Chapter 1089

No matter how astonishingly swift the assassin's blade was, Hearing Gai Nie's Heavenward Blaze finally, at the very last moment, sealed off the path of that swift blade.

Yet upon that assassin's swift blade, there clung a streak of blade force.

It pierced straight through Hearing Gai Nie's Heavenward Blaze and struck Miss Duanmu's body.

Although Miss Duanmu was the sole living heir of the medical house, her medical skill was divine.

Yet her cultivation was truly far too low — she was merely at the first-rate.

This strike of blade force was, moreover, unleashed by an expert at half-step Heavenly Being Realm.

The moment it struck Miss Duanmu, it instantly knocked her five viscera and six bowels out of place, threw her eight extraordinary meridians into chaos, and nearly killed her on the spot.

Hearing Gai Nie instantly fell into madness, and his one-handed Vertical Sword Art was pushed beyond his own limits.

From Earthly Immortal Realm, he abruptly surged up to half-step Heavenly Being Realm.

How could that assassin dare keep fighting? He immediately threw out a few feints on the spot and withdrew.

Hearing Gai Nie was worried about Miss Duanmu's injuries — how could he dare pursue? He could only stay and examine her wounds.

After one examination, he found Miss Duanmu's injuries were so terribly severe.

At that moment, Hearing Gai Nie even felt like slitting his own throat with his sword.

His heart was filled with boundless regret — if he had not hesitated back then, and had slain that assassin outright with Hundred-Step Flying Sword, how could Miss Duanmu have been hurt saving him?

At once Hearing Gai Nie immediately employed the Guigu Breath Regulation Art, channeling his true essence in an endless stream into Miss Duanmu's body, trying to bring her back.

But Miss Duanmu was only a first-rate martial artist, and gravely wounded at that — how could she possibly bear the true essence of such a powerful cultivator?

For a time, not only did her injuries fail to improve, she even coughed up several more mouthfuls of black blood.

"Miss Rong…"

Hearing Gai Nie gazed at Miss Duanmu before him — for his sake she had nearly died.

At this moment, he truly raised his palm, ready to strike down upon his own crown, to slumber here forever alongside Miss Duanmu.

Just as he was about to act, the weakened Miss Duanmu suddenly spoke, in broken, halting words,

"Hearing Gai Nie, you must not die…"

"I won't die…"

Hearing Gai Nie heard these words, and even though he was a man of iron will, at this moment tears streamed down his face.

"Take me… take me to the back mountain, there I can…"

With great difficulty she finished this sentence, then Miss Duanmu's head suddenly lolled to one side, and her breath temporarily ceased.

Hearing Gai Nie was startled, yet dared not channel true essence into her, for fear of worsening her injuries.

Though he did not know what exactly Miss Duanmu meant by the back mountain, nor what she wanted him to do there.

Yet at this moment, Hearing Gai Nie only wished to fulfill Miss Duanmu's final wish.

So he gently lifted Miss Duanmu into his arms, executed the Guigu Vaulting Art, and hurried toward the back mountain of Jinghu Medical Manor.

The so-called back mountain was, in truth, a stretch of deep, primeval forest.

After all, even Jinghu Medical Manor itself had been built in an extremely remote and desolate place.

Hearing Gai Nie at this moment thought only of finding what Miss Duanmu had spoken of, and plunged headlong into the deep forest without a care.

This stretch of deep forest was so dense that daylight could not penetrate it.

Within, branches and vines sprawled everywhere.

Hearing Gai Nie, like a headless fly, kept vaulting and hurrying through the deep, primeval forest.

The old trees' branches tore his white robe to shreds, yet under his protection not even a single falling leaf touched Miss Duanmu.

But even so, Miss Duanmu's life was still slipping away at tremendous speed.

Hearing Gai Nie's heart felt as though cut by a blade, yet he was powerless.

Just as Miss Duanmu was on the verge of collapse, and Hearing Gai Nie was nearly going mad,

"Eh? Girl Rong, how did you get hurt so badly?"

A voice abruptly flooded into Hearing Gai Nie's ears.

At the same moment, a figure — no one knew when — had already appeared beside Hearing Gai Nie, reaching out to feel Miss Duanmu's pulse gate.

A martial artist's pulse gate is, in truth, their vital gate.

Even though Miss Duanmu was now not far from death, Hearing Gai Nie naturally would not allow anyone to treat her so casually.

Without a second thought, he kept Miss Duanmu cradled in one arm, while with his other hand, beneath Miss Duanmu's body, he pressed his fingers together into a sword and thrust toward the newcomer's heart.

This strike employed the White Rainbow Piercing Sun of the Guigu Vertical Sword Art.

Though fingers stood in for a sword, at Hearing Gai Nie's level of sword Dao, this single finger-strike was extremely perilous.

Moreover, Hearing Gai Nie was already running — even if this finger-strike was blocked by the newcomer, in an instant he would have carried Miss Duanmu far away.

He never expected that halfway through this finger-strike, it simply could press no further.

Within three feet of that person's body, there was a layer of invisible Thunder Gang Qi.

The density of that Thunder Gang Qi was far greater than that of an ordinary Heavenly Being Realm cultivator.

At the very least, it had reached the Supreme Mythical Realm.

"Hu Nao!"

The newcomer gave a soft shout, paid no heed to Hearing Gai Nie's finger-strike, and instead took the opportunity to press onto Miss Duanmu's pulse gate, then frowned,

"Not good, not good — struck by a streak of blade force, and then forcibly infused with true essence — Girl Rong's little life is already more than half gone."

Hearing Gai Nie had been prepared: if one strike failed, he would use another.

But upon hearing this person's words, he could not help but pause.

This pause naturally brought him from a high-speed state to an almost abrupt halt.

Yet that person, remarkably skilled as well, seemed utterly unaware, and stopped together with Hearing Gai Nie.

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