Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 10

Yan Hui hadn't finished speaking when the snake demon struck with his tail. He wrapped Yan Hui and Zhenren Qi Yun up into the air. It seemed like he was mad with anger and didn't hear a single word.

It seemed like the tail that Yan Hui cleaved into two had become a new weapon for the snake demon. One fork wrapped around Yan Hui, the other around Zhenren Qi Yun.

The fork that held Yan Hui cast her away in mid-air.

Yan Hui was frightened, but without her inner breath, she was completely incapable of protecting herself. She was like a toy that a child forcefully threw toward the ground. Stunned, she couldn't regain her senses for a long time.

Yan Hui unsteadily lifted her head. Only then did she see Tian Yao sure-footedly standing there. He was calmly watching the snake demon. To Yan Hui who had just been thrown down, he seemed like a statue, detached from the world.

Yan Hui grabbed a fistful of his clothes and falteringly stood up: "You brat......" Yan Hui scolded: "You didn't catch me."

Only then did Tian Yao shoot Yan Hui a glance. Then he stepped aside, making Yan Hui unable to grab onto him: "Saving you is having high moral character. Not saving you is as it should be."

Fuck you.......

Hearing those familiar words, Yan Hui started in curse internally. The snake demon opened its mouth and started to charge at Yan Hui. It planned to directly swallow Yan Hui down into its stomach.

Yan Hui didn't hesitate in the slightest. She pushed Tian Yao. The two fell down on either side and simultaneously dodged the snake demon's attack.

"Listen to me!" Yan Hui sprawled on the ground and yelled at the snake demon, "I don't want the hidden treasure! I just want to find the antidote for your venom!"

"Do you think I'm that easy to trick? You're definitely waiting for the chance to take away Qi Yun. I do not permit you Chen Xing Mountain people to hurt her even the tiniest amount again!" The snake demon raged, "Today, I will make this place your grave!"

Done speaking, the snake demon once again lunged to bite Yan Hui. She didn't have any inner breath and could only frantically twist and turn in the field pit to escape: "I didn't plan on taking her again! And I'm no longer one of Chen Xing Mountain's people!" Yan Hui yelled, "Also, Zhenren Qi Yun definitely wasn't hurt by someone from Chen Xing Mountain!"

"Everyone knows that Qi Yun cultivated to the point that, aside from Daoist Priest Ling Xiao from Chen Xing Mountain, no one else could hurt her with the Hoarfrost Technique to this degree!"

"It wasn't my shifu!"

Yan Hui yelled and suddenly froze like someone had painfully stepped on her foot. She no longer ran away. She turned backwards to face the snake demon: "I demand you to cease your slander!"

It was up to this point, when Yan Hui said what she had been subconsciously thinking, did she suddenly realize something.

It turns out that even if she was driven away or if she walked directly away, even if she was brokenhearted and lost hope in Ling Xiao, as long as there is a day or moment, a remote corner on this world where she hears slanderous words aimed toward him, she would still recklessly step forward like she did before. To defend his honor, she was still willing to give up her life for it like she did before.

She watched the snake demon's fishy-smelling, red tongue directly probed toward her. Yan Hui didn't try to move or avoid it. It was to the point where she could practically smell the snake demon's fishy breath when Yan Hui realized: she really was stupid.

Why should she so easily throw away her own life for Ling Xiao?

But on second thought, there was nothing unworthy about handing over her life for him......