Save Me...

"Your Highness, this old minister..."

"Say no more. I understand it all. But in this situation, even if you stay, you will merely become food beneath that Demoness's hand."

"No! Your Highness! This old minister still has this fleshly body!"

As he spoke, the Spiritual Connection True Person urged his Primordial Spirit out of his body. "Your Highness, this old minister once swore before the Former Emperor that I would follow Your Highness unto death. Now that great calamity is upon us, how could I abandon my lord and flee alone?"

"Your Highness, when the Old Ancestor manifests, if he can obtain the fleshly body of a True Person, both the duration of his existence and the might of his techniques should be enhanced."

"Your Highness, please allow this old minister, in this final moment, to contribute one last bit of strength for our Eastern Wilderness!"

The Third Prince looked at the old minister, and a moved expression could not help surfacing in his eyes.

What the man said was true. If the Primordial Spirit of a True Person could be sacrificed while preserving an intact fleshly body, it would indeed increase the battle strength of the Eastern Wilderness Old Ancestor after his awakening.

However, compared to a True Person cultivator with no blood ties, sacrificing a Prince with imperial blood—and purer blood at that—would yield even better results.

After a moment of distraction, the Third Prince smiled faintly. "Very well. As you wish."

As he spoke, he extended a hand as though to pat the old minister on the shoulder. Yet just as his palm was about to touch the man's body, a golden jade seal suddenly appeared in it.

"Your Highness..."

"Live."

Whoosh—

With a light stamp of the seal, the True Person's figure vanished from the spot.