Chapter 9 (1/2)

Chapter 09: Little Brat

The first thing Su Tingyun did when she got up was to check Li Xinmei’s injury, but unexpectedly when she looked over, she discovered that Li Xinmei’s eyes were open.

“You’re awake? How do you feel?”

It looks like this Regeneration Pill’s effectiveness was even better than expected.

Su Tingyun reached out to help Li Xinmei get up and leaned her against the rock wall, planning to let her eat another Regeneration Pill. It was after she extended her hand that she discovered her hand had already been bandaged, it was definitely Zhang Zhizi that bandaged her while she was sleeping.

“Water……”

Li Xinmei weakly spoke. Su Tingyun said: “How could I sleep so deeply, and Xiao Zhi didn’t wake me even though you regained consciousness.” After she finished speaking she realized Zhang Zhizi wasn’t in the stone cave: “And don’t know where he ran off to either.”

Li Xinmei grinned: “He left.”

“To go where?”

Su Tingyun replied casually, only to see that grim smile on Li Xinmei’s face. Her heart suddenly thumped and she reached out to feel around in Li Xinmei’s pocket. The little bag that held the spirit stones were gone.

“He took it?”

Li Xinmei nodded and didn’t speak anymore.

Su Tingyun didn’t know what to say. She silently got up and went outside to gather some clean dew water for Li Xinmei, then fed her another Regeneration Pill. Normally when she slept she didn’t sleep that deeply, no matter how tired she would not sleep that deeply. And now, she had slept through the entire day to late noon, it was very likely that something was added to that spirit beast meat.

“Little d.a.m.ned brat, if I catch him I’m going to beat the c.r.a.p out of him!”

She never would have thought that Zhang Zhizi would do such a thing. After all, that time the person that kindly gave her directions was him, the one that invited her to stay together was also him. In her heart, Zhang Zhizi was an extremely kindhearted little kid that was also respectful of elders. But at the crucial point, he actually stole away the spirit stones and abandoned the older sister that he had faced life-or-death struggles with.

“But he still doesn’t have enough for the registration fee with his spirit stones. Yesterday those fraters gave several low grade spirit stones but even totaled it’s not enough.” Su Tingyun still puzzled over it: “Zhang Zhizi’s age is too small and his strength is very weak, relying on himself would he be able to collect the rest of the spirit stones needed?”

“When Xu Wei left, he only took two mid grade spirit stones.”

The number of spirit stones they had collected back then was more than two, but after that there was not even one left. Su Tingyun heard Zhang Zhizi say that Xu Wei took all of them, but now, it looks like Xu Wei only took two, the rest were all hid away by Zhang Zhizi. If it’s like this, then with the addition of what they later collected, there was enough for two mid grade spirit stones.

Zhang Zhizi wasn’t even ten years old, yet he was already so shrewd. Su Tingyun suddenly felt that this world was truly too scary.

She looked at her own wound that was bandaged well and only felt that it was especially glaring to the eyes.

“He’s not very bad, but also not kindhearted. He just chooses to do whatever would be most beneficial to himself. Only with this type of personality would he be suitable to survive in this world and attain the dream of reaching the top of the martial arts world.” After Li Xinmei said this her breathing became a bit unsteady. She was gasping for breath, her originally much improved facial color also rapidly lost its color. Su Tingyun, fl.u.s.tered, softly helped her breathe, and then she completely had no idea what to do next.

“Grannie, why did you come here?”

Not waiting for Su Tingyun to answer, she then said: “Once you’ve come you can’t return anymore. How nice it would be to just be an ordinary person.”

Once you come, you can’t leave, because based on their strength they simply don’t have the ability to fly past that void sea that separates the immortal and mortal world.

“I don’t know what the mortal world is like, but it’s definitely much more relaxing than living here.” Li Xinmei’s face exposed an expression of longing. Su Tingyun’s expression froze, then she picked some amusing stories to tell the little lady. As she talked, she even took out all the jewelry in a small box and picked out some pretty ones to put on her.

“So lovely.”

The jewelry in the cultivation world are also pretty, but most of them were artifacts and she simply could not afford them. And if they were not artifacts, they wouldn’t waste money to buy them. Li Xinmei had grown up this big, yet she had never worn a single piece of jewelry before. Her small, palm-sized face was still smiling, just one second ago she was still listening to Su Tingyun tell long-winded stories, yet in the next second she vomited out a mouthful of blood and her gaze became a bit unfocused.

Such a small child, still having so much life ahead of her, yet for the sake of saving her she received a heavy injury and had to experience the betrayal of friends. Even though she didn’t say it, but Su Tingyun know that Zhang Zhizi leaving definitely hurt her, that’s why she would exhibit the signs of the last radiance before death.

Three Regeneration Pills originally could keep her alive for three days, but now, she almost can’t hold on anymore.

Su Tingyun could not hold it back anymore as tears fell. Now, what could she do to save Li Xinmei?

There was only one way left.

Su Tingyun put Li Xinmei on her back, then found some vines to firmly bind Li Xinmei onto her back. Carrying her, she walked, not pausing for even a second, to Wuliang Mountain’s foot. This time, she fiendishly wailed like ghosts and howled like wolves and charged through that crowd of accompanying servants that tried to block her. It was also that her luck wasn’t bad and she didn’t encounter those few people that were hardest to deal with, letting her successful get to the foot of the cloud ascending stairs.

“Ey, old woman, you came again?” The disciples guarding the foot of the mountain had in fact been greeted before, they recognized Su Tingyun.