Chapter 74: Anping’s Magic Trick

“Magic trick?”

“Senior, what is a magic trick? Lingqing is silly, I only know what a sleight of hand is.”

Xu Lingqing’s expression shifted from icy cold to dazed and cute. She blinked her eyes, filled with the same anticipation as a daughter sitting beside her parents, awaiting a reward.

She closed her eyes. A few moments later, a gentle, powerful voice sounded by her ear.

“Baby Lingqing, please look behind you. I’ve fixed your pipa for you!”

Xu Lingqing lowered her little head, pouting her lips and muttering in a low voice, “Senior is just trying to make Lingqing happy! Wasn’t that pipa fixed a long time ago?”

“But don’t worry, Senior. This is something my mother left for Lingqing. Lingqing will definitely protect it well!”

A few more moments passed.

“How about it, is my baby Lingqing happy?”

Although Xu Lingqing felt a little gloomy in her heart, she still nodded in satisfaction.

“Senior, Lingqing is very happy!”

“Senior knew you would be very happy, so I also prepared a big gift for you!”

Xu Lingqing raised her head, a trace of curiosity flashing in her eyes.

Suddenly, without any warning, chunks of mid-grade spirit crystals rained down from the sky, almost piling into a small mountain in the courtyard.

Then came sheets of talismans, countless bags of dog food, and a mysterious immortal sword.

Xu Lingqing’s expression was somewhat bitter, but she still put those things into her spatial ring. The vast spatial ring was nearly stuffed full. She murmured in a low voice.

“Senior, you’ve given Lingqing too much…”

Even the slumbering little beast Violet Lightning couldn’t help but be awakened by the fragrant smell of the dog food, devouring it by the mouthful.

Xu Lingqing clenched her small fists, suppressing the doubt in her heart, and frowned as she looked at the sky.

After a few more moments, the powerful voice slowly came again.

“Baby Lingqing, this gift will allow you to go unbullied on the Firo Continent. If anyone dares to be disrespectful to you, extinguish them with immortal fire!”

Xu Lingqing’s heart grew heavier, and an ominous premonition almost filled her heart.

“Senior, having you is enough for Lingqing. As long as you protect me, I won’t be afraid of anything…”

“Hehehe, Senior gave these gifts to baby Lingqing. Are you happy?”

“Lingqing is happy…”

“Hee hee, Senior didn’t even have to think to know you’d be happy. If you’re happy, then clap your hands!”

Xu Lingqing difficultly raised her two hands and clapped. The crisp sound echoed by her ear, covering the sound of the Eternal Love pendant opening completely.

“Baby Lingqing, Senior has one last thing to say to you!”

Xu Lingqing’s pearly teeth parted slightly, her eyes suddenly becoming somewhat desolate. She shook her head, “I don’t want to hear it, I don’t want to hear it!”

“I love you~”

As soon as these words were spoken, Xu Lingqing seemed to turn to stone, her body standing rigidly in place, tears glistening in her eyes.

She understood the meaning of these words. She understood what lay behind this sentence.

She had always been clear that Senior loved her, but for those three words to come out of his mouth was truly, truly difficult.

Unless…

Xu Lingqing’s heart suddenly began to race, her eyes growing more and more dazed. A drop of heart’s blood essence spurted from her mouth.

The Eternal Love had completely opened. A white slip of paper slowly fell out from within.

The sound of the paper falling was very, very light, but in Xu Lingqing’s eyes, it was as heavy as a thousand catties, pressing down on the ground and making it tremble slightly.

Xu Lingqing difficultly picked up that thousand-catty-heavy piece of paper.

(Senior has to go on a mission to a very, very distant place recently. Maybe for a year, maybe for ten years, maybe for a hundred years. As soon as the mission is completed, I will definitely come back to find my baby Lingqing at the first opportunity.)

Every word on the paper was like a sharp knife, mercilessly stabbing into Xu Lingqing’s heart.

Mission!

What kind of mission could take a ‘Senior’ as powerful as him away for so long?

At this moment, Xu Lingqing’s lips trembled, and she sobbed in a low, choked voice.

“Senior… Lingqing loves you too, Lingqing loves you too, ah. Please don’t leave me, okay?”

“Wuwuwu… I’m begging you… please don’t abandon Lingqing, okay… Lingqing is so scared… really so scared…”

“Lingqing is afraid of the dark, only because Senior illuminates the path ahead. Lingqing is afraid of fighting, only wishing to hide in Senior’s embrace. Lingqing doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life alone…”

Pfft…

Overcome with grief, Xu Lingqing spat out a mouthful of heart’s blood essence onto the white paper, dyeing it completely red.

Her entire person was pale without a trace of color. Even Violet Lightning, who had been tempted by the food, was somewhat horrified and rushed over to support her body.

“Master… Master, are you okay?”

Xu Lingqing had blood in her mouth. As she forced a smile, fresh blood dripped continuously from the corner of her lips.

She vaguely remembered “Senior” saying that the Eternal Love stored what he considered to be the most important thing.

So this was his most important thing!

At this moment, Xu Lingqing felt as if her world had collapsed. All her beautiful fantasies had turned to nothing.

The person she loved was about to leave her.

Why?

Why is it like this!

Pfft…

A convulsive pain wracked Xu Lingqing’s entire body.

Another mouthful of heart’s blood sprayed onto the Eternal Love. The flower petal she had once placed on the Eternal Love had long since withered.

But under this mouthful of heart’s blood, which stained the withered flower on the Eternal Love, the flower gradually bloomed, opening into a warm, smiling face.

Silently, a strange energy appeared within the Eternal Love, tearing the flower petal into a spatial tunnel.

When the flower petal appeared again, it happened to land on the chest of the heart-stopped Chen Anping.

Xu Lingqing’s heart’s blood flowed through Chen Anping’s skin and into his heart.

Although the heart’s blood was scorching hot, it could not save a heart that had already stopped beating.

“Master, don’t be sad. Senior just went on a mission. He’ll be back before long!”

Violet Lightning’s comfort did not have much effect. The reason why humans and beasts are different is that the difference in the sixth sense beyond the seven emotions and six desires is like a heavenly chasm.

“Senior… Senior…”

“Anping… Chen Anping… my love… my love Chen Anping…”

Xu Lingqing cried out Chen Anping’s name again and again, hoping that what was written on the note was not true.

But…

What is true is true, and what is false is true.

True and false, what does it matter?

All of Xu Lingqing’s hopes were mercilessly crushed in this instant. In her eyes, love was nothing more than a farce…

At this moment, an endless violet-gold light emerged from Xu Lingqing’s eyes. The violet-gold light around her body surged to the heavens, directly piercing through the entire house.

Looking from the sky, one could see that the violet-gold light seemed to illuminate the entire world of Qing’an Academy.

“Ah…”

In her life, Xu Biqin had loved the wrong person, missed out on love, had her lover miss out, and had wrongly loved someone.

Was Xu Lingqing’s fate to repeat her mother’s mistakes?

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[End of Chapter]