Chapter 34 part 3
Cang Yu said in a low voice, “Ling Xi, come here.”
An old and hoarse voice, making people reprehensible. Ling Xi walked over cautiously and sat next to him. Tears appeared unconsciously in her eyes.
“Ling Xi, after I gave you a thousand years of my cultivation and was seriously injured by high-tiered deity Donghua afterwards, my vital energy had been greatly damaged.” Every word he uttered was with extreme difficulty and with heavy gasping. “I have foreseen (calculated) that the immortal realm and the demon realm would have a battle. Hence, why I used by birthday to invite all the immortals to let them help Cangjia on this predestines fate, but I have never counted on that Nan Zhi would awaken today. Today, I received a blow from him, presumably…I’m at death’s door.
Ling Xi felt that her head seemed to be pressed by a boulder, making her unable to breath. Her nose itched, but she didn’t dare to cry. She only continued to listen to Cang Yu, “That day outside of the seven-story pagoda, I heard you call the immortal spirit Nan Zhi and had my suspicions. However, ever since that day, his soul had been scattered. So, I thought that it was only a coincidence. I didn’t expect…”
Cang Yu suddenly coughed and spit out a mouthful of black blood. Ling Xi quickly used her sleeve to wipe it and said, “Master, you have been hurt by Nan Zhi. I…I will let him come save you. He…he will listen to me.”
“Even if this master dies, I don’t want to receive the grace of the devil king.” Cang Yu grabbed Ling Xi wrist. His eyes were firm. “Ling Xi, I want you to promise this master…to kill him…”
Ling Xi’s hand shook heavily. She knelt beside the couch and said, “Master, Ling Xi guarantees with Ling Xi’s life that Nan Zhi will not do evil! As long as master let me go persuade Nan Zhi, he will listen to me!”
Cang Yu gasped heavily. He said intermittently through gritted teeth, “He…is no longer that immortal spirit! He is the devil. Ling Xi, he is the devil who slept for ten thousand years!”
Ling Xi’s felt a griping pain in her heart for the close-to-death Cang Yu and for the hard-to -obey command.
“He became a deity in less than a hundred years and was once a god…,” Cang Yu’s face was dark and tried hard to look at Ling Xi. “Do you know that if he wants, he can destroy every living being with only one hand?”
Ling Xi whole body shook and she kept shaking her head.
“Ling Xi, did you forget how you big brother had died? How Feng Shu had died? What was exchanged to get you to stand here intact today?” Cang Yu suddenly sighed, ignored the continuous bleeding at the corner of his lips, propped himself up and frowned.
Ling Xi’s tears shed uncontrollably. She sobbed and didn’t know what to say.
She had let big brother down. She had let eldest senior brother down. She had let Cangjia Mountain down. However, to let her go kill Nan Zhi, she couldn’t do it.
Perhaps, the speech of just now was too laborious. Cang Yu coughed repeatedly. Black blood was on the couch. He still wanted to say something to Ling Xi, but he couldn’t utter a word and fell straight back on the couch.
“Master!”
Ling Xi exclaimed. She quickly stood up to see how Cang Yu was doing, but she was tossed to the ground by Cang Hai who had been watching silently at a side.
“Evil spawn!” Cang Hai was in a towering rage. He wanted to give Ling Xi a slap, but refrained himself and clenched his fists. He kicked the incense burner over. Then, he immediately pinched Cang Yu’s meridians and gave him immortal energy.
“Junior uncle Cang Hai, how…how is master?”
Cang Hai glared at Ling Xi. He wished that a dagger could come out of his eyes and give Ling Xi the lingering death. He roared in a low voice, “Senior brother has given you a thousand year of cultivation and hasn’t recovered yet from being seriously injured by high-tiered deity Donghua. Now, he received a blow from the devil king. Is it so difficult to get a promise from you that you will get rid of the devil king? What do you say?”
