1472 Rebirth; Vow; Follower! (1/2)

Qiu Luo suddenly started to shout with his bloodshot eyes filled with rage,

”Yes! You are young! You have a long life ahead of you! You have a bright future to come! You will meet a lot of opportunities! What about me? I have nothing… Nothing… Why? Why do you have to hurt me before I die? Why do you have to bring me pain? Why do you have to humiliate me like this? Why do you have to rip off the disguise on my shameful heart!”

”I have my own reason to stop you from your stupid suicide. Believe me, it is meaningless for me to hurt a man who is useless to the world. However, there is a question. What if I can cure you?” Ye Xiao calmly said.

”You can cure me? What if you can cure me?” Qiu Luo was shocked, and he automatically repeated the words Ye Xiao just said.

”I can cure you. I can save your life. I can enable you to take your own vengeance.” Ye Xiao coldly said, ”Well, but you don't seem to need my help. You have given up on yourself. What I can do is meaningless for a man who has given up on hope.”

Qiu Luo was shocked.

”Just think about it. Your beloved Juan'er will be waiting for you down in the netherworld, and she will be disappointed when he found out the truth that you killed yourself. She will still pretend to be happy, and she will tell you that she doesn't care whether you have to take revenge for her or not.” Ye Xiao blandly said and then threw a jade bottle on the ground.

That jade bottle hit the floor and cracked in front of Qiu Luo.

Qiu Luo looked at the jade bottle, and then his eyes started to glow in the lights that had never been in his eyes before.

He was a useless man at the end of his life. It was true that he was nobody now.

However, it didn't mean that he had also lost the knowledge he used to have.

Inside that crystal jade bottle, there was a dan bead, which was floating around inside the bottle.

It was like a living thing, which glowed with some colorful clouds.

Qiu Luo stared at that jade bottle, and he couldn't move his gaze away anymore.

”Supreme Dan!” These two words were the only thing that was left in his head at the moment.

If he got the dan clouds, the worms would be gone.

When the Heaven's Corrupting Worm entered a man's body, no matter how powerful and capable the man was, there was nothing to do to stop it from digging deeper. It was difficult to cure, but it didn't mean there was nothing in the world that could cure it. There were no medicines in the world that could save him, but some poison could save him. The special Pure Toxin Dan at supreme level could remove the Heaven's Corrupting Worm from one's body!

The Heaven's Corrupting Worm would eventually swallow the infected cultivator's soul and spiritual mind because it was powerful, but it could be stopped by the poisonous dan that contained the chaotic energy of greatness in cultivation.

There was always a nemesis to one thing!

When the Heaven's Corrupting Worm met the supreme poisonous dan, it would only surrender!

However, everybody knew that such supreme poisonous dan only existed in myth!

After all, in the Human Realm Upon Heavens, it seemed no dan-makers could make supreme dan anymore.

Supreme Dan had become an extinct art in the Human Realm Upon Heavens!

Even though there might still be some supreme dan beads in the world, they were too precious for Qiu Luo. Not to mention this dying old man, even when he was in his strongest days, he couldn't even get one. Supreme Dan was already so rare, and the supreme poisonous dan was even more difficult to find!

Although medicine and poison were always opposite to each other, poison experts were always medicine experts. Well, it was quite different in the area of dan-making though. An expert of medicines might not be good at making dan beads, not to mention making poisonous dan beads, not even supreme poisonous dan beads.

However, Qiu Luo had never thought that when it seemed the end of his life was about to come and when he had decided to end his life, he actually got to see a supreme dan bead with his own eyes.

The supreme dan bead in the jade bottle wasn't the poisonous supreme dan that could help him remove the Heaven's Corrupting Worm. However, Qiu Luo thought about what Ye Xiao just said, and how Ye Xiao threw out a jade bottle of a supreme dan bead in it. Qiu Luo was sure this young man had the poisonous dan bead, which meant he really was able to help him on getting rid of the Heaven's Corrupting Worm!

One might say that the young man just gave him an illusion, but he knew it was impossible. He believed he had nothing that the young man wanted that was worthy of a supreme dan bead. He believed nobody would use a supreme dan bead to just fool him around!

At that moment, the fire of hope was rising up again in Qiu Luo's heart. The old man's eyes were filled with warm tears. The desperation in his heart had turned into joy.

He felt like he was dragged from hell and then ascended to heaven. It almost broke him down.

As he opened his eyes and raised up his head, he saw Ye Xiao moving to the door. The young man in the white clothes was leaving.

”Wait!” Qiu Luo loudly said, ”Please, stay.”

Ye Xiao stopped.

He must be stopped. He definitely should. That was the reason why he came to this place. He did feel pity for the old man, but it was not the sympathy that brought him here. In the world of cultivators, the weak always got beaten. It was nature's law. Qiu Luo was piteous, but Ye Xiao had seen somebody living much worse than him.

After all, bigger fist obtained bigger power. It was the iron rule in the world, no matter in the Land of Han-Yang, the Qing-Yun Realm, or in the Human Realm Upon Heavens. Therefore, Ye Xiao would never come to help Qiu Luo only out of sympathy. He wanted the old man's life. One supreme dan bead meant nothing to Ye Xiao, but it was precious for anybody else!

