Chapter 543 - That Look! (2/2)

The blue jade is here but Ning Qian isn’t here… She once regarded this jade like her own life. How could she leave it behind here so carelessly?

“Ning Fan. I beg you. Please help me find her!” Yun Ruowei held Ning Fan’s hand helplessly. How could it just end like that after making so much effort to find a clue about Ning Qian’s whereabouts…?

“I’ll try my best!”

He wanted to find Ning Qian not only for Yun Ruowei but also for himself.

He held the Blue Bridge Jade Pendant and unleashed the power of his memory intent, enveloping the entire Weeping Blood Forest with it!

He took out a pile of Min Luo Fruits. He obtained all of them from the treant. There were twenty of them in total. Without hesitation, he consumed every single one of them!

He did not wish to enter the dream state by taking those Min Luo Fruits. The reason why he released his memory intent was not because he wanted to wipe out anyone’s memories.

A single Min Luo Fruit could allow one to go through fifty years of dream realm. Twenty of those fruits would be equivalent to one thousand years of dream realm!

He just wanted to clearly see everything that had happened throughout the past one thousand years!

He closed his eyes and sat cross-legged on the ground. The scenery in his mind was rapidly changing.

Min Luo Fruits could improve one’s state of mind in the dreams while allowing them to look back at the things in their memories.

Ning Fan had the memories of Hai Ning. That was why he managed to see that his original surname was Yun in the Min Luo Dream Realm.

Ning Fan did not have the memories of the Weeping Blood Forest. Therefore, he could only borrow the memories of the forest to enter the dream!

Min Luo Dream Realm!

In the dream, Ning Fan was not a human but the entire Weeping Blood Forest, the forest in one thousand years ago!

He could not move nor speak. All he could do was to observe all the living creatures using his spirit sense in his territory.

He had become a vast land and mountain forest!

One thousand years ago, the Weeping Blood Forest was not surrounded by a thick blood mist. There also was not a blood-red pond in its deepest part.

The sun rose and the moon fell. Countless demon beasts were born and passed away in this forest. Countless cultivators of Wu Country entered the forest to temper themselves by killing demons. Some of them died, some of them lived.

Ning Fan did not care about these demon beasts and cultivators. He was just waiting for the person he was looking for to come.

One day, a gentle woman wearing light yellow dress stumbled into the forest while carrying an ice cold child in her arms.

“She is…” Ning Fan wanted to speak but he could not make any noise because he was just a piece of land.

She was Ning Qian!

Ning Qian’s body was emanating the Late Nascent Soul Realm qi. However, she was gravely injured and her face was pale.

Her eyes were extremely beautiful. They were bright like the moon but they were filled with sadness and despair. Tears were flowing down her cheeks incessantly.

“My… child…”

Ning Qian was carrying a baby boy that was not even one-month-old. She fell down at the end of the forest, overwhelmed by grief.

The child in her embrace was wearing a cotton jacket with a jubilant color. His soft like hands were still holding to her sleeve but he was already dying and unconscious.

The baby was on the brink of death. His heart meridians were broken and all his essence qi was sucked dry by someone… He could only hang on to life because he had consumed a high-grade pill.

Ning Fan was shocked upon seeing baby’s condition. Who could be so cruel to actually suck a baby’s blood dry?!

Ning Qian felt like her heart was shredded to pieces and her face became even paler.

She stroked the baby’s ice cold baby with her hand and looked at the baby’s breathing that was getting weaker and weaker. She held back her tears with forced a smile.

“I won’t let you die… As long as I can revive you, I’m willing to even give up my life!”

Ning Qian stared at the pond that was one chi* (30.7 cm per chi) in front of her with her eyes flashing with determination.

She bit her finger and suddenly performed a series of hand seals while enduring the pain. She condensed her fresh blood into silks to form a cocoon and sealed the baby inside it. Then, she took off the blue jade pendant she was wearing and placed it inside the blood cocoon with the baby.

