"Safe at last..."
Seeing the long queue entering the city ahead and the Grand Canal flowing endlessly beside them, Meng Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he had faced an Outer Scenery expert head-on and nearly broken his cultivation, suffering serious injuries,
the Great Returning Pill was ultimately a divine medicine. After Liu Luo had dragged him along the ground with silk ribbons for over ten kilometers, he had recovered enough to barely keep up on his own.
Well, there was no helping it. Liu Luo had only achieved Unity of Heaven and Man and could not fly yet. Besides, Meng Qi's Hardening Kung Fu was formidable; his thick skin and tough flesh meant being dragged along the ground for a while was nothing.
"But we still can't let our guard down. Although the Divine Capital gathers the Power of all beings and has the Shendu Grand Array and divine weapons suppressing it, Buren Tower's assassins have struck within the Divine Capital before."
"I know. But isn't Ke Changji here too? And Miss Liu's family, as well as the Su Family I belong to, should have decent ability to withstand pressure."
Meng Qi nodded.
"That boy Ke Changji would stand on your side, but the Ke Family might not. Don't forget your father's lawful wife."
Xu Yue had also recovered seventy or eighty percent with the help of pills.
The Ke Family that Ke Changji belonged to was actually the family of Ke Weilan, the lawful wife of Su Li, Su Ziyuan's biological father. A Grandmaster-level member of the Eight Divine Constables presided over the family, making them marital allies of the Su Family.
However, Ke Changji was the most gifted expert among the Ke Family's younger generation.
With the rapid-training Blood Claw Demonic Arts Xu Yue had