Chapter 1017: He’s calmer than she is (2/2)
Han Yunxi shook her head silently.
“Be good and listen...trust me,” Long Feiye said softly.
Han Yunxi stared at him for a long time before ruthlessly throwing Pill Furnace Master aside. He almost toppled off the furnace. After gulping down deep lungfuls of air, he finally recovered his senses and fumed, “What’s the matter with you guys? This old man was trying to save you some time!”
No one bothered explaining to Pill Furnace Master. Long Feiye only asked coldly, “Just what are the consequences of being counterattacked by celestial fire?”
“Death!” Pill Furnace Master got straight to the point.
“What kind of death?” Long Feiye asked.
“Long Feiye, what are you going to do?” Han Yunxi panicked.
“Long Feiye, have you gone mad?” Gu Qishao cried.
Pill Furnace Master was truly lost. “You--just what are you planning? It’s just three days…”
“Answer me!” Long Feiye cut in. His voice was frosty enough to chill the air.
Frightened, Pill Furnace Master replied, “Celestial fire will seep into the internal organs and light them aflame--”
“Enough.” Long Feiye cut him off with hooded eyes. He then soared into the air as the fireball beneath him exploded in size.
CLANG!
With a clatter, the Celestial Fire Qian Furnace was lifted into the air by a massive force. Han Yunxi, Gu Qishao, and Pill Furnace Master were all knocked aside by the sheer heat to hang in the air.
“Long Feiye, what are you doing?! You’ve gone crazy!” Han Yunxi wanted to rush over, but the fireball was too big for her to get close or stop him. She and Long Feiye were both calm types, but just who was calmer than whom?
Han Yunxi was about to lose it but still knew that their choices were both dead ends. However, they still had to break off the dual cultivation and give up everything. At least that would give them a chance to survive. If Long Feiye chose to abandon the furnace, he would only die! Han Yunxi always thought that Long Feiye was calmer that she was, but what was he doing now?
Choosing the path of death!
“Long Feiye, answer me! Just what are you doing!”
“Long Feiye, we can just quit our dual cultivation and lose everything! So what?!”
“Long Feiye, just what are you doing? You’ll die!”[4]
Han Yunxi screamed nonstop with her questions while Gu Qishao was stunned as well. But like Han Yunxi, he had no way of approaching Long Feiye.
“Don’t worry, I won’t die!” Long Feiye shouted back.
He was planning to gamble this once and use all of his internal energy to face the celestial fire’s strength. He knew that it was impossible to block it all, but he could at least reduce the impact. As long as that was done, there was a chance he could bear the damage. He wasn’t crazy, just exceptionally calm. Halting the dual cultivation of Lustbite energy would lose them their internal energy and send them into deviation, which was more likely to take their lives. Since both choices were equally hopeless, the only difference lay in that this one gave him a fighting chance to act. Otherwise, stopping dual cultivation would only leave them with nothing but to await the consequences. He was always calmer than Han Yunxi because he had to protect her.
“Han Yunxi, trust me!” As Long Feiye spoke, the giant fireball in his hands transformed into a flame serpent to stream into the furnace.
“Long Feiye, don’t you want me anymore?”[5] Han Yunxi had already lost control as her vision grew blurry. The heat haze made it impossible to see Long Feiye clearly.
The fire dragon slipped into the furnace and quickly vanished from sight. Logically speaking, the lid of the furnace should lower after that. But the round lid didn’t land back in its place, but thudded heavily onto the ground.
Clang…
Everyone looked towards the lid…
1. Pro-tip #1017 from PGC’s author: when you want to make a chapter fill your daily word count quota, repeat the same phrases over and over again.
2. Maybe, I don’t know, not train your lone surviving heir to the dynasty with something so dangerous in the first place? Harhar.
3. I think this was supposed to raise sympathy but all I could think was Ning Cheng had it harder than you in your luxury carriage and boss-of-everything statuses, mhm. Maybe author did his arc too well, because while these two are facing a threat to their life, Ning Cheng is literally already blind in one eye and still suffering from poison everyday while ahem, fighting in an active battlefield.
4. Woman, calm down and let him finish his plan first. You wanna kill him with your distracting screams instead? Seems like every time he tells you to trust him, you just yell and get hysterical like a banshee… It's not romantic, it's annoying. =.=
5. No. No, no, no, this level of reproach and guilt-tripping is not cool, female lead. Thank god LFY is the cool-headed type who won’t get swayed by emotional outbursts...