His mind was blank, as heavy as lead, and Xia Xiao couldn't react to what was going on. Did he pass through the talisman array to a very far place? Or was he shot down and still couldn't escape this grassland called the devil?

Xia Xiao was eager to know his situation, but his body, like the surroundings, was shrouded in thick darkness, making it difficult for him to sense his own body and see the surrounding environment clearly.

But gradually, he heard some sounds. Xia Xiao pricked up his ears with great concentration, wondering what it was, but he didn't expect it was Xiao Ran and A Zhu's screams of pain, as if they were being beaten and tortured, making them hurriedly search in the dark, hoping to find their backpacks. He finally touched it, and it seemed like he touched a hand, which was extremely cold, but he couldn't care less now.

Xia Xiao didn't know how he sat up, but he quickly reached into his backpack, untied the familiar bag, and took out many pills from it. Those were almost all the pills he had, and he swallowed them without thinking twice, letting the medicinal power flow through his body.

The darkness before his eyes dissipated in the sound of pain, and Xia Xiao was finally able to see his surroundings clearly and see what happened to the owners of those voices.

Behind him was Shangshan, but Xia Xiao, who was in a very bad physical condition, did not notice him. He only saw Ah Zhu and Xiao Ran rushing towards the woman who kept approaching him. But in front of the latter, no matter how hard they rushed forward, they were blown away by the black air around her.

Perhaps she was annoyed, the woman's fingers finally bent slightly, causing Ah Zhu, who was screaming heartbreakingly, to hang in the air wearing a broken black armor, while Xiao Ran was pressed on the tree stump full of light spots, unable to move.

The black air couldn't even penetrate light, and they couldn't make any sound. But Xia Xiao saw that under the broken half of Ah Zhu's armor was a face full of scratches and crying. She didn't want this bad woman to get close to Xia Xiao, but she didn't have the strength to do so. She knew that crying was useless, but now she was so anxious that she wanted to cry and could only cry.

Xiao Ran was like being crushed by a mountain, the indescribable weight was beyond her body's endurance. Although she was saved from death, she couldn't even lift a finger on the brink of life and death. She could only wait for help and rescue under the extremely exaggerated weight, and continued to sink into the tree stump.

The woman in front of him was only ten meters away. Xia Xiao felt suffocated for a moment, not knowing what words to use to face her. He wanted to live, and he didn't want Ah Zhu and Xiao Ran to die. And, what about Shangshan?

"Come behind me!"

He hadn't heard this voice so clearly for a long time, but he just glanced back, and before he could make any move, a hand hotter than the air pinched his neck and pressed him hard to the ground.

"Don't hurt him!"

Shangshan dragged her body forward, but what was waiting for her was a breath of black, and then she sank into the tree stump, as if she was embedded in it.

"It's finally quiet."

The burning pain on his neck made Xia Xiao sweat all over, but when he looked at the woman in front of him, although it was just a black mask, he seemed to see a face full of sin. It was she who killed Shu Shuang and injured Azhu and Xiao Ran. Xia Xiao wanted to draw his sword and chop her into pieces, but the armor on his body was very heavy and he couldn't pull out the knife behind him.

clang!

The metal broke, and the heavy armor on his body was easily torn apart. In an instant, he could only face the woman with his flesh and blood. He could not move, and he could smell the scent of death, but he was not afraid, but only had a stronger hatred.

"What do you want?"

"Don't worry, I'll tell you slowly."

The temperature of the woman's hand was a few degrees higher, but Xia Xiao just gritted his teeth and frowned. He didn't scream, nor did he make the plea for mercy that she wanted to hear.

"This temperature is enough to make many people give up their dignity, and you still don't beg for mercy?"

Xia Xiao stared at the woman, not understanding what she was up to, so he asked in a hoarse voice:

"Who are you?"

"You are smart and have your own principles. I like people like you, but the road you have walked is too smooth. You may think that you have had a rough time these years, but please rest assured that your difficult life has just begun. But only when you know enough, you will know how stupid you were before."

The woman really appreciated Xia Xiao's stubborn look, and she stood up and stopped torturing him, allowing him to curl up and take a few breaths, and let the medicine restore this tired body with endless side effects. The woman did not stop talking, she stated her purpose.

"My ancestors and I wanted to get rid of you because you have the mark left by that stinky woman. She is the enemy who seriously injured my ancestors, and you are destined to become another one of her. But my ancestors and I were wrong. There will never be another human emperor in the world. You will only become a part of her body."

"I guess you are still in the dark, right? You think you are superior to ordinary people because you are born with these abilities. But everything has a price. What you have can kill you. You are just a vessel. But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? Sooner or later you will rebel against your own destiny, because you will find that it is completely different from what you thought. It will be difficult for you to return to a holy and elegant place like the academy, because if you want to survive, you will not defeat me, but the person who left your mark!"

"You heard it right. She is a human, not a god. This judgment is not because I look down on her, but because she has never become a god. If one day you have nothing to do and the moon happens to be full, you can take a closer look at the moon. It will appear different in your eyes."

"What's the meaning?"

The more Xia Xiao listened, the more strange it seemed to him, and his expression gradually became more and more surprised.

The ancestor of Lingqi is not a god, but a villain!

He had heard this sentence before, and the person who told him was the eternal strong man in the sea. But why did he say that, why did he say it, and why did the woman in front of him also say it. He wanted to know the answer, because just like what the woman in front of him said, everything he had was just because of the looming mark behind him. Without it, Xia Xiao would be nothing.

Xia Xiao hated this feeling so much. He encountered this kind of thing every time. And what was the relationship between this woman and the black fog in the south of the South China Sea?

Suddenly, Xia Xiao had an idea, and he recalled what happened in the East China Sea, and asked:

"The ancestor you mentioned earlier was the wisp of black smoke in the south of the South China Sea? The Wild Beast King Quedan is your ancestor, so you are also a black dragon, but you are not from the Wild Beast Forest. Do the Wild Beasts have a new branch?"

Xia Xiao sorted out the information quickly, and he also remembered that he had seen a trace of consciousness left in the brand by the ancestor of the spiritual contract in the east of the East China Sea. She told him a lot at that time, and Xia Xiao himself also learned some things about the war 30,000 years ago. Although there are some mysteries and some things that are not sure whether they are true or false, the sequence and cause and effect are finally sorted out. But now it seems that it is not that simple.