"That madman wasn't talking nonsense after all!"
There really was a girl poking her head out of the ruins.
On closer inspection, it seemed that a Jade Pendant at the little girl's neck had protected her and this area.
"Dad! Father! You've finally come to save... save me!"
The little girl, her face weak, struggled to spread her arms toward the middle-aged cultivator.
The middle-aged cultivator immediately rushed over, saying:
"Ying'er! Don't move! Father's coming to help you!"
Meanwhile, Xu Taiping and Ping'an, who were closest, discovered that the girl was not the only figure in the gaps between the rubble. Quite a few other people seemed to be hiding there.
Xu Taiping and Ping'an immediately hurried forward and joined the middle-aged cultivator in pushing aside all the rubble on top.
Then they saw more than a dozen figures lying every which way beneath the ruins.
Among them were the old proprietor of Fortune Comes Restaurant and the boss's wife, Su Yun.
Overjoyed, Ping'an rushed forward and called:
"Old proprietor! Boss's wife!"
But like the other figures around them, the old proprietor and the boss's wife showed no sign of life.
Xu Taiping's heart immediately tightened.
"Were we still too late?"
Ping'an pressed a hand against the old proprietor's brow. His brows knitted, and he looked at Xu Taiping in anguish.
"Eldest Brother, the old proprietor's divine soul has already dispersed!"
Hearing this, Xu Taiping immediately pressed his hand against the boss's wife's brow as well.
But before he could sense anything with his divine soul, the boss's wife suddenly opened her eyes as though in a final flare of life, then seized Xu Taiping's arm.
"It was him! It must have been him! He came here with Xue Ju!!"
As she spoke, the boss's wife suddenly clutched Xu Taiping's