'A Life Taken Away'

"Yu Xiaogang?"

"Yu Xiaogang?"

"Get up!"

Smack!

Smack! Smack!

Flender walked over and slapped Yu Xiaogang across the face three times.

Still dazed, Yu Xiaogang felt a burning pain in his cheeks.

He slowly came to. "Where am I...?"

"Flender...? Why are you here?"

Yu Xiaogang tried to stand, only to discover that his lower body seemed to have lost all sensation.

He remembered now!

That vicious blonde woman had ordered him to receive fifty strokes!

"And you're asking me? How did you end up lying at Spirit City's gates like a dead dog?"

"If Xiao San hadn't contacted me to say you'd been missing for three days, who knew how long you would've stayed there?" Flender rose to his feet. "Get up. I called a carriage. We can talk on the way."

"..." Yu Xiaogang turned and inspected his lower body. Flender's coat was covering it.

"Flender, help me up... I can't feel my lower body." Yu Xiaogang lowered his head, wishing he had never woken up.

The passing pedestrians looked at him as though he were a joke, something to laugh at.

They scrutinized him, despised him, doubted him, mocked him, and sneered at him...

In his current state, he wanted to die.

Being reduced to this state hurt more than being killed outright!

A flash of disgust passed through Flender's eyes.

He would rather have been blind!

Yu Xiaogang's appearance... was simply obscene and eye-searing!

Still, they had known each other for years, so Flender grabbed Yu Xiaogang and lifted him up.

After Martial Soul Possession, he flew into the air.

Flying was indeed prohibited within Spirit City, but they were outside Spirit City's boundaries now.

So that restriction did not apply.

Just then, a drop of unknown thick yellowish-white liquid fell onto a passerby's face.

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