“Do you want to know?” I fixed my cold eyes on the Heavenly Emperor opposite me.
The Heavenly Emperor pressed his chest painfully. Although he didn't say a word, it was obvious that he was extremely eager to know.
“Save your questions for King Yama in the Underworld.”
After I said that, I watched as the Heavenly Emperor's flesh and blood melted away like ice cream.
Finally, his body turned into a skeleton, lying motionless on the ground.
I gave him a cold look, my face full of disgust.
Then I casually threw the Chixiao Sword forward. It pierced straight into a tree trunk in the distance.
“Gu Yuan, are you okay?” I said softly.
As my voice faded, a dark shadow emerged from my body.
The moment the shadow appeared, he first glanced at the skeleton of the Heavenly Emperor lying on the ground.
Then he waved his hand, raising a cloud of yellow sand to cover the skeleton.
When he turned to look at me, he gave me a smile. “My Lanlan... truly has the aura of an empress.”
Seeing that he was okay, I smiled back at him. “Then you have to treat me well from now on, or... I'll...”
I stretched out my hands, pretending to tickle him.
He shook his head at me helplessly, opening his arms and waiting for me to run into his embrace.
I never refused his “excessive” requests. I got into a running position and rushed towards Gu Yuan.
Just as my hand was about to touch Gu Yuan's finger, his face suddenly showed extreme panic.
I had seen this expression on him in the peach blossom forest before, so I thought he was just teasing me again.
Maybe I was too excited and didn't notice what was behind me at all.
“Be careful...”
Gu Yuan shouted at me. Only then did I feel that a pale hand had appeared behind me. It grabbed my shoulder, and the other hand reached straight for my heart.
“Your spiritual power belongs to me.” It was Ying Gou's voice.
“Pfft...” My face was covered in blood. When I looked closely, I saw that Gu Yuan had somehow blocked in front of me and taken Ying Gou's fatal blow for me.
How could I forget that Ying Gou was immortal? He could only be suppressed, not destroyed. Now that the Heavenly Emperor was dead, Ying Gou's soul had been released again.
As Ying Gou's voice faded, Gu Yuan looked at me. There was not much pain on his face. His affectionate eyes were as gentle as water.
“No... no...” I shook my head, but Gu Yuan had already turned around and grabbed Ying Gou's shoulder, pushing him into the air.
“You want to absorb spiritual power? Then I'll let you have your fill.”
Gu Yuan stared at Ying Gou's venomous face with his red eyes. Suddenly, the Fenji Fire burned on his body.
The flames shot up several meters high, with red flames flickering in the blue light. Gu Yuan was going to use all his remaining strength to seal Ying Gou.
The blue flames spread from Gu Yuan's body to Ying Gou. Ying Gou's face, like dried bark, showed a look of panic.
“You... don't you have any spiritual power left?”
“Then let you see if I have any spiritual power...”
The flames on Gu Yuan's body intensified again. Until the blue flames enveloped Ying Gou, his body was still absorbing Gu Yuan's inner strength.
“It's great that there's still spiritual power. Then I won't decline.” Ying Gou's blood - red eyes were full of venom. The flames on his body were filled with thick black air.
Gu Yuan lowered his eyes and tilted the corner of his mouth. He let Ying Gou absorb his spiritual power to his heart's content.
Until Ying Gou's wrinkled skin became plump. When he seemed to have absorbed enough of Gu Yuan's spiritual power and wanted to let go, Gu Yuan's hands still held him tightly.
“Gu Yuan... Don't leave me this time...” I shouted into the air. I tapped the ground lightly with my feet, and a huge lotus flower rose under my feet. I suddenly took off into the air and tightly hugged Gu Yuan from behind.
“Let you have your fill at once...” I hugged Gu Yuan's waist tightly and roared at Ying Gou in front of me.
Under this outburst of anger, my heart trembled. A strong light cut through the sky, and purple and blue lights appeared in my heart.
The two strong lights burst out with powerful energy. The ground rumbled like a magnitude - 10 earthquake, with the power to destroy the sky and the earth.
However, when Ying Gou was “forcibly seizing” Gu Yuan's spiritual power, these two forces felt the suction and rushed into Ying Gou's body.
Suddenly, the sky returned to its normal color. Ying Gou's body stiffened. His ten fingers were like claws, and his empty eyes were covered with black blood streaks.
“Crack... crack... crack...” Ying Gou's body gradually expanded. His whole body swelled like a balloon and was still expanding.
It seemed that his body was about to burst.
“Go...” I pulled Gu Yuan's body and fell directly to the ground.
“Bang...” A deafening explosion sounded behind us. The powerful air wave sent us flying more than a hundred meters away.
I hugged Gu Yuan and fell into the desert. I don't know how many times we rolled before we stopped.
I no longer felt the pain on my body. I just hugged Gu Yuan tightly. It took me a long time to regain my senses.
“Ugh...” I poked my head out of the yellow sand and patted the sand on my head.
It turned out that the impact just now was too strong. Gu Yuan had protected me in his chest.
His body was full of wounds, covered with yellow sand. I quickly helped him clean the sand off his face with my hands.
I held Gu Yuan's face with both hands. “Gu Yuan, wake up... It's all my fault... I should have thought that Ying Gou was immortal... Wake up...”
Hearing my call, Gu Yuan forced his eyes open. Seeing that I was safe, a look of relief flashed in his eyes.
“Thank goodness... you're okay...” His voice was weak.
Seeing that he was awake, I quickly stepped forward to support Gu Yuan. At this moment, his face was pale, without a trace of blood.
“I'm fine. You're not allowed to be hurt...” I pouted and held Gu Yuan's face, afraid that if I let go, he wouldn't be able to hold on.
“I won't die... I can hold on.” Gu Yuan seemed to read my mind and said weakly.
“Lanlan... Lanlan...” The voices of Jun He and the others came from afar.
“It's okay. The reinforcements are here...” I casually wiped the sand near my eyes and waved to the distance.
“We're here...”
Hearing the sound, Jun He and the others teleported directly to our side. Gu Yuan and I were already in a sorry state.
But these people were no better. They were also injured and ran towards us.
“Gu Yuan is injured. I need to go back immediately to heal his wounds...”
Long Lin, supported by Chun Hua, bent down and placed two fingers on Gu Yuan's pulse.
The moment he touched it, Long Lin's originally dull eyes suddenly widened in surprise as he looked at Gu Yuan.
Gu Yuan tilted the corner of his mouth and gave Jun He a faint smile. He moved his head lying in my arms from side to side, as if expressing something to Long Lin.
At this moment, I twitched the corner of my mouth. Suddenly, I had a bad feeling.