"Quick... The Queen of the Nest is inside. It could wake up at any moment!"
In the passage paved with the corpses of otherworldly creatures, Yuan Qinghua's voice sounded anxious and uneasy... Shi Lei had already pressed both hands against his knees, gasping heavily. His face was pale.
"I... I can't walk anymore..."
"What happened? Why has your stamina been depleted so badly...?"
A powerful wave of dizziness left Jiang Qiyun dazed. The spinning sensation slightly warped his vision of his companions.
With his cultivation at the Eighth Tier Dao Method and the powerful body forged by absorbing countless Blood Crystals during the Witch Era, he shouldn't have been this exhausted, even if his strength wasn't truly limitless.
They had slain quite a few otherworldly creatures along the way, but not enough to leave him feeling drained... At the very least, it should have taken dozens, or even hundreds, of massacres on this scale...
"Could it... could it be because we're not getting any spiritual energy replenishment?"
Jiang Qiyun silently opened his pill bottle and poured the pills that restored his spent energy into his palm... But as he poured, he found that only one replenishment pill remained.
"I've already eaten that many?"
"I still have some."
Yuan Qinghua quickly handed him a bottle. It was the one Jiang Qiyun had given her at the beginning, but he hadn't expected that she had never taken any and had saved them instead.
"Keep them. I'll be fine after resting for a little while." Jiang Qiyun shook his head.
"You're our main force." Yuan Qinghua spoke quickly. "Without your combat strength, do you think Shi Lei and I could have made it this far? Since when did you become so fussy?"
"Team Leader, this isn't the time to be polite." Shi Lei