"Nangong Mo!"
Gu Qianying's expression changed drastically.
She shouted!
Ouyang Qinglin was startled and looked down.
He hadn't seen Xia Guohou embrace Nangong Mo, intending to perish together!
He wanted to rescue them, but the flames were too fierce. If he jumped down, he would be engulfed by fire just like Nangong Mo, and survival would be difficult.
Thinking of this, Ouyang Qinglin did not go down to rescue. Instead, he leaped upwards along the uneven cave wall.
At this moment, the robes Nangong Mo was wearing burned fiercely. He quickly became a man of fire, just like Xia Guohou!
He struck Xia Guohou down with a palm, then grabbed his robes and tore them off, revealing his muscular chest.
On his chest, a miniature lotus imprint glowed with purple light.
Gu Qianying's body trembled violently.
The lotus imprint on Nangong Mo's chest... it was so familiar!
She felt like she had seen it somewhere before!
Pain!
Her head throbbed with pain.
A certain memory in her mind, as if a seal had been broken, suddenly exploded.
Images of a person flashed repeatedly in her mind like phantoms.
So!
So, Nangong Mo was... was the big brother she met when she was young!
Tears welled up in her eyes.
Gu Qianying looked down, her lips trembling slightly. She growled, "Brother Mo!"
"Brother Mo" was the nickname Gu Qianying had given Nangong Mo when he was young.
At the lowest point of the cave,
Surrounded by fire and not yet out of danger, Nangong Mo suddenly heard the words "Brother Mo!"
His body trembled. He looked up at Gu Qianying at the very top. The corners of his lips curled up, and he smiled at this moment: "Gu girl, you finally remember me. That's good."
He stripped off all the robes he was wearing, leaped lightly, and prepared to fly up. His feet were suddenly grabbed by two hands, held tightly, preventing him from breaking free.
The flames raged, engulfing the entire cave.
At this moment,
Nangong Mo knew very well that if Gu Qianying lingered any longer, she would have no chance of survival.
He tilted his head back, showing her a beautiful smile, and shouted to her, "Gu girl, live well. I can no longer protect you. You must take good care of yourself."
"No, Brother Mo, hurry up and come up. I'll save you."
Gu Qianying, disregarding the fierce flames, turned to jump down.
"Bang!"
The entire cave instantly exploded under the oppressive, raging fire.
Gu Qianying, who was about to return, was suddenly embraced by two hands, which carried her and leaped to a safe place outside the cave.
At this moment, the cave below was filled with endless fire, and nothing else could be seen clearly. It was imaginable that the person inside could not have survived.
As Ouyang Qinglin carried Gu Qianying and landed, the glowing Yi Ling Pearl was thrown to Gu Qianying's feet.
Gu Qianying's eyes turned red. She looked down at the Yi Ling Pearl at her feet and cried bitterly.
Ouyang Qinglin reached out his hand, wanting to embrace her and offer comfort.
"Slap!"
A handprint landed on Ouyang Qinglin's cheek. Gu Qianying glared at him, "You could have saved him! Why didn't you save him! Why?"
Her voice suddenly became sharp.
"Heh! Little thing, get your position straight. Nangong Mo is my sworn enemy. Why should I save him?" Ouyang Qinglin said with a sinister smile.
If it were Gu Qianying, he would not hesitate. But for others, he could only be selfish.
"If you don't save him, I will!"
Gu Qianying walked past Ouyang Qinglin.
She knew she had no right to ask Ouyang Qinglin to save Nangong Mo.
For now, she would be selfish and willful.
Nangong Mo was her Brother Mo, the young man who promised to marry her when she grew up.
He was the young man who learned to make tea and cook her favorite foods to make her happy, the one who doted on her.
In her past life, that period of memory, which belonged only to her and him, had been hidden. Until she died, she had never recalled the stories between them.
In this life, her childhood memories had returned, and the boy who only had eyes for her had also returned!
"Going down means death. Are you crazy!"
Ouyang Qinglin stopped Gu Qianying, preventing her from acting foolishly.
"I'm not crazy! You can leave."
Gu Qianying pushed Ouyang Qinglin away.
Although she knew that survival in the cave was almost impossible, she did not give up. If she couldn't save him, she would die with him in the sea of fire!
Seeing Gu Qianying's stubbornness, Ouyang Qinglin frowned. He walked behind Gu Qianying, raised his palm, and struck the back of her neck. Gu Qianying's body went limp, and she fainted on the spot.
Ouyang Qinglin picked her up, glanced at the fractured cave that was still engulfed in flames, and seemed to make a promise to someone, or speak to the air, "I will protect Little Thing for the rest of her life. You can go with peace of mind!"
With that, Ouyang Qinglin, carrying Gu Qianying, leaped lightly, turned, and left.
A red robe in the sky, teleporting, gradually disappeared.
The fire in the cave burned for nearly a day. When the "sea of fire" was extinguished by a torrential rain, the fractured cave became a ruin, and beneath the ruins were ashes.
In the center, the place covered by soil suddenly trembled...
Two days later,
In the mountains, at a hunter's house,
Inside, on a bed lay a woman of exquisite beauty, dressed in simple ink-bamboo robes. A man in a crimson robe sat quietly beside her, gazing intently at the woman on the bed who had not yet woken up.
Several small heads peeked out from outside the window.
"Has the beautiful sister woken up yet?"
"We've been waiting for so long. I wonder when that sister will wake up?"
"Who knows? My father said that sister is very powerful."
"What's so powerful about her? Tell us..."
Among the three little brats, they chattered excitedly, each one speaking their mind.
Just then, the door of the house was pushed open, and a burly man with a fierce face, dressed in tiger skin, strode in and asked, "Has Miss Gu not woken up yet?"
As he spoke,
The man placed two wild rabbits he had hunted on the ground, along with a few herbs. He didn't know the names of these herbs, but whenever someone in town fell ill, their elders would instruct others to collect these herbs and boil them for soup. Some who drank it recovered, while others did not.
However, it was worth a try, like treating a dead horse as if it were alive.
When asked,
Ouyang Qinglin did not respond to the man, nor was the man in a hurry. He glanced at the unconscious woman on the bed, turned, and went out. He returned with two bowls, one with medicinal soup and the other with meat broth.
The man placed one bowl of meat broth on a round table not far away, letting it cool. Then, he handed the other bowl of medicinal soup to Ouyang Qinglin: "Feed her this, and she might wake up."
Ouyang Qinglin looked at the man, remained silent, his dry lips twitched. He glanced sideways at Gu Qianying, who was still unconscious, and looked warily at the tiger-skinned man. The man was still holding the medicinal soup.
"Don't worry, it's not poisoned."
The man walked to the round table, picked up a teacup without tea, and poured a small mouthful of the medicinal soup he brought into it. He tilted his head back and drank the medicinal soup from the teacup, proving that the soup was not poisoned.
"Feed it to her and see if it works."
The man said gruffly. Having personally tested the poison, he believed the man in red would no longer obstruct him.
A moment later,
Ouyang Qinglin fed Gu Qianying the medicinal soup brewed by the tiger-skinned man, spoonful by spoonful. After finishing, Ouyang Qinglin looked at the tiger-skinned man and asked directly, "Do you know her?"
If they didn't know each other, why would the tiger-skinned man be so kind?
"Miss Gu's grandfather, Old General Gu, saved me." The man gave a reasonable explanation.
Ouyang Qinglin pondered for a moment and then thought no more of it.
Two hours later, Gu Qianying finally woke up...