Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes, All Thanks to a Single Moment of Impulse - Chapter 40

Chapter 40

Edited by renderedreversed

Chapter 40

Looking at the red flamed beast, I poked Chu Kong’s arm and whispered, “You mean, you want to go fight this big fire ball?”

“If not, are you going to?”

Chu Kong glanced at me once .

“Now you know how much risk xiaoye needs to take . So later, remember to use all the wisdom you accumulated in this lifetime to quickly steal the stones…”

“I know, I know! Can that mouth of yours not always be so dissatisfied with me?“ I interrupted him . “I’m also not stupid . If you die, I’ll become a widow . ”

Chu Kong blushed . He still wanted to say something, but the flamed beast below us was awakened by our movements . He looked up and his throat made a few threatening sounds . This flamed beast really made the demon that we saw a few days ago seem like a kitten .

Chu Kong turned serious . He walked and stood in front of me . A fierce murderous energy made the flamed beast immediately quieted down .

The moon and stars were at the back . I followed the moon and the stars to hide in the shadows . I rushed to find a convenient place to go down the mountain and hide myself really well .

The flamed beast was a sensitive animal . When he looked up, flames grew out of his deep throat . His roar teared the sky . I covered my ears and acutely felt the thumping of my heart .

In a split second, the flamed beast flew into the sky . I saw a mass of flames rushing straight towards Chu Kong .

In my heart, I silently wished him to take care . While the flamed beast attacked Chu Kong, I sneaked into the cave . The stones in the cave were disordered; I looked left and right, but didn’t see the pure white clean stone .

I heard the sounds of the battle going on above me . The flames looked like fireworks during a feast, and I couldn’t see Chu Kong’s figure clearly . I gritted my teeth and walked deeper into the cave, knowing I needed to hurry . The flamed beast was an immortal beast . If Chu Kong was killed by it, maybe he wouldn’t even have the opportunity to go to the Netherworld . I really couldn’t let myself become a widow .

I was still deep in my thoughts, when I suddenly looked up . Not far away, there was something glowing in a white light . I hurriedly went to it, elated . With one glance, I knew it wasn’t the white stone that I’d been searching for, but two long hairs . It was two little flamed beasts that hadn’t formed their fire yet .

Two little guys looked at me with watery eyes, innocently blinking . Something in my heart flickered . I hesitated for a moment, and hadn’t had the time to put my hands on them when suddenly the mouths that hadn’t even formed teeth cried out . It sounded as if I was dismembering them .

The sound of the battle suddenly stopped .

Cold sweat slid down my forehead . I stiffly turned around . The big fireball in the sky was glaring at me . His feet moved and in a blink of eye, he rushed towards me . Chu Kong fiercely flung his whip and bound the flamed beast’s foot .

I hardened my heart and took out the fan that Zihui gifted me . I read the spell and violently waved with the fan . A big wind came . Those two cubs rolled away like two little balls . Sharp screams could be heard .

I walked to the back of the cave and saw a pile full of white stones . I didn’t need to touch them to feel the clean energy; these were certainly the fluorites! I pulled out the bag that I prepared and began to neatly pick them up .

Today, we could return triumphantly! No sooner had I just finished that thought when I felt something hot around the corner . I turned and looked .

“Dad, that person is here . ”

I hadn’t even been able to think about this situation . There were children, there was a mother, so of course there’d be a father! Chu Kong led the mother away, so how would the father endure this loneliness…

So, from the north of the cave, another faster, bigger, huge flamed beast rushed towards me .

I closed the bag, read a spell and ran . But the heat of its flames was getting closer and closer .

Chu Kong’s shout seemed like it came from the other end of the horizon . “Throw the stones! Withdraw!”

My brain didn’t have time to understand what he was trying to tell me when an intense heat swallowed me . I subconsciously pulled out the immortal cover to cover myself . But the father seemed very dissatisfied, probably because I just hit his children . A roar sounded in the sky . The three hundred-year-old immortal cover broke like ceramics . From behind me came a hot tearing pain . The moment before I fainted, I thought…

Chu Kong, you’re about to become a widower .

The world turned black, just as it was when I was a simple cloud . No soul, no feelings . Time, getting old, the circle of life and death; in my eyes, they had no significance . Later, Yue Lao converted me . He must’ve done it when he was drunk . Regardless, I became a fairy with few qualified achievements . I had no spiritual power and no system of learning . If I seriously thought about the three hundred years that I watched the door for Yue Lao in Heaven, everyday felt the same .

