lcionline Chapter 328 Loyalty
Chapter 328 Loyalty
Jiang Ming was sleeping soundly, his face was deathly pale, and his breathing was extremely slow, as if he were dead.
Shen Yao sat by the bed, watching over him, her heart growing increasingly anxious.
Shi Bao's afternoon classes will end in 15 minutes.
They've all been picking up their kids from school together lately, what will they do today?
Let's keep today a secret for now.
She sent a message to Wang Xu, using the excuse that she had something to do with Jiang Ming, and asked Wang Xu to take care of the child.
Not long after she sent the message, Jiang Ming's communication token lit up, and then lit up several more times a short while later.
Wang Xu was already wary of Shen Yao.
From the day Jiang Ming brought Shen Yao over, Wang Xu was convinced that Shen Yao had ill intentions.
Upon receiving the message asking him to pick up his child, he became suspicious and immediately sent a message to Jiang Ming to confirm.
After waiting for a while without receiving a reply, he sent several more messages, but received no response. He immediately guessed that the hall master had encountered some trouble.
It must have been Shen Yao who caused this!
He sent a message to Shi Bao's master and confirmed with Hong Shun that the hall master had not gone to Longquan Cliff, so he rushed to Fengshen Hall.
Wang Xu rushed back to the Fengshen Hall. After asking the disciples on duty at the gate and learning that the hall master had not gone out, he breathed a slight sigh of relief and strode towards the inner training ground.
As he passed through the main hall, a disciple noticed his hurried expression and caught up with him, saying, "Lord Wang, are you looking for the Hall Master? The Hall Master is in the study on the second floor."
Wang Xu turned a corner, jogged into the main hall, and quickly went upstairs to the Dan Gui Pavilion.
The door to Dan Gui Ge was open, and Wang Xu strode in, his nostrils twitching slightly; the smell was off.
Although Shen Yao had cleaned up the blood on the ground and door, the lingering smell of blood in the air could not be masked by the fragrance of osmanthus flowers.
Wang Xu frowned, his heart filled with horror. The sect leader had indeed been harmed by the ruthless female immortal!
Since the hall master had never left the palace, and the study was in this state, Wang Xu left the study and rushed to Chenfeng Pavilion as fast as he could.
'Knock knock knock…'
Wang Xu was extremely anxious, but fearing a misunderstanding, he patiently knocked on the door: "Master, are you there?"
'Knock knock knock...Master?'
He didn't wait for permission to enter the room; instead, Shen Yao opened the door.
Shen Yao gripped the doorknob with both hands and opened the door a crack: "Didn't I tell you to stay with Shi Bao? Why are you here?"
Upon seeing her, Wang Xu panicked even more: "Is the Hall Master here?"
Shen Yao replied softly, "He's sleeping."
Wang Xu's face darkened, and his tone sharp: "Our hall master never sleeps in broad daylight."
Seeing his posture, it was impossible to hide it anymore. Shen Yao thought it was good that he came, as it would be helpful to have someone to look after him: "I let you in. Don't get excited about what you see."
Wang Xu forced his way through the door and strode into the inner room.
He walked to the bedside and saw the hall master lying on the bed, pale and weak, and turned pale with fright.
This isn't sleeping; it's clearly unconscious!
Wang Xu formed a hand seal to use a healing spell, and Shen Yao whispered to him, "I've already used a divine-level healing spell on him. It won't work today. We'll have to wait until tomorrow."
Wang Xu tried it, but the wood elemental power couldn't enter the hall master's body; it really had no effect.
He put away the seal and demanded, "Where is the hall master injured?"
Shen Yao pointed to Jiang Ming's chest, not daring to say that his heart had been pierced: "His chest."
Wang Xu gently lifted the blanket and saw a large bloody hole in Jiang Ming's chest. Wood elemental energy was circulating inside the hole, stopping the bleeding.
It was clearly a sword wound; the sword had pierced right through his chest!
Wang Xu was terrified.
He was convinced that Shen Yao was responsible, but he didn't want to wrongly accuse her.
"How did our leader get injured? How could he be injured like this?"
Shen Yao was at a loss for words. She said that Jiang Ming had stabbed her himself, but would Wang Xu believe her?
After hesitating for a while, she finally said, "Why don't you wait until he wakes up and ask him yourself?"