“You father said this is the Life Locking Demon Cocoon Technique of the ancient demon race. The demon cocoon can shield a person from the heavenly secret and lock their life force…”

Ning Qian’s face turned paler than before. Apparently, it was extremely taxing for her to display that technique.

“They’ve extracted all your blood. I’ll then give you my blood. You must come back to life. Come back to life…”

Ning Qian embraced the demon cocoon as gently as she was hugging her baby.

She bit her other fingers and pressed them on the rough surface of the demon cocoon, spreading her blood all over it.

When she was rubbing her wounds on the rough demon cocoon, the pain was excruciating but she did not bother it.

“I won’t let you die. I won’t let anyone harm you…” Ning Qian said with a pale smile while rubbing her blood over the demon cocoon repeatedly.

One day. Two days… On the tenth day, all of her ten fingers were covered with wounds. Her blood was nearly drained completely.

She stared blankly at the demon cocoon in her embrace and continuously channeled her demon power into it.

As the demon cocoon absorbed her blood, it gave off faint red glow. However, it could not retain the baby’s life force that was slowly draining away.

Ning Qian shed tears of despair. She was helpless and sad. As her tears fell onto the demon cocoon, it washed away a few droplets of blood.

She hurriedly wiped off her tears and bit her fingers again, trying to repaint that spot with her essence blood.

However, there was already no blood within her meridians… If she were a mortal, she would have certainly been dead. However, since she was a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, she could still live as long as her nascent soul was not destroyed.

“I have no more blood. What should I do…?”

Panic filled her face. At the next instant, she seemed like she had thought of an idea as she took out a small but sharp flying sword and plunged it into her chest.

“I still have heart blood… It’s still fine. It’s still fine…”

After piercing through her heart, her cultivation base began regressing. From the Late Nascent Soul Realm, it fell to the Early Nascent Soul Realm… Slowly, even her Nascent Soul Realm was started to become unstable…

She did not have time to care about her own injuries and cultivation base. She just took out a jade bottle and filled it up with every drop of her heart blood. After that, she spread it on the demon cocoon.

Even though she had already sacrificed her heart blood, the baby inside the demon cocoon was still dying slowly.

One day, two days… On the third day, Ning Qian was carrying the demon cocoon with her body trembling. The red glow of the demon cocoon was gradually diminishing. As she was sensing the breathing within the cocoon that was weakening by the time, agony drowned her…

On the fourth day, the baby had stopped breathing completely and dead…

“NO—–”

Ning Qian’s voice was hoarse. Her tears dried. Her body was shaking uncontrollably as if her soul had been pulled away from her. It was as if she had lost the whole world…

“I won’t let you die! I won’t let you die!!!”

Her dim beautiful eyes were filled with sadness.

She gazed into the sky, wailing helplessly as if she was about to go crazy… She could not lose her child! She could not!

Her eyes always looked gentle and feeble. At this moment, however, they flickered with an inextinguishable persistence!

No one could seize her child from her!

She was willing to give up everything as long as she could exchange for the child’s life!

*Chi*

A flying sword penetrated through her dantian, piercing into her nascent soul. Ning Qian already could no longer feel any physical pain. Then, she wiped the blood of her nascent soul on the demon cocoon with a blakn expression.

It was the blood of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator’s life. When her blood was drained completely, it would be the end of her life!

“I beg you… Please return my child to me…”

“Please…”

“Please… I beg you…”

Ning Tian was begging and praying helplessly. Even though she was about to die, all she wished was to revive her child before she breathes her last.

The current Ning Qian had lost all of her cultivation base. Despite her imminent death, the persistence in her as a mother was so stubborn that even the Heavenly Dao could not douse it!

She dismissed all of her demon blood. The blood mist covered the entire Weeping Blood Forest. Even the pond water was dyed red.

The breathing of the baby in the demon cocoon gradually stabilized. All of a sudden, he started laughing in his dream. It was unknown what beautiful dream he had dreamed of…

Ning Qian put on an ashen smile. She had rescued her child from fate…

As such, she would have no regret even if she dies…

The baby was sucking his thumb while chuckling joyfully. Well, how would he know that he was about to lose his mother.

Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel