Chapter 186

After Xu Jiujiu left, the room did not stay quiet for long.

Dai Yaoheng's brow was tightly furrowed. He looked at Xue Lingyun, his tone much more serious than before. "She... Her Highness was being hunted? When you said you helped, you meant you helped her deal with the people chasing her?" Xue Lingyun nodded. Dai Yaoheng leaned forward a little. "Can you tell us more? When did it happen? Where?"

Xue Lingyun leaned back on the sofa and thought for a moment, as if rummaging through a memory left in some corner. "Several years ago. I don't remember exactly which year. I wasn't a student of Shrek yet then. I was still traveling outside, probably... just past Two-Ring? I'd only just broken through to Soul Elder not long before, and couldn't really count as three rings."

"She had gone out to hunt for her Fourth Soul Ring then. We happened to run into each other, so we traveled together for a while." His voice was not deliberately lowered, but neither did he raise it, as if he were recounting something that had already happened. "Later, we ran into an ambush. There was no choice. We could only fight while running, and in the end, we dealt with those people."

Dai Yaoheng's brow did not relax. "It's impossible for a princess to travel without guards. What happened to the people protecting her?"

"The weaker ones were taken out by the first wave of the sneak attack," Xue Lingyun said. "The strongest one left was tied down by someone on the other side whose cultivation was lower than his, and he couldn't get free. The princess could only run on her own, the farther the better, to buy time for her own people." He added, "The person holding that guard back