"How was he here?" Xia Fan was greatly surprised. The last time he had seen the Second Prince had been within Shenzhou.
"I don't know... but he looks strange, almost as if an Evil Spirit has possessed him..." Li frowned. At this height, she could already make out the swollen tumor on his forehead. Its surface was distinctly sunken, and it even had hair growing from it, as though a human face had been carved into it.
"Let's land first." After thinking it over, Xia Fan decided, "Keep watch from a distance, and have Chi come closer too."
An Evil Spirit could not possibly know how to use Jinxia's signal lights. The flickering firelight at least proved that the other party still retained his reason. Moreover, since he had sent the signal in advance, he knew the Jinxia group would arrive here. Weighing the pros and cons, it was clearly better to meet him. Even if it was a trap, Xia Fan could easily turn the tables with the abilities he had gained from the Dragon-Climbing Tower.
"Be careful," Li cautioned.
Xia Fan nodded and dropped rapidly to a height of around five meters. He lowered Li first, then dove at low altitude and arrived before Ning Qianshi.
Ning Qianshi looked equally stunned when he saw him.
"You are... Xia Fan?" He blinked at the pair of wings. "I thought the first to notice me... would be that Western Pole woman."
"That's a long story." Xia Fan folded away his wings. "Why are you near Moonshadow Temple? Where have you been this past year?"
"That isn't important," Ning Qianshi replied curtly. "King Yong is inside the temple. His goal is to seize the immortal artifact and open the Outsideworld Gate. You must stop him!"
"King Yong?" Xia Fan froze slightly.