Repeated Clashes

The collision with Huang Daoxian's true form was not as earth-shattering as Ren Anran had imagined.

Zhang Xuezhou's bait was successful.

Huang Daoxian's true form also appeared.

The opponent was so fragile that Ren Anran could hardly imagine it; she even found it hard to believe that Huang Daoxian had been defeated so easily.

The only danger is the mental shock when the crown is shot off.

Without Huang Daoxian's mention of the 'Mysterious Qi Armor,' Ren Anran felt she might have suffered a severe mental blow.

She looked at Zhang Xuezhou, whose eyes were bloodshot, and knew that Zhang Xuezhou had suffered a lot when he faced a direct attack, unlike her who had cleverly avoided the blow.

"I'll set it on fire!"

Seeing Zhang Xuezhou discard the half-finished wooden puppet mechanism, and then looking at the limb fragments on the floor tiles, Ren Anran took the initiative to clean up the mess.

"I'll handle this more thoroughly!"

Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand, then muttered something to himself.

Purple Law Power energy descended, and a layer of yellow sand gradually appeared on the floor tiles, eventually covering the remains of Huang Daoxian's original body.

Whether it was the crown, the tentacles, or the sap, these things gradually disappeared under the cover of yellow sand.

"This is a very rare fire meteor creature. Don't you want to take it for testing?"

A voice asking for directions came from under the floor tiles. Ren Anran glanced at Montes Arthur, who was speaking with a strong voice, and instead of rushing to pull him out, she pulled the unconscious Turcorlando out from under the floor tiles.

Looking at the bleeding wounds on Turcolando's body, Ren Anran touched Turcolando's nostrils to check for breath, and then opened Turcolando's eyelids.

"I've stopped the bleeding from your wound, but there's no time to pull you out of this tomb right now. You'll have to come out with Lord Montes Arthur later!"

Ren Anran gave a word of advice, but Turcolando, who was lying on the ground, did not reply. His breathing became more rapid, and he seemed to have come back to life.

She wasn't saying these words to Turcorando, but rather entrusting Turcorando to Montessart.

"My vision is blurry, and I think my head is bleeding. Please help me!"

"Omega has Linna's first-aid kit on her, and there are some medicines inside. You should know how to use them!"

When Montes Arthur clamored for help, Zhang Xuezhou added a sentence.

After turning the strange-looking body of the Huangdaoxian plant into yellow sand, Zhang Xuezhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Regardless of Huang Daoxian's threats, his most important task was to finish the job and leave the opponent with no chance of recovery.

Only after completing this task did he look at the thin thread formed by the phosphorescent fire.

Without Huang Daoxian's control, these phosphorescent threads began to become disordered and gradually dissipated, but their corresponding traction patterns could still be seen.

Zhang Xuezhou was not worried about losing his bearings.

For Huang Daoxian, the investigation needed to trace back to the source, and he knew very well that the target of the investigation was most likely Ning Que.

If Huang Daoxian wanted to retrieve something from Ning Que, they only needed to quickly catch up with him.

"Walk!"

Zhang Xuezhou let out a shout, and his feet were already off the ground.

How badly are you injured?

Ren Anran asked a question as she stepped into the wind, which made Zhang Xuezhou purse his lips.

"He almost destroyed me with his mental suppression. If he has any more desperate measures up his sleeve, you'll have to hold him off!"

Zhang Xuezhou inhaled the cold air in the tomb passage, which cleared his feverish mind and caused the redness from the mental shock to gradually fade.

Luck played an extremely subtle role. If Ren Anran's Xuanqi Heavy Armor had not been able to prevent the spiritual piercing impact, and if Zhang Xuezhou had not been able to quickly master the "Entwining Dragon and Circling Pillar True Fire Refining Golden Body" technique to condense his three souls and seven spirits in the past few dozen days, the outcome of his recent battle with Huang Daoxian would have been uncertain.

It's not a pleasant thing to directly endure Huang Daoxian's mental blows.

Zhang Xuezhou realized that his mental strength was roughly the same as Luo Zhong's, which was why he was able to withstand Huang Daoxian's all-out mental attack.

Barely managing to put up a fight is one thing; suffering secondary damage is quite another.

