It seemed that at any moment, Shen Li's taut nerve might snap.
"I don't want to kill you, but I don't want to save Xuan Yuanjue either. You should know that I'm not the same person as before. You can't kill me." Mu Ruchu said softly, coughing a little. Then he raised his hand and struck directly at Shen Li's shoulder. With lightning speed, Shen Li was sent flying two meters away.
Blood welled up in his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Shen Li slumped to the ground. He felt as if there was a knife slashing at his meridians and his bones were being roasted by magma.
The pain swept over him instantly.
Mu Ruchu tore off a piece of his clothes and wrapped it around his neck bit by bit. He looked at Shen Li helplessly, walked slowly to his side, squatted down and said kindly, "You're a bit disobedient. How about this? Come with me. I'll take you to the Immortal Valley. I believe that with your talent, given time, you can become famous all over the world and be able to bring the dead back to life. Maybe then you can save Xuan Yuanjue."
"You've got quite a beautiful fantasy!" At this moment, Shen Li was convinced that the man in front of him was not Mu Ruchu, because Mu Ruchu would never be like this!
So Shen Li spat a mouthful of blood at Mu Ruchu's face.
But when Shen Li's blood touched Mu Ruchu's wound, Mu Ruchu's face changed drastically. He pointed at Shen Li with a trembling finger and stepped back involuntarily, "Your blood..."
Suddenly, he covered his head and shouted loudly, "My head hurts! My head hurts so much!"
His blurred eyes gradually became clear. His expression when looking at Shen Li was no longer the same as before. It seemed that he was suppressing something.
"Miss Shen... Run away..." Mu Ruchu gritted his teeth tightly, as if he was using his last bit of strength to utter these words.
"Mr. Mu, what's wrong with you?" Shen Li frowned. She felt that the man in front of her was the real Mu Ruchu.
"Run away..." But Mu Ruchu just kept repeating this sentence.
"But what about Xuan Yuanjue..."
"My head..." Mu Ruchu let out a sudden growl, "Your blood can save... Run away."
Then, as if using the last bit of strength in his body, Mu Ruchu pushed Shen Li out of the door. A warm current flowed into Shen Li's body, and the pain from before disappeared in an instant.
Mu Ruchu's strange behavior made Shen Li very puzzled, but she didn't know what was going on. Originally, Shen Li wanted to go back in to find out, but she was more worried about Xuan Yuanjue's condition.
So the most urgent thing now was to save Xuan Yuanjue.
Her own blood?
Although it was a bit strange, it was still a way. Shen Li could only try it with the mentality of giving it a shot. As for Mu Ruchu...
She could only come back later to find out what had happened to him.
Ming Yue, Cang Lan, and Chi Xia had been guarding here for a whole day, but they still hadn't seen Shen Li. Ming Yue couldn't help but feel anxious.
Just as Ming Yue was about to persuade her to go out and look for Shen Li, Shen Li finally came back.
"Miss, did you find Mu Ruchu, the heir of the Immortal Valley?"
Shen Li nodded, but then shook her head. After all, what had happened today was a bit hard for Shen Li to describe.
"Is there any sign of Xuan Yuanjue waking up?"
Ming Yue shook her head, "Not yet, but there are no bad signs either. He's still the same as this morning."
When Shen Li pushed open the door of Xuan Yuanjue's room, from afar, she could see Xuan Yuanjue's deep eyebrows tightly closed. His thin lips were pale and still showed no sign of color.
So Shen Li walked forward and ordered the people behind her, "Go and boil another bowl of ginseng soup."
"Yes!" Ming Yue replied.
Shen Li walked to Xuan Yuanjue's bedside, "Don't come in without my order."
"Yes!" After Ming Yue stepped back, she closed the door for Shen Li.
After a while, Shen Li took out the dagger on her body and gently cut a small opening on her wrist. The sharp dagger instantly made the blood on Shen Li's wrist gush out. Drop by drop, the blood landed on Xuan Yuanjue's lips.
Unexpectedly, when they had tried to feed him medicine before, Xuan Yuanjue's mouth had never opened, but at this moment, the blood moistened his lips, and he involuntarily opened his mouth. This was undoubtedly a good sign.
Shen Li stared intently at Xuan Yuanjue's changes, afraid of missing any details.
Seeing a trace of color appear on Xuan Yuanjue's originally pale face, Shen Li was overjoyed. She directly took out the dagger and made another cut on the wound. More blood gushed out from her wrist.
Shen Li didn't even know how much blood she had given to Xuan Yuanjue. She just saw that Xuan Yuanjue's breathing seemed to become more steady, and his face was no longer as pale as before. At this moment, Xuan Yuanjue seemed to be just sleeping, and the blood from the previously cut wound had stopped flowing.
Shen Li stretched out her finger and gently placed it on Xuan Yuanjue's wrist. She found that his pulse was beating very strongly, which made Shen Li heave a sigh of relief. She just didn't expect that her blood would have such an effect?
Before she could think about it, due to excessive blood loss, Shen Li's face gradually became pale, and she fainted directly beside Xuan Yuanjue's bed.
The ginseng soup had already been boiled. Ming Yue called out to Shen Li a few times at the door, but there was no response.
If she didn't send it in, the ginseng soup would probably get cold.
"Miss, I'm coming in with this!" Ming Yue called out to Shen Li again and then pushed open the door of the room.
She found that Shen Li was lying on Xuan Yuanjue's bedside, seemingly asleep. Ming Yue quickly put the ginseng soup on the table and ran to the bedside to check on the situation of Xuan Yuanjue and Shen Li.
She directly noticed the wound on Shen Li's wrist. The blood had already scabbed over, so the blood had stopped flowing, but it could still be seen that the wound was extremely deep.
Ming Yue was shocked. She quickly felt Shen Li's pulse and found that she had just fainted due to excessive blood loss.
She took out the golden sore medicine that she always carried with her and evenly applied it on Shen Li's wound. During this process, Shen Li didn't wake up.