The Year of Lihua: She Was Reborn

In the dark and damp dungeon, Zhu Jiuyin, who was dying and only half alive, had already lost consciousness.

His strong figure became skinny due to six months in prison, and his skin lost its original luster.

The same is true for Bai Ze.

They seemed to have been hollowed out, their cultivation was sealed and they could not use any of it. They could only rely on a breath of demonic energy to stay alive.

I don’t know if it was Ye Hua’s cry from the heart that reached Zhu Jiuyin’s heart.

The demon pill in his chest suddenly started to burn like wildfire, burning his entire body, and his dark hair was also ignited into a hot red.

The fire on his body burned more and more fiercely, illuminating the dungeon, and the scorching heat woke up Bai Ze who had fainted.

Bai Ze slowly opened his hazy eyes and vaguely saw a human-shaped torch.

Bai Ze moved his dry and scarred lips and shouted dryly: "Zhu Jiuyin, it seems that you died before me..."

The starry sky seemed a little empty, and the night cries of owls could be heard from time to time in the silent valley.

Ye Hua covered her burning chest with her hands. Her rapidly rising body temperature made it difficult for her to breathe.

She managed to stand up straight and looked around for a cool place.

Suddenly, a beam of fire shot up into the sky and appeared before her eyes.

The firelight was mixed with flying water droplets. Ye Hua, who was rushing towards the light, was drenched by the falling water droplets.

The temperature in her body finally stopped rising, and she stood in front of the ever-flowing Qingcheng Waterfall.

She looked at the flames that shot out from the middle of the waterfall, which seemed to have a special attraction to her.

The burning flame suddenly went out, retracted into the back of the waterfall and disappeared.

Ye Hua was stunned for only a second, then he tiptoed into the flowing water of the waterfall and stood steadily in the cave behind the waterfall cliff.

She walked along the winding path at the entrance of the cave. The air became more humid and thinner as she went deeper.

The unpleasant smell mixed with blood in the secret passage made her cover her nose involuntarily.

The disgust in her eyes disappeared when she saw Zhu Jiuyin, who was still burning faintly.

But the complex and difficult-to-conceal emotions of fear, worry, and tension gushed out of her eyes.

The moment Bai Ze saw her, his dead eyes suddenly rekindled and emitted a light of hope, and he shouted with all his might.

"Yehua, is that you? Is it really you?"

"Are you guys okay?"

She asked with a hidden tremor in her voice.

She also stretched out her hand, clenched into a fist until her fingernails bled, and cast a spell to light the kerosene lamp on the mossy wall of the dungeon.

"Ah······"

Zhu Jiuyin slowly raised his head and sneered.

"Look at us, we look like nothing's wrong."

Bai Ze also retorted sarcastically.

Ye Hua looked at Bai Ze, who never dared to speak loudly to him. When he heard the scolding words in his ears, tears in his eyes instantly fell.

She didn't understand why her most beloved master was such a cruel person, hanging them up and torturing them to death...

“To be alive...it’s good to be alive...”

Ye Hua's legs went weak and her center of balance was unstable, and she was about to fall backwards. Fortunately, she still knew to support herself on the wall to steady her body.

"I'll rescue you right now."

Zhu Jiuyin looked at Ye Hua in such a distraught state, and the sneer in his eyes was already revealed on his pale face.

"Are you sure you can rescue me and him?"

"Why not?"

Ye Hua not only saw the sneer on Zhu Jiuyin's face, but also understood the contempt in his words.

All her insecurities vanished in an instant, and her stubbornness and defiance solidified her stance.

"Why not? I, Ye Hua, said that I can rescue you all. Don't you believe me?"

Li Li, who arrived late and followed Ye Hua, was so overwhelmed when he saw their miserable condition that he felt like a grown man.

"Then you'd better keep your word and remove the seal on me now, otherwise I'm afraid I won't survive this night!"

Zhu Jiuyin was originally sneering in a low voice, but as he spoke he actually laughed out loud.

"Ha ha……"

He even raised his head and looked straight at Ye Hua with his fiery eyes, expressing his love for her without reservation.

Ye Hua was distracted by his undisguised gaze and didn't dare to look him in the eye.

Li Li stood alone behind Ye Hua, patted his chest, and muttered some words of comfort and complaint.

"Master actually tortured them into this state??? But fortunately, they're not dead. They can still be saved."

Ye Hua drew out the soft sword from his waist, coated it with a layer of golden light, and chopped at the chains and pubic nails that bound Bai Ze.

With the sound of splashing water as the chain hit the water, Bai Ze fell weakly into the dirty water.

