Protective artifacts had one major flaw: they only activated when they detected killing intent. This was also why he could lay hands on the object of Qingxuan's affection without being attacked by the protective artifact.
What surprised Fu Ze, however, was that this youth, a Qi Refining Stage cultivator, could take something from a Golden Core Realm cultivator like him without being noticed. Could this be a trait of their family?
Xiaoqiu could no longer feel pain, but he could feel his spiritual power draining away after his dantian shattered. His cultivation at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer would soon vanish, and then he would become an even frailer mortal.
Mortals could not unlock the restriction on a Sumeru Ring. When that happened, all his cries for help would go unanswered, and he would be utterly reduced to a fish on the chopping block, at someone else's mercy.
He could not die. He had not seen Aotian-ge yet, nor had he waited for His Highness to return. There were still too many things he had not done. He could not die.
Xiaoqiu raised his fingers with difficulty. As Fu Ze came over to seize the Sumeru Ring, he immediately took a scale out of it. This was something Aotian-ge had given him-Xiaoqiu put everything he gave him in the most important place in his Sumeru Ring, which was why he could retrieve it without even looking.
The Sumeru Ring slipped off his finger and fell to the ground. Xiaoqiu clutched the scale tightly and shouted, "Duyu-ge! Save me! Duyu-ge! Save me!!!"
On his second cry, Fu Ze snatched the scale from his hand. His expression darkened as he tried to destroy it, only to discover that it was indestructible. There was only one possibility: this belonged to a great Yaomo