Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

Senior Sister's current state is probably just due to excessive blood loss causing her mental instability... But Xi Heng only thought this and casually responded to her words:

"It won't be a problem, and I'm not leaving. I just went to get the medicine."

The senior sister tilted her head, as if she hadn't heard clearly.

Xi Heng placed a drawer full of medicinal herbs on the ground, because the wooden table that was originally used to store various odds and ends had been smashed to pieces by her palm.

"Senior sister, hurry back to bed..." she said, rubbing her forehead.

"I'll make you a jujube and ginseng soup now to replenish your qi and blood."

"Oh..." Hong Miao looked around, but remained motionless.

In this state, she seemed to have lost sight of what a 'bed' was.

Xi Heng pressed his temples.

Why did Senior Sister Hongmiao, who is usually so reliable, turn into this after her consciousness became hazy?

He seems like a little child.

"Let me help my senior sister back." She approached helplessly, grabbed her senior sister's arm again, and put it on her own shoulder.

"pain……"

"It won't hurt after that," Xi Heng comforted him. "Relax your body, or it will hurt even more."

"Um……"

She herself has two fractures in her left arm, and it's quite painful to keep moving it.

However, my senior sister needs to be taken care of, so a little pain is tolerable.

With a struggle, she helped her senior sister to bed with one hand, then carefully covered her with the blanket: "Don't run around this time."

After saying that, she turned around and began to prepare the medicinal herbs on the table.

A century-old ginseng should naturally be cut into pieces and placed in a bowl with red dates.

Xi Heng filled a ceramic jar with water outside, packed it down, and brought it inside. He first poured it into the iron pot on the stove, and after the snow melted, he washed the iron pot, then washed the ginseng and jujubes. He then filled another jar with snow before starting to boil the medicinal soup.

Once the water is hot, cut the ginseng into pieces and throw it whole into the pot along with the jujubes, then add heat, cover, and simmer.

Having given up, Xi Heng clapped his hands and returned to the bedside. He then took the stolen wound powder and a clean white cloth for bandaging, and slowly lifted the covers.

Inside the quilt, Senior Sister Hongmiao's blood had congealed on her outer clothes.

Xi Heng slowly removed the other person's outer clothing, causing the other person to cry out in pain again.

"It hurts..." Senior Sister Hongmiao whispered as her clothes, which were close to her wound, were pulled away.

"Bear with it, it'll be over soon." Xi Heng replied casually, like a doctor before giving an injection, and lifted her bra to reveal the gruesome wound on her waist.

The sword wound was almost a palm's length long. Although it wasn't deep and didn't pierce the skin of the abdomen to expose the internal organs, it was still quite horrifying.

If such an injury were to fall on an ordinary person, and it wasn't quickly stitched up and treated with hemostatic medicine, their life would be in grave danger.

On her senior sister's body, this scar was just one of more than a dozen sword wounds...

If Xi Heng hadn't used magic to stop the bleeding, his senior sister would probably not have survived once her vital energy was depleted and she could no longer suppress the surging blood in her meridians.

When her senior sister took a deep breath and led her away from the military camp, she probably already knew in her heart that she had no hope of survival, and in her last moments, she only wanted to get her out of danger.

However, Xi Heng possesses the magic to stop bleeding and can save the other person's life.

Looking at the other person's slender and graceful body covered in frostbite, Xi Heng sighed softly.

"What will you do without me... Senior Sister?"

As she spoke, she began to wipe the other person's wound from top to bottom, sprinkled on some wound powder, and then wrapped it with a white cloth.

If the wound is large, use blood and qi to seep into the skin to temporarily seal it, and then bandage it together with the medicinal sand.

After the senior sister wakes up, let her use her own qi and blood to stabilize her injury and prevent it from reopening.

It was too troublesome to do so many movements with just his right hand, so Xi Heng had to use his left arm, and every time he moved it, he felt a sharp pain.

"Cold..." the other person said.

"It'll be bandaged up soon, just a moment." Xi Heng first covered the already bandaged wound with the blanket.

The stove was burning inside, making it much warmer than outside, but it was still winter, and it would be very cold to be naked.

After she had finished bandaging the last sword wound on the other person's thigh, she breathed a sigh of relief and covered him completely with the blanket.

My senior sister's slender figure has been wrapped up so tightly that she looks like half a mummy.

"I never imagined I had such a talent for being a doctor..."

She wiped the fine sweat from her forehead and went back to the stove to check on the progress of the ginseng and jujube soup.

"The medicine will be ready soon, Senior Sister, please wait a moment."

Seeing that it would be ready in about two incense sticks' time, Xi Heng first took care of the fracture in his left arm.

In this world, Xi Heng had never heard of any miraculous cure that could easily heal fractures, but for a martial artist with mastery of tendons and bones, simple fractures were not incurable.

She casually adjusted the bone a few times with her right hand, and that was considered setting the bone.

A few strands of qi and blood flowed along the meridians to the fractured bone, enveloping it.

Xi Heng then grabbed a few more wooden sticks and pressed them onto both sides of her slender arms. She then used the remaining clean white cloth to wrap the arm tightly, layer after layer, and a simple splint was ready.

She then ran to the side and picked out a tattered piece of clothing. She used her broken sword to cut strips of cloth and wrapped them around her neck and forearm, thus slinging her arm in place and making herself look like an injured patient.

"It doesn't hurt so much when I move like this..." Xi Heng exhaled.

At this moment, the bubbling medicinal soup was almost ready. She opened the pot lid, scooped out a bowl, took out the prepared wooden spoon, and drank a mouthful of soup, only to taste a bitter flavor.

