Yang Ming found Ya Li's way of addressing him a little strange. She had called him that the first time they met, yet he was certain she was calling him and not someone else. The feeling was simply odd.
Hearing Ya Li's question, Yang Ming recalled what had happened outside the city earlier.
At the time, Yang Ming had planned to split into two groups: Yang Ming, Ya Li, and Old An in one group; Oscar and Yang Wutian in the other.
He had arranged it this way because, regardless of whether Ya Li's abilities could cure this plague, even if they could, having a single Soul Ancestor cure a plague affecting the entire city was unrealistic. Finding a cure for the plague was the proper solution.
Thus, he and Ya Li would search for a treatment, with Old An assigned as their bodyguard. Oscar would carry out the other task, with Yang Wutian as his bodyguard. Yang Ming had also considered that he would not be able to order Old An around, which was why he had arranged it this way.
Upon hearing the grouping, Yang Wutian immediately refused. What kind of joke was this? Entrusting the family's hope to a powerful person they had only met today, whose origins they knew nothing about, was far too dangerous!
Even though Yang Ming had explained at length that his Voidification and Teleportation Soul Skills, combined with Oscar's Third Soul Skill, would maximize their survival and escape capabilities, and that he had another, stronger life-saving Soul Skill he had developed but never used... none of it worked. Yang Wutian said that Old An's Martial Soul was a Long Bow. Yang Ming's survival abilities were not reliable enough: his current Voidification could not withstand overly powerful Soul Power attacks, and Teleportation and