jdhmnovel Chapter 266: The Demon in Her Heart She Can't Get Rid of
Chapter 266: The Demon in Her Heart She Can't Get Rid of
It just solved the urgent problem.
Jiang Liqian closed her eyes, tried hard to ignore the bitterness in her heart, and wholeheartedly gave her life to the other party.
About half an hour later, she withdrew her spiritual power with cold sweat on her forehead, and the barrier around her dissipated instantly.
Yue Zhu rushed over and hugged Shanshan who was falling down. Just as he was about to ask something, he felt a slight and steady pulse beat from his hand, and the cold body gradually regained the temperature of a living person.
She opened her eyes wide in disbelief, staring at the face of the child in her arms. Her weak eyelashes trembled, and a pair of innocent eyes slowly opened in the bright moon.
"Clap!"
Suddenly, a fine and dense spiritual rain began to fall from the sky. After the huge formation disappeared, it turned into wet raindrops, falling on the mother and son who finally reunited after so many hardships, and also into Jiang Liqian's eyes.
She clutched her chest and slowly stood up. Her body, overdrawn tonight, was already shaky and on the verge of collapse.
She did not disturb them, but reminded Yue Zhu to cherish the next twenty years. God is merciful and this is the result of her past good deeds.
Then, her figure disappeared into the darkness.
She staggered along her way, with the bright moon behind her, the surging river in front of her, and at her feet, there seemed to be only endless night.
Suddenly, the light in front was blocked, and someone was waiting for her in the narrow alley. His eyes were too complicated, and when they fell on her, there was a moment of emptiness and confusion.
"Why did you try so hard to save that child?"
In exchange for twenty years of life, she had spent at least two hundred years of her own life.
How important is the life span of a cultivator? Every day longer means more chances of becoming an immortal. But she didn't even blink an eye and wasted so much of her life span to help a demon she had never met before, a child who should have died.
In the middle stage of foundation building, the lifespan is only about three hundred years.
She did it.
does it worth?
Jiang Liqian could hardly stand. The feeling of weakness all over her body was like a wave that kept coming and drowning her remaining will.
She stretched out her hand with difficulty and tried two or three times before she was able to hold on to the rough wall next to her, gasping for breath uncomfortably.
She kept practicing her mental method, trying her best to calm the chaotic spiritual energy in her body. After a long time, she finally had the strength to speak.
"Because..." Jiang Liqian's lips were cracked, and her pale face looked like a lonely and helpless ghost in the darkness. "I hope that if I end up in her situation, at least... at least someone will stand by me because of the good things I've done, even if it's just to say that my crime doesn't deserve death."
"I don't want to be abandoned by this world. I don't want... everyone to hate me."
It's not about whether it's worth it or not.
Because this is her pain and the obsession she has to face.
It's the inner demon that she can't get rid of.
Su Yanqing seemed to sneer softly, as if mocking, but also as if not understanding, and unwilling to accept.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, why are you so weak?
"People who are too weak cannot become immortals."
She was silent.
Silent silence spread in this dark and damp alley, sticking to people's skin, cold and disgusting.
Disgusting.
Su Yanqing couldn't stand the silence any longer, so he took two steps closer to her and spoke even more harshly, cutting straight to the heart: "Most of the beings in the three realms, humans, demons, and ghosts, are greedy and unscrupulous. If you give them one point, they will ask for two, three, or even take everything from you, and they will still not be satisfied.
"You gave that little child twenty years of life today. Twenty years from now, will her mother be willing to let her child go? She might become even more greedy, even more crazy, begging you, forcing you to give her child another twenty, forty, or even a hundred years of life. Everything will just become an endless cycle, and the final outcome will be either you die because of her, or she die at your hands.
"In this boring game, how many people will die because of the tug-of-war between you? Who will pay for their innocence, their lives?"
Jiang Liqian was stunned for a long time before she lowered her eyes and twitched the corners of her mouth.
She held onto the wall and slowly made her way out of the narrow alley. As they passed each other, she said, "People's minds are fickle, and I'm not stupid. The lightning protection she wears will only last for twenty years."
Cause and effect, cause and effect cycle, when Yue Zhu chose to use the extremely evil forbidden technique to save her child, her fate was destined to be punished by heaven and earth.
All she did was to make up for the regret between her and her son.
Su Yanqing didn't expect this answer.
During these days of getting along, he saw talent, understanding, knowledge, calmness, and wisdom in Jiang Liqian. He also saw her kindness, weakness, hesitation, natural tolerance and intolerance for the weak, and her determination to do something without regard for her own safety.
She possesses the qualities of a powerful cultivator, but lacks the ferocity to ascend to heaven.
It felt as if there was an invisible chain tightly binding her hands and feet, and she should struggle.
But she didn't.
Why...why?
Su Yanqing's dark eyes darkened even more. He was about to follow her out when she suddenly stopped, as if remembering something. She turned around and looked at him: "A sword can only be sharpened after being tempered a thousand times, through wind and rain. A sword is not afraid of blood, and I am not afraid of killing. There is no such thing as having the best of both worlds. All I can do is try my best. Even if the final result is not satisfactory, I have done everything I can, haven't I?"
Su Yanqing suddenly stopped.
Was this her answer to his earlier question?
Moon Spider... that's her answer, right?
Somehow, he couldn't move his legs to follow her.
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"Cough cough..." After a violent coughing fit, Jiang Liqian could no longer hold on. She leaned against a willow tree by the river and vomited a pool of blood.
Endless fatigue overwhelmed her. She took a few deep breaths and tried to stand up again, but the strange dizziness she had felt by the Full Moon Well came over her again. Her eyes went dark and she fell backwards suddenly. The cold river water instantly flooded her mouth and nose.
She opened her eyes with great effort, her hands and feet were so heavy that she couldn't even move. In the dim light, she seemed to see a thin figure pushing away the ripples on the water and coming towards her... Haha, was it a dream?
How could someone come...for her...
"Senior sister!"
"Sister..."
The eyes that were about to close suddenly opened, and the cold river water no longer surrounded me, but a person's warm heartbeat.
Someone held her tightly and sank with her.