Xi Heng nodded, put the spoon in the bowl, and carried it to the bedside with one hand.

"Senior sister, it's time to take your medicine."

"Hmm..." Senior Sister's voice grew weaker and weaker.

Xi Heng scooped up a ginseng that had been cooked until soft and tender, cut it into pieces, blew on it to cool it down with a little soup, touched it with his tongue to make sure it wasn't too hot, and then brought it to his senior sister's lips, which were gradually losing color.

"Open your mouth, ah~" Xi Heng said simply, as if taking care of a child.

Hong Miao closed her eyes and listened to the command, swallowing the bitter soup in small sips as it entered her mouth.

Then, the bitterness of the ginseng reached my teeth. I forced myself to chew it and swallow it, and finally regained some strength.

"And the red dates, I just removed the pits, Senior Sister can just bite them and eat them." Xi Heng handed over a spoon.

Chewing a small jujube and swallowing it, a warm sensation begins to spread throughout the body, and the flow of qi and blood begins to surge again.

As Xi Heng fed her spoonful by spoonful, after an unknown amount of time, her complexion gradually changed from pale and ashen to a rosy hue.

"...Thank you." The senior sister seemed to be gradually regaining consciousness as well.

"What is there to thank between us?" Xi Heng chuckled lightly.

She put in so much effort today, so that her efforts wouldn't be in vain... Now, even if she dies, she wants her senior sister to live.

“Yes…” Hong Miao slowly opened her eyes, exhaling a breath she had been holding for a long time:

"Such a great favor, it would be too frivolous to simply say thank you."

The senior sister's tone gradually returned to the state she had in the Sword Academy, becoming more stable and clear.

To be honest, Xi Heng still thinks she looked cuter the way she did just now.

"How can I repay my junior sister?"

Hongmiao swallowed a small piece of ginseng, her voice sounding as if she were talking to herself.

"There's no need to repay me in any special way. Just consider it as the unpaid accommodation and tuition fees I owed at the Sword Academy," Xi Heng replied casually.

“That won’t do.” Hong Miao’s gaze fell on Xi Heng’s face, and she said seriously, “Junior Sister saved my life, so I will entrust my life to Junior Sister from now on.”

"Please don't joke like that." Xi Heng shook the wooden spoon in his hand.

"This is not a joke; these are my sincere thoughts."

"Sincere?"

Hong Miao, covered in wounds and blood, nodded.

"Then please take good care of yourself for the rest of your life, Senior Sister," Xi Heng said casually.

"No," the senior sister shook her head.

“I killed my enemy with my own hands, and I thought I would die because of it. Before I did it, I consciously put aside all other concerns... But since you saved my life, my concerns can only remain with you.”

"Huh? What do you mean?" Xi Heng didn't quite understand.

I want to stay by your side.

"..."

Xi Heng paused in his action of holding the spoon, and the scene suddenly fell silent for a moment.

The senior sister's words now seem to indicate that she wants to entrust her entire life to her.

'My only concern is for her'—doesn't that sound like a confession?

Senior sister probably hasn't thought about this, right?

The girl shook her head, banishing these strange thoughts from her mind.

This is my senior sister. It's really disrespectful to try to guess her intentions with such strange thoughts.

"Don't you want to?" the senior sister asked again.

"Um... how should I put it?"

Xi Heng was at a loss for words, and simply spoke his mind:

"I am willing, but I may have to do many dangerous things in the future, so I can't let my senior sister get into trouble again."

"It's alright. You risked your life to save mine today. What harm is there in me risking my life with you someday?"

"That doesn't make sense... Besides, I don't want my senior sister to die."

"Everyone has to die eventually."

“No,” Xi Heng retorted, “I want to live forever.”

"Immortality?" Senior Sister was quite puzzled by this: "You clearly possess the sword intent of sacrificing your life, yet you still crave this elusive immortality like others?"

"Yes."

“…You’re a really strange person.” Hong Miao hesitated for a few seconds before finally saying only this.

"So what if he's weird?" Xi Heng was already used to being called a weirdo.

"In short, my goal is to find the way to immortality. Along the way, I will inevitably encounter many deadly dangers. If you want to come with me, you may perish before long... I don't want that. You'd better not come with me."

Hongmiao's gaze gradually turned to disappointment: "But I have nowhere else to go..."

"The world is vast, and Senior Sister's martial arts are superb; where can't she go?"

"But I only cherish one person; no matter how vast the world is, it is not my place."

It seems that Senior Sister Hongmiao is determined to stick with her.

“Since you put it that way, Senior Sister… I can’t just abandon you.” Xi Heng hesitated before suggesting, “But I really don’t want Senior Sister to go through dangerous things with me. How about we buy a small courtyard in a safe and stable city and live together?”

The senior sister chuckled lightly: "Keeping a mistress in a golden house?"

"Don't try to hide your beauty, Senior Sister, you've been reading too many picture stories." Xi Heng sighed.

"While it sounds amusing, there's no need to go to such lengths," the senior sister shook her head again.

"Didn't you want to deduce the power-refining martial arts of the Red Thread Sword? I will use the rest of my life to help you deduce it."

"Hmm?" Xi Heng didn't expect his senior sister to say this.

"Though we may go our separate ways and wander to the ends of the earth after this, this bond will remain, which can be considered a kind of connection," Hong Miao said.

"Furthermore, Elder Hong often said that there is a world of difference between Transformation Force and Dark Force, and she often lamented that she could not achieve it. I hope to help her see what this so-called Transformation Force is really like..."

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Chapter 57, The Sword of Annihilation

Three days later.