The spiritual threads wrapped around his inner elixir would grow again after being torn off. It wasn't some secret method, nor was it rebirth. It was Leng Mushi pulling out his own soul, using it to bind his inner elixir so that it wouldn't break.
Xiao Mian tried to bite his tongue to commit suicide when Leng Mushi took off the towel, but he never succeeded. It seemed as if she could sense his pain and she stopped him in time every time.
The way Xiao Mian looked at Leng Mushi was like he was looking at a madman.
He was taken care of by Leng Mushi, who nurtured him with her spiritual power, and he was definitely not corroded by the evil spirit again. When Leng Mushi had nothing to do, she would even help him wash and dress up.
He looked like an immortal king imprisoned here, while Leng Mushi looked miserable and extremely thin. The bloodshot in her eye sockets was even darker than Xiao Mian's. The blood slave contract on her forehead was as red as blood. Compared with Xiao Mian, she looked like the one possessed by the devil.
On the fifth day, Leng Mushi came out of the cellar again, holding onto the wall and kneeling down beside Xiao Mian. She rested her head on Xiao Mian's knees and rubbed them affectionately. This was something she often did when she was a child at her mother's lap.
She did not lament that God was unfair and that the person she loved was unwilling to stay with her. She had no time to think about God. These days, she had tried every method she could think of, and her cultivation had degenerated to the point where it could not degenerate any further, otherwise she would not be able to refine the elixir.
And this Tongxin Pill...
Leng Mushi raised her hand, looked at the dark-colored pill in her palm, and sighed, "This is the last one."
If her soul was drained even more, she would not be able to maintain her sanity, and she would become stupid. She... This time, she was really powerless.
Hua Yanyue was far away in Blood Demon Mountain. After learning about the situation in the sect, she had contacted her many times. Because of the erratic vibrations in Blood Demon Mountain during this period, the immortals had delayed their return to the mountain.
Hua Yanyue gave Leng Mushi strict orders several times when she contacted her, but Leng Mushi never responded once. Hua Yanyue was rushing back last night and is expected to arrive soon.
The formation reinforcement of Blood Demon Mountain has been completed, and the elders will be back soon.
Leng Mushi once again looked at him with a gaze that made Xiao Mian feel as if he was being tortured to death, then she pulled the cloth from his mouth and smiled at him from bottom to top.
Her lips were so dry that they were bleeding, so they looked particularly red. Her hair was messy, and when she smiled, fine lines appeared at the corners of her eyes.
She still had the same youthful features, but she had fine lines on her face.
Xiao Mian felt that he had not gone crazy these days, and he was only holding on because of his determination not to let her efforts go to waste.
He looked at Leng Mushi, and his tears and grief were so great that he turned into calmness.
Leng Mushi said to him, "Brother Xiao, you have been so mean to me for so many days, can you smile at me again?"
Xiao Mian couldn't laugh at all, but he also knew that they had finally reached the end, and he felt more relieved than anything else.
There is no reluctance, no resentment. If you watch with your own eyes the person you love living a miserable life because of you, you will not be nostalgic for anything, you just want to die.
Xiao Mian curled his lips and gave Leng Mushi a smile that was uglier than crying.
Leng Mushi raised the pill in her hand to his lips and said with a smile: "I'll name it Tongxin Pill. Does it sound good?"
Leng Mushi said: "Now I can feel everything in your heart, so it's useless for you to say anything."
Leng Mushi smiled.
She could feel that Xiao Mian loved her so much that he wished she died.
Leng Mushi fed almost one third of her soul into Xiao Mian's body, and she finally found the faint consciousness belonging to Xiao Mian.
She manipulated the soul threads and forcibly sewed that consciousness into his body. She only hoped that she would at least be able to feel it when he dissipated.
Xiao Mian did not refuse and swallowed the pill that Leng Mushi put to his mouth. He could not and was not worthy of disappointing her feelings again. He was extremely scared.
He was scared to death that Leng Mushi would not stop and would exhaust everything until he died.
Fortunately, she finally let go...
Leng Mushi stood up again and washed him thoroughly, performed many cleansing spells on him, and even put the Shuiyun Sword on his waist.
The barrier of Cangshengyuan was opened at this time. Leng Mushi pulled Xiao Mian towards the back mountain with a normal look. Standing on the cliff of the back mountain of Cangshengyuan, Leng Mushi said to him: "After jumping down, go to the place where we hunted rabbits before. There are no guards there, and the monsters and beasts have been cleared out by me. You just need to put on the cloth made by Yi Mo in the storage bag, and you can get out of the Taichu Mountain formation."
Xiao Mian stood behind her, watching the mountain breeze lift up her large and disheveled robe, outlining her emaciated figure that was just a bag of bones, and his heart felt as if it was on fire.
He walked forward and slowly embraced her from behind, "I will go back to the forbidden area, where..."
"Don't die there," Leng Mushi said, "It's too dark and too cold there."
Besides, it was useless. Her soul and cultivation were almost exhausted. She still couldn't stop Xiao Mian or stop the Heavenly Demon from awakening. The Prison Array couldn't suppress him at all. It would crush Xiao Mian's shaky inner elixir the moment she entered and release the Heavenly Demon.
