299 Dragging Herself

Dragging Herself

The rain stopped sometime when she was still unconscious, the void was again back to its normal self, and the ground was little wet and muddy as a sign of heavy rain in the previous day.

A figure was sitting against the rock still unconscious, the hair that was dripping water before dried, several strips of the robes were soaked in the mud while the blood that seeped from wounds has also stopped, anybody could observe and tell, she was looking like broken warrior.

A warrior who lost a battle where he lost his dear one.

If the warrior was Jen Xuan Rong, then it was certain that she was not defeated yet.

Wounded? She can sew her wounds.

Broken? She can find the one whom she lost and patch.

Defeated? No Way, never.

The word defeat does not exist in her terminology.

Currently she was tired and exhausted, she was only resting, the way the man challenged her meant that there was grave enmity yet he wanted to coax her other way, she has to find why he chose this way and what kind of enmity he bear against her.

Her eyelashes quivered and she opened her eyes, her head was muddled and her body was wounded, could her great grandfather answer her all questions? Her heart was in chaos, she has lost her peace of heart, her calm demeanor and disposition, the way she used to see the world has crumbled already.

She wiped a line of tear from her cheeks, the reason of her tears was solely for Zhi Chang, she could not feel where he was currently and in which condition he was thrown.

It made her heart restless, his presence filled her heart with happiness yet his disappearance resulted all emptiness, what was happening to her, she could not understand.

She was doing well alone, sometimes she felt lonely but she could still endure it thinking that she was orphan for almost sixteen years and then met her great grandfather, she has become habitual living alone but what was wrong now?

Why her heart was muddled and gloomy perhaps she started to like the affection shown by Zhi Chang, she would have given up her life to save him in all situations, it seemed her heart was seized when he expressed his liking and now the way her heart was feeling was completely different than before.

It was forcing her to use all her means just to see Zhi Chang in front of her, this restless was unbearable, Jen has made few rules to strictly follow and her heart was compelling her to break all of them.

Unable to endure it further, she screamed his name in the void, her wounds burst with the impact and she fell back, she was a Legend and what was use of being Legend if she was this helpless against a sly person, she was forced to think.

Slowly her cheeks again got wet with the tears, and fell unconscious again.

And the biggest reason was the chaos in which her heart fell, not ready to admit anything.

"Its been a day and you are informing me now?" Xuan Rong was sitting in the Defender Hacienda, his brows creased at this late news, someone forcefully entered the Celestial sphere from upper sphere and went back at the same day.

If someone entered, it was necessary to know who he was and what was purpose of this intrusion? The essence fiber of the Sphere was markup of the territory, how could anyone neglect even if it was from upper sphere, they should obey his authority.

"The fastest guardian beast reached today, the place which was chosen to descend down was a distant region of the sphere that's why the news reached late," the protector spoke.

There were many protectors and experts scattered in the Celestial Sphere to keep look out and make sure to inform any suspicious activity or bigger matter running in any Manias.

"Did you checked the place, what damage has been done or what was the purpose of this intrusion?" Defender was fuming with rage, he has to find the one who dared to intrude his territory.

The news has reached to him about the appearance of Nianru and uncertainty has started lingering, Xuan Rong was thinking to call the living pillars of the Celestial sphere and the hidden supreme experts, he will also inform core experts about the severity of the situation, not much people were aware about the exact reason how previous Defender was killed in the upper sphere, he himself wanted to kill the scum Nianru but at the advice of the Supreme and the sudden disappearance of Nianru made it impossible, now that supreme was nearing to his life span, the ambiguity has risen again.

"I am taking few experts and going to visit the place," the protector bowed and took permission.

"Wait, someone used my will in the same region few months ago and there is no news which guardian beast used my diction and what was the reason?" mostly guardian beasts were also scattered in the hostile places where protectors or experts were afraid to go to make sure the stability of his order.

He would not believe if he was told that Jen was wandering in that region and the one who used this diction was none other than she.

There were several seals on the diction for various purposes and she only triggered the punishment seal with her drop of blood, if one wanted to open other seals there were different methods for doing so.

The protector was little amazed because usually after using diction, guardian beast would send the news telling the reason why it used diction, the protector was clueless that a human was also granted this diction, Why Xuan Rong was not thinking this way because he was getting constant news from the upper sphere and how Nianru was eager to get back his position.

He was worried because not much troopers could be selected in the previous few years due to the contenders who wanted to bring their relatives and kins for the supreme existence trials, they were suppressing other veterans and cultivators, there was huge mess in the first five ranking Manias on this single topic, all of them wanted their children to become next Defender but who would tell them that only one capable cultivator will be chosen for this position no matter what, they were better aware about the requirements to become a Defender still they were acting ignorant, it would definitely harm the stability of the sphere.

Jen opened her eyes next day, she was still feeling the same, her heart was still in chaos and perhaps it would remain this way until she was able to see Zhi Chang again.

She don't care where was sitting and how unkempt she was looking, the dried up tears has hardened her soft cheeks skin, the ground finally became dull and thirsty and one could not tell that the same place was bathing in the rain two days ago.

Jen looked at her wounds, the solar star absorbed enough essence to stop the bleeding of the wounds when she was unconscious, it also make sure to stock up some essence for the central acmes pair so that Jen won't suffocate her breathing heart.

Jen looked at her hands and whinnied to see the arrow symbols, she always thought that she was strong enough and also had the strongest attribute to win anything, this thought kept her pushing forward to learn more, but now it seemed a joke, it was only a false hope which she was using to persuade herself to run forward even if others were crawling like snails.

She was indeed running all these years, and now felt exhausted.

If she was running before now she has to madly run to bring back Zhi Chang, but where she should run?

"Even if I madly run, would I be able to reach upper sphere?" she asked to herself.

This question forced her sit down again.

Jen looked up and surly she could hear the strong flapping of bigger feathers of a guardian beast, she has taken ride on the guardian beasts once and could sense the specific aura.

She slowly dragged herself toward the inner part of the rock where no one can directly cast glance from the sky, the protector travelled this far to investigate the region and find clues why the intrusion was made by someone from upper sphere.

The guardian beast flew around and the protector patted it to land down on a safer part, he should check carefully before returning back in the Defender Hacienda.