"That kid is probably still alive." Perhaps because the atmosphere was too heavy and deathly still, Xuan Zi spoke up.
"I sensed the aura of a hundred thousand year Soul Ring. Unless something unexpected happened, it should have come from the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast that attacked you. Since the Soul Beast is dead, Ye Qing is very likely still alive, and he's probably absorbing that Bloodshadow Ghost Fox's Soul Ring and Soul Bone right now."
Still alive!
Those two words lit up Zhang Lexuan's deathly still heart. A little light returned to her colorless eyes, but she remained silent.
The others all breathed sighs of relief.
Ye Qing had saved their lives, and every one of them hoped he would survive.
A short while later, Xuan Zi stopped. Looking at the figure sitting cross-legged inside a blood-red pillar of light not far away, he let out a relieved breath, as though a great weight had lifted from his shoulders.
"Thank goodness, nothing happened to him!"
The others noticed the activity in the distance too. They saw the blood-red pillar of light, as well as the figure inside it absorbing a hundred thousand year Soul Ring.
Zhang Lexuan abruptly covered her red lips. Even though they were still several hundred meters from where Ye Qing was absorbing the Soul Ring, she was afraid her sobs would disturb him. In her tearful eyes, all that remained was the relief of regaining what she had lost.
She could no longer see anything else. Only Ye Qing's tall, straight figure remained.
Well done, kid. I don't know how you killed that hundred-thousand-year Bloodshadow Ghost Fox, but that luck of yours really is enviable. Xuan Zi sighed and began earnestly spreading his spiritual power to keep watch over their surroundings.
He had not been present