Chapter 48

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Shi Ying lowered his head and looked at her as if she was a raging little beast, neither shaking her off nor speaking. She had a lot of energy, her strength was not weak and her tiger teeth were sharp, almost biting through his wrist in one blow.

He just stood there in silence, allowing her to vent her inner rage.

However after a moment of nipping and biting, she suddenly stopped moving. As if drained from exhaustion, the angry little beast paused for a moment, buried her head in his wrist and suddenly burst into tears – she whimpered and slurred something, her lips still clutching his flesh and blood between her teeth.

“Bastard! You… you killed Yuan!” She yelled as she wept profusely and desperately punched him, shouting, “Be damned for killing Yuan!”

Yes… Master killed Yuan right in front of her eyes! Is she… going to avenge Yuan? And how should she avenge him? Should she kill him? Surely, she wouldn’t be able to…. but even if she couldn’t, she would still have to try and fight! Even if he kills her!

In the midst of the turmoil, her body suddenly became lighter as she was picked up by the back of her neck and lifted up. Without speaking, Shi Ying lifted his bleeding hand and gently pressed her eyes – his fingers were still calm and strong, but slightly cold, and instantly a surge of strength was injected into her. Zhu Yan’s eyes flared up and suddenly her vision was restored.

Opening her eyes, she saw Master standing in front of her, still as cold as usual, aloof, unsmiling and unapproachable, yet his face was somewhat pale and his lips were abnormally red, as if he had just vomited a mouthful of blood. She was unable to be concerned about him and just glanced around: “Where is Yuan? Did you… did you kill Yuan?”

“So what if I did?” He replied coldly.

“…” Zhu Yan’s heart went cold, and the last trace of hope she had, disappeared, just like falling down from a crushing height, plummeting towards the abyss of a thousand feet, shivering in pain for a while; her brain went blank, unable to say anything, she just sat down on the ground crumbling helplessly.

Shi Ying lowered his head, scrutinizing the expression on her face, and seemed to hesitate for a moment before suddenly asking, “You, do you like that shark?”

There was a tone in his voice that usually wasn’t there, and it seemed to carry a hint of disbelief. However, Zhu Yan, who was caught deeply in a frenzy of anger and grief, did not notice it at all and, with her whole body shaking with rage, she gritted her teeth and said loudly, “Yes! Of course I like Yuan! I’ve loved him since I was a child! You, you actually killed my beloved Yuan! Bastard… I hate you so much!”

The words burst out of her mouth like a sword thrown sharply in a single blow, slicing through the air. The man across her eyes suddenly faltered, his body swayed and he took a violent step backwards.

“You… really like that shark? But you clearly said before that you wanted to get married to…” Shi Ying subconsciously blurted out half a sentence, but then paused, biting the rest of the words between his lips, without saying more, his face turned pale and he whispered, “Are you lying to me?”

“Nonsense, that was a lie of course! Don’t you know how to read minds?” She shouted furiously in an outburst, pushing him away as she cried, “I’ve loved Yuan since I was a child! I… I just found him again today, why did you have to kill him? You bastard… I, I hate you to death!”

Previously, no matter how hard she struggled against him, she couldn’t touch him with a single finger, yet somehow, this time the attempt to push him succeeded. Shi Ying appeared to be a little lost in thoughts and did not even tried to dodge, so she pushed him away viciously, making him to stagger backwards several steps and hit his back hard against the passage wall. His face plunged back into darkness at once, no longer being visible.

“Do you want to avenge him?” There was a moment of silence before the man in the darkness suddenly asked.

Zhu Yan froze for a moment, “Avenging?”

The question made her mind go blank for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

However after a pause, seeing the blood all over the ground and remembering what happened a few moments ago between the lightning and the fire, Zhu Yan’s heart got sliced like a knife and suddenly burst into tears, stomping her foot and shouting: “Yes! I… will take revenge for Yuan! I… will kill you! Scumbag!”

“…” The man in the darkness seemed to shake, and a sudden chill raced through his eyes.

“Killing me?” He whispered the question, his voice cold, “To avenge his death?”

Zhu Yan couldn’t help but shiver. Shi Ying stood in the darkness, looking at his only disciple with profound attention – his eyes were a deep, bottomless black pool, like the long night of eternity. However, the deepest part of that blackness contained a radiant gold that was as intimidating as a flashing light.

“Yes!” She replied loudly with fury in her heart.

“With nothing more than your strength?” Suddenly, Shi Ying sneered and stepped out of the darkness silently, “I could take your life with my bare hands right now, can you believe it?”

Before the words were out of his mouth, he had already emerged in front of her eyes.

That kind of expression he had on his face was something she never seen before. In that moment, Zhu Yan only felt creeped out and subconsciously took a step behind. But it was as if a transparent wall suddenly appeared behind her, resisting her progress, and surprisingly, she could not move a single inch!

“Want to kill me?” Shi Ying said coldly, his fingertips condensing with a lavender glow and pointing directly at her vitals, “You can wait for another life!”

“Master… Master?” The heavily injured Zhu Yan looked at him in a daze, not thinking to avoid him even for a moment – perhaps it was her long reliance and trust that made her turn the other cheek at the moment, and although her mouth was shouting about fighting and killing, she didn’t even remotely think that she would actually strike him with such a heavy blow.

His index finger struck like lightning, and a harsh purple light pierced her forehead like a sharp knife!

“Master…?!” She exclaimed in disbelief, unable to even take a step back, she flew straight backwards and spurted out a mouthful of blood, immediately losing consciousness.

