Guang Ling descended from the sky and landed behind Green Yaxin. She turned to look at him. "What did you go off to do?"
"Caught Tang Hao," Guang Ling answered. He walked past Green Yaxin toward Qian Renyue. Since Jiu Lan and Qian Renyue were facing each other during the treatment, he did not notice Qian Renyue's injuries at first. Only when he reached Jiu Lan's back and saw Qian Renyue's tightly closed eyes did he realize something was wrong.
"Yue'er?!"
He immediately rushed to Qian Renyue's side, only to be met with the sight of a horrifying ring of burns around her neck. "What happened?"
He looked at Jiu Lan and asked with a frown.
"Who hurt Yue'er?"
After speaking, Guang Ling scanned the "battlefield." Clearly, Qian Renyue should have won an overwhelming victory. How had she still ended up so badly hurt?
Besides, neither Tang San nor that damned rabbit was a fire-type Soul Master. How could they possibly have hurt his Yue'er this badly?
Had someone else been here?
"It was the Young Master's heart demon," Green Yaxin explained.
"Her heart demon?"
Guang Ling glanced back, slightly taken aback. "How could that happen?"
"The heart demon probably used the Nine Pity Sword to slip out. The Young Master attacked her to bring her under control, but the heart demon is essentially a vessel of energy split off from the Young Master. Everything about her is linked to the Young Master, including her life. So if the Young Master attacks her, it's the same as attacking herself. She suffered these injuries when she wounded that creature."
Green Yaxin explained what had happened earlier but said nothing about her own suspicions. Guang Ling frowned, recalling Qian Renyue's earlier unusual behavior.
It seemed that what Qian Renyue had been hiding