His heart thumped, as if it had fallen into a bottomless abyss. He didn't believe it!
No! He couldn't believe it!
Yue Liusu would not leave just like that.
"I'll go ahead and scout, and see if there's any suitable place for us to hide for the time being." Jing Yao didn't want to accept this fact, he couldn't even turn his head to look at Yue Liusu. He was evading, and wasn't willing to accept the truth.
"Eh …" Before Liu Yiner could stop Jing Yao, he had already walked far away.
"Naughty girl, you won't do that. She's so strong, how can she easily admit defeat? She's still going to go to the Upper Heaven Path, she won't leave us there and not do anything." Jing Qiao carried Yue Liusu in his arms, his eyes filled with unhappiness. He just stared blankly at Yue Liusu's pale little face.
"Look at you, your face is all messed up, this doesn't look like you." After saying that, Jing Qiao reached out his hand, and used his clean sleeve to lightly wipe the dirt off her face.
"Liusu, get up …" Liu Yiner was already sobbing soundlessly as she knelt in front of Yue Liusu, using all her strength to shake his arm. However, she was just lying quietly in Jing Qiao's embrace, and shouldn't be answering.
"Miss …" Yi Meng knelt in front of Yue Liusu, but she was still unwilling to accept this fact.
"Sigh …" Both of Mo Kejin's hands held onto the walking stick, with his back bent, he silently sighed, obviously Yue Liusu was a very talented girl, but she had to suffer through such misfortune, and now, she was even more powerful.
The sun slowly rose, and a warm light shone into the entire forest, illuminating the road ahead of Yue Liusu.
Yesterday, the dense dark clouds foretold that the sky was clear and the winter had already passed. An inch of grass slowly extended its head from the soil under the tree roots. The spring day just so happened to come at the right time.
"Liusu, did you see that? "Dong Ri is over. I've been waiting for you to come back …"
Unfortunately, the person in Jing Qiao's arms was still lifeless.
Roughly a few minutes later, Jing Yao made his way back.
"There's a very deep cave ahead. I've already checked it out, it's just nice to live in there."
"Okay, let's go now. I think I need to rest for a while." Jing Qiao said. From start to finish, he was unwilling to accept the fact that Yue Liusu had left.
"Let me carry you. You must be tired." Jing Yao said, and took Yue Liusu from Jing Qiao's hands. She was soft, her entire body weak and lifeless in his embrace, as if he could feel the temperature where she was disappearing.
No, he wouldn't let her cool down.
"Silly Qiao, put on your cloak. It's too cold." He said lightly.
"Alright!" Jing Qiao replied as he quickly took off the cape on his shoulders and draped it over Yue Liusu's body.
"Let's go and make arrangements as soon as possible." Jing Yao led the way ahead. Along the way, Liu Yiner silently followed behind them with countless of thoughts running through her mind.
On the towering cliff, a large cave appeared. It seemed like Jing Yao had already cleared all the dense trees outside before revealing himself.
When they entered, it was very dry inside. The sunlight just happened to slant into the cave entrance, adding a hint of light to the moist cave.
Jing Yao quickly brought out all of the daily necessities from his space and arranged them properly before Liu Yiner and Yi Meng quickly went to pack up the beds. The reason they brought along spare beds was because Yue Liusu always said that living in the open air was not easy, and it would be much better to bring along soft pillows.
She was just saying it casually, but everyone remembered.
Jing Qiao gently placed Yue Liusu on the soft bed, afraid that she would be cold, and covered her body with silk.
"You guys leave first. I'll wipe Liusu's body with hot water and then change her clothes." Liu Yiner sat at the head of the bed, and said softly, afraid that he would wake her up too loudly.
"Right." Everyone glanced at Yue Liusu, and then turned and left in disappointment. They really hoped that Yue Liusu would wake up now, and say that she was just joking around with them.
Outside, the sun was shining brightly. Yue Liusu took out a basin from the spatial space and placed it at the place where the water was dripping from the rocks. After a while, she filled it up and used soul power to heat it up.
She took out a clean towel and placed it in the basin. Afraid that Yue Liusu was cold, she intentionally took out a charcoal brazier from her spatial space to light it up.
When she carefully took off Yue Liusu's clothes one by one, and saw that her entire body was covered with scars, she could no longer control her emotions and started crying out loud.
Why was she so foolish? She was already injured and had to bear the Lightning Tribulation on her own. Had she been so stubborn as to think of their feelings?
