Su Liumeng composed her expression.
I looked down at the food on the table and took a bite of a bun.
Xi Zhiruo saw that I was in a bad mood and appeared in front of Su Liumeng in a flash.
“You — come out with me.”
I stared at the flickering light where the two figures had vanished, and the small bun in my hand suddenly lost its flavor.
This was also the consensus Xi Zhiruo and I had reached after a night of contemplation.
After thinking it over, it seemed most appropriate for Baby to speak on my behalf.
I did not want to experience that pain again.
Spring Qiao, who was serving the dishes nearby, noticed that I had no appetite and asked respectfully, “Madam, is today’s food not to your liking?”
“I can have the kitchen prepare another portion.”
I slowly shook my head. “It has nothing to do with the kitchen. Don’t bother them.”
Spring Qiao set the chopsticks down. “I have recently learned a new massage technique. Why don’t I help Madam relieve some fatigue?”
“Sure,” I replied casually, my thoughts already having followed Su Liumeng and Zhizhi.
***
Outside.
Beneath the courtyard wall.
Xi Zhiruo looked at Su Liumeng, her eyes filled with anger. “Are you still dreaming that Mother can stay with you forever? You probably don’t know… she simply cannot live that long. She doesn’t have much of her lifespan left.”
Su Liumeng’s pupils constricted.
In the quiet air, there was only the sound of the young girl’s erratic heartbeat.
Even her deep shrewdness could not hide her panic.
“What is… the reason?” Su Liumeng clenched her fists and asked in a heavy voice.
During this period, she had already found many spiritual herbs for Si Xinyan to consume.
No matter how much her foundation was depleted, it should have been possible to make up for it.
Unless —
Unless something else had happened that she was unaware of.
She recalled Si Xinyan’s laxity during these days, as if she already knew that her cultivation would yield no results.
Could it be?
Behind the contradiction between Si Xinyan’s talent and her cultivation, was there another secret she didn’t know?
Xi Zhiruo curled her lip.
Her gaze held a hint of disdain. “When we looked back at the images of her past life, didn’t you see it too? Mother always struggled with cultivation. On the surface, it seemed to be a restriction set by the Creator God, but on a deeper level, it was established based on the Chaos Rules.”
“Because her mission is to make the Creator God fall.”
“Therefore, when she completes her mission, she must also leave this world that does not belong to her.”
“Because of this, no matter how she cultivates, she has no way to live past 129 years later.”
“In fact.”
Xi Zhiruo’s expression became solemn. “In fact, I checked her last night. Given her current lifespan, if she continues not to cultivate, she only has fifty years left.”
“For an ordinary person, dying at seventy or eighty years old is indeed not considered an early death. It could even be described as passing away of old age.”
“But, how could you be willing to let her leave so soon?”
Su Liumeng contemplated for a moment. “Since you called me out, you must already have a solution.”
“The solution can only come from you. I’m certainly not as meticulous as you are. If you insist on making me speak, I only have one method: wait until my realm is high enough and then punch Chaos into submission.” Xi Zhiruo’s gaze was very innocent. “There is one more clue I forgot to mention. I checked yesterday, and the restrictions of the Chaos Rules will only grow stronger as time passes.”
“In other words, her cultivation will only become more difficult day by day.”
Su Liumeng thought for about fifteen minutes before providing a specific set of solutions.
“Two plans, to be carried out simultaneously.”
“We cannot let her be too lax. No matter how difficult cultivation is, she must run at least one Great Cycle a day.”
“At the same time, I will search for ancient pill formulas for Beauty-Retaining Pills. She definitely cares about her appearance. If she sees herself aging day by day while we remain youthful, she will surely have an emotional breakdown.”
“On the other hand, we must also look for pills that can extend one’s lifespan.”
“Didn’t you say it? The restriction imposed on her by the Chaos Rules is to leave after 129 years. Then we must at least raise her lifespan threshold to the limit.”
“That is one plan. The second plan is simple.”
“To strike iron, one must be strong oneself. We can only rely on you and me to forcibly break the deadlock. We must raise our own strength to the limit before the Chaos Rules descend.”
“If we can forcibly break the restrictions of the rules, we can save her.”
Xi Zhiruo counted on her fingers, trying hard to memorize it.
“It sounds like nothing needs to be added.”
She floated up and patted Su Liumeng’s shoulder. “Okay, this method is not bad. I’ll adopt it.”
At this moment, Su Liumeng’s arms were still trembling.
Suddenly hearing such explosive news.
Even with her shrewdness, she could only barely maintain her composure to think of a solution.
“Go back and accompany your mother. She doesn’t like being lonely.”
“Let me be alone for a while.”
Su Liumeng’s eyes were bloodshot as she gave a bitter laugh.
Her figure flashed, and she left the Su Family.
The emotions she had been forcing herself to suppress finally exploded when she was alone.
***
In a desolate mountain.
A tiger was happily rolling around in its cave.
Rumble —
Countless pieces of rubble fell from above.
The sound of explosions outside, like the sky was collapsing and the earth was rending, scared it so much that it jumped up.
‘Is… is the sky falling?’
It crawled and scrambled out of the cave.
Before it could look back at its cave with lingering fear, a young girl with an exquisite figure suddenly appeared beside it. She then bypassed it and sped forward, holding a long sword that didn’t seem to belong to this world. The black and white colors flickered constantly, and a single light swing could level countless mountain peaks.
The tiger gradually became dazed.
How did another crazy woman show up?
Last time it was a little girl who pulled it out and beat it up over the slightest disagreement, even insisting on watching it perform talents.
Later, for some unknown reason, she never appeared again.
Today, it encountered someone else who leveled mountains without a word of explanation.
A total lunatic !!
The tiger didn’t even have time to go back and pack its things; it fled that terrifying mountain range overnight.
Su Liumeng held the Heavenly Divination Nine Dragons Sword.
She cut through every mountain she met and split every body of water she saw.
The young girl’s chest rose and fell continuously.
She could not vent the anger and frustration in her heart.
Whenever she thought about the girl she loved.
That one day she would leave her prematurely, the energy in her meridians would run backward and boil.
In fact.
When she left, she would still be in her most youthful form.
But she could only watch her turn white-haired, become an old woman, and die of old age in a sickbed.
This — how cruel was this.
Su Liumeng truly had no way to accept it.
She had only loved one person in her life. Once she made a choice, it was for a lifetime.
However, reality was telling her.
There was no lifetime.
That soft, fragrant girl she longed for, whom she wished she could hold in the palm of her hand…
She would leave the world so early.
“AHH — “
Su Liumeng roared, venting loudly in the deep mountains.
Then, she abruptly lowered her head, and cold tears seeped from the corners of her eyes.
She propped herself up by her knees, bending over and panting heavily.
The long sword she was holding had long since been tossed aside.
This damned world !!!
What was the point of its existence?
Why couldn’t it be a little kinder to her girl?