Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 68

The blue light from the ice spell make everyone's heart feel chill, just like the day Yan Hui left Chen Xing Mountain. Icy air spilled from the spell. It was so much that even the boiling lava cooled and dimmed several degrees.

Yan Hui was still lost in memories when a blue slight suddenly shot out of the spell array and into her abdomen. The blow caused her to stumble back three steps. Yan Hui caught herself right before reaching the edge and tumbling into the lava.

In a blink of an eye, the suppressed Ling Fei disappeared without a trace.

What was left in her place was an aura Yan Hui knew all too well. Yan Hui narrowed her eyes. A white-robed cultivator stood where Ling Fei laid by the disciples.

His appearance was cold with the same imposing manner. It had been three months since she left, and entire change of a season. However, her shifu hadn't changed a single bit. He looked like how he did 10 years ago. Time didn't even a slightest trace on his face.

"Senior brother......." Ling Fei gazed at Ling Xiao. The rim of her eyes immediately turned pink. "You came." It was like she had suffered some great abuse.

Yan Hui couldn't help coldly laughing when she heard those words.

Her extremely disdainful laugh was heard by everyone. Ling Fei turned and looked at her. She sharply frowned and fumed behind gritted teeth: "This Yan Hui colluded with the demons a few months ago and didn't admit she released them. And now, she's even more involved with helping them do evil deeds. They came today to steal the Heavenly Jian, which goes too far." She glared at Yan Hui with hate. "Senior brother, you can't be soft-hearted to this scum anymore like back then just because you were once master-disciple."

Yan Hui couldn't help laughing again --- Ling Fei said it like Ling Xiao cared they were once master and disciple.

All of Chen Xing Mountain and even the entire xian sects all knew her former shifu was upright, fair, and selfless.

Yan Hui tossed away the Heavenly Jian. The point sunk into the ground, and the blade hummed as it wavered. It was clear she threw it with some force. "I don't want the Heavenly Jian. The one who released the demons was me, but I didn't collude with them. What you say now about me helping the demons is correct, but I didn't want to steal the Heavenly Jian." She looked unflinchingly at Ling Xiao.

Master and disciple. Four eyes locked. Both with solemn expressions.

"That is all I have to say. Believing it or not is up to you."

When she finished speaking, Yan Hui secretly formed a hand seal behind her back. Tian Yao was still in the lava lake; she had no time to waste. She had to rescue him: "Cultivator Ling Xiao......."

Yan Hui yelled it out, planning to use that to distract everyone's attention. Unexpectedly she didn't even manage to get those three words out when Ling Xiao's figure suddenly disappeared.

Yan Hui knew something was up. Her first thought was to hide, but when she backed up a step, she bumped into someone's chest. Yan Hui tilted her head back. Ling Xiao was coldly looking down at her.

Yan Hui was shocked. Again, she took out the dagger tucked away in her sleeve and quickly trust it backwards.

But she was nowhere as fast as Ling Xiao. Or in other words, Ling Xiao long ago already anticipated her next move.

When Yan Hui was reaching into her sleeve for her dagger, Ling Xiao had reached out his hand and grasped her elbow. It was a light grasp, like playing with a child. Yan Hui was grasped by the elbow from behind by one hand. The other hand struck Yan Hui's hand. Yan Hui immediately felt her hand become numb all the way down to her fingertips. She didn't have the strength anymore to grasp the dagger.