Chapter 62

Chapter 62: Never Coming Back Again

Inside the room, Luo Ming Yue clenched her fists: “My fists are ready again! How can people from Ling Xu Peak be this shameless? Junior Sister, just wait, I’ll go drive them off!”

They had just opened the wine to celebrate Li Shuang’s win.

Then a swarm of annoying flies showed up and spoiled everything. Luo Ming Yue sprang to her feet.

Li Shuang tugged her sleeve and said softly, “First Senior Sister.”

Luo Ming Yue lifted her chin and said: “Little Shuang, don’t be afraid of them. Even if all the people from Ling Xu Peak come at once, I can beat them myself.”

Without Li Shuang, what were those few from Ling Xu Peak anyway? Ye Zhao Zhao was the only one at Nascent Soul Stage, and she could not even use a sword. Why would Luo Ming Yue fear her?

Li Shuang’s lips curved with a small smile as she said calmly, “First Senior Sister, let me handle this myself.”

Ye Zhao Zhao had stirred up a scene to force Li Shuang to bow through public pressure. They had knelt here to beg for help, then got thrown out by the people of Emotionless Peak.

Rumors are easy to start but hard to stop.

If Li Shuang did not set this straight in person, she would not mind for herself, but she worried it would harm the reputation of Emotionless Peak.

Li Shuang knew Luo Ming Yue and the others did not care about fame, but she did.

The Supreme Emotionless Art made her see clearly what was true feeling and what was fake.

And she would never fail anyone’s true heart.

With resolve in her eyes, Li Shuang stepped forward. Luo Ming Yue blinked, then moved aside to make a path as she said: “Little Shuang, those people are always shameless. Don’t push yourself too hard. Just remember, we are all here.”

Liu Jun Cheng nodded and said: “Right. One day, truth and justice will be clear. But swallowing losses in silence is absolutely not allowed.”

Jiang Yi looked nervous, but she still nodded hard.

Li Shuang smiled gently and said: “I understand. I won’t let myself be taken advantage of.”

She walked over and opened the door.

Someone shouted from outside: “Senior Sister Li, Senior Sister Li is out!”

Ye Zhao Zhao’s heart leaped. Holding the Dragon Roar Sword, she looked at Li Shuang with tearful eyes and said: “Senior Sister Li, Long Yan is about to fail. Please, please save him. I know Long Yan was wrong too. He should not have held a grudge just because you abandoned him, and he should not have burned his spirit on the sect arena. But you two have been together for so many years. He only did something so foolish because he cared too much about you. Now his body cannot hold, and he will soon face Reversion to Void. Senior Sister, please save him.”

As she spoke, Ye Zhao Zhao purposely summoned Long Yan.

The Sword Spirit Space can heal a Sword Spirit a little. The moment he appeared, Long Yan’s spirit trembled and his face turned even paler.

He could barely stand and collapsed to the ground on the spot.

Ye Zhao Zhao cried and said: “Look, Senior Sister, Long Yan is in terrible shape. You already knew he was a Sword Spirit born polluted, and you were the one who always cleansed the filth inside him. Now, besides you, no one else can save him. If his foul energy is purged in time, maybe Long Yan can keep his body. Otherwise his vitality will be broken, he will suffer Reversion to Void, and he will never have a body again.”

After pouring out her plea, Ye Zhao Zhao kept kowtowing hard.

Everyone’s eyes turned to Li Shuang.

Shen Yue’s gaze filled with hope. [We let Senior Sister down. That day we came to Emotionless Peak, but I had no face to see her.] Even so, [she and I both love swords. She will not stand by and watch Long Yan fall into Reversion to Void.]

Li Shuang stepped out calmly and looked once at Long Yan, who lay limp on the ground.

Long Yan’s face was ashen as he pressed his lips together and looked up at her. Li Shuang said in an even voice: “Sorry. I cannot help Long Yan.”

Long Yan’s face turned even whiter.

In a daze, he remembered the day on the snowy mountain when he controlled the Dragon Roar Sword and stabbed into Li Shuang’s dantian.

If he had not fainted suddenly and failed to launch a second strike, Li Shuang would already be dead.

[She must hate me.] Thirteen years at the start together, and he not only betrayed her but almost took her life.

[How could she not hate me?]

Yet in this moment, Li Shuang’s eyes were cold and still, without hatred, sorrow, or any ripple.

She was like the snow on the mountain that never melts, with no feelings left for him.

No love.

No hate.

No care.

No emotion.

Long Yan’s body shook faintly. [Strange. Right now I would rather see hatred in Li Shuang’s eyes.]

[At least that would prove she still cares a little.]

But now there was nothing.

When she looked at him and at the people from Ling Xu Peak, her eyes were empty.

Shen Yue could not help speaking up as he said: “Senior Sister, we misunderstood you before, and I can apologize. But this is not the time to be stubborn. Long Yan is your partner.”

Li Shuang looked at him and said: “Shen Yue, I do not need your apology. And Long Yan is no longer my partner.”

Shen Yue stared in disbelief and said: “Senior Sister, are you really so resentful? This is Long Yan, the Sword Spirit you raised for so many years.”

Ye Zhao Zhao’s eyes were red as she said: “Senior Sister, you already abandoned Long Yan once. Are you going to abandon him a second time?”

Li Shuang looked at Ye Zhao Zhao, then suddenly smiled as she said: “Ye Zhao Zhao, was it really me who abandoned Long Yan?”

Ye Zhao Zhao’s heart tightened. Stared at by Li Shuang’s gaze that seemed to see through everything, she could not speak for a moment.

Li Shuang said calmly: “The Dragon Roar Sword followed me for thirteen years. From Core Formation to Nascent Soul, I poured my whole strength into raising it. He was a Defective Sword Spirit who could not awaken, so I defied fate and found the Sword Qi Purification Method. For forty nine days and nights I never stopped, turning my spiritual power into Sword Qi without pause. My meridians were torn, and my spirit sense was stretched to its limit. Once there was a mistake, and the Sword Qi nearly ruined my dantian.”

She held Long Yan in her gaze and said: “Yet through all forty nine days and nights, I did not let you suffer the slightest harm. I gave everything I had and woke you up.”

Long Yan’s body trembled.

When he first woke, the first person he saw was Li Shuang.

That day her face was pale, but the smile at her lips was so gentle.

She said, “So you are my Sword Spirit? From now on, please guide me.”

She did not say a single word about everything she had done behind the scenes to wake him.

So those times he stirred a little in his sleep and opened his eyes for brief moments, she was always there, in the Library Pavilion, in the market, in secret realms, searching everywhere for manuals. She had been looking for the Sword Qi Purification Method.

She had been trying to wake him.

A rush of mixed feelings filled Long Yan’s heart. He opened his mouth, wanting to speak.

But he felt that any words were useless.

From the moment he controlled the Dragon Roar Sword and stabbed into Li Shuang’s dantian on that snowy mountain, the Li Shuang who had labored for him with all her heart would never come back.