kingnovel Chapter 482 I Have to Do This
Chapter 482 I Have to Do This
With a flash of golden light, Shui Lian'er, protected by Qin Beiyao, tumbled into an underground cave emanating a chilling aura. Sticky blood rolled over the uneven, cratered pebbles on the ground.
Qin Beiyao was in so much pain that he almost lost consciousness, but when he heard Shui Lian'er's anxious cries, he gritted his teeth and persevered, trying to stay awake.
He took a deep breath, used the ground to prop himself up, and carefully reached out to help Lian'er, whom he was holding in his arms.
"I'm fine, are you alright? Did you hurt yourself?"
Shui Lian'er's abdomen was still bleeding. Even though she had taken a top-grade elixir, the wound showed no signs of healing. If Qin Beiyao hadn't sealed her wound with a talisman in time, she wouldn't have made it this far.
But hearing his worried question, she still managed to give him a smile.
"I'm fine, but what about you? You were seriously injured protecting me..." Her voice trembled, and her eyes welled up with tears, "...
The great demon chasing them was absolutely terrifying. She had never encountered such a terrifying person before. In front of that demon, she and Bei Yao were so helpless and pathetic that they could barely escape.
Qin Beiyao hugged her comfortingly, "It's alright, it's alright, we'll all get back to the sect safely. Don't be afraid, I'll protect you..."
Shui Lian'er hugged him tightly, which helped her stop trembling uncontrollably from being so scared.
"I'm alright now. Let's find an exit and get out of here quickly, or that demon might be chasing us in soon," Shui Lian'er said, sniffing and enduring the pain from her abdominal wound.
Qin Beiyao nodded.
He prepared to carry her on his back again, but Shui Lian'er refused.
He was also seriously injured and couldn't waste his energy carrying her all the time. She could still hold on, and he could carry her once they found a way out.
Qin Beiyao didn't force her. He carefully helped her walk into the cave. The scene in front of them was very dark, so dark that even a cultivator with excellent eyesight could not see clearly. But after walking another thirty or forty meters, the view suddenly opened up.
Inside the vast underground palace, a dozen enormous black-purple crystals rose from the ground, tightly wrapped around the ceiling of the cave. Specks of black-purple light danced across the palace, illuminating the entire place in a hazy, dreamlike way.
If it weren't for the chilling temperature that made your bones ache, this underground palace would be as beautiful as a fairyland.
"Bei... Yao, I feel so bad... It's so cold here, so cold..." In just a few breaths, Shui Lian'er couldn't take it anymore and collapsed, feeling weak all over.
Qin Beiyao was startled and quickly hugged her.
He looked back at the huge crystal pillar inside the underground palace, his expression gradually shifting from doubt to solemnity.
“It’s demonic energy,” he said with difficulty. “Those are demonic crystals.”
Demonic energy can invade a cultivator's meridians and destroy their foundation. Those with slightly weaker cultivation levels are simply unable to resist the invasion of demonic energy.
Even he, severely injured, struggled to resist.
Even in such a critical moment, he still chose to transfer his spiritual energy to Shui Lian'er in his arms, forming a barrier in front of her to resist the invasion of demonic energy.
He couldn't help but cough up blood again due to the instability of his spiritual power.
"Bei Yao!" Shui Lian'er exclaimed in surprise. No matter how hard she tried to hold back, tears still fell down her cheeks.
Qin Beiyao was most afraid of her crying; he hoped that the girl he loved could always be happy.
"Don't cry." Gently raising his hand, Qin Beiyao wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with his fingertips, looking at her with heartache. He wanted to say something more, but suddenly a huge surge of demonic energy came from the underground palace.
The light from the magic crystal, which had been constant, began to flicker violently, and the purple light that had been drifting throughout the dungeon started to scatter erratically.
The paradise on earth before my eyes seemed to turn into the color of apocalypse in an instant.
Qin Beiyao looked up warily at the scene, but his expression froze for a moment, and his hands unconsciously hugged Shui Lian'er tighter and tighter.
Shui Lian'er was struggling to cope; the wound on her abdomen was throbbing with pain. She couldn't help but call out to him in confusion, "Bei Yao?"
Qin Beiyao snapped out of his daze, looking down at her with a pale face.
Their eyes met, and Shui Lian'er vaguely realized something. She looked around in a panic, clutching his sleeve tightly in her hand.
"No...it's impossible, those are all fake, they're deliberately trying to mislead me!"
"There's no such place, you won't, you won't..."
Qin Beiyao closed his eyes and looked at her with pain in his eyes: "Lian'er, you saw it too, didn't you? That strange mirror in Chang Le City."
"No! No!" Shui Lian'er screamed, clinging to him with all her might. "It's all fake! I didn't see anything! That broken mirror is nothing, and this place is an illusion too, a deliberate illusion created by that mirror! Bei Yao, please, don't believe it!"
"Bei Yao, Bei Yao... don't leave me..."
Qin Beiyao's eyes were red. It is said that men do not easily shed tears. As the young master of the Qin family, he should not be so weak. But when the moment came, he could not stop his tears from flowing.
He still has so many things to worry about: his parents, his family, his master, his fellow disciples, and his beloved!
He couldn't bear to part with her, he really couldn't bear to, especially since he had just confessed his feelings to the girl he liked...
"I also thought it was fake. All the demons in this world should have been wiped out long ago. How could they come out from this teleportation array... I thought that mirror was bewitching people. Later, I wanted to talk to Li Qian and the others about it, but every time I had that thought, I would forget it in the blink of an eye..."
With tears streaming down his face, Qin Beiyao gave her a sincere and passionate kiss on the bitter tears on her lips.
"Looking back now, I think that face is the destiny of the person reflected in the mirror. The line of fate cannot be changed, so I can't tell others what's on my face in the mirror, and I even forget it myself..."
Shui Lian'er shook her head, crying, "We're waiting for the sect leader and the others to come. You can't do it all by yourself!"
Qin Beiyao arched his eyebrows, a relieved look on his face, and smiled gently through his broken tears.
“It’s too late.
"Five hundred years ago, the demon race invaded the cultivation world, causing widespread devastation. Countless cultivators died under the claws of the demons. This teleportation array will soon transport a large number of demons here. I cannot stand by and watch this tragedy repeat itself; too many people will die in vain..."
“I’m sorry, Lian’er, I can’t listen to you this time. As a disciple of the Tianqian Sect, I have to do this… to live well, for my part as well.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a total of one hundred and eight blood-red sacred talismans flew out from his sleeve, forming a budding blue lotus flower that tightly enveloped Shui Lian'er.
The lotus flower transformed into a beam of azure light, shooting directly through the stone wall above, breaking through the ground, and soaring into the sky.
He turned around and, without hesitation, detonated his golden core in front of the increasingly bright purplish-black magic crystal.
The mountains collapsed and the earth cracked, with a deafening roar.
The setting sun is like blood.