"Long Lin, calm down. Man Yue is not as pure as you think. She's actually a black lotus. She was still deceiving you until the very end."
I tried to persuade Long Lin to wake him up and prevent him from being blinded by that woman.
But this guy wouldn't listen to anything now. He simply turned a deaf ear to my words.
Just as he was about to stand in front of me, his figure suddenly disappeared. I quickly turned around, only to see Long Lin's jade - bone fan already pointed at Gu Yuan's neck.
Without hesitation, I gently raised my arm to stop him. Suddenly, there was a buzzing in my ear. The Moon Golden Wheel circled my arm and rushed towards Long Lin's jade - bone fan with a murderous aura.
The two weapons clashed, making a crisp ringing sound. In an instant, sparks and lightning flashed between the two weapons.
While the Moon Golden Wheel was entangling Long Lin, I grabbed Gu Yuan and pulled him to the other side.
At the same time, Long Lin had broken free from the Moon Golden Wheel and appeared in front of me. His determined look to kill Gu Yuan at all costs was extremely terrifying.
Just as he was about to take Gu Yuan's life, I suddenly felt a jolt in my body. Two talismans appeared in my hand. I quickly kicked the ground and sent the two talismans into the air.
Long Lin never expected me to draw talismans. He couldn't help but blurt out, "Smoke Spirit Ringed Snake?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the two talismans transformed into more than a dozen evil spirits. A white snake coiled around each of them. The snake's eyes glowed green, and its forked tongue was blood - red.
When the white snakes saw Long Lin, they shot out from the hands of the smoke spirits like springs and rushed towards him.
Long Lin was greatly shocked and blurted out, "So you're really a snake..."
He stopped halfway through his sentence. A white snake had already coiled around his body, and its mouth bit down on his arm.
Long Lin winced in pain. He grabbed the white snake and threw it away, but the snake was extremely poisonous.
In an instant, Long Lin's arm was covered with red lines like spider webs. The hand holding the jade - bone fan kept shaking, and the red lines continued to spread.
He took a step back. The intense pain was unbearable even for a god.
Looking at Long Lin's painful expression, I didn't feel good either. Although he had hurt Gu Yuan this time, he had never meant to harm me.
Once upon a time, he was also a spirit in my shrine and a good helper of mine.
I slowly walked up to the summoned smoke spirits. They all knelt down in unison and called me "Master".
I took a deep breath and walked up to one of the smoke spirits. She was holding the white snake that had just injured Long Lin in her arms and bowed to me respectfully.
I nodded slightly and said, "Sister, do you have the antidote?"
Without even asking, the smoke spirit grabbed the middle of the white snake's body and squeezed hard.
The white snake trembled, and its gall was taken out by the smoke spirit and handed to me.
The white snake slid down the smoke spirit's body like a hemp rope and died just like that.
I was a bit dazed. The smoke spirit gave a charming smile and said, "Master, it's its good fortune to be able to help you. It will soon be able to transform into a human form and recruit its own disciples."
I didn't say anything else. I took the snake gall and wanted to give it to Long Lin, but Long Lin was as stubborn as a bull and refused to take it.
I had no choice but to force the snake gall into his mouth. The snake gall was extremely bitter. As soon as it entered his mouth, his face wrinkled like a bitter gourd. After swallowing it, he kept retching.
"If you want to kill Gu Yuan, you have to ask me first. Go... From now on, we'll stay out of each other's way."
Long Lin pressed his chest. He was so angry that his lungs were about to explode. This was probably the most embarrassing moment in his life.
"If Gu Yuan is still alive, please tell him for me that I'll be his sworn enemy for the rest of my life."
I didn't answer him. I waved my arm, and Long Lin's body gradually became transparent until it turned into a golden light and disappeared.
I watched his fading figure and slowly let out a breath that I had been holding.
To be honest, pretending to be domineering and actually having that aura are really two different things.
I turned around to see those smoke spirits. I didn't expect the two talismans of the Star Lord of the Day of the Rooster to be so powerful that they could summon so many beautiful smoke spirits.
"Thank you, sisters, for saving me. Now that I'm out of danger, you can disperse."
The smoke spirits looked at each other and then covered their mouths daintily and said, "Master, we're your personal maids. You're being too polite."
"Ah?" I didn't quite understand what they meant.
"You're the spirit of the snake scales, and we're part of your spiritual energy. Those two talismans sealed us. Now that your spiritual power has mostly recovered, you can naturally summon us."
From what they said, it seemed that they had always been mine.
One of the older women stepped forward to Gu Yuan. She looked at his injuries and said, "His injuries are serious. We can't stay here long. Master, let's take you back."
"How can I save him?"
I quickly reached out to grab the smoke spirit's hand, but I missed. Right, she was an evil spirit. How could I touch her?
"Master, we can't help with this. Only you can save him."
After the smoke spirit finished speaking, she gently waved the silk - washing fan in her hand. In an instant, a purple aura surrounded me. When I opened my eyes again, Gu Yuan and I were already back in the bridal chamber.
Come to think of it, I hadn't been back to this home for a long time.
But there was no time for sentimentality now. I quickly ran to the study and fetched the medicine box.
Gu Yuan's shoulder didn't seem to have hit a vital part, but the wound was deep, and his breath was very weak.
I carefully took off Gu Yuan's clothes and wiped his wound with an iodine - soaked cotton cloth.
He should have had the ability to heal his wounds. Why hadn't the wound shown any sign of healing after so long?
The scar on his body ran from his shoulder to his chest. It made my heart ache so much that I wished I could be the one who was injured so that I could share his pain.
The more I wiped, the more uncertain I felt. I was so afraid that he would die in front of me the next second. My mind was in a complete mess, and I didn't even know what I was saying later.
"Gu Yuan, you can't die. What will I do if you're gone?" At this moment, I was really scared. I was so afraid that he would leave me just like Bai Qi.
But then I remembered what Man Yue had said to me today. My child. He had aborted my child without even asking me when I was completely unaware.
No wonder I had heard his conversation with Bai Qi at that time.
"Bai Qi... What's going on?"
"Are you crazy? Let Lan Lan... at this time?"
"Have you made up your mind?"
"Cut it off... Keep it secret."
Putting these words together, it was exactly what Man Yue had said. It turned out that everything Man Yue said was true. Thinking of this, I felt extremely angry. I hated him for making all the decisions on his own and not caring about other people's feelings at all.
"And... you killed my child. I'll settle this score with you when you're awake."