Chapter 598: Reapers
Tan Qingying's entire body was now as black as ink. Black mist curled around her small frame like the whispers of death itself. The darkness seemed to flicker as if countless demons were ready to burst forth from her body at any moment.
“Little Ying!” Li Xiaofei shouted.
Li Xiaofei rushed forward and cradled the fallen Tan Qingying in his arms. He quickly concentrated, and a purifying energy imbued with the strength of the Flame Blade surged into her body. But it failed. The black mist enveloping Tan Qingying’s body instantly repelled the Flame Blade's energy.
Li Xiaofei felt a sharp pain in his palm. When he raised his hand to look, his palm and fingers were blackened. Fortunately, the purifying energy of the Flame Blade began to slowly dispel the corpse-like black energy.
But Li Xiaofei had already realized that all the vitality within Tan Qingying’s body had been completely extinguished, leaving her entirely consumed by deathly energy. Panic overwhelmed Li Xiaofei. He resolved to act, prepared to risk injury to himself in order to dispel the corpse energy within Tan Qingying.
But at that moment, Little Aunt gently stopped him. Li Xiaofei turned to look at her. She shook her head.
“Little Aunt, do you... have a way to save Little Ying?” Li Xiaofei asked urgently.
Little Aunt lightly pinched her fingertip. A drop of crystalline blood formed at the tip of her finger. Faint light shimmered within the drop of blood. Upon closer inspection, countless intricate runes seemed to interweave and flow within the blood. She placed the drop of blood on Tan Qingying’s forehead.
Sizzle...
The black mist hissed as it ignited. Moments later, a patch of skin on Tan Qingying’s forehead about the size of a fingertip regained its fair color. A faint golden flame-shaped mark flickered in and out of existence on the newly revealed skin.
This small patch of skin seemed like the last spark of light in an endless darkness. It shielded the final thread of life within Tan Qingying.