The light dispersed, and MingHao’s wounds were already completely healed like new, but he could feel it; the life force from his sister was running thin now.

He only had enough to do one more attack.

Meanwhile, XueFang, looking at the crazed ghoul that had already made its move to attack MingHao back, decided to do something she never thought she would do.

She would have preferred to die rather than do this, but now, in this situation, she knew what to choose. Lingering in the past or fighting for the future.

Her father’s and mother’s puppet sprinted forward, hugging the ghoul’s body.

Both their heads then turned, looking at XueFang. At this point, she didn’t know if she was the one who moved them or not; the situation was just so intense that she could barely think. But to her eyes now, it was as if they were smiling.

A smile of relief as, finally, their daughter could move forward.

‘Mom, Dad, thank you for everything, and I am sorry.’

Another explosion reverberated, disintegrating everything in its path. MingHao watched in a daze; he didn’t understand how the explosion could be this strong, even though it involved two of her strongest puppets.

The explosion grew outward before it suddenly imploded, leaving nothing other than an empty crater in the ground.

But the peaceful silence only lasted for a moment. Suddenly, a guttural scream and wailing from thousands of souls reverberated from the crater, exploding toward the sky and creating a dreadful pillar. One filled with corrupted spirits.

“Just how much did they kill to get this many?” MingHao mumbled with a frown.

After the ancestor talk and XueFang, he asked the ancestor to explain to him more about souls and evil spirits.

Each corrupted spirit that he saw now was a result of the mingling of many souls. These souls usually died in anguish and intense pain, making them seek other souls, resulting in them mixing and turning corrupted.

XueFang, meanwhile, stood in silence, her gaze fixed on the empty crater in a daze. Tears dropped down her cheeks, followed by intense guilt.

The moment her parents disappeared, she felt like a huge burden disappeared from her shoulders. This made XueFang feel like she was being an unfilial daughter.

MingHao frowned, wondering what that was. His instincts still told him the danger was not over. But now, what was important was checking XueFang’s condition. He turned, but the moment he exchanged gazes with her, the memory of their kiss quickly resurfaced.

He froze, not knowing what to say. The distance between them was short, but his feet felt too heavy to move toward her. It was not that he got cold feet; it was that everything sank in.

What should he say to her? A woman who was his first kiss and who had just sacrificed the most important things in her life for him.

He knew those two puppets were her parents. Something very important to her.

But before he could make any decision, a black chain shot out from the ground toward the sky. MingHao quickly turned back and saw that it was moving toward the souls, and it was not only one.

Right now, from the ground of Dali City, countless dark chains were shooting up, capturing any closest soul they could find.

It would then pull the souls back deep under the city. The ground started to vibrate as cracks began appearing from the ritual ground.

YanYu was there with the two elders, looking at the crack. She flew forward, wanting to see what was inside the crack, but suddenly, a streak of blue light shot from the sky straight into it.

“Who?” YanYu mumbled in confusion. Based on the movement, she could guess that the cultivator was waiting on purpose for this crack to appear.

“Sect Master!” The formation elder called out, recognizing the qi and the cultivator’s appearance. Even though he was fast, the unique qi signature was something he never forgot.

Meanwhile, inside a tunnel, right now MingYue and the group were waiting for someone. They were seated on a bench while Aria was taking care of their permission to enter the core region.

As she brought multiple people, including a criminal, the paperwork took some time.

MingYue was seated alone, her eyes in a daze looking at two pendants in her hand, one a dragon and the other a phoenix.

‘Alex…’ She thought in her mind as she now had a huge urge to meet him.

What Luca told her turned her world upside down, and the answer to it was inside this pendant. Never in her wildest dream did she think that to active it, she would need Alex’s help.

If she had known about it beforehand…

But who could guess the future? Even having her connection cut to Alex now was something she never expected.

‘Queen, the life force on the rune you put on your brother is dangerously low now.’

MingYue’s bad mood turned even worse, ‘Is he alright?’

‘Based on the life signature, yes, he just overexerted himself.’

‘That is fine then, just make sure the emergency measure will activate.’

‘Don’t worry, Queen. As you instructed, when the energy lowers under 5%, he will be forcefully teleported back to the secret realm.’

This feature was as MingYue requested to Vesa to make sure her brother’s safety was guaranteed.

‘How about Alex? Now that we are this close, can you reach him?’

‘No, but the King’s presence is becoming stronger…’ Vesa’s voice then trailed off.

Despite what she said in one sentence, Ming Yue felt she still wanted to say something, ‘Something wrong?’

‘It’s just the King’s presence changed. It feels different.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘It’s hard to explain, but to put it simply, when someone undergoes an extreme change to their personalities, the wavelength of their lifeforce will also have some change.’

Knowing Alex’s current strength and his personality, which was always outgoing, MingYue found this weird; she couldn’t help but feel worried.

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