Chapter 93: The Death of Bai Wanru
Crack—
Ning Ke heard the sound of bone breaking.
“Auntie Bai!!”
He only had time to cry out. In the next instant, another hand flew out of the ground in a claw-like shape and directly pierced through Bai Wanru’s chest!
Bai Wanru swung her forge hammer and smashed the hand gripping her ankle with top speed. Meanwhile, the hand that had pierced through her chest flew directly back to the front of Nan Yi, who should have been knocked down by her blows. It reconnected with Nan Yi’s broken wrist, and before long, the joint was seamless.
Nan Yi stood up, and his injuries actually began to slowly heal. He twisted his neck and said, “Humans are ultimately just a lower race. As long as this city is still here and those humans are still here, we Great Mo can extract endless flesh and blood from beneath the earth, making us undying and indestructible.”
“As for you…” He pointed at Bai Wanru and laughed: “Even if you avoided the fatal blow, how long can you hold out in this state?”
Blood flowed out from the wound in Bai Wanru’s chest. Even though she had swallowed blood-stanching medicine, the injury was too great. Even with Bai Wanru’s high cultivation, she felt her vision going black at this moment, making her unsteady.
“Auntie Bai…” Ning Ke’s eyes were red. He sat slumped on the ground, gritting his teeth as despair washed over his heart.
It was so deep, so heavy.
It swallowed him whole.
“A-Ke, don’t be afraid.” Hearing his cry, Bai Wanru turned her head and smiled.
She wiped the blood from her lips, bent her arm, and showed Ning Ke her biceps, saying, “Look, I’m fine.”
Adjusting her clothes, Bai Wanru raised the forge hammer once more. The spiritual power around her was concentrated to the extreme, and the green light of the Fo Lian Deng turned deeper until it covered the entire ground.
Dark clouds gathered in the sky, and thunder exploded.
The lightning reflected on Bai Wanru’s pale yet intensely battle-ready face.
She said to the two Mo: “Don’t worry about how long I can hold out. You only need to know that before I breathe my last, pulling the two of you down with me will be enough!”
Saying this, she swung the forge hammer once again, but this time she drew the thunder from the sky.
Boom—
She originally possessed a Thunder Linggen. Now with the help of the heavens, thunderbolts struck down one after another, catching those Mo off guard.
Boom boom boom—
the Great Mo continuously consumed Mo energy to resist the natural force, appearing battered and exhausted. They wanted to dive into the ground again, but discovered that the green light of the Fo Lian Deng had already blocked their path, making them unable to sneak attack Bai Wanru as they had before.
They could only be like moving targets. Before long, their skin and flesh were split open by the lightning, their skin and flesh peeling away inch by inch. Bai Wanru took the opportunity to rush up and swung her forge hammer, smashing those two Mo directly into meat paste.
Staggering back, Bai Wanru leaned on her forge hammer, gasping for breath.
From her empty chest, blood seeped out, the edges turning charred black from the erosion of Mo energy.
The tip of her nose felt a bit cool; it had begun to rain after the thunder.
Bai Wanru’s consciousness was foggy. she looked up, wanting the cool rain to make her a bit clearer, but unexpectedly her body swayed. She could no longer hold on and tipped backward.
Ning Ke crawled over with difficulty and caught Bai Wanru. Sitting up, he held the woman and called out to her: “Auntie Bai, hold on…”
He fed the pills to Bai Wanru, but Bai Wanru shook her head.
“It’s no use, A-Ke.” she said: “Keep those for yourself.”
Ning Ke argued: “How can it be no use? It will definitely work. Auntie Bai, swallow them…”
“Auntie Bai lied to you just now.” Bai Wanru said: “The sacrifice failed. My soul has been damaged, and the Fo Lian Deng is currently only a semi-finished product. If I want to completely forge it, I can only throw this life of mine into it as well.”
“However, being able to pull these two Mo down with me before I die, I’m already very satisfied.”
“It’s just… I don’t know what my son is doing now. This massacre of the city by the Great Mo must have been planned. I’m afraid he also encountered something in Zhongze Cheng…”
“Auntie Bai, don’t forge the Fo Lian Deng anymore. I want you to live…” Ning Ke said: “Lou Yunxiao also wants you to live. This incident happened suddenly, and he hasn’t returned yet. When he returns, everything will be fine. We can win, and you can live…”
Despair filled Ning Ke’s heart.
He had never felt so powerless.
He only tightly gripped Bai Wanru’s hand, wanting to warm it for her.
Seeing his appearance, Bai Wanru felt unbearable pity in her heart.
She then said softly: “Child, it was a blessing for the two of us, Yunxiao and me, to meet you.”
“This time, you have already done enough for us, so don’t feel guilty, and don’t feel regret. After I die, you will take this Fo Lian Deng to protect yourself… You don’t need to protect the common people like us; you only need to protect yourself…”
Raindrops fell, and Bai Wanru’s gaze was filled with gentleness. She lightly caressed Ning Ke’s face and said, “Auntie Bai doesn’t require you to take care of that silly son of mine either. You have your own life. Following the two of us, you always encounter these hardships and have suffered so many injuries. This is all our fault…”
“When you pick a family in the future, don’t look for one like ours…”
Although Bai Wanru always loved to joke about Lou Yunxiao and Ning Ke.
She also knew that in this chaotic world, for people like her and Lou Yunxiao, their final end would be to sacrifice themselves for the Dao.
Not only would they be unable to provide Ning Ke with stability, but they would also cause harm to this child.
Now, in these final moments, she entrusted all her thoughts to Ning Ke.
Ning Ke’s eyes were red. He was someone who never cried, but now tears mixed with rain fell, one after another striking Bai Wanru’s face.
“Auntie Bai, you haven’t done anything wrong to me! I’m very happy to have known you… truly… very happy…”
He gritted his teeth and choked out: “I will take good care of the Fo Lian Deng. One day, I will slaughter all the Mo. Not for anything else, but only to be worthy of your heart…”
At this moment, every bit of time he had spent with Bai Wanru over these past few months surfaced in his mind.
He had received too much warmth from Bai Wanru.
She was like an elder, and also like a friend.
Regardless, Ning Ke had already come to see Bai Wanru as his own family.
Now, after this ordeal, his attitude toward the Mo was no longer the perfunctory one of completing a mission as before.
Instead, he was determined to eliminate the Mo.
Until death!
Bai Wanru was slightly dazed.
“Good child…”
She leaned closer to Ning Ke and said, “Auntie Bai is satisfied with those words from you…”
Slowly, her pupils began to dilate. She reflected the sky full of rain, yet could only see darkness. Her mind also shifted from clarity to confusion. The hand caressing Ning Ke’s face changed to reaching out toward something in the distance.
Even though she hadn’t mentioned Lou Yunxiao much before, at this moment she whispered.
“Son…”
“Have you come?”
“Yunxiao, Mother is leaving. You must come quickly.”
“You must make it to see Mother one last time…”
When those words left her mouth, Ning Ke only felt as if his heart were being pierced by a knife. As tears fell, he gripped Bai Wanru’s hand and spoke in Lou Yunxiao’s tone.
“Mother, your son has come. I am Yunxiao.”
“Son… Yunxiao…”
Bai Wanru only spoke that one sentence before tears continuously seeped from the corners of her eyes, sobbing uncontrollably as if a dam had broken.
After a long time, her breath weakened and was about to fade away.
Only then did she open her lips slightly to say her final words.
“In the next life, don’t be the son of this selfish mother of mine again…”
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