"Cough, cough... We finally got out. Where is this place...?"
Swept along by the underground current, they had finally reached a platform. Ji Ziyue spat out the water in her mouth and asked in confusion.
When the Reincarnators attacked, Xu Yue had naturally shouted for protection and sent the Protectors forward. Knowing how troublesome the Reincarnators were, while the Protectors held them off, the rest had hidden together in this underground Through the Nether River and been carried a long way downstream.
Fortunately, Yan Ruyu's and Ji Ziyue's two Protectors had been useless in a battle of that scale, so they had followed them down and shielded everyone with divine power.
Otherwise, they would have been in an even sorrier state.
"Why didn't you let me lend the imperial weapon to that senior?"
Yan Ruyu asked Xu Yue anxiously.
"Of course not. Those people from Reincarnation Hall were after the imperial weapon to begin with. Giving it to him would have been condemning him to death, wouldn't it? Using their reserves comes at a price too. Every use depletes them. Once the imperial weapon is gone, he'll actually have a much better chance of getting away intact."
Xu Yue was naturally familiar with the Reincarnators' habit of never acting without profit. If the Ruthless Protector had possessed an imperial weapon, he might as well have had the word "death" plastered across his forehead.
He would have been beaten to death sooner or later. Xu Yue had only used his own name to draw them over this time in order to create an opportunity to enter the Bronze Immortal Palace. He bore that man no grudge, so there was no need to get him killed.
Once they realized there was no profit to be made, they would naturally disperse.
As for