The fated ones

Chapter 6

For the past few worlds, she had been staying in seclusion, she had grown bored of the same hassle again and again. she wanted to spend the last few years she had left in peace. So, this time, she had been staying in forest. The forest was deep and confusing for the mortals so not many came this way. This had afforded her her peace for quite sometime now. Whenever she needed something, she would go the market in the nearby country of chang yu. though that was something she didn’t do very often. Going to the market was a hassle of its own. She had learned it the hard way that when immortals complimented her on her beauty, they weren’t lying. She had always been a little ignorant of this fact, thinking they were just being kind but this little fact had blown up in her face here in the mortal realm.

Last time when she had come to the mortal realm for dijun, that body wasn’t her own so it hadn’t made that much of an effect. But this time she was in her very own immortal body and whenever the mortals saw her face, they would lose their pretty little minds. When she walked by everyone would just stop and stare with their mouths hanging open and as if that wasn’t enough, so many times fights had broken out just to be near her, to share the same air as her. A few times some had even tried to capture her, of course they hadn’t succeeded but it had annoyed her so much. Thus, she had made it a rule to keep her face covered whenever near a mortal and this rule she followed religiously.

This particular evening, she had been practicing with her sword, lost in the formations mo yuan had taught her when she heard a faint cry. She stopped what she was doing and tried to figure out where the cry had come from. Then she heard it again. it was the wounded cry of a horse, several miles away. Her fox ears had picked up on it. Following the cry, she rushed over to find the horse. Near a lakeside, she found a snow-white horse, badly wounded. He was bleeding all over. Kneeling at his side, she caressed his mane.

“don’t worry, little horse. Don’t be scared now. I’m here. I’ll take care of you.”
Caressing his mane, she took stock of his injuries. He was badly hurt. There were several slashes across his body and his front leg was broken. It was like he was running away from a fight and tripped on his way.

She tried to calm down the horse but he kept whining. He used his snout to poke her and tried to move towards the lake. When she tried to hold him back, he kept shaking his head towards the lake like he was trying to tall her something. So, she heard him.

Turning towards the lake, she closed her eyes and used her aura to scan it and immediately she found what the horse had been trying to tell her. There was a man at the bottom with one side of his body buried under a huge boulder. He was faintly trying to pull himself out but it was to no avail. He was also badly wounded. Turning back, she put a small sleeping spell on the horse to ease his pain and dived in the lake.

Swimming to the bottom, she found the man now unconscious. It was dark this deep in the lake so she couldn’t see his face clearly. Making sure he was still alive, she started to push the boulder off his body. Not being able to use her magic made it a lot more difficult than she had imagined but thanks to the rigorous training mo yuan had put her through, she was infinitely stronger than she had been before. After a few minutes, the boulder rolled off the man’s body. Taking hold of him, she swam back to the shore. Pulling his body with her, she put him down next to the horse and finally looked at his face.

All the blood drained from her face. She could not believe what she was seeing. This was not possible. How could he be here, in a mortal body at that. No this can’t be, she thought. But that’s exactly what it was. The face she saw was donghua’s.

She decided to ignore that little fact and locked it in the deepest corner of her mind to ponder upon later. For now, she needed to focus on his treatment, he was badly injured. She enveloped him in her aura and scanned his body. He also had too many sword slashes on his body, an arrow had gone through his left shoulder and the whole right side of his body was badly crushed from the boulder. but first she needed to get the water out of his lungs.

Channeling her aura through his body, she pushed the water out from his lungs. Putting him in a spirit bubble, she sealed his wounds for a little while so that she could take him to her hut. After she had deposited him on her bed, she took some ropes and went back for the horse. She felt bad about dragging the horse back but she can’t exactly lift him up without her magic. Atleast at her place she could nurse him back to health sooner than the time it would take her in going back and forth to the horse.

Reaching her hut, she placed him under the shed behind it. Cleaning his wounds, she applied medicine on his wounds and bandaged them. Reaching for his broken leg, she placed the bones back and used a wooden board as a splint to support his leg. He was still under the sleeping spell so she went back to tend to the man in her room.

Taking down the spirit bubble around him, she started cleaning his wounds, applied medicine and bandaged them. Setting up her table, she started making medicinal potions to heal him and the horse. After giving them the medicine, she made soup for herself and the man. He still hadn’t woken up. So, she had to spoon feed him the soup. Going back to the horse, she saw him stirring, slowly he woke up. She gave him some food and water. While he ate, she made a bed of hay for him to lie down on and then settled beside him to brush his mane. After a while she fell asleep snuggled in the white mane.