"Please keep clear."
Just as the Blood Threads Ghost Creature was about to attack the hostage on the sofa, Feng Ling's flames ignited on the interwoven Blood Threads.
But as the flames spread along the Blood Threads, Feng Ling frowned, realizing that her fire seemed to have no effect on them. After all, those Blood Threads were not truly "threads." They were more like blood, more like liquid. Even as the flames continued to spread, the Blood Threads remained unaffected.
Feng Ling was about to withdraw her flames before they spread any further when she saw Su Bai reach out from the sofa. A small cluster of blue flame merged with the spreading orange flames, and a second later, the Blood Threads before Su Bai burned away completely.
"How..." Beneath the covering of Blood Threads, the Ghost Creature's eyes, nothing but bloodshot whites, widened in disbelief.
Once the blue flame merged with them, the flames spread across the interwoven Blood Threads much faster. In almost the blink of an eye, the altered flames surged toward Yue Zhengqing, who was tightly bound by the Blood Threads.
"Ah-" The Blood Threads around Yue Zhengqing's neck made it difficult for him to speak. If he could still talk, he would probably have been screaming like a madman already.
"What is that?"
"A human... how could..." Seeing that the flames were about to reach Yue Zhengqing, the Ghost Creature wrapped in Blood Threads actually rose in a hurry and tore through the threads beside it. It watched helplessly as the severed Blood Threads were consumed by the strange flames before they could fall to the floor.
The Blood Threads Ghost Creature had actually protected Yue Zhengqing.
Or rather, it had protected his body.
From the moment the Blood Threads Ghost Creature attacked to the