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Chapter 51: Please Wake Up
The rune light shield completely gathered into the stone stele. The underground palace collapsed, and the sandy ground on the surface sank downward, revealing this relic that had been silent for ten thousand years.
The entire secret realm vibrated along with it.
Strange phenomena arose.
Dark clouds actually gathered in the sky of the desert where it hadn’t rained for ten thousand years.
Boom—
Lightning flashed and thunder rolled; rain poured down in sheets.
As if the sky was weeping.
Raindrops smashed onto Lou Yunxiao’s face.
Cold, dense.
Consciousness slowly returned.
Almost instantly, Lou Yunxiao opened his eyes.
What his gaze reached…
Was no longer pitch darkness, but regained light.
He could see the dark clouds, raindrops, and the crows taking shelter from the rain.
He touched the location of his chest.
Thump—
Thump—
The heart that had been crushed by his ice sword was beating powerfully…
—When you open your eyes again, you will be able to see.
—Your place here… will also go thump, thump and beat.
—At that time, we will escape together.
A-Ke!
Where is A-Ke?
Lou Yunxiao quickly climbed up. He was unsteady for a moment, stepping on the soft mud and sand, twisting his ankle. He looked back.
What he saw were the ruined walls of the underground palace, the massive complex of buildings exposed between heaven and earth.
Only that tall stone stele remained standing, like a grave.
“A-Ke—”
Lou Yunxiao ran stumbling, the Blue Silver Sword guiding him.
He knelt beside the stone stele.
Digging desperately at the mud and sand with his hands.
He faintly heard the humming of the Red Cloud Sword.
“Red Cloud!”
Lou Yunxiao moved the stone slab pressing on the Red Cloud Sword, revealing the person lying on the ground.
Rainwater washed down.
Washing away the coagulated blood on the ground, smashing onto Ning Ke’s body.
extremely heavy.
Yet it still couldn’t wash clean the clothes that were completely soaked in fresh blood.
Lou Yunxiao froze in place.
He seemed to have turned silly, staring blankly at the lifeless person on the ground.
The memories of the past six months slid past his eyes like a revolving lantern over and over again.
Those words he held in his heart and didn’t dare to say were all expressed thanks to the demonic energy wrapping his body.
What was suppressed before, what was adhered to, was all vented in these six months.
It could be said that these six months were the freest time of his life.
Without so many restrictions, without a sea of blood and deep enmity, without the great righteousness of the sect.
Only him and A-Ke.
Only joy, happiness.
A-Ke’s tolerance for him, the warmth given to him, the six months they spent depending on each other.
It was the truest expectation he had hidden in his heart before.
He didn’t lie to A-Ke.
He liked A-Ke.
Liked him very much, very much.
Even if A-Ke was a man, even if he himself carried a sea of blood and deep enmity and might never be free in his life.
Now he could truly say it despite these pressures.
He liked A-Ke.
He liked this Junior Brother.
“A-Ke…”
Such heavy injuries made him dare not even pick Ning Ke up.
He just lay in the mud, face pressed against the ground, facing Ning Ke’s direction, gently stroking the young man’s cold face.
“A-Ke, wake up, stop sleeping.”
“I recovered my memory. I know why I was so angry when Zhuang Yusheng got close to you before…”
“I also know why I wanted to drive away those women…”
“Because I like you.”
“You asked me who was more important, you or Sister. I don’t like Sister; I am grateful to her, but I don’t like her. I like you. You are a man, but I still like…”
“You asked me for a scented sachet. I’ll embroider it for you. I’ll embroider the sachet for you personally, with your name and my name on the corners…”
“If one isn’t enough for you, I’ll embroider many, so you can change them and use them.”
“A-Ke, wake up…”
Since the sect extermination three years ago, Lou Yunxiao had cried once and never shed tears again.
But now he was almost sobbing uncontrollably.
He stroked Ning Ke’s face with both hands, saying, “A-Ke, it should be warm, it should be warm…”
“A-Ke possesses the purest Fire Spiritual Root. A-Ke is always warm…”
“It shouldn’t be this cold…”
And while doing this, his fingers suddenly paused.
After a long time, they moved again.
But they trembled as they touched Ning Ke’s tightly closed eyelids.
Beneath, it was sunken…
—You will be able to see very soon.
That sentence exploded like thunder in Lou Yunxiao’s mind.
A-Ke was just a Golden Core stage cultivator. Sister with that kind of cultivation couldn’t heal his eyes; how could A-Ke heal them?
But he could see now.
He could see.
But A-Ke’s eyes…
A-Ke’s eyes were gone…
“Ah—”
Lou Yunxiao let out a mournful scream that he himself wasn’t even aware of.
He hugged his head in panic, fingernails digging into his scalp.
In such pain that he desperately smashed his head against the ground.
Like a madman.
His forehead bled, and the blood was washed away by the rain.
Lou Yunxiao’s helpless questioning echoed in the curtain of rain.
“A-Ke—”
“Why are you so silly?”
His spirit was close to collapse.
Until he smashed himself into a daze, his hair and clothes disheveled, only then did his gaze finally fall trance-like onto the hole in Ning Ke’s chest.
It was empty inside, and residual demonic energy that hadn’t dissipated still remained around the wound.
Looking again at the golden-red rune carved into the bottom left corner of the stone stele with blood.
Everything was clear as day.
No wonder that Demon disappeared.
No wonder Junior Brother knocked him out and sent him away.
No wonder A-Ke died tragically in front of the stone stele…
Lou Yunxiao gave a bitter laugh.
Extending his trembling hands, he carefully pulled the young man into his embrace.
His eyes were lifeless, head hanging low, blocking the rain, muttering obsessively: “A-Ke, I always knew you were amazing. I knew you cultivated talisman arts, but I never thought you would be bold enough to reinforce this Heavenly Dao seal single-handedly…”
“Even confronting the Great Demon alone.”
“You are always this brave, this fearless…”
“You even planned everything in advance, leaving your own eyes for me.”
“But have you ever thought about what I, whom you excluded from the plan, would think?”
“Have you ever thought about how I should cope, knowing all this, knowing you died right in front of me, while I could do nothing, even living on alone with everything you gave me?”
“You lied to me.”
“You are always lying to me.”
“Again and again…”
“You said when I opened my eyes again, I would have a heart like yours. But what about you?”
He covered the empty hole in Ning Ke’s chest, pressing his ear gently against it.
Asking pleadingly: “Will you make it beat again, okay? Will you make it… warm up, okay?”
He waited like this for a long time, a long time.
Yet between heaven and earth, there were still only the sounds of rain, wind, and Lou Yunxiao’s own heartbeat and breathing.
Nothing else.
Lou Yunxiao bit his lip tightly, but still couldn’t suppress the whimpers.
He didn’t love crying, nor did he talk much.
But at this moment, no matter what, he couldn’t control it.
Helpless like a child.
Breaking down.
Choking with sobs.
Repeating constantly: “Didn’t you say you would escape with me?”
“You also said we’d go home. You said we’d go home…”
“How can you give up just like that?”
“I still have to help you go home…”
“A-Ke, wake up, I beg you, stop playing, stop lying to me…”
“Stop… pretending to sleep…”
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