As Su Jiu and Cheng Beiluo talked, Xia Jue returned with Ming Shan and Scarface.
Neither man had any visible wounds, but their faces were deathly pale, as though they had lost too much blood.
Activating her otherworldly eyes, Su Jiu scanned their bodies and discovered, to her surprise, that every meridian in both men had been severed.
Although they could be repaired, that would not happen anytime soon. Moreover, the strange vitality within them seemed to have been suddenly replenished. The two had probably swallowed pills that increased their lifespans.
Su Jiu glanced at Xia Jue, wondering what her senior brother had done to make them use even the pills they kept to prolong their lives.
After they emerged, Su Jiu noticed that neither man dared so much as look at Xia Jue, as though he were a raging flood or a savage beast.
A faint trace of confusion surfaced in Su Jiu's eyes. Xia Jue stroked the top of her head. "Everything's been taken care of. It's time we left."
Feng Qi followed behind with his people, casting Ming Shan and Scarface a sympathetic glance.
To be personally interrogated by Xia Jue-these two really had been "blessed through three lifetimes."
The Heavenly Secret Sect, Distant Lookout Platform.
"Hm? The divination has changed?" Hong Ming froze halfway through stroking his beard.
Almost a month had passed. Throughout that time, they had been watching developments in the Windforest Star River every day.
Just as the danger grew worse with each passing day, a once-dim star suddenly blazed with light. Like a final flare before death, it abruptly brightened, and its unexpected rise became the sole hope of this entire star river.
"What's going on with this fate star?"
"No idea. It used to be an insignificant fate star. Who