When did it began to change…

It seemed that when the young man dressed in red barged in, I no longer lived a day the same as yesterday . He taught me that life could be wonderful .

The whirring of the flames never stopped . I opened my eyes with much effort and looked at the scene before me . I foolishly froze .

It didn’t matter if it was a person or an immortal; in the space where time flew, there would always be some things that even if you glanced at them once, they would leave a heavy imprint engraved in your mind .

No matter how many years had passed, whenever that page was turned, the images would come back as new as ever .

At that time, Chu Kong’s back carved a timeless, heavy imprint in the back of my mind .

In the burning cave, the grunts of the flamed beast could be heard . Chu Kong stood in front of me like a barrier, cutting out a safe region for me . His appearance didn’t look an ounce cool or chic . His hair was scattered . His whole body was soaked in blood . His left hand was hanging weakly, like it had been broken .

I didn’t know for how long I fainted . I couldn’t imagine the scene of Chu Kong fighting with those two flamed beasts . I only knew that he had always been in front of me, guarding me like a real hero .

I moved my body . I wanted to get up, but the pain in my back made me lay back while groaning in pain .

Hearing my groan, the flamed beasts became more restless . Their situation wasn’t that optimistic either . One was lying on the floor like it was dying . The other one had many wounds on its body .

“Can you still read a spell?”

Chu Kong didn’t look back . With his back to me, voice tired and hoarse but somehow still calm, he asked, “How far can you run?”

I silently measured my ability . I shook my head . “I can try to run, but the flamed beast will certainly be faster than me . ”

Chu Kong was silent . Right on time, the flamed beast shouted . It seemed like he had finished preparing himself for his final fight . He stood up and rushed toward us .

Chu Kong put the crimson whip on his chest . He sang a spell . The whip changed into a sword . The sword glew red, as if it had been soaked in blood .

This was the first time that I saw his whip being used like this .

Chu Kong held the sword . His whole body emitted an immortal energy . He didn’t look back and said, “When you spot an opportunity, run . These two animals won’t be able to catch up with you . Hold the stones . Remember to go fill the hole . ”

What about you…

I didn’t need to ask . I could already guess what he wanted to do . He made up his mind to fight to the death . But with this death, nobody knew if he could reincarnate again .

“I…don’t want to be a widow . ”

Chu Kong heard my speech . With some surprise, he turned around .

Slowly, my body began to form a layer of smoke, filling the entire cave with white mist . Even the flames on the flamed beast had been extinguished for a moment .

Chu was furious . “Stupid thing . You’re not allowed to transform into your real form! Do you want to be grilled that much?!”

But it was too late; before he even finished speaking, I had already transformed into my real form . I turned into a mass of clouds and wrapped around Chu Kong . I flew into the sky, but my speed wasn’t fast . Besides, I was dragging along a long string of old clouds .

The flamed beasts below couldn’t see their opponent because of the smoke . They were furious . A fireball flew towards me . Because I was without a shell, it didn’t hurt, but he dried a lot of the mist on my body .

Dawn’s light passed through Kun Wu Mountain before it sprinkled on the earth . Sharp cries could be heard from the cave of the little flamed beasts . They were presumably hungry .

The flamed beast roared a few times, but he didn’t come after me .

I flew with the wind and floated in the sky . It’d been a long time since I felt such freedom .

“Hey! Are you alright?”

Chu Kong’s head drilled out of the clouds as he shouted at me .

I couldn’t speak . My body began to descend .

In fact…I really wasn’t alright…

The smoke cleared and I turned back into a human . Without the power of an immortal, I could only fall straight down . My back was tearing in pain, and there was a similar unbearable feeling in my heart . It felt like I was being baked .

Chu Kong pulled me into his arms . The wind blew through my hair . Chu Kong patted my face while giving me a righteous scolding . “Now you know how unbearable it is! I told you to not change to your real form, but you just didn’t listen! Did it feel comfortable being roasted as a Cloud Fairy?!”

His voice was broken up by the wind . I also hoarsely shouted back, “If I didn’t see that you were about to die, I wouldn’t have done it! Ungrateful thing!”

“Who’s the ungrateful thing here?! Do you think I saved you to let you sacrifice yourself?!”

I paused and then said, “I got it already! Do you really want to fight?! Let’s just go fill the hole . After filling the hole, we’ll go back and get married!”