Chapter 34 - Coma (2/2)

“Zhou Ji, you have to be alright…” Xiong Ye’s voice trembled a little. He had always felt that men shouldn’t cry, but at this moment, tears prickled in his eyes.

“May the Beast God bless him. He will definitely be alright.” The priest added. Although he spoke the words, his gaze was full of worry when he looked at Zhou Ji.

Zhou Ji seemed to be suffering from the sudden onslaught of some illness… There had been others with symptoms like this in their tribe before, but they had all died in the end…

There was a high possibility that Zhou Ji wouldn’t live.

The priest was very distressed as he looked at Xiong Ye.

He didn’t have any children of his own, but Xiong Ye was someone he had watched grow up. He had always been very kind and respectful towards him, and the priest basically treated Xiong Ye as his own child. Recently, Xiong Ye had first been abandoned by Shi Li, and it hadn’t been easy for him to recover and begin to like Zhou Ji, but now something like this had happened to Zhou Ji…

Xiong Ye was really too unlucky!

The priest sighed, “The two of you care so much about each other, the Beast God will bless you both… Take him back to your cave and take proper care of him. You can also feed him some honey.”

He couldn’t determine what kind of illness Zhou Ji had, so he naturally had no way to take care of Zhou Ji. Since that was the case, he might as well have Xiong Ye look after him.

“Alright, Grandpa Priest.” Xiong Ye replied quietly, then picked up Zhou Ji and carried him back to his cave.

Zhou Ji’s bed was especially clean and tidy, but right now, regardless of whether it was him or Zhou Ji, neither of them were clean at all…

Xiong Ye put the soft, seemingly completely powerless Zhou Ji onto his own bed, his voice a little choked up as he said, “Zhou Ji, you have to wake up…”

Xiong Ye had proposed to Zhou Ji back then mostly because he felt that Zhou Ji was suitable for him. However, when he saw Zhou Ji’s current appearance, looking as though he was nearly on his last breath, he was frantic with panic, and his heart felt like it had been pinched hard by something; it beat erratically in agitation and couldn’t quite seem to function properly.

If something happened to Zhou Ji, would there still be someone to cook for him and accompany him in the future?

Xiong Ye couldn’t describe how anxious he felt, but he also didn’t know what else he could do… He found the honey, then mixed it with water and tried to feed it to Zhou Ji, but the water just slipped out and ran down from the corner of Zhou Ji’s mouth.

Xiong Ye simply took a sip of it himself, then used mouth-to-mouth to feed it to Zhou Ji.

Zhou Ji: Alright then, not only was his first kiss gone now, so were his second and third kisses.

Zhou Ji knew that Xiong Ye was extremely sad and worried at the moment, and he really wanted to give Xiong Ye some response while Xiong Ye was trying to feed him the honey water. He thought about coming back to life like a ‘fake corpse’ in order to amuse Xiong Ye a little, but the energy within his body was too chaotic, and he really couldn’t manage it at all.

It was more likely that he would suddenly spit up blood into Xiong Ye’s mouth.

Zhou Ji no longer dared to think about these random things and focused instead on drawing the extra energy into the crystal core inside his body.

The crystal core absorbed these energies very easily, but there was way, way too much of it, and his crystal core was unable to take it all in.

When he had first transmigrated over, the crystal core in his body had been transparent and colorless, but after two months of cultivation, this crystal core had begun to show traces of yellow. Now…

After absorbing a lot of energy, his crystal core had already turned orange.

The rate at which the crystal core absorbed the energy became faster as the color turned darker, but even so, he still couldn’t finish absorbing all of it.

If it hadn’t been for his spiritual powers valiantly suppressing these energies, he might have already exploded from the energy within his body and become a bloody corpse.

There was no need to mention that it would be fatal; it would definitely also scare Xiong Ye.

Zhou Ji continued to struggle with the extra energy within his body.

It was a very painful situation. Sometimes, he really wanted to give up dealing with this energy and just let himself explode and be done with it.

In his previous life, he had done exactly that, allowing himself to enter mass slaughter mode and fight until he died.

However, this world was so wonderful, he didn’t want to die.

What’s more, there was Xiong Ye in this world.

He was going to marry Xiong Ye. How could he just give up at this time?

Just as he was thinking this, Zhou Ji once again heard Xiong Ye say that he couldn’t die, and that he had to wake up.

He mustn’t die! If he died, maybe someone else would come to sleep in his cave and stroke his bear!

