I Am Taotie (Monthly Ticket 7000 Bonus Chapter)

Xi Yue and He Ming faced three opponents with only two of them to fight. It had not been easy to begin with. Yet they had not only successfully snatched the gate, but also laid a smokescreen that left the three Heavenly Beings unaware of who held the Stele Base, forcing them to split up in pursuit. Pulling that off had been tremendously difficult; it would have made no sense if Xi Yue had escaped uninjured.

And Xi Yue had it harder than anyone else.

Half her attention had been spent guarding against He Ming. She had never fully trusted him, always wary that he might turn on them.

In the end, He Ming proved reliable after all, exchanging injuries with the Heavenly Being without a moment's hesitation.

Only then did she set her mind at ease and let He Ming flee with the Stele Base. Whether He Ming had schemes of his own did not matter. So long as the Heavenly Beings did not obtain it, Xi Yue did not care if He Ming kept the gate for himself. It was irrelevant.

In short, after that whole series of maneuvers, if everyone had been wounded, then Xi Yue's injuries were clearly among the most severe. If things went badly, it was not impossible that she might fall here.

Under such circumstances, forcibly intercepting Zuo Qingtian for Qin Yi's sake truly meant gambling with her life, making an already perilous situation even more arduous.

She had expected an exceptionally bitter battle, but things turned out the other way around.

Zuo Qingtian had stepped in to block Tianhong Zi...

According to Qin Yi, they were supposed to "kill the pursuer," not merely hold him back. In other words, their side had gained a top-tier general for no reason at all.

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