Pu , Helian Xun Xue threw up blood, but an immeasurable divine light flickered around her body which, too, was sacred and elegant, and filled with an ancient air.
The giant silver spider actually revealed a very human expression. It abruptly withdrew its limb, its size shrinking swiftly, then transformed into a silver light that shot into the waves. Furthermore, the waters, too, began to swiftly subside, and very quickly, it had completely disappeared into the mine, as if the previous phenomenon had never happened.
…Except the army of the Sea Race had been turned into minced meat lying outside the mine, while Helian Xun Xue had had her body pierced through.
Ling Han exited the Black Tower, thinking that this place was really the perfect location to trap someone. Even a high-level Heaven Tier cultivator had practically been killed in an instant! And this had also allowed him to see the gap between the Heaven Tier and the Shattering Void Tier.
Unable to withstand even a single strike!
The higher one’s level in martial arts, the larger the power gap would be between different cultivation levels. Even someone as powerful as Helian Xun Xue was unable to fight back at all in the face of that giant silver spider.
He flew towards Helian Xun Xue, yet saw that the divine light that had surrounded this woman before had already disappeared and revealed her true face.
She really was a beauty, with a fine noise and cherry lips. She had long, shapely eyebrows and skin as fair and smooth as jade. However, her eyes were tightly closed. Otherwise, they would have definitely added some further radiance to the level of her beauty. And on her left shoulder, there was a bloody hole. At this moment, blood was currently gushing out; it was obviously where the silver spider had pierced her through.
Ling Han was astonished… Helian Xun Xue was actually not dead!
Though none of her vital spots had been hit, with the power of the giant silver spider, if one was pierced through, the attack would explode inside one’s body, and the destructive power of such a blow would be enough to destroy everything.
From the look of things, the giant silver spider had obviously been merciful.
Ling Han’s gaze swept over her, and instantly, his killing intent rose.
This woman was too dangerous. Moreover, she wanted the Vial of Curses in his possession, and would obviously not give up until she had gotten hold of it.
He definitely could not leave this future trouble alive!
Ling Han drew out the Demon Birth Sword. Having compassion for the fairer sex depended on the situation; to be soft-hearted to one’s enemy would be equivalent to be irresponsible for oneself, one’s family, and friends. He did not hesitate and struck out with a slash.
Weng!
A halo of light emanated from Helian Xun Xue’s body and transformed into a protective layer which blocked the attack of the Demon Birth Sword.
F***!
Ling Han sensed it slightly, and discovered that this halo of light originated from the necklace worn around Helian Xun Xue’s neck. To be more accurate, it should have come from the pendant hung on the necklace.
Previously, when the giant silver spider released a severe blow, this pendant shone too, and made the giant silver spider be merciful and not erase Helian Xun Xue. Now, it had managed to block Ling Han’s fatal attack.
From the look of things, this was an automatic defensive Spirit Tool. However, the giant silver spider was too powerful, so powerful that the Spirit Tool did not even have the time to activate. And in comparison, Ling Han was much too weak, which was why this Spirit Tool could so easily block his attack.
“Annoying!” Ling Han bared his teeth. At first, he had thought that he would be entirely worthy of being recognized as the strongest person in the north region. Who would have foreseen that he would be even more helpless than he was in the Desolate North? At least there, everyone would have to respectfully address him as Grandmaster Ling, but what about now? Did the identity of a Heaven Tier alchemist have any effect or influence on Helian Xun Xue or the giant silver spider?
He was dissatisfied, and threw out a few more strikes. He even made use of Sword Qi, but the defensive ability of that halo of light was really too strong. No matter what he did, it was absolutely useless.
Ling Han did everything he could think of, but it was still useless.
He had even wanted to draw her into the Black Tower. In that way, whether he killed her would no longer matter as it would be enough to supress this princess of the Sea Race for the rest of her life. However, that immeasurable divine light similarly stopped Ling Han’s divine sense from wrapping around her.
In short, even though Helian Xun Xue appeared to be in a coma at this moment, it was as if she had become a porcupine, which he couldn’t even touch.
He did not make any further move, and that pendant no longer shone. Helian Xun Xue’s bright as moonlight, beautiful face and long, slender body was revealed. Ling Han swept one look over her, and mumbled with much malice, “Flat chest!”
Actually, it was not really that flat, but in comparison with Liu Yu Tong, Li Si Chan, and Zhu Xuan Er, who were well-developed to a shocking level, she was naturally on a much more inferior level.
The shocking thing was that the wound on her left shoulder healed very quickly, and the blood had already stopped seeping out; the wound slowly began to scab over.
One had to know that this wound was created by a supreme creature, and the martial intent of the giant silver spider had been left behind in this wound. As long as this martial intent was still present, it would have been impossible for the wound to heal!
And how long could the martial intent of a Shattering Void Tier cultivator last? Millenia!
Helian Xun Xue should not have the ability to disperse the martial intent of the Shattering Void Tier. It should have been the giant silver spider—in the instant it withdrew its limb, it withdrew its martial intent as well. As a result, though Helian Xun Xue appeared to be wounded very severely, only a hole had been pierced through in her shoulder.
The reason she fell unconscious was because she, too, had suffered the barrage of the martial intent of a Shattering Void Tier cultivator. With her divine sense, she was definitely not able to withstand it.
This also meant… that she could possibly awaken at any moment!
F***, and he actually came so close to her?
Ling Han’s heart shivered. Since he was not able to kill this princess of the Sea Race, then his only option would be to flee, and let her just come to hunt him down in the middle state.
But it was too late!
Helian Xun Xue’s eyelids trembled lightly, and she opened her eyes.
What a beautiful woman!
She actually possessed a pair of sea-blue eyes, and matched with her jade-like fair skin, fine, straight nose and clear-cut features, she had the charm that belonged to one from a foreign land.
“Who are you?” She looked at Ling Han in confusion, then looked down at herself. “And who am I?”
She had lost her memory?
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After sustaining a single strike from the giant silver spider, Helian Xun Xue actually lost her memory?
That was a very likely possibility.
Because her divine sense had suffered an attack on the level of the Shattering Void Tier, amnesia was a very ordinary consequence. But the question was, was this amnesia a short-term loss of memory, or a permament loss? If it was only a temporary one, then how long would it last for—a few days, a few months, or a few years?
Ling Han was astonished; he realized that he could not sense any movement of Origin Power from her body at all. Could it be that after she had lost her memory, she did not even know how to circulate her Origin Power anymore?
Was that even possible?
Ling Han could not confirm it, but since this princess of the Sea Race could no longer circulate Origin Power, then what threat could she be to him? One had to know
that the reason that cultivators could overturn mountains and empty oceans was because they had cultivated Origin Power. Without Origin Power, the pure strength of cultivators would not be that much stronger than any ordinary person, and their defense would not be much stronger, either.
…Just make a Flower Blossom Tier cultivator unable to circulate his Origin Power defensively, and then have ordinary soldiers try and attack him with a multitude of arