Chapter 122: Setting Off
The Water Lapping Palace was even colder in winter.
A white expanse, the snow fell by the window like drifting petals…
Lin Shuxue looked outside and remembered the carefree days of the past, such beautiful days…
But now she could not return…
“Brother… how about… we go home… I want to see snow leopards~” Lin Shuxue glanced outside and said longingly to Chen Yuan.
She had always felt her time was running out, not knowing when she would never wake up again…
She felt so sorry for her brother…
So she left behind many things, waiting for her master to hand them over to him after she was gone.
But for some reason, she was able to wake up every day, as if…
Holding on to life…
“Alright… when you’re well, we’ll go back…” Chen Yuan looked at her gently and chuckled.
Lin Shuxue was slightly taken aback and replied, “Oh…”
She knew she could not get better, but even at this moment, she would not refute Chen Yuan.
Her brother would never harm her; since he was unwilling, then so be it.
She would not pry…
As long as she could see her brother one more time before she died…
If there was another life, she would repay him completely…
“By the way, in a few days, I have to go to eliminate the Demon Cult members in Xianshi Town, so I might not be able to come back…”
Chen Yuan suddenly instructed.
Xu Ya outside the door was already sobbing uncontrollably…
He of course knew the meaning behind Chen Yuan’s words…
Lin Shuxue’s eyes showed reluctance; she did not want her last glance to be at anyone but the person in front of her…
But Chen Yuan continued to speak as if he were talking to himself.
“You have to be obedient, take your medicine on time. You can’t skip it just because I’m not here, do you understand?”
“In the days I’m gone, Xu Ya will deliver the medicine for me. If I come back… if…”
Chen Yuan felt a tightness in his chest and suddenly started coughing violently.
“Brother?” Lin Shuxue stood up in confusion.
“It’s fine, it’s fine, it’s just too cold; I might have caught a chill.” Chen Yuan waved his hand, hiding the other bl**d-stained hand behind him…
“I’ll continue… if I come back and Xu Ya says you’re not being obedient… I’ll spank you.”
“Brother… I’m already 16 years old…” Lin Shuxue chuckled lightly.
“Oh… then I can use a stick.”
“Hmph… Brother…” Lin Shuxue playfully leaned in front of Chen Yuan and hugged him tightly: “I will be obedient, waiting for you to come back…”
Her complexion was very pale, carrying a touch of sickly fragile beauty…
“Let’s hug~”
“Okay…” Chen Yuan generously hugged the frail girl in front of him…
It was the last embrace with Xiaoxue…
She immersed herself in his embrace… feeling it was the warmest place…
And in a corner where she couldn’t see, Chen Yuan’s eyes turned red, a drop of bl**d oozed from the corner of his mouth.
He quickly wiped it away…
“Please… Xu Ya… brothers…”
“Don’t worry, Xiaoxue is also our little sister…”
“We just hope for a miracle, that you can come back alive…”
To this, Chen Yuan just chuckled lightly, decisively turned around, and followed Elder Qingyi away…
“I never expected that as the head of the Water Lapping Palace, I would have to resort to measures that sacrifice my juniors to save my disciples…”
Elder Qingyi was somewhat self-mocking, after so many years of cultivation, in the end, he was unable to achieve anything…
“This is my plea; you are acting out of compassion, helping your disciple a little…”
Chen Yuan shook his head, denying it:
“Xiaoxue is fortunate to have a master like you…”
“She is lucky to have a brother like you!”
“Xu Ya, why aren’t you going to eliminate the Demon Cult members in Xianshi Town?”
Lin Shuxue lay in bed, and Xu Ya and the others had Elder Qingyi’s permission, so they could enter the Water Lapping Palace.
“Ah… your brother… hasn’t gone on a mission for too long, we have… finished ours.”
“Oh…” Lin Shuxue obediently nodded, her eyes bright and keen, she noticed Xu Ya acting somewhat unnatural.
After taking the medicine, Xu Ya chatted with Lin Shuxue for a while, giving a few reminders.
Once Lin Shuxue fell asleep, he quietly left.
As soon as the door was closed, Lin Shuxue opened her eyes.
Her heartbeat inexplicably quickened, and she suddenly felt very uneasy!
So she hurriedly took out her brother’s jade pendant to check.
Seeing the pendant was fine, she gently patted her chest to calm herself…
“Thank goodness… thank goodness… brother’s pendant is fine…”
Had she been overthinking…
Her brother had only been gone for two days, and she was already feeling anxious…
“Lin Shuxue, Lin Shuxue… are you getting a bit too clingy with your brother…”
She patted her own face, lay back down, and hugged the pendant tighter…
“Brother… come back quickly, okay…”
“I want to see you every day…”
“How strange, why are there Demon Cult members here…”
Elder Qingyi brought Chen Yuan to the entrance of Phoenix Yin Cave and found that many Demon Cult members were guarding it.
Logically, such old places should have been abandoned long ago…
“It seems they anticipated that we would send someone…”
“Then… what do we do now?”
Chen Yuan was only worried that he wouldn’t be able to save Xiaoxue.
“If there’s truly no other way, we can only—”
“No, I have to go…”
Chen Yuan interrupted, his forehead beaded with sweat, but his expression was determined…
Wow… you bunch of perverts… (°o°；)…
Then I can only satisfy you~ (／。＼)…
