Through Hellfire - Chapter 12 Su Yans Seven Years

Su Li was still sending her energy into Hawk’s body, while her guards went about to eliminate the Shi Clan in Vineyard City.

She was currently searching for her cousin Su Yan, who went missing along with various others during the event of the red flash that appeared throughout the planet. When it happened, she was woken from her cultivation and noticed that a few of her servants had gone missing during the flash.

Her father had entered closed door cultivation over a year ago and had still not come out. When she went near his chambers, she found out that he was completely fine.

Her transmission slip flew out of her storage ring. It was a transmission from Su Wei.

“Li’er go to Vineyard City with the guard corp. I suspect that there is a coup going to happen.”

The transmission ended, and silence resumed. Su Li sent her senses outside and noticed the confusion and the people missing. In a few short moments she learned of the Flash of Red Light and the following events.

A sudden thought woke her and she moved immediately to the deep forest residence, which was adjacent to the main clan settlement. This was where Su Yan lived. When Su Li reached his room, the door was open and the room was empty. There was a bed, a table and a box at the corner of the room and the rest of the room was void of any possessions.

The servants were busy and hadn’t noticed that Su Yan was missing.

Su Li went into panic seeing the empty room and began to fear for her cousin.

She noticed that all the people who went missing had seen the Red Flash.

“Guards, apprehend every one in this residence. Nobody must be missing from account.” She ordered.

Su Wei had great hopes for Su Li and had very skilled guards watching her at all times. The appeared at this moment and began to follow her commands. Their movements were skillful and fluid.

Within the duration of a few moments, every individual present in the residence was lined up in front of Su Li.

“Where is my little brother?” Her voice was cold and filled with a rage that threatened imminent danger.

Anyone who had a remote idea about her personality could easily notice that Su Yan was very important to her. It was known to her personal guard and her parents, that Su Yan had grown to become her reverse scale.

Since the death of Su Liu, Su Li was the one who had taken care of Su Yan the most. In fact, she had foregone cultivation for a few years in her efforts to take care of her new kid brother. From the moment he woke up, to the instant he fell asleep, he didn’t leave her immediate surroundings.

Su Li knew that the clan wasn’t thrilled with her behavior. That is the reason why they forced Su Yan to live in the Deep Forest Residence of the clan. The servants were apathetic to Su Yan and had treated him coldly. If not for the wrath of Su Li, Su Yan could have had to face far worse treatment from the clan.

There was once an attempt about three years prior by some clan members to have him killed, so that Su Li will resume cultivation promptly. If not for the timely intervention on behalf of Su Yunhai, Su Yan would have even died back then at the tender age of four.

All these reasons were enough for Su Li to know that the clan had no concern for Su Yan’s well-being and were even intent on killing him to get rid of the boy.

The servants remained silent in front of her, and some were shivering in fear.

“When I find him, if I learn that anyone of you are responsible for his current absence or any harm that has happened to him,

the pain of being burned alive while your limbs are ripped off will compare to nothing against what I’m going to put you through.”

Su Yan was Su Li’s reverse scale. No body had ever harmed him again, after Su Li made clear on this.

She was one of the two people beside her father, who had legitimately cared for him. To the clan he was a liability to be removed. To her, he was her cute young brother who couldn’t cultivate or see.

Su Yan’s loss of sight was one of the other reasons why Su Li had always watched over him.

A year after he was born, his profound veins began to melt down. Their broken nature had already removed any chances of him ever being able to cultivate in the future. This sudden melt down was in explicable, and completely unforeseen. To elevate the pain,and to help in his healing Su Wei had sent a tiny sliver of her High God energy into his body.

The next moment, his profound veins began to cease melting and cooled down. The next few days, his body had remained stable and healthy. But again, the pain began to arise and this time it assaulted with greater intensity.

Su Yan’s cries were heart wrenching. Su Wei and Yunhai had tried their best to help him ease the pain but it didn’t cease. Over a few hours, there was no ease in the pain.

When morning arrived, a very strange phenomena took place. Su Yan’s cries ceased and he began to fall into sleep. Su Wei immediately checked him, and found out that his profound veins have disappeared completely.

In her entire lifetime, this was the first time that such a thing was ever heard or seen. But, this made no significant difference. With broken profound veins, he couldn’t cultivate anyway. Despite all they tried and the money they spent, there wasn’t a way to repair them.

Now that they had disappeared completely, his chances at ever cultivating had become nil.

But, a startling development had also occurred during this. In an effort to heal him, the energy that had been sent into his body had also somehow removed his eyesight.

From that day onward, Su Yan lived without the ability to cultivate or see his surroundings.

When he began to walk, he immediately bumped into things and people. Everyone began to treat him as an eyesore. He couldn’t ever find his bearings and always got lost.

Over time he developed his other senses and ceased being a hindrance, but he was still called disgusting names and scorned at whenever he wasn’t with Su Li.

He began to hone his senses and could now tell people apart and it became a kind of sixth sense to him. He knew which way to walk, where not to step and whom not to meet.

He could easily recognize Su Li apart from her scent or the sounds her foot made every time she took a step.

This ability of his to “Feel” his surroundings as a sixth sense became his only tool for survival where essentially everyone he knew was always hating him.

He wasn’t allowed to play with other children and get any friends.

Thus he lived the seven years that he can call life as a dark place, which was cold and cruel to him, save for his elder sister and his uncle.

Ever since his loss of sight, Su Wei had an increasing sense of guilt to him and it affected her cultivation. To recover, she put him in the back of her mind and was reluctant to see him in the least.

He always stayed in his room and left it very rarely. He had no possessions to note for, no toys to play with, and his face was dull except for the time that Su Li would come and play with him.

Whenever he was with Su Li, he would smile and laugh cheerfully. She was the only one who played with him and gave him some form of happiness.

Su Li knew how much Su Yan valued her and always found reasons to spend her time with him to play or tell him stories. She gave him positive thoughts and dreams that were pleasant.

Her rage was simmering beneath the surface, as she ordered the guards to follow her to Vineyard City. The other clan members were ordered to find Su Yan. Her mind was in such a disturbance as she raced to Vineyard city and encountered Shi Qingyuan about to kill Hawk.