Chapter NineteenI knew you'd come

  A massive beast's palm struck the ground, creating a huge depression. For a moment, rocks flew everywhere, and trees, boulders, and streams were severed in an instant...

  Nalan Xixi stood in stunned silence at a distance, gazing at the devastation wrought by the beast's claws. Her face was deathly pale, her eyes wide with incredulity as tears welled up but refused to fall. Her entire body trembled, her fists clenched so tightly that her fingernails dug into her flesh, tiny droplets of crimson seeping out...

  Dugu Han... Dugu Han. She murmured his name in a dreamy tone, her voice drowned out by the roar of the giant beast, only audible to herself. Again and again, she owed that person.

  The giant moved its beastly palm away, letting out a furious roar, but it didn't move. Nalan Xianuo rushed forward like a madman, charging into the depression, and the huge trees were trampled to pieces, piled up together.

  "Dugu Han!" Nalan Xixiao shouted his name loudly, but in front of him was only a vast expanse of mountain wood debris.

  He could have escaped completely; he could have ignored everything. But he didn't. He was always there, never leaving, never abandoning, and even sacrificing his own life.

  In this life, who has ever cared about her life? No, you were saved by me, and you can only die at my hands!

  Nalan Xixi wiped away the tears streaming from her eyes, and rushed forward to start digging into the pile of rubble. Twigs and broken branches were mixed in with the rocks, scratching her palms until they were covered in crimson streaks.

  "You are Dugu Han... you won't die so easily, you still want to conquer the world, you still want to defeat Nangong Jin, how can you just die like this! How can you die because of a woman!" She dug while tears kept flowing down.

  She has never been so miserable, she has never cried for anyone...

  "You're the one I saved, you don't have the right to say die and just die, get out! Dugu Han..." The gravel scraped against her wound, mud and blood mixed together, the palm of her hand was torn open even wider, flesh and blood blurred.

  On the edge of life and death, those masks, that helplessness can all be gone. She didn't want him to die. From the moment she saved him, from the moment she couldn't bring herself to kill him...

  "I don't want to owe anyone, especially not you...” Nalan Xixiao's movements gradually slowed down, a massive despair surged up her throat. "I don't want you to die... I don't want to owe you anything..."

  However, apart from the desolate and barren landscape, all she found was the deafening roar of the giant beast that echoed through the sky.

  Dugu Han is dead. Dugu Han died to save Nalan Xianyu... He's really dead. For the first time, Nalan Xianyu showed a helpless expression, and her tears fell drop by drop among the mud and gravel.

  No! No one has the right to kill the person she saved. That is her life to keep, no one has the right to take it away!

  For a moment, feelings of guilt, self-blame and anger surged up like a flood! The blood was boiling and churning in the veins, crashing and jumping! Her eyes suddenly shone with a faint blue light!

  "Ah——" She let out a long, mournful cry, and in an instant, lightning flashed and thunder boomed! Behind her, the tall mountain peaks began to rumble and shake violently, as if on the verge of collapse! Nalan Xian's body seemed to be on the verge of exploding, with energy surging against her heart in endless waves.

  The sky at the top of the mountain, the rolling dark clouds brought by the giant beast suddenly retreated as if startled. The giant beast discovered the anomaly here, most importantly, it felt the unusual aura here...

  Bang! A loud noise!

  Suddenly, the mountain peak behind Nalan Xixi exploded! Rocks and mud mixed together, splashing everywhere. A dazzling silver light shot out from the crack in the shattered mountain peak, shooting straight into the sky, dispersing the dark clouds, and instantly illuminating everything around.

  When the giant beast touched the silver light, it let out a painful roar and retreated in terror.

  Another earth-shaking movement! The gap in the middle of the mountain peaks grew larger and larger, suddenly! A beam of light flashed across the sky! Like a bolt of lightning breaking through the air! Chao Nalan Xizheno flew over!

  Nalan Xixiao saw the silver light beam flying towards him, and the blood in his body was excited once again, as if it were an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time, with excitement and joy of reuniting after a long separation!

  The chill of the icy sensation, the silver light had already reached her palm. It was a slender long sword, its entire body radiating a silvery glow like moonlight. Its texture was like a block of ice; no, it looked as if it were crafted from a massive block of ice itself.

  It seemed to have a life of its own, reaching Nalan Xinnuo's hand, it was extremely excited, and with a burst of energy, the sword tip pointed at the Soul Beast. The energy in Nalan Xinnuo's body seemed to flow through his palm into the ice sword, merging with it as one.

  The giant beast saw the silver light below, and its previous terror suddenly dissipated. It let out a mournful roar towards the sky, like a lamentation filled with sorrow and deep anger!

  It's over. Narlan Xino's eyes suddenly turned cold, she grasped the sword with her hand, jumped up and leaped into the air without any hesitation, until in front of that giant beast.

  The giant beast was enraged, but its gaze would painfully retreat as soon as it came into contact with the ice sword. The ice sword seemed to be its nemesis, and even a glance at it would be fatal.

