Zi Yunshu didn’t understand the situation, but seeing the solemn expression on the demon saint, she knew this matter couldn’t be delayed.
Bao Gu had taken the Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill but showed no improvement, so she immediately used a sound transmission jade talisman to contact Yu Mi.
She quickly got in touch with Yu Mi, who asked, “Little Martial Aunt, what’s the matter?”
Zi Yunshu saw the demon saint take out the rarely used golden needles to extend Bao Gu’s life, and her face turned pale with fright.
Yu Mi’s voice came through again, “Little Martial Aunt, Little Martial Aunt…”
Zi Yunshu snapped back to reality and said, “Bao Gu is gravely injured and on the brink of death.”
Ah Sheng is using golden needles to keep her alive.
You need to come back quickly.”
Yu Mi asked, “What happened?”
How did she…
who hurt her?”
Zi Yunshu couldn’t tell Yu Mi that Bao Gu had severed her own heart meridian.
What if Yu Mi got angry and didn’t come back?
She could only say, “I’m busy saving her and can’t explain in detail.
Just hurry back.”
Then she cut off the connection with Yu Mi.
About the time it takes for two incense sticks to burn, Yu Mi contacted Zi Yunshu using the sound transmission jade talisman, telling her she was already outside the Cloud Sea Forest but couldn’t get in due to the barrier.
Zi Yunshu went to the edge of the Cloud Sea Forest to meet the hastily returning Yu Mi and led her through the heavily guarded and restricted Cloud Sea Forest towards her small courtyard.
Zi Yunshu said, “It’s been five years, and you wouldn’t even see her once.
This time, I’m afraid she’s truly heartbroken.”
Yu Mi frowned and asked, “What’s going on?”
Zi Yunshu said, “She hasn’t stepped out of the Cloud Sea Forest in five years.
I saw she was free today and let her participate in the big exam.
Not long after, Hua Sheng brought her back, saying she hurt herself upon learning you left without a word, causing her true energy to reverse and attack her heart.
I’ve told you she hasn’t been happy these years, not at all.
I asked you to see her when you came back, but you always hardened your heart not to see her…
sigh…
you don’t see her, but I can’t help but feel sorry for her when I see her.
Many times, I don’t dare to look into her eyes or at her face.”
As she spoke, she used her lightness skill to walk quickly, and in no time, they arrived at the door of the room where Bao Gu lay.
She said to Yu Mi, “Go in and see for yourself.”
Yu Mi stepped into the room and immediately saw the demon saint sitting by the bed, removing the needles.
She greeted, “Saint Aunt,” and after exchanging greetings with the demon saint, she looked towards the bed, only to see a stranger, a woman in white with a veil covering her face, lying there.
The woman lay unconscious on the bed, her breath faint, as if it could break at any moment.
Even without seeing her face, through the outline under the veil and the exposed smooth forehead, the distant-dye-like eyebrows, and the curled, dense eyelashes, one could tell she was an extremely beautiful woman.
Her brows vaguely resembled Bao Gu’s from back then, but compared to the lively and slightly silly Bao Gu of that time, she had less heroism and more tranquility.
Her body wasn’t as robust as Bao Gu’s back then, somewhat slender.
This slenderness didn’t mean her figure was bad; on the contrary, her figure was excellent, with a proudly upright chest, a slender waist that could be held with one hand, and a curvaceous silhouette.
The snow-white wrist exposed outside the sleeve was so thin it seemed it might break with a gentle twist, exuding a quiet and gentle aura.
She couldn’t connect this with the memory of the girl in animal skins, carrying a bow and arrow hunting in the forest, wielding an ax at wild beasts, or charging at Nascent Soul stage experts in the ancient city of Xuan Yue.
Yu Mi almost instinctively felt this wasn’t Bao Gu!
She flashed to the bedside, reached out, and lifted the veil covering the woman’s face, revealing a breathtakingly beautiful, familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar face.
This face vaguely bore Bao Gu’s shadow but was softer and more mature than Bao Gu’s.
The brows, eyes, nose, lips, and cheeks were all perfectly proportioned.
In the cultivation world, women were all beautiful, with outstanding temperaments, but this woman, in terms of appearance and temperament, was different from others.
Her beauty gave an extremely unreal feeling, like smoke, mist, illusion, or mirage, as if she might dissipate into a wisp of smoke at any moment.
This woman was like the morning mist illuminated by the first ray of sunlight entering the forest, ethereal and illusory like a fairyland mirage, dispersing with a breeze or sunlight, never to be found again.
Yu Mi couldn’t be sure and asked, “Is she Bao Gu?”
Five years without seeing her, a half-grown girl had grown into an adult, and the change was too great!
She knew how many spiritual pills and treasures Bao Gu had, soaking in them daily, cultivating day and night in this place rich in spiritual energy, transforming was only natural, and besides, a half-grown child was highly malleable.
She suddenly felt that these five years she had been away were not just a fleeting five years but missing out on many, many five years.
Five years, the once reckless, calculating, clever, and slightly silly girl had transformed into this.
In an instant, Yu Mi’s heart ached, a sharp pain.