Fortunately, Li Li was quick-witted and quickly carried him to the shore, laying him flat on the stone floor.

Just when Ye Hua was about to swing the second sword to rescue Zhu Jiuyin, Li Li grabbed her sword-wielding hand and tried to dissuade her.

"Do you really want to save them? What if Master blames you?"

"I'm holding back. I clearly promised not to embarrass them. How could you go back on your word like this? Look at how much I've tortured them!"

Ye Hua glared at Li Li, his eyes full of blame without disguising it.

"But we can't get them out of Qingcheng Mountain. Think about it carefully."

They kept pulling.

But Zhu Jiuyin lowered his proud head, and his breathing was so weak that it was almost inaudible.

The fireworks burning on his body only left a last ray of fire in his heart.

"If you don't save him, he will die. The punishment he will suffer will be much more severe than mine..."

Bai Ze, whose consciousness had long been blurred, used up his last bit of strength to shout out this last sentence, and then fainted.

"Let go, brother, let go..."

When Ye Hua saw Zhu Jiuyin lowering his head, he could no longer control his emotions.

With a backhand, she threw Li Li out, and the urgency and sobs in her words were shattered.

"If I don't save him, he's going to die!"

As Ye Hua swung her sword with all her strength, she flew to Zhu Jiuyin's side, half-carried the fallen Zhu Jiuyin on her shoulders, and rescued him to the shore.

The tears on Ye Hua's face have never dried since they fell. The crystal tears silently slid across her cheeks and dripped onto Zhu Jiuyin's sunken face, miraculously bringing the breathless Zhu Jiuyin back to life.

"Cough cough..."

He took a deep breath and choked himself before slowly opening his eyes. Before he could fully see Ye Hua's face, Ye Hua picked him up and held him in her arms.

"Fortunately, you are not dead. You are really not dead. Otherwise, I will never forgive myself in this life."

Ye Hua's indifferent behavior made Li Li, who climbed up and held his chest, feel a little at a loss, and even had doubts in his heart.

Junior sister, I’m afraid you have fallen in love with Zhu Jiuyin?

"I'm not dead. If you use any more force, I might be strangled to death."

Zhu Jiuyin said it calmly, but the subtle expression of secret satisfaction on his face could not hide the joy in his heart.

“Me, me, me…”

Ye Hua then realized his own loss of composure. He wiped the tears from his face and carefully placed Zhu Jiuyin flat on the dry stone slab.

"I'm just a little excited..."

"Brother, feed Bai Ze some nectar, soul-gathering pills, and qi-regulating pills."

She pulled out a white jade porcelain bottle from her pocket and threw it into Li Li's hand, then continued, "Also give him a change of clean clothes. He hates being dirty the most."

After she finished speaking, she began to feed the pill to Zhu Jiuyin, but she saw that he could neither swallow it nor drink the elixir.

In a hurry, she drank a big mouthful of the nectar and held it in her mouth. She pinched his chin and kissed him on the lips, pouring the nectar into his mouth mouth to mouth.

This action made Zhu Jiuyin open his eyes wide and want to respond, but at this moment he couldn't move his mouth at all. He could only let her do whatever she wanted.

Seeing this, Li Li rolled his eyes at Ye Hua helplessly, with a look of disgust as if he was disappointed in his friend and saw him being disrespected. He then glanced at the unconscious Bai Ze and shook his head.

But he didn't dare to use Ye Hua's mouth-to-mouth method, so he had to pry open Bai Ze's mouth and insert a hollow bamboo tube.

He poured the nectar and the pill into the mouth together, hit the bamboo tube with his palm, and used his internal force to push the pill into Bai Ze's mouth.

With a swallowing sound, Ye Hua finally released his mouth from Zhu Jiuyin's mouth, and the pill he had just swallowed took effect immediately.

Their dry skin swelled up, and the fairy energy emitting white light from the pores wandered over their bodies until it enveloped them.

The traces of old and new wounds on Bai Ze's body gradually disappeared, his skin regained its original luster, and even the clothes that were torn beyond recognition returned to their original appearance.

However, Zhu Jiuyin’s scar just wouldn’t heal no matter what he did. It was as if someone had left it there intentionally. It was just covered by the clothes that had returned to their original shape, so Ye Hua didn’t notice it for a while.

When the immortal energy disappeared, no trace of immortal energy could be felt on them anymore, just like an ordinary human being.

They opened their eyes and moved their numb bodies, but they couldn't get up.

"What's going on? I don't have any strength at all."

Zhu Jiuyin raised his hand, but just tried to curl his fingers but couldn't lift them up.

