Granted, Meng Zhao had agreed to take them in as his followers and was willing to protect them, but that depended on whether he truly had sufficient strength.
If they faced a crisis even more dangerous and terrifying than Seven-Headed Xiangliu, could Meng Zhao really protect the two of them?
Fine, even if Meng Zhao truly possessed such ability, would he be willing to pay the corresponding price? And would that price be greater than the value the two of them could provide?
Some things could not be dwelt upon. The more one thought about them, the more one felt that the outcome would not be what one hoped for.
For instance, Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin now desperately wished to leave this ghostly place filled with stark white bones at once.
Meng Zhao was just about to comfort them when his expression abruptly changed. He sighed and said,
"They're here!"
Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin instantly went deathly pale. Their eyes were full of pleading as they looked at Meng Zhao, yet they did not dare hold out any hope.
Meng Zhao was speechless too. He did not know whether forging the Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon, the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner, had exhausted all his luck for the coming period. First, he had inadvertently awakened Seven-Headed Xiangliu in the depths of the Weak Water Abyss. Now, upon returning to Bone Forest, he had unexpectedly discovered an extraordinary and terrifying thing. It gave him a very bad feeling.
Of course, this bad feeling was still nowhere near comparable to Seven-Headed Xiangliu. Yet it was foreseeable that this terrifying thing was most likely not Bone Forest's strongest power either. After all, even Seven-Headed Xiangliu had stopped short before Bone Forest.
Speaking of Seven-Headed Xiangliu, Meng Zhao felt that this suddenly