Chapter 1318
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Chapter 1318 Going Home…
Land of Giants.
Snow mountain.
The white mountain peaks resembled giant pillars, piercing into the dim, gray sky. Drifting snowflakes accompanied by fierce winds raged across the heavens and earth.
This was the northernmost border of the Land of Giants, and also the most peripheral region of all Asgard.
Palm-sized snowflakes swirled down from the sky, burying all sounds. In the deathly silent snowfield, two figures suddenly materialized from the dissipating black lines.
Leng Xuan staggered forward half a step, his legs sinking knee-deep into the thick snow. He looked around in confusion, his gaze falling on a black-haired girl not far away, collapsed in the snow, struggling to get up…
“Xiao Nan!”
Leng Xuan pulled his legs free and walked to the blood-covered Si Xiao Nan’s side, helping her up from the snow:
“Xiao Nan, are you alright?”
“I’m fine…” Si Xiao Nan shook her pale face, pointing at her palm, and smiled weakly, “Back in Kunlun Void, the Queen Mother gave me a thread of true qi to sustain my remnant soul. Even though Loki’s soul has been scattered, my soul won’t immediately perish… With this thread of true qi, my soul can still last for another half hour.
This thread of true qi was originally meant to prevent Loki from directly using the soul contract to erase my life, but now Loki is dead…
I want to use this last half hour to do something else.”
Leng Xuan seemed to realize something and froze in place.
“Go home…” Si Xiao Nan looked into his eyes and smiled weakly.
She smiled happily, like a child, raising her scarred hand to point at some direction in the distance,
“Leng Xuan, Loki is dead! We are free… We… can finally return to Cangnan.”
Before she could finish her last sentence, two hot tears rolled down Si Xiao Nan’s smiling cheeks and fell onto the snow.
She stood there, light flowing in her eyes.
“Cangnan…” Leng Xuan murmured.
He quickly came to his senses and looked at Si Xiao Nan before him, whose vitality was gradually fading, his eyes filled with complexity.
He could feel how terrible Si Xiao Nan’s physical condition was. With the Queen Mother’s true qi, it could indeed slow down the dispersal of her soul, but her physical body was about to give out.
Two “Ghost God Inducers” had completely exhausted her body. The double side effects would gradually extract all the vitality from her body… Her time was probably running out.
Leng Xuan remained silent for a moment, then spoke gently amid the deathly quiet falling snow:
“Alright… let’s go home.”
Hearing this answer, Si Xiao Nan’s smile grew more radiant, her clean eyes slightly curved… This was the beauty and joy that any girl her age in the bloom of youth should experience.
Si Xiao Nan grabbed Leng Xuan’s wrist, and strands of trickery threads wove around them. In the blink of an eye, their figures vanished without a trace.
When Leng Xuan opened his eyes again, they were standing amidst the ruins of Western-style houses.
Hazy mist surrounded them. The dim sunlight penetrated through the clouds and mist, as if sprinkling countless gray lead particles, making the surrounding buildings look pale and desolate.
This was not Great Xia.
“Cough, cough, cough…” Just as Leng Xuan was about to speak, Si Xiao Nan beside him began to cough violently.
Si Xiao Nan bent over in pain, black blood continuously coughing up from her throat. Her once clear tears had been stained with blood, dyeing her eyes red.
“Xiao Nan!” Leng Xuan’s eyes narrowed.
“I’m fine…” Si Xiao Nan’s red eyes were somewhat unfocused. She looked at the ground beneath her feet, her voice so faint it seemed like she was mumbling to herself, “Loki is dead… the world’s only law of trickery is continuously pouring into my body… If I want, I can weave ‘trickery’ and directly teleport near Great Xia…
I’m just a bit tired…
Give me a little more time… I can definitely…”
Before Leng Xuan could reach out to help her up, countless black threads formed around Si Xiao Nan, and their figures disappeared again.
After several consecutive repetitions, Leng Xuan witnessed them travel from the Land of Giants in Asgard to the European continent in the real world, to a lonely island in the ocean, and then to an unknown lost city… Each time she used “trickery,” Si Xiao Nan would cough up large amounts of black blood, and her clear eyes became increasingly clouded.
Despite this, she didn’t utter a word of complaint, like a stubborn child desperately trying to find the way home.
Leng Xuan also remained silent. He just quietly gritted his teeth until traces of blood seeped from the corners of his mouth. His bloodshot eyes were filled with heartache and helplessness.
He wouldn’t persuade Si Xiao Nan to give up because he knew this was her final wish…
When their figures appeared again in a snow-covered area shrouded in mist, the black trickery threads dispersed, and a dull thud came from Leng Xuan’s side.
Si Xiao Nan had collapsed.
In the blizzard, Leng Xuan used his only remaining arm to lift her with difficulty.
“Leng Xuan… I think I’m going blind…” Si Xiao Nan murmured faintly, her deep red eyes having completely lost focus,
“Can you… carry me home on your back…”
The double side effects of the Ghost God Inducers began to extract all the vitality from her body bit by bit. After her limbs lost the strength to move, her vision began to fade.
In her world, apart from the endless redness before her eyes, there was only Leng Xuan’s heavy breathing,
He was silent for a moment, “Alright.”
Si Xiao Nan felt a sudden spinning sensation, and then she was on a solid back, with an arm supporting her body, swaying back and forth as they moved forward.
Si Xiao Nan’s hands were around Leng Xuan’s neck, and she suddenly felt a gentle, sticky liquid slowly flowing.
“Leng Xuan… you’re hurt…” Si Xiao Nan’s increasingly confused consciousness suddenly cleared, and she spoke softly.
“Just a scratch, nothing serious,” Leng Xuan said calmly.
Si Xiao Nan’s pale lips pressed together slightly. She remained silent for a long time, then one hand tremblingly reached into her bosom, taking out a flawlessly white, round pill, and held it to Leng Xuan’s mouth…
“Open your mouth.”
“The Immortality Pill?” Leng Xuan’s voice paused, “Didn’t you say you wanted to return this to Great Xia?”
“…I changed my mind.” Si Xiao Nan smiled weakly, “Since this pill has been created, it’s meant to be consumed by someone… If that’s the case, why can’t it be you?
Although you don’t have a Forbidden Domain or a Divine Domain, I believe you are the most suitable person in the world for this pill…”
“What about you? You were the one who retrieved this pill, and you killed Loki… Why can’t you take it?”
Si Xiao Nan was silent for a moment, then spoke bitterly:
“I… don’t deserve it.”
“Why? Because you betrayed Great Xia? Or because you’re the agent of trickery?” Leng Xuan firmly shook his head, “Xiao Nan, I really don’t need this pill, you should…”
“Open your mouth!” Si Xiao Nan raised her voice and repeated, her tone extremely serious,
“Don’t make me use my last strength on arguing…
I won’t argue with you, Leng Xuan. Now I’m half a God of Trickery… you can’t beat me.”