Wang Xu hated Shen Yao to death.
Master Hong is right, she is a monster, a menace.
Look at what they've done to his leader over the years.
I really want to kill her, shatter her soul core, and make her disappear forever.
Wang Xu's murderous intent was palpable, and Shen Yao could feel it very clearly.
But she is a Celestial Ancestor, so why would she be afraid of a mere Celestial Fan?
Seeing Wang Xu so upset, she felt bad.
I always feel like I've let Wang Xu down...
Jiang Ming is so lucky; Wang Xu is the most loyal subordinate she has ever met.
"Don't stare at me like that. Anyway, I didn't stab you."
Wang Xu's hatred remained undiminished; even if she wasn't the one who stabbed him, she was still implicated.
He pulled back the covers and thoroughly examined Jiang Ming. Then, he covered him with the covers again and said to Shen Yao, "We can't just wait like this. We need to use medicine and bandage him."
Shen Yao wanted to say that the divine healing technique she used could heal her completely in a few days if she used it twice a day as long as she didn't die today. She didn't need any of these other aids.
But she didn't refute it, just to put Wang Xu's mind at ease.
Wang Xu carried all the treatment tools with him and quickly prepared them. Then he handed the medicine powder to Shen Yao: "Here you go."
His thinking was simple: killing her was out of the question—the hall master couldn't bear to do it, and he couldn't defeat her either—so he had to make her do more for the hall master.
He had to collect interest for his own boss.
Shen Yao took the powder and poured it into Jiang Ming's wound. He was in a deep sleep, his senses were shut down, and he couldn't feel any pain.
"Fairy Shen, you need to take off the hall master's clothes." Wang Xu prepared the ointment: "The wound also needs to be treated with medicine."
Okay, she unbuttoned Jiang Ming's shirt, her fingers touching his body, which was as cold as ice.
The injury was indeed very serious.
After applying a layer of ointment along his chest, Shen Yao helped Jiang Ming up and had Wang Xu apply the ointment to his back.
Looking from the back, there's also a hole, and you can see the bed railing in front.
It really went right through.
Wang Xu was heartbroken.
His expression was extremely unpleasant as he applied medicine to Jiang Ming with red eyes.
After applying the dressing, he took the gauze and gave it to Shen Yao, glaring at her without saying a word.
Shen Yao still felt wronged. Even if Jiang Ming did it himself, or even if she was the one who stabbed him...
He killed her master and her junior sister, so what if she stabbed him?
She wrapped the gauze tightly and tied a neat knot on his waist.
Fine, let Wang Xu glare all she wants. She won't die from glaring.
Now that things have come to this, there's no way to untangle the score between her and Jiang Ming.
Let's put aside past grievances for now and talk about them when he wakes up.
Jiang Ming didn't wake up all night. The next afternoon, when Shen Yao used a healing spell on him, Wang Xu stared at her without blinking, afraid that she might do something underhanded.
The Immortal Ancestor's physique was indeed formidable; within eighteen hours, his heart had healed by thirty percent.
With her life seemingly saved, Shen Yao felt a sense of relief.
She finally understood her own heart; she didn't want Jiang Ming to die at all.
Even though he's a bad guy.
But she fell in love with the bad guy.
If she had previously been secretive, hiding Jiang Ming in her heart like a grain of sand.
Now, Jiang Ming's self-inflicted stab was like a shovel prying open a sandcastle, directly stealing a large chunk of her heart.
Wang Xu changed Jiang Ming's dressing and then had Shen Yao bandage him.
Seeing that she carefully wrapped it up, and confirming that she didn't intend to harm his leader, Wang Xu abandoned all pretense of civility and knelt down before Shen Yao.
Caught off guard by being knelt on, Shen Yao jumped back, asking, "What are you doing?"
"Fairy Shen, I beg you, please spare the Hall Master." Wang Xu kowtowed loudly: "The Hall Master did do some ruthless things, but he never intended to hurt you."
"Think carefully, has our leader ever done anything bad to you? Has he ever said anything harsh to you?"
"Isn't the kindness the sect leader has shown you and your child over the years enough to make up for it?"
He seemed to be weeping blood as he kowtowed, pleading, "Your subordinate begs you, have mercy and forgive him."