179 Facing It Together, Just Kidding
In the Sacred Sword Hall of Mount Sword, under an ancient peach tree.
Lin Ran and Huo Qiyun stood side by side and looked at each other.
Huo Qiyun moved his lips and was about to speak when Lin Ran suddenly said, “You do it.”
“Why should I do it?”
Huo Qiyun panicked. “Xiao Huai is your good friend. You do it!”
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“You’ve been through thick and thin together with her before. You should do it.”
“Your cultivation level is higher! You do it!”
“You’re more handsome! You do it!”
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After arguing for a while, they still couldn’t make up their minds. Lin Ran sighed heavily. “Forget it, let’s do it together!”
Huo Qiyun hesitated for a moment before nodding. Then, the two of them reached out and grabbed the token.
Click!
The indentation on the tree trunk made a crisp sound as the token was inserted into it. Almost at the same time, the sound of a mechanism operating came from inside the tree trunk.
Looking at a large piece of bark slowly unfolding like an automatic door, Lin Ran subconsciously closed his eyes. However, just as he almost closed his eyes, Huo Qiyun bumped his shoulder. “Let’s face it together!”
When Lin Ran heard this, he could only keep his eyes open. At this moment, the bark had completely opened.
“Phew—”
Lin Ran heaved a sigh of relief. Xiao Huai was squatting with her arms wrapped around her knees. Her pale face was buried in her knees. She looked extremely weak, but fortunately, she wasn’t turned into a skeleton.
The space in the tree hole was not big. Even if Xiao Huai was only seven or eight years old, this space was still a little too small for her. She was curled up in it like a child abandoned in the cold wind.
Just as Lin Ran was feeling mixed emotions, he suddenly heard Huo Qiyun ask, “How is it?”
Lin Ran thought to himself, Can’t you see? He turned around and was furious to see that Huo Qiyun, who had just asked him to “face it together”, had closed his eyes and even covered them with his other hand!
“Very tragic. I’m about to vomit!”
Lin Ran replied in a choking voice. Then, he gently touched Huo Qiyun’s hand with his finger. “Help me hold her arm. I’ll pick up the other parts.”
Hearing this, Huo Qiyun screamed and dashed out, disappearing almost instantly.
“Tsk! Coward!”
A mischievous smile appeared on Lin Ran’s face, but when he turned around and saw Xiao Huai huddling up in the tree hole, the corners of his mouth instantly fell.
After Lin Ran carefully carried Xiao Huai out of the tree hole, Huo Qiyun stomped back angrily from afar.
At this moment, he had already realized that he had been tricked, but seeing how weak Xiao Huai was, he was no longer in the mood to bicker with Lin Ran. He asked softly with a worried expression, “Is she alright?”
“Very weak.”
Lin Ran held Xiao Huai’s slender hand and said softly, “She’s in a bad state now. The evil aura in her body is almost exhausted. It’s very difficult for her to recover on her own.”
Huo Qiyun probed, “Shall we transfer some internal energy to her?”
“It’s useless. Internal energy and evil aura are two completely different things.”
Lin Ran shook his head. After thinking for a moment, he raised his hand and summoned the Yin-Yang Sword. Then, he carefully placed the black side that was stained with evil aura in Xiao Huai’s hand.
As soon as the two of them came into contact, wisps of black fog surged out of the Yin-Yang Sword. Then, it attacked Xiao Huai’s skin and seeped into her skin before disappearing.
Huo Qiyun was delighted. “It worked!”
“But it’s not very effective.”
Lin Ran replied in a low voice. Perhaps because he had cultivated the Nine Yin-Yang Swords, he could clearly feel the evil aura flowing in Xiao Huai’s body.
“The current Xiao Huai is like a lake that’s about to dry up. To her, the evil aura in the Yin-Yang Sword is just a stream.”
“This stream can prevent the lake from completely drying up, but it’s almost impossible to fill the lake up.”
Hearing Lin Ran’s words, Huo Qiyun couldn’t help but look worried. “Then what should we do? Is there no other way?”
“There is.”
Lin Ran said that he had a solution, but there was deep hesitation in his eyes. “We can let her recuperate in Sword Grave, but that place is…”
Lin Ran didn’t finish, but Huo Qiyun already understood what he meant.
Xiao Huai was born in Sword Grave, but that place was definitely not a good memory for her.
After being bitten by countless black insects and suppressed by the Five Elements Seal, as soon as she escaped, she was harmed and used by Liu Hongshan.
Now that Xiao Huai fainted and was unconscious, if she opened her eyes and saw the familiar scene, she would probably be tormented by the tragic past and really become a demon.
Seeing the hesitation in Lin Ran’s eyes, Huo Qiyun narrowed his eyes and probed, “If we don’t send her to Sword Grave, Xiao Huai might be in this unconscious state forever, right?”
Lin Ran thought for a moment and shook his head. “Not necessarily. Liu Hongshan let Xiao Huai live to collect strength for him. Xiao Huai is only useful to him when she is awake.”
“I just don’t know how much time it will take for her to wake up.”
After a short silence, Huo Qiyun pressed Lin Ran’s shoulder and said seriously, “Let’s take her to Sword Grave. I’ll stay there with her.”
“Do you know what you’re talking about?”
Lin Ran’s expression changed slightly. “Although it’s not dangerous in Sword Grave, if you stay there for too long, you will definitely be affected by the sword intent and killing intent there.”
“I know. Don’t forget that I waited for you there once.”
Huo Qiyun smiled brightly. “I can keep myself safe. If Xiao Huai sees me after she wakes up, it should be able to help her calm down, right?”
“In theory, that’s right.”
Lin Ran nodded, his eyes filled with worry. “But even if she’s recuperating in Sword Grave, I don’t know how long it will take for her to wake up.”
“It’s fine.”
Huo Qiyun waved his hand indifferently. Before Lin Ran could speak, he continued, “Your most important task now is to take good care of Sister Empress. Leave such a small matter to me.”
Seeing that Huo Qiyun was determined, Lin Ran could only nod in agreement. Then, he brought Xiao Huai to the main peak of Mount Sword.
He raised his hand and summoned the Ten Miles Dragon Roar. After the dragon pattern gem on the hilt flickered for a moment, a deep cave entrance slowly appeared on the stone wall.
“You don’t have to come in!”
Huo Qiyun smiled and carried Xiao Huai into the cave.
Seeing Huo Qiyun’s departing figure gradually disappearing in the darkness, for some reason, Lin Ran suddenly had an ominous feeling…
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