"Why are you so stupid? Can't you …" Liu Yiner used a hot towel to gently wipe her body. She could clearly feel that the red and swollen wounds had already scabbed over.
In less than a day's time, the deep wounds on her body that could even be seen to bone were already beginning to scab. She wiped away the tainted blood on Yue Liusu's body, and saw the scab on his wounds.
In fact … Everything was slowly recovering.
However, the center of Liu Yiner's body was not here at all. When she accidentally touched Yue Liusu's great arteries, she could actually feel her own aura pulsating slightly.
She clearly didn't have a breath to breathe, and her body gradually became cold. However, she really felt that heartbeat.
When Liu Yiner once again reached out his hand to Yue Liusu's neck, he could no longer feel the feeling from wiping his fingers. "Just now, I clearly …"
Liu Yiner's already conflicted expression made it hard to describe what she felt. She definitely did not feel wrongly just now, it was true, but the moment she touched Yue Liusu's fingertips once again, that ice-cold sensation extinguished the hope igniting in her heart.
It was obviously not there. Perhaps she was mistaken.
She chose an orange tassel dress from her own space. She knew that Yue Liusu liked bright colors, so she chose this one, but she didn't expect that in the end, it would fit onto her body.
"Liusu, wake up. I've already avenged you and there's nothing left for you to worry about. But you …" Wake up, you're gone, what should I do? What should he do? "What do you want me to do …" Liu Yiner cried, crying and calling Yue Liusu, but that person still kept her lips tightly shut and did not speak.
She pulled the silk cover over her head and said, "Rest well. I'll come see you in a while." Liu Yiner stood up and wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes. The pot of hot water that was placed at the side had already been dyed red.
The blood-red robe that was thrown on Yue Liusu's body was also a wedding attire.
Liu Yiner poured the basin of water into the gutter on the rock, turned around, and also put the remaining blood-red colored wedding suit into the basin. She planned to take it out to wash, then leave it behind.
Liu Yiner looked at Yue Liusu who was quietly lying on the bed, he turned, and could no longer control his unwell heart, and rushed out of the cave.
Liu Yiner probably did not notice that after she left, a tender green bud had quietly sprouted at the spot where Yue Liusu's basin of blood fell to the ground.
Jing Qiao and the rest were standing in front of the cave, unwilling to go in.
The hot sun hung high above their heads. This warm feeling was adding a green tint to the entire forest, hinting that the spring day had arrived.
Everyone was silent, they were not willing to believe the truth of Yue Liusu's departure.
"I think you guys are hungry. I'm going to get something to eat. Girl likes my cooking the most. I'm going to get something now. Maybe she'll wake up the next moment. She'll definitely be very happy when she wakes up." Jing Qiao laughed and said, he turned and ran off.
After Mo Kejin saw Jing Qiao happily leaving, he walked towards Jing Yao with his back bent and advised in a deep voice, "Jing Yao, go and advise the foolish Qiao, don't be like this."
He thought that everyone would accept the fact that Yue Liusu had left.
But none of them wanted to face the truth.
"I'm going to help Stupid Joe." This time, Jing Yao did not listen to him. He turned around and chased after Jing Qiao. From the beginning to the end, he believed that once Yue Liusu passed through the Lightning Tribulation, he would not die so easily.
In her heart, Yue Liusu had long been the most important person to her. Without Yue Liusu, the current her would not be able to see the scene of Yue Liusu being nice to her. The scenes of him being nice to her would still be played around in her mind.
In the end, she could no longer control herself as she squatted at the entrance of the cave and began to cry, "Miss, Miss, please come back! Yi Meng promises to serve you well, and will never leave you again, it's Yi Meng's fault, Yi Meng originally went with you, now, now, wow... "
Her eyes were red and swollen, and an image of Yue Liusu's incomplete body full of wounds surfaced in her mind. Looking at her, Yi Meng felt her scalp go numb, and even some marks from being burnt by the heavenly thunder, she must have been holding on painfully at that time.
At that time, she could have just persisted, but she would have been better if she had been faster. She wouldn't have been able to bear all of this alone, and now she had even lost her life.
Liu Yiner squatted on the ground as tears silently rolled down her face.
Having lost Yue Liusu, their entire group seemed to have dispersed. Without a backbone, they did not even know where they should go next, and whether they should return to the Upper Heaven Path.
At noon, Jing Qiao and Jing Yao returned, both of them maintaining their silence. They did what they usually did, going to Yue Liusu's bed to guard the Chinese Jasmine Root, talking.