novelraw Chapter 13 : Chapter 13
Chapter 13 : Chapter 13
Chapter 13: Senseless
“Last words or something, it's a bit too early to be saying them.”
Xun Qiu propped up her chin, her face still wearing that same expression, making it hard to see much of her thoughts:
“You’re heavily injured, you'll die no matter what?”
The man lowered his head to look at the bloody hole in his chest, and this action made Su Wantian and Xun Qiu shift their gazes there as well.
He was wearing a simple robe, and a large part of his chest had been pierced through.
Clothes, flesh, bones, and dirt were mixed together.
Some true qi as black as ink coiled around the edges of the wound, through which one could see the other side of his body.
Just looking at it was enough to make one's scalp tingle.
“I avoided the heart…… Although I am still very heavily injured, it wasn't enough to be fatal on the spot.”
The man's voice was much lower.
“Right now, I can only hang on to a thread of life. Under normal circumstances, it would be enough to last until I return to the sect and ask an elder to treat me, but the Demonic Cult member's injuries are lighter than mine. Moreover, that person practices demonic arts and isn't right in the head. He actually broke away from the Demonic Cult and is chasing after me alone…”
Su Wantian asked with some doubt:
“Isn't this place very close to the Tai Xuan Sect? It seems to be only a seven-day journey on foot. Even if you slow down a bit, you should be able to get there in half a month at most. If you can't run that far… does your Sect Master of the Third Heaven realm not have any awareness of this at all?”
“Heh……”
The man let out a laugh of ambiguous meaning.
“You two are still not clear enough. The location of the Tai Xuan Sect is ten thousand li from here. The place you can reach in seven days cannot possibly be the location of the Tai Xuan Sect. It should be called…… its sphere of influence.”
“Sphere of influence, which means, once we get there, we can meet disciples of the Tai Xuan Sect, or something like a branch?”
Xun Qiu asked with partial understanding.
The man let out a light laugh:
“More or less, but it can also be put more directly. The Tai Xuan Sect's sphere of influence is the range that the Sect Master's divine senses can perceive. If I want the Sect Master to save me, I have to at least run there first.”
If he were to erupt with true qi and run towards the Tai Xuan Sect, he would be discovered, then chased down and killed.
If he didn't run, he could only hang on to his life and try his best to hide.
If he was lucky, he might encounter a righteous expert descending the mountain and have his life saved, otherwise, it would be a slow death.
But the words "if he was lucky" were enough to show how low this possibility was.
After a while, with many thoughts turning in his mind, Su Wantian spoke:
“If it's just delivering the last words, it naturally doesn't matter. In fact, only fools and some clever fools would refuse this request, but I have a question.”
“What question?”
“That Demonic Cult member, did he not think that you would ask someone to deliver a message?”
Su Wantian said, “He's only thinking of killing you to be done with it. Delivering a last message is no big deal, there's no need to stop it… is that what you're thinking?”
The man hesitated for a moment before nodding:
“Indeed. If this was a matter of life and death for you two, I would rather take those words with me to the underworld.”
“But that’s not actually the case.”
Su Wantian said with a calm expression.
“If he were a rational person, it wouldn't matter to guess this way, but you also said that he's a guy who practiced demonic arts until he went crazy. Is it possible that he can't consider this much at all, and thinking that you'll definitely return to the Tai Xuan Sect anyway, he simply decided to block the place we are going to?”
The man was stunned.
His mind, which was a bit drowsy due to his severe injuries, was suddenly shocked.
He understood that Su Wantian's statement was indeed very likely.
He had been dealing with the famous righteous sects in the Central Continent for too long, and for a moment, he didn't even think of this point!
He suddenly felt a pang of guilt for having dragged these two into this.
But Su Wantian immediately followed up by saying:
“You think you're entrusting your last words in the final moments of your life, implicating the two of us, no, that's not it at all. Do you think that in order to force you out, that guy might go on a killing spree in all the nearby cities?”
“I have heard rumors of demonic cultivators in the Southern Continent annihilating a city to refine a magical artifact”
“So, with or without you, we both might die. And by telling us about this, you've at least allowed us to die knowing why.”
Su Wantian said calmly.
“Do you really have no power to resist that guy at all?”
“I know what you are thinking…… Never mind, I can't say I have none, it's just that my hope of winning is very slim.”
The man shook his head.
“In three days, I can only dispel the true qi he invaded my body with and barely recover the strength for one strike. If that person is not on guard, there is some possibility of a fatal blow, but……”
One could imagine, how could the other person possibly stand there and let you hit him.
“Do you need some medicinal herbs? Perhaps you can recover a bit more.”
Su Wantian asked again.
“Although it's impossible to have any divine medicine that can bring the dead to life and flesh out white bones, I can still find quite a few slightly rarer medicinal herbs.”
The man shook his head, but did not refuse Su Wantian.
Some medicinal herbs were always a good thing.
Even if they weren't spirit medicines, they could still help him recover some of his condition.
He was saying, "even with that, I don't have much confidence."
However, he still mentioned a few names, asking Su Wantian to do his best to find them.
Su Wantian then turned to look at Xun Qiu:
“You……”
He originally wanted to ask her if she could contact Fairy Yun, but the words were on the tip of his tongue when he remembered that Xun Qiu had just told a lie.
Although he didn't know why she did that, selling out a teammate so quickly was a bit much, so he hesitated for a moment and chose another, more tactful way of asking:
“Xun Qiu, when you got that jade pendant, did you get any other treasures?”
Xun Qiu understood his meaning, but no matter how he asked, she could only shake her head.
It was impossible to contact Yun Qingping.
Besides, didn't the man say earlier that a mysterious expert was holding back the Deputy Helmsman of the Demonic Cult?
That should be Yun Qingping.
Even if she could contact her, Yun Qingping probably couldn't get away.
“Never mind. Do one's best, and leave the rest to fate.”
Su Wantian stood up.
“I'll go back and gather the medicinal herbs now……”
“Hey, wait.”
Xun Qiu suddenly reached out to stop him, her gaze turning to the man.
“That Tai Xuan Heart Sutra, can you give us a copy?”
“……?”
The man was stunned for a moment.
“Why?”
“If you're asking why……”
Xun Qiu revealed a smile, “Because I am a peerless genius. After cultivating for three days, I can directly kill that crazy Demonic Cult member, I won't need you.”
As soon as these words were spoken, both the man and Su Wantian fell into silence.
The former considered his words for a moment and said:
“Young Lady Xun, I consider my own talent to be not bad, otherwise I would not have been able to enter the Tai Xuan Sect. But even so, it took me fifteen years of cultivation to step into the Middle Four Realms…… Although you already have a cultivation base, and I believe you have astonishing talent and the bearing of an exiled immortal, several years of hard work are always unavoidable.”
Fifteen years of work, you say you'll complete it in three days?
No, buddy, how many days?
The man was already being tactful enough.
If it weren't for the fact that he was seriously injured and it was not good to lose his temper, and that he was not an irritable person by nature, with Xun Qiu's statement that was so easy to attract a fist, he would definitely be pointing at her nose and cursing, "don't say such senseless things to insult my intelligence."