At A-Jin's sudden appearance, Young Master Ling froze, then his eyes lit up.
He could not help but praise her lavishly. "Good, good, good! A-Jin, you've done very well. As long as you survive, I will certainly reward you handsomely. I'll make you a direct-line guard of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Family—my personal guard."
As he spoke, Ling Yusong saw A-Jin's and Sikong Jing's demon-bird Beast Slaughter Arrays crash violently into one another.
Naturally, he paid A-Jin no heed, immediately twisting around and fleeing in another direction. In an instant, he vanished from everyone's sight.
Only after Ling Yusong had completely gone far away did A-Jin and Sikong Jing's battle abruptly cease...
At the same time, Murong Jianyun rushed over.
Staring blankly at the two standing shoulder to shoulder, he asked, "A-Jing, what is going on with you two?"
Sikong Jing had clearly been about to stop Ling Yusong, yet A-Jin had suddenly acted to help Ling Yusong escape. Then Sikong Jing and A-Jin had simply stopped fighting, the two of them even standing side by side.
It truly made no sense.
A-Jin had betrayed Sikong Jing again, yet it did not look like that at all.
Hearing this, Sikong Jing gave a faintly bitter smile and replied softly, "Grand Heaven Duel, those demon birds had all been seriously injured beforehand. They could not have stopped Ling Yusong in the slightest. That imposing momentum just now was all fake."
Murong Jianyun still blinked his aged eyes upon hearing that. Pointing at A-Jin, he asked again, "Then... what is going on with her?"
Even if they could not stop Ling Yusong, there had been no need for A-Jin to come running out, had there?
But then his entire body jolted, and Murong Jianyun seemed to realize something. "You wanted Ling Yusong to