This time, Chi Chen's soul did not enter the misty palace within his body. His consciousness drifted in a dark chaos for an unknown period of time. Finally, at a certain moment, Chi Chen felt his consciousness returning to his body.
But the moment consciousness returns to its original form.
pain!
The pain was excruciating, piercing to the bone!
This pain is even more intense than the suffering I endured over the past five years.
"Ugh!"
Chi Chen kept emitting painful cries, and beside his body, there seemed to be a faint warmth emanating from the firelight.
Finally, with Chi Chen's continuous efforts, the Resurrection of All Things began to take effect. Pure healing energy slowly emanated from his body, flowing throughout Chi Chen's entire body, continuously repairing the injuries caused by the physical breakdown resulting from excessive possession by the monkey.
And so, Chi Chen's consciousness remained in the darkness for an unknown amount of time. Under the constant repair caused by the revival of all things, the pain in his body finally began to slowly subside.
Chi Chen barely opened his eyes. Through the blur, he could see the stone wall above him and the flickering shadows of the fire.
Seeing this, Chi Chen breathed a sigh of relief. Since he was not dead, the battle should have ended in their victory, right?
"Lin Bai?"
Chi Chen's throat was dry, and he called out softly.
However, the expected response did not appear, which made Chi Chen's heart skip a beat.
He quickly opened his eyes and looked around. He was in a cave, and not far in front of him was a flickering fire.
But inside the cave, besides him, there was only another unfamiliar figure.
Chi Chen looked at the figure, his pupils instantly shrinking, because the person was wearing a mask with blue face and gold patterns.
That's a mask worn by people from the Heresy Forbidden Zone.
The one with the blue face and gold markings represents the highest authority in the heretical taboo.
Chi Chen's pale face changed, and his mind tensed instantly.
Why is the person I'm with from a heretical taboo?
Where are Lin Bai and Qing Sheng?
Could it be that after their battle with the mysterious, the people of the Heretic Forbidden Bureau took the opportunity to do something underhanded?
Then why am I still alive?
Amidst countless questions, Chi Chen's hand twitched slightly, instinctively reaching for the long sword that had been hanging at his waist, but his hand grasped at nothing.
And because of his current physical weakness, even this small movement made Chi Chen's face turn even paler.
Moreover, the feeling of his soul being torn apart in his mind had not completely disappeared, making it even more difficult for Chi Chen to concentrate.
"Given your current physical condition, you'd better behave if you don't want to die."
Under the firelight, the figure watched Chi Chen's wary movements, a slight smirk playing on his lips beneath the mask, and spoke in a slightly cold voice.
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen was taken aback. It was actually a woman?
Chi Chen then narrowed his eyes and examined the figure. Although she was covered in a long robe, he could still see the slight bulge in her chest.
At the same time, Chi Chen's mind gradually relaxed under that voice, because although the woman's voice was slightly cold, Chi Chen did not feel any killing intent in her tone. This at least proved that the woman wearing the Heretic Taboo Mask was not interested in his life.
However, what followed was a lot of questions in Chi Chen's mind: why did this mysterious woman from the Heretic Forbidden Zone save him?
"If you look at me again, I'll gouge your eyes out!"
Seeing that Chi Chen hadn't looked away from her area for a long time, the woman's voice grew even colder.
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen shivered and quickly looked away, then winced in pain.
Inside the cave, the firelight flickered. After a moment of silence, Chi Chen couldn't help but speak, because he had too many questions.
"That heroine? Thank you for saving me. But when you saved me, did you see anyone else in that giant rock forest?"
Chi Chen carefully moved his body slightly and leaned against a rock.
“Giant Stone Forest? I didn’t find you in any giant stone forest. When I found you, you were just a half-dead creature.”
Upon hearing this, the woman also spoke up with some confusion. She had clearly found this person in a wasteland, so why was he talking about the Giant Stone Forest?
When she first met Chi Chen, he was lying on the ground like a corpse, with only a long sword beside him. She didn't want to save him, partly because she was being hunted by the Heretic Taboo Bureau, and carrying a seriously injured person would greatly slow her progress.
Secondly, Chi Chen looked like he was on the verge of death, and she felt that even if she saved him, he probably wouldn't live much longer.
However, when she saw the long sword beside Chi Chen, she knew who Chi Chen was, which was one of the main reasons why she saved him.
"You're saying you didn't rescue me from a forest of giant rocks?"
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen was stunned.
Despite enduring excruciating pain, Chi Chen managed to recall some of the memories from that day.
Chi Chen only remembered that he killed the mysterious Star Radiance Realm being possessed by the monkey that day, and then he was overwhelmed by endless pain in his mind and body, and then his consciousness was plunged into darkness.
