Chapter 318
Now, Nangong Mian seemed like a general.
Just one look from him made others tremble with fear.
“Chong Yu.”
Nangong Mian looked at the High Priest and said in a deep voice, “I promised to protect you, and I won’t go back on my word. So, what are you afraid of?”
The High Priest’s thin lips were pressed tightly together, unable to say a word.
Or perhaps he didn’t know what to say?
Huang Quan looked at Nangong Mian and then at the High Priest, also at a loss for words.
“Just a puppet manipulated by someone from the Divine Kingdom, and yet you managed to get seriously injured. Is that all you can do?”
The High Priest and Huang Quan: “…”
So cold-blooded.
After addressing the High Priest, Nangong Mian’s gaze turned to Huang Quan.
Before Huang Quan could speak, the scene suddenly went black, and Nangong Mian collapsed backward!
“Third Brother!”
Huang Quan was startled. She quickly moved to Nangong Mian’s side and caught him.
“Third Brother?” Looking at the unconscious person in her arms, Huang Quan called out, but seeing that he showed no sign of waking, she stopped.
“The one just now was someone sent to capture me,” Ku Yue emerged from the shadows and stood beside Huang Quan, saying, “Your… brother should be alright.”
Without waiting for Huang Quan to respond, Ku Yue continued, “He should be fine.”
She had been hiding in the shadows earlier, feeling immense fear upon seeing him.
She didn’t know this man but felt an instinctive dread toward him.
She didn’t understand why, so she had been hiding in the shadows, not daring to come out.
Huang Quan looked up at her: “The people sent to capture you have come from the Underworld to the mortal world. Are you sure you still want to keep the piece of the King of the Underworld?”
Ku Yue looked at her: “If I give you the King of the Underworld’s fragment, will you protect me?”
Regardless of whether that man in white was a puppet of the Divine Kingdom, Ku Yue thought that he was not as powerful as Huang Quan. As long as Huang Quan was more formidable, she believed that Huang Quan could protect her even if more people came.
“Protect you?”
Huang Quan said, “How does this scene look?”
“If I protect you, such scenes will occur many more times in the future,” Huang Quan replied.
After saying this, Huang Quan picked up Nangong Mian and walked towards the High Priest.
“What about the others?” Huang Quan stopped beside the High Priest and asked.
The High Priest coughed lightly: “I held off that man with Jing Chen and had Feng Jiuyuan take them away.”
Hearing Jing Chen’s name, Huang Quan looked over and saw Jing Chen lying on the ground. Huang Quan immediately went to him, carrying Nangong Mian.
When she reached Jing Chen, Huang Quan set Nangong Mian down and looked at Jing Chen: “It’s okay now. Don’t be afraid.”
Jing Chen opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but all that came out was a sound like a young beast’s cry…
Huang Quan frowned slightly, then extended her hand. A steady stream of life energy flowed from her palm.
As the life energy spread, green light points danced around.
Under Huang Quan’s control, these light points hurriedly entered Jing Chen’s body, healing his severely injured form!
“Wuu…”
Jing Chen, lying on the ground, made a sound.
Huang Quan looked at him and sighed inwardly.
He truly is just a young one…
Ku Yue looked at the light points swirling around Huang Quan in shock!
As a dead thing, she was more aware than the living of what those light points around Huang Quan represented!
It was the power of life!
It was a continuous flow of life energy!
But how?
She had the Underworld’s Huang Quan flower and such immense life energy—what exactly is she, a human or a ghost?
The High Priest moved to the side and sat down, quietly watching Huang Quan.
He didn’t know what Huang Quan’s spiritual power was, but he wasn’t surprised.
How could the power that suppressed the death energy on Di Qin’s body be anything ordinary?
Chapter 319
The continuous flow of life energy entered Jing Chen’s body, and soon, under its healing effects, Jing Chen’s injuries were fully restored.
Huang Quan looked at him and said, “It’s alright now.”
Jing Chen, knowing his own condition best, looked at Huang Quan and said, “Thank you.”
Huang Quan shook her head and replied, “You came with me, so it’s my responsibility if something happens.”
With that, Huang Quan turned her attention back to the High Priest.
The High Priest was sitting under a tree. When he saw Huang Quan looking at him, he was momentarily stunned, then got up to approach.
“No need to come over,” Huang Quan said. “Just sit there.”
The High Priest nodded and remained seated.
Huang Quan controlled the life energy, directing it into the High Priest’s body.
Compared to Jing Chen, the High Priest’s injuries were more severe.
Jing Chen’s unique bloodline prevented his life from being threatened, but the High Priest’s injuries were so severe they nearly cost him his life.
The life force and death force could sense each other…
No wonder Third Brother appeared suddenly.
The life energy entered the High Priest’s body, helping to heal his wounds.
After a moment, Huang Quan withdrew the life energy and asked, “How do you feel?”
The High Priest did not speak immediately but carefully assessed his condition as Huang Quan suggested and said, “It’s fine now.”
“That’s good to hear,” Huang Quan said. “You take Jing Chen and Third Brother and leave first. I’ll stay behind to deal with things here.”
“Handle it as quickly as you can,” the High Priest replied. “The forest is on fire, and with Feng Jiu Yuan having taken them away, they will definitely come back with reinforcements.”
At this point, the High Priest glanced at Ku Yue: “Unless absolutely necessary, don’t keep her.”
Ku Yue wanted to curse but held back, considering Huang Quan was present.
Huang Quan nodded: “I understand.”
The High Priest did not say more. He moved forward to pick up Nan Gong Mian and then looked at Jing Chen: “We’ll leave first.”
Jing Chen glanced at Huang Quan, then looked away and followed the High Priest.
Once they left, only Huang Quan and Ku Yue remained in the area.
“The Yin King’s Order is closely related to the Underworld and can naturally open the passage between the two realms,” Huang Quan said, looking at Ku Yue. “The fact that you came to the human world is due to the Yin King’s Order.”
“But clearly, those hunting you include not just the great clans of the Underworld and the Yin King, but also people from the Divine Kingdom,” Huang Quan continued. “They want the Yin King’s Order too.”
“After you left the Underworld, the great clans and the Yin King couldn’t continue pursuing you, but the people from the Divine Kingdom could.” The Divine Kingdom still existed, meaning the gods hadn’t disappeared. They had simply left the continent and gone elsewhere, not vanished!
In such circumstances, it was not strange for them to be involved with the human race on the continent.
However, the speed at which they arrived indicated that after Ku Yue left the Underworld, the Divine Kingdom had contacted people on the continent, using some method to locate her and come after her.
Killing people this time didn’t mean eliminating future threats.
If one attempt failed, there would definitely be more. As long as they wanted the Yin King’s Order, they wouldn’t let Ku Yue go. Of course, if she obtained the Yin King’s Order, she wouldn’t be let go either.
Ku Yue asked, “Why does the Divine Kingdom want something from the Underworld?”
Huang Quan smiled slightly: “Who knows?”
As she spoke, Huang Quan recalled the tower in the ruins.
The tower released death energy, but that energy disappeared periodically. Where did it go? No one knew.
But one thing was certain: the people from the Divine Kingdom were using that tower to create death energy.
End of chapter!
