Chapter 81: I told you so.
“AAAHHH!!”
Zhou She screamed out in rage and swung his sword with even greater ferocity. What did he care about her place of belonging? All he knew was that his father and his brother were now dead, because of this girl and her lover.
Once Zhou She started swinging his sword with greater ferocity, it got much harder for Guo Luo to deflect his attacks. She could feel her left arm ache more and more as time passed. She could not even use her illusions to disorient or slow down Zhou She, as he was too raged, completely focusing on her.
Just as Guo Luo deflected another one of his attacks, Zhou She twisted his arm. His sword had just been deflected, causing it to head towards a tree on Guo Luo's left at full speed. Zhou She used all his strength to forcefully stop the momentum of his sword and change it's trajectory.
Ignoring the pain in his arms from over exerting his muscles, he changed the slash into a stab. Guo Luo had just deflected his attack, so his sword was still right next to her body. His sword was heading directly towards her abdomen, but Guo Luo managed to twist her body slightly in response, causing the sword to pierce into her hip instead of through her abdomen.
The man was just about to pull back his sword when Guo Luo moved forward. She could not block his attacks, forcing her to only stand there and deflect. Now that he could not attack her, how could she let this chance slip? She grit her teeth and ignored the pain, compared to the pain she would feel if she lost, this pain was nothing.
She moved the sword over to her right hand and used her left hand to hold onto the sword that Zhou She had stabbed into her hips. Her right hand could not be used properly because of the arrow in her shoulder, but it was enough for a single stab through soft flesh.
She stabbed out with the sword, channeling all her Qi into right arm. She prayed that it would be enough, that this single stab would be able to end this. If it was not able to end the fight, the chance of her dying was greater than the chance of her winning.
As she prayed and channeled her Qi into her right arm, a wondrous scene took place. The Qi she channeled into her right arm flew out of it like mist, turning into a beautiful multicolored mist that lingered around her arm.
The mist sank down onto her right arm, completely covering it, before it quickly solidified. When she had only made half of the stabbing motion, the mist had already turned into a crystal armor that covered her right arm.
The armor was made out of what seemed to be transparent crystal with a multicolored hue, perfectly matching her multicolored hair. The armor stuck to her skin, completely protecting her right arm.
The tips of the fingers on the armor curved around her fingers in an elegant curve. The armor ended at her shoulder, when it reached her neck. At the very end of her shoulder, several small crystals gathered together, looking like a collection of snowflakes that adorned the armor.
Guo Luo did not stop to think about why the armor appeared now, she had seen Yao Jun summon his own armor before, so she just assumed that it was the same for her. The only thing that mattered to her now was that her entire right arm felt like it was brimming with strength.
Using this newfound strength, she increased the speed of her stab. As she stabbed out, the crystal armor covering her right arm started seeping into the sword she was holding, turning it's once white blade into the same transparent multicolored crystal that her armor was composed of.
The blade pierced through Zhou She's throat without resistance, before Guo Luo pulled her arm back and moved away from Zhou She. When the crystal blade left his throat, it's blade was completely clean, not a single drop of blood staining it.
“Im sorry, but I cannot lose him, I cannot lose the place where I belong.”
Guo Luo whispered an apology to Zhou She, who was looking at her with a disbelieving and unwilling gaze. He tried to open his mouth, but only blood poured out. His eyes started straight at Guo Luo as he fell forward and hit the ground.
Seeing him hit the ground, Guo Luo heaved a deep sigh of relief. Just as she sighed out in relief, a wave of pain assaulted her body. The pain came from her shoulder, her abdomen, her hip, and her left arm. There was an arrow still lodged in her shoulder, a large bruise on her abdomen, a deep wound on her hip, and her left arm ached from being put under too much stress.
She grit her teeth and forced her feet to move, moving to return to the cave where she hid Yao Jun. As she struggled to walk, Zhou She pointed a trembling finger at her back, the last of his Qi gathering at the tip of his finger.
Without Guo Luo noticing anything, a tiny spot of Qi was shot out from Zhou She's finger, landing directly on her back and sticking to it. The Qi did not harm her nor make any sound, it simply stuck to her back as she made the trek back to the cave.
Once she made it back to the cave, it was already next to impossible for her to walk. She fell to her knees and crawled into the cave, quickly reaching the spot where she had placed Yao Jun. She crawled over to him, breaking part of the arrow that was stuck in her shoulder, and sat down against the cave wall right next to Yao Jun, laying her head on his shoulder.
“See Jun'er? I told you that I would not let them hurt you.”
As she had nearly no more energy in her body, her voice came out as a soft whisper, nearly inaudible. She used the last of her strength to tie a piece of cloth around her hip, trying to prevent the bleeding from getting too bad.
Once she had finished covering the wound with a layer of cloth and making sure that it was tight, she leaned her head against Yao Jun''s shoulder again. Her eyes closed themselves the moment her head landed on his shoulder, she was simply far too exhausted to stay awake. As she lost consciousness, a faint multicolored light started coursing through her body, quickly gathering around the wound in her hip.