Everything was quiet in the darkness, so quiet that even the sound of the wind reverberating could be heard.

The Great Priest of Jiuyi Mountain stood in the deepest side of this Golden Cave, holding the unconscious disciple in one hand and nudging her brow with the other, injecting spiritual energy into her and forcing out the blood that was flowing against her body. With a loud gasp, the unconscious Zhu Yan vomited out a mouthful of blood, her breathing smoothed out, and the ashy look on her face finally faded away.

Being wounded in the heart vessel by the Heavenly Punishment, even if it only rippled from the side, one must still collect their Qi and heal quickly. And this foolish girl, who was so angry at him that she didn’t care, actually wanted to fight with him!

Shi Ying lowered his head and looked at the bloodstained mess all over the ground, a faint melancholy suddenly enveloping his brows. The little Princess of the Red Clan was lying in his arms with blood on the corners of her lips – looking at her last shocked expression, how could she possibly believe that he would really hit her?

It was exactly the same expression she had back on the moment she broke into the depths of the grotto at the age of eight, only to be jolted away by him.

This silly girl… how many lessons does she need to be taught before she learns to behave better?

Shi Ying lowered his head and looked at her for a moment, then suddenly sighed softly and used his wide coat to gently wipe away the traces of blood and tears streaking down her cheeks. Her face still held the expression of a few moments ago, sadness, surprise, horror and disbelief…

Her nose was thin, with trembling nostrils, resembling that of a small, wounded beast. His long fingers swept over her cheeks, wiping away the drops of blood from her face.

“Hmm? What kind of person would you like to marry? I think someone like Master would be good!”

“Since I have met such a magnificent and unparalleled beauty as my Master, even if there are thousands of men in the world, how many of them can still catch my eye?”

In the darkness, the words rang in his ears again, clear and crisp as pearls falling from a jade plate. Each sentence made him shudder slightly, as if he was hearing them for the first time – only the gods knew how much restraint he used to suppress the waves that surged through his heart at that moment.

Those were only some casual words that she uttered. Perhaps because she was young, the thoughtless words were spoken and forgotten – but completely unaware of the shock waves those few words brought to the hearts of others.

On the top of the Jialan White Pagoda, he revealed to the Great Master his intention to cast off his white robes and resign from his position as a Divine Priest. Yet at that moment, only the stars shining in the sky were aware of the real reason why he spoke those words: yes, he had thought of giving up his years of hard training in the Deep Mountains and the Great Wilderness for those few words of hers, and stepping back into this mundane world of rolling crimson dust.

But those words that he once believed to be true, in the end, turned out to be false! The one she truly loved and risked her life for, was a shark!

“Nonsense, of course that was a lie! Can’t you read minds?”

“Yes! Of course I love Yuan! Ever since I was a child! You, how dare you kill my beloved Yuan! I hate you to death!”

“I want to avenge him! I want to kill you!”

She pushed him away and shouted at him through her tears.

Such an enraged look seldom appeared on her face, which was trembling at the sight of him.

He could clearly sense the power raging inside her at that moment, and clearly understood the truth of those words – she really did love that shark so much that she would even risk her life for him!

All he felt in that moment was a cold chill in his bones, and a sense of cynicism. How ridiculous is that… years of hard work have allowed him to observe the world and see through the truth of the human heart, so why couldn’t he recognize that when she said these words, they were actually nothing more than perfunctory flattery?

In the end, it was him who had deceived himself, it had nothing to do with her.

In the darkness, the Great Priest of Jiuyi Mountain silently leaned down and unfolded the wide sleeves of his robe, wrapping her petite body in it – the emblem of the White Rose on the sleeve reflecting on the face of the unconscious maiden, so clean and peaceful, like an innocent child.

He remembered that once, a long, long time ago, he held her in his arms just like this and swept through the Nine Heavens on the Divine Bird. The child whom he injured was in his arms, breathless and quiet as if sleeping.

But why… has it come to this point between them? Standing in the darkness, Shi Ying picked Zhu Yan up from the ground and curled her in his arms wrapped in his wide mantle, looking down at her, standing in silence for a long time, his mind churning with bright memories.

He didn’t even have time to tell her that he didn’t actually kill the shark she loved – for fear of hurting her by mistake, at the last moment he forced the Heavenly Punishment to withdraw forcefully, allowing the tremendous force to strike back at himself, momentarily injuring him so badly that he vomited blood, and could only let the Left Envoy of the Restoration Army take advantage of the opportunity and escape.

Instead, as soon as she opened her eyes, she screamed that she wanted to kill him to avenge that shark!

She said she would kill him, she said she hated him… As she said these words, her eyes burned with a blazing fire, furious and unwavering.

How could this girl he had grown up with, the girl who seemed like she would always look up to him, suddenly turn out to be like this? He thought he had an insight into people’s hearts, but he had misread her from beginning to the end.

He stood in the darkness of the underground for an unknown amount of time in silence, his heart destroyed by icy spears and burning coals. When his thoughts reached the extreme, his body shook slightly and another mouthful of blood gushed out of his mouth, splattering his white clothes with crimson specks.

“Forget it…” After a long time, a soft lament was exhaled from the darkness with an infinite desolation.

Forget it. What else is there to say now? She was not wrong, of course, she was only guilty of being herself. He had made a vow to serve God for the rest of his life, but in the end, he turned his heart into dust – and he should have known the price he would have to pay when he started hoping for something that was not meant to be his.

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