Ink Blade Chapter 66 (Part 1)
Translated by Sylver
Chapter 66.1 Returning to the Human World (part 1)
When Mo Ren opened the box, the snow was swirling and hitting the window outside, whitening the night.
Under the light, indeed, a strange flower with a bright red body lay in the box. The color was so red that it made people palpitate, as if someone had watered it with blood.
Mo Ren’s heart trembled fiercely, he dared not look more, and loosely closed the lid. Then he propped up his body shakily, first took out Lin Yun’s gold needle from the bedside cabinet, and slowly gave himself an acupuncture.
After the sealed acupoints were opened, the guard was sweating coldly and took a breath, his face was as pale as the snow in the mountains outside the window. He raised his slightly scattered eyes and looked outside, knowing that the next step was the challenge.
Qiu Jin and the others have gone down the mountain to save the palace master, but there must be other disciples and servants in the Jiuzhong Palace.
Mo Ren was afraid that the movement would be too big to be noticed later, and also to avoid self-harm under extreme pain, he took a quilt and tore it into thin strips, first bit the detoxifying strange flower in his teeth, and then sat down and tied his wrists to the foot of the bed.
He didn’t know what the palace master was like now, and he didn’t know what he would be like next. If one step was wrong, it would be a close encounter between life and death.
He didn’t dare to think carefully.
The long night was endless, and the howling of the cold wind outside was sometimes far and sometimes near, like urging people to return. Mo Ren settled his mind, closed his eyes and meditated quietly. He chewed the flower in his mouth and swallowed it.
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Outside Tianlan Mountain, a carriage came through the snow curtain.
The carriage was surrounded by thick curtains on all sides, and the carriage was spacious. The stove was burning vigorously, but it was covered with a strong bitter medicinal fragrance and bloody smell.
Chu Yan was lying in the carriage, his long hair spread out on the pillow. His eyes closed, and his chest hardly showed any ups and downs.
Lin Yun took his pulse, and his face was already very heavy. He carefully put the palace master’s weak and soft arm back into the cotton quilt, and saw that the Jiuzhong Palace Master was wrapped in bandages all over his body, and all layers were stained with blood, he couldn’t count how many wounds were there for a while.
The four shadow guardians all stood by, full of anxiety. Qiu Jin held Chu Yan’s other hand, holding the pulse gate, and was constantly sending pure internal strength. At this moment, seeing Lin Yun’s movement, the maid raised her face anxiously. “Hall Master Lin, how is the Palace Master?”
Lin Yun shook his head bitterly, about to speak, but Chu Yan groaned very weakly, struggled to breathe and opened his eyes, and woke up from a coma. Qiu Jin almost cried with joy, and hurriedly called the palace master twice. Chu Yan seemed to be not very conscious, just turning his scattered eyes, and was sluggishly looking for someone in the carriage.
After a long time, Chu Yan’s gaze fell on Ying Feng in a daze, his lips moved, but he could only utter a vague breath. Ying Feng reacted and quickly knelt down, moving forward on his knees and leaning in, anxiously saying, “Palace Master! Ying Feng is here, does the Palace Master have any orders?”
Chu Yan murmured vaguely, “Medicine…”
He was holding on to a glimmer of persistence in his eyes, as if struggling between hope and despair, “Medicine…has it….caught up?”
Ying Feng hurriedly said, “As per the Palace Master’s order, it has been personally handed over to Guard Mo.”
A glimmer of light suddenly burst from the dim depths of Chu Yan’s eyes, as if all the bright colors of the coming spring were rushing towards him. The palace master actually smiled, his expression as innocent as a child, “Really? That… that…”
The massive blood loss made his thinking extremely slow, Chu Yan had to rest after saying a few words. He lay on his side on the pillow, struggling to breathe for a while, before squeezing out the next sentence, “Ah Ren…is he okay?”
Ying Feng quickly nodded vigorously, and Lin Yun also agreed. Qiu Jin wiped the cold sweat that kept coming out on Chu Yan’s forehead, and tears fell from her sore eyes. “Master, Elder Brother Mo already knows that you are at the foot of Tianlan Mountain, you can see him when you go back, he is waiting for you to go back.”
“He has been waiting for you for a full fifty-three days…” Qiu Jin choked up and said, “He really… really misses you…”
“Me too…” Chu Yan slowly nodded, speaking slowly. His eyes were as clear as the light of the sky, and the smile at the corner of his mouth was soft, as if the sins that had tortured him for countless days and nights had finally temporarily eased, “I… miss him too…”
But after saying this, he frowned again, coughed up blood, and passed out after a while. Qiu Jin’s internal strength was almost exhausted, she quickly gave up her position, sat aside to adjust her breath, and asked several guards to take turns to support.
The coachman of the carriage whipped and shouted, and the carriage was thus submerged on the winding road of the mountain snow.
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At the same time, inside the Jiuzhong Palace.
The Guard Mo who had fooled everyone out was suffering in his own torture. The medicinal power and toxins contained in the strange flower collided in one place, which was already like a thunderbolt and a fire, and there was a majestic internal force washing in it, which was not easy to bear.
But now it was the poisoned person who was running his own internal force to detoxify himself. Under the severe pain, mistakes were inevitable, and the violent internal force, it was unknown how many times, had uncontrollably hit the meridians, and the heart and viscera were also severely damaged many times.
“Cough…!”
Mo Ren coughed up a mouthful of blood, he was in pain all over, his pupils were scattered and floating, and his wrists that had been tied with a bed sheet struggled, leaving a purple-red bruise. But he dared not stop, he had to grit his teeth and endure the pain to continue running his internal force to make a complete circle in the body.
The pain and cold were like bone maggots. The concept of time was blurred, Mo Ren leaned his neck back, closed his eyes and gasped heavily, and cold sweat rolled down.
It seems familiar… winter night, pain and cold.
But this time, he was only separated from the Master by a mountain road, and he was within reach of the perfection he dared not dream of in his dreams. He wants… he wants to live…
Hiss!
The bed sheet was finally torn, and Mo Ren could no longer sit still, falling diagonally onto the floor.
The shock of hitting the floor once again stimulated his fragile and injured organs. He finally couldn’t bear the pain, raised his sweaty and pale cheeks, and called out hoarsely and helplessly, his voice drowned in the snowy night.
The guard bit his own arm tremblingly, maintaining the last bit of sanity in his foggy black eyes, he didn’t like to call out like this…
His fingers cramped, leaving bloodstains on the floor. Mo Ren curled up, closed his eyes in endurance, and there was a mark on his brow as if it had been cut by a knife.
He wants to live… He wants to detoxify, cure the disease, and accompany the Master for a long, long time.
Perhaps, if the Master wants him, maybe it’s a lifetime together? Thinking about this, Mo Ren gasped lightly, blinked his lost eyes, and smiled silently.
He is only one step away from “a lifetime together”. How can he not make it?
However, at this time, his already exhausted physical strength had completely bottomed out. Mo Ren was tense and endured for a while, and gradually his consciousness began to thin. He didn’t know when he fainted in a daze, and soon woke up in severe convulsions all over his body, vomiting something out of his mouth. He didn’t know what he was vomiting, his consciousness was semi-comatose, he only remembered that his throat was full of sweet and fishy taste.
