Chapter 181 - Heavens Tears Heart (2/2)

After Lan You Nian’s breathing had smoothed out, Feng Yi Xuan quietly left the room and headed towards Gui Yi Zi’s medicine room. Outside the medicine room, there hung several lovely lanterns. In this pitch black forest in the mountains, it appeared like a dazzling warm light.

Feng Yi Xuan knocked on the door of the medicine room. To speak the truth, he really rarely knocked on the door. Most of the time, he simply walked in directly, but Gui Yi Zi wasn’t those other people. He was Nian Nian’s respected shifu. He was also the elder he wanted to thank.

“Enter!” Gui Yi Zi’s voice drifted from the medicine room but for some reason, one could hear there was a hint of melancholy.

Feng Yi Xuan’s eyes flashed as he walked into the medicine room. The walls of the room were embedded with several glow in the dark night pearls, so the entire medicine room was very bright. Gui Yi Zi, dressed in blue, lowered his head as he currently held the Heavenly Spirit Fruit carefully preparing the antidote. Feng Yi Xuan didn’t utter a word as he quietly sat on a clean chair in the room, silently waiting.

It was after several hours have passed that Gui Yi finally put down the medicinal things in his hand, then came over to the chair beside Feng Yi Xuan and sat down, grim and scrutinizing as he looked at Feng Yi Xuan, those eyes contained a hint of aggression, but didn’t contain any malice.

“Do you know why this old man let you come alone?” After studying him for a while, Gui Yi Zi noted this man was a rarely seen sovereign of the world. He can tell Feng Yi Xuan’s deep care for his family’s little Nian Nian, but as the guardian, Gui Yi Zi was still very worried. This was the meaning of so called phrase ‘raising a child to ninety-nine but worry to one hundred’.

“It’s about Nian Nian isn’t it?” Feng Yi Xuan said. Simply just sitting in a plain bamboo chair, it gave viewers the same feeling as if he was sitting at that lofty sovereign’s throne.

“Yes!” Gui Yi Zi nodded gravely.

Feng Yi Xuan suddenly asked, startled “Is it Nian Nian’s poison?” Feng Yi Xuan was unaware that his voice carried a hint of trembling and fear, as well as heartache. Though he knew no matter where Nian Nian was, he will accompany her, for not even Death can separate them, but if one could live, who would choose to die?

“You must know the Heavenly Spirit Fruit can only relieve little Nian Nian of the pain from the poison, but it has no effect on the poison in the body” Gui Yi Zi sighed, then continued “Last time little Nian Nian’s poison couldn’t be suppressed, the Fragrant Lotus was obtained, so she was unable to hold on for so long, but little Nian Nian’s poison can no longer be suppressed. If we can’t find the antidote, I’m afraid…”

Gui Yi Zi’s worried voice reverberated in Feng Yi Xuan’s ears, like a basin of cold water pouring down from his head, instantly chilling to the bone. Even though the medicine room was as warm as spring, it couldn’t disperse the coldness surrounding Feng Yi Xuan. Feng Yi Xuan’s previously emotionless eyes instantly became sharp as a blade, so sharp it could cut through air.

“No one can take away Nian Nian, no one!” Feng Yi Xuan’s voice was indifferent as icicles hanging from an iceberg. Entering the ears, it was chilling. It contained a solemn conviction that was irrefutable.

Gui Yi Zi laid his eyes on Feng Yi Xuan who was filled with darkness and killing intent, knowing inside that if anything happened to little Nian Nian, this man probably won’t be able to live. The resentment towards the two’s abrupt engagement dispersed with Feng Yi Xuan’s agitated expression. He was reassured that little Nian Nian had such a man who loved her so much.

“How much of the antidote has been developed?” Feng Yi Xuan stabilized his emotions. He won’t allow anything to happen to Nian Nian. No matter what price he had to pay, he will make Nian Nian get better. They haven’t married yet, he hasn’t given Nian Nian a wedding, he hasn’t grown old with her, so how can he let anything happen to Nian Nian?

“I’ve already developed more than half of it. There is still a few that haven’t been developed. I can’t promise to develop it before little Nian Nian dies from the poison” Gui Yi Zi sighed with guilt. People of the world all say Gui Yi Zi can steal away someone from Lord Yama, but they don’t know he had to watch the disciple he was most fond of tortured by poison and remain powerless to do anything. Most of Gui Yi Zi’s time was spent in the medicine room, tirelessly experimenting on the poison in Lan You Nian’s body. But this poison wasn’t really person-it originates from poison, never seen or heard of before. If it wasn’t Gui Yi Zi, an normal person would have died many years ago.

Feng Yi Xuan suddenly felt his heart was weighed down by a massive stone, making him unable to breathe. His eyes were a deep black that mingled with a purple radiance, like the sky of a silent night and like tidal waves of an inky night, undulating.

“If the cure can’t be developed, Nian Nian…” Feng Yi Xuan’s voice shuddered as he asked “How long can Nian Nian hold on?”

Seeing Feng Yi Xuan like this, Gui Yi Zi couldn’t bear it, but he knew some things must be said, “This old man doesn’t know. Maybe it will be the next relapse, or perhaps next year’s relapse, or even decades later….”

Feng Yi Xuan’s eyes gradually froze over, into blades of ice. Those eyes were much more than just glacial, for they were intermixed with a predatory, blood-thirsty darkness, as if they contained the urge to destroy the heavens and earth. Gui Yi Zi, noting this, was perturbed, for he had never seen such an expression.

“However, this old man can definitely develop a cure. Currently, little Nian Nian’s medicine requires an herb, so this old man came to find you!” Gui Yi Zi stated. Little Nian Nian was blessed, so she definitely can hold on for a few more days; he definitely can save little Nian Nian.

“Talk!” Feng Yi Xuan commanded plainly. No matter what was needed, he will obtain it.

“Nian Nian’s antidote contains one Heavens’ Tears Heart, and it is a purple Heavens’ Tears Heart. You should know how rare a purple Heavens’ Tears Heart is, so rare that it is hard to come by in centuries, but it is necessary. This old man knows you have the ability, so tonight I sought you out to inform you of this!” Gui Yi Zi paused, then continued “Additionally, I wanted to see if little Nian Nian picked the right person. I have to say you really are little Nian Nian’s perfect match!”

Heavens’ Tears Heart is a type of herb. Ordinary Heavens’ Tears Heart, though uncommon, wasn’t difficult to find, but purple Heavens’ Tears Heart was extremely difficult to find. Tonight, Gui Yi Zi had Feng Yi Xuan come over: firstly, to talk about the poison in little Nian Nian’s body so he would have some warning; secondly, he wanted to see what was so great about this man to make the ice-hearted little Nian’er fall in love; however, after attentively studying, Gui Yi Zi accepted accepted Feng Yi Xuan, more or less, but he wouldn’t spare Feng Yi Xuan with his words; after all, stealing his beloved disciple, it was unforgivable.

“I know!” Feng Yi Xuan stated, then left the medicine room. Nian Nian was still in the room by herself; he wasn’t reassured.

Hearing Gui Yi Zi’s words, Feng Yi Xuan, not for the lack of worrying, wouldn’t show it on his face no matter how worried he was. He knew the situation hasn’t reached a point where it can’t be saved. If Nian Nian’s poison required anything, he will obtain it. If Nian Nian can’t pull through, he wouldn’t survive alone!

Deep asleep, Lan You Nian wasn’t aware that the man beside her bore the conviction of not separating in life or death, this night, and this man didn’t sleep a wink the entire just as he simply gazed upon Lan You Nian’s sleeping face, as if no matter how much he looked, it wasn’t enough…