Romance Of Flame And Ice - Chapter 363

She signalled him to hold her up, he helped her up then led her to her bed then he knelt beside her bedside.

“Sect madam, has your injury relapsed?” Huo Qiang asked.

She shook her head.

“How can it not when my daughter is in love with the son of the one who caused me the injury?” she glared at Huo Ying who lowered her head in guilt.

“You had better not kneel in front of my chambers again, instead you should be kneeling to your sister so she gives up Bohai early. Otherwise, I will do everything I can to make sure she forgets him…even if she is my daughter,”

{She can love anyone but not the son of that scum}

“Mother, please don’t fall sick because of this matter, Huo Lan is just immature,”

“Immature? no one in love is immature, both of you should leave now,” she looked away from her.

“But…” Huo Qiang wanted to protest but he could tell she means what she says so he held Huo Ying’s hand then they left together, she watched them leave knowing there is something going on between them which is more than a guardian and young mistress relationship.

She quickly went with Huo Qiang to the memorial hall where Huo Lan is locked. If her mother asked her to persuade Huo Lan then it must mean she is allowed to enter.

She was about to enter but two female disciples flew down from the roof then obstructed her with their swords.

“I am afraid young mistress cannot enter without the sect madam permission,” one of them said.

“Mother asked me to speak to her,” she said in a respectful tone.

They glanced at each other then removed their swords from her way, she was about to go in but she turned back realising that they stopped him too.

“It is alright, wait outside,” she conceded considering the seniority of both disciples not because of their position in the sect but because they are disciples who were training under her mother when she was still a guardian and they are one of the few ones alive after the evernight.

In other terms, they are Huo Li’s senior sisters since they are indirectly her mother’s students.

She closed the door after she entered, even from the entrance she can already feel the cold. She rushed forward at the thought of Huo Lan freezing to death but she soon saw her sitting in a lotus position in front of the memorial tablets.

“Huo Lan,” she called

She stood up and turned to see her sister whose voice she recognised.

“Huo Ying!” She shouted then ran up to her, she hugged her tightly with a bright smile on her face.

Huo Ying didn’t reciprocate the hug as she was surprised that isn’t blaming her but she is happy to see her instead.

Even with her flame element, her body still feels cold.

“Why didn’t you use your spiritual power to alleviate the cold?” Huo Ying asked, Huo Lan pulled back with a solemn expression on her face.

“The flame sect ancestors wanted the memorial hall to be a cold place so it has been maintained this way for years. If I use my spiritual power to heat then it will be a disrespect to them,”

Huo Ying smiled, she placed her hand on her hair then stroked it gently.

“My sister has indeed grown up, you even know how to consider this things, unlike me who does things without thinking,”

Huo Lan held her hand.

“Why do you say that?” Huo Lan asked

Huo Ying brought her forward to sit in front of the memorial tablets but she lit incense and bowed first before taking her seat.

“I have done things I shouldn’t do in a moment of recklessness but thankfully I have the guardians or I would have endangered the sect many times,”

“I am sure whatever sister did must have been for the good of the sect,”

Huo Ying smiled.

“Since you are here then let me tell you some stories,”

She immediately turned excited.

“Quick, tell me,”

She sighed then cleared her throat to begin speaking.

“When we were little…no, even after we grew up, I and Bingchen used to bicker a lot. He was always jealous of me so the other guardians took him as an enemy,”

Huo Lan could tell that Huo Ying wasn’t serious about him being an enemy from the faint smile on her face that makes it seem like she is reminiscing the past. Instead, she looks like she wants those times to be interesting.

“Huo Mei has been the mother among us since we were little, don’t tell her I said this but she nags a lot, she puts food on our plate when we eat…and Huo Lian her twin sister-”

“She is a twin?” Huo Lan asked in surprise.

“Her twin sister is Huo Lian, Huo Lian used to compete with her sister then but she always got beaten so Huo Mei decided to lose to her everytime until they became guardians,”

“What of Huo Qiang,”

“If Huo Mei is the mother then Huo Qiang is the father, he doesn’t nag frequently but he corrects our mistakes without us realising it,”

“There was a time when Huo Mei broke the first elders flute which he was going to pass to

Bingchen but he helped her clean the scene and took the blame for it so he was punished to kneel for two days,”

Huo Lan gasped at the harsh punishment for a little child.

“I even stole father’s martial book to practice it but it ended up backfiring on me, he secretly helped me calm my spiritual strength so father doesn’t find out then he stole pills from the alchemist to help me recover,”

Huo Lan shook her head in acknowledgement of her secret brother-in-law.

“I-I once killed someone because he cursed you using the most torturous skill in learnt from the sect…” she confessed.

Her face turned sour, she never thought her sister would kill someone.

“Huo Lan, sometimes I become like you. I have red eyes and hair when I am enraged but I promised father to never be like that again,”

“Really?”

She hummed in answer.

“I was punished by the elders for it but the guardians took my punishment with me,”

She has been given the voice she heard during the alliance meeting and her strange power that only comes when she is enraged a deep thought.

But she could only conclude that she and Huo Lan were born the same, just that Huo Lan is more powerful than she is but she can’t help thinking there is something more to it.

“Because I fell sick, they had to infiltrate the vitality sect to steal medicine for me and Huo Qiang ended up getting injured by the golden eagle,” she paused, thinking of how scared she was that something might have happened to them while they were trapped.

“Su Ci told me about the golden eagle once, he is one of the beasts that gave the flame sect the flame power,” she wishes she was there during these times then she might have been able to help, she has never gotten sick but she has felt pain so she doesn’t know how much pain Huo Ying might have been in when she was sick.

“Hm, I recklessly made the golden eagle leave the sect with me to rescue them which caused the flame sect to be accused of murdering a general. When we attended the alliance meeting at the wind sect, I got into a fight causing Huo Mei to be injured,”

Thinking back, she realise how unbridled and impulsive she was.

“If you got into a fight then it must have been for a just reason,” she smiled encouragingly but Huo Ying who watched her smile realised she is almost carried away by the past that she forgot to speak to Huo Lan about Bohai.

“Huo Lan,” the expression on her face turned serious that Huo Lan could already tell what it is she wants to say.

She quickly stood up.

“Don’t bother trying to convince me about Bohai, nothing will change,” she turned her back at her, Huo Ying wasn’t expecting her to react like that but she stood up after her.

“Huo Lan, Bohai will never be loyal to you. I trusted him because you love him but if only you saw the look in his eyes then…” she was too slow in getting rid of the Phoenix Nirvana before it held her whip down because she was stunned by the look he had in his eyes…he clearly wanted her to die in the hands of Huo Yi Lang.

“I won’t let you talk about Bohai like that, you all think I am too immature and foolish so I don’t know what I am doing but I am very well aware of it-”

“no one thinks you are-“