Long Yuqing sat cross-legged on the floor, his hair disheveled, staring blankly at the crimson blood before him. He remembered the delicious Green Bean Meat Buns and his wife gazing at him with her chin resting in her hand...
At that moment, his heart shattered completely, but not because of Ren Ye's words, nor because of today's irretrievable defeat. It was because the last traces of goodness, hope, and warmth within his humanity had vanished too.
Standing in the Inner Hall, Ren Ye stared at him in astonishment. "Your aura is off, and your divine soul is unstable. You... you've been poisoned?!"
He had actually noticed something wrong with Long Yuqing during their exchange, a sense that the man could not bring his strength to bear. But remembering how he concealed himself at every turn, he had assumed this was another of his self-serving tactics.
Now, however, the signs of poisoning were unmistakable.
Stranger still, within the Immortal Wave Five Cities, who could have poisoned the exceedingly cautious, deeply calculating Dragon City Lord?!
Besides, although a fifth-grade expert might not be immune to every poison, ordinary gu poison and foul substances certainly could not have reduced him to such a debilitated state.
Whoosh!
Just as Ren Ye stood stunned, a figure suddenly swept through the front entrance of the chaotic Prefectural Yamen, amid its jumble of auras, and charged straight in with a sword.
Ren Ye instantly sensed the newcomer and summoned the Human Emperor Sword with a lift of his arm.
Countless streams of rosy light surged as the sword sliced through the air.
Sword light flared and killing intent surged, but Little Prince Huai suddenly froze. As the figure drew closer, he sensed a familiar aura.
"Don't use your sword! She can't withstand it!"
Long Yuqing shouted almost