Chapter 1322 — She Left After All
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Feng Xiaoxiao did not answer.
Wei Zhao sprang to his feet and rushed over. He felt for her breath and her pulse, and sure enough, they had fallen faint to the point of being barely there, just as they had when she lay unconscious before.
The illness had struck after all. She had not managed to hold out past her twentieth nominal-year birthday.
Instinctively, Wei Zhao made to bite open his wrist and heal Feng Xiaoxiao with his blood, but Jiao Yazi's voice sounded at his ear: "Xiaoyi, do not waste your effort. The cold in her has entered her very bones; it is beyond your power to reverse now. No matter how much blood you spend, it will avail you nothing! The pressing matter is to do as you planned before: seal her in the ice coffin, and then go seek the Fire Spirit Holy Fruit!"
Wei Zhao was stunned for a moment, then his mind cleared at once. He stopped himself from biting his wrist, heaved a sigh, and said: "Uncle Feng, prepare the ice coffin... This time, it's no use... I am powerless as well!"
At Wei Zhao's words, everyone present was struck dumb. Time and again he had pulled Feng Xiaoxiao back from the gates of hell, and they had believed this time would be no different. Yet they had never expected him to say such a thing!
"Xiaoxiao!" Tang Zhi was the first to rise, her face turning a little pale. "Wei Zhao, is there truly no way?"
"Seal her in the ice coffin as quickly as possible, and I will find the Fire Spirit Holy Fruit. That is the only way," Wei Zhao said gravely. "Of course, once I break through to Heaven Rank, I will be able to cure Xiaoxiao as well. So do not grieve too much; just think of her as having fallen asleep..."
Though grief weighed on Wei Zhao too, he feared the others would grieve all the more, and so he spoke up to comfort them.
Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Xu Shilan, at this moment, likewise wore faces full of sorrow and reluctance to part... This day had come at last; fortunately everyone had long since steeled themselves for it, so that they were not utterly heartbroken.
"I'll contact the people about the ice coffin right away!" Feng Tianlong did not dare delay; he nodded hurriedly and began making calls...
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The once-lively Gu family villa returned to its former quiet, and even the usually spirited Shen Yushu had fallen taciturn...
The gloom brought on by Feng Xiaoxiao's "passing" was not something that could be eased in a day or two...
In the beginning, the villa had held no Feng Xiaoxiao at all, yet the mood now was utterly different.
"Brother Arrow, when are you going tomb raiding?" Shen Yushu urged Wei Zhao practically every day, asking when he would set out to rob the tombs.
"Wei Zhao, Xiaoxiao's affair is in your hands!" Gu Mengyao too reminded him often that he still had a duty, a mission to fulfill.
"Wei Zhao, so long as you save Xiaoxiao... I'll agree to anything, I'll play along with anything... even a threesome..." The normally shy Tang Zhi, all for Xiaoxiao's sake, did not scruple to tempt Wei Zhao.
Of course, Wei Zhao was anxious beyond measure, but as the saying goes, sharpening the axe does not delay the woodcutting. The tomb raid was a must; yet the perils of those tombs might well exceed anything they could imagine!