“Boom!” Another giant spirit stone shattered.
Su completely lost his patience. “Step aside.”
As he spoke, a fierce red light erupted from his body, and he charged straight toward the giant spirit stone ahead. He shattered one without pause, then rushed forward to meet another, moving even faster than their earlier combined efforts.
Soon, Su led them a great distance forward.
Finally, the tunnel reached its end. From afar, they could see giant spirit stones being pushed down by demon clan soldiers. Zhaozhao immediately rushed to Su’s side, raising her hand to take his place.
Without even turning his head, Su dodged her gesture. “Don’t be reckless. Get behind me.”
Zhaozhao couldn’t pull him away, nor would she leave herself.
“When we reach the exit, the demon clan will surely have other tricks. I’ll draw their attention then, and you all just charge forward.”
“No.” Su disagreed.
Zhaozhao’s face turned cold. “No room for negotiation.”
Catching a glimpse of Su’s stern expression from the corner of her eye, Zhaozhao softened her tone. “Listen to me. Lead them out.”
Su remained silent, but Zhaozhao inexplicably believed he wouldn’t let her down.
Xuan Mo had estimated their emergence speed and lay in ambush at the exit long before.
He didn’t even blink. The moment a flash of light burst out, he immediately advanced to meet it.
At the same time, Luo Feng led other demon generals to execute the “trap in a jar” strategy.
Shi Qinian and the others knew they absolutely couldn’t be trapped at the narrow exit, so they all fought desperately to force a path through. Due to the confined space, several of them were injured.
Among them, Ye Liangqing was the most severely wounded. Protecting Nanyue, she was constrained and unable to fight freely.
Just as a demon general’s blade was about to strike her body, in that split second, Su appeared in time to shield her.
“Divine Son Su.” Ye Liangqing felt a wave of fear, cold sweat streaming down her back.
“Protect yourself. Leave Nanyue to me.”
Su pushed Ye Liangqing toward the space between Shi Qinian and Jun Si, then guarded the weakened Nanyue as he fought.
Clearly, having to protect someone powerless made every move constrained.
After witnessing Su being pierced through the shoulder blade by a demon general while protecting her, Nanyue’s eyes turned blood-red. Her voice hoarse, she screamed, “Leave me! Just leave me!”
At this moment, she hated how useless she was, dragging so many divine sons and daughters into danger.
Before her was Su, bathed in blood. Behind her was Shi Qinian, desperately slaying demons. To the side was Ye Liangqing, clearly exhausted. Further away was Jun Si, surrounded by demon generals and barely holding on. And the youngest divine son, Zhao Zhao, was fighting alone against the strongest demon clan crown prince.
Nanyue tightly shut her eyes. When she opened them again, a flash of resolve crossed her gaze.
Using the last trace of her divine power, she quickly distanced herself from Shi Qinian and the others. Simultaneously, golden light erupted from her body, charging straight toward the area with the most demon generals.
“Not good! Nanyue is going to self-detonate!” Shi Qinian exclaimed in alarm. “Stop her!” At the same time, he accelerated his efforts to shake off the demon generals clinging to him.
Hearing this, Ye Liangqing turned back, crying out heart-wrenchingly, “Nanyue!”
Nanyue was resolute, without the slightest hesitation. Her self-detonation was swift and decisive. As a divine maiden of the god clan, she would never allow herself to survive using others as shields.
This time, she had dragged everyone into danger. Since that was the case, she would end it herself.
One second before her self-detonation energy fully gathered, Nanyue couldn’t help but glance once more in Shi Qinian’s direction. “Shi Qinian…”
“If you’re so reluctant to part, then stay alive and take a good, long look.”
Nanyue: !
She looked up in shock, meeting a pair of cold golden eyes.
Zhaozhao swiftly formed a seal, suppressing her on the verge of erupting Divine Power, shoved a divine pill into her hand, and immediately tossed her to Shi Qinian, who had just arrived.
“Stop trying to get yourself killed.”
After uttering these words, Zhaozhao turned back to deal with the pursuing Xuan Mo.
Shi Qinian’s face was pale as he glared at her, gritting his teeth. “How do you know we’ll lose before the very last moment?”
“When we came, we promised the Divine Emperor we would bring you back to the Divine Realm unharmed. And I promised Zhao Zhao I would protect all of you. Since I made that vow, even if I die, none of you can come to harm!”
“Do you understand?!”
Nanyue nodded fiercely, tears streaming uncontrollably down her face.
Seeing her sobbing and sniffling, Shi Qinian tugged at the corner of his lips. “Don’t be afraid. We will win.”
With a backhand thrust, he pierced through a member of the Demon Clan and rejoined the fray.