Zhang Xuezhou had no choice but to let Ren Anran carry the load in front, and Ren Anran quickly nodded in agreement to his request.

Ren Anran never expected that after living for so many years, she would still have the opportunity to act as a human shield.

The mysteries of the world are indeed beyond words.

This was an extra ability she hadn't noticed for over ten days, but it unexpectedly surfaced after Huang Daoxian's mental attack, giving her the ability to be unafraid of blows in skill-based combat once again.

She strode through the waves, swiftly following behind Zhang Xuezhou.

The faint, lingering phosphorescent light indicated almost the shortest route out of the tomb, allowing Ren Anran to see the brightly lit exit of the tomb passage shortly afterward.

"Over there!"

Ren Anran landed on both feet and pointed, the few remaining wisps of phosphorescent fire in the air pointing towards the direction of Emperor Luo Li's tomb.

"If he wants to regain his spiritual power, he will go to Ning Que!"

"Rather lose..."

"We've already defeated Huang Daoxian once, Ning Que should be able to hold on a bit longer!"

A gust of wind whipped up, and Zhang Xuezhou's body soared upwards.

Compared to his previous gentle, breezy approach, he now undoubtedly displayed the expected level of agility.

Ren Anran only managed to utter two words before a mouthful of wind rushed into her mouth. She quickly lowered her head, constantly using her cloud-riding technique to reduce her body weight.

The vastness of the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum appears narrow in the face of high-altitude flight; ravines, building materials, hillsides, parked machinery, and vehicles all seem tiny.

The area that had been pursued for nearly twenty minutes was traversed in just two minutes.

Descending from the central area of the Museum of the Last Emperor, and seeing Luo Zhong's imperial coffin again, Ren Anran felt as if she had just woken from a dream.

She glanced at the empty imperial coffin, then quickly descended towards the earthen platform below.

Before I even reached the museum gates, the distant noise was already reaching me.

"It was my dad who caught Feng Xiangyu!"

He's still alive!

The commotion was neither the sound of a sacrificial ceremony nor the patrol and search arranged by Zhang Manqian and others, but rather the sound of Feng Xiangyu, Feng Ziqiang, and others jumping up and down as Ren Yisheng investigated them.

"My dad really didn't do anything immoral!"

"I didn't take anything from the Imperial Mausoleum in Dongshan, nor did I see anything unusual!"

"Think again, think carefully about what you've seen these past few days, what you've encountered, and what things you've come into contact with that don't belong to you?"

Feng Xiangyu, Feng Ziqiang, and others offered their explanations with great enthusiasm, while Ren Yisheng's voice, though gentle, was far from friendly.

Where is Ning Que?

Zhang Xuezhou strode out, his gaze sweeping over Feng Xiangyu, who had been brought back for interrogation by Ren Yisheng, before looking around.

"Rather be desperate..."

Ren Yisheng's questioning voice stopped abruptly. He looked around at the crowd who were being suppressed and dared not even breathe, and then withdrew the power of mental suppression.

"How could Ning Que and Manqian be overpowered by me? They were just standing there patrolling the surroundings!"

Ren Yisheng released the mental suppression, and Zhang Xuezhou leaped over, only to see Ning Que and Zhang Manqian fall together under a square table set up for worship.

He reached out and touched the spot where the two men had fallen, feeling as if his fingers had been cut by a sharp object.

The oppressive atmosphere instantly assaulted Zhang Xuezhou's soul. He focused his eyes and swept the area, only to feel three spiritual forces churning and intertwining between Ning Que and Zhang Manqian, as if they were fighting and vying for control.

"Huang actually went up against Huang Daoxian!"

Zhang Xuezhou exclaimed in surprise.

The spiritual forces were not difficult to distinguish: one originated from Ning Que's brain, another from Huang Daoxian, whom Zhang Xuezhou was familiar with, and the third from Huang, who was possessing Zhang Manqian.

Huang had previously caused trouble and was almost deemed by Zhang Xuezhou as someone who was more trouble than he was worth. Zhang Xuezhou never expected that Huang would be so brave as to directly confront Huang Daoxian, a top expert with a strong spirit.