"I'm not dead?" Jiao Hui looked dazed, then was swept by wild joy. A moment ago, he had been ready to die.
He had been determined to protect Luo Xiao and Lin Manzi at all costs. After all, they had only come to Blood Cloud Stronghold because Jiao Hui had invited them.
As Jiao Hui saw it, Luo Xiao and Lin Manzi had fallen into danger because of him. When the crisis struck, he would rather die himself than fail to protect them.
What Jiao Hui did not know was that even if he had used all his strength to block the shock wave from Qin Hao's sword strike, he could not have stopped it completely.
Luo Xiao and Lin Manzi would still have died in the end.
But if he could live... who would refuse? Only the living had any hope of what came next.
"Qin Hao saved us?"
Jiao Hui heard Luo Xiao's voice. Startled and overjoyed, he instinctively looked up.
Whoosh.
He saw only a blurred figure. Even with Jiao Hui's eyesight, he could not make out the person's face, only that he was a young man.
That blurred figure was Qin Hao.
Though they could not see Qin Hao's True Self clearly, his Devouring Doppelganger was battling the Creation Puppet Xi Kui fiercely nearby.
The Doppelganger had the same face as the True Self.
Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi all looked toward Black-Clad Qin Hao. This time, they saw his face clearly.
"That's Qin Hao?" Jiao Hui hesitated. He had never met Qin Hao; if not for Luo Xiao and Lin Manzi, he would not even have known who he was.
"It should be him!"
Lin Manzi said softly, "I heard Qin Hao is a Disciple of Two Realms Peak. I've never been there,