Chapter 369 - The Rescue (1/2)

Chapter 369: The Rescue

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As she took in the desolate land and strange sights around her, a uan Ru

Fro hu In her drea the Stone Castle in a blaze of glory and returning triumphantly, but now, she was alone and without support She had no direction and was like a rant bird who had left its flock

There was a short while where she felt that the world was unfair to her She had done nothing wrong, yet her family and friends treated her terribly and she was surrounded by lies and conspiracies since she was young

As such, the seeds of hatred were very nearly sown in the young woman’s heart

At thisblew across and her mood suddenly became carefree The wind had completely blown the seeds of hatred away

However, when she recalled her past, the carefree feeling soon went away as quickly as the slight waran to think that she was not co pampered, and even if she had har to, she would be completely clueless until she experienced the same kind of hurt herself Only then, would she understand how much pain she had caused others in the past

She had happily tortured the slaves in the fort in the past and believed their ss She had even infor the deaths of the two giant golden-crowned rocs, ere like family to Slave Huan At that time, she was proud of her own actions, but Slave Huan dared not show that he was displeased in the least

,” </e ic situation today”</euan Yushi+, as her closest friend and hom she seemed to be completely open with She could now recall that their conversations were never about her friend and they only talked about herself“What did Master Yu like? What did she hate? How could I not know anything about theuan Ru was like an old person as self-aware of her own i death as she tried to recollect every ly detached from her previous self the more she remeht

She would have been driven insane if she kept at it Luckily, a very sied her out frory till the point where her sto

She fished out soer subsided as she ate a little Her abdoer She felt as if so up her insides with a pair of blunt scissors Eventually, it grew to a point where she was unable to continue riding her horse

She had to disth in a bid to contain the pain, but it y had becoh her meridians Every inch they moved caused her to feel even ave up She sat on a rock, hugging her knees close to her chest, comforted by the idea that she was about to die

She was certain of the source of poison – someone had put it in her food “Was it Slave Huan or Maid Lotus? It doesn’t ht

Sweat droplets the size of beans began rolling off her forehead onto the ground in front of her toes The dry earth absorbed the no traces behind

rass will sprout here soht, her nonsensical ideas still not yet co that her corpse would probably provide sufficient nutrients for a sradually stopped after two hours She felt a little regretful that she was still alive

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She led the horse by its reins, wandering about the wilderness without any hurry She only wanted to head southwards, as far away from her previous life as possible

She did not travel far that entire day The pain in her abdo back every four to six hours and when it flared up, she had to stop and curl up with her knees close to her chest as much as possible for the pain to slowly subside

The option of heading back to get the antidote froht, she erected a small tent She kept her ears peeled to the calls of the wild outside as she lay inside She tried to bear the pain in her abdoht

On theof the next day, she felt incredibly tired but did not wish to stop at her current spot As such, she dismantled her tent and decided that she would travel for as far she could

The sack for the tent was left outside the entire night, tied to a sturdy piece of rock Just as Shangguan Ru was about to keep the folded felt tent, she noticed that there was so unexpected inside

At first, she was shocked as she thought that it was a wild creature that had crawled into the sack in the ht to escape from the cold When she took a closer look, she discovered that it was not a creature but seemed to be a small child It was curled up into a ball like a porcupine and looked as if it was trying to bear an abdorabbed and lifted the intruder by its hair She soon recognized the creased, extrely face of Old Man Mu

Her first reaction was to fling hi herself for a fight

Old Man Mu turound He was still curled up like a shrivelled up piece of meat and he did not shout in pain or guan Ru’s heart was racing As she began thinking about his terrible kung fu technique which specialized in ripping out the hearts of his opponents, it began beating even faster

After exactly 15 minutes, she slowly moved towards Old Man Mu She prodded hi force Eventually, he gave out a weak groan, proving that he was still alive but had lost the ability to react

Multiple questions cauan Ru did not understand how he had escaped or co question was how she should handle him

To most people, the easiest solution would be to kill hiuan Ru could not bring herself to do it Her disgust for killing had far exceeded her fear of being killed by the old man