The Fish-Bird King and the enormous lion fought to a standstill.
Both sides were fighting tooth and nail, exchanging blows.
With each move, the enemy was injured a thousand while both sides suffered eight hundred casualties; both sides were badly wounded.
"Yingfan, I'm going to use my support ability. Are you ready?" Xu Nian's voice was clear and calm, and her confident demeanor gave people a strong sense of self-assurance.
"Niannian, can your body handle it?" Yingfan asked worriedly.
She had already used a tremendous amount of mental energy; if she used auxiliary abilities as well, he worried that she wouldn't be able to hold on.
"I can." Xu Nian said firmly, and then she used her support ability.
The third ability, Yin-Yang Reversal, acted directly on the massive lion, instantly restoring it from its previous wounds.
Seeing his opponent, who had just been seriously injured, recover completely in a single breath, the Fish-Bird King's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
If it could speak, it would loudly curse its opponents for being shameless, and it even has the ability to regenerate health.
The Fish-Bird King wasn't stupid. Seeing that the situation was not right, it abandoned all dignity as a king.
It turned around and flapped its wings, trying to fly away.
Ying Fan, not wanting the Fish and Bird King to do as he wished, immediately ordered the lion to pounce and bite.
Because of her support abilities, Xu Nian couldn't even stand up and could only lean tightly against Ying Fan to watch the battle.
The enormous lion went all out, launching a fierce attack as soon as it bit the fish-bird king, giving the fish-bird king no chance to retaliate, and striking its vital points every time.
"Sizzle!" The fish-bird king cried out mournfully as it was knocked down from mid-air by the enormous lion.
With a loud bang, the Fish-Bird King smashed a huge crater into the ground, causing the entire earth to tremble.
The lion leaped into the pit and opened its mouth to tear at the fish-bird king inside.
Those on the city wall only saw blood and flesh flying everywhere in the crater, and heard the cries of the Fish-Bird King gradually subside.
Only when there was no more sound did the enormous lion leap out of the pit, carrying the head of the Fish-Bird King in its mouth, and trotted towards the city wall.
The lion placed the head of the Fish-Bird King in front of Xu Nian and looked at her ingratiatingly.
The lion is the manifestation of Yingfan's spiritual power, and its every move represents Yingfan's truest inner thoughts.
Xu Nian looked helplessly at the person beside her. He pretended to examine the head of the Fish-Bird King, but his eyes were actually secretly glancing at her.
"Yingfan, is the battle over?" Xu Nian summoned back his red-crowned crane spirit.
Without wings, the lion, which had been soaring in mid-air, fell from the sky and began to shrink rapidly.
Just as it was about to fall to the ground, the spiritual lion was retrieved back into Ying Fan's body.
He embraced the person in his arms and looked at the large crater outside the city wall, saying with certainty, "Niannian, this battle is over."
"That's good!" As soon as Xu Nian relaxed, fatigue and various discomforts came over her.
Before she could even tell Yingfan not to worry, she fainted.
Xu Nian's fainting startled Ying Fan at first, but after using his mental power to detect that she had suffered from excessive mental energy depletion, he finally felt relieved.
"Ying Fan, what's wrong with Xu Nian?" Zhang Yi rushed over immediately, wanting to check on Xu Nian's condition himself, but Ying Fan refused him without hesitation.
"It's nothing serious. She overused her mental energy and fell into a coma. She'll wake up once her mental energy is restored," Ying Fan said coldly to Zhang Yi.
"What kind of attitude is this? Xu Nian fainted because she was helping you, and you treat her so coldly?" Zhang Yi was very dissatisfied with Ying Fan's change in mood.
Xu Nian really misjudged him, falling for such a thing that he wasn't even worried about her when she fainted.
"Old Zhang, don't push your luck. Isn't it normal for me to be cold to you?"
"Besides, which eye of yours saw me not worried about Nian Nian?" Ying Fan looked at Zhang Yi with disdain. If it weren't for him stopping him, he would have taken Nian Nian to the base to recuperate and sleep long ago.
“I saw it with both eyes, old man.” Zhang Yi always felt that Ying Fan’s attitude towards Xu Nian was strange.
He seemed too calm, even though he appeared nervous about her.
He may not seem nervous, but he keeps everyone under his watchful eye at all times.
He acted as if he were possessing his own property, not allowing anyone to even peek at it.
"That's because you have bad eyesight," Ying Fan said coldly to Zhang Yi.
To prevent Zhang Yi from continuing to harass them, Ying Fan ordered those with mental abilities of level A or above to guard the city wall, and then carried Xu Nian down the city wall at an extremely fast speed.
Zhang Yi didn't chase after them, but instead stared at Ying Fan's retreating figure in deep thought.
He was debating whether or not to tell Xu Nian about it.
He could tell that Xu Nian simply liked Ying Fan.
But Yingfan's liking is mixed with far too many things.
Perhaps even he himself didn't realize that his actions weren't actually the kind of love he claimed to have shown.
...
Ying Fan took Xu Nian to the base's mental strength repair center, put her in the repair fluid, and then squatted down beside her, quietly watching her.
"Niannian, why can't you rely on me wholeheartedly?" Ying Fan murmured to himself.
He didn't like Xu Nian's show of strength.
But she was too strong-willed, which made him want to lock her up.
“Niannian, Old Zhang is right, I think my feelings for you have changed a bit.” Ying Fan recalled the first time he met Xu Nian, and compared it with himself now, he felt a sense of estrangement that terrified him.
“No, something’s wrong. I shouldn’t be like this.” Ying Fan began to reflect on his behavior over the past period of time.
Without a doubt, he still deeply loved Xu Nian in his heart.
His words and actions were gradually changing. When did this change begin?
After much contemplation, Ying Fan finally figured out when his biggest change had occurred.
It happened when the official transfer order was received.
At that time, he was acting strangely; his body and mind were out of control, and all he wanted to do was come to the border.
Because he loved Xu Nian, he couldn't bear to leave her, so he thought of forcibly bringing her over.
Once he reached the border base, his behavior gradually changed.
He still loved her and was still obsessed with her, but he began to put her in dangerous positions.
Once her mental energy was fully restored, Xu Nian opened her eyes and met Ying Fan's guilty gaze. She immediately covered herself and retreated warily.
"Niannian, why are you avoiding me?" Ying Fan asked, puzzled, looking hurt at Xu Nian who had shrunk into a corner.
"Ying Fan, what are you planning to do with that look on your face?" Xu Nian was afraid of Ying Fan. Every time he showed a guilty and remorseful expression, she was the one who would suffer.
Those experiences were still vivid in her mind, and Xu Nian started to tremble whenever she saw Ying Fan's expression.
Even the red-crowned crane in her mind curled up in fear, making "cluck! cluck! cluck!" sounds.
This shows how much of a shadow Yingfan left on Xu Nian.
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