356: 340 356: 340 The Tower Spirit fell silent for a mont before saying, “I am but an ordinary Tower Spirit.”
‘Yeah right, like I’d believe that…,’ Lu Chuan mocked inwardly, feeling certain that the Tower Spirit was not as simple as it seed.
However, since the other party was unwilling to disclose more, it wasn’t his place to pry further.
Because devouring the seed of Divine Fire required a great deal of preparation, Lu Chuan had no choice but to store the seed inside the Demon Suppression Pagoda for the ti being.
He stayed in the cave until nightfall, making sure that Tu Youming and the sisters Gu Xiaosang had not followed him before he finally stepped out of the cave.
“That damned girl betrayed once, but she’s not inherently evil.
This ti, if Tu Youming didn’t catch up, it’s very likely because she had a change of heart and held Tu Youming back for .”
“So for now, all I need to do is evade Tu Youming’s pursuit to stay safe.”
“Since the seed of Divine Fire is with , Tu Youming’s target will definitely be .
Therefore, I cannot return to the provincial city now.
Otherwise, Tu Youming might harm Qingci and Ling’er to force into submission.”
“In that case, I should head to Tiannan Province.
If I reveal a bit of my trail, Tu Youming will surely follow, securing the city’s safety.”
“On the way, I can also look for any clues to the whereabouts of the four-hundred-year spirit dicine and Extre Yin Water.”
Resolute in his decision, Lu Chuan headed towards Tiannan Province.
Under the cover of night, Lu Chuan’s figure flitted through the forest, making very little noise.
Unless one possessed exceptional strength, it would be impossible to detect him.
As he was nearing the border of Tiannan Province, Lu Chuan suddenly stopped.
He faintly saw a figure stumbling forward before collapsing to the ground, making a noise.
He imdiately activated his Spiritual Power, cautiously approaching the spot where the figure had fallen.
Upon closer inspection, he found a woman with a graceful figure lying on the ground, and her clothes seed sowhat familiar.
Lu Chuan used his Divine Sense to check the woman’s condition, found that she was seriously injured and hanging by a thread.
Once he confird she posed no threat, he crouched down, helped her up, and, in the moonlight, saw her face clearly.
It was Gu Xiaosang!
Startled by this recognition, Lu Chuan quickly dropped her to the ground and retreated a few ters, as if afraid she would suddenly lash out at him.
However, after a while, he was sure that Gu Xiaosang had indeed been gravely injured and had fallen unconscious since her face showed a pained expression when he had lifted and then dropped her.
“You can’t bla for this, you know.
I was quick to drop you because I’m wary of your trickery.
If you got hurt from the fall, it’s your own fault.”
He muttered to himself and walked back over, helping Gu Xiaosang up again.
After checking her pulse and assessing her condition, he confird she was indeed on the brink of death due to severe injuries.
“Seems like your fight with Tu Youming wasn’t easy,” he mused.
Looking at Gu Xiaosang’s pale face, Lu Chuan pinched it firmly and said, “You tricked last ti, and I should have ignored you in your current state.
But considering that you and your sister might have fought with Tu Youming again to help escape, I’ll show so kindness and save you this once.”
“When you wake up, if things aren’t as I assud, I won’t be as courteous to you.”
Having said that, he took out a few elixir pills, shoved them into Gu Xiaosang’s mouth, picked her up, and after failing to find the other girl nearby, he continued toward Tiannan Province.
There was another consideration for saving Gu Xiaosang.
While she enjoyed setting people up, she wasn’t completely unreasonable.
The last ti she had betrayed him was because she had been harassed.
Furthermore, both she and the other girl, whose relationship to her he did not know, had developed enmity with Tu Youming over the Divine Fire.
The enemy of an enemy is a friend.
If he saved Gu Xiaosang and she wasn’t ungrateful, she would undoubtedly side with him.
That would give him so reassurance when confronting Tu Youming.
Before long, Lu Chuan brought Gu Xiaosang to an inn in the provincial city of Tiannan Province and settled down.
Only then did he take a closer look at Gu Xiaosang’s injuries and found that she had been struck by an extrely vicious palm at her chest, which was why she was barely clinging to life.
Without hesitation, Lu Chuan imdiately went out to buy dicinal ingredients, so for concocting healing elixirs and so to prepare an ointnt for external application.
Then he perford acupuncture on Gu Xiaosang.
Despite the sensitive location of her injury, there was no room for modesty in dicine, so Lu Chuan removed her clothing to administer acupuncture, following which he applied the ointnt.
After he was finished with the treatnt, he dressed her again.
However, because the undergarnt was inconvenient, especially since he would have to change the dressing later, Lu Chuan only put a buttoned shirt on her, to facilitate the application of the ointnt.
Two days later.
Gu Xiaosang woke up groggily to find herself on a soft bed, with soone beside her fastening buttons.
As she turned to look at the person and saw that it was Lu Chuan, her expression changed, and she quickly sat up, clutching her shirt tightly and asking in panic, “Why am I here?
What…
what did you do to just now?”
Lu Chuan turned to her with a mischievous smile and said, “Guess.”
Gu Xiaosang looked down and saw that she was only wearing a white shirt, with nothing underneath, her undergarnt nowhere to be found.
Thinking back on how Lu Chuan just buttoned up her shirt, it felt oddly like a certain act had just been finished.
She suddenly panicked, and even her voice trembled with tears, “Did you take advantage of while I was unconscious and do that kind of thing?”
Lu Chuan cracked a smile and said, “You guessed right.
While you were out, I did everything I could.
