Help, I’m Being Forced to Marry a Frail and Sickly Immortal Doctor! 121

Chapter 121: Towards the Mortal World

“The only way.”

Even someone as slow as Ning Ruoque understood the meaning of Chen Suxin’s words.

She subconsciously went to observe Yan Ci’s reaction, and saw her own master smile again.

It was not a forced smile, but rather, it was as if she had guessed Chen Suxin’s answer, so her smile came from the bottom of her heart.

After she had laughed enough, she lowered her eyes, took out a long sword with a cold glint, and said calmly, “It is indeed that the Great Dao is ruthless, and the goddess is heartless.”

Ning Ruoque suddenly pulled Yin Buran and quietly retreated.

That sword was Yan Ci’s life-bound sword, and it had been quite normal in the past.

But now, its murderous appearance made Ning Ruoque have to be on guard.

Perhaps because her sixth sense had always been very accurate, in an instant, the long sword was unsheathed, and without any room for argument, it stabbed at Chen Suxin.

The spiritual energy brought with it a fierce wind, and for a moment, the clouds covered the bright moon, and the sky was dark.

Only behind Yan Ci’s ear, a blood-red pattern, like a crack in porcelain, appeared out of thin air, shining brightly.

Every time she used her strength with her sword, the pattern would become more vivid, growing from behind her ear to her neck, as if her whole person were about to shatter.

Ning Ruoque was speechless for a moment.

That was the fallen immortal pattern, which represented being possessed by an inner demon.

If a cultivator had a fallen immortal pattern, at best, their dao heart would be damaged, and their cultivation would no longer improve. At worst, they would harm others and themselves, so much so that they would be wanted by the entire cultivation world.

Yan Ci’s attack was extremely swift. She didn’t care about the surroundings at all. She swung her sword, and the riverbank was split open with a terrifying gully. The sword qi shook, and a large patch of forest was also cut down.

But it was also dodged by Chen Suxin, and it only managed to graze the hem of her clothes.

One of them was just focused on swinging her sword, and the other was just focused on dodging. The splashing rubble almost hit Yin Buran.

Chu Xuan threw out a talisman to block it, but she was still bewildered. “What’s going on? Who are these people? What happened just now?”

A vast spiritual energy rolled up the lingering clouds, forming a huge vortex in the air. The sound of thunder could be vaguely heard, as if a more violent rain was brewing.

When she had seen Yan Ci smiling and talking to Chen Suxin before, Chu Xuan had thought that the two of them were at least acquainted.

But looking at the current situation, they were more like enemies than senior and junior sisters.

She could only ask for help from Ning Ruoque, who seemed to be very familiar with the two of them.

When she turned her head, she found that Ning Ruoque had already retreated to the outermost circle, and was even trying to pick up Yin Buran, as if she wanted to run.

Chu Xuan was puzzled. “Why are you running?”

Ning Ruoque said concisely, “I also used this move when I was fighting the Demon God.”

Chu Xuan: ?

Just like the sound of a sword blade colliding, it sounded by her ear, slow and deliberate. But at the same time, a chill went straight to her head, making one want to tremble.

Reason told Chu Xuan that she should avoid the risk as soon as possible. In the center of the battlefield, it was inevitable that she would be affected.

Ning Ruoque and Yin Buran were even gone.

But she had something in her heart that she couldn’t let go of, and her feet were as if they had taken root, unable to move a single bit.

Chu Xuan turned her head and ran towards the waterfall. “Hey… no, my formation!”

Little Silver River was the formation eye. Even if it had not yet been filled with an anchor, it could still connect countless small formations and act as the central hub of the entire grand formation.

If it were to be destroyed, it would be like cutting out Chu Xuan’s heart.

Lightning traveled like a dragon, cutting through the night, and a dazzling white was startled.

And Yan Ci’s sword light seemed to be even more dazzling than that, as if it were about to burn itself out.

Chu Xuan’s heart trembled, and she only had time to activate the defensive formation, and she herself also drew a square barrier to block.

Two powerful forces collided, and the air wave almost overturned the trees for several miles.

The already messy Little Silver River was now in an even bigger mess.

After barely steadying herself, Chu Xuan went to check her own formation eye at the first opportunity.

