Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 20

Yan Hui suddenly learned such a huge secret. For a moment, she couldn't believe it.

When she finally managed to process this information, an unavoidable question rushed into her mind. Yan Hui quivered and slapped away Tian Yao's hand that was still resting on her chest.

"Don't tell me.......you are going to take back the heart protection scale?" Yan Hui started to retreat backwards. "If you take it, I'm going to die, right?"

She was scared of dying. She hadn't freely lived her life to the fullest yet.

Tian Yao slowly took back his hand and looked at Yan Hui: "Without the heart protection scale, you will live at most ten days."

Yan Hui's eyes revealed her terror. She took another two steps back.

Seeing Yan Hui horrified expressions, Tian Yao's mouth slightly curved without him noticing, but this smile quickly disappeared: "Regarding you, the heart protection scale is just one scale. There's no harm in giving it to you. However......"

Hearing that word 'however', Yan Hui's expression had no way of recovering: "You want to use this to threaten me, to make me accompany your search to find the rest of your body that has been scattered and sealed away? Who knows how many parts Zhenren Su Ying dismembered your body into......this search will take who knows how many months and years......"

"There are only three places left to search." Tian Yao said, "That year, Su Yin used the Wu Xing, the Five Phases, to seal me: Wood to imprison my soul, Water to trap my bones, Fire to burn my tendons, Earth to bury my horns, Metal to bind my heart. Ten years ago, the large tree that had my soul burned, so my soul escaped. It drifted around this vast world. Fortunately, it discovered the aura of my bones, so it stopped in this village and entered the body of a young child on his deathbed. During those ten years, I looked for a way to get back my bones everyday. However, I never got what I wanted. I needed what had been sealed away, my blood. Only my dragon blood could break the seal."

Yan Hui understood. According to Zhenren Su Ying's plan, this seal ought to have been unbreakable. Because Tian Yao had been dismembered, how could he crawl out and break the seal?

If it wasn't for his heart protection scale entering her body, growing alongside her and changing her constitution, even if Tian Yao's soul escaped and entered a body, he shouldn't be able to break the other seals.

After all.......there was no blood.

Yan Hui considered it for awhile: "But how I see it, you retrieved your bones. After getting then back for a short time, you also recovered your dragon aura. Then, your blood will slowly, slowly turn into dragon blood. You can do it all yourself. I believe in you."

"What you said might be possible. In that case, it will be a long time before that is finished." Tian Yao's gaze fell upon the two white flowers. They hadn't talked for a long time, yet the flowers were already starting to wilt. "But I don't have time."

Tian Yao lightly touched a petal. His expression looked reflective: "When I broke the seal on my bones, there was no way Su Ying wouldn't notice. Without my complete body, I'm no match for Su Ying. If I'm discovered by her, I will only be slaughtered by her again."

Yan Hui swallowed.

That word was really aptly used. Zhenren Su Ying really would slaughter him until there wasn't even a body part left......

But helping him search for the rest of his body was the same as helping a demon. And it was a demon who was going against Zhenren Su Ying......

Yan Hui shook her head: "I can't help you with this."