Nameless

"Exactly."

Xiao Zhao hurriedly said:

"I'm an Ascender who flew up from the Lower Realm. I only arrived in this Imperial City two days ago. Before I could figure out how this world worked, someone nearly killed me. If not for my benefactor's rescue, I'm afraid I would have died here..."

As she said this, she paused. Then, seemingly having seen something, she suddenly cried out, "Mother!"

She forced herself up and staggered beneath the nearby roof beam. Her legs gave way, and she fell to her knees beside a corpse sprawled on the ground, her face utterly lost.

Xiao Zhao was young, but she was already an exceptional beauty.

At this moment, though her face was filled with panic, misery, and sorrow, it could not hide her exquisite beauty and peerless elegance.

Ding Ling walked over and glanced at the corpse. Its owner appeared to be an old woman in her seventies or eighties.

But upon closer inspection,

Ding Ling realized that the old woman was wearing a human-skin mask.

Xiao Zhao was no ordinary woman. Although she was gentle and considerate, understanding, innocent, lively, cute, and generous, she also possessed an exceptionally tenacious side deep within her bones.

Thus, after being dazed for a moment, she regained her senses and could not help looking at Ding Ling.

"Benefactor, my mother... Is she beyond saving?"

"She has already lost all signs of life. There's nothing that can be done."

Although Ding Ling's medical skills were divine, and his Longevity Supreme Qi possessed terrifying restorative power, even the incomplete Saintly Heart Manual had considerable healing abilities,

he had exhausted both strands of Longevity Supreme Qi within him while saving Xiao Zhao, who had nearly died completely. The energy of the Saintly Heart Manual had also been completely depleted.

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