Xiao Mian knew very well that the demon would awaken immediately if he returned to the forbidden area.
"Don't worry about me," Leng Mushi said, looking down at the cliff. "When I went to the forbidden area to bring you out, I let the other demons go. I will stay and accept the punishment. Don't worry, my master will protect me."
Leng Mushi turned her head and, before the sunset, carefully traced Xiao Mian's eyebrows for the last time.
She thought, this person is mine, and he must be mine even in death.
At this moment, Hua Yanyue's sword energy attacked, heading straight for Xiao Mian. Leng Mushi pulled Xiao Mian, took off the sword from his waist, raised the sword to block the attack, and pushed him off the cliff without even looking back.
Xiao Mian cried out in shock. In this crisis, he couldn't use his spiritual power or demonic energy. On his way to fall, he took a last look at Leng Mushi, feeling extremely heartbroken.
She stood on the cliff, as thin as a leaf that could be blown away by the mountain wind at any time.
He had no will to live and just wanted to die from the fall. He just stared at the gradually shrinking figure with his eyes fixed, wanting to remember her forever in his heart.
How could he have deserved such deep love and kindness from someone? He shouldn't have provoked her. He was not even a human being. It was he who ruined her.
But the next moment, he saw something red in the corner of his eye, and then he felt something tied up around his waist. Soon he was quickly rolled up and dragged into the dark rocks.
Leng Mushi, who was on the cliff, drew out the Shuiyun Sword, but was knocked back a step by Hua Yanyue's move. Half of her foot was already out of the cliff. When Hua Yanyue saw her, she paused, retracted her second powerful sword, and frowned.
"You ruin yourself like this for a man?!" Hua Yanyue was furious.
Leng Mushi threw the Shuiyun Sword away, shook his head, and walked forward a little, at least he wouldn't fall. Then he said, "Not entirely. Through the conversation with Master, I found that suppressing his demonic energy can buy time for the immortal leaders far away in the Blood Demon Mountain to reinforce the formation."
Hua Yanyue's expression froze. Leng Mushi was not lying. The time when she was stubborn and stubborn was indeed the best time for them to reinforce the Blood Demon Mountain formation. The formation to be reinforced this time was not only a prison formation, but also a killing formation. Once successful, even if the four great demon generals of the Blood Demon Mountain awakened, they could take advantage of their awakening to severely damage the followers who followed them and came out of the Blood Demon Formation.
Killing one person in the battle is a victory, and injuring one person is a contribution to the war situation in the whole world.
If Xiao Mian had been crushed in the forbidden area all along, his inner elixir would have been shattered by now. Even if he had not awakened the Heavenly Demon, the demonic energy running rampant in his body would directly affect the vibration of the Blood Demon Mountain.
"So you are doing this for the world?" Hua Yanyue looked at Leng Mushi with a complicated expression.
Leng Mushi shook her head again, "Not entirely."
"Do you want to fight with your master?" Hua Yanyue asked again.
There has always been no hierarchy between the two of them, master and disciple. Leng Mushi usually calls Hua Yanyue "Master", but when she's angry, she calls her "old thing", and when she's even angrier, she pulls her hair.
This was the first time Hua Yanyue called herself a master.
Leng Mushi shook her head again, "Not really."
She knelt down in front of Hua Yanyue with a "thump", raised the Shuiyun sword in her hand in the air, and placed the tip of the sword directly against her neck.
She then looked up and said to Hua Yanyue, "Master, don't chase him. He is afraid of the dark. It would be too pitiful for him to die in the forbidden area. There is no way to stop the awakening of the demon. Since the cultivation world is already preparing for war, why bother with those few days? I fed him the Tongxin Pill. If he is determined, he can still hold on for a few days..."
Hua Yanyue gasped at Leng Mushi's action, and then became furious.
"Are you going to commit suicide to apologize?!"
Leng Mushi shook her head, "Master, I love him. I have done everything I could for him. In the end, I just wanted him to die a less miserable death. You said that disciples of the alchemy path should do things from beginning to end. Even if he is possessed by a demon, how can I abandon him after having seduced him?"
Hua Yanyue listened to her ridiculous excuses. She was the one who said that, but she was not talking about this matter at all.
She was so angry that her vision went dark. Looking at Leng Mushi's stubborn and obstinate appearance, she finally put down the sword.
Leng Mushi has been holding on to this breath for so many days, a breath that holds on to her spirit and life. Her realm has been declining, but she has not died of exhaustion, all thanks to the fact that she can at least take nourishing pills.
Even though half of her soul was extracted, she did not become insane or stupid, purely because her mind was too strong.
But human spirit is always limited. When stretched to the extreme, it will suddenly collapse.
Hua Yanyue put down her sword, which meant she didn't intend to chase him anymore.
She said: "I can't protect you from the crime you committed this time..."
Leng Mushi could no longer hear anything. Her spine, which had been stubbornly straight these days, suddenly softened. Her ears were filled with a gurgling sound as if water was soaking in water, and she could no longer hear anything clearly.
The Shuiyun Sword in her hand fell to the ground, and she fainted completely.
The author has something to say: Leng Mushi: So I said, lust is a knife over your head.