A Sudden Idea

"I need your help."

The moment Mofei Ge said those words,

the atmosphere, which had been suffused with faint hostility, instantly froze solid.

It took Yu Ling Mei Yan a full second to react. With uncertainty in her expression, she asked, "What do you mean?"

Her first instinct was that he had some way to escape and wanted her, an old acquaintance, to lend him a hand.

After all, their years of enmity

had not only taught her that he was absolutely not someone willing to meekly await death, but had also let him learn of some of her Special Abilities.

Thinking of that possibility, Yu Ling Mei Yan could not help weighing the actual gains and losses.

If I can take some of my clansmen away, then it really is worth considering...

Though she felt somewhat sorry for the clansmen who had died, as the High Priest of a race, she cared deeply about whether the spark of her people could be preserved.

Mofei Ge, who had only just landed nearby, had no idea that she was daydreaming about eating peaches.

After spending some magic power to forcibly and rapidly heal certain charred areas of his body that were continuously sending waves of excruciating pain through him,

Mofei Ge looked warily at the blazing inferno in the distance.

He could not understand it. He was clearly a fire-aspected Dragon and Demon who could swim through the core of a world, so why had he been burned by the other party? And merely brushing against flames at the edge had left him like this...

If he had truly been swept into it, this body of his, which could swim through molten hells, would probably have been burned into nothingness in an instant...

Realizing that he could delay no longer, he