Chapter 33: Burn, Beautiful Universe of the Maiden

  "What did he say?"

  Ye Huan snatched the note with great interest, wondering if it was some sort of cryptic message or code. He had often used similar things to train his intuition while learning hypnosis techniques, and his favorite thing to do was decipher passwords. The note only had one sentence written on it, an ancient phrase from before the Great Calamity: "Indulge in the mountains and rivers, is it not pleasant, beautiful, and carefree?"

  "It's getting interesting!"

  Ye Huan's eyes immediately lit up with interest, "Fei'er, tell me about the detailed situation after you went up."

  "What's there to say, my mom and sister struggled to climb up, it was already dark, Su Tianhe locked the gate, not even letting one fart out. My sister knelt outside the door, begging for half an hour, and he just threw out this note from the window, still pretending to be all sighs... damn it, I really want to chop off his old two!"

  "I think I understand what Su Tianhe means!"

  Ye Huan's words made Lie Ruoyu raise an eyebrow, and he smiled at the female killer, "Actually, it's easy to understand. This is a phrase that all people of Yan Huang could understand before the great disaster. Su Lao has been wandering in the mountains and rivers, his mind is transcendent, his spirit is calm, and he doesn't want to get involved in worldly affairs anymore!"

  "Is that all?"

  Liejue Yu hummed softly, her proud expression seeming to say that was all there was to it. She said coldly: "I am also a descendant of the Yan and Huang Emperors, and I was forced by my grandfather to learn how to write poetry at the age of six. By seventeen, I had already published my own collection of poems. In that case, I understood everything at first glance!"

  "So did you understand his underlying psychological state?"

  Lie Ruoyu was stunned, and Ye Huan smiled. "The previous sentence was said by me as a member of the Yan Huang people, and the next sentence is said by a psychologist among the Yan Huang people... Miss Lie Ruoyu, think about what identity Su Tianhe has?"

  "He asked himself, 'The ancestor of the Star Mother's Soul, the Pope must also worship the hermit! What state is he in? The mother's soul is broken, and his strength has been greatly reduced. To put it bluntly, he is just like me, a useless person who can only rely on his past achievements to gain respect... It's harsh words, but this is the truth, isn't it? So think about it, if you were Su Tianhe, what would you most desire now?"

  As fierce as rain, dumb and speechless.

  "Face!" Ye Huan patted her cheek, "It's all about face. This old man is now thinking the most about how he can't afford to lose face anymore. Heaven knows, I'm already not doing well, and if I don't put on a good show, who will? The more I show my face, the more embarrassing it gets!"

  "Really?" Lie Ruoyu saw a glimmer of hope.

  "I guarantee that as long as you do one thing, Su Tianhe will definitely come out to see you, his old face won't be able to hang on!" Ye Huan smiled very confidently.

  "...can't bear to show one's face?"

  Liejue Yu thought for a moment, and suddenly a determined look flashed across her face!

  "Fei, you stay here, I'll go up by myself this time!" As she spoke, she turned her head and gave Ye Huan a strange look, "You're still somewhat clever, humph, I'll settle the score with you when I get back!"

  What Lie Ruoyu did shocked her sister so much that she dropped the small axe in her hand!

  The cold and beautiful female killer took off her warm cotton-padded jacket, revealing a thin exercise suit underneath. She walked to the first step of the stairs, knelt down, and kowtowed heavily on it. The force she used was so great that her forehead immediately swelled up with a bruise, and her hands, which were pressed against the snow-covered steps, also trembled with cold, quickly losing their color.

  Bang!

  She loudly shouted, "Mr. Su, Lao Da is here to see you, please consider the relationship between us and my grandfather back then, come out and meet him, my grandfather's life is at stake, only you can save his life!"

  "Life and death at stake?" Ye Huan turned her head in shock, "Fei'er, your grandfather is a tenth-level ancestor soul, one of the nine sacred heroes, one of the twelve strongest people in the world today. Who can threaten his life and death?"

  Liefu didn't answer at all, she stared at her sister's back and burst into tears. "Older sister, what are you doing? It's minus twenty degrees outside now, and there are over ten thousand steps ahead!"

