The Dead, the Madman, and a Despairing Gaze

Hope Town.

The Hope Town where mercenaries once rested had long since vanished without a trace. Not even ruins remained.

The only thing still bearing Hope Town's mark was a broken stele blasted away and embedded upside down in the mountainside. Like a mud monkey, Ye Kong crawled out of the earth and panted for a long while. After recovering slightly, he rasped, "Prince, Prince, are you dead yet?"

After a long time, a weak voice emerged from the mound beneath him. "Not yet, but if you don't dig me out soon, I'll suffocate to death!" Ye Kong sprang up at once and frantically clawed at the pile of earth beneath him.

After digging for a long time, he finally unearthed a mud-covered man, but there was no way to recognize him as the neat and handsome Heavenly Net Prince.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

On a rock, the Myriad Demon Sect Master clutched his chest and coughed softly.

There was a huge hole in the Myriad Demon Sect Master's lung, Ye Kong's handiwork. An hour ago, when the Myriad Demon Sect Master struck Ye Kong's heart, Ye Kong had counterattacked, intending to perish together. The Myriad Demon Sect Master had dodged the heart in his left chest, suffering only an injury to his right lung. The result of their clash was that Ye Kong's heart stopped beating, and even after the Heavenly Net Prince spent half the day trying to save him, he could not revive him. Everyone thought Ye Kong was dead. Who could have known that after being tossed onto the ground and rained on for a while, this fellow, whose life was tougher than a cockroach's, would come back to life on his own?

There was no coincidence without a pair.

The Black Prince, who had wanted to