Thank goodness!
Mark was in excellent shape and quite strong. So even though he had spat out three mouthfuls of blood, even though he'd fallen hard from a height of dozens of meters, and even though Annie had watched without lifting a finger, in the end he was still perfectly fine.
At least, Annie knew his body hadn't suffered any damage. He didn't even have a concussion or internal injuries. At most...
Maybe his mind had taken a tiny critical hit from her, causing a little bit of damage?
But it was fine!
After all, the mind was both the most fragile and the most resilient thing there was. Take enough critical hits and enough damage, and you'd gradually get used to it. Then, naturally, it would grow resilient.
Anyway, after they hurried down to the ground and confirmed that Mark wasn't seriously hurt, White Elder had Annie open a portal. He and Annie brought the fool back to Dragonbone Village for treatment, while Mado, Xiadu, and the others were left to repair the shielding tower.
There was no rush to repair the equipment, after all. The shielding tower had already been broken for several days, so one more night wouldn't make any difference. Annie could just activate it the next day, after it had been fixed.
In any case!
After all that running around and hard work, it was well into the night when Mado, Xiadu, Shattered Star, Tasia, Fang Yuan, Shanda, Xu Tong, Taciturn, and the others finally returned to Dragonbone Village, dusty and exhausted. Only then did White Elder finally come out of Mark's room.
"White Elder!"
"Is that guy Mark all right?"
When the weary-looking Bai Yue Kui came out, the burly middle-aged man Shanda was the first to step forward and ask.
"He's fine!"
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