Gong Yi had already made a plan: either his wife would teleport back to Xiangcheng, or she would suffer a minor injury.

He was happy that his wife was standing in front of him unharmed, but the situation was too strange. Not a single hair on Hua Mi's head was hurt. Wasn't she surrounded by mutated plants and burned by Qu Shiheng's wall of fire?

Even Hua Mi found it very strange, because she discovered that the mutated plants were actually helping her block the fire in the sea of ​​flames!

Yes, that's right, he was shielding her from the fire.

When Qu Shiheng's wall of fire started burning, Hua Mi was surrounded by swaying mutated vines. At first, Hua Mi thought that these mutated vines were coming to attack her, but they were just helping to pat the fire cores on her body and automatically extinguished the fire around her, making a path for her to run out of the encirclement of mutated vines.

This was a bit strange. Hua Mi suspected that she had made peace with the mutated plants and become friends with them. After all, as she walked along, those mutated plants had even swayed and wriggled at her...

But that's absolutely impossible. Although she had a wood-type ability in her previous life, she was still far from being able to communicate with mutated plants.

"Where's my sister?" Hua Mi asked Gong Yi. She looked behind Gong Yi and saw that the room was empty. Apart from the women and children running around, there was no sign of Hua Xiu Ning.

Gong Yi turned around, his expression suddenly turning terrifying. "It's Qu Shiheng,"

Taking advantage of the chaos, Qu Shiheng scooped up his daughter and carried her away. Gong Yi pointed in a direction and said, "Qu Shiheng ran his sister that way."

After speaking, Gong Yi looked at the mutated plant tree pit behind Hua Mi, which was baring its fangs and claws like a giant jellyfish, and was caught in a dilemma.

As a father, all he wanted was to catch up with Qu Shiheng and chop him into mincemeat. But as a garrison commander, he knew where his responsibilities lay and he couldn't just leave so many mutated plants unattended.

"You find someone to deal with these mutated plants, I'm going to save my sister."

As soon as Hua Mi finished speaking, she flew far away, giving Gong Yi no chance to choose.

Gong Yi immediately called Tang You, Cao Feng, and others who were not far away, and asked them to bring heavy firepower to deal with the mutated plant vines.

However, when the garrison troops rushed over with their heavy firepower, they found that the mutated vines had already given up and obediently lay on the ground as ordinary plants.

If Gong Yi hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he would have doubted whether he had been tricked by these mutated vines.

"This...this is going to be burned too?"

Tang You looked at the vine in front of him and poked it with his finger, but the vine did not move and posed no threat.

Gong Yi pinched the bridge of his nose, remembering that these vines had just saved his wife. Should he burn them? Could vines also be good or bad, just like people?

He couldn't make up his mind.

Meanwhile, Qu Shiheng, with Hua Xiu Ning tucked under one arm, led his team of more than a dozen high-level ability users as they swiftly flew forward.

Hua Mi followed closely behind him, killing each man she caught with her long sword as she did so, shouting at Qu Shiheng:

"Put my daughter down!"

A wall of fire rose up, blocking Hua Mi's path.

Just as Hua Mi was about to rush through the wall of fire, a large tree that had been motionless suddenly jumped out and used its roots to extinguish the wall of fire.

Hua Mi turned her head in surprise and looked over. The big tree quickly retracted its roots and stood obediently to the side, even clearing away the excess branches to make way for Hua Mi.

Hua Mi became even more confused. She kept looking at the big tree as she continued to chase after it.

Qu Shiheng had already led Hua Mi to the edge of a cliff. Hua Mi called out, "Don't be afraid, little sister, Mom is here."

Hua Xiu Ning showed no fear whatsoever; she even giggled, "Go, Mom! Mom's awesome! Mom beats the bad guys!"

"idiot!"

Qu Shiheng held his younger sister in his arms and stood on the cliff. Behind the cliff was a waterfall that looked extremely rapid.

He shouted, "Hua Mi, are you trying to drive me to the brink? If you push me any further, I'll take your daughter and jump off this cliff, leaving her with no place to be buried."

"Then you will die without a burial place!" Hua Mi sneered. "Qu Shiheng, you are a high-level fire-type ability user, but the higher the level of the fire-type ability, the more intense the pain of being soaked in water. Do you want to try what it feels like to be completely submerged in water?"

Everything in this world is interconnected and mutually restraining, especially those with supernatural abilities based on the five elements.

In Hua Mi's previous life, she had witnessed the gruesome deaths of countless people with the five elemental attributes.

Qu Shiheng felt a surge of fear, a fear even more terrifying than when he experienced the annihilation of City E by mutated animals.

It's a fear stemming from inherently incompatible attributes.

He couldn't help but want to move further away from the waterfall behind him, but then he saw Hua Mi quietly take a step closer.

Qu Shiheng shouted frantically, "Don't force me! I said don't force me! If you keep forcing me, I'll throw your daughter off this cliff!"

He grabbed Hua Xiu Ning by the back of her collar, suspending her entire body above the waterfall.

"Qu Shiheng! You dare to hurt my daughter! I swear, even if you fall off this waterfall, I will pull you out and imprison you in this water dungeon for eternity, so you can't even die! I will make you suffer for the rest of your life!"

Qu Shiheng was startled by Hua Mi's words.

“You vicious woman, let me go. If you let me go, I will release your daughter. Back away, back to a safe distance, until I feel safe. Then I will release your daughter.”

Hua Mi weighed the pros and cons, fearing that if Qu Shiheng, that madman, loosened his grip, Hua Xiu Ning would fall off the cliff.

She took two steps back. "Is this okay?"

"Of course not!"

Qu Shiheng flicked his flowery sleeves and paused.

"Get out of my way, get out of my way! Now stab yourself, yes, stab yourself in the heart!"

Hua Mi remained motionless, staring fiercely at Qu Shiheng.

"If you don't stab yourself, I'll throw your daughter off this cliff and see who dies faster, you or your daughter!"

Helpless, Hua Mi raised the knife in her hand and actually gestured towards her heart.

"If you release my daughter, I'll do anything you ask. It's nothing if I stab myself."

"Mommy, Mommy!" Hua Xiu Ning cried out anxiously, struggling desperately. "No, Mommy! It hurts, it hurts so much!"

Hua Mi shook her head, gave Hua Xiu Ning a reassuring smile, and raised a finger to her lips.

"Xiu Ning, wait for Daddy to come and save you. Daddy will take care of those mutated plants soon."