Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 101

Yan Hui just belatedly realized she had been overlooking many issues.

The most basic and important of those issues was that she had Tian Yao's neidan and heart protection scale. But how did those two things get into her? They wouldn't have flown into her body after Tian Yao sent them flying away. There was nothing that coincidental in the world.....

"Tian Yao, did you know......." Yan Hui sat on the bed. Tian Yao rolled up her pants and helped her pick out the shards piercing her knees. He raised his head to look at her upon hearing her despondent voice after reading the letter.

"Your neidan, heart protection scale, and even my life were saved by my shifu." She continued, "20 years ago, it was him who placed your neidan and heart protection scale in me when I was about to be abandoned by my mom. He saved my life. He had a moment of compassion, and he saved my life......."

She said whatever came to mind. Her thoughts were a mess, but it didn't stop Tian Yao from understand her.

"20 years ago, you fought against Su Ying and Qing Guang. Qing Guang kept up the formation, and Su Ying severed your body. You tossed away your neidan and heart protection scale. Ling Xiao was also there. Qing Guang ordered Ling Xiao to find them, and he did. However on his way back, he came across me, born with a heart defect and nearly abandoned by my own mother. He used the heart protection scale to repair my defective heart and the neidan to maintain my life........"

Yan Hui suddenly remembered way back in the past when she was little. Her alcoholic dad kept harping on that "she was blessed and had good luck." At that time, Yan Hui didn't understand. She just knew that having such an alcoholic dad was unfortunate.

But now she understood that what her dad said was right. She was blessed. She did have good luck.

Because when she was clearly about to die, a xian cultivater came along and bestowed upon her a great favor by chance. Then 10 years later, Ling Xiao came back to her village to deal with a demon and saved the clueless her.

He saw as she grew, Tian Yao's neidan started to seep out a demon's aura. He had another moment of compassion and took her in as his disciple. He taught her xian techniques, constrained the demon aura within. In those 10 years that she lived in Chen Xing Mountain, Qing Guang never saw through her origin, never dug out her heart, and gave her a miserable death.

Ling Xiao prevented her from drifting about, homeless and miserable. He protected her and took care of everything.

All that he said he would do, he achieved.

He wounded Zhenren Qi Yu because he wanted to save her life.

He plotted to start a xian-demon war because he wanted to hinder it from within.

He whipped her 81 times because cultivating the demon pathway caused the demon neidan within her to recover. Dragon aura had started to seep out. Su Ying and Qing Guang would kill her when they saw that, and Ling Xiao feared he wouldn't be able to protect her.........

He knew how hurt Yan Hui would feel after knowing about this. That's why from beginning to end, he kept silent. He always had mercy in his heart even with dealing with demons. He always had gentleness hidden in his heart. Even until his death, he shouldered it all on his own.

Yan Hui tightly clenched her hands into fists until her fingernails dug into her palm. Blood flowed out.

Tian Yao had just finished silently wrapping her knees when he looked up and saw her bloodied palms. Then he looked further up and saw her despondent, ruined gaze. He couldn't say any comforting words. He wanted to wanted to wrap his hands around hers, to give just the tiniest bit of warmth. But then he realized........he couldn't hold her hand.