The myth begins with the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 8 Dryness
It should have been left there by Hei Lin accidentally.

Ding Lin tried to expel the evil spirit, but his level of cultivation was far behind Hei Lin, and the busy work in the middle of the night only managed to dispel a little bit of it.

After waking up, Qingyi also tried to breathe towards the moon and cooperate with Ding Lin's treatment, but her cultivation had dissipated. Unlike the temporary exhaustion that Ding Lin gave her when she was healed, it only took half a night to recover. The cultivation taken away by Hei Lin really destroyed her foundation. Now the effect of Qingyi's breathing was the same as when Ding Lin first started practicing. What's more, the pain still invaded her mind from time to time, making her breathing intermittent.

The days that followed were just like this day.

Every night, Qing Yi would wake up after being treated by Ding Lin's evil spirit, and she would become unconscious again little by little during the day.

so cycle.

Fortunately, although the evil spirit left by Black Scale is stubborn, it is just a rootless duckweed.

Ding Lin estimated that if he spent a little bit of time every night, after several years, the time would eventually be spent.

Qingyi's life should be able to be saved.

……

This went on for more than half a year.

In autumn, everything is bleak, fish and shrimps have disappeared, and Ding Lin drills holes in the mud to find food.

In winter, when the moonlight was dim, Ding Lin still practiced diligently every night, trying hard to gather the evil spirit.

There was heavy snow and the lake was frozen three feet thick.

Ding Lin struggled to break open the ice again and again, leaving Qing Yi a space to survive, and then used his demonic energy to restore her body temperature.

In this way, winter finally passes and spring comes, and all things grow.

Then, each day becomes warmer than the last.

The lotus flowers in the small lake not far away are blooming again.

In Qingyi's body, the demonic energy left by Hei Lin had been mostly eliminated.

“It hurts…it hurts!”

In the small ditch, the fish snuggled together for two days.

Qingyi was still moaning softly and crying out in pain, seemingly the same as last year, but the difference was that there was life in her eyes.

As the evil spirit became less and less.

Qing Yi's time of wakefulness is getting longer and longer.

Slowly, summer is coming again.

The weather is getting hotter day by day.

The evil spirit was finally almost expelled, and it would take about a month to complete the task.

Everything seems to be going in the right direction.

But Ding Lin always felt that something was wrong. He tilted his head and thought carefully, but he couldn't figure it out.

Until this day.

The shrimp they were hunting was too active and jumped out of the water. Ding Lin followed closely behind it, but the moment it jumped out of the water, he suddenly froze in place, letting the shrimp sway its body and escape from the fish's mouth.

shallow.

The water is too shallow.

Ding Lin turned his head. He didn't feel it yet, but Qingyi's body was bigger than him and a little bit of it was exposed above the water.

Ding Lin suddenly remembered that it hadn't rained for two whole months.

If it doesn't rain anymore...

……

Ding Lin's worries became a reality.

Another half month.

The weather is getting hotter.

Not a drop of rain.

The water level was dropping at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not only Ding Lin, Qing Yi also realized that something was wrong.

"Xiao...Xiaohong..."

That day, while she was still awake, she looked at Ding Lin with some anxiety in her eyes.

Ding Lin swam forward and put his head close to Qingyi's face.

Two days later, the water level became even lower.

Even a small part of Ding Lin's body was exposed above the water. He couldn't help but look towards the lake.

At night, Ding Lin practiced as usual for half the night. When the demonic energy recovered, he did not transfer the demonic energy to Qingyi as usual. While she was still unconscious, Ding Lin used his head to support Qingyi's body and pushed hard towards the small lake.

But after moving forward less than half a foot, Ding Lin was forced to stop.

"what!"

Qingyi screamed in pain and woke up suddenly. The water under her was immediately stained with red blood. The wound on her abdomen, which had never healed, was torn even bigger. If it continued like this, let alone returning to the lake, I'm afraid that if she moved forward a little bit, Qingyi would be split in half.

Ding Lin quickly put the fish lips on the wound, and the evil spirit passed away. Qingyi then regained her composure, and after a while she slowly woke up.

"Xiao...Xiaohong..."

Qingyi's voice was filled with grievance and fear.

Ding Lin pressed his head against her again.

In the darkness, the eyes are deep.

……

A few more days passed.

Still no rain.

The water level is lower.

It had almost reached Ding Lin's abdomen.

Now, even Ding Lin can only move with difficulty in this small ditch, and he needs to mobilize some demonic energy to assist him. If this goes on for soon, in just two or three days, they will be trapped to death in this small ditch.

Two fish were trapped here and died together...

Small ditch...

Ding Lin suddenly turned his head and looked at the lake.

At this time, it was sunset, and the sunlight shone on his body, making his scales, which were already as bright red as fire, even brighter, and as red as a pool of blood.

Ding Lin stared at the lake for a long, long time...

Then he turned around and looked at Qingyi who had fallen into coma again.

Until dark.

Then, Ding Lin continued to practice as usual to recover his demonic energy.

Then pass the evil spirit to Qingyi.

Another night passed.

……

Two more days.

It still didn't rain.

The silt on both sides of the ditch has been exposed, leaving only a little water level in the middle, but it can only reach Ding Lin's ventral fin.

It's daylight again.

Ding Lin crawled and rolled and finally caught two small shrimps. He fed the shrimps into Qingyi's mouth and turned his head to look at the lake.

tomorrow.

By tomorrow at the latest, even he himself will be unable to move.

Another half day of being awake.

In the afternoon, near dusk.

Qingyi fell into coma again.

Ding Lin turned his head and looked at the lake again, but this time he quickly withdrew his gaze. He struggled to move his body and rolled in the mud, catching small shrimps, one, two, but without exception, they were all bitten to death by Ding Lin.

Until he ran out of strength.

Then, Ding Lin placed the shrimps one by one and gathered them in front of Qingyi, within reach of her when she opened her mouth.

By the time we finished all this, it was dark again.

Ding Lin closed his eyes and began to recover. In the middle of the night, he opened his eyes but did not immediately remove the evil spirit from Qing Yi as he did in the past.

Definitely.

Ding Lin looked at Qingyi for a long time.

Finally, I put my mouth on it and tasted salty and bitter. It was the wound that was torn a few days ago was still bleeding.

Ding Lin's eyes dimmed, and then he began to give in to the evil spirit, and finally made a decision.

Tonight, Ding Lin's treatment was particularly fast.

As soon as the moon slightly shifted from the zenith, his demonic energy was exhausted. According to past experience, it would take a while for Qingyi to wake up.

Ding Lin looked at Qingyi again.

Suddenly, it swung its tail violently, disturbing the last bit of shallow water, and then rolled and crawled towards the small lake.

It's a distance of several dozen feet, so it won't take long even if you roll and crawl.

Soon, Ding Lin arrived in front of the bluestone. He finally turned his head and looked at Qingyi.

(End of this chapter)