Then Yao Yan told them why Bai Su had appeared by the sea.
After hearing what Bai Su had been through, Su Jiu could not help feeling horrified.
She had once been to Swallowing Heaven. Su Jiu remembered that the Black Dragon King had intended to do the same thing back then, only to fail in the end and perish, his cultivation extinguished with him.
At the time, Su Jiu had suspected that the Black Dragon King was not the mastermind behind all this. Now, that appeared to be true.
What she had not expected was that her blood was not the only blood that worked. Bai Su's was just as useful.
Su Jiu could not help wondering whether, had her blood been drained back then, she might have been the one reduced to Bai Su's current state.
Su Jiu recalled the figure she had seen on the Silver Moon Star Sea. Could he be the mastermind behind it all?
"What did Bai Su's attending healing cultivator say?"
"We can only keep her hanging on with medicinal herbs. If she's lucky, she'll live another month. If she isn't... it'll be a matter of days. I don't even know whether I'll get to hear all her stories..." Yao Yan sounded wistful, with a touch of regret at the prospect of never hearing the rest.
Silver Star was a little surprised too. "It's that serious?"
Yao Yan scoffed. "Did you think heavenly thunder was a joke? After hearing her story, I think it's remarkable that she's alive at all. You should know that ninety-nine percent of living creatures perished outright beneath that tribulation lightning. And she'd already lost all her essence blood."
The medicine finally finished brewing. Yao Yan sent out a strand of demonic qi, and the medicine pot automatically poured