Chapter 69

Chapter 69: Su Xi Yu, Reborn

Daoist Wu Wei straightened, put away his usual joking, and asked in a serious voice: “Are you sure you do not feel unwell anywhere?”

Su Xi Yu nodded and said: “Really, no. You do not have to worry about me.”

She felt a little guilty, because she had truly thought she bled only because she looked at Shen Sang Ruo a few more times. And right now she felt amazing, like she could punch two Song Wei Yans at once. She even felt lighter than before.

Shen Sang Ruo’s voice cut through all the fuss as she said: “Senior Sister Su, why not try to move your Spiritual Power?”

Hearing that, everyone fell silent and turned to look at her together.

Su Xi Yu thought she had misheard and said: “Junior Sister Sang Ruo, what did you say?”

Her meridians had been eaten away by a strange poison. If that poison was not removed, she could never cultivate again. How could she possibly move Spiritual Power?

But Shen Sang Ruo’s steady, serious eyes met hers as she repeated: “Senior Sister Su, try to move your Spiritual Power.”

An impossible possibility sprang up wildly in Su Xi Yu’s heart.

A pill from Shen Sang Ruo, a sudden nosebleed, a body that felt free after the bindings were lifted…

Su Xi Yu’s heart pounded so hard she could almost hear it. She drew a breath and said firmly: “Okay!”

She focused, quietly sensing the flow of Spiritual Power around her. She took a deep breath and tried to stir the dantian that had not felt Spiritual Power in who knew how many years.

On land that had been dry for a long time, she seemed to feel a thin layer of water vapor. She gritted her teeth and held on. The vapor thickened into tiny beads. The beads gathered into a faint stream that soaked the ground which had once lost all life.

Even that thread of Spiritual Power was enough to moisten Su Xi Yu’s withered dantian, enough to make joy shine across her face.

The others stared without blinking as Su Xi Yu tried to move her Spiritual Power. Tension was written on every face.

For different reasons, they themselves could no longer cultivate. They knew the pain of it, so they hoped even more that Su Xi Yu could throw off the strange poison and cultivate again. They had been troubled too long. Now that they saw a real chance for Su Xi Yu to escape, they felt dazed, afraid that this would be like before: a spark of hope rising only to fall into disappointment, until numbness and despair followed.

But this time, because of one person, things felt different.

That person was clearly the greatest surprise fate had given them.

They were not fools. They knew this was tied to the pill Shen Sang Ruo gave. But they could not think too much right now. All their attention was on Su Xi Yu.

Shen Sang Ruo was the same.

Finally, when Su Xi Yu lit a dim blue flame and, by accident, flicked it onto Song Wei Yan’s head, singeing a patch of his hair, the heavy stone in Shen Sang Ruo’s heart fell at last.

Song Wei Yan jumped up and down, slapping at the flame as he shouted: “Ah ah ah ah ah! Why am I always the one who gets hurt!”

Su Xi Yu’s eyes turned red as she said with a shaky voice: “Sorry, Second Senior Brother, I was too excited. I have not used Spiritual Power for a long time and could not control it!”

Song Wei Yan pushed his hair back and, despite himself, grinned as he said: “Since this is something worth celebrating for the sect, I will forgive you this time.”

Daoist Wu Wei grabbed Su Xi Yu’s sleeve and asked again: “Have you truly recovered?”

Su Xi Yu nodded hard and said: “Mm! If you do not believe me, I can burn Second Senior Brother again!”

Song Wei Yan stiffened: [Enough. My patience does not mean I do not have a temper.]

Daoist Wu Wei’s eyes burst with light, and his hearty laugh filled the entire Sect Master’s Hall as he said: “Ha ha ha ha ha! Good! Such a joyful event must be celebrated by the whole sect!”

If you did not know better, you would think he was the master of a grand sect with thousands of Disciples. In truth, counting Shen Sang Ruo as an “off the books” member, their sect only had seven people.

Daoist Wu Wei clapped Shen Sang Ruo’s shoulder and said: “Sang Girl, I will thank you properly in a moment. First I need to drag that kid Chang Li out. For something this big, how can he, the Master, not be present?” With deep gratitude shining in his eyes, he smeared oil on his heels and sprinted toward Immortal Lord Chang Li’s Closed-Door Cultivation room.

Only then did everyone’s gaze fall on Shen Sang Ruo. Their eyes held many emotions, but most of all, gratitude.

Shen Sang Ruo answered all of it with a bright smile as she said, warm and full of strength: “Congratulations, Senior Sister Su, you are reborn.”

Tears glittered in Su Xi Yu’s eyes.

To save her, who knew how much Shen Sang Ruo had planned behind the scenes. Su Xi Yu could picture it: finding her exact poison among countless strange toxins, then searching like a needle in the sea for a cure, running all over to collect ingredients, finding an Alchemist to refine the pill… Even at the end, worried about making her sad, Shen Sang Ruo carefully wrapped it as a gift.

A thousand words rose in Su Xi Yu’s heart, but at her lips they became only: “Sang Ruo, thank you.”

Shen Sang Ruo smiled the same warm smile and said: “Senior Sister Su, you do not need to say that to me.”

Moved and a little sad, Su Xi Yu murmured: “You did not have to do all this for me.”

They had only met by chance. She had only given Shen Sang Ruo a few pills. Yet Shen Sang Ruo had worked so hard to pull her out of the mud.

Shen Sang Ruo answered without hesitation and said: “I did all this because Senior Sister Su is worth it.”

For the people she chose, she never held back. She was always as warm as fire. Even though she had some very bad memories because of the people from the Flying Cloud Sect, that would not affect how she made friends afterward. She would not regret the steps she had taken. If she hit a wall, she would pull back and take another road. She would always have the courage to move forward.

Ye Huai seemed to think of something. He paused and said: “So these past few months, you have been helping Fourth Junior Sister search for a detox pill?”

Even at a glance, he could guess the workload and effort behind such a pill. In just a few months, she must have poured all her attention into it.

Shen Sang Ruo touched her chin and said: “Not exactly.” After all, she had also earned several hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, found time to break through to Mid Golden Core, and, by the way, buried Luo Chu and Bai Mu Mu. She lifted her head and thought: [Oh, I wonder if the ice statue they became has been found yet.]

Su Xi Yu smacked her forehead and said: “Oh no, how did I forget to ask this. Sang Ruo, the journey to get this pill must have been full of danger, right? Did you get hurt? Hurry and let me check, your head, your hands, your arms, your legs…”