(Duplicate chapter. I'll fix it later. Sorry.)
"Take him back first. I still have something to take care of."
Ice Empress pressed a finger to Nangong Wan's chest. A green glow flowed from her small finger into his body, and his aura gradually weakened until it was barely detectable, even weaker than Ma Xiaotao's.
"My ice can keep him under control for half a day. Unless someone of my rank releases him, the moment he tries to move, his heart will be wracked with pain and he'll die."
"Okay."
Ma Xiaotao nodded obediently, without hotheadedly offering to help or anything like that.
Her opponent was a four-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast. If even Ice Empress couldn't deal with her, wouldn't Ma Xiaotao just be throwing herself away?
Ice Empress watched Ma Xiaotao disappear into the dark alley with Nangong Wan, then shot upward, her petite figure rising a thousand meters into the air.
At this point, she couldn't afford to worry about anything else. Traveling through the sky was the fastest way.
Although she didn't know what the High-Energy Compression Array Soul Tool Nangong Wan had mentioned was, it had to be extraordinary if they valued it so highly.
Xiao Bai and Zheng Zhan had already gone to the Imperial Palace to protect Xu Lanqing. The first thing she'd done after coming out was tell them to return there. With no one by Xu Lanqing's side, she couldn't put her worried heart at ease.
But when she saw Xiao Bai, he had already been preparing to return to the palace, while Ju Zi was with Luan Feng at the City Defense Army command center.
Returning now would do nothing but keep Xu Lanqing safe, and that clearly wouldn't break the deadlock.
Sitting around waiting for death wasn't her style.
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