481 Fire Calamity Frui (1/2)
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
Mo Fan arrived at a speculation from the conversation between the two. When he saw that Zhao Manyan had no idea how to continue the topic, he immediately switched the topic and said, ”So the burns she suffered were from the fire here?”
Chen Yi slowly recovered from her anger and spoke as calmly as she could, ”It's the Fire Calamity. Around twelve years ago, my parents came to this North Burning Valley to find a Fire Element Soul Seed, but found themselves in the middle of the Fire Calamity. They tried to run as far as they could, but the Fire Calamity was too fast for them, and they were soon devoured by the fire.”
Chen Yi's gaze changed as she spoke. She had heard the truth from her mother, who kept on telling her about it over the past ten years. Every time her mother mentioned it, she could clearly sense the sorrow and anger in her mother's heart, the urge to simply peel the layer of burned skin off, the despair her mother was suffering from.
”That doesn't make sense; if your parents were caught in the Fire Calamity more than ten years ago, shouldn't they be dead now? However, Uncle Zhao Yulin is still well and alive, and is living an enjoyable life with his second wife,” said Zhao Manyan.
”My mother's Secondary Element is Wind. In order to let one of them survive, she had given her Wind Equipment to my father and cast the last Wind Track on him, helping him to return to the family unharmed. The resources he brought back with him helped the family to overcome a difficult situation of the family during that time, which is why his status in the family rose all of a sudden,” said Chen Yi.
The group fell silent when they heard the explanation. They had witnessed the scariness of the Fire Calamity. Humans were nothing compared to the punishment meted out by nature, and their hearts would be overwhelmed with fear knowing there was nothing they could do to stand against the disaster. Their only option was to flee.
It was rare to learn that someone was willing to sacrifice themselves just to get their companion to safety.
”My mother was consumed by the Fire Calamity, but because her Primary Element was Fire, and for some other reasons, she survived. She was saved by a creature whose figure was engulfed in flames. It fed her a unique fruit of the Burning Valley, which just barely prevented her organs from being destroyed by the fire. She lived in the Burning Valley for many years, as her body was in very bad shape. It took her a very long time to finally be able to move, and after stumbling into a group of Hunters who had come to find some treasure, she traded some rare loot to them and asked them to bring her back to Dunhuang.”
”I believe you can all guess what happened after that. My father didn't want his peaceful life to be disturbed, so he never admitted her identity. He simply gave her a fake one, and arranged for her to live in a house. Even though he tried asking a few famous Healers to treat her on the surface, he never tried his best to help her. It is like he has completely forgotten that he could only enjoy his current life because of my mother's sacrifice. My mother is living in suffering, and the only drive that keeps her going, is the promise I made that I would find a cure for her.”
The confidence she wore normally was absent when she recalled the past with a hint of hatred. It was obvious that her mother's circumstances had greatly influenced her.
”So that's why you are here in the Burning Valley... but your mother used to live here for quite some time. Why didn't she come and look for the cure herself? I don't believe you're here purely to look for the cure too,” said Mo Fan.