How could he let that happen!

Zhou Ji was constantly trying hard to sort out and absorb the energy in his body, while Xiong Ye was so anxious he was pacing around in circles.

He hadn’t eaten much this morning and hadn’t eaten anything since then. In fact, he was very hungry but didn’t have any attention to spare to take care of it.

There was still a lot of blood on his body, and Zhou Ji had spat out a mouthful of blood onto him later. He was sticky all over and very uncomfortable, but he also didn’t have any attention to spare to deal with that either.

Xiong Ye kept watch by Zhou Ji’s side and could only continuously pray over and over again. He prayed for the Beast God to bless Zhou Ji and prayed for Zhou Ji to be alright.

Zhou Ji: He suddenly felt a little jealous of the Beast God…

He didn’t know how long it took, but the crystal core in Zhou Ji’s body slowly began to turn red.

The red crystal core looked very beautiful and absorbed energy even more quickly. At the same time, Zhou Ji also realized that he had now become very, very powerful.

Regardless of whether it was his powers or his spiritual strength, they had both been greatly improved.

However, he had no way to know how strong his spiritual strength was-he was currently using it to suppress the energies in his body!

This energy was simply ridiculous! His crystal core had already gone from a pale, faint yellow to red, but he had only absorbed a tenth of it!

This was clearly going to be the death of him!

Zhou Ji felt really depressed. What made him even more depressed was that he could hear Xiong Ye, who had been accompanying him the whole time, say, “Zhou Ji, dawn is about to break. If you still don’t wake up, we won’t be able to make it in time to hold the mating ceremony…”

To be honest, Zhou Ji wasn’t very fixated on the mating ceremony, but he knew how much Xiong Ye had been looking forward to it.

Could it be that he was actually going to miss his own wedding because he had eaten some unknown fruit?!

That would really be too lame!

Zhou Ji’s body was already slightly better. He used his spiritual strength to suppress the violent energy, then forced his eyes open to look at Xiong Ye, “We’ll make it.”

Xiong Ye had spent the entire night staying up with Zhou Ji. The longer he waited by his side, the more worried he’d been.

Zhou Ji was in too bad of a state. He was really afraid that Zhou Ji would never wake up again.

Towards the end, he wasn’t even thinking about the mating ceremony anymore. He just wanted Zhou Ji to wake up.

And then, dawn arrived.

He had just spoken out such a sentence subconsciously, saying that if Zhou Ji still didn’t wake up, they wouldn’t be able to make it in time for the mating ceremony, but then… Zhou Ji actually woke up?

Xiong Ye was incredibly surprised, “You’re awake? Are you alright?”

“I still need to recover a bit. Go and wash up first.” Zhou Ji glanced at Xiong Ye, then closed his eyes again.

Xiong Ye had constantly remained by his side last night, and he was very touched. The only complaint he had was… Xiong Ye smelled really bad.

Zhou Ji had closed his eyes again, but Xiong Ye believed that having woken up once, he would definitely be able to wake up again a second and third time. Xiong Ye felt a lot more relieved and simultaneously discovered that he was really very, very dirty.

He wouldn’t be able to participate in the mating ceremony if he was like this even if Zhou Ji woke up!

He really needed to wash up.

Xiong Ye immediately climbed down from the cave.

At this time, the sun hadn’t risen fully yet, and the sky had only brightened a little, but the priest had been up for a while. Seeing Xiong Ye, he immediately asked, “Xiong Ye, how is Zhou Ji?”

Xiong Ye had suddenly crawled out of his cave… Something couldn’t have happened to Zhou Ji, right?

“Grandpa Priest, Zhou Ji woke up! He told me to go and wash up!” Xiong Ye said. He didn’t even turn his head back to glance at him as he ran off.

He woke up? Zhou Ji actually woke up? He had really looked like he was about to die yesterday, but he actually woke up overnight?

The priest went back to his cave and picked up the calming herbs that Xiong Ye had gathered-this herb couldn’t really be a miracle herb, right?

It was really too effective!

The author has something to say:Shi Li: I am going to give up on feelings and pursue strength!Priest: This is really a miracle herb!!Xiong Ye: I want to get married!!!Author: There’ll be another chapter soon. You’ll get married…

Juurensha: Shi Li, you have only yourself to blame. And I’m excited we’re getting the ceremony next chapter!xiin: so, so much happened in this one chapter! First (second and third) kisses, Shi Li’s mental turning point, feelings…