Consider it my payback for that ti you got captured by the Yin Ghost Sect.
Now we’re even.”
Gu Xiaosang, upon hearing Lu Chuan’s confirmation, stiffened as if struck by lightning, paralyzing her for a few seconds before she hysterically shouted, “How could you do that to !
You beast, do you realize who I am…
”
But she swallowed her words before they could escape her lips.
Lu Chuan looked at her and asked, “Who are you?
Don’t tell you are soone of high status, and that I, a lowly wretch, am unworthy to desecrate you.”
Gu Xiaosang, with a bitter gaze fixated on Lu Chuan and tears welling up in her eyes, then solemnly said, “If that’s the case, I have no choice but to kill you!”
She then attempted to use her power to kill Lu Chuan.
To her surprise, she couldn’t sense even a trace of power within her body.
Lu Chuan laughed and said, “Don’t waste your effort, your power has been sealed by .
How does it feel?”
Gu Xiaosang’s face crumbled imdiately, she grabbed a pillow nearby and hurled it at Lu Chuan, then broke down in tears.
“I’ve been defiled by you, bastard.
How could you do such a thing to ?
How am I supposed to explain this to my sister?
How can I face my family?
I don’t want to live anymore, wu wu wu…”
Seeing her cry so sorrowfully made Lu Chuan feel a bit strange.
With her character, even if she had gone through such an ordeal, she shouldn’t be breaking down like this; instead, she appeared to be contemplating suicide, which was incomprehensible to him.
He didn’t feel like joking anymore and said, “Alright, stop crying.
I didn’t do anything to you.
Aren’t you a skilled fighter?
Shouldn’t you be able to sense whether your body has changed?”
He had just finished the last acupuncture treatnt for Gu Xiaosang.
Gu Xiaosang paused for a mont, then imdiately sensed her own body, and realized that indeed, she seed untouched.
But she still didn’t quite believe Lu Chuan’s words and said with a sense of grievance, “How co I only have this one shirt left on my body if you did nothing?
Even if you didn’t do that thing, you certainly did sothing lewd and shaless to my body, you unforgivable beast!”
Lu Chuan, with a face expressing speechlessness, said, “I undressed you to better tend to your wounds, can’t you think positively about people for once?”
Only then did Gu Xiaosang rember that she had been seriously injured before she fainted.
She pulled open her shirt to have a look inside and found her wounds almost healed, and she knew she had misunderstood Lu Chuan.
However, she found it hard to back down and stubbornly said, “But you’ve seen all of ; I will gouge out your eyes!”
Lu Chuan shrugged his shoulders and replied, “You’d better understand your current situation.
If you keep threatening like that, I might really get angry and do what you’re accusing of!”
Gu Xiaosang shivered with fear and dared not talk tough anymore.
After a while, she earnestly asked Lu Chuan why she was there.
Lu Chuan recounted how he had stumbled upon her by chance.
Gu Xiaosang then rembered being severely injured by Tu Youming’s sneak attack, and to ensure her safety, Gu Xiaorou led Tu Youming away.
With Tu Youming’s formidable strength, Gu Xiaorou couldn’t possibly have won alone, and Gu Xiaosang was worried about her sister’s current condition.
She took out her family’s unique ssaging tool with a worried face and sent off a ssage to Gu Xiaorou, but received no response.
With a look full of concern, she knew she wouldn’t forgive herself if anything happened to her sister.
At that mont, Lu Chuan fixed his gaze on her and seriously said, “The day I took the Divine Fire, both you and your sister intended to chase after , right?
But why did you then help by holding off Tu Youming?”
Gu Xiaosang gave him a resentful glance, thinking to herself that it was because he’s my sister’s fiancé, you jerk.
But you’ll never know this secret; I won’t let you be with my sister!
After pondering for a mont, she said, “I felt sowhat guilty about our last encounter and thought you were quite decent, so I agreed with my sister to help you escape.”
“However, my sister needs the Divine Fire to resolve so issues.
We can do without the Divine Fire, but when the ti cos, you must lend it to my sister for her to use.”
Seeing Gu Xiaosang’s words align with his own thoughts, Lu Chuan relaxed and smiled, “That’s easy to agree on; I also need your help in dealing with Tu Youming.
If we work well together, lending you the Divine Fire won’t be a problem when the ti cos.”
Gu Xiaosang said, “You don’t have to worry about Tu Youming troubling you these days.
Although she grievously injured , she suffered herself, and my sister hurt her with a Secret Technique afterward.
She won’t be able to trouble you for a while.”
Lu Chuan raised an eyebrow, sensing so good news.
It seed he no longer needed to worry about being threatened by Tu Youming for the foreseeable future.
At that ti, Gu Xiaosang received a response from Gu Xiaorou.
After leading Tu Youming away, Gu Xiaorou fought a long battle with her, both sustaining serious injuries.
The subsequent fight was extrely tough.
She looked for an opportunity and finally managed to escape with the help of a family heirloom, leaving Tu Youming too weak to pursue.
That’s when this affair had co to an end.
Then Gu Xiaorou tried to contact Gu Xiaosang, but was unable to reach her and had to choose a safe place to heal herself first.
Gu Xiaosang, upon learning that her sister was alright, let out a sigh of relief.
She then shared a bit about her own situation, telling her sister she had been saved by a good samaritan without ntioning Lu Chuan.
She certainly didn’t want to help this guy improve his standing with her sister.
She then heard Gu Xiaorou say, “Now that the Divine Fire is in Lu Chuan’s hands, only the Divine Fire can solve my problem, so I am considering agreeing to the marriage with Lu Chuan.”
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