She coughed a few times, and while she was waving away the dust, she was also sensing the formation patterns flowing underground.

It was a good thing that there was no major problem.

She let out a long sigh of relief, looked up, and happened to see Ning Ruoque walking towards her with her sword.

And before her, apart from the ruined walls, there was also a huge sword mark.

Outside the sword mark, not a single blade of grass grew, and only the dark land was left. The situation was even more tragic.

After sending Yin Buran to a safe place, Ning Ruoque had returned to help Chu Xuan block for a moment.

The two of them looked at each other in silence, and neither of them made a rash move.

After a moment, the smoke and dust dispersed, and only then did Ning Ruoque see the situation of the two of them clearly.

Chen Suxin was still standing, and there was a glaring red on her shoulder.

Blood was constantly dripping from her fingertips and blooming on the ground, but she was without joy or sorrow.

Yan Ci’s expression was also unchanged, but the fallen immortal pattern behind her ear was already as thick as dark ink. Against her pale face, it was even more shocking.

Chen Suxin was a god of the same rank as a demon god. Otherwise, she would not have been able to suppress Taotie for so many years.

To deal with Chen Suxin, one should use the sword moves to deal with a demon god.

But what Ning Ruoque could not understand was why her master had been so ruthless.

Her intuition also told her that this was definitely not to stand up for her, and she should not get involved.

She said with a straight face, and to the hastily chasing Yin Buran, “My master might be crazy.”

Yin Buran raised her hand and punched her in the chest, and said in a fit of anger, “What are you doing?”

Ning Ruoque was speechless for a few breaths and quickly apologized.

“I’m sorry… I didn’t expect it to be this situation. I was just trying to test her at first. I didn’t expect… I didn’t expect…”

Her voice became smaller and smaller, and in the end, she did not speak, looking as if she were obediently accepting her punishment.

She blinked, and her eyes were only filled with a wet bewilderment.

Yin Buran couldn’t bear to blame her anymore.

She patted Ning Ruoque’s shoulder, as if to comfort her.

Then she took a step forward, looked at Chen Suxin calmly, and asked neither humbly nor arrogantly, “Your Highness, have you been monitoring us all this time?”

Chu Xuan was first startled by the form of address that Yin Buran had used.

She wanted to ask clearly, but looking at Yin Buran’s expression, she swallowed all her doubts.

She watched as the woman who was called “goddess” came slowly, leaving a string of intermittent, mottled bloodstains behind her.

Just like that, she let her wound be, as if she were waiting for her blood to run out.

A smile appeared on the corners of Chen Suxin’s mouth. “Yes. Even though Ning Ruoque resisted, my power has inevitably been transmitted to her. With this, I can sense her situation.”

After she finished speaking, she sighed softly. “I’ve always hoped that she could make the right choice. It’s just a pity…”

It was just a pity that even though Ning Ruoque had lost all her memories, and even all the traces related to Yin Buran in the world had been erased, she had still chosen Yin Buran under all sorts of pushes and coincidences.

Chen Suxin looked at Ning Ruoque with an indescribable gentleness.

Like looking at a successor who had gone astray, she was always certain that she would definitely return to the “right path.”

This kind of gaze made Yin Buran very unhappy, and she only hated that she was not big enough to completely block Ning Ruoque.

She did not hide her disgust at all, and Chen Suxin just smiled and did not take it to heart.

The goddess dutifully explained to the group, “Love, hate, anger, and obsession are all the sources of Taotie’s divine power. As long as human desires are endless, Taotie will be reborn countless times.”

Taotie had been seriously injured by Ning Ruoque. To be able to possess Jiang Ai so quickly, it was estimated that it had used a special method.

Under the current circumstances, Yin Buran only needed to think a little to get the answer.

“So those demon cores that were spread out are actually the medium for it to absorb power?”

Chen Suxin nodded and said in a narrative tone, “You can’t stop it.”

She was telling the truth, and no one could refute it.

Ning Ruoque thought in a daze, That’s right. Those people were all willing.

More power, an obsession that could not be obtained, and unimaginable benefits.

As long as they could get it, then whether it was a demon core or something else, they would always go and grab it.

