Chapter 224: The first companion
Gu Fan pushed open the heavy wooden doors of Song Yan’s chamber and stepped inside and the cold air hit him immediately.
The room was freezing, spiritual formations on the walls were actively suppressing the temperature to ease her pain, but nothing seems to be working.
He sealed the doors behind him with a wave of his hand, locking out any prying ears from the Song Clan.
Song Yan lay on the wide bed, face pale, dark hair spread across the pillow. Up close, her body looked thinner than last time, robes loose around her frame. The curse had clearly eaten deeper into her meridians during the recent flare-up.
She was actively clutching her robes tightly against her heaving chest, her beautiful, long silver hair clinging heavily to her sweaty forehead while her exhausted body was fighting the effects of the Gu in her body.
Gu Fan smiled beneath his plain black mask as he slowly moved toward the bed, expecting Song Yan to desperately ask for his help.
As he reached near her bed, he reached with his hands to grab her soft shoulder and begin his Yin-Siphon treatment, but exactly as his calloused fingers were about to brush against her robes, Song Yan suddenly raised a weak, trembling hand to stop him.
"Don’t touch me," Song Yan whispered quietly, her voice entirely lacking its usual arrogance.
Gu Fan raised an eyebrow in genuine surprise as he slowly lowered his hand, staring directly down at her exhausted, heavily flushed face.
He immediately noticed that even though her thick thighs were pressed tightly together and her body was visibly trembling from the freezing curse, her beautiful eyes were incredibly clear and completely lucid.
"You don’t have enough time, Madam Yan," Gu Fan itterated, "It is no time to feel shy."
"I spent the last few days locked in this room thinking," Song Yan ignred his words and spoke as she slowly looked up to meet his masked gaze, "I spent hours trying to find a single flaw in your accusations just so I could protect the memories of my family."
As she talked about her family, she let out a bitter laugh that sounded deeply painful, her frail shoulders shaking slightly as she tightly gripped the bedsheets.
"But the more I thought about the timeline of my husband’s sudden death, the mysterious appearance of this lethal curse, and the immediate rise of my older brother to the Patriarch’s seat... The more the puzzle pieces snap together in my mind."
Song Yan clenched her pale fists so hard her knuckles turned stark white as fresh, hot tears of betrayal welled up in her dark eyes, "You were absolutely right about everything, because my own brother and the greedy Second Elder orchestrated my miserable life, turning my trust into their stepping stone just to steal the clan’s authority away from me."
"So you finally opened your blind eyes and saw the ugly truth that has ben in front of you all along," Gu Fan sneered, "Now that you know your beloved brother is a backstabbing snake who ruined your cultivation, what exactly do you want to do about it?"
"Do you want me to slaughter him for you? Do you want me to take care of that secobd elder? I can even help you wipe out their lineage."
"But it will cost you," Gu Fan casually shrugged, "You aren’t that close to me to get the family discount yet."
Gu Fan expected the betrayed Song Yan to eagerly nod her head and demand vengeance against the men who had ruined her future, but to his surprise, Song Yan simply closed her eyes and slowly shook her head.
"No," Song Yan replied weakly, her voice drained of any fighting spirit or murderous intent as she looked down at her trembling, pale hands resting on her lap, "I don’t want to seek revenge. I do not care about the Song Clan’s politics, their immense wealth, or their pathetic betrayal anymore."
"You don’t care?!" Gu Fan scoffed loudly, genuinely annoyed by her sudden lack of murderous intent since he absolutely loved orchestrating a good, bloody clan massacre to loot spatial rings. "They destroyed your cultivation, murdered your husband, and forced you to rot in this freezing room for decades, yet you just want to let them walk away unpunished like some cowardly, forgiving saint?!"
"My only anchor left in this miserable, decaying world is Song Tianyu," Song Yan explained softly, a faint, deeply affectionate warmth entering her tired eyes as she thought about her naive, and highly righteous nephew.
𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
"I raised that boy myself, and I love him exactly like my own flesh and blood, so I absolutely do not want to see him getting hurt."
She slowly looked back up at Gu Fan, her eyes filled with unwavering resolve despite her failing body, completely refusing to let her hatred destroy the only pure thing left in her life.
