Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 17

Yan Hui exited Zhenren Qi Yun's room just in time to see a topless Tian Yao sit up. Bandages were wrapped around his body.

As if he could sense someone entering, Tian Yao lifted his eyes. His gaze met Yan Hui's eyes without any surprise.

For a split second, Yan Hui felt her heart "thump" and skip a beat. She saw a strange sight, gold light emitting and flowing around Tian Yao's body. She could see the outline of his skeleton. It was the same golden light she saw emitting from the dragon bones in the icy lake back when she was in the cave.

However the strange thing was, it seemed like only she could see this brilliance. The snake demon who was off to the side packing up the medicine box didn't even look up.

Yan Hui also didn't say a word. She just sat by the table: "Since you're awake, you should hurry up and treat Zhenren Qi Yun. Don't delay." She poured herself a cup of cold tea. "After all, none of us can stand the sight of each other."

Tian Yao's gaze was dull. Although his voice was hoarse, he actually spoke with a placid tone: "The words you just spoke are incorrect."

Was he implying he was going to screw her over, or was it......he had other plans for her?

Yan Hui heavily set down the teacup and looked at Tian Yao.

The snake demon finished packing the medicine box back up. He stood up and said: "His inner breath is still chaotic. I'm afraid he'll have to continue resting tonight." Of course, the snake demon wasn't really worried for Tian Yao. He was just afraid that with Tian Yao's chaotic inner breath, he wouldn't completely heal Zhenren Qi Yun. That would be problematic.

Yan Hui simply stopped talking, turned her head, and left the room. She leapt and twisted her body in midair, landing on the roof which she laid down upon. She might as well do: out of sight, out of mind.

Looking at the moon from the rooftop, Yan Hui idly recalled the past few days' events. However the last two days had exhausted her. With the addition of her wounds, it wasn't long before she started to become drowsy. However, the matter troubling her mind prevented her from completely falling asleep.

Therefore, her eyes continued to struggle, constantly blinking.

She didn't know how long she was in a daze when she suddenly heard the sounds of water splashing.

She sat up. She saw that the snake demon was in the courtyard. He was drawing water to wash clothes.

A snake demon washing clothes......

Yan Hui looked curiously for a while. She discovered that the clothes he was washing were Zhenren Qi Yun's clothes. Yan Hui was baffled. She rolled over onto her stomach. She softly asked in the quiet night: "A Purification Technique would make it clean. Why are you hand-washing?"

The snake demon didn't even look up. He only said: "Even though using magic is easy, only hand-washing and letting it dry in the sun will make it comfortable to wear."

"I didn't expect you to be so considerate." Yan Hui pursed her lips. Because she couldn't fall asleep and she was bored to death - not to mention she had a slightly gossipy personality - she flipped off the roof. She took two steps over to the snake demon's side and stood there: "Speaking of, I've been wanting to ask you something. You're a snake demon with so-so skills. How were you guys fated to meet? And how did you fall in love with her?"

The snake demon's hands stilled: "It wasn't anything special." He started to speak while scrubbing the clothes: "You know the Central Plain's spirituality is far greater than the southwest corner's. A few years ago, I and a few others from the same clan secretly crossed the Qing Qiu border into the Central Plains to cultivate. We weren't being careful, so we were discovered by some xian cultivators. They started pursuing us. We got lost in Huang Mountain......It was Qi Yun who saved me." It seemed like he was reliving that scene. His expression softened a lot.