202 Farewell (1/2)

The next to awaken was Wang Xiaoyun. Her groans of pain had stilled for half an hour before her eyes opened.

She looked around in confusion, but when her eyes landed on Xue Wei, a bloodlust suddenly swept out from her body.

While she struggled to her feet, Bai Tianyi and Hei Gou moved swiftly to stand between Wang Xiaoyun and the unconscious Xue Wei.

”What are you going to do?” Bai Tianyi asked tentatively. She did not respond at first, though the answer was clear considering the flow of tears running down her cheeks.

”He deceived me!” she exclaimed with grief in her voice. ”Was it fun? Deceiving me and making me think him human!?”

She yelled this out at the top of her lungs, her eyes filled with sadness.

Bai Tianyi could only sigh.

”You know him,” he tried to reason with her. ”He himself does not know he is a beast.”

”How can he not know that he is a beast?!” Wang Xiaoyun did not buy it. The Qi she exuded grew increasingly turbulent.

”Seriously? An Earth Knight?” Bai Tianyi felt a headache coming his way.

He knew that the blood of a Sovereign Beast could thoroughly mutate the body of other beasts, but it was clearly also very useful for Wayfarers. To have gone all the way from a Heavenly Warrior to an Earth Knight was mind-blowing.

As expected, although Hei Gou and Bai Tianyi were in the way, a simple wave of Wang Xiaoyun's hand sent them tumbling into the back of the cave with their heads spinning. Hei Gou's wounds opened again as a result.

Wang Xiaoyun walked towards the unconscious Xue Wei, tears streaming down her face. In the very moment when she stood next to him, she saw a single tear fall from one of his eyes. Why that was so she could not figure out, as he was as unconscious as one could be.

”A tear of the soaring dragon,” Wang Xiaoyun muttered to herself. The shock she was experiencing made her whole body tremble.

The tears in her eyes flooded down her cheeks. Her hands never stopped trembling when she reached out and latched them around Xue Wei's throat.

With a single squeeze, he would die. Hei Gou roared and Bai Tianyi turned into a large sword, both attacking Wang Xiaoyun with all their might, but neither could even dent the protective barrier she had erected around herself and Xue Wei.

”Why did it have to be you?!” she cried out loud, her agony and hopelessness reverberating in her voice.

Without going through with it, she withdrew her trembling hands and rushed out of the cave, leaving behind Xue Wei, Hei Gou, and Bai Tianyi.

They were alive but battered up badly.

Xue Wei was unaware of what had happened. He was unconscious, but a single tear had indeed fallen when Wang Xiaoyun was about to kill him. It was as if his body had sensed her overwhelming sadness, reacting instinctively.

Time passed by, but Xue Wei did not awaken. His wounds had healed, but he still showed no signs of waking up.

They fed him all the herbs and pills they had in an attempt to wake him up, but it had no apparent effect apart from causing his cultivation base to grow.

Half a year went by in the cave. During these six months, Bai Tianyi and Hei Gou became more and more desperate.

They did not know what they should do to awaken Xue Wei. They even forgot everything about Wang Xiaoyun or the fact that they were wanted men.

After seven months, Xue Wei's body had a breakthrough into the Heavenly Warrior stage because of all the pills they had fed him.

It was also at this point that his eyelids twitched before he slowly opened his eyes.

His body felt heavy. He could not move, almost as if he had forgotten how to use his own body.

”Hey,” he called out in a voice that cracked and sounded vanishingly weak.