"Take me away from here," Song Yan requested, her tone sounding much more like a quiet, desperate plea than a formal command. "Take me somewhere quiet and isolated."
"I want to spend my final moments in peace without looking at my brother’s lying face."
"I am exhausted from fighting this curse."
"And I don’t want and medical treatment from you or anyone else."
As soon as Song Yan declared her desire, the room fell completely silent for several long breaths as Gu Fan stared down at the broken widow, unable to believe that this powerful woman was actually asking him to act like a gentle, sympathetic hospice nurse.
"Hahahaha!" Gu Fan suddenly threw his head back and burst into a loud laughter that echoed sharply against the cold walls.
"You are incredibly mistaken about who I am, Madam Song," Gu Fan scoffed coldly, forcefully unfolding his arms to point a highly disrespectful finger directly at her pale, flawless face, "I am not some righteous, benevolent priest, and I absolutely do not provide pathetic afterlife services to dying, cowardly people who just want to curl up in a ball and wait for death."
He didn’t give her a single second to argue as he aggressively turned his broad back on her, fully preparing to walk straight out of the pavilion since he had absolutely no patience for a woman who actively refused to fight for her own life.
"But..." Gu Fan suddenly paused, "If you ever decide to stop acting like a pathetic victim and actually want to see the world apart from this pathetic town, be at the Eastern Gate of the town at dawn in exactly seven days."
"I will be waiting for you," Gu Fan said opening te doors of the room, "We will go on a nice, long journey together, but if you aren’t there when the sun rises, you can just rot in this bed for all I care."
And without waiting for her reply or another word, Gu Fan confidently marched straight out of the Bamboo Spring Pavilion, completely leaving Song Yan sitting frozen on her bed, utterly stunned by his ruthless, commanding departure as she stared at the open doorway.
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Meanwhile, far across the sprawling, completely tense territory of Poison Valley Town, a massive, highly intimidating commotion was violently unfolding within the heavily fortified inner courtyards of the Bai Clan estate.
The heavy, incredibly thick stone doors of Bai Bing’s highly secluded, private cultivation courtyard suddenly began to violently grind open with a deafening, earth-shaking rumble that immediately drew the attention of every single guard in the vicinity.
The absolute second the massive stone slabs parted, a thick, terrifyingly dense wave of freezing mist aggressively poured out into the open corridor, instantly dropping the temperature of the surrounding air to a bone-chilling extreme that frosted the very walls.
The elite Bai Clan guards stationed nearby immediately shivered uncontrollably, completely wrapping their arms around their chests as they stared in absolute awe at the stunning, impossibly elegant figure gracefully walking out of the swirling white mist.
It was Bai Bing, the undisputed Ice Fairy of the Bai Clan, and she looked absolutely, breathtakingly gorgeous as she stepped into the moonlight.
She was dressed in a pristine, form-fitting icy blue martial dress that perfectly hugged her massive, heavy breasts and her incredibly thick, pale thighs, while her long, silky dark hair flowed flawlessly down her back without a single strand out of place.
But what truly terrified the surrounding guards wasn’t her peerless, untouchable beauty, but rather the incredibly massive, completely overwhelming Peak Spirit Realm aura violently radiating from her voluptuous body.
Her legendary Nirvana Phoenix Fire Physique was now perfectly and completely stabilized since Gu Fan had ruthlessly pumped her womb entirely full of his boiling, Yang-infused seed, allowing her previously conflicting energies to fuse flawlessly into a terrifyingly dense source of raw, explosive power.
Bai Bing stopped in the middle of the courtyard and elegantly ran a soft, pale hand through her dark hair, a deeply arrogant, highly seductive smirk slowly curling perfectly onto her red lips as she ignored the gasps of her clan members.
"The foundation is sstronger than ever," Bai Bing muttered softly to herself, actively feeling the immense, explosive power coursing perfectly through her expanded meridians without a single trace of the agonizing pain that used to completely cripple her combat potential.
She slowly looked up toward the dark night sky, her beautiful blue eyes completely glazing over with a heavy, deeply desperate lust as she thought about the man who had ruthlessly pinned her to the dirt and completely conquered her body and soul.
"It is finally time to visit him,"