Mu Chuan turned and glared at Peony Flower: “What have you done!”
“I’ve done nothing. You should know clearly that what’s entangling you is a resentful spirit,” Peony Flower laughed softly. “Looking at how the resentful spirit clings to the medicine immortal, it seems to be collecting soul power, right?”
I asked: “What do you mean?”
Peony Flower shook her head and sighed: “Your Highness, Medicine Immortal, haven’t you thought about this? Even high-level ghost kings are contaminated by the Bone River, let alone a small medicine immortal. Even if you protected your heart meridian and wouldn’t lose your life, your soul is already impure. I thought you knew the reason and thus lost your soul. But now it seems you didn’t know.”
Mu Chuan did not respond. The hand covering his chest suddenly jerked, and a lingering white qi was forcefully pulled out from his heart, which he then pushed back into the peony flower’s body.
“Are you crazy! Without me continuing your pure qi, do you think you can suppress the resentful spirit?”
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“If I cannot live for generations, what is the meaning of my life?”
My nose felt sour, and tears were already overflowing from my eyes. I lowered my head, not looking at him. It wasn’t that I lacked the courage to die together, but I couldn’t accept the pain of being together only to be forced apart again. Unable to live alone, yet unwilling to die together.
The peony flower cried hoarsely: “Then you go die too! Die together with her!”
As soon as the words fell, her pupils became scattered, and her vital energy dispersed. Watching the qi stream gradually disappear into heaven and earth, the peony flower chose to completely sever her soul, irreversibly vanishing. As she said, in this world, there would no longer be a formed peony flower, nor anyone who could save Mu Chuan and me.
I wiped away the tears from the corner of my eye, not knowing what to say to him. Looking at him from afar, though only a dozen steps apart, it felt like an insurmountable distance.
“Perhaps… there might be a medical text in the divine realm that can eliminate resentful spirits,” I sniffled and said with a smile, “I’ll go back and look through some books.”
