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"Ah!! It's so wonderful to see you here! Junior Brother Li... Fellow Daoist!" Blue Ice shuddered at his words and cried out in delighted surprise. She hurriedly flew toward Li Xiaoya, though her slow pace showed that she had suffered considerable injuries. As she flew, she said, "Don't worry! Your mother and Fellow Daoist Dong are somewhere safe!"
"Really?" Li Xiaoya cried joyfully. He put away the Fire Dragon Sword and flew toward Blue Ice. He had hardly used the sword lately, mainly because it was no longer as useful as it had been before he formed his core. Especially after learning the Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art, his physical strength and the art's power meant that he rarely used even fire-element spells, let alone the Fire Dragon Sword. There was simply no need. Suddenly, he swept his divine sense over Blue Ice and discovered that her magic power fluctuations were also extremely weak, only twenty or thirty percent of what they had been. No wonder she had needed so much effort to deal with a single seventh-tier Demon Claw Beast. He hurriedly asked, "Oh! Fairy Blue, you're injured too? How are my mother and the others?"
"Not very well!" With white gauze covering Blue Ice's face, Li Xiaoya could not see her expression. She answered, "They're both seriously injured and recovering somewhere safe!"
"Mother and Junior Brother are both injured? How bad is it? They aren't in danger, are they?" Li Xiaoya's heart tightened, and he asked urgently.
Blue Ice seemed to hesitate before answering, "When your mother came out, she had no magic power protecting her body. The fall broke her thigh and arm, and