The three friends were huddled together, encouraging each other, and everything around them had stopped.

Xia Xiang was pulled up by the back of her neck by a strong force, and her subconscious attacks were blocked one by one. Even the supernatural power in her body and the ability of the demon-slaying warrior were suppressed.

Xia Xiang looked at Huai An's big face and was immediately furious.

"Huai'an! Should I remind you? I'm your creditor! How could you treat your creditor like this!"

"Where's the ring?" Huai'an asked coldly, pulling Xia Xiang's fingers one by one as they searched.

"That's it?" Xia Xiang felt speechless for a long time today. "Put me down first."

Xia Xiang took the ring out of her pocket intact. "Here it is. What's wrong? Why did you suddenly look for the ring? Do you need it now? If it's not too urgent, can you wait a little longer? I'll use it a little longer."

Huai'an, having received the ring, didn't hear a word of it. He only realized that he couldn't wear the ring at all, and his expression kept changing.

"Xia Xiang, do you know how this ring came about?" Huai An held the ring up in front of Xia Xiang.

Xia Xiang found his reaction too strange, so she honestly told him what Zhi Huai'an had said when he gave her the ring.

"This ring means a lot to me, and there's only one like it in the entire universe! Only one!" Huai'an was unusually trembling with anger.

"Oh, thank you for lending me this. I'll return it to you when I'm done."

Xia Xiang still didn't understand what was wrong with him, so she could only politely reply, "No, you don't need to tell me. I know it's very valuable."

Huai An was heartbroken and said sadly, "Just now, when I destroyed a spacetime, I suddenly lost contact with it."

Xia Xiang couldn't understand why he was so heartbroken, and offered him some polite words of comfort.

"You don't need to report your work to me anymore, okay? I know you're kind, and you must feel bad about destroying time and space."

"The key point is that we've lost contact!" Huai'an glared angrily at Xia Xiang.

Xia Xiang's tone was somewhat uncertain, "What does this have to do with me???"

"It has recognized its owner, so you can use it freely from now on without having to go through any troublesome rituals."

Xia Xiang was not happy to hear this, but was very angry. "Then what you said before about the two of them being trapped in chaos and suffering for a lifetime was all a lie!"

"Of course, it's for fun!" Huai'an's eyes held a depth that Xia Xiang couldn't decipher.

It was as if she had calmed down from her previous excitement, or rather, accepted reality, and her expression returned to normal.

Huai'an reluctantly handed the ring to Xia Xiang, saying, "However, after you die, the ring will be ownerless again, and I must come back to get it back."

Huai'an injected a stream of red energy into Xia Xiang's brow, then turned to leave, but Xia Xiang grabbed his sleeve.

"You've gone too far!" Xia Xiang's fair face flushed red, and the tip of her nose turned crimson. She was so angry that her whole body trembled.

She felt that Huai'an was the person she hated most in the world, including the twelve dimensions, the time-space rift, the demon realm, the demon-slaying island, and all those above that level—without a doubt! Without a doubt!

"Are you an idiot? This ring was mine before, so of course you need a ceremony to wear it." Huai'an's narrow eyes glared at Xia Xiang, his tone devoid of any warmth.

"Uh..." Xia Xiang suddenly realized and asked awkwardly, "How did it recognize its owner? I didn't know?"

Xia Xiang examined the ring carefully, but couldn't figure it out.

"Your blood," Huai'an said, turning around.

"Sigh~ I wish I hadn't known sooner, if only I had known..." Xia Xiang felt like she had missed out on a fortune.

"Hmm?!" Huai'an narrowed his eyes and spoke threateningly.

"I was wrong, I was just borrowing it, just borrowing it. How about I write you an IOU?" Xia Xiang said.

Huai'an actually thought about it for a while, but in the end decided against it.

That would make him seem insincere, and besides, he gave it to her voluntarily, and she didn't even know it.

Huai'an: "No need. As long as a trace of my consciousness remains, I will be able to find you even if you turn to ashes."

Xia Xiang was shocked! She rubbed her temples. "What are you doing! So now you know everything I'm thinking, don't you? You're spying on me! How awful!"

Huai'an: "I'm not that bored, thank you. I'm busy, I'm leaving!"

"Wait!" Xia Xiang tugged at Huai An's sleeve again. "Um, if you rushed over here in such a hurry, there must be other functions, right? Can you give me some instructions to read?"

"Take this," Huai'an said, pulling out a ten-centimeter-thick handwritten instruction manual and handing it to Xia Xiang. "You can use whatever you need inside; consider it part of paying off your debt."

Huai'an pointed with his chin at Hu Yanjing and Ren Chenfeng, "And those two, I've already erased your memories of Bamo Island and your superpower index."

After saying that, he disappeared from the spot.

Before Xia Xiang could even express her surprise, Hu Yanjing's surprised voice rang out.

"Xia Xiang! What are you doing teleporting there? Are there enemies there?!"

As they spoke, the two of them teleported to Xia Xiang's side and became wary.