Chapter 129: Sudden Change

  "What does it mean?" Ye Chen said in confusion.

  "It won't be long before you understand that this might be a great opportunity for you, and if I intervene, you will lose it." Yuling said.

  "Alright then, at most it'll just cut off all the meridians, it won't take my life." Ye Chen shrugged.

  "Alright then, Auntie is leaving." Yuling stood up.

  "Wait!"

  Ye Chen stood up and wrapped his arms around Yu Linglong's slender waist, pulling her body tightly against his own.

  "Chen Er, what are you going to do?" Yuling's face was tinged with a thin layer of anger.

  "Kiss me once, or else don't even think about me letting you go!" Ye Chen said in a very overbearing manner.

  Yu Linglong was taken aback, her face suddenly turning red. As the master of Linglong Island, a top-notch power, there might not be anyone else in the world who dared to speak to her like that except Ye Chen, but she couldn't muster up any anger.

  "Refusing?" Ye Chen smiled and said, "Alright then, if you refuse I'll just hold you like this."

  "You... you close your eyes." Yulingong was both shy and angry and helpless.

  Ye Chen slowly closed his eyes, and suddenly felt a fragrant breeze blow in. His lips were met with a soft and moist sensation, but Yu Linglong abruptly pushed him away, stomped her foot, and vanished from sight in the blink of an eye.

  Ye Chen gazed at the empty sky, a hint of a smile spreading across his face. He muttered to himself: "Yuling, your heart is indeed complicated. You can't bear it, but you don't resist either. Instead, you still want to use me to overcome your emotional ordeal. Ha! Who will hurt whom? Let's see who comes out on top!"

  Yu Ling walked away, and Ye Chen naturally wouldn't stay here either. He looked straight south and unfolded his body to fly swiftly away.

  Ten days later, Ye Chen finally arrived at the central region of the Hou Tu Forest, but along the way, he didn't feel even a hint of danger. Instead, in this area of the Hou Tu Forest's center, there was an aura of peace and tranquility. Occasionally, some small wild beasts would appear, and Ye Chen could even sense a special vitality and a compassionate aura emanating from the land itself, as if it were nourishing all living things at all times.

  Ye Chen closed his eyes and carefully sensed, the Mother Earth Nuwa had left a legend here, this breath might be related to her, after all, she was born from here in those years, although millions of years have passed, but the sacred emperor's breath has been eternal, that kind of compassion, great love and thick virtue made Ye Chen feel the intimacy of motherly love.

  Ye Chen's face suddenly turned deathly pale, his inner peace shattered. The muscles on his face began to twitch and contort. His body felt as if it was being burned by fierce flames and simultaneously torn apart by a thousand knives, the pain unbearable.

  "How could it be... how could it suddenly become so violent!" Ye Chen gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, enduring the intense pain as he looked around and then stumbled in one direction.

  "Ah!" Ye Chen groaned in agony, that one strand of violently explosive energy bursting and shattering his meridians inch by inch, ten times more painful than when Qin Feng had shattered his meridians last time.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  Ye Chen could hardly bear the piercing pain, wherever he went, wood chips flew, sand and stones splashed everywhere, only venting, only violence could alleviate his suffering a little.

  All the way, Ye Chen didn't know how many big trees he had broken through and how many mountain rocks he had shattered. At this moment, his hair was disheveled, his face twisted and deathly pale, no longer human in shape. His running speed also slowed down, and he no longer had the strength to vent, almost all of his meridians were severed by the violent magic power inside his body.

  "No, I can't fall here, I need to find a safe place, not here, not!" Ye Chen gritted his teeth and told himself repeatedly, but the meridians in his legs were almost completely severed, and even with the blood energy wrapped around him, it was difficult for him to exert any more force. The violent law power had actually dissipated along with the blood energy inside his body.

  "How detestable! It's really detestable! Tianji Zi, you old scoundrel, just wait for me!" Ye Chen wanted to clench his fists, but his hands couldn't muster up any strength. His legs were also gradually weakening and could no longer support his body.

  "No way, I won't let my legs give out now. I need to keep moving and find a safe place!" Ye Chen leaned against the trunk of a large tree, but his body slowly slid down along the trunk to the ground.

  "Am I going to die like this?! Just when I finally got my hands on the Reincarnation Wheel, a treasure that countless people have fought for, fortune turns to disaster, and it's come so quickly...” Ye Chen's consciousness gradually faded away, his body and mind exhausted to the point of collapse from the intense pain, his eyes slowly closing as if they couldn't be opened again.

  "Big brother, waaah... big brother..."

  Just after Ye Chen fell unconscious, Xiao Xianfeng suddenly walked out of the chaotic fairy soul space by herself and immediately knelt on Ye Chen's body, crying loudly. Tears poured down her face as she shook his head vigorously, but got no response from Ye Chen.

  "Big brother, wake up, don't scare Xian'er, don't scare Xian'er, Xian'er will be so scared... " Little Xianfeng shook Ye Chen's head, and a stream of orange-gold blood slowly flowed out from the corner of Ye Chen's mouth, flowing more and more, faster and faster. Little Xianfeng was suddenly frightened, she panicked and covered Ye Chen's mouth with her hand to try to block the blood flowing out of his mouth, but no matter what, she couldn't stop it.

  Blood gushed out like a spring, and Xiaoxian's two small hands were stained with golden blood. She lay on top of Ye Chen, her clothes and his soaked in blood.

  "Big brother, waaahh... what to do, Xian'er what to do, big brother you're bleeding so much, no, no... waaahh..."

  Xiao Xianfeng helplessly looked at Ye Chen, her big eyes crying red and swollen. Finally, the blood stopped flowing from Ye Chen's mouth. Seeing this, Xiao Xianfeng immediately hugged Ye Chen's head and cried: "No more bleeding, Big Brother is not bleeding anymore, waaah..."

  After crying for a while, Xiaoxian stretched out her trembling hand towards Ye Chen's heart and felt his weak but stable heartbeat before slowly stopping her tears. She stood up, biting her small mouth with her teeth, muttering to herself: "Big brother, Xian'er will definitely save you, definitely will. Now Xian'er is taking you to a safe place."

  Xiao Xianfeng reached out to grab Ye Chen's arm, wanting to pull him up, but Ye Chen's body had just left the ground when she lost her strength and fell back down onto the ground with a thud.

  "Big brother, Xian'er is useless, Xian'er has no strength, Xian'er can't pull you, waaah..."

  "But Xian'er can't let you lie here, Xian'er must take you away, must, must, must..."

  Xiao Xianfeng muttered to herself, turning her head to look around, and suddenly exclaimed: "I've got it, I thought of a way, Xian'er thought of a way, big brother wait for Xian'er."

  Xiao Xianfeng quickly searched around and found some broken branches that Ye Chen had snapped, soon a pile of branches was stacked beside Ye Chen. Then she pulled out many vines to tie the branches together in a row, forming a wooden raft. The front end of the raft had two thick vines tied together with several knots at each end. After finishing all this, Xiao Xianfeng's face broke into a smile as she looked at the unconscious Ye Chen and muttered to herself: "Big brother, Xian'er is taking you away now."

  The little girl struggled to get Ye Chen onto the wooden raft, and then used several vines to tie Ye Chen's body to the raft, so that he wouldn't roll off.

  "Big brother, Xian'er will take you to a safe place to recover from your injuries." Little Xianfeng said with tears in her eyes, walking to the front of the wooden raft, grabbing the thick vine with knots and putting it on her small shoulders, step by step pulling Ye Chen forward.

  She was too small, Ye Chen added that the wooden raft weighed over 200 pounds, and he didn't know where she got the strength from her thin body, but she pulled the wooden raft forward step by step. Every step left a deep little footprint on the ground.

  The weeds and thorns in the forest scratched Xiaoxian's face, tore her clothes, revealing skin full of wounds from the thorns. Her small body leaned against the faith deep in her heart, pulling Ye Chen to move slowly through the forest.

  Those shoulders that pulled the wooden raft with vines were already bloody and bruised, staining the tattered clothes crimson red. Xiaoxianfeng gritted her teeth, pulling the wooden raft with great effort while looking back at Ye Chen on it, a smile of determination bloomed on her small face which was covered in bloodstains from thorns, her eyes were so resolute, she must save Ye Chen, she must save big brother, this was the only faith that supported her.

  After walking for a long time, and not knowing how far she had gone, Xiaoxian saw a small valley beyond the trees, with a huge tree towering above it. The valley was filled with all kinds of flowers in full bloom, and from afar, a fragrance wafted through the air on the breeze.

  "Big brother, there's a valley ahead. We've finally found a valley! Xian'er is so tired, so tired, but Xian'er won't fall down. If Xian'er falls down, then no one will take care of big brother."

  Her hair bun had come undone at some point, and her long hair was scattered around, covering the small face on both sides, but her dry, cracked lips with cracks all over could be seen clearly, without a hint of blood color.

  "Xian'er, you must hold on, the valley is not far away, you must hold on, you can do it, you are big brother's most beloved Xian'er, you can definitely make it!" The vines were hanging from her shoulders, she was grasping them tightly with both hands and advancing with difficulty.

  "In the valley, there is a sweet mountain spring and delicious fruit. It's a paradise, the fairy must bring big brother to the valley..." The voice gradually became smaller, weak to almost inaudible.

  Bang!

  Xiao Xianfeng no longer had the strength, her body went soft and fell to the ground, her thin and small figure curled up, her whole body was covered in wounds and bloodstains, her two small bloody hands still tightly grasping the vines that pulled the wooden oars.

  I don't know how long it took, but Xiaoxian suddenly woke up to the cold moon hanging high in the sky. The night wind blew gently, bringing a hint of coolness that made her wake up with a start. She turned around and saw Ye Chen still lying on the wooden plank, so she let out a heavy sigh of relief. But soon, a self-reproachful expression appeared on her face. "Big brother, I'm sorry, Xian'er fell asleep. Sorry, Xian'er will take you to the mountain valley now, feed you water, and feed you wild fruits. Big brother must be hungry."