  Lie Ruoyu seemed to have not heard, she climbed up the second step, knelt down, and heavily knocked her head, bright red blood had already flowed from her forehead. "Mr. Su, please see me on account of your decades-long friendship with my grandfather, my grandfather's life is at stake, only you can save him!"

  Then she climbed up to the third step, knelt down and kowtowed...

  "Mr. Su, I'm afraid it's not a good idea, but in order to save your grandfather's life, I have no choice but to do this, please come out and see!"

  One level after another, she actually crawled up one by one, and Ye Huan was already stunned in the back, "Hey, I said let Su Tianhe lose face, but actually, there are many simple ways!"

  But is there something even more direct that would force Su Tianhe to show up?

  Half an hour later, Lie Ruoyu had disappeared at the entrance of the mountain valley and climbed up the steep half-mountain stone steps. Lie Feier caught up with her, wanting to pour a few large mouthfuls of spiritual medicine from the bottle into her, but Lie Ruoyu snatched it away and threw it high into the valley...

  Ye Huan couldn't sit still, so he deliberately didn't bring his luggage and chased after her. After walking up eight or nine hundred steps, he caught up with Lie Feier. "Ah, Feier, I forgot to bring my luggage, can you help me get it? You know, I'm a useless person, climbing such a long mountain road..."

  Lei Feier has gone down.

  At this time, Lie Ruoyu had already kneeled and kowtowed over eight or nine hundred times. The clothes on her knees were worn out, and the skin was red and swollen with fresh blood seeping through. In the freezing cold of minus twenty degrees Celsius, the blood that flowed out soon turned into ice pieces stuck to her skin, as well as the crimson-colored ice blocks on the stone steps she had climbed up...

  Her spirit had already become blurry, her eyes staring blankly at the end of the stone steps, numb and bewildered, she continued to kneel and pray, "Mr. Su... my grandfather is waiting for you to save his life!"

  When she was awake, Ye Huan couldn't put this determined female killer to sleep no matter what, but now...

  Ye Huan gently patted Lie Ruoyu's shoulder, and when she mechanically turned her head around with a conditioned reflex, the black goat pendant appeared between her eyes, slowly swinging back and forth.

  "Like a storm, you're exhausted. After hundreds of times of knocking your head, you've used up all your physical strength and your spirit has fallen into confusion... Don't you need a deep sleep?"

  "Yes, yes..."

  "So, can you trust me? Think about it, just yesterday I was cooking barbecue for you with my own hands, on the way here..."

  "You..."

  "Yes, you believe me now, so enter the deepest level of sleep... In this sleep, you will dream of a rather interesting scene. You suddenly feel full of energy and the remaining thousands of steps seem not that far away in your eyes... Your legs are filled with strength, you walk up and down the stairs effortlessly, kneel down, shout out what you want to say, then go down another level..."

  Ding!

  Ye Huan issued the order, Lie Ruoyu's eyes became even more confused, but she suddenly straightened her waist, her movements also quickened several times, and she quickly climbed up to the next step, even her voice was louder, "Mr. Su, Lie Renwang is about to die, how many years of friendship, do you want to see him die without saving him?"

  Another function of hypnosis is to stimulate human potential and make some moves that even oneself does not dare to believe!

  Finally, when the sky was slightly bright after a whole night, Lie Ruoyu climbed over the last step. Ye Huan also caught up with the help of Feng Zhiyi, he was already tired and dizzy, his body aching, but he still endured the pain and opened his five fingers again.

  Wow!

  The black goat's necklace fell down, "Isn't it like a rain, a wonderful dream? Alright, you've recovered your strength, the dream is over... You will hear a 'ding' sound, this sound means that you can wake up now, and at the same time, you will also forget everything on the mountain road, including what I did to you..."

  Ding!

  Her big eyes suddenly cleared like a rain, she shook her head in disbelief, and suddenly found that the sky was already bright, and she had arrived at the top of the mountain. Although very tired, almost fainting several times, her bone marrow seemed to be drained, but Su Tianhe's thatched cottage was just a few hundred meters ahead!

  What's more wonderful is that the gate of the thatched cottage... opened!