Chapter 1893 (1/2)

“Ah!” A sweet cry rang beside him. “You’re awake, husband!”

Yun Che looked up. Su Ling’er’s face was just inches away from his own, and Caizhi and Little Demon Empress were right beside her. They had clearly been watching over him for a very long time.

He actually wasn’t sure if he had woken up from his slumber. The dreams were that realistic, and he had never remembered them as clearly as he was now.

“What happened?” Caizhi asked. “Why did you seal your senses for such a long time?”

“It’s nothing. It’s a special state of enlightenment,” replied Yun Che while returning his gaze to the courtyard. Still a little out of it, he asked, “So, how long was I out this time?”

“Seven days,” Su Ling’er replied.

At least it wasn’t half a month like last time.

Before he could relax though, Su Ling’er dropped another bomb. “Husband, you need to check on sister Lingxi now.”

“Lingxi?” Her panicky tone jolted him like lightning. He rose to his feet and asked, “What happened to her?”

“She fainted when you sealed away your own senses. I wasn’t able to wake her up no matter what I tried, and… she still hasn’t woken up yet.”

Yun Che was already gone before Su Ling’er finished her sentence.

Xiao Lingxi was lying quietly on her bed and breathing evenly. Her face looked pale, but thankfully it wasn’t so sickly that it was cause for worry.

However, her brow was knitted into a small but permanent frown. It was as if an invisible string was tugging at her mind and keeping her from true rest.

Yun Che grabbed her right wrist with one hand and tapped her solar plexus with the other. He slowly injected a vast amount of profound energy into her body in the gentlest way he could.

A careful examination later, Yun Che’s own brow relaxed for a second before knitting again in doubt.

Xiao Lingxi’s vitality and soul sea were perfectly normal. There were no internal or external injuries to be found either. If she was someone else, he would’ve assumed that they were pretending to be unconscious already. However, Xiao Lingxi would never pull something like that.

“How is she?” Su Ling’er asked nervously.

Yun Che rose up and answered, “She’s… fine. She’ll probably awaken very soon.”

Noticing Yun Che’s odd tone and expression, Su Ling’er hesitated for a moment before saying, “To tell you the truth, this isn’t the first or even the tenth time sister Lingxi has fallen into an unnatural sleep like this. It is the longest she has ever been unconscious though.”

“What?” Yun Che’s eyes narrowed. “When was that?”

“It began when you first left for the God Realm,” Su Ling’er said. “She fainted the moment you left with Senior Mu Bingyun.”

Yun Che: “...”

“She woke up really quickly that time, but her heart rate and pulse had become ten times faster than a normal person’s.”

“What!?” Yun Che exclaimed in shock.

Xiao Lingxi’s cultivation was extremely weak back then. Her heart rate and pulse should never be able to jump that high!

Su Ling’er continued, “However, it wasn’t long before she fully returned to normal, so I simply assumed that it was a case of excessive worry and didn’t pay it too much attention.”

“I was wrong. Since that day, she would fall unconscious from time to time, and the duration kept growing longer and longer. I was never able to find out the cause... after her thirty third coma though, the mysterious ailment suddenly vanished. She has been fine ever since.”

“But now, it’s starting again…”

Su Ling’er clenched her hands like she could somehow squeeze out her worries.

“Why didn’t I know about this sooner?” A deep sense of unease grew in Yun Che’s heart.

She replied, “You were gone for years, and when you returned you had lost all of your profound energy. How could we burden you with even more worry?”

“Sister Lingxi had already made a full recovery by then too. She told us again and again not to tell you about it and make you worry.”

Xiao Lingxi had always been like this. Even when they were younger, she had never been willing to burden him or add to his worries.

A heavy rock sat in Yun Che’s chest. He thought to himself in frustration, what is happening to Lingxi?

Please, just please don’t let it be harmful to her.

No. No. If it isn’t harmful, then all is well. If it is, then I will neutralize it no matter what it is.

I am the Great Emperor of the God Realm and the cultivator of the Divine Miracle of Life… there is nothing I can’t solve!

He exhaled slowly to enter a state of perfect calmness and sobriety. Then, he began his questions, “Besides the obvious, what other symptoms did she display during that time?”

Su Ling’er thought for a moment before replying, “There were a couple of times she would say weird things after she awoke from her slumber.”

“Like what?” Yun Che asked urgently.

“For example, on the day she saw you off to the God Realm she said… she said she saw you scattering into ashes amidst a terrible explosion of fire and starlight.”[1]

“!!!” Yun Che’s expression didn’t change, but his mind had become as turbulent as a sea storm.

He had in fact perished during his first trip to the Star God Realm.

The Star Gods of the Star God Realm had killed him with their starlight powers...

… and the flames of nirvana had claimed him in those final moments.

……

Illusion?

Coincidence?

Prophecy...

……

“Little… Che…”

A quiet voice abruptly brought him back down to earth. He looked down and saw Xiao Lingxi opening her eyes slowly.

“Lingxi!”

Yun Che immediately leaned forward and placed an arm across her back. He slowly helped her to a sitting position on her bed.

“Are you alright, Sister Lingxi? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?” Su Ling’er asked both worriedly and concernedly.

Xiao Lingxi shook her head. “I’m fine. I just… had a very long dream.”

“... a dream?” Yun Che’s features twitched a little. It so happened that he had woken up from a long dream himself.