Chapter 6: Brother, will I die?

[The girl’s health is far more serious than you think.]

[This is not an ordinary mortal disease, nor is it an injury from the outside world, but a shrinking and crumbling from the inside out, and the girl’s body is gradually coming to an end]

[You can’t understand and you don’t understand why]

[You can only do your best to find a cure as far as possible, but unfortunately, even the elixir of the immortalists cannot eradicate the girl’s illness, but only slow down the decay of her body]

[You try, you try, you’re like a bird of prey desperately flapping its wings, flying wildly through a jungle of thorns and thistles, searching for an infinitesimal hope.]

[But no matter how hard you tried, even with all the bruises and pleading with everyone including your master, you couldn’t find the real cause of the girl’s illness]

[You can only watch her suffer more and more]

[You can only watch her fade away]

[There’s nothing you can do. There’s nothing you can do.]

[Reality never changes by human will, you can’t be like the hero of a hot-blooded anime and write more about the tragedy and suffering in front of you just by roaring unreasonably.]

[In the face of true tragedy, manpower always seems so insignificant, so small as to be despairing]

[Every morning greeting, every goodnight farewell, is a signal that you are getting closer and closer to death, and you have been running under such pressure for four years, and in the end, nothing has come of it.]

It’s been four years. You’re 20. The girl’s 14.

[The sweet child who used to follow you around and talk about her brother has grown into a beautiful young woman, but all she can do is lie on her deathbed, like a fragile thing full of cracks that will break at the slightest moment.

[To some, this sickly pallor is the ultimate beauty, but to you, it is the most desperate, helpless, hateful look]

[Your seasons seem to be nothing but bitterly cold winters, and it’s hard to feel joy and warmth anymore.]

[The young girl took it all in stride, her eyes often filled with self-reproach and guilt.]

[She seems to care more about your growing body than her own pain, and apologizes to you on a regular basis]

“Sorry, Brother ……”

Mori Sword Peak Cave.

Several years passed.

The interior of the cave has not changed much, still the same few tables and chairs, as well as the flowers and plants that the young girl had transplanted with her own hands, and the faint fragrance is filled with a wordless dead silence.

The young girl lay quietly and flat on her back.

Hair is black and long and straight.

The beautiful eyes were lifeless.

The lips were white.

There’s a touch of fragility.

“It’s fine, we don’t need to apologize between us”, Xu System shook his head and shoved an elixir into the young girl’s mouth, “This is today’s Nine Leaves Elixir, eat it and get a good night’s sleep.”

The young girl nodded her head obediently and swallowed the elixir.

After eating, the seriously ill maiden smiled at the Xu system, like the morning sun, like a beautiful phantasmagorical dream, like a flawless sky, and demanded a reward from the Xu system as she had done when she was a young child.

“Elder brother, Mo Li obediently finished his medicine~~”

With a smile in her eyes, the young girl seemed to have never grown up as she pouted at the Xu system.

Right here and now.

Just then.

Xu Moli’s sickly body and lively voice formed an incomparably strong contrast, giving the onlookers a deep suffocation.

It makes you silent, it makes you mourn.

“Well nah, Mo Li is a good boy.”

Xu Department barely squeezed out a smile, forcing back the sourness of the tip of his nose, taking out the candies that had been prepared long ago, and being contained in the young girl’s mouth, she savored them as if she were tasting some extremely precious treasure.

Is candy really that good?

The Xu system recalled.

Every time he gave Mo Li candies to eat, Mo Li would show an expression of incomparable happiness.

After eating the candy, the young girl didn’t go to sleep as usual, but instead made a request to the Xu system that she wanted to go outside, and the Xu system agreed.

Sword flying was naturally not an option, and speeds that were too fast would destroy an already fragile body.

So.

The Xu system assisted the young girl.

Walking out of the cave, he took a few brief walks around the Mori Sword Peak, which was already in autumn.

Walking very slowly, much slower than the wheel of life flowing years, walking very fine, more fine than the dots in the middle of life.

The young girl’s face glowed a little more as she strolled across the autumn leaf-covered ground.

But.

Even with such a slow walk, even with such a short distance, the 14 year old Xu Moli still felt extremely burdened, her footsteps suddenly stopping, clutching the cloth of her chest, her face unusually pale.

“Don’t push yourself if you can’t walk.”

Like when I was a kid.

The Xu system carried the young girl on her back and let her rest on her back.

The young girl responded softly, “I know, Brother.”

Lying on her familiar back, feeling the solidity and steadiness, the young girl’s eyes narrowed and she only felt sleepiness growing more and more violent.

She asked this before falling asleep.

“Brother, will Mo Li die?”

“No, brother will get you back.”

“Well, Mo Li trusts elder brother, elder brother won’t lie to Mo Li ……”

Xu Moli’s voice grew weaker and weaker, and there was blood flowing from the corners of her mouth as she slumped down on top of Xu System, burying her head into Xu System’s shoulder and doing her best to stay awake.

But the blood was still spilling out of her mouth, draining a little of the young girl’s strength.

Wait until the Xu system realizes something is wrong.

The young girl had fallen into a coma.

[You have successfully joined the Heavenly Sword Sect, you have become the true disciple of the Heavenly Spiritual Root envied by all, your future is promising, your life is wonderful, and you are a well-deserved pride of the immortal cultivation world.]

[But contrary to you, your sister contracted a serious illness that worsened in the fall of her 14th year]

[You have no way to save it, you can only keep on completing the clan’s tasks, as well as learning alchemy and pharmacology on your own, and using the pills that all Immortal Cultivators find incredibly precious to delay and save your sister’s death]

“In the 15th year of crossing the border, you were 21 years old and Hsu Mo Li was 15.

[You have successfully broken through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, your strength is further advanced, you are not afraid of unusual Jindan real people, and you collect pills for your sister at a faster rate]

[But at the same time, Xu Moli’s condition also worsened, she lost the ability to walk and could only lie in bed all day].

“In the 16th year of crossing the border, you were 22 years old and Xu Moli was 16.

[You’re stressed to the limit, and it’s as if you’ve gone off the deep end, searching for a way to save your sister.]

[Finally, before your sister’s life came to an end, you found a description of your sister’s illness in an ancient book from overseas]

“The Doom of Heaven

[It is recorded in the ancient books that having a spiritual root in order to cultivate is a well-known common sense in the Immortal Cultivation world, but among the number of mortals so large that it is impossible to accurately measure them, there are always one or two special ones that do not need a spiritual root in order to absorb spiritual qi]

[But the spiritual root is the foundation of immortal cultivation, without the spiritual root to assist in cultivation, the mortal flesh is harmful after absorbing a large amount of spiritual qi instead]

[For this reason, this situation is called Tenno no E, meaning a calamity sent down from heaven.]

That’s exactly what happened to your sister, Mori Hsu.

[The Heavenly Sword Sect’s abundant aura caused her Heaven’s Doom to come early, and when you learned of this, you stayed inwardly stagnant for a long time as a result]