The dazed girl nodded instinctively and murmured, "All right..." Before the words had fully left her mouth, she finally came to her senses.
In a flash, her little face reddened further with embarrassment.
"We're... all right?"
The girl suddenly realized she was still alive. Bracing both hands against Jiang Hao's chest, she struggled to pull herself out of his arms as she spoke.
Yet she had no idea what had just happened.
Her mind had remained muddled, and she had nearly lost herself in a strange man's embrace. Even thinking about it felt unbelievable.
She had no idea, but that did not mean everyone else had missed that incredible sight. Just as Jiang Hao swept her into his domineering embrace, an uproar had already erupted outside the formation.
"He didn't die? No, wait-he's actually unharmed?"
"He seems to be absorbing the power of lightning? Am I seeing things?"
"Holy shit."
Everyone erupted, staring in shock as Jiang Hao charged recklessly through the formation with the girl in his arms. Her older brother, in particular, suddenly realized something at the sight.
He had heard that a human youth had recently obtained the inheritance of one of the Ten Primordial God-Kings in the Tianyuan Secret Realm. No one knew whose inheritance it was, but now, a bold guess suddenly arose in his mind.
Rumor had it that the Thunder God Emperor, foremost among the Ten Primordial God-Kings, possessed a Thunder God Body that reigned supreme throughout the world. He could even absorb the world's most tyrannical power of lightning for his own use. Could this human man who had snatched away his sister be the Thunder God Inheritance?
If so, this did not seem bad. Although his sister held a noble status, she was more than a match for the Thunder God