Righting a Wrong on the Road (Revised)

Walking along the main road, Yu Tianshuang looked at Suotuo City in the distance. It bore some resemblance to Hagen-Dazs City, and he could not help drifting into recollection.

Once I've taken Rongrong back, Teacher and the others should be back around then too. I'll ask for some time off and go see Grandpa. I haven't been back in so many years. I wonder how he's doing. Without me helping run the shop, he must be rushed off his feet all by himself. Haha.

As he was thinking, a commotion came from the woods beside the road.

A young woman in a tight black-and-purple outfit darted out of the woods and ran off at top speed.

A few masked men in black emerged from the woods behind her and gave chase.

Wearing black and covering their faces in broad daylight? It's not even night. That's a bit too...

Still, those men in black don't look like good people. Should I go help?

By then, the men in black had surrounded the young woman.

She had delicate features and bright eyes, though her gaze was icy at the moment. Her curvaceous figure seemed strikingly at odds with her delicate face.

"Give up, young lady. Miss didn't tell us to kill you. As long as you give up your right of inheritance and go back, all that will happen is that your Soul Power will be crippled and you'll be sent to a remote city to live out your life as an ordinary person. What's so bad about that? Why insist on resisting to the bitter end?"

Seeing that they had surrounded her, the leader of the men in black spoke with little restraint.

Hearing this, the surrounded young woman's gaze grew even colder. She said nothing, silently summoning her Martial Soul and taking an attacking stance.

Yu Tianshuang's gaze turned cold when he heard the man in black.

All that will happen is that her Soul Power will be crippled? To a Soul Master, isn't crippling her Soul Power the same as killing her? They really treat human lives like grass in broad daylight.

Seeing that the trapped young woman had no intention of giving up, the leader of the men in black signaled to his companions with his eyes.

The men then unleashed their Soul Skills and attacked her.

The young woman could not dodge quickly enough, and several attacks struck her. Blood immediately began to flow from her wounds.

At that moment, the leader of the men in black threw a long saber at her back while she was distracted.

The young woman felt the fierce wind rushing toward her from behind, but it was too late to dodge. She circulated her Soul Power to her back, hoping to withstand the attack.

But the searing pain and the impact she expected never came.

Instead, she heard two whooshes as something cut through the air.

Two incomparably sharp, ice-blue sword Qi strikes radiating a bone-piercing chill knocked away and froze the long saber that had been thrown at the young woman's back. The several men attacking her from the front were then struck by a slash of sword Qi, instantly cut in two, and frozen, without a single drop of blood spilling.

The young woman's large eyes, brilliant as violets, widened as she stared in disbelief at Yu Tianshuang, who stood nearby with a longsword in hand and an indifferent expression.

"Where did this meddlesome brat come from?"

With that, the leader of the men in black shattered the ice around the long saber, picked it up, and charged at Yu Tianshuang.

Yu Tianshuang paid no attention to the leader charging at him. He casually sent out several slashes of sword Qi and walked toward the young woman.

They're so fast. I can't dodge them.

Seeing how fast the slashes of sword Qi were, the leader of the men in black knew he could not evade them and had no choice but to take them head-on.

But in the next instant, the leader of the men in black lost consciousness forever.

Still holding her attacking stance, the young woman looked nervously at Yu Tianshuang. Blood was dripping from her wounds, and the cuts on her legs in particular had left her feeling unsteady on her feet, but she continued to watch him warily.

Putting away the ice sword he had formed in his hand, Yu Tianshuang looked at the young woman, who resembled a wary kitten, and could not help saying with amusement, "You don't need to be nervous. They didn't look like good people, and they were going to cripple your Soul Power, so I stepped in to help. If I wanted to harm you, do you think you could resist me with your strength? You'd better put away your Martial Soul and tend to your wounds."

Looking at the young woman, whose wounds were still dripping blood, Yu Tianshuang spoke slowly.

"You..."

Although what Yu Tianshuang said was true, the young woman felt that her pride had been hurt and grew a little annoyed. After thinking it over, however, she put away her Martial Soul and slumped to the ground.

As her taut nerves suddenly relaxed, the young woman fainted where she sat.

This...

Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound.

Yu Tianshuang had no choice but to take medicine and bandages out of his ring and walk over to her.

Looking at the young woman's face up close, feeling the soft, supple touch of her skin against his hands as he bandaged her, and inadvertently catching sight of her shapely figure, Yu Tianshuang's cold face grew slightly red.

When he finished bandaging her, Yu Tianshuang found himself in another quandary. His thoughts had already been rather amorous, and his gaze kept straying to her neckline and pretty face.

He shook his head, casting the distracting thoughts from his mind.

Yu Tianshuang lifted the young woman and settled her onto his back.

He felt her peach against his hands and her orchid-sweet breath on his cheek by his ear.

Yu Tianshuang's face turned red again.

After carrying her for a while, he looked up at Suotuo City, now just ahead.

"Whew, almost there."

Yu Tianshuang bounced the young woman slightly on the hands supporting her peach and continued walking.

"Mm..."

A murmur as faint as a mosquito's hum reached his ear.

"You're awake."

"Mm... hiss..."

Feeling herself lying on a young man's back, the young woman came to her senses after a moment and hurriedly struggled, but in the next instant the movement pulled at her wounds, making her cry out in pain.

Feeling her struggle behind him, Yu Tianshuang steadied his hands beneath her and said somewhat helplessly, "Don't move around. When I bandaged you just now, you had more than a dozen wounds all over your body, especially on your legs. Even a slight movement will tear them open, and then I'll have to bandage you all over again."

Hearing the mild reproach in Yu Tianshuang's voice, the young woman immediately fell quiet.

But there was the scorching warmth against the giant pandas on her chest, and the hot hands supporting her peach, especially her own hands wrapped around his neck.

The young woman's pretty face turned red, and when she recalled hearing that he had bandaged her wounds, the blush on her face deepened.

Looking at the young man's handsome profile, especially with the sunlight falling across his face, the young woman, whose face was already flushed, now looked like a ripe apple.

Gently laying the young woman on the bed, Yu Tianshuang sat down on a chair beside it and rolled his shoulders. "Rest here for now. I'll help you change the dressings after you wake up."

The young woman pulled the blanket over her whole body, leaving only her eyes visible, and answered so softly it was barely audible, "Mm..."