บท 53: True Enemy
A considerable distance from where Ling Xue was, Li Yuemei suddenly regained consciousness. Opening her eyes, confused, she was greeted by a vast region devastated by fragments of ice and black fire ashes.
She then looked around, and a terrible sight was before her. Her heart tightened when she saw numerous people lying on the ground. She knew them; they were great elders of the sacred land.
She saw their bodies severely wounded, many of their limbs missing, others frozen.
'What happened here?' Li Yuemei thought, then finally remembered the pain from the mental attack she received before fainting.
Suddenly, an old woman and a man in black appeared by her side.
She didn't recognize either of them, but knew they were also from the sacred land by their clothing, typical of a special group from the southern sacred land.
The woman stepped in front of Yuemei and then spoke to the man in black with a confused expression.
"Her mind is not being controlled; she is completely fine; there is no sign of anything happening to her mind," the woman said with a slightly exhausted voice.
Li Yuemei listened and then asked what was happening again with an extremely worried expression.
The man in black, realizing she wasn't being controlled as everyone thought, decided to tell her the events.
She heard everything, from the ancestor's plan to how the man saved her from Ling Xue. He recounted up to the part when the Saints were left in this state, and the ancestor intervened in the fight, both having saved the great elders and taken them away from the battle.
She then heard that the leader of the sacred land would soon arrive with the guardian beast in the fight and help the ancestor kill Ling Xue.
After hearing what was happening, dominated by urgency, she didn't care about the rest of the story, and suddenly an intense aura of blood surged from her body; the moons on her foreheads shone blood-red, while two red wings suddenly appeared on her back.
With her greatest speed, Li Yuemei flew directly to where she felt the climate was colder. The man in black tried to stop her, but he couldn't, and the old woman prevented him as soon as he tried.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" The man shouted at the old woman, irritated, after they suffered so much to save Yuemei, and she was returning to danger.
The woman didn't answer and just stopped the man. In the woman's mind, numerous things were passing; she realized the young master of the medicinal mountain might have lied.
When she checked Yuemei's body, she noticed that Yuemei's mind had no signs of the icy energy she experienced when she used her mental attack on Ling Xue, nor any sign of her being controlled. Also, the scars on her body, unlike what the young master said, were not caused by physical attacks, but by Yuemei's internal energies, and the abuses seemed to be a lie after all; Li Yuemei still seemed to be... a virgin.
In the sky, Li Yuemei flew rapidly, looking at the destroyed region, her concern for her uncle increasing more and more. She knew Ling Xue was much stronger than everyone here, and if he wanted, he could kill everyone.
She didn't know what could happen if she didn't arrive in time. After some time flying, she suddenly saw a huge beast falling at high speed from the sky.
Li Yuemei recognized the beast and saw the wing completely frozen and the ice still spreading through the rest of the beast's body while it tried its best to avoid being completely frozen.
Li Yuemei, after seeing this, flew even faster.
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High in the sky, Ling Xue, seeing the man's appearance, remembered his face; he was present the day he awoke and was part of the people who were near Li Yuemei.
And because of this, he didn't immediately freeze them as he would have; before, he thought they were unknown enemies, and so his irritation was great. But now, seeing they were known to Yuemei, confusion arose in his mind.
He didn't understand why he and Li Yuemei had been attacked like this or the anger everyone showed towards him.
"Why did you attack us? I don't remember being enemies." Ling Xue coldly asked the leader of the sacred land.
"You bastard, you still have the courage to ask after making Li Yuemei suffer; you caused this war when you kidnapped Yuemei; how could we not be enemies?" the leader of the sacred land replied with hatred despite the intense cold he felt.
After hearing what the man said, Ling Xue pondered the situation and understood why he was seen as an enemy; he had indeed taken Li Yuemei away. After awakening, he didn't understand much about the world and also didn't care, and he did it because he felt Li Yuemei resonated slightly with him. But now he understood that anyone wouldn't be happy if a family member was taken away by a stranger.
But he was still irritated by their extreme hatred reaction; they just attacked to kill him without even saying anything, and if he wasn't strong or fast enough. Wouldn't he have been killed by that man in black's dagger, or by the attacks of the saints and the old woman?
Ling Xue then didn't know what to do in this situation, and while thinking, suddenly he saw something red flying towards them.
Then suddenly, in the middle between Ling Xue and the leader of the sacred land, Li Yuemei appeared with immense blood wings that suddenly disappeared as she exclaimed while her body began to freeze looking at Ling Xue. "Please, stop this!"
Li Yuemei, when she was getting close to them, saw the leader of the sacred land, her uncle, almost frozen and the ancestor without an arm and severely injured on her back. She sped up even more, afraid that Ling Xue would kill them.
As soon as she appeared, the leader of the sacred land began to shout at Yuemei telling her to run away, but she just ignored him and continued looking at Ling Xue.
She noticed that his expression was totally cold, just like when he came out of the frozen abyss, causing slight discomfort in her eyes. Even more, with that aura coming out of his body, she felt that in a few seconds she would be completely frozen.
But then she felt the cold aura suddenly stop hitting her. She then spoke to him again, trying to calm him down. "Ling Xue, this was all a misunderstanding.".
Li Yuemei was divided at that moment and didn't know what to think about this situation. Despite knowing that Ling Xue was not a bad person, she was disturbed by what he had caused; the sacred land had suffered a great loss, and their injuries might never heal in this life, but she also knew that he was not at fault for all this.
Ling Xue, seeing that Li Yuemei was well and looking at her worried expression and asking him to stop, decided to do so. The icy aura of his body decreased, and the leader of the sacred land and the ancestor suddenly felt relief, while the surrounding ice suddenly disappeared.
The leader of the sacred land was surprised that Ling Xue really left them without understanding, and then Li Yuemei began to speak.
She then began to explain to the leader and the ancestor what was happening, that the information she was suffering at the hands of Ling Xue was a lie, and that he had never done anything to harm her.
As Li Yuemei spoke to the two, as soon as Ling Xue heard her saying that they had received false information from someone, even without her having said who it was, Ling Xue immediately thought of someone while looking at the rings on his hands.
He now understood the reason for the intense hatred and aggressiveness of Yuemei's acquaintances, remembering the only person he had any conflict with since he awoke. Then suddenly, the icy aura that had diminished came back completely, and his eyes became even more terrifying while a thought arose in his mind.
'It seems the central continent will have to wait a few more days'
Without saying a word, Ling Xue suddenly turned in one direction and then disappeared in front of Li Yuemei and the other two.
The three were tremendously startled as soon as they felt the icy aura of Ling Xue reappear, which was even more terrible than before. They couldn't even think of anything, but they were relieved; it only lasted an instant and then disappeared suddenly.
Li Yuemei then saw that Ling Xue had disappeared.
"Where did he go?" She asked with a strange expression.
Then an ancient voice spoke from behind the leader of the sacred land.
"The direction he looked, cough, is where... the medicinal mountain is," said the ancestor. Her hair had turned white after using her vital energy, and she was extremely weak, but even in this situation, despite Li Yuemei explaining the misunderstanding, she was still paying attention to any suspicious movement coming from Ling Xue, and because of that, she knew where he went.
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