"Senior Spirit Monkey? Senior Spirit Monkey..."
Jiang Ye stirred his consciousness, trying to communicate once more with the Spirit Monkey Mark in his sea of consciousness.
Yet the mark in his sea of consciousness gave no response at all.
He could only suppress his thoughts and slowly turn his gaze toward the white-robed figure lying on the ground.
He had to admit that this Sakura Princess really did have a few tricks up her sleeve.
Although the Spirit Monkey Apparition had formed automatically, this was still the first time anyone had depleted his gang qi to such an extent.
His endlessly replenishing five-element gang qi had always been one of his greatest trump cards.
Yet that battle had drained more than half of it. An ordinary Innate Martial Artist would probably have collapsed from exhaustion long ago, or even suffered damage to their foundations.
"Her Highness... Her Highness's meridians seem to have been burned..."
The two personal maids helped the unconscious Ying Xue up in a panic, carefully examining her injuries.
But the more they examined her, the more alarmed they became...
Ying Xue appeared to have no obvious external injuries, merely a few large holes burned through her clothes, but her meridians had actually suffered severe damage.
Several major meridians had been scorched, and her qi was as tangled as a ball of knotted thread.
"Bastard! How dare that fellow hurt Her Highness like this! I'll kill him!"
The black-clad man's eyes reddened as he glared fiercely at Jiang Ye, as though trying to carve that face into his memory.
Still, he knew their most pressing concern was to hurry back and treat Princess Ying Xue.
Especially in this unbearably clamorous Martial Practice Field, where every extra moment felt like thorns digging into their backs.
They had thought they