At this moment, Ling Ling looked disheveled, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, and her clothes were torn in several places by swords and knives.
The moment she saw Fang Xiu, she cried out urgently, "Lord Fang Xiu, please save my master!"
"Judging from your expression, I roughly know what happened, but I didn't expect you to actually escape," Fang Xiu said calmly.
Ling Ling's face was filled with sorrow: "For the past year, my master and I have led the Holy Sect in a continuous struggle against Ling Xinghe. Because of Ling Xinghe's brutality, the people have rebelled one after another, and countless people have joined the Holy Sect, but... but..."
"It seems that Ling Xinghe has already forged a divine body."
Ling Ling nodded bitterly: "That's right. With his divine body, no one can stand against him. It was at this time that my master was captured. I used all my strength to unleash the Nuwa True Form and shatter the void to escape."
At this point, she hurriedly dragged her heavily injured body over and grabbed Fang Xiu's clothes tightly: "Lord Fang Xiu, Ling Xinghe is forcing me to take him to find the Nuwa Temple. Otherwise, he will publicly execute my master. There are still five days left until the execution date. Please, you must save him!"
"Yaoyao, Yaoyao, please help your sister."
Fang Yao looked at the pitiful Ling Ling, a flicker of emotion appearing deep in her eyes. However, she did not speak, but looked at Fang Xiu, as if waiting for his decision.
"This is simple. Since he threatened you with Bai Xiangqing's life to find the Nuwa Temple, why don't you just bring him to the temple?" Fang Xiu said calmly.
Ling Ling was stunned and stammered, "But... but once Ling Xinghe enters the Nuwa Temple, he can activate the Nuwa inheritance and obtain the divine power certificate. At that time, all living beings will be doomed. Moreover, my master also told me that I must not compromise."
"So, do you want to save Bai Xiangqing, or do you want to save all the people of the world?"
Ling Ling fell silent at the question, her face showing struggle and pain. After a long while, she finally said, "I will not take Ling Xinghe to find the Nuwa Temple, and my master will not agree to it either."
"Have you ever thought about this: how were you able to escape from Ling Xinghe, who possesses the body of a god?"
"You mean, he deliberately let me go and then tracked me to the Nuwa Temple?"
"good."
Ling Ling shook her head: "Impossible. I possess the bloodline of Nuwa and am able to sense the divine token on Ling Xinghe's body. If he were to follow me, I would definitely discover it."
"What if he didn't follow you, but instead left a mark on you?"
"It's no use, the Nuwa Temple will shield the mark."
"It seems you're somewhat clever, but not much. Ling Xinghe has always been able to sense your location through the mark, but when you appeared in a certain area, the mark suddenly disappeared. Do you think he can't find you anymore?"
Ling Ling's face suddenly turned pale. Indeed, the place where the mark disappeared was naturally the location of the Nuwa Temple!
"But these could all just be your guesses..."
Before she could finish speaking, Fang Xiu inserted two fingers into her arm, into the injured flesh, and gently pulled, causing Ling Ling to cry out in pain.
Fang Xiu was holding a jet-black seed between his two fingers.
He threw the seed on the ground, and it immediately burrowed into the ground, took root, and sprouted, turning into a jet-black spider lily.
Ling Ling's face turned deathly pale.
Just then, Ling Xinghe's sinister laughter rang out from outside the Nuwa Temple: "My dear daughter, your father knows you are in the Nuwa Temple. Quickly open the temple door, or your sweetheart will have to lose a few pieces of flesh."
Bai Xiangqing's anxious voice rang out: "Ling'er, whatever you do, don't open the door! You absolutely cannot let him into the temple... Ah!!"
Before he could finish speaking, a piercing scream rang out, clearly indicating that he was being subjected to inhuman torture.
Ling Ling was immediately thrown into a state of panic, completely at a loss, and didn't know what to do.
Although she had chosen the well-being of all people in her heart, she still felt heartbroken when her master suffered.
Just then, another scream rang out from outside.
"Ah!! Ling Xinghe, if I hadn't lost all my cultivation, I would have made sure you died a horrible death today!"
It was Xu Ruohai's voice; clearly, Xu Ruohai had also been captured.
It's likely that Ling Xinghe encountered Xu Ruohai while passing through the wilderness and was captured along the way.
Fang Xiu wasn't surprised, because Xu Ruohai had always had bad luck. He encountered him while living in seclusion in Yunzhou and failed. He tried to hide in the Other Shore but ran into Yun Tianshen and failed again. He tried to hide in a shallower part of the Other Shore but encountered Taotie and failed once more.
So he wasn't surprised at all that Ling Xinghe had run into him.
Don't be fooled by the vastness of the Wilderness; the probability of Ling Xinghe encountering Xu Ruohai is very low, but isn't the Other Shore even larger?
"Hmph! You've lost all your cultivation? It seems you and Fang Xiu are from the outside world. No wonder I couldn't find out your origins. The Flower Goddess said the outside world is called the Other Shore, a world higher than this one. Now it seems you're nothing special."
"Fang Xiu, your followers are in my hands. If you know what's good for you, quickly have my daughters open the door."
"Ling Xinghe, you should give up on that idea. What kind of person is the True God? How could he possibly allow himself to be threatened by you? Even if he does come out today... The True God!? Why are you here!?"
That's right, Fang Xiu has come out.
He swaggered out of the Nuwa Temple and met Ling Xinghe, along with Xu Ruohai and Bai Xiangqing.
At this moment, Ling Xinghe's appearance changed drastically. His originally human skin color turned dark gray, his pupils were crimson, as if magma was flowing inside, and a black lotus appeared between his eyebrows.
When Ling Xinghe saw Fang Xiu appear, he was first taken aback, then sneered: "Unexpected, truly unexpected. I thought it would be my daughter who came out, but I didn't expect it to be you."
"Your Excellency, True God!" Xu Ruohai's expression was both shocked and complicated. He had never expected that Fang Xiu would go to such lengths for him.
"Fang Xiu, it seems you intend to fight me to the death? Very well, today I'll show you what a god truly is..."
"Come in," Fang Xiu interrupted calmly.
Ling Xinghe's arrogant expression froze instantly, and he could hardly believe his ears: "You... what did you say!?"
"Fang Yao broke the seal on the Nuwa Temple inside, so you can enter freely now."
A hint of suspicion flashed in Ling Xinghe's eyes. That's how people are; sometimes, the easier something is to obtain, the more suspicious they become about whether there's a trap involved.
He stared at Fang Xiu, as if trying to find some flaw in Fang Xiu's face.
Fang Xiu frowned slightly: "Didn't you want Nuwa's divine spark? Come in and get it."
Bai Xiangqing, standing nearby, became anxious: "Fang Xiu! You can't let him in! Ling'er, quickly activate the temple's seal!"
"It's no use, Lingling has already been tied up by her sister."
After saying this, Fang Xiu stopped explaining and turned to enter the Nuwa Temple.
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