Chen Suxin spread her hands, and bright red blood dripped from her fingertips. The wound had still not healed.

She lowered her eyebrows and said gently, “As you can see, in order to replenish Ning Ruoque’s cultivation, I don’t have much divine power left.”

“The Heavenly Dao will not acknowledge a god with selfish motives. Even Taotie, its actions are for the prosperity of the demon race.”

She extended her blood-stained hand to Ning Ruoque, her snow-white robes dancing without any wind, her face full of compassion, like a goddess who was ferrying all living beings.

She asked softly, “You also don’t want to see your loved ones get hurt, right?”

“…”

As if a certain secret thought had been poked, Ning Ruoque pressed her lips together and did not say a word.

People are never satisfied.

When she was a child, she only wanted to eat one more steamed bun, and later she wanted to be able to eat her fill every day.

When she stepped on the path of immortality, she only wanted to live. Later, she wanted Yin Buran, and even more people, to also live.

Ning Ruoque had always felt that if you wanted something, you had to pay for it.

The Heavenly Dao had always been fair. On the other side of the scale, she had to put a price of equal weight.

The weight of the common people was immeasurable.

So in the last weighing, she had put herself on it.

To this day, she actually dared to delusionally find a way to have it both ways.

Then what kind of price should she pay?

For a moment, Ning Ruoque forgot where she was and could not hear the sounds around her. The world was a gray mess, and her eyes were only filled with Chen Suxin, who was reaching out to her.

She bewilderedly checked all the resources in her hand, picking and choosing, trying to find a bargaining chip of the same weight as her wish.

But if it was Yin Buran on the scale, she was willing to pay for it with everything.

“Ning Ruoque.”

Until someone called her, and forcefully held her hand, and intertwined their fingers.

Ning Ruoque was startled awake. The slightly fishy, turbid air filled her nostrils, and the hilt of the sword in her hand was cold and hard, but her heart was throbbing with pain.

She met Yin Buran’s eyes, and as if she had returned to the human world, she couldn’t help but hold her hand a little tighter.

She asked cautiously, “Yin Buran, I don’t want to forget you, and I don’t want to go to the Ninth Heaven. Is that very unrealistic?”

Yin Buran stood on her tiptoes and stroked Ning Ruoque’s head like she was stroking a big dog.

Very seriously, “You’re not wrong. The game between humans and demons should not be borne by one person.”

Just then, Chu Xuan finally sorted out her thoughts, slapped her head, and shouted in a loud voice, “Wait… wait… I get it!”

She strode to Yin Buran’s side, her eyes full of disbelief, and she looked at Chen Suxin as if she were looking at a ghost.

“You mean, the only way to stop Taotie is to let Ning Ruoque ascend?”

Chen Suxin just smiled.

Chu Xuan frowned. “Why does it have to be Ning Ruoque? Just because she’s soft-hearted? Isn’t this bullying an honest person?”

She didn’t care what Chen Suxin’s identity was.

It was one thing for the goddess to bless all living beings, but it was another to take away her friend.

She hadn’t enjoyed the goddess’s protection much, but on the contrary, she had been through life and death with Ning Ruoque and had entrusted her back to her.

So she held her head high and stood in front, shouting in a very loud voice.

“How is this different from those charlatans who throw living people into the river in an attempt to appease the flood? If a great river floods, go and build a dam and dig a canal. What kind of solution is sacrificing a living person?”

Chu Xuan really couldn’t understand this kind of behavior.

“A thousand years later, when Taotie comes again, where are we going to find another ‘Ning Ruoque’? What if we can’t find one? Is the human race going to wait to die?”

Ning Ruoque’s ears were ringing. It was clear how loud a certain person’s voice was, as if she were afraid that Chen Suxin wouldn’t understand.

She pinched Yin Buran’s hand, pinched it again, and the more she pinched, the calmer her heart became.

Gradually, that bit of unease was also gone, and she was able to calm down and think about the future.

Chen Suxin did not blame the other for being “unreasonable.”

She even nodded in acknowledgment. “What you said is not without reason, but—”

“That friend of yours who can foresee the future has already calculated it thousands of times. She is very clear that this is the method allowed by the Heavenly Dao.”

She announced as such, “It is also the only way.”