Behind him, Qiu Luo was gasping. His voice sounded along with the wind flow, sounding like a windchest.

Qiu Luo had gotten close to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao didn't say a word.

Qiu Luo directly got down on his knees when he had moved close to Ye Xiao.

And he heavily kowtowed to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao took a deep breath and said, ”What is it that you want?”

Qiu Luo didn't answer, he just kept kowtowing while hitting the floor with his forehead. It was bleeding.

”Do you want me to help you?” Ye Xiao asked.

”Yes, I do.”

”Do you want me to deal with the worm inside you? Or do you want me to help you kill your enemy?” Ye Xiao asked.

Qiu Luo stayed quiet because he was thinking. 'Get rid of the worm? Or take revenge?'

It was two different things, totally different things.

”Revenge!” Qiu Luo gritted his teeth and hit his head on the floor so hard that his blood stained the floor.

He chose to take vengeance over surviving the worm.

Vengeance was definitely the absolute priority for Qiu Luo at the moment. It was more important than his life.

Ye Xiao frowned, but in his heart, he was glad.

One choice, one future. Qiu Luo had made a choice, and that choice had decided his future!

”Vengeance…” Ye Xiao took a breath and said, ”What can you offer me, as an exchange?”

Qiu Luo raised up his head. His face looked so old, and he looked nervous all of a sudden.

'That's true… What do I have to return for such a great favor? What can I do for him? Why would he help me?'

'Commiseration? Pity?'

Ye Xiao looked at Qiu Luo, who was lost in thoughts. After a while, Ye Xiao made a long sigh and said, ”Look. That supreme dan bead is an Antidote Dan bead in supreme level. It is not that good, but it will free you from the sufferings for some time.”

Ye Xiao was walking away while talking.

”Just use your time to think about it. Think. What do you have to do to return the favor? What can you offer me?”

”There are a lot of piteous men in the world. I can't take care of them all, can I?”

”Be careful. Think carefully. What do you have that is useful for me? What do you have that can earn you my help?”

”Come to find me when you have the answer.”

Ye Xiao said, ”Qiu Luo, it is fate that brought us together here, so I will promise you one thing. If you choose to kill yourself, I will still find out where your enemy is and kill him someday in the future.”

”You have my word. I make the promise, not because of you, or because of my kindness. I am not a nice man. The truth is, I hate those bastards who force ladies to be with them.”

”Well, if you make the other choice, I will respect it too.”

”I believe you understand. This is the Human Realm Upon Heavens. I can't do much for you. It won't be realistic. I am not that powerful.”

”Anyway, you have to be careful. Think before you act. Think deeper.”

”I live in room number three of the Earth in the Brother's Inn.”

Ye Xiao said the last few words through mind connection.

Ye Xiao just finished talking, and Qiu Luo didn't have time to say anything. Ye Xiao had already flew up like a cloud.

He then disappeared afar from Qiu Luo.

Qiu Luo's skinny hands were shaking. He kept holding the jade bottle in his hands tight.

He was breathing heavily, as if he couldn't breathe, and would be choked to death at any second.

After a while, he finally calmed down. In his eyes, there was a sharpness that hadn't been with him for a long time.

Qiu Luo opened the bottle and put the dan bead into his mouth without a second thought.

”I was in a hopeless situation. I was dying. Why would I hesitate since I have hope now? He gave me hope, so I won't hesitate! I am not a coward!”

Qiu Luo had a clear mind, and he made the decision without hesitation.

After all, what Ye Xiao indicated was actually quite obvious.

'I will kill your enemy for you even if you choose to end your life.'

'If you don't want to die, and you want to do it with your own hands, there will be a price to pay…'

As Ye Xiao said, Qiu Luo understood. It was the Human Realm Upon Heavens after all.

Nobody was obligated to help anybody.

If Ye Xiao said that he would help the old man without asking for anything in return, the old man definitely would not believe him.

Even though Qiu Luo already had nothing valuable to offer, he still wouldn't believe Ye Xiao would help him for nothing!

That was why Ye Xiao tried to be frank. He was being honest, and Qiu Luo naturally believed him.

”I am not a nice man.”

When Qiu Luo thought of these several words Ye Xiao said to him, his hoary face cracked a smile.

He still looked miserable, but at least he laughed.

It wasn't a bitter smile, but a sincere smile!

When the dan bead got into his body, a warm flow rose up from his dantian.

After that, the warm flow became tides hitting over his entire body, running upward.

The Heaven's Corrupting Worm seemed to feel the threat, so it started to move faster than it ever had been…

At the same time, the extreme pain abruptly hit every inch of Qiu Luo's body.

He screeched loudly and then passed out.

…

When Qiu Luo woke up, he realized that he was in quite a comfortable condition. The worm actually stopped torturing him after bringing pain for countless days.

Qiu Luo tried rising up a spiritual qi, and he felt the pumping energy flow rushing up from his dantian.

The energy flow started from the dantian and rushed into his Jing and Mai all over his body.

His old and cracked body was actually filled with power again.

He felt it and he understood it, that this power in him was a thousand times weaker than what he used to have in his prime days. However, he hadn't had such vigorous energy inside his body for at least fifty years!

At this moment, tears filled his eyes. He started to cry out in warm tears.

”Juan'er, wait for me! I have it now… Hope! There is hope…”

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