still there before I passed out, but when I just woke up, I found that it had disappeared. I don't know why?"
If it weren't for the lingering pain all over his body, Xihe would have thought it was just an illusion.
"Come here?" Xiao Mingxuan keenly grasped the key point, "Why come here? Where did you originally belong?"
Xihe paused, then relaxed and waved his hand helplessly, "Little brother, let me tell you about my past, a past unknown to many people."
He was born in the wilderness, ascended to the throne of God, experienced a great war, and finally died.
Xihe told Xiao Mingxuan everything.
"So... you are God?" Xiao Mingxuan asked.
Xihe shrugged, "To be precise, I was before. Now I am just a mortal body with nothing but the mustard seed space."
"So this is the secret you have been unwilling to tell me." In an instant, all the strange things happening to Xihe were explained.
"Because it's unreasonable." After revealing the long-hidden secret, Xihe felt a little relieved, but more worried about the way of heaven. "It's already strange that I can survive, and I can also reach a space beyond this world."
She always felt vaguely that she shouldn't live in this world, as if it was the result of forced disobedience.
"What's so strange about surviving?" Xiao Mingxuan didn't understand the laws of heaven and earth. "Maybe it's reincarnation?"
Xihe pouted and shook her head, "Little brother, gods don't reincarnate. Once annihilated, they will completely disappear from the world without a trace."
The appearance of God is more like a fast-moving consumer product. After completing its mission and guarding a certain era, it retires and leaves only a legend recorded in history.
"The body is not mine, but the soul is mine." Xihe pondered for a while and said, "Perhaps it is rebirth, which is what you call reincarnation."
"Reborn?" Xiao Mingxuan listened for a long time and came to a difficult conclusion, "So... you are not the original Sixth Princess?"
"Yes." Now that she had laid it all out, Xihe simply confessed everything, "I came here halfway. The original Sixth Princess has... died."
Xiao Mingxuan calculated the time and tentatively expressed his guess, "Was it the time in the cold palace?"
From then on, the usually quiet Sixth Princess suddenly gained the emperor's favor and became a completely different person from her previous timid self.
Xihe nodded, "Yes, the Sixth Princess's mother beat her... to death, so I came."
Xiao Mingxuan remained silent, his expression unclear, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Xihe couldn't help swallowing, and asked sympathetically, "Little brother, you... don't want the Sixth Princess from before, do you?"
"Ah?" Xiao Mingxuan was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "I haven't even seen her, why would I want her?"
He was indeed checking the time just now, after all, it was those eyes that attracted him in the first place.
But then I thought, what is there to worry about?
Perhaps the pair of clear eyes did attract him when they first met, but now the only person he can give his life to protect is the person in front of him.
If it wasn't the same person, he would have chosen her.
If it were the same person, I would still choose her.
But... fortunately, it was always her from beginning to end.
"Xiao Xi'er, will you... go back in the future?"
In the face of God, humans are always powerless.
There are too many uncertainties, and Xiao Mingxuan doesn't know when Xihe will disappear again.
Will I wake up one day and find that the soul of this body has become a different person?
"No." The little girl grinned at Xiao Mingxuan, "My original body has been reduced to ashes. I don't have a body to carry it when I go back. An ordinary person's body can't carry my soul."
The Sixth Princess's body was an accident, but there are not so many coincidences in the world.
Then he added: "And I don't want to go back now."
"Why?" Xiao Mingxuan asked, "Everyone wants to become a god or immortal and gain eternal life. Why are you unwilling to do so?"
"Eternal life?" The little girl opened her red lips and slowly uttered the two words, "Eternal life is not a good thing. It is a responsibility, a... curse."
Mortals pursue immortality, while gods yearn for true love in the world.
In the end, we are just pursuing something that we cannot get.
Xihe happens to be one of this kind of people.
【Why not? 】
Xihe leaned on Xiao Mingxuan's shoulder and laughed slowly, "Because... you are here."
I long for someone to love me as if breathing, to achieve eternity in an instant, and to make flowers of hope bloom in the barren land.
Who wouldn’t rush to it when the anticipation turns into reality?
Oh, I didn’t even mention that unexpected character. I promise he’ll appear in the next chapter!
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