Oh right, you can ask the monkey!
"Brother Monkey, are you there? Brother Monkey, are you still awake?"
Chi Chen suddenly woke up and called out to the monkey in his mind.
"Kid, what are you yelling about? Can't you let me, Old Sun, get a good night's sleep?"
The monkey's somewhat impatient voice echoed in Chi Chen's mind, but he didn't seem to care that Chi Chen had changed his address for him from Great Sage to Brother Monkey.
"Brother Monkey, how long was I unconscious? Do you know what happened after I lost consciousness that day?"
Chi Chen asked anxiously in his mind.
When the woman saw that Chi Chen had suddenly fallen silent again for some reason, she raised her eyebrows slightly under her mask, as if wondering if there was something wrong with Chi Chen's mind. Shouldn't he be asking her where he was and how long he had been unconscious?
"Kid, after you fainted that day, one of you Star Radiance Realm cultivators used his ability to teleport the rest of you. However, the teleportation was random, and you were unlucky enough to be teleported alone. Eight days ago, that little girl saved your life when she passed by, but she hasn't been shy about touching you inappropriately lately. As for the situation at the Giant Stone Forest, after your body was teleported away, I, Old Sun, don't know what happened afterward! And judging from the situation, the distance you were teleported from is not close to that Giant Stone Forest!"
The monkey briefly explained the situation, and Chi Chen fell silent again.
Have I been unconscious for eight days?
Among Zhang Jin's group of six, the one with the forbidden ability to teleport them should be Xu Tian, right?
Chi Chen was a smart man. He knew that for Xu Tian to make such a desperate move at the end, disregarding the depletion of his mental energy to forcibly send the remaining dozen or so people away, it must have been because something terrible had happened after he had passed out, something that made them all feel utterly hopeless.
Otherwise, having already killed two mysterious beings at the Star Radiance Realm, with victory clearly within their grasp, why would they have made such a move?
As for the fate of Zhang Jin and the other six, Chi Chen could guess it.
I wonder how Lin Bai and Qing Sheng, who were also teleported away, are doing now?
Eight days have passed on this vast, dark red land. Are Lin Bai and Qing Sheng still alive?
Thinking of these things, Chi Chen's mood immediately became extremely heavy again.
"Hey, what's your name? I saved you, and you won't even tell me your own name?"
Beside the campfire, the woman seemed to sense Chi Chen's state of mind and spoke up for the first time.
"My name is Chi Chen. Thank you again for saving my life. May I ask how I should address you?"
Upon hearing the sound, Chi Chen slightly eased the heaviness in his heart. Regardless of the circumstances, his priority now was to use the Rejuvenation of All Things technique to recover his condition as soon as possible so that he could search for Lin Bai and the others. Chi Chen believed that if he wasn't dead, they wouldn't die so easily either.
Of course, there is another important thing, which is to find out what the purpose of this woman in front of us, who may be from the heretical forbidden zone, is!
"Chi Chen? Chi Cheng? Not bad names. As for me, you can just call me Hu Miaomiao!"
Upon hearing Chi Chen's name, the woman also addressed him with a respectful form of address.
Hu Miaomiao? Hu Miaomiao?
Hu Miaomiao's voice does indeed sound like that of a somewhat noble and proud little kitten.
"oh!"
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen silently grumbled in his heart, then said "Oh," and fell silent again. He gradually increased the restorative power of the Rejuvenation of All Things. Although the strange healing power was very gentle, Chi Chen's physical condition was very poor, so he could only slowly increase the degree of treatment and dared not use the Rejuvenation of All Things to heal himself too much.
"oh?"
Seeing that Chi Chen remained silent, Miao Miao frowned slightly. Had she saved a dull, straight man?
That's incredibly rude of you to treat your own savior like this.
This guy is definitely not popular with girls.
In fact, Hu Miaomiao had been chased by the Heretic Taboo for more than half a month on her own, and had not encountered a single living person along the way, which had made her quite bored. She thought that after Chi Chen woke up, he would keep asking her some questions, and then she could take the opportunity to get some information out of Chi Chen and relieve her boredom. However, Hu Miaomiao did not expect that Chi Chen would only say a few simple words and then stop talking.
However, she was unaware that because of the mask on her face, even though Chi Chen was very interested in her identity, he was still deeply wary of her because of what the heretical taboo group, Shangjing District, had done to Daxia and their notorious reputation.
Therefore, at this moment, Chi Chen only had one thing on his mind: to secretly recover his strength as soon as possible so that he could protect himself.
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