Ink Blade Chapter 56 (Part 2)
Translated by Sylver
Chapter 56.2 Life Hanging in the Balance (part 2)
Chu Yan hugged the person in his arms tighter, and finally couldn’t help but shed tears. He rubbed the guard’s forehead with his chin and choked: “Ah Ren, don’t sleep. This is an order…you are not allowed to sleep.”
The secret guards who fell behind finally arrived. Qiu Jun and Ying Yu finished dealing with the aftermath, handed the unconscious Bai Hua to the secret guards, and hurried over here.
Ying Yu was still young after all, and he couldn’t help crying after just one glance at Mo Ren’s miserable condition. He shook Mo Ren’s hand and called him: “Elder brother! Elder brother, hold on! Xiao Yu is here, can you wake up, elder brother…”
Qiu Jun was still calm, but when Ying Yu cried, she couldn’t stand it anymore. She held back her tears and asked Ying Dian, who was taking the pulse next to her. “Fourth Guardian, how is it?”
“The bleeding has stopped, but the poison is too strong, we need to suppress the poison first…” Ying Dian hurriedly took out the antidote pill from her body, poured out the medicine and wanted to feed it to Mo Ren. But the latter had no reaction at all, and she couldn’t feed it, “Guard Mo…wake up quickly, swallow the medicine!”
“Give it to me.” Chu Yan grabbed the porcelain bottle without thinking, bit the pill in his mouth and crushed it, supported Mo Ren’s neck, bent down and fed him mouth to mouth. Mo Ren’s mouth was full of blood, and the tongue he touched was cold and weak, no longer like the lingering under the rain at the alley that day.
Ying Dian was shocked. “Master…you can’t do this, you will be poisoned too!”
Chu Yan ignored her, forced the half-fainted person to swallow the medicine in this way, then turned his head and spit out the dirty blood from his mouth, and asked Ying Dian in a suppressed voice. “Like this…he will be okay?”
The woman in blue lowered her head sadly, her voice bitter. “…Ying Dian is incompetent, the poison has gone too deep, these ordinary pills can only temporarily suppress it.”
Ying Yu’s face suddenly changed color, and he said with red eyes, “What does it mean to only temporarily suppress it!? Then…then what should we do!”
Ying Dian: “If this continues, Guard Mo won’t be able to hold on for a few days…please asking the Master to send someone to escort Guard Mo back to the palace immediately, the Medicine Hall and Hall Master Lin may have a way.”
Chu Yan only felt a heavy hammer hit his heart, making his breathing unstable. “You said, he can’t hold on for a few days…how many days?”
Ying Dian closed her eyes and said, “If it’s good…three or four days, in the worst case…one or two days.”
Chu Yan’s head buzzed, and his vision was filled with darkness.
Ying Yu knelt in front of Chu Yan and said urgently, “Master! Let Xiao Yu take elder brother back!”
The young man sniffed and pleaded. “I…..this subordinate knows the situation in Changqing City is severe, the Master doesn’t need to allocate more manpower to this subordinate, this subordinate will leave now, and will definitely send elder brother back safely!”
Qiu Jun also knelt down, but what she said was, “Master, after all, Second Guardian Yu is still young, please allow Qiu Jun to go!”
“…..”
Chu Yan suddenly closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
This breath seemed to force him to swallow millions of emotions, and forcibly drew a calm wave from his spine. He was the master of the Jiuzhong Palace, and also the master of Ah Ren, he must make a decision at this time.
Chu Yan raised his sleeve and wiped away the tears from the corner of his eyes.
He carefully held Mo Ren and stood up, looked around, and said calmly, “You don’t have to argue… quickly organize the troops, everyone will return to the palace overnight.”
Ying Yu and Qiu Jun were both stunned, and the latter hesitated, “Master, are you going back to the palace yourself? What about Changqing…”
The maid turned her head to look at the secret guards, “The two people that Elder Brother Mo killed seem to be under the Alliance Leader. If the Master retreats at this time, it’s unknown how Qi Qian will make a fuss.”
“Send someone to hand over the two corpses to Shui Miao’er, and let her and Xu Fangchuan handle the things behind, Bai Hua will be taken away by us.” Chu Yan said in a deep voice, “Now Ah Ren is more important than anything else.”
“As for the Alliance Leader Mansion… if they want to make a fuss, let them do it.”
Chu Yan paused as he spoke, his gaze fell on Mo Ren’s blood-stained body in his arms. The palace master’s eyebrows showed a murderous aura, and his voice suddenly turned cold. “What kind of thing is the Martial Arts Alliance Leader, if he dares to offend, this Master will make him go without coming back alive.”
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That night, the situation in Changqing City suddenly changed. Shuijing Tower and Xuyang Sword Sect came forward, accusing the Alliance Leader Mansion of colluding with the Southern Xinjiang Wuxian Sect, intending to harm the Central Plains.
Qi Qian naturally denied it, and instead said that Chu Yan, the Jiuzhong Palace Master, and his male pet Bai Hua were the real ones who colluded with the Wuxian Sect. Two experts from the Alliance Leader Mansion happened to see it and were brutally killed and silenced.
However, at this time, Jiuzhong Palace returned to the palace overnight.
Qi Qian was overjoyed, thinking that he had caught a handle, and quickly reported to the Alliance Leader Mansion. In less than an hour, Huang Tianyou, the Martial Arts Alliance Leader, sent troops and dispatched nearly a hundred elite warriors to stop the people of Jiuzhong Palace and ordered Palace Master Chu Yan to go to the Alliance Leader Mansion for confrontation immediately.
Unexpectedly, the ancient sect Xuyang Sword Sect, which had always been indifferent to worldly disputes, and Shuijing Tower, which had always insisted on absolute neutrality, this time firmly stood on the side of Jiuzhong Palace, even at the risk of being an enemy of the Alliance Leader Mansion.
And with one word from Huang Tianyou, Xu Fangchuan, the eldest senior brother of Xuyang Sword Sect, and Shui Miao’er, the master of Shuijing Tower, were both accused of being Chu Yan’s accomplices in colluding with the Southern Xinjiang…
Just like that, when many people hadn’t even reacted to what had happened, a melee began in the long night.
