Ning Ke: Hate Me, Lou Yunxiao (Must Read! The Truth Behind the Flowing Cloud Sect's Destruction)

But it was already too late.

The next moment, Nan Lou's severed right hand seized Lou Yunxiao by the throat from behind!

The severed hand tightened, its nails piercing his neck as it drank his blood.

Lou Yunxiao swung Pale Silver at the hand, but Nan Lou's other hand was already upon him, about to pierce his chest. Jiu Yuan lunged forward, and the attack punched through his fox body. He coughed up blood and crashed to the ground along with Lou Yunxiao.

His eighth tail slowly turned transparent.

Jiu Yuan could no longer maintain his beast form either. He shrank back into human form, his pupils losing focus. Only by gritting his teeth could he stay conscious.

But Nan Lou clearly had no intention of giving them time to breathe!

He had already recognized the threat Lou Yunxiao posed. He could never allow this man favored by Heaven's Way to live any longer!

Yet the next moment, a Bone Fan flew in from the distant sky, slicing through space with a sonic boom and shearing off Nan Lou's arm!

"That's..." Jiu Yuan gasped in shock.

Lou Yunxiao looked up and saw a young man in red racing toward them. He caught the Bone Fan and stood before them, his slender frame seeming capable of bearing the weight of heaven and earth.

As though unable to believe it, Lou Yunxiao murmured his name.

"A Ke..."

At that call, Ning Ke's heart trembled.

Endless pain welled up within him.

After learning the truth, he could no longer let himself face Lou Yunxiao without that burden.

He closed his eyes briefly. When he opened them again, clarity had returned.

He turned back, his eyes calm and still. "Lou Yunxiao, please take my brother somewhere safe. He's in no condition to keep fighting."