Chapter 257

257 YOU’D PROBABLY DIE

“You... you did that?” Nervously, Bai Chen asked.

Hearing the question, Wu Jinhai nodded at the man in white. “Mhm,” he answered verbally. “When I was a teenager, I felt that I should return the crystal to you, and that is why I told my master that I wanted to take the crystal out of my body. He was also the one who helped me do that, and he also told me that I wouldn’t die even after the crystal was removed because I still had the power of the fish demon in my body. That’s why I didn’t die immediately after the crystal was taken out.”

“...” Bai Chen fell silent.

He didn’t know much about how the Power Crystal that originally belonged to werewolves would work on human bodies, but he heard from Ma Qiao and Tang Yanmei that the crystals would be of great value to humans who had died in accidents.

“Can you explain more about that?” Bai Chen asked as he felt even more curious about the truth behind the Power Crystal that helped Wu Jinhai to stay alive all those years ago but was taken out of the man’s body years later.

“I can say that I died in the river many years ago when you saved me,” Wu Jinhai said, and that one sentence was enough to shock Bai Chen. Wu Jinhai could see the expression on the man’s face, but he decided to continue, “I recently learned that the werewolves of the White and Black Werewolf Clans have two crystals in their bodies, and one of them is the Life Crystal which is the source of their life. You should know that humans also have something similar to it, but it’s called a Life Core.”

Wu Jinhai just gave him an explanation, and Bai Chen earnestly listened to him. Fortunately, how he looked clueless in front of Wu Jinhai did not make the man feel suspicious. After all, the real Bai Chen in this world had no interest in knowledge of humans and werewolves, and that was why it might not be strange that the current Bai Chen knew nothing about it either.

“When humans die, the Life Core within their bodies is destroyed, and that’s why no medicine can revive them anymore. The only way to revive a dead human was to replace the Life Core with something, and one of the things that can be used to replace it is the two crystals belonging to werewolves from the White and Black Werewolf Clans.”

Up until now, Bai Chen had managed to understand Wu Jinhai’s story as the man continued to explain to him what had happened to him after he received the Power Crystal from him. Back then, Wu Jinhai died, and that meant his Life Core was destroyed beyond repair. Accidentally, Bai Chen gave the young Wu Jinhai his Power Crystal, and it was the crystal that succeeded in replacing the role of the Life Core in Wu Jinhai’s body, and that was why Wu Jinhai was able to come back to life so many years ago.

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“That’s why your mother didn’t allow me to return the Power Crystal to you,” the black-haired man continued. “That’s because she knew that I died once at that time, and that’s why my Life Core was destroyed. That’s why I can only stay alive while relying on your Power Crystal in my body, and that’s the reason why your mother didn’t let me return the crystal to you. She didn’t want to see me die twice.”

Now, it was confirmed that Tang Yanmei was a good person because she even cared about the life of an unknown boy. The unknown boy was the one who put her son in danger, but she still didn’t want to see the boy die just to selfishly save her son.

“Besides that fact, she also knew that you, as a werewolf from the White Werewolf Clan, had another crystal in your body, and that’s why she was confident that you would eventually wake up even if you wouldn’t become a perfect werewolf again without the Power Crystal in your possession. Maybe your mother didn’t really sacrifice you to save me, but she was still willing to see you helpless without the Power Crystal, and that’s why I know I owe her a lot.”

Bai Chen secretly admitted that Wu Jinhai was right. Little Bai Chen managed to come back to life even without the Power Crystal because he still had the Life Crystal in his body, but he couldn’t be the same as the other werewolves of his clan and the Black Werewolf Clan without the Power Crystal.

It might be true that Tang Yanmei did not sacrifice her son’s life to save an unknown child, but it was still a huge sacrifice when she was willing to see her son become powerless because of the crystal.

“But then the guilt continued to eat me slowly,” Wu Jinhai continued. “I kept dreaming about how you saved me in the river, and that’s why I came to my master when I was a teenager, asking if there was a way to safely retrieve the crystal from my body. At that moment, he finally realized that I actually had another source of life in my body, and it is from the poison given by the fish demon many years ago. That source of life is called the Black Bead, and that is the source of the demon’s life. As long as I have the Black Bead in my body, I will not die even without your Power Crystal, and that’s why my master helped me get your crystal out of my body.”

It was another new piece of information for Bai Chen because he had never been interested in learning about demons before today. The only demon he knew was the Flute Demon, and only Ma Qiao had roughly told him about the demon.

Now, Bai Chen was silent as he tried to digest Wu Jinhai’s story, but then he widened his blue eyes when he realized something. “You said now you rely on the Black Bead to live, right? The Black Bead originally belonged to the demon, so if you get rid of the demon poison in your body, don’t you think it will destroy the Black Bead too? You’d probably die if that happened, right?”