Only Peng Xuan came from an ordinary family, experienced major upheavals, and was often looked down upon. With great difficulty, he was finally accepted by the Changliu Sect. This made him cherish everything he obtained, not allowing anyone to take or destroy it: his martial skills, his property, his life.
Luo Yingbai remembered that the other scar on his hand was from when they dealt with a monster when Peng Xuan was eighteen, and he blocked an attack for him.
Now, Peng Xuan was gripping his arm and calling him “senior brother.” Luo Yingbai ultimately couldn’t harden his heart. He embraced Peng Xuan’s shoulders, letting him lean on him, momentarily unable to speak.
With Xia Xianning’s medicine taking effect, Peng Xuan’s spirits improved: “Senior brother, I often heard that if given a second life, one could make up for past regrets… but I’ve been given this luck and haven’t used it well. I was wrong. I thought I had gained extra time to live, but in harming you these days, the more I live, the more pain I feel.
I want to know what really happened back then—even if it kills me! So I must return to the place where I died in my previous life today, recreate that scene, and understand why you pulled me to block the resentful energy!”
As he spoke, fresh blood gushed from his mouth, sliding down his face. Luo Yingbai reached out to wipe it, but couldn’t clean it completely.
Peng Xuan murmured: “So you were trying to save me…”
Reborn, many things had changed. Peng Xuan almost fell into the fire, was pulled up by Luo Yingbai, but died from a ghost’s hidden resentful energy.
At that time, he was completely unprepared, nearly falling into the fire and already half-unconscious from the smoke. In his daze, he didn’t know what happened afterward, only seeing Luo Yingbai pull him up and then push him away, before being pierced through the heart by the fierce ghost’s resentful energy blade.
Now he realized that in the previous life, Luo Yingbai had also pushed him away. Though not struck by the ghost, the falling ceiling would have certainly crushed him, leaving him dead or paralyzed.
He had been trying to sacrifice himself to save Peng Xuan.
