I alone am the Honoured One! - Chapter 734

Chapter 734: Learning the Truth [2]
Li Jia wiped at her eyes, trying to push past the overwhelming sorrow gripping her chest.

Her heart ached, not just for Yao Jing but for Zhao Tian, who had suffered in silence.

Her voice trembled as she finally spoke, “What do we do now?”

Ji Shuang let out a sigh and replied “We need to wait,”

“It will take time for him to get over Jing’er’s death. Something like this… it isn’t something one can simply move on from overnight.”

Li Jia bit her lower lip and her hands clenched into fists on her lap.

Velnorah, who had been silent until now, finally spoke, “But will he ever get over it?”

“T-Tian loved her. Losing her like that… and right in front of his eyes…” Her words trailed off, unable to complete the thought.

Ji Shuang nodded her head “It will take time. You both have to put up with him patiently. Right now, his heart is filled with grief, anger, and perhaps he might be blaming himself.”

Li Jia exhaled shakily. “I just- I just don’t know how to help him. He won’t even talk to us. It’s like… he’s there, but not really.”

Ji Shuang placed a comforting hand on her shoulder “He was tortured, Li Jia. He must be deeply traumatized, both physically and emotionally.”

“He destroyed an entire star and yet he couldn’t save the one he loved. Can you imagine the weight of that guilt?”

Velnorah, who had been staring down at her hands, finally whispered, “And I… my race was the one that hurt him.”

She shuddered. “I keep wondering… does he hate me now too? When he looks at me, does he see just another vampire?”

Ji Shuang shook her head. “No, Velnorah. If Tian hated you, you wouldn’t be sitting here right now.”

Velnorah closed her eyes, pressing a hand to her chest as she let out a slow breath. “Then… what should we do? Just wait for him to come back to us?”

Ji Shuang’s expression softened “Be there for him. Even if he pushes you away, even if he doesn’t talk, doesn’t react… don’t leave his side.”

“Let him know that he is not alone. That is the only thing you can do.”

“Mhm.”

They kept talking for a few minutes.

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Reappearing in the artifact, Li Jia and Velnorah hurriedly rushed inside the mansion. Their faces were pale, their hearts heavy with the weight of the conversation they had just finished with Ji Shuang.

The moment they entered, Fei Lingxi, Fei Ziyu, Xia Shenyi, Shi Yixian, and Yao Lian stood up, their expressions filled with worry and expectation.

“Jia, Velnorah… what happened?” Xia Shenyi was the first to speak, her voice laced with concern.

Li Jia took a deep breath, her lips trembling as she tried to find the right words.

Velnorah, equally shaken, swallowed hard and nodded “We… we found out what happened to him. Why he’s like this now.”

Velnorah took over “Tian was tortured for his blood in the Vampiric High Star. You all know his blood is special… they wanted it, and they did everything they could to break him.”

“What?!” Fei Lingxi gasped and her hands gripped the edge of her robes.

“That’s not all…” Li Jia continued as her gaze darkened with sorrow.

“Yao Jing was with him. She was also tortured… but… she didn’t make it.”

A thick silence fell over the room and Fei Ziyu’s eyes widened in sheer horror. “His Master Yao Jing… she… she’s dead?”

Li Jia nodded painfully, feeling her throat tighten. “Right in front of him… They killed her before his eyes.”

A choked sob escaped Fei Ziyu’s lips, her hands trembling as she covered her mouth.

Xia Shenyi looked away and clenched her jaw, trying to suppress the emotions rising within her.

Shi Yixian remained eerily quiet, but her eyes held an unusual glint of fury and sorrow.

“Tian saw everything,” Velnorah added and her breath choked. “He lost her… and then, he destroyed the Vampiric High Star.”

The weight of those words hit like a hammer.

“He did what?” Fei Lingxi asked, almost breathless.

Velnorah swallowed, forcing herself to continue. “Tian annihilated the entire planet. He burned his own life force, and killed every vampire.”

“When Ji Shuang arrived, all that remained was debris… and there she only saw him. Before he coudl drift away in space, she helped him and brough him back here..”

A heavy silence followed.

The women struggled to process the enormity of what they had just learned.

Fei Ziyu shook her head in disbelief, tears welling in her eyes. “But… but Tian is strong. He’s always been strong. He’s never… he’s never let anything shake him like this before.”

“Even the strongest hearts can break,” Xia Shenyi murmured, gripping her robes tightly.

“Losing someone he loved… watching it happen in front of him… being unable to do anything… It’s enough to drive anyone into madness.”

Shi Yixian finally spoke and her voice was cold carrying a deep undercurrent of anger. “Then what do we do now? We can’t let him drown in his pain.”

Li Jia wiped her eyes and straightened her posture. “Ji Shuang said… we need to wait. Give him time.”

“Time?” Yao Lian asked and her voice eyes trembled in pain “How much time? We don’t even know if he’ll be able to recover from this.”

Velnorah bit her lip. “He will. He has to. But right now, he needs space. He told us to leave him alone, and… I think we should listen.”

Another painful silence filled the room. None of them wanted to stay idle while he suffered, but what else could they do?

Fei Lingxi exhaled deeply, as if trying to compose herself. “Then… we wait. But we stay close. If he needs us, we must be ready.”

The others nodded in agreement, though the ache in their hearts remained.

They could do nothing but endure this storm together, holding onto the hope that Zhao Tian would find his way back to them.

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