Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes (Love You Seven Times)

Chapter 40

I hadn’t even been able to think about this situation. There were children, there was a mother, so of course there’d be a father! Chu Kong led the mother away, so how would the father endure this loneliness…

So, from the north of the cave, another faster, bigger, huge flamed beast rushed towards me.

I closed the bag, read a spell and ran. But the heat of its flames was getting closer and closer.

Chu Kong’s shout seemed like it came from the other end of the horizon. “Throw the stones! Withdraw!”

My brain didn’t have time to understand what he was trying to tell me when an intense heat swallowed me. I subconsciously pulled out the immortal cover to cover myself. But the father seemed very dissatisfied, probably because I just hit his children. A roar sounded in the sky. The three hundred-year-old immortal cover broke like ceramics. From behind me came a hot tearing pain. The moment before I fainted, I thought…

Chu Kong, you’re about to become a widower.

The world turned black, just as it was when I was a simple cloud. No soul, no feelings. Time, getting old, the circle of life and death; in my eyes, they had no significance. Later, Yue Lao converted me. He must’ve done it when he was drunk. Regardless, I became a fairy with few qualified achievements. I had no spiritual power and no system of learning. If I seriously thought about the three hundred years that I watched the door for Yue Lao in Heaven, everyday felt the same.

When did it began to change…

It seemed that when the young man dressed in red barged in, I no longer lived a day the same as yesterday. He taught me that life could be wonderful.

The whirring of the flames never stopped. I opened my eyes with much effort and looked at the scene before me. I foolishly froze.

It didn’t matter if it was a person or an immortal; in the space where time flew, there would always be some things that even if you glanced at them once, they would leave a heavy imprint engraved in your mind.

No matter how many years had passed, whenever that page was turned, the images would come back as new as ever.

At that time, Chu Kong’s back carved a timeless, heavy imprint in the back of my mind.

In the burning cave, the grunts of the flamed beast could be heard. Chu Kong stood in front of me like a barrier, cutting out a safe region for me. His appearance didn’t look an ounce cool or chic. His hair was scattered. His whole body was soaked in blood. His left hand was hanging weakly, like it had been broken.

I didn’t know for how long I fainted. I couldn’t imagine the scene of Chu Kong fighting with those two flamed beasts. I only knew that he had always been in front of me, guarding me like a real hero.

I moved my body. I wanted to get up, but the pain in my back made me lay back while groaning in pain.

Hearing my groan, the flamed beasts became more restless. Their situation wasn’t that optimistic either. One was lying on the floor like it was dying. The other one had many wounds on its body.

“Can you still read a spell?”

Chu Kong didn’t look back. With his back to me, voice tired and hoarse but somehow still calm, he asked, “How far can you run?”

I silently measured my ability. I shook my head. “I can try to run, but the flamed beast will certainly be faster than me.”

Chu Kong was silent. Right on time, the flamed beast shouted. It seemed like he had finished preparing himself for his final fight. He stood up and rushed toward us.

Chu Kong put the crimson whip on his chest. He sang a spell. The whip changed into a sword. The sword glew red, as if it had been soaked in blood.

This was the first time that I saw his whip being used like this.

Chu Kong held the sword. His whole body emitted an immortal energy. He didn’t look back and said, “When you spot an opportunity, run. These two animals won’t be able to catch up with you. Hold the stones. Remember to go fill the hole.”

What about you…

I didn’t need to ask. I could already guess what he wanted to do. He made up his mind to fight to the death. But with this death, nobody knew if he could reincarnate again.

“I…don’t want to be a widow.”

Chu Kong heard my speech. With some surprise, he turned around.

Slowly, my body began to form a layer of smoke, filling the entire cave with white mist. Even the flames on the flamed beast had been extinguished for a moment.

Chu was furious. “Stupid thing. You’re not allowed to transform into your real form! Do you want to be grilled that much?!”

But it was too late; before he even finished speaking, I had already transformed into my real form. I turned into a mass of clouds and wrapped around Chu Kong. I flew into the sky, but my speed wasn’t fast. Besides, I was dragging along a long string of old clouds.

The flamed beasts below couldn’t see their opponent because of the smoke. They were furious. A fireball flew towards me. Because I was without a shell, it didn’t hurt, but he dried a lot of the mist on my body.

Dawn’s light passed through Kun Wu Mountain before it sprinkled on the earth. Sharp cries could be heard from the cave of the little flamed beasts. They were presumably hungry.

The flamed beast roared a few times, but he didn’t come after me.

I flew with the wind and floated in the sky. It’d been a long time since I felt such freedom.

“Hey! Are you alright?”

Chu Kong’s head drilled out of the clouds as he shouted at me.

I couldn’t speak. My body began to descend.

In fact…I really wasn’t alright…

The smoke cleared and I turned back into a human. Without the power of an immortal, I could only fall straight down. My back was tearing in pain, and there was a similar unbearable feeling in my heart. It felt like I was being baked.

Chu Kong pulled me into his arms. The wind blew through my hair. Chu Kong patted my face while giving me a righteous scolding. “Now you know how unbearable it is! I told you to not change to your real form, but you just didn’t listen! Did it feel comfortable being roasted as a Cloud Fairy?!”

His voice was broken up by the wind. I also hoarsely shouted back, “If I didn’t see that you were about to die, I wouldn’t have done it! Ungrateful thing!”

“Who’s the ungrateful thing here?! Do you think I saved you to let you sacrifice yourself?!”

I paused and then said, “I got it already! Do you really want to fight?! Let’s just go fill the hole. After filling the hole, we’ll go back and get married!”