Chapter Twenty-One: Forced Separation

  Once again walking through the underground corridor, it seemed like the last time she came was still yesterday. Luosi didn't have any extra energy to ask Qingyuan about why monsters appeared in the cave. When she carried Tang Xiaoshu out from the secret passage, she was already exhausted and on the verge of fainting. She wished she could walk faster, but fortunately, after they reached the ground and closed the secret passage, she called over the maid and servant. A male servant took over from Luosi and carried Tang Xiaoshu into Qingyuan's room, where he was placed on the bed. Qingyuan then began to examine him closely.

  The old man looked at it for a long time, making Luo Siqi very anxious. In the end, he still couldn't come to a conclusion and only said that Tang Xiaoxia's life was temporarily safe, but she needed to think carefully about how to wake her up.

  Luosi Qi was anxious, but there was no way out. Qingyuan dismissed the others and began to ask Luosi Qi about her experiences after leaving Xueyun Valley. Luosi Qi did not hide anything, she told Qingyuan how she was deceived by Wu Xi into entering Kang City, and how Tang Xiaoxia inexplicably saw through the deception, the two escaped into a village and defeated Wu Xi, and then were revered as goddesses by the Moon God Sect and taken to Lin Yue Peak.

  Qingyuan listened very seriously and even asked Luosi Qi about the various details before Wu Xi was frozen into an ice sculpture, and what he cared about next was another stone tablet on Lin Yuefeng's Zhancheng Platform.

  After Qingyuan had asked everything clearly, he let Luosi go to rest well first. He said he wanted to carefully consider how to wake up Tang Xiaoxia.

  Luosi carried Tang Xiaohai all the way and felt sore all over her body, extremely tired. She returned to the room where she first appeared here. Everything in the room was still the same. She found the clothes she wore before crossing over from modern times in a small box beside the bed. She held those ordinary clothes and cried. She missed the teddy bear at home, missed Dad and Mom, even the endless practice questions from her teacher.

  Lucy woke up from the bed to find herself hugging the clothes, she carefully folded them and put them back in the small box, when she walked out of the room it was already early morning the next day.

  She was worried about Tang Xiaoxia in her heart, and walked along the gravel road to Qingyuan's room. Qingyuan had arranged for Tang Xiaoxia to sleep on his bed, and he himself went to another room to sleep.

  When she pushed open the door and entered the inner room, she found Qingyuan and Xiao Shidi already by Tang Xiaoxia's bedside. Seeing her arrival, Qingyuan smiled slightly, and Luosiqi knew that Tang Xiaoxia had not woken up yet. She sat down at Qingyuan's indication and listened to what he wanted to tell her.

  Qingyuan's conjecture was that she and Tang Xiaoxia, every time they activated a stone stele, made contact with the stele using their hands, and the potential abilities within them would also be activated. The night when Luosiqi froze Wu Xie into an ice sculpture, coincidentally possessed many conditions that allowed her to exert her ability. Luosiqi had the hidden ability of the Moon Goddess, and on that night, the villagers held a ritual ceremony for the Moon Goddess, because it was a full moon that night, and only during a full moon could Luosiqi's abilities be fully utilized. Qingyuan guessed that Luosiqi's blood itself was a powerful medium for using her ability, and her tears were even more able to catalyze her blood's ability to the extreme, which is why she was able to freeze Wu Xie into an ice sculpture with just a flick of her wrist that night, but afterwards no matter how hard she tried, not only did she lose that kind of ability, but her own abilities were also weakened.

  After Qingyuan used the power of the moon god, her magic was extremely low. It can be inferred that whether it is she or Tang Xiaoxia, after using their astonishingly powerful abilities, their bodies will suffer from certain side effects.

  It's clear that Tang Xiaohe's side effects this time are much greater than Luo Siqi's, but he didn't bleed or cry like Luo Siqi did. So where did his sudden burst of power come from? Qingyuan thought about it carefully and proposed a hypothesis: originally, Tang Xiaohe didn't have the ability to burn everything to ashes, or at least not to the extent that it was triggered. Activating the second stone tablet slightly increased his abilities, but what ultimately led to his explosive display of power seemed to be his repeated slaughter of the endless monsters.

  Qingyuan said to Luosiqi, "Tang Xiaoxia's final burst of power should be the killing intent that has been accumulating in his heart from constantly slaying monsters. That killing intent grew more and more, until it reached a boiling point, and Tang Xiaoxia suddenly released all that pent-up killing intent at once, which was what Luosiqi saw in the end."

  Qing Yuan concluded that Tang Xiao Xia's current coma was likely due to the aftereffects of excessive ability bursts. As for why his aftereffects were more severe than Luo Si Qi's, perhaps it was because he had exhausted himself and then used all his strength to throw the sword that saved Luo Si Qi.

  Luosi heard Qingyuan say that, although he made sense, the most important way to save people was not mentioned. She urged Qingyuan anxiously to tell her how to wake up Tang Xiaoxia.

  Qing Yuan couldn't help but laugh and say, "In my opinion, this kid has himself to blame for getting himself into such a mess. He's like a fine piece of wood that's been burned into charcoal. Charcoal can keep you warm, but after it's done keeping you warm, it turns to ash! If you want me to come up with a way to turn him back into wood, well, that's just piling difficulty on top of difficulty!"

  Luosi Qi couldn't wait to strangle the old man to death, but killing him would only make things worse. Qingyuan also noticed Luosi Qi's displeasure and stopped teasing her: "Actually, no matter how difficult it is, there's always a way. I checked the ancient secret scrolls last night, and they mentioned a kind of herb called Lingxian Grass that has the effect of reviving the dead. If we can find it, maybe we can bring Tang Xiaoshu back to life."

  Luosi heard that there was a way and thought that even if it were a knife mountain and a fire sea, she must get the Lingxian grass back. She asked Qingyuan where to find this Lingxian grass.

  Unfortunately, the answer Luosi got this time was the same as when she and Tang Xiaoxia asked where to find the Mind Stone Monument last time, that is, he didn't know either.

  Luosi heard this and was disappointed again. She said to Qingyuan in a bad mood: "I'm telling you, are you fooling me? How can it be the same as when I asked about the stone tablet last time? The world is so big, where do you want me to find the Lingxian grass?"

  Qingyuan was still smiling and hadn't gotten angry, he slowly comforted Luosiqi saying: "Don't be so pessimistic, little girl, last time I said I didn't know where the stone tablet was but you guys found it anyway. As long as you put your heart into it, this time will definitely be fine too!"

  Qingyuan's words sound reasonable, but in actual operation, it's not that simple. It's like someone who luckily picked up 100 yuan on the road, and others would say to her, "Actually, picking up money is easy, didn't you pick up 100 last time?"

  Luosi heard the story of guarding the stake and waiting for the rabbit, she didn't believe that this Lingxian grass would come again by itself. However, Qingyuan immediately gave her another idea, he said to her: "Actually, this matter is not completely hopeless, you are now the goddess of the Moon God Sect, aren't you? You can go back and tell the sect leader and the high priest about it, maybe they have such a spiritual grass! Even if they don't, you can also use the power of the Moon God Sect to search for it, isn't that much easier than searching aimlessly on your own?"

  Luosi thought for a moment, thinking that Qingyuan rarely had a good idea, and she wanted to return to Lin Yuefeng. She only needed to go back to the cave and use the Heart Spirit Stone Monument to transmit it. However, this way she would have to part with Tang Xiaoxia first. She walked over and looked at Tang Xiaoxia's sleeping face, saying: "You wait here for a few days, I'll be right back!"