  Nalan Xixiao didn't hesitate, directly leaping onto its head. The giant beast panicked and started thrashing about, trying to shake Nalan Xixiao off. Nalan Xixiao tightly grasped the hair that reached up to his waist, carefully searching...

  In her impression, the Soul-Devouring Beast had a fatal weakness, and as long as she hit that spot, it would undoubtedly die!

  Suddenly, a purple light source burst into her line of sight! Found it!

  At this time, the giant beast seemed to have sensed something and began to charge around even more frantically. It angrily pounded its front hooves on the ground, creating one empty pit after another.

  Nalan Xixi looked down at the ground with concern, Dugu Han was still there... At least, she should bring him back to his home. And be buried together with his brothers, mother and sister!

  However, the beast suddenly shook its head violently! The hair in Nalan Xian'er's hand was torn off, and she felt that her bones were about to be shaken apart.

  The last strand of hair that could have kept her in place was torn off, and her body flew outwards. At this moment! The ice sword suddenly emitted a brilliant silver light! Its body seemed to come alive on its own! It detached from her palm and stabbed fiercely towards the purple light source!

  Nalan Xixi couldn't bear to look at whether the ice sword had pierced its fatal spot, her body fluttered and fell, below was the cliff that the giant beast had just stepped on...

  A mournful howl echoed through the entire forest.

  Suddenly! The body of the demon beast began to rot into a puddle of purple polluted water! Narlan Xino had not yet landed, and the polluted water that the giant beast had transformed into gathered into waves, rushing forward like a flood, pushing her away once again!

  The wastewater poured over the cliff, rushing straight down to form a purple waterfall. The debris and tree trunks were washed away and fell into the river that had just gathered at the foot of the cliff.

  One night passed, the dark clouds dispersed, and the sun slowly rose, shining on the slightly empty forest at this moment. The mud mixed with the trees that had just been baptized emitted a unique fragrance in the forest.

  Nalan Xixi slowly opened her eyes, but was again pierced by the scorching sunlight of Chenxi, a dull pain spreading from her chest where her ribs were broken, and waves of hunger tested the limits of her physical strength. She gradually adapted to the light and opened her eyes.

  At this moment, she was on a sturdy tree trunk, the other end of which was embedded in a narrow crevice in the cliff wall. Looking down, a purple river flowed with floating wood, flowing eastward.

  She raised her head, looking at the cliff top that was at least ten meters high, but her hands couldn't exert a single bit of strength. For her, hunger was fatal in such circumstances. She struggled to prop herself up with the tree branch, trying to get up.

  "Crack!" She had just moved her body slightly, and the tree trunk sank down a bit. The stones scraped off from the cliff fell into the purple river, without a trace. Nalan Xianyu held still, even her breathing became cautious.

  Suddenly, a patch of emerald green caught my eye, and on what seemed to be an unremarkable few leaves, numerous tiny yellow flower buds were bursting forth. The branches and trunks were connected to the cliff face, growing in a crevice just two meters above my head.

  Misty leaves.

  Nalan Xixi's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but smile slightly. In an instant, she seemed to have forgotten the pain, forgotten the hunger, and without any hesitation, she stood up suddenly. That was Miyue Ye, that was something she would give her life for.

  The tree branch sank another half under her weight, its tilted arc making her unstable, almost falling down. Although she was starving, she remained agile and grabbed a vine on the cliff above with one hand. The wooden thorns on the vine pierced her palm, bringing out a patch of crimson blood, but she didn't notice, staring only at the misty leaves.

  Nalan Xixi's body was petite, and even when she stood up, she was still far from reaching the height of the Muye leaf. She slightly furrowed her brow, steeled herself, and grasped the wooden thorn-covered tree vine with force!

  The thorns pierced into her flesh, making a hissing sound, her ten fingers connected to her heart, the pain in both hands made her dizzy for a moment. She didn't hesitate, she grasped the tree vines with force and stepped on the protruding rocks on the cliff wall, climbing upwards.

  The intense pain in her palm also dissipated as she approached the Muye leaf, and it had become numb and lost its sensation. She pulled out the Muye leaf by the roots and happily tucked it into her bosom.

  Suddenly! With a 'crack' sound, the vine could no longer bear her weight and slowly pulled out from the narrow gap in the cliff wall. She was shocked, looked down, but there was no way to retreat.

  Even if she could land on that branch, the branch would not be able to withstand her weight, and the scorching pain in her palms grew more intense as her hands slid down from the tree vines.

  "Crack!" The tree branch snapped, and Nalan Xinnuo's heart sank.

  Her body leaned forward with the wind, her face pale, but she closed her eyes calmly at the last moment. This moment finally came, only to think that it would be like this.

  Suddenly! A gust of wind flashed, and in an instant, she was wrapped in a wide and cold embrace. She shivered unconsciously, but still tightly encircled his solid waist.

  The grief of surviving a disaster surged up to her eyes, and in the last moment of her coma, she buried her face in his neck and sobbed.

  "I knew you'd come, Jin."