- Lingering death: a death by thousands cuts
Ling Xi knelt on the ground with lowered head. She choked with sobs, “This disciple is not filial…This disciple has let out the devil king, caused harm to master, is ungrateful and doesn’t want to get rid of the calamity of all living beings. I’m truly guilty of terrible crimes.”
Cang Hai’s anger calmed down slightly. He meditated as he passed immortal energy to Cang Yu, but he was very worried. Cang Yu’s wound is only supported by the energy. His death is only a matter of time.
“However, what master wants Ling Xi to do, even if Ling Xi dies, Ling Xi can’t do it.” Ling Xi knelt on the ground and wiped her tears. “So, junior uncle Cang Hai, take back from this unfilial disciple everything that this unfilial disciple owned Cangjia.”
When Cang Hai heard her first sentence, he rage raged in his heart. When he hears the last part, he was dumbfounded.
“Master said that among my three immortal parts and seven mortal parts, there are one immortal part and four mortal parts that was mended by his and eldest senior brother’s cultivation.” Ling Xi slowly raised her head. Her eyes were cold and her attitude firm. “If this one immortal part and four mortal parts are taken out to heal master, he would recover. This is also not some crooked method. These don’t belong to me. I owe them to Cangjia.”
Cang Hai put down Cang Yu’s meridians. He frowned, stood up and looked up and down at Ling Xi.
“If master dies because of Ling Xi, Ling Xi wouldn’t be able to live in peace this whole life. Asking junior uncle Cang Hai for support.” Ling Xi knelt on the ground and kowtowed at him.
Cang Hai contemplated with a frown. He had to admit that Ling Xi’s suggestion was a good idea.
Not only can it save senior brother’s life, but it could also prevent this evil spawn from causing trouble with that devil again.
“Do you know that after so many years, this one immortal part and four mortal parts had already integrated and became one with your soul. If they were drawn out, do you know what your fate will be?” Cang Hai’s voice turned solemn.
Ling Xi’s head blanked for a moment. The blood during the day was still on her pale face. Her eyes flickered like the lake in the moonlight that gradually became silent after the wind. “Ling Xi doesn’t want to let master down and doesn’t want to let Cangjia down. However, the thing that master let me do is more painful than death. But, if Ling Xi does nothing, Ling Xi doesn’t have the face to face master and to face Cangjia Mountain. Ling Xi doesn’t want to live in guilt. Even if Ling Xi dies immediately after the one immortal part and four mortal parts are drawn out, Ling Xi would endure the hardship gladly.”
Every word Ling Xi said was powerful and resonating.
Cang Hai was still a bit hesitant. He glanced at the almost lifeless Cang Yu on the couch, thought about the incomparable Nan Zhi and the countless devilish beings behind him and saw that Ling Xi’s attitude was so resolute, he said coldly, “Alright!”
The pain of the soul being withdrawn was not something that Ling Xi hasn’t experienced before. Two years ago, high-tiered deity Donghua had removed an immortal part from her body. However, at that time she lost too much blood and her body was numb. Her perception of pain also dropped a lot. This time, she knelt on the ground and watched how she was wrapped in light beams. It was like a thousand thin needles and blades entered her body at the same time, cutting every corner. She had never experienced such pain. Even when she was bitten by those evil spirits at the Eastern Sea when she took out the Soul-Suppressing pearls, she didn’t feel half as painful as when her immortal part and mortal parts were being peeled off from her soul.
She couldn’t shout, couldn’t cry, couldn’t struggle and couldn’t resist.
All of these was what she owned Cangjia.
Qing Lian said, “Ling Xi, shouldn’t you live once for yourself?”
Right, she should live once for herself.
After she gave them back these things that didn’t belong to her, she only wanted to be an ordinary girl who doesn’t know spells and doesn’t understand the affairs of the world. She doesn’t seek immortality. As long as she follows the person she loves, follow him with a peaceful mind, even if it was embracing one day in peace.
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