"If I didn't do this, how could I guard Azure Heaven Palace? How could I wait for Master to return? I would probably have vanished into the river of time long ago." Luo Ying's desolate voice rang out.
Ye Yu fell silent. Thinking of the scenes from the illusion just now, he did not know what to say. After pondering for a while, he asked, "You were the one who led me here."
"Mm. I wanted to ask you for a favor. Help me destroy this body." A trace of desolation flashed across Luo Ying's face.
"Destroy it? What, you're not waiting for your Master anymore?" Ye Yu asked.
Luo Ying's expression shifted slightly. Then, as though helpless, she nodded. "Mm. I've waited too long. I'm so tired."
"You were willing to refine yourself into a corpse puppet just to wait for your Master, and now you're giving up so easily?" Ye Yu narrowed his eyes and smiled meaningfully.
Luo Ying frowned, about to say something else, when her expression abruptly changed. She turned to look at several strands of Soul-Snatching Algae.
"Something happened?" Seeing the change in Luo Ying's expression, Ye Yu asked.
Having witnessed that strange phenomenon, Wu Tong and the other two no longer had the courage to enter Deep Sea Valley. Moreover, the essence blood on the surface of their bodies had already been completely drained away. They could only wait for another opportunity.
The three exchanged glances, tacitly saying nothing as they turned and left.
Black Mountain Old Man cursed a few times, then turned and pushed aside the Soul-Snatching Algae before him—only to meet a pair of icy eyes.
Before he could react, an arm like crystal stretched out and pierced straight through his dantian. Black Mountain Old Man's Nascent Soul was forcibly ripped