Baizhu finished checking Senior Sister's condition.
He raised his eyes to look at the inauspicious thing condensed from the God Remnant.
"If not removed quickly, even if temporarily preserving her life, I'm afraid... she won't wake again."
"Then what are we waiting for? Hurry and have Mu Yang clear the God Remnant!"
Paimon couldn't understand why Baizhu knew the method to save people but still didn't act.
Could it be he also wanted to use these God Remnants for something?
Lumine naturally understood.
During the earlier fight.
Baizhu had specifically instructed her and Mu Yang.
Not to use too much force, lest destroying the mother poison's main body.
"Paimon, it's not that simple."
Lumine's expression was grave. "The poison on Jialiang is linked to the God Remnant here."
"Once the mother poison is removed, the child poison's effect will also fail, and Jialiang's other ailments will flare up simultaneously..."
Paimon finally understood this time.
To save Jiangli, must remove mother poison.
Remove mother poison, child poison fails, Jialiang dies...
[What kind of two-choice is this, too hard on people]
[As expected of you, MiHoYo]
[I ran up and down just to see this life and death parting? Wuu wuu wuu]
Baizhu said to Jialiang, who was tending to his wife.
"Precisely so. If the God Remnant here is removed, your lifespan... will also come to an end."
Jialiang was still arranging his wife's attire.
To come down to such a place to collect God Remnants.
She didn't know how many days she hadn't rested.
After arranging, Jialiang stroked his wife's cheek with his hand.
"...Sure enough, it will be like this..."
The unwilling Paimon voiced everyone's thoughts.
"We've been busy for so long, isn't it all to treat family? How can... how can it be like this?"
"Baizhu, your medical skills are so superb, there must be another way, right?"
Baizhu helplessly turned around and proposed his suggestion.
"...Or, you can continue taking this poison to buy a bit more time."
"Senior Sister's situation... we can think of another way."
Changsheng brought back a bottle of 'poison medicine' from not far where Jiangli lay.
"Probably until she fainted, she was wholeheartedly refining medicine for you—perhaps she also hopes you do this..."
Jialiang did not take the medicine bottle Changsheng brought.
Instead, he pleaded with Baizhu. "...Mr. Baizhu, please tell me honestly, how much longer can Jiangli hold on?"
Baizhu had already checked Jiangli's body while Mu Yang and Lumine were fighting.
Now seeing Jialiang's bitterly pleading appearance.
He no longer planned to conceal it.
"The God Remnant has already invaded her lungs and viscera. Normally, less than three days..."
Seeing Jialiang's expression, Baizhu finally suggested.
"If I use secret arts to save her..."
Upon hearing 'secret arts', Lumine was just about to speak to dissuade.
But Jialiang spoke first. "...No need to trouble Mr. Baizhu."
"Before coming, someone already told me about the harm of the God Remnant."
He looked at that evil thing that had sustained his life for several years.
Purple and black intertwined.
Just one glance made breathing feel hurried, very uncomfortable.
Jialiang stroked his chest; his heart was now linked to such a thing.
"If continuing to rely on this thing to live, not only will Jiangli have to keep risking danger to refine medicine."
"In the future, if it loses control, it will also affect the surroundings, harming Jiangli and Ayu..."
When he turned around again, his gaze had become firm and resolute...
"Anyway, this life of mine should have been given up over ten years ago. Living to now, seeing Ayu grown up, is all thanks to Rex Lapis's blessing."
"If in the end I can exchange for Jiangli's return... even if... even if it's..."
The people around, except Mu Yang, couldn't bear to look anymore.
This wasn't Mu Yang being cold.
He had long known Baizhu's plan.
The medicine formula prepared for Qiqi before setting out was his backup.
Jialiang squatted down, stroking his wife's temple hair one last time.
"Ha... sure enough, when it's time for a person to go and they don't, they get greedier and greedier..."
"Mr. Baizhu, I want to say a few more words to her, is that okay?"
Everyone understood, silently leaving space for the two to bid farewell.
"Thank you, sorry everyone... your kindness can only be repaid in the next life..."
The group walked far.
Paimon then asked softly, "Changsheng, Baizhu, really even you two have no way?"
Her voice carried a bit of a sob.
Seeing the two sigh, she turned her pleading gaze to Mu Yang.
Mu Yang comforted the little one. "Jiangli and Baizhu are from the same school. Ordinary methods, she probably tried them all these years."
Changsheng also advised Paimon to let go a bit.
"Birth, old age, illness, death are fates mortals cannot escape. If it were easy to save, Jiangli wouldn't have reached for non-human things."
Baizhu said nothing, not knowing what he was thinking.
Lumine pulled Paimon into her arms.
The little one still couldn't accept this reality.
"How could... Jiangli finally saved Jialiang with great difficulty, and now Jialiang has to sacrifice himself to save Jiangli..."
"Th-this, what's the meaning of it!"
Lumine stroked her head.
"What we can do right now is only to witness Jialiang's resolve with our own eyes."
Baizhu unexpectedly said something.
"I'm still not used to life and death partings... no matter how many times I've seen them."
[Is Baizhu a contrast?]
[Probably not, does a doctor who treats people have to be indifferent to life and death?]
[Precisely because he's seen too much, he respects life even more]
[Seen a lot ≠ must be accustomed]
[Just hope Baizhu doesn't trouble himself too much, if he gets tunnel vision it'll be trouble]
Changsheng comforted everyone: between mortals, there must eventually be parting.
Dying in a fitting manner may also be a good curtain call.
"...At least your Master and them all thought so."
"Their choices are indeed moving, but those lives that died fittingly..."
Baizhu looked at Jiangli lying on the ground, and Jialiang softly whispering in her ear at her side.
"...are often the lives that shouldn't pass away the most."
Everyone fell silent.
The camera panned to Jialiang.
"...Back then we agreed, once Ayu grows up enough to help you gather herbs, let me set out on the road..."
"Look now. He can even take me to Liyue Harbor for treatment, and even hung a commission for you..."
Jialiang's voice trembled a bit.
To hold back tears, he even forced out an ugly smile.
"...Even if I'm not here, you two can still live well."
At this point, he knocked over the small medicine bottle Jiangli had collected with one hand.
That was the one Changsheng had placed there earlier.
Jialiang's sudden action startled the crowd.
He stood up; with affairs settled, he had no more concerns.
"Mr. Mu Yang, please... send me on my way."