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After saying that, she too collapsed to the ground.

Yan Chihuo glanced at Hua Ying, then at Shi Zhong, utterly at a loss for what to do.

A moment later, Hua Ying's eyelids fluttered, and she slowly came to. Opening her eyes and seeing Yan Chihuo, she cried, "You weren't taken away—wonderful! Where's Teng Li?"

Seeing that she did not appear to be putting on an act, Yan Chihuo believed his earlier judgment all the more. Yet explaining it would be no easy matter. Hua Ying slowly rose to her feet, shook her head, and said, "My head hurts terribly. Teng Li truly deserves his Tribulation Stage cultivator cultivation. He knocked me unconscious without me even seeing him cast a spell."

Then she spotted Shi Zhong's body and froze, disbelief written all over her face. She said to Yan Chihuo, "Who drove Teng Li away? It couldn't have been you, could it? He was at the Tribulation Stage. Even though he possessed Shi Zhong's body, he still wasn't someone a Dao Foundation Stage cultivator like you could defeat."

Just then, Shi Zhong slowly woke as well. Startled, Yan Chihuo was about to flee.

"Don't be afraid," Hua Ying said. "Teng Li has at least been driven away, if not already destroyed."

Yan Chihuo paused and looked at her. Seeing that she did not seem to have turned into that woman from before, he asked, "How do you know?"

"The aura is different," Hua Ying said. "When Teng Li appeared just now, Shi Zhong's aura changed drastically. A possession technique like this is not something a Tribulation Stage cultivator should be capable of using. But we plant spirits are different—our bodies are mostly extremely similar. So Tribulation Stage demons can secretly possess the bodies of other demons. However, once they do