Free Web NovelJust as she was planning to go find Xia Lianqing, Xia Lianqing came to her proactively. Lu Yibei didn't think much and immediately opened the door, welcoming her into the room.
“It’s Sister Xia! Quick, come in and sit.”
“Oh, Sister, you said you were coming! Why bring things? You’re too polite!”
I’m a bit embarrassed to ask you to expend Spiritual Energy to help Time Princess recharge... Lu Yibei secretly added in her heart.
In the past hundred days, Xia Lianqing had only interacted with the quiet Shen Baiwei. Before coming, she never expected to see a lively Lu Yibei. She was momentarily stunned and only recovered from her dazed state after entering the room and sitting down.
“Uh, Miss Shen, when did you wake up?”
“Just now!” Lu Yibei looked at Xia Lianqing and, with almost no thought, fabricated a seemingly reasonable explanation, “Just now, my younger sister, seeing signs of my awakening, risked qi deviation to heal me, and then I woke up, but...”
Mid-sentence, she paused slightly, turned to look at Shen Baiwei lying on the bed, and sighed softly, “You see, I woke up, but my younger sister is lying down again.”
Although... if both sisters were awake at the same time, would they incur divine wrath? Xia Lianqing followed Lu Yibei’s gaze, turned to look at Shen Baiwei on the bed, and was momentarily speechless.
“By the way, Sister Xia.” Lu Yibei patted Xia Lianqing’s slightly distracted shoulder. Once Xia Lianqing regained her focus and looked at her, she stood up and bowed slightly.
“It’s a bit embarrassing to say, but if you don’t mind, could you do me a small favor?”
Lu Yibei’s sudden solemnity flustered Xia Lianqing, who subconsciously clenched her fists and straightened her back.
She knew that if it weren’t for this Miss’s intervention, when the Shaman King’s army was at the city gates, the South City Gate of Yumen Pass would surely have fallen, and the city’s defenders would have suffered unknown casualties. So, from a certain perspective, Big Shen was their savior.
Now, their savior was making such a solemn request, it surely wouldn’t be as simple as a trivial “small favor.”
It must be something important!`
“Miss Shen, don’t worry! Let alone a small favor, even if you ask Lianqing to go through fire and water...”
“No, no! It’s not that serious, no need to go through fire and water!” Lu Yibei interrupted.
Xia Lianqing suddenly became agitated, acting as if she couldn't wait to help her through thick and thin, which made Lu Yibei feel a bit overwhelmed and even a little embarrassed.
However, embarrassment never affected her performance.~
“Actually, I just want to ask you to expend some Spiritual Energy to help heal my younger sister so she can recover sooner.”
“You might laugh, but while my abilities are effective at harming others, I’m completely helpless when it comes to healing...”\"
Hearing Lu Yibei’s words, Xia Lianqing was momentarily stunned.
It sounds like it really is a small favor?~
But, did such a simple task require such solemnity? Xia Lianqing wondered.
This reminded her of when her former maid asked her for travel expenses before leaving Yumen Pass. The maid found her with a serious face, hesitated for a long time, and then held up two fingers. She thought the maid was going to ask for twenty taels of gold, but when she spoke, she only asked for twenty copper coins...
This only showed that she didn’t understand Lu Yibei.
To help Shen Baiwei quickly recover from her Spiritual Energy depletion, Xia Lianqing’s Spiritual Energy would inevitably be almost completely consumed. In Lu Yibei’s view, depleting Spiritual Energy meant losing the means of self-preservation, which would lead to a passive state, and a passive state would threaten one’s life...
If one’s life is threatened, how is that different from dying?
Asking someone to risk their life to do something, ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) wasn’t that something that required a solemn request?
“Don’t worry, Miss Shen, I will do my best,” Xia Lianqing said. “But I don’t know where your sister is injured? How should I...”
Before Xia Lianqing could finish, Lu Yibei waved her small hand and blurted out. freewebnovel.cσ๓
“It’s okay, just fill her with Spiritual Energy!”
Although Time Princess was not a Calamity, she was considered a top A-level Spirit Ability User. Even if Xia Lianqing infused all her Spiritual Energy, Shen Baiwei could withstand it.
Perhaps it would be a tiny bit painful, but what “healing” isn’t painful?
Fill her up? Does that mean expending all my Spiritual Energy? Xia Lianqing’s mouth twitched, and she said, “Can it wait a few days?”
“Why wait a few days??” Lu Yibei asked, tilting her head in confusion.
“Because of the dryness and heat.” Xia Lianqing’s peripheral vision drifted to the mung bean soup on the table as she explained, “Miss Shen has just woken up, so perhaps she hasn’t felt it yet, but for some reason, the weather today suddenly became hot, even more so than in the peak of summer, and it’s not only hot but also dry...”
“...” Lu Yibei was momentarily speechless.
Xia Lianqing didn’t know what happened, but she knew very well.
As she condensed her Spiritual Seal and successfully advanced, bringing with her the genuine authority of the Drought God, and suddenly descended into the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, how could it not be unusually hot and dry?
But, what did dryness and heat have to do with needing to wait a few days to infuse Shen Baiwei with Spiritual Energy?
As Lu Yibei was pondering, she heard Xia Lianqing explain, “The tens of thousands of people in Yumen Pass have been confined in this city for a hundred days, and many of them are feeling Depression (depressed and vexed). I’ve been helping the Long Xiang Army officers maintain order in the city these days, and I’ve noticed the number of quarrels among the people increasing day by day...”
