The Young Master Storms the City
Chapter 417 Xu Yourong Leaves_1

Chapter 417: Chapter 417 Xu Yourong Leaves_1

"You want me to leave Ning Fan? I don’t...I don’t...I don’t want to leave Ning Fan..." Xu Yourong instinctively shook her head, but the determination that used to be in her eyes was no longer there. Instead, it was replaced by confusion, doubt, resentment, and pain.

"Of course, you can choose not to leave Ning Fan. In that case, you will simply drain Ning Fan of his life force," Hua Nishang said coldly.

"I don’t...I don’t...I don’t want to drain Ning Fan’s life force..." Xu Yourong shook her head vigorously, desperately.

"If I were you, if I truly loved him, then I would choose to sacrifice myself to protect him," Hua Nishang said indifferently, finally breaking through the last line of defense in Xu Yourong’s heart.

She lowered her head in agony, unable to control the tears that surged out.

"Yes, I can’t be so selfish. I can’t allow Ning Fan to use his life force to sustain me... I can’t be a vampire..." Xu Yourong murmured in pain.

Xu Yourong wasn’t foolish.

On the contrary, she was extremely intelligent.

How could she not know that Hua Nishang’s ultimate purpose in saying this was to make her leave Ning Fan?

But precisely because she was so intelligent, she knew that Hua Nishang hadn’t lied; everything Hua Nishang had said was true.

And Hua Nishang knew that Xu Yourong could see her intentions clearly.

So this was an overt scheme.

Hua Nishang laid out the choices before Xu Yourong.

Either choose to stay with Ning Fan and watch herself drain him of his life force, killing him,

or choose to leave Ning Fan, sacrificing herself to let the one she loved flourish.

Whoosh—

After a long while, Xu Yourong finally lifted her head and let out a long breath.

The pain and sorrow on her face vanished, replaced by calmness.

"Miss Hua, I can leave Ning Fan, but I hope you promise me to treat Ning Fan well in the future, not harm him. Otherwise, even as a ghost, I won’t let you off," Xu Yourong said calmly.

"I promise you," Hua Nishang nodded.

Xu Yourong then reached behind her neck, untied the red string she was wearing, and handed over the red string along with a jade pendant attached to it to Hua Nishang.

"Miss Hua, please help me return this jade pendant to Ning Fan," Xu Yourong said with reluctance.

This jade pendant was a gift from Ning Fan when he came to propose marriage at her house after the Qingyun List competition.

There were two jade pendants, one for each of them.

"Go with peace of mind," Hua Nishang said as she took the jade pendant.

Xu Yourong turned her head, looking at the wooden hut with great reluctance, her gaze seemingly piercing through the wooden hut to see what was inside.

Inside the hut, Ning Fan was sitting with his eyes closed, cultivating, entering a state of forgetfulness of everything around him.

"Ning Fan, I’m leaving, you take care," Xu Yourong whispered softly, then turned around and walked away from the direction of the wooden hut.

She wanted to stay far away from Ning Fan, wanted to make it so that Ning Fan could never find her, so she chose the opposite direction from before.

In the darkness, Xu Yourong’s figure quickly vanished from sight.

Hua Nishang watched Xu Yourong’s disappearing back, sighing softly, feeling an unexpected twinge of compassion.

But she quickly shook her head, murmuring to herself, "Who made you contract a deadly disease? I’m doing this for Ning Fan’s good... and besides, this was your own choice... If I were you, I would make the same choice... to leave on my own, then die alone..."

"All this is fate."

Once Xu Yourong’s figure was completely out of sight, Hua Nishang put the jade pendant around her own neck and then walked quietly to the side of the wooden hut, sitting at the doorstep, quietly waiting for Ning Fan to awaken from his state of cultivation.

Inside the hut.

Ning Fan sat cross-legged, his eyes tightly shut, with an open and receptive posture.

The spiritual power in his body circulated endlessly, refining the power of the True Elemental Elixir into his own strength.

His cultivation level kept rising, soon to break through the limits of the Qi Training Ninth Layer.

If he were to break through further, it would be the Foundation Establishment Stage.

But he had no Foundation Establishment Pill now, and if he tried to break through forcibly, there was a ninety percent chance of failure, which could lead to unpredictable consequences.

At best, his foundation would be damaged, making it twice as difficult to attempt Foundation Establishment again; at worst, his spiritual power would be completely destroyed, his meridians rendered useless, forever unable to cultivate again, and he might even die from his body exploding.

Ning Fan was about to suppress the excess medicinal power, to allow it to be refined into spiritual power but temporarily prevent it from trying to break through the barrier.

But suddenly, his heart inexplicably quivered.

Immediately afterward, a sense of emptiness swept over him.

It was as if he had suddenly lost something very important.

"What’s going on?"

Ning Fan wondered inwardly, trying hard to exit the state of cultivation.

But the moment he was distracted, the spiritual power in his body suddenly became uncontrollable.

Whoosh...

The abundant spiritual power in his body immediately started to churn, circulating wildly within him, accelerating, boiling, and starting to assault the barrier on its own accord.

If the barrier were broken, he would be forced into Foundation Establishment!

Uh!

Ning Fan let out a muffled grunt, trying to suppress it.

But the more he tried to suppress it, the less control he had over his spiritual power.

Whoosh whoosh...whoosh whoosh...

The spiritual power in his body madly battered against the barrier!

He was striving to break through the great barrier of Qi Refinement and advance to the Foundation Establishment realm!