The girl slowly propped herself up and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the Jade Pendant lying on the table with a sorrowful expression.
Su Mo watched the girl without speaking, and the little ramshackle house fell silent.
After a long while, the girl gently raised her hand and tilted her head, pressing the Jade Pendant affectionately against her little cheek, as though nestling against her older sister.
The musty smell in the little ramshackle house mingled with the scent of bitter medicine, drifting through the roof toward the heavens.
Because Su Mo had removed the gloomy power, the girl's pale complexion was steadily improving, gradually regaining its rosy color.
She looked extremely similar to the girl who had died in the Forbidden Lands.
The girl seemed to sense that her health had actually improved. She looked up at Su Mo, graceful as jade in his white robes and white hair, and seemed to understand something.
The girl slowly rose, then slowly knelt on the floor and bowed to Su Mo. "Thank you for saving my life, Senior."
Su Mo looked at the girl. He needed to accept this bow.
From beginning to end, the girl who had died had never asked Su Mo to come save her younger sister. It was simply that Su Mo had seen her die in the Forbidden Lands, had wanted to come, and had come.
But how could these two be the only suffering souls in the world? He had merely happened to see, merely happened to remember...
He accepted this bow because her older sister had traded her life for it.
A thought rose with the wind, and an invisible power of rules lifted the girl to her feet.
The girl looked at Su Mo with reddened eyes and slowly