"sorry?"
Cang Yuan felt a tightness in his chest, and tears streamed down his face.
It was you? It was actually you?
The Cangwu Divine Sword was drawn and pressed against Chi Yan's throat.
"Tell me, did you kill the mistress?" Cang Yuan was nearly driven mad. His hand holding the sword trembled uncontrollably.
He roared almost with certainty, "Your wife treated you so well, yet you harmed her?"
The three women, including Chi's mother, were shocked! What?
Chi's mother looked at Chi Yan: "Yan'er, you...?"
"No, I didn't harm Ning'er." Chi Yan said this while looking at Leng Qingning with sorrow in his eyes.
At this moment, the divine healer on the altar got up and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Upon hearing the sound, everyone turned to look at the altar.
Chi Yan instantly moved to the altar, grabbed the divine healer, and his eyes were terrifying.
"Didn't you say that extracting essence blood would only cause temporary memory loss? Didn't you say it was a life-extending formation?"
The divine physician had blood at the corner of his mouth, but when he looked up at Chi Yan, his eyes were filled with madness and mockery.
"My lord, this old servant is lying to you. How else can we obtain the blood, my lord?"
"So what you said about losing three years of lifespan is also false?"
The miracle doctor raised his chin smugly, tacitly agreeing.
He said that just to make the performance more convincing and to gain everyone's trust.
Chi Yan's face was grim, and his question was urgent and angry: "What is this Soul Sacrifice Array you just mentioned? Explain it to me clearly."
The divine physician revealed a triumphant smile, "The Soul Sacrifice Array is naturally an array for sacrificing souls. His Highness the Young King is willing to sacrifice his soul to help His Majesty defy fate. What, is Your Majesty not pleased?"
"Hahaha"
The laughter echoed, particularly jarring...
Chi Yan swayed, his eyes glazed over, and pain spread through every nerve in his body.
Kong Xuanzi lowered his head and wept, the tears dripping into Leng Qingning's hair.
He was filled with regret; he had clearly seen through the evil magic and should have stopped it earlier.
Chi's mother shouted, "Are you crazy? Weiyuan, why would you do this?"
Chi's mother couldn't understand why the divine doctor would keep this a secret from them, claiming it was a life-extending formation and deceiving them all.
Upon hearing Chi's mother's voice, the divine physician suppressed his arrogance and looked in her direction, a tender look flashing in his eyes: "My lord, as long as it can save you, this old servant would rather go to hell."
The divine physician chuckled self-deprecatingly, his voice gradually rising: "My lord, this old servant has followed you for over thirty years and loved you for over thirty years. This old servant understands you, and also understands the lord and the young lady. If this old servant were to tell the truth, you would rather die than agree."
"This old servant has no choice but to do so!"
"Old servant, I won't let you die!"
Chi's mother stood frozen in place, while Chi Yin's eyes were filled with horror.
"Madman," Chi Yan said through gritted teeth.
Enraged, Cang Yuan leaped onto the stage, grabbed the divine physician by the neck, lifted him up, and demanded sharply, "Tell me, how can you save him?"
The divine healer coughed violently in mid-air, veins bulging on his forehead. Just as he was about to suffocate, he suddenly gathered strength in his hand behind his back, and a circle of light flew out, sending Cang Yuan flying to the ground.
"You?" Cang Yuan coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Upon seeing this, Chi Yan instantly understood: the divine physician's skills were extraordinary; he had been faking it all along…
Chi Yan swiftly attacked and engaged the divine doctor in a fierce battle.
"Don't hurt Yan'er!" Mother Chi shouted.
It is said that the divine physician no longer attacks Chi Yan, but instead leaps to dodge Chi Yan's attacks.
"A Yuan..." Leng Qingning seemed to hear the sound of Cang Yuan being knocked off the stage in the chaos, and she shouted it out with all her might.
Cang Yuan wiped the blood from his lips, got up, and ran towards Leng Qingning.
"Lord Cang, take good care of Junior Sister." Kong Xuanzi transferred Leng Qingning onto Cang Yuan and joined the battle at the altar.
Cang Yuan held Leng Qingning tightly, his cheek pressed against her forehead, which was burning hot.
On the stage, the divine doctor faced two opponents and, disregarding everything else, unleashed his full power, quickly kicking Chi Yan off the altar.
Chi Yin hurriedly went to help Chi Yan.
Ignoring the pain in his body, Chi Yan rushed to Leng Qingning's side.
Tears streamed down her face again, her voice hoarse: "Ning'er, how are you? It's all my fault, I'm the one who ruined you. I..."
He dared not reveal his selfish motives. The divine physician had told him that taking the essence and blood of the master of the Azure Phoenix Jade could save Mother Chi, but the person who took the blood might temporarily lose their memory for several years.
At first, he didn't care at all about what would happen to the person who took his blood. Later, he met and fell in love with Leng Qingning. He thought that if he lost his memory, he would leave her in Cangqiong, so that he would be the only one by Leng Qingning's side.
There's no need to compete with Wen Yanche and the others anymore.
He was too selfish…
Chi Yan lowered his head in shame. The proud man was now like a child who had done something wrong, only daring to kneel before Leng Qingning and weep in repentance.
He never dared to say it aloud. If Ning'er knew that he had such thoughts all along, would she forgive him?
What Chi Yan didn't know was that Leng Qingning was suffering immense pain at that moment, almost to the point of losing consciousness. It was only her strong mental strength that kept her from fainting.
Leng Qingning was burning up, her forehead and face covered in sweat. She longed to reach out and touch Chi Yan and Cang Yuan's faces, or to say something to tell them not to be sad.
But she couldn't do it...
My body is getting hotter and hotter, my vision is becoming blurry, and my pupils are starting to dilate…
Her vital energy was completely drained, and she felt as if all the blood in her body had stopped flowing. Her soul seemed to have separated from her body and was gradually rising into the sky.
Light and airy~
She couldn't hold on any longer...
His eyelids drooped and slowly closed.
Her right hand was still gently clutching the Azure Phoenix Divine Jade.
Just before she closed her eyes, the Azure Phoenix Divine Jade in her palm emitted a faint light…
In the last second before losing consciousness, a voice called out in Leng Qingning's mind.
"Sister..."
It was a woman's voice...
Leng Qingning's consciousness completely dissipated.
Meanwhile, Wen Yanche, who was reading the latest chapter of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, felt his eyelids twitching violently. A sudden wave of panic washed over him. He clutched his chest, his breathing labored, and a bad premonition arose within him.
Cang Yuan felt the body temperature of the person in his arms gradually getting colder. He looked at her in horror and found that Leng Qingning's eyes were closed, her face was bloodless, her lips were pale, and her chest was not rising or falling and she was not moving at all...
Even the hand that had been tightly gripping the Azure Phoenix Jade loosened its grip...
"My lady!" Cangyuan cried out in a desolate voice.
Chi's mother and Chi Yin looked at Leng Qingning in shock, their faces filled with grief.
Chi Yan suddenly raised his head, his face filled with grief and sorrow, his lips trembling uncontrollably, and a stream of bitter tears streaming down his face.
He tremblingly took Leng Qingning's hand; her hands were already ice-cold…
Chi Yan was deeply traumatized, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and fainted.
"Yan'er..."
Cang Yuan's face was filled with sorrow, his pupils dilated; he could not accept the fact that Leng Qingning was dead.
He held the person in his arms tightly, close to his chest, lowered his head, and gently pressed his sharply defined profile against Leng Qingning's face. Tears streamed down Leng Qingning's bloodless lips and neck.
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