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These days, her longing for Dragon Xiang had grown stronger and was difficult to dispel, so she could only use her abilities for these matters.
Once a person gets busy, they don't have time to worry.
“With this sudden hot weather, the city’s residents will only become more irritable and restless, and I fear many misfortunes will arise... Oh, right! Besides man-made disasters, there are also Calamities!”
Hearing Xia Lianqing say this, Lu Yibei’s heart tightened slightly.
I am not! I did not! Who are you calling a Calamity?!
Seeing Lu Yibei remain silent, Xia Lianqing continued, “To be honest, Miss Shen, in just this one morning, there have been several fires in the nearby market streets. I rushed there several times and only just got some free time to come here to deliver mung bean soup...”
“So, I was thinking, after this dreadful weather passes and I can rest a bit, wouldn’t it be too late to, uh, fill your sister with Spiritual Energy?”
After listening to Xia Lianqing’s explanation, Lu Yibei frowned.
The two terrifying presences hidden in the city were now eyeing her, and trouble could come knocking at any moment. She could barely wait a few hours for Shen Baiwei to recover on her own, let alone a few more days.
But...
Xia Lianqing’s words made some sense.
She couldn’t just stand by and watch misfortunes erupt within Yumen Pass, with fires causing injuries, and still act petulantly, forcing Xia Lianqing to infuse Shen Baiwei with Spiritual Energy, could she?
After a brief hesitation, Lu Yibei said seriously, “It’s fine, I’ll help you deal with those matters, you just stay here...”
She had only spoken halfway when she was interrupted by a sudden shout from outside the room, her words abruptly cut off.
“Miss! Something’s wrong, Miss! Something big has happened!”
Along with the shouts, Xia Lianqing’s personal maid ran in frantically, pushed the door open, stumbled a few times, and fell at Xia Lianqing’s feet.
Lu Yibei scrutinized the panicked girl and couldn't help but frown.
Her hair was disheveled, blood stained the corner of her mouth, her face was pale, and her eyes were unfocused. On this unusually hot day, she shivered as if she had caught a chill. Her thin silk dress was torn in several places, exposing skin covered in bruises or bleeding scrapes. Her small hands pressed against the ground had overturned fingernails and were covered in dust...
Her appearance immediately suggested she had encountered some disaster and was greatly frightened.
The next moment, she uttered something even more shocking.
“M-Miss, d-dead, many people are dead!”
Hearing this, Xia Lianqing’s expression changed. While patting the maid’s back and offering a bowl of mung bean soup, she gently said, “Don’t rush, what exactly happened? Speak slowly.”
The girl tremblingly took the porcelain bowl, took a sip, and gasped heavily for a moment. Once some color returned to her face, she began to speak.
“Just now, I, following Miss’s instructions, went to the market to buy ingredients for cooling herbal tea. As soon as I arrived at the market, I saw Xie Erlang holding a cleaver...”
She began recounting from when she witnessed Xie Erlang committing murder in the street, taking two or three minutes to describe how the people gathered in the street, and how Xie Erlang, amidst the chaos, chopped off the big man’s head and dismembered his corpse. As she spoke, her voice began to choke up.
Immediately after, before she could even finish describing the events, she fell silent as if she had touched upon some terrifying memory, and her body began to tremble again, as if her soul had been taken from her.
Seeing this, Lu Yibei stepped forward and gently placed her hand on the girl’s shoulder, silently activating the power of 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】 and gently said, “Don’t be afraid, it’s all over, no one can hurt you anymore... Come, tell us, what exactly happened, okay?”
She had possessed the authority of 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】 for a long time and was no longer like before, only capable of causing crude mental deterrence with 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】. As she gradually mastered the ability of 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】, she discovered that by controlling the intensity of the mental deterrence, it was actually possible to achieve a calming effect.
Perhaps this was what was meant by “both thunder and dew are favors from the monarch”?
As the effect of 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】 enveloped her entire body, the girl’s body trembled violently, and her eyes regained some clarity. Only then did she stammer, “The neighbors... the neighbors have all gone mad!”
“At first, besides Xie Erlang chasing and hacking at the one-eyed man, everyone else was just cursing and wrestling. Later, when Xie Erlang killed someone and people saw blood, everyone became abnormal. They would hit anyone they saw, even the elderly, weak, women, and children, as if they were determined to kill the other person. Their attacks became more and more brutal, and then...”
“Blood, so much blood, and flesh, and hands, and... a child’s head! Right in front of me, there!” As the girl spoke, her hands gestured, swirling back and forth in a strange rhythm, as if simulating an object rolling, “Right there, it rolled towards me just like that...”
Visualizing the girl’s description, a strong smell of blood seemed to permeate the room as well.
“Hehe, she even smiled at me! Asked if I wanted to buy flowers, pomegranate flowers, so pretty, hehe, hehe...”
Seeing the girl’s condition becoming increasingly abnormal, as if she had lost her mind, Lu Yibei hurriedly increased the intensity of 【Wang Quan (Royal Authority)】 to its maximum. As the fierce mental deterrence swept through.
The string that was taut in the girl’s head finally snapped. Her body convulsed violently, her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed to the ground, losing consciousness.
Silence fell upon the room.
In the silence, Xia Lianqing turned to look at Lu Yibei. As their eyes met, her eyes were filled with unconcealed worry.
That look seemed to say, Miss Shen, this hot weather really did cause a huge mess!
Lu Yibei, “...”
Could hot weather really make people so irritable and bloodthirsty?
Why did it feel like she was taking the blame for someone else?
It sounded like... the Shaman King’s blame?
