Miss Loser is too enchanting
Chapter 554: Trying Hard to Survive for You (1)_1

Chapter 554: Chapter 554: Trying Hard to Survive for You (1)_1

Hei Zi watched Zi Xiao, who, after shedding a single tear, had remained motionless, and sighed in disappointment. Over the years, they had tried many methods to wake Zi Xiao, bringing in Jiang Yu and others to help, believing this to be the most likely way to succeed. Yet now, still without any response, everyone’s heart turned cold.

After changing the water for the towel, Hei Zi prepared to wipe Zi Xiao’s neck when he suddenly noticed his eyes flicker and became excited, calling out, "Xiao, Xiao!"

Qie Yue and Little Douzi, seeing Hei Zi so agitated, gathered around and watched as Zi Xiao slowly opened his eyes that had been closed for fifty years.

"Qie Yue, are you getting married?" were the first words Zi Xiao spoke upon awakening, inquiring about Qie Yue’s marriage.

With tears twinkling in her eyes, Qie Yue nodded and said, "We were just waiting for you!"

In the moment that Zi Xiao opened his eyes, the heavy snow that had fallen for fifty-two years in the Xuanyue Continent finally ceased...

Not long after Zi Xiao’s awakening, a joyous event took place in the Xuanyue Continent; Qie Yue finally married his beloved and brought Qin Wushuang through the doors. Perhaps because it was the first happy event after the long snowfall, it was celebrated in a grand manner to dispel the previously oppressive atmosphere.

On the day of the grand wedding, Zi Xiao served as their officiant, and despite feeling happy for his brother’s marriage, it couldn’t alleviate the suffocating pain in his heart. So, the day after Qie Yue’s wedding, he left the Xuanyue Continent alone.

He went to the Xuanyue Continent, the place where he and Dugu Qianye had first met. Arriving at the spot in the Yanshan Mountains where they had first encountered each other, he sat where she had once sat and took out a clay flute, gently playing "The Original Scenery of the Hometown" she once played.

She never knew that he had specifically learned vocal music and how to play this tune for her, thinking of playing it for her one day. But that day never came.

The sorrowful sound of the flute drifted repeatedly through the mountains, echoing the same sorrow of yearning without return that was in her playing.

Later, he visited every place they had been together. At the Dugu Family, he saw her parents silently crying in front of her memorial tablet, and he, remaining unseen, slowly turned and left.

Little Yeye, you left and inflicted deep pain on so many people. Do you know that?

After following every one of Dugu Qianye’s footprints, two hundred years later, he returned to the Xuanyue Continent. Qie Yue’s child, who had been born just a few years prior, would sweetly call him "uncle."

He smiled, remembering how he once said he wanted to take her and their child to see all the earthly sceneries together.

Little Yeye, I miss you, so much that my heart aches. Do you know that?

If only I hadn’t angered you with that heart-wrenching joke, if only I hadn’t promised you not to harm myself, if only I could have followed in your footsteps, would my heart not be in so much pain?

Little Yeye, I, live just for you...

In the Ice Snow World, Dugu Qianye extracted a wisp of her soul, attaching it to Fu Shang’s soul. Before she turned into a pillar supporting the world, she had cocooned herself in a shell.

When Dugu Qianye passed away, the eggshell cracked, and her life force began to fade rapidly, threatening to shatter completely. If the shell broke, Fu Shang would die alongside it, meaning not only Dugu Qianye’s soul but Fu Shang itself would vanish from existence.

"Quickly infuse Fu Shang with energy!" Xiaohuo said to the others.

While Little Baiqiu was still grieving to one side, the other Spiritual Beasts started infusing Fu Shang with their own energy. They were no longer connected, so transferring their energy was less effective than before, but some was better than none.

Life force continued to pour into Fu Shang’s egg, enveloping it completely, but still unable to halt its cracking, only slowing the process.

"What do we do, Fu Shang’s life force is still diminishing!" Xiaojiu said anxiously upon seeing the egg continuing to crack.

Mang Qianjun and Baili Ruyan wanted to help, but since they only possessed Death Qi and no life force, their help would only do harm; thus, they could only stand by, frantic.

"Wuu wuu, Keke, wuu wuu, I don’t want Keke to go, wuu wuu..." Just when everyone felt helpless, a cry emerged.

"Qiuqiu?!" Xiaohuo’s eyes brightened; she had forgotten about this little guy! She yelled at Little Baiqiu, who was still wailing, "Qiuqiu, what are you crying for?! If you keep crying, Sister really won’t be able to come back!"

Little Baiqiu’s cries halted at Xiaohuo’s lion-like roar, its big eyes blinked, and all the tears welled up in its eyes spilled out as it looked at Xiaohuo and asked, "Can Sister really come back?"

"Yes!" Xiaohuo said.

"Why?" Little Baiqiu instantly flew to Xiaohuo’s side and asked with blinking eyes.

"I don’t have time to explain right now. Do you have a way to stop Fu Shang’s life force from slipping away?" Xiaohuo placed her last hope on Little Baiqiu, thinking that as the chief among auspicious beasts, it should have the best way to prevent the life force from dissipating.

Although Little Baiqiu didn’t know if this had anything to do with Dugu Qianye’s return, it knew that if the egg broke, Fu Shang would definitely die. It didn’t want Fu Shang to die, so it nodded its head and said, "Let me try."

Little Baiqiu flew onto Fu Shang’s egg, placed its tiny paws on the cracks, then closed its eyes in deep concentration. A steady stream of the force of life flowed into the egg, slowly mending the hairline fractures. The life force no longer dissipated, yet no improvement was visible.

After a while, Little Baiqiu opened its eyes, brimming with tears, and said, "I’ve done my best."

Seeing Little Baiqiu’s exhausted appearance, everyone knew it had indeed given its all. Xiaohuo waved it over and held it in her embrace, saying, "That’s all we can do for now."

"But now, we can’t feel Fu Shang’s life force at all," Xiaoyin said.

"But Fu Shang said that as long as the egg isn’t shattered, then he wouldn’t die, right?" Lan Yue said.

Mang Qianjun stepped forward and said, "It’s likely Fu Shang’s soul has suffered a great shock and has now fallen into a deep sleep, which is why you cannot sense his life force."

"When will he wake up?" Xiaojiu asked.

Mang Qianjun shook his head and said, "I can’t be certain of that. Situations like this require soul nourishment for recovery. Careful tending is necessary; any slight mishap and the egg could become perpetually dead."

"Soul nourishment?" Little Baiqiu lifted its head from Xiaohuo’s embrace and extended a tiny paw, "I can nourish a soul."

Mang Qianjun still shook his head, "Indeed, you can nourish a soul, but you can only transfer life force intermittently, whereas the nourishment I’m talking about requires constant sustenance. If you were to do it, I fear you would lose your own life before they awakened."

"Then what do we do?" Little Baiqiu looked at Mang Qianjun and asked.