63: Idea
Facts have proven that a person’s potential in extreme situations is infinite.
Zuo Wuyi endured the pain of her body collapsing and forcibly used the last of her demonic energy to devour the surrounding spiritual energy, betting her life on it.
It was unknown whether it was the female lead’s constitution at work, but Zuo Wuyi had managed to break a certain death situation.
Feeling the demonic energy in her body slowly increasing, Zuo Wuyi began to slowly move her body. After nearly half an hour, she had moved to the side of a certain Spirit Transformation stage cultivator.
With a trembling hand, she pulled off the storage ring from his body. Zuo Wuyi, with her weak divine sense, found the high-grade healing elixirs and began to swallow them with difficulty.
[Host, I sense Mo Xiao’s aura!] The system suddenly became excited. [We’re saved!]
“Mo Xiao is here?” Zuo Wuyi was first ecstatic, but when she thought of her current situation, she suddenly didn’t want to be found by her at this time.
If Mo Xiao had found her a few days later, she should have been able to recover and not be in such a pathetic state.
[According to the system’s detection, Mo Xiao is less than five thousand meters away from you, Host!] As the system spoke, it couldn’t help but roll around in Zuo Wuyi’s sea of consciousness.
Of course, the above foolish thought only existed in Zuo Wuyi’s mind for a short while. After hearing the system’s words, Zuo Wuyi began to slowly release her demonic energy so that Mo Xiao could sense her presence faster.
The expression on Mo Xiao’s face was very serious. From the moment she entered the passage, all she saw was a vast expanse of white. She stood in the snow in a daze, not knowing where to go.
When the uneasy feeling came again, she did not think at all, but directly chose a direction based on her first instinct and began to search. This search lasted for three days.
Just as Mo Xiao was suspecting that she had gone in the wrong direction, she sensed an abnormality in the air. There was a power different from spiritual energy. Although it was very weak, it was continuous.
Mo Xiao did not hesitate and directly sped up towards the source of the power.
Before long, she saw a corpse lying on the ground, and Zuo Wuyi, who was barely sitting on the ground.
“Wuyi,” Mo Xiao’s brows furrowed tightly. Looking at the weak Zuo Wuyi, she was at a loss, not knowing what to do.
“Can you take these elixirs?” Mo Xiao immediately took out the best elixirs she had and then took off her outer robe, carefully covering Zuo Wuyi with it.
“I’ve already taken the elixirs. I just need to wait for my body to slowly recover,” Zuo Wuyi was fine when she didn’t speak, but the moment she did, her voice was dry and hoarse, and the two of them fell into silence.
Mo Xiao sat directly on the ground, then picked up Zuo Wuyi and placed her on her lap. “Drink some water?”
Zuo Wuyi no longer spoke, but directly nodded.
Mo Xiao had originally planned to directly feed Zuo Wuyi spirit spring water, but thinking of her current situation, she could only use a spell to condense pure water first, then heat it to a suitable temperature, and feed it to Zuo Wuyi bit by bit.
“Mo Xiao, you won’t blame me, will you?” Zuo Wuyi leaned against Mo Xiao’s arms with great dependence. After drinking some hot water, her voice had recovered a little.
Mo Xiao shook her head. “The person lying over there, is he the one who hurt you?”
Zuo Wuyi nodded and let out a breath. “He was really hard to deal with. If I hadn’t had many tricks up my sleeve, I might have failed.”
Mo Xiao patted Zuo Wuyi’s head and looked at her with a gentle gaze. “I know. You did great.”
A proud smile appeared at the corner of Zuo Wuyi’s mouth. Lying in Mo Xiao’s arms, she felt very at ease. The fatigue in her body suddenly surged up, making her eyelids heavier and heavier, and finally, she fell asleep.
Mo Xiao let out a breath, maintained her original posture without moving, and fell into a long and heavy thought.
She could already feel that the spiritual energy in Zuo Wuyi’s body had disappeared, and her meridians were filled with pure demonic energy without a trace of impurity.
Clearly, Zuo Wuyi was no longer a human cultivator. Her spiritual veins had been almost completely tainted by demonic energy and had become the unique demonic veins of the demon race.
In this case, even if her master and the others accepted Zuo Wuyi’s fall to the demonic path, she still could not return to the Inquiring Dao Sect.
At this point, the best place for Zuo Wuyi was the Demon Realm. But the Demon Realm was also full of dangers. Mo Xiao couldn’t let Zuo Wuyi go alone.
After thinking for who knows how long, when Zuo Wuyi slowly woke up, what she saw was a serious-faced Mo Xiao, her brows tightly furrowed, as if she was making some difficult decision.
“How long did I sleep?” Zuo Wuyi said, turning her neck. Her injuries had already recovered by almost half.
Mo Xiao hesitated for a moment. “Probably a few days?”
“So you’ve been sitting like this for a few days?” A question mark slowly appeared above Zuo Wuyi’s head. “Why didn’t you take out a bed so we could sleep together?”
“Hm? Sleep in the open?” A question mark also appeared above Mo Xiao’s head. She had just cast a barrier around the two of them to block the wind and snow. It couldn’t be used as a wall, right?
“…” Zuo Wuyi slowly let out a breath. “It’s nothing. What were you struggling with just now? You looked so serious.”
As she spoke, Zuo Wuyi got up from Mo Xiao’s arms and stood in the snow to stretch her muscles.
Mo Xiao also slowly got up. Because there was always spiritual energy around, she didn’t feel uncomfortable. “I was thinking, should I fall to the demonic path and go to the Demon Realm with you?”
Hearing Mo Xiao’s words, Zuo Wuyi, who was stretching her knees, almost fell headfirst into the snow.
“What did you say? You want to fall to the demonic path?” Zuo Wuyi’s eyes widened. “Mo Xiao, wake up! You are a pure human. Why do you want to fall to the demonic path?”
“The Demon Realm is very dangerous. I’m not at ease with you being alone,” Mo Xiao said truthfully.
“Wait a minute. When did I say I was going to the Demon Realm?” Zuo Wuyi was a little slow to react. She had fallen to the demonic path after entering the secret realm.
Mo Xiao was also a little puzzled. “Are you staying here? That won’t be of any benefit to your cultivation, will it?”
“You said before that I like to make my own decisions and impose my thoughts on you. Aren’t you doing the same thing now?” Zuo Wuyi pinched Mo Xiao’s cheek in annoyance. “I still have half of the human race in me. As long as I avoid those great powers, I can still stay here.”
“Are you staying here?” Mo Xiao asked.
Zuo Wuyi nodded. “Yes. The Demon Realm is not as good as here. I don’t want to be cooped up in that kind of place.”
“Alright, I understand,” The moment she heard Zuo Wuyi’s answer, Mo Xiao made a decision in her heart.
When she had made a deal with the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Dao had said that the pillars of this world were the male and female leads, that is, Zuo Wuyi and Xuan Min.
The most ideal situation was for the male and female leads to live in harmony, with both of them on the same side. The next best thing was for the male and female leads to have no major conflicts, so that it would not come to a point where one had to be chosen over the other.
The worst situation was for one of them to die, and the other to become the sole pillar.
The current situation was already very clear. There was no longer any possibility of Xuan Min and Zuo Wuyi getting along. Instead of waiting for their conflict to escalate, it was better for her to strike first.
If she killed Xuan Min in advance, then as the world’s pillar, Zuo Wuyi should receive the protection of the Heavenly Dao, right?