Li Xuan clutched the wound on his chest, but crimson blood still poured out... The blood trickled down his hand and dripped onto the snow, freezing into blood-red ice crystals in the extreme cold...
Even with his constitution, which was several times stronger than an ordinary person's, he couldn't stop the bleeding from such a sword wound immediately... A piercing sword wound was a rather tricky injury... Setting aside the risk of infection and internal organ damage, just stopping the bleeding was difficult. Usually, stitching was the only option...
Of course... if he were in the internal medical facility of St. Freya High School right now, they could definitely heal this kind of injury in minutes... After all, Valkyries, apart from special forces soldiers and gangsters who fight all the time, were the most prone to injury... So the medical science in this world was ten streets ahead of the medical science in Li Xuan's world...
"Xuan-kun!!" Yae Sakura's face turned as pale as snow in an instant. She didn't even pay attention to 'Shigure Kira', who was still standing in front of Li Xuan but temporarily immobile due to using Honkai energy...
"Xuan-kun! It's okay, it's okay... you'll be okay.... *sob sob*..." Yae Sakura kept repeating herself like a mantra, her fair hands gently covering the wound on Li Xuan's chest. She didn't dare to press down hard, afraid of making the wound bigger...
"What should I do, what should I do....." Yae Sakura let the warm blood stain her hands, her bright eyes already clouded with a layer of mist... Although she tried her best not to let her tears fall, she still couldn't stop them...
Crystal-clear teardrops fell and mixed with the flowing blood... staining the snow red... The feeling of helplessness that had appeared 500 years ago surged in her heart once more...
"**Clang!~**" A golden cross was thrown with force. 'Judah's Oath' flew over the heads of Yae Sakura and Li Xuan, its iron base firmly embedding itself in the ground before them like a great tree that could provide shelter from the wind and rain...
"*Cough cough*... don't cry, Sakura..." Li Xuan coughed lightly, blood frothing at his lips... The sword strike just now had fortunately missed his heart, but it had undoubtedly injured his internal organs...
"The bleeding won't stop....." Yae Sakura said weakly, her hands pressed against Li Xuan's chest, her small face streaked with tears... In Yae Sakura's memory, it was impossible to survive such a severe injury... She absolutely didn't want Li Xuan to die like this...
"Don't die, don't die...."
"*Hiss*... I won't die..." Li Xuan grabbed the hands on his chest and said with a forced smile. "I haven't gone home yet... and you haven't met the in-laws yet, have you?"
"So..." Feeling his limbs grow cold from blood loss, Li Xuan raised his right hand... The dark red mark on his blood-soaked right hand now looked somewhat demonic...
"How could I die here...." The [Stigmata] on the back of Li Xuan's right hand lit up... In the crimson mark, four symbols in different positions lit up... The light finally converged on the Fire Feather Sigil... That was the 'Vermilion Bird' of the Four Symbols.
"It hurts like hell..." Li Xuan's finger lit up with a flame. A cluster of crimson flames burned quietly at his fingertip... The 'Vermilion Bird Flame', which fed on Honkai energy and other forms of energy...
Even though Li Xuan had only used a tiny bit of his newly recovered Honkai energy, the temperature of the 'Vermilion Bird Flame' reached 500°C... Li Xuan had tried it before... when he used the 'Vermilion Bird Flame' at full power, the flame would turn a milky white... that was the true 'Vermilion Bird Flame'....
"Mmph... *hiss*..." Under Yae Sakura's shocked and heartbroken gaze, Li Xuan resolutely pressed the burning flame on his fingertip onto his wound... The flame seared the wound on his chest, and the wound that had been continuously bleeding miraculously stopped...
*In this world, if you're not cruel to yourself, you won't survive...* Li Xuan vaguely recalled this sentence...
"..." Li Xuan gritted his teeth and stopped himself from crying out... Several small vials appeared out of thin air in his right hand... It was the four-star equipment 'HECO-V3 First Aid Spray'....
Completely ignoring the 'spray' function of the 'HECO-V3 First Aid Spray', Li Xuan pried open the nozzle and directly 'gulped' down the medicinal liquid... He also took out a few more bottles and sprayed them on his wound... The blood on the wound finally coagulated with the help of the medicine...
"Phew...." Li Xuan let out a sigh of relief and collapsed into Yae Sakura's arms. He had finally saved his life... He would never block a blow for someone else again... Whoever wanted to could go ahead...
Perhaps due to excessive blood loss, Li Xuan's face was terrifyingly pale... He even felt drowsy due to insufficient blood supply to his brain... His eyelids began to flutter uncontrollably...
"...Kira... I'm angry now..." Theresa, already standing by 'Judah's Oath', said in a low, deep voice. She was truly enraged that Shigure Kira had tried to kill Kiana, her only 'family' in this world...
Although it seemed to be because Kira's obsession was too strong and she was controlled by Honkai energy...
Theresa's face darkened as she glanced at Kiana, who was usually giggling and not serious, but was now pulling Mei with red eyes, gathered around Li Xuan... Although she didn't see clearly how Li Xuan stopped the bleeding, Theresa couldn't help but feel a sense of relief...
*I owe this kid a huge favor this time...* Theresa thought, closing her eyes. She quickly reached out her small hand again and gripped the Spear of Light on the already unfurled 'Judah's Oath'...
"There's no other way... Kira, you were the best Valkyrie, and you still are even now..." Theresa said softly, aiming all the 'Spears of Light' at Shigure Kira.
"So... goodbye, Shigure Kira..." Twelve Spears of Light locked onto Shigure Kira. The golden chains connected to the ends of the spears swayed, making a crisp 'ding-ding-dang-dang' sound, like wind chimes hanging on a balcony in summer...
"Aaaaaah!!" Shigure Kira suddenly roared loudly... as if calling out to something...
"Something's wrong...." Bronya, who was originally checking the injuries on the pale Li Xuan lying in Yae Sakura's arms, suddenly realized something and turned her head to look in Shigure Kira's direction...
"**RUMBLE!!!**" The earth trembled violently as if in an earthquake. Countless cracks appeared on the ground behind Shigure Kira like a natural disaster... The ground continued to break apart, and rubble, soil, ice chips, and broken ice fell into the endless abyss...
The two weapons Shigure Kira held, [Black Abyss] and [White Flower], had somehow crossed... Stimulated by Honkai energy, the two weapons... emitted a faint white light and began to evolve towards their final form...
"...." A massive head emerged from the ground.
That head, as large as a car, was only a small part of this giant beast....
(End of Chapter)