C4: Dead Or Alive, The Fate Is Mine To Decide

Date: November 12, 2021

Time: 2:26 am

(Third Person)

There were many ways for a person to die. They can either died in a war, died from the revenge of a person that has a grudge on them, died out of accident, died of an old age, died of illness or severe injuries, died of poisoning and... died because of their own self-righteousness and stupidity.

And the latter where was Hua fallen into. How stupid! Who was in the right mind to eat a lingzhi mushroom (ganoderma) raw? It's not just taste disgusting but also bitter! There's also a high chance of dying from poisonous mushrooms.

{Yun/Xian Tian Hua}

Will I be feeling sad? Sad, guilty and again regretful because I don't think that the person who will end my own life was me?

Yeah too foolish! How many times do I have to think about that? In my former life because of trusting a wrong person and listening only to my desires beguiled me to do many mistakes that I regret in the end.

Then this current life was so pathetic! I was alone in my life and also betrayed by love ones. Wait! The question was did they truly love me? The answer was no, they didn't. I'm thought to be a eyesore even though I don't want to get in their way.

Maybe this was just what the world was. There's good and bad to balance every situation. Then of course, there's people who will hate you even if you don't do anything to them. My lives were full of dark memories, wasn't it? Maybe I really brings extreme misfortune to everyone close to me including myself like the Yun clansmen said.

It's also my fault. I didn't know how to discern what was good and bad for me. Ha! Theres so many things for a person to know and learn about. Well, didn't they said that a person as long as she/he was still alive they needed to learn many things. Sigh,you don't need to always look at the negative ones ahaha, right?

I still need to survive even amidst the chaos and brink of death. I need to live. I still need to regain my eyesight and fixed my dantian to recover my cultivation even breakthrough to the max. I want to help more people with my medical and alchemist skills. Giving Chuang Yao a good life was also a must. I still want that enjoyable life and experience many adventurous things in the future. And maybe if there's a chance I might also investigate this why I am named Xian Tian Hua not a Yun.

Unfortunately, because of my selfishness not self righteousness and stupidity that I want to keep the purple glaze ganoderma for myself. I don't want it to be taken away by someone. I eat the whole linzhi herb raw without thinking. But that reckless action will only unknowingly cause my own doom.

I don't have many life for me to waste. It's precious yet I didn't cherished it enough and let it again, don't put to good use again.

As the purple glaze ganoderma flooded my mouth with it I can taste a strong hint of bitterness. It flowed from my mouth through my throat towards the rest of its journey down and down.

Suddenly I felt the urge to puke. The bitterness was unbearable! Is this the taste of the lingzhi (ganoderma) mushroom?! Well what do I expect for? It's tasteless when cooked and horrible when brewed.

Then I tasted some very familiar rusty but a little sweet taste. It's the same taste of crimson blood. It filled the memories of the past. The past that I can't get over with. The past that full of hardships, trials, pains, sweat and tears that hunting me even in this misery even in my sleep. At least this one have the hint of sweetness.

I sensed that the ganoderma immediately digested in my stomach too. And it's coming back harsly where it came from destroying my internal organs and causing injuries inside my body. I decided to stopped it and hold it back. Holding back in a wrong way.

But I am still foolish enough for making my situation even more worse. I coughed blood fiercely with my hand still blocking my mouth.

"Young miss! Oh no young miss!" Chuang Yao cried out of worriedness.

"Hey little girl! Alas so young yet her fate was to end here today." While I don't know what that is

"Young miss won't die! Young miss will survive!"

Chuang Yao was worried. She's worried about me too much already. I might die half an hour. But I need to get this through!

Not long after coughing some blood, I started to experience intense pain and tightness in my chest. And my head seemed spinning. Tss! How regretful.

But I already did it so why still regret the decision? Anyways they won't fight over for the purple glaze ganoderma anymore, right? Well now that it came to this point just let the fate decide my life. If I'm lucky enough, one of them might have the solution to thi- wait!

I didn't plan to die yet! Not when I was given a second chance to live!

Aren't I an alchemist and physician surely I can think of something. Right!? How did I forget that? I decide to do it why must I let myself fall to harm?

What am I panicking for? Purple glaze ganoderma might be deadly poisonous if eaten raw and everyone died after half an hour. May they said that no one can find the antidote to this. But that doesn't mean I can't solve this?

"Chuang Yao, I don't want to...to...cough cough...Ha! Im dying! Chuang Yao, can you at least give me something sweet? The purple glaze ganoderma was so bitter! Though it's soft and easy to bite, it doesn't taste good. I'm going to die anyway might as well give me my favorite honey dew flavored pastry bite size cookies," I babbly requested to her with a sweet smile. Gosh! Is this what they called "The Last Supper"? Or "The Last Wish Before Death"?

My request was just simple! I hope she let me have it. She rarely let me eat this super sweet delicacy. Shouldn't I take advantage of this situation to eat my favorite food to the fullest?

[Chuang Yao]

"No young miss! Young miss, you... can't! You're not allowed to eat sweet things!," I refused vehemently.

Why does the young miss also like super sweet and sour things too much like mistress? Oh well maybe that what runs in the blood.

"But I...I really cough... cough... want to eat my favorite snack. I just want to remember the taste of it before I perish," young miss still stubbornly insisted that she wanted to eat honey dew flavored bite size cookies.

I looked at young miss. She was now sitting under the tree. Beads of cold sweat tickled down the piece of white cloth covered her eyes from her forehead. Her eyebrow also wrinkled severely. Young miss' breath was big and very heavy enough evidence to know that she's suffering.

Suddenly I felt a burst of anger rushed from myself. I, Chuang Yao, the shadow guard of young miss entrusted by mistress won't accept what happened! I won't forgive those bastards!

It's their fault that young miss ended in this way! I must slice those bastards into thousand pieces myself!

{Yun/ Xian Tian Hua}

This... This suffocating aura...! Oh no! Why was Chuang Yao suddenly get angry? Is my request too much? I just want to eat something sweet. I couldn't eat sweet these recent weeks.

"Chu-"

"Young miss! Let Chuang Yao punished those bastards in place of young miss! They shouldn't get away from this matter easily!"

I was cutted off by Chuang Yao. What Chuang Yao was not angry because of my request instead it's those bandits?

"Wait Chuang Yao! Where were you-," before I even finish my sentence she immediately stormed off.

Ahh~ Chuang Yao, Chuang Yao I'm so worried about you.

Chuang Yao was already at Peak Level 8 Master. Since she can't deal with the bandits so easily and even get serious injuries it means that the bandits were also cultivators and their cultivation level was higher than Chuang Yao.

I again heard that loud clashing sounds of swords and their shouting voices. It was an intense battle. I think they were fighting to death!

Chuang Yao will lost her life! No no no! I must think of something!

Wait I also should worry about myself! This matter about turning the purple glaze ganoderma into deadly poison when eaten raw can't delay anymore! I only have last than half an hour!

Lest I still want to live I must seal the acupoints first! So that it can slow down the poison of ganoderma from spreading through my body.

<Chuang Yao>

Young miss! You must not die! Chuang Yao must die first before young miss!

Before that I must use my life to avenge young miss from the suffering and grievance she get from the things happened because of them! If they didn't show up earlier and insisted on snatching when young miss get the purple glaze ganoderma we wouldn't get into the fight.

But this bastards were tough! Their cultivation level was higher than me in a level. They were much faster than her too. Indeed, I needed to immobilize their movements first!

"Vines Clasping Hands!"

(Third Person)

"Vines Clasping Hands!"

The ground started to crack. The ground seemed shaky. The roots of the trees uprooted and crawled towards the bandits. And that greeny thing swallowed the bandits trapping their bodies inside.

Chuang Yao showed a sinister smile. It makes the bandits who saw that make all their hairs in the body raised. She's scary!

Chuang Yao didn't let a single second slipped. She immediately lounged at them like a wolf. She wanted to torture these bastards until they begged her that they have died!

Chuang Yao opened a small porcelain bottle. "Forget it...Go, Taste this... Young miss like to experiment new things especially poisons and medicines. This was her new created aphrodisiac. My young miss was still yet to know the results of her experiment. Let you feel honored to be the first one who taste my young miss' new aphrodisiac. And let each of you finish yourselves, you bastard annoying flies! Here eat this and I ensure that you'll taste the pleasure. Hehehe"

Upon hearing Chuang Yao's wicked words the bandits started to scream and free themselves from the vines and roots' entanglement.

"You shameless woman!"

"Arghh!"

"Go to hell!"

They saw the porcelain bottle Chuang Yao which undoubtedly contained aphrodisiac, the bandits couldn't help but shuddered.

Chuang Yao will going to be crazy. On the other hand, Hua, who's grateful for Chuang Yao avenging her but she can't help but pity those bandits for their misfortune.

Chuang Yao acted fast and resolute and turned the engtanglement of the roots and vines into cages then locked the bandits inside the cage. She tossed a pill of strong aphrodisiac in each bandit's mouth. She let out a cold and interested sneer from her exquisite face while watching them.

"Heh! Let them taste what's pleasure was. Know who they were messing with!"

"No! No! Don't come near me! Ahhh!" A loud horrified shout of a man  who seemed the leader of the bandit's group surrounded by his subordinates who's without a doubt being poisoned by a strong aphrodisiac, a kind of lust-arrousing pill?

"We only want the purple glaze ganoderma and nothing more! So...No! Go away! Ahhh..." a stupid person, the leader of bandits taking the initiative to confess how ridiculous. But at the certain point it makes Chuang Yao amused.

"Chuang Yao at your back!," Hua warned Chuang Yao who was emersed on watching the bandits. She felt a whooshing sound rushing to her shadow guard's direction.

"Ukk! Who?!," Chuang Yao loses her focused on what was her doing. The spiritual technique back fired and she again suffered internal injury.

"Tsk! How long were you going to continue this drama?" A pleasant voice sounded through the distressed, tensed and gloomy atmosphere.

"Who's there?!," a brawly bandit's leader shouted. He still confused and still didn't get to his senses from what happened earlier.

His subordinates were stopped moving. Actually they can't move. Something restraining them.

"It seems like you don't remember this lord here huh? Not only you do your mission smoothly but also bring disgrace to our sect. In the end this was what you really intend to do? Pretend to scare people along the way but only taught a lesson by a woman instead? ...Since when did you become trash like this, my father's subordinates?"

A man in the black cloak with weird design showed up. Too bad his face can't be seen. Else you might find some goody face there. Ehehe.

"Young lord! We begged forgiveness from young lord! We're a failure! We deserved more horrible than death!! Punished us as what young lord saw as what was fit" Altogether asking for punishment, the bandits who were truthfully belong to a sect bowed down on their knees on the dusty ground.

"So my father's subordinates were already sober up? Then you may like want that young miss to stay in this dangerous and cold forest? In this young lord's opinion she's poisoned by purple glaze ganoderma. Ain't I right?," the young man in black cloak with weird design speak up. He seemed unconcerned about those bastards but to Hua.

"Young lord! As young lord's intention..."

They picked Hua up. Hua was already lost her consciousness but not yet dead. Seeing that her young miss will going to be taken away, Chuang Yao immediately make a fuss.

"Hey! Where are you taking my young miss?! Get your hands off young miss! You want to harm young  miss right?! I won't let you! I- Tukk"

Chuang Yao was hitted on her neck before she knew it. And that's how the master-shadow guard pair carried away by the bandits whose actually people from a certain sect at the end of the day...

On the third day...

It's been three days ince the Hua was taken away.  She's on an abandoned shabby house in the middle of the foreat. It was the same forest where sheget the purple  glaze ganoderma.

Hua opened her eyes to see the place but sadly everything was ethereal whiteness.

"Oh you're awake," a fine young man with such great beauty standing with some clothes right in the door of an... shabby house?

The handsome beauty have dark raven long hair clasp by some tribal crown. And filled with unique ornaments on his body. The pattern of his clothing was strange and rare but also exquisite. His skin was white as milk. And his eyes were amber in color and sharp. His lips was not bad. It seemed like his a little masculine, of course. And he's tall!

"Where am I? Chuang Yao? When did I been put here? I thought I'm in that cold ground of the forest... Wait who are you? You're not  Chuang Yao!," the Hua's thought filled with questions.

*<{C4 Finished}>*

{[To Be Continued]}

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