Chapter 280

Chapter 280

Hurting Others and Hurting Oneself

The scene of their second meeting didn’t play out remotely close to what Qiao Xue had envisioned. She memorised her script as the proud princess of the fiend race, but she blanked out when she was face to face with Mu Yu. He was oblivious of her feelings and the fact that his joke had led her own.

“Wait, why are you crying?”

Mu Yu was always afraid of girls crying because he was to blame. He would fumble his words and fidget. He had no idea she pleaded the fiend race’s reigning elder to activate their formation for him, while she had no idea he was worried Ghost Gate would kidnap her.

“She likes you. Do you also like her?” Qiao Xue meekly asked.Updated from n0velbIn.(c)o/m

“Who? Tian Ran?” Mu Yu stopped to think then nodded brightly. “I do. She’s a kind girl. I don’t want to let her down.”

I guess it’s only fair. I’m a fiend. She’s human. He wouldn’t possibly like me. I never said I liked him. Why can I feel tears welling up in my eyes, though?

Qiao Xue pursed her lips to fight her floodgates and asked, “Why did you help me at Second Heaven?”

Still smiling radiantly and warmly, Mu Yu explained, “Because you can control water and I can control wood. My shifu told me there are five people, each of whom can control one of the five types of elemental demons’ powers. We need to look out for each other. I wanted to inform you ever since I found out you were one of us.”

Qiao Xue’s eyes were listless. Her lips twitched several times before she enunciated, “Why?”

“I couldn’t decide if I should move or not, but I chose the latter in the end because I thought you wouldn’t kill me since we’re the same type.”

Qiao Xue’s ice sword vanished. She moved her hands around, trying to think of what to do to no avail. The sword didn’t just pierce Mu Yu’s chest; it also impaled her heart. Her frosty sword qi had penetrated his body. His beads of sweat had become ice beads.

With so much left to do, Mu Yu refused to die. Gritting his teeth, he mumbled, “Plants... I need plants.”

“Mu Yu, whatchu doing?” Xiaoshuai looked outside upon feeling Mu Yu’s body turn cold. “Oh, sh-, this is bad.”

Xiaoshuai hurried out of Mu Yu’s shirt. He aggressively stared at Qiao Xue then began collecting spiritual energy with his tail and injecting it into Mu Yu’s wound. “Weren’t you two ever told to take it easy when you get intimate? Punctured Swordy, come out and save him before he dies!”

Whether it was thanks to Xiaoshuai’s request or because it detected Mu Yu’s condition, Wood Spirit Sword emerged. Wood Spirit Sword covered Mu Yu in green energy and replenished his vitality. Xiaoshuai went through Mu Yu’s cosmos sleeve for the rank six pill, sky erasing pill, one of the pills Mu Yu extorted from Elder Leng. Mu Yu’s only chance of survival was to ascend to Body Severing Realm. A burst of infinite vitality was released during the ascension. Mu Yu needed that burst to heal his wound.

Qiao Xue distraughtly watched Mu Yu. Although she wanted to help, she had nothing to offer. Her guilt and regret gnawed away at her.

Qiao Xue: If he dies, I’ll go with him!