Vol 4 Chapter 20 (1/2)

Book 4, Chapter 20 – Wait For Your Child

The Azure Firebird landed in the courtyard, and the red-haired, gray-robed Ji Ninefire stepped own, arriving outside the room’s door in just two steps

“Yichuan” Ninefire had a send, when Ninefire was young, he had an incomparably explosive temperament, but because Ninefire had lived nearly four centuries by nohile the oldest member of the Ji clan of the Western Prefecture was only a century or so in age, the stories of what Ninefire had been like when young were lost to legends

“Clan leader” Ji Yichuan, upon seeing the clan leader, iency in his eyes “Snow, she…”

“I heard from Redflower” Ninefire nodded “Let me take a look”

“Right” Yichuan immediately led the way forward At thisrespectfully “Snow greets the clan leader”

Ninefire said, “Your body is very weak right now First lie down There’s no need to stand on empty ceremonies”

Only then did Snow half lie down on the bed, while Ninefire sat on the chair by the side of the bed He stretched his hand out, placing it against Snorist, gently tapping with his finger…iht immediately enveloped Snow’s entire body In this instant, it seeh Snow’s entire body was covered by a layer of flames

Yichuan watched nervously by the side, while Ninefire’s eyes were closed

As much time as was needed for a pot of tea to be brewed passed before the fiery light surrounding Snow’s body vanished Only now did Ninefire open his eyes as well Facing Yichuan, whose face was filled with anticipation, Ninefire couldn’t help but let a soft sigh, then gently shake his head “The seeds of the illness have taken deep root There’s no way for it to be reversed”

“Ah!” Yichuan’s face instantly turned white

Ninefire sighed “That year, your as a peak Xiantian expert During that disaster, it was one thing for her foundation to have been daed; if she had been immediately treated, it would have been fine But your wife then executed that secret art which took her own life energy…it was like another blow to her already heavily injured body, causing the illness to be even more deeply rooted! Unless you can find some sort of pill suitable for mortals to use to extend their lives…there is no other method”

“Longevity-enhancing pill for mortals?” Yichuan looked his wife, and Snow looked back at hiently “Yichuan, I understand my illness”

If it was just a h such a pill would be incomparably expensive, if Yichuan bankrupted himself, sold off all his possessions as well as the thousands of unranked iven hiht be able to acquire one such pill But the additional requirement of ‘suitable for mortals to use’…the price would instantly rise by several additional levels

The more powerful a medicinal pill, the more powerful thea person’s lifespan was a pill that defied the natural course of heaven A pill that not only did this but also did it in such a hich allowed the weak, fragile bodies of a mortal to be able to endure the process…the preciousness of such a pill was far beyond what the likes of the Ji clan could possibly iine

“Yichuan” Ninefire said slowly, “I’ve refined soe for them to be sent over Your wife should have another three months of life”

“Three ed

Snow just revealed a smile She said, “Yichuan” Yichuan hurriedly turned to look at his wife, who laughed and said, “ThreeI did what I did that year in order to give birth to Ning If I hadn’t given birth to Ning, I ht have been able to live an extra twenty years, but every single day of those twenty years, I would have been in a hell of regret But now, every day of these ten years that I have lived, I have lived happily It’s enough, it’s enough Have Ning co as he is by my side, all is well!”

“Alright” Yichuan hurriedly nodded, then after pondering for a moment, shouted, “Brother Black, Azure Firebird”

Immediately, from outside, a black-clothed man and an azure-clothed woman stepped in It was the human forms of the black serpent and the Azure Firebird

“Brother Black” Yichuan said hurriedly “Ji Ning will easily be able to recognize your voice Thus, ride atop the Azure Firebird and quickly head to the border region between our Ji clan and the Ironwood clan” As he spoke, a lanced towards the door,sure of their directions, then carefully sensed the location of the jade shich Ning was holding

Staring at the entle tap of the finger, he pointed to a mountain on theis currently at this location He hasn’t h there are slight uncertainties regarding the distance between us, he’s definitely within a hundred kilo as you ride the Azure Firebird to the air above the mountain, then call for him and say that his mother is critically ill and that he is to quickly return, he will definitely hear it”

“Understood” The black-clothedability is far beyond that of ordinary people’s He should be able to hear my voice from as far as two or three hundred kilometers away”

It wasn’t possible for mortals to project their voices a hundred kilometers, but it was si had been at Serpentwing Lake and shouted at Serpentwing, his voice had also projected throughout the lake

“Azure Firebird, I’ll have to trouble you to arbed woman

“A sentle “We can’t delay for even awith Elder Brother Black”

“Let’s go” The black-clothed ht away

Taking the arbed man quickly mounted onto the back of the Azure Firebird, then quickly fleards the direction of the borders between the Ji clan and the Ironwood clan

“Ning, son” Snoatched as the Azure Firebird flew high into the sky, and in her heart she began to miss her son The closer she drew to death, the more she wanted to see her son, her dearly beloved son

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The Azure Firebird’s speed was astonishi+ngly fast In less than two hours, she had already arrived in the air above that mountain

“This is the h up in the air, it was very easy to recognize the landscape below

“Elder Brother Black, call for hied

“Right” The black serpent stared below, then i loudly, “Young , your mother is critically ill Quickly return!”

“Young , your mother is critically ill Quickly return!” This voice echoed down fro an area of two hundred kilometers of the forests and mountain below And directly beneath them, deep within that mountain…there were a million commoners, whom the two spirit-beasts didn’t notice at all

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Within the mountain

Those Xiantian lifefor countless amounts of torment They had to endure torture, and yet they were still kept alive This was because the longer they were tortured, the greater the rage and hatred these Xiantian lifeforms would feel! The more powerful, the deeper their hatred, the fiercer the dread wraiths their souls would transform into