Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 98

She was approaching fast. Yan Hui couldn't avoid Su Ying at all and so simply plucked the spirit pearl out of the puppet's chest. She held it in her palm and looked at Su Ying: "Bring it on." She continued, "I touched it. What are you going to do?"

Su Ying urgently stopped in front of Yan Hui. Her hair was a mess, and her xian aura was gone. The sense of declining power gave a aura of defeat.

"Return the spirit pearl to me." Su Ying held her hand out. "It has no use to you."

Spirit pearl? Yan Hui suddenly remembered when Su Ying captured both her and Liu Mu Sheng. While they were on the road, Su Ying once asked Liu Mu Sheng if he remembered the past. At that time, she did mention the spirit pearl. Was this the thing to let Liu Mu Sheng remember his past life..........

Then after his death, this pearl would contain the slight memories he had regained. Su Ying wanted to create a puppet with this pearl inside, so that the puppet would have the past-life general's memories........

Since it was like that, then the pearl indeed was very important to Su Ying. Because aside from the memories inside that pearl, there was no other trace in the world of her and the general's love for each other.

Yan Hui clutched the pearl in one hand and held out her other hand at Su Ying: "What about the formation center? Let me and Tian Yao out."

Su Ying had a gloomy look but made no move: "Even if I let you go today, one day you still won't be able to hold onto your heart. There will be a person who gouges it out."

Yan Hui smiled bitterly: "Then I'll just wait and see what happens on that day. But today, I don't want to talk to you about this." Her fist tightened, and a crack was heard. A fine line appeared on the spirit pearl's surface.

Su Ying's expression immediately changed: "I'll let you two go."

Yan Hui unflinchingly added: "Let us go first."

Su Ying dropped her gaze: "Okay." Her hand went back into her sleeve. Yan Hui quietly waited for her to take out the formation's center when suddenly an ice-shattering sound rang out in the sky. It was closely followed by Tian Yao's shout: "Move!"

Yan Hui and Tian Yao always had a tacit understanding. He wanted her to dodge, so she threw herself to the side without a second thought. Su Ying's eyes had an ominous glint. In her hand was a long jian that was stabbing towards where Yan Hui was standing. And at that spot, a long thorn also pierced out. If Yan Hui hadn't dodged, that thorn would have skewered her through.

Yan Hui was stunned, but when she saw Su Ying looking at her with hatred, Yan Hui slapped the hand holding the spirit pearl onto the ground: "This is what you wanted."

Su Ying was startled.

It sounded like the pearl shattered. The spirit pearl's inner glow spilled out. Countless images floated through Yan Hui's mind.

All the images were unfamiliar to Yan Hui, but she did recognize the woman in them. The woman was the Zhenren Su Ying right in front of her. The man in the images also looked familiar. He looked like Liu Mu Sheng but also not like Liu Mu Sheng.

The man wore black iron armor. He cut a bloody, lonesome figure in the middle of a wasteland. Then after seeing Su Ying.........

These were the memories of Su Ying and Liu Mu Sheng's past life........

The light from the pearl illuminated Su Ying. It was clear she was also seeing the images. She was completely stunned. As the images rotated through, spring passed to autumn, and all of Su Ying's life with the past-life general was revealed. Together, they stood tall and took the long view. Together, they boated around the jianghu. Together, they played chess in their leisure.

Each image was so real like that they occured just yesterday.

Su Ying's lips trembled: "He actually already remembered it all." She continued, "He actually already remembered it all.......He clearly remembers everything! He lied to me! He clearly remembers everything from his past life! It wasn't just a little bit from his dreams. It wasn't just a few fragments. It was everything........"

It seemed like Su Ying had received a huge blow: "He remembered it all, but in the end he still wanted to be with that fox demon. He......." Su Ying fell silent for a moment, lips trembling. She bit her lip until it dripped with blood.

Liu Mu Sheng remembered all of his previous life's memories. However even though he remembered, he still pursued Princess Yun Xi, still resented Su Ying, and still wasn't willing to be with her again.

For Su Ying, this undoubtedly ripped apart her last shred of delusion towards Liu Mu Sheng.

It wasn't that Liu Mu Sheng didn't remember. It was that he didn't love her.

He just became another person after reincarnation. Then........

He fell in love with another person.

Tears gathered in Su Ying's eyes. The tears slowly started to become turbid until finally taking on a bloody color. She gnashed her teeth in anger and stared at Yan Hui with eyes that looked split. The bloody tears overflowed and made her look like a monster from the underworld:

"Why did you make me see that?" Su Ying seethed at Yan Hui. "Why did you smash his memories?!"

An enormous murderous aura and xian power pressed down. Yan Hui felt her body become numb. She couldn't even budge an inch.

"Die!" cried Su Ying. Her five fingers immediately turned into sharp ice talons. Her hair turned snow white in split second. Her pupils also became very pale. Her entire appearance looked like an ice monster.

She ferociously swiped at Yan Hui. It looked like she wanted to slice Yan Hui into slivers.

At this moment, from her back came a sharp, brittle sound.

Su Ying's movements paused. She looked down. A long jian pierced through her chest.

Her body already wasn't a normal body. Her entire body had turned into into ice. After the jian pierced her chest, her body even more quickly started to become ice. Even her face started to form ice thorns. She herself couldn't move anymore.

Only her eyes in her eye sockets moved. In the end, they settled down on the shattered spirit pearl pieces.

At the very last moment of her life, Su Ying had a sudden thought. Back then at the snowy wasteland, perhaps she shouldn't have saved Liu Mu Sheng. If she didn't save him, then she would still be the lofty and aloof xian cultivator, indifferently looking down at the world with a cold eye. There would be nothing in the world that would disturb her xian pathway.

But........

Now looking back, the happiest times of her life was when she was with the general. If those times never happened, even if she cultivated up to the 100th level, she still wouldn't be able to escape the dullness of life.

In this life, she did so many things. She thought she loved Liu Mu Sheng. But it turns out, she did it all to return to the happiest times of her life. However in the end........

In the end, the heavens didn't give what was desired.

Tian Yao, standing behind her, pulled out the jian. Su Ying's body shattered as a result. It completely became ice chunks littered on the ground.

The ground shook. The scenery of their surroundings started to blur. The snow on the ground retreated, and the vegetation remained as before. The enormous tree by them was still there. As the for the atmosphere of the area, it no longer had the formation's aura. They finally exited from Su Ying's formation.

And on this earth, there was no more Zhenren Su Ying of Guang Han Sect.

The numbness in Yan Hui's body was still there. She escaped by the skin of her teeth and was still a bit shocked. Right on time, Tian Yao stood in front of her and held out a hand. Yan Hui dazedly looked at it for awhile before holding his hand.

The warmth from his hand made her realized what just happened really was real.

Zhenren Su Ying was dead.

Gone from this world.