With endless reluctance, Ning Xiang returned to twenty days later.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Mingyuan's hand hovering in midair.
"You actually wanted to hit me?"
Mingyuan said, "Ahem."
He had only wanted to rub the girl's head before she woke up. How had he been caught red-handed even doing that?
Ning Xiang had no time to deal with Mingyuan for now. "Tingchao!" As she spoke, she sent Yu Tingchao a message, but still received no response.
She even began to wonder whether the method Uncle Su had mentioned had merely been meant to comfort her.
But something had changed.
The Bunny Lord had returned to her Spirit Bracelet.
"How about I go back to the Eastern Sea with you again?"
Ning Xiang pondered for a moment before saying, "I'll contact Uncle Yu and ask him to help search."
She was about to say more when a clamor erupted outside, boiling the heavens and shaking the earth, surging with the force of toppling mountains and overturning seas.
Ning Xiang extended her spiritual sense and swept it outside.
Countless Demon Beasts loomed over the Tai Bai Domain like dark clouds, a dense black mass that blocked the sky completely, leaving not a sliver of light.
Mingyuan summoned Soul-Rending and shielded Ning Xiang with his tall, imposing frame. "Teleport away with the Illusory Spirit Mountains and Seas Map. I'll handle this."
Moved by his self-sacrificing spirit, Ning Xiang decided to stay with Mingyuan rather than abandon him. "No, I'm not leaving. I'll stay to collect your corpse!"
A tiny trace of warmth stirred in Mingyuan's heart, but not much.
Xing Dahai sprang out from some unknown direction and spread his arms in front of them like a mother hen protecting her chicks. "Master, take Madam and leave! This humble servant