Chapter 454: Rice Town (Part 5)
“It was just foggy, how could it disappear…”
Frowning, Qiu Hui followed the voice. Her slightly coffee-colored pupils slowly widened. She saw that the frost and snow ahead seemed to have no source, and the visibility increased visibly. She could even feel the sun, which had no temperature.
As her body was illuminated by it, she felt a strange warmth, and the frostbite caused by the special ice skill gradually dissipated.
Swallowing, she quickly turned her head to look at Ludon, who was not far beside her, as if wanting to get the answer she desired from this experienced old adventurer. However, the result was a little disappointing.
Ludon’s surprise was not much less than hers, but his rich experience allowed him to take a sip of wine and return to his senses, muttering, “The leader of this cold current has been killed, and the small monsters have also been cleaned up thoroughly. That girl is not simple.”
Hearing this, Qiu Hui was slightly stunned and subconsciously asked, “Is her cultivation level very high?”
“It’s not about cultivation. If it were one-on-one, you could also kill the leader of the cold current… She was too decisive, too decisive to be like a student.”
Wiping the wine stains from the corner of his mouth, Ludon burped, breathed warm air onto his hands, looked forward, and smiled, “She’s coming. If you have anything you want to ask, ask her yourself.”
Listening to Old Ludon’s words, Qiu Hui turned her head to look forward again. She saw a figure with somewhat messy hair and clothes covered in blood and ice shards, rapidly approaching them. Just as she was about to say something, the figure brushed past her.
“Thank you for taking care of me.”
Without much more to say, Su Jiu held an intermediate magic crystal with blood still on it in her hand. The blood dripped down her fingertips, flew through the air, and headed towards Bai Zhi.
“She might not be able to absorb the energy from the magic crystal like this. Try to wake her up.”
She soon arrived beside Bai Zhi and saw her lying weakly on the Qian Cheng, her breathing growing heavier. Su Jiu bit her lip, forcing herself to calm down. At this moment, every decision she made could affect the fate of two lives.
“Can you hear me?”
She then came to her side, knelt down, gently patted Bai Zhi’s back, and softly called out to her.
“Huuu… Huuu…”
But the only response was her slightly rough snoring, which made Su Jiu’s heart sink. Bai Zhi seemed to have completely fainted, and she could sense with her spiritual power that the other person’s spirit was fluctuating.
At this time, Qiu Hui and the others had recovered from their shock and gathered around. After discovering Bai Zhi’s condition, another unremarkable long-haired girl spoke first, “I’m a soon-to-be graduate from the medical school. Your friend seems to have a big problem. Do you need me to use my resuscitation skill?”
“The resuscitation skill won’t help.”
Shaking her head, Su Jiu forced herself to calm down. Bai Zhi couldn’t eat, so the best way was to perform a special intravenous infusion, like injecting glucose in her previous life. She then asked the priest, “Do you have any medical needles with you?”
“Needles… you mean the ones for injections?”
The priest was stunned for a moment. After thinking for a while, she understood what Su Jiu meant. She hurriedly rummaged through her storage ring. After a moment, she said with a somewhat displeased expression, “Those are only used in clinical medicine. I study skill-based healing… I don’t usually have those.”
“Then there’s no other way.”
Sighing, Su Jiu pushed herself up into the air. The black flame energy shield instantly covered the three of them. The outside voices seemed to be cut off, and only a few sounds of “What happened?!” could be heard.
Listening to the voices, Su Jiu turned her head to look at the somewhat panicked female priest and said very seriously,
“Can I ask you to keep using the healing arts? I’ll pay you later.”
The female priest glanced at the dark space around her and subconsciously nodded. She also caught a glimpse of the blood on Su Jiu’s hand, and her throat felt inexplicably tight.
But soon, at Su Jiu’s gesture, she began to use healing arts on Bai Zhi. A faint green light emanated within the dark energy shield.
Sensing the other person’s actions, Su Jiu took a deep breath, wiped the blood-stained magic crystal with her clothes, and put it directly into her mouth. Her fangs slightly bared, and she rapidly absorbed the ice-elemental energy into her fangs.
“This is too… Da da… cold… Da da…”
Su Jiu felt the sensation in her mouth like eating ten mint-flavored gums and then drinking ice water. As the energy increased, her teeth began to chatter madly.
Finally, as she absorbed energy to its peak, she couldn’t help but tremble slightly. Without hesitation, she roughly pulled open Bai Zhi’s collar and bit towards her neck.
“Yip!” Bai Zhi let out a soft whimper, clearly in some pain, and her beautiful delicate eyebrows furrowed.
Su Jiu then acted like a mother feeding her child, using herself as a transfer station to gradually infuse the pure energy. The ice-elemental energy flowed into Bai Zhi’s carotid artery like a trickle.
Su Jiu’s movements were very gentle. Suddenly, a fluctuation of spiritual power emerged from Bai Zhi and rushed towards Su Jiu, seemingly attempting to invade her spiritual space.
“I forgot about this foolish child’s characteristics. This should be the body’s protection, an illusion…”
With a wry smile, Su Jiu did not try to expel the spiritual power. If she forcibly expelled it, it would likely worsen Bai Zhi’s condition. Thus, she allowed it to pull her into the not-so-clever illusion.
As faint ripples appeared, the surrounding environment gradually changed. In front of Su Jiu, there seemed to be a rather archaic dressing table. The peach wood dressing table was slightly worn, and on it sat a piece of red velvet cake that had been cut. Seeing the slight mold on it, it seemed to have been there for a while.
Su Jiu’s gaze swept across the somewhat desolate wooden cabin and landed on the dressing table. She then murmured to herself, “Is this the little fool’s spiritual world?”
Bai Zhi, who was still being infused with ice-elemental energy by her, sat in front of the dressing table, her black silk hair reaching her waist, dressed in a simple white robe. However, her face was somewhat haggard, and her eyes were blankly staring at the cake.
As if noticing Su Jiu standing there, Bai Zhi’s pupils widened slightly, but she didn’t dare to turn her head, as if fearing it was a dream… After a long time, she suppressed a certain sound and said in a deep voice, “You don’t blame me for not keeping the child… then… you left?”
“What? I didn’t…”
Su Jiu was stunned when Bai Zhi asked her that. Looking at Bai Zhi’s face, which resembled Daiyu burying flowers, a sense of self-reproach flooded her heart, but she hadn’t done anything.
However, her powerful spiritual power quickly made Su Jiu realize that this was purely Bai Zhi’s self-imagined spiritual world, and she twitched her lips.
You foolish child have a very rich imagination. What kind of strange plot is this?
I suggest you watch less Korean dramas…
Hearing Su Jiu say “I didn’t,” Bai Zhi pursed her pale lips, her mouth pouted slightly, and then she suppressed a sob and turned around abruptly, grabbing Su Jiu’s body tightly, and said in a low voice, “Xiao Lan is dead, Lin Mei is also gone, and after the extreme challenge failed, you left too… There is no one I know in this era anymore.”
Her voice was a little hoarse, making Su Jiu inexplicably heartbroken. “Without cultivation, I don’t even dare to live in the human world.”
Feeling Bai Zhi trembling in her embrace, Su Jiu fell silent for a moment. She reached out and patted her back, saying softly, “This is just a dream. You’ll be fine after sleeping. Life is like a dream, you are Fusheng Zhi, this is just an illusion.”
Su Jiu suddenly realized that perhaps this little flower fairy, who had been betrayed by humans, had a personality that lacked security. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have gotten pregnant with her child to forcefully connect with her.
Perhaps, in her opinion, if the child was gone, she would leave her too.
“Dream… hehe, that’s right… it’s just a big dream.”
With a light laugh, Bai Zhi leaned quietly on Su Jiu’s shoulder, her hands loosening their grip. Smelling the familiar scent, her eyelids grew heavier and heavier…
When she woke up, would she still be here?
…
The next day, in the early morning.
In a guesthouse in Rice Town.
“Dream…”
Bai Zhi opened her eyes slightly. The pain in her body had subsided a lot. She quickly got up from a worn-out leather sofa and checked her stomach. The child was still there, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
“Where is this? Where is the flirt?”
She then looked around the surroundings, her gaze finally falling on the hearth not far away.
The sound of firewood crackling in the hearth could be heard. The black-skirted girl was holding a small iron pot, brewing some herbal medicine, and occasionally fanning the medicinal scent with her hand.
“Last night you were hugging me in a hallucination, begging me not to leave, and today you’re calling me a flirt. Are you a dog?!”
Seemingly noticing that Bai Zhi had woken up, Su Jiu turned her head and couldn’t help but roll her eyes at her, muttering with a slight complaint. She then walked over with the medicine in her hand, “Drink this.”
Being reminded of the hallucination by Su Jiu, Bai Zhi thought of her appearance in her mind, and her toes couldn’t help but curl up, giving her the urge to dig a hole and bury herself.
Bai Zhi, Bai Zhi, why are you like a love-struck fool?!
Taking a deep breath, she took the medicine and said to Su Jiu very seriously, “That wasn’t me in the hallucination…”
“I believe you.”
Looking at her stubbornness, Su Jiu found her contrastingly cute and suppressed her laughter, nodding.
“Be serious! Don’t laugh! I’m serious.”
Hearing Su Jiu’s insincere belief, Bai Zhi’s face puffed up again like a balloon. She reached out and tugged at the hem of Su Jiu’s skirt, emphasizing it repeatedly.
“Alright, alright, I believe you. Drink your medicine first. I’m going out with those people to find the snow demons, and I’ll get you enough ice-elemental magic crystals.”
Su Jiu waved her hand, acting like she was coaxing a child. With that, she walked towards the main door. As soon as she opened it, the wind and snow surged in, causing Bai Zhi’s delicate body to tremble slightly.
Looking at the door that closed again, Bai Zhi drank the bitter herbal juice in one gulp, feeling her body inexplicably warm.
“Aunt Foolish Child, Mom told me to give this to you after you finish your medicine.”
Just as she was about to take out her phone to watch TV, E Huo’s voice sounded from behind the sofa.
Bai Zhi was startled, but she knew E Huo and guessed that the other party was likely staying to protect her. However—
What the heck is Aunt Foolish Child?!
Who taught you to call me that!
Just as Bai Zhi was about to curse, a small figure suddenly darted out. In its chubby hands, it held a red velvet cake preserved with ice.
Looking down at the cake, Bai Zhi’s slightly open mouth first pursed, and then curved slightly…