When Ye Hua saw that something was wrong, he grabbed Zhu Jiuyin's wrist and took his pulse, and continued to infuse spiritual energy into his body to explore his body.

"Brother, what kind of seal did Master place on them? What method can be used to break it?"

Ye Hua frowned and racked his brains but could not think of a way to break the seal. He could only turn around and look at Li Li eagerly.

Li Li fumbled to feel Bai Ze's pulse, then used X-ray vision to examine Bai Ze's body until he saw the small mark behind the ear cartilage.

"Master, what you're using is the most obscure forbidden technique of the Qingcheng Sect: the Bone Sealing Technique. It requires the heart blood of someone who has practiced the Qingcheng Sect's mental methods since childhood to be taken as a medicine, and then the inner force is used to assist in the forbidden technique to forcibly break the seal..."

Before Li Li could think clearly about his explanation, he heard the two people lying on the ground shouting something in unison.

"Don't……"

"Do not……"

Only then did Li Li see that Ye Hua had been listening there for a long time. Without any hesitation, he took out the dagger and stabbed it into her chest.

She controlled her strength just right, and the tip of the dagger just pierced her heart.

In an instant, the hot blood from her heart flowed out along the tip of the knife. Ye Hua took out the porcelain bottle without changing his expression and collected the blood into the bottle.

Her action frightened Li Li so much that his face turned pale. He immediately stood beside her and put his arms around her shoulders.

"You're really going to kill yourself, girl! Is there anyone like you who would sacrifice yourself to save others? Do you really want to save them both by yourself?"

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? Hurry up and save them and leave. Otherwise, by the time the master reacts, I'm afraid none of them will be able to escape."

After Ye Hua filled the porcelain bottle, he took a blood-clotting pill and drank a sip of the wine, then he pulled out the dagger that was inserted into his heart cleanly and neatly.

The wound on her chest had healed quickly, but her face was now completely bloodless.

"You're so happy, but you know how serious the sequelae will be."

Li Li was almost driven crazy by her torture: "How am I going to explain this to Master?"

"The explanation is my business. You will not be implicated. Let go immediately. If you try to stop me again, Master will wake up and none of us will be able to escape."

Ye Hua weakly pushed away Li Li who was blocking his way.

Li Li turned around and looked at the person on the ground, thinking that he was already so grateful that he couldn't speak.

As a result, they all looked bitter and resentful, gritting their teeth and holding back their emotions without even looking at Ye Hua.

"We are already on the same page. Isn't it too late for you to cut ties with me now?"

Li Li spread his hands helplessly and squatted down with Ye Hua.

"You don't have to have any ideas. After all, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have come to Qingcheng Mountain and suffered this. I, Yehua, owe you this. I should save you, so don't feel burdened."

After Ye Hua finished speaking, he used his magic to take out two drops of his heart blood from the porcelain bottle and dripped them into the mouths of Bai Ze and Zhu Jiuyin respectively. Bai Ze just happened to catch them when he was about to open his mouth.

Zhu Jiuyin swallowed the blood from his heart in silence, then stared at Ye Hua in a daze.

In his eyes, Ye Hua seemed to be radiating radiance, and the love in his deep eyes became more and more intense, giving people the illusion that she was the only one he could have in his life.

As Bai Ze's Adam's apple rolled and he swallowed the blood from his heart, Ye Hua performed the ban-releasing technique without hesitation.

She uttered a series of incomprehensible spells and gathered all the spiritual energy in her palms.

Seeing this, Li Li used his magic to lift up the two people lying on the stone floor, and made them sit in front of Ye Hua with their backs facing each other in a meditation posture.

Until the spell ended and the power of thunder and lightning surged in Ye Hua's palms, she immediately struck their backs with both of her palms.

As Ye Hua placed his palms on their backs, a strong light flashed.

Zhu Jiuyin and Bai Ze only felt as if their bodies were electrocuted. A powerful force surged into their bodies, and the originally sealed power surged back like a flood.

However, at this moment, the surrounding space suddenly distorted.

A sinister laugh echoed in the dungeon. It turned out that their master had arrived.

"Humph, you think you can leave so easily?"

Ye Hua stood up weakly and stood in front of Zhu Jiuyin and Bai Ze, "Master, why are you so cruel?"

"They are monsters and shouldn't exist in this world, yet you keep disobeying my orders." The master said with a stern expression.

"Whether they are human or demon, they all have the right to live. If you don't let them go today, I will never give up."

Ye Hua clenched his fists stubbornly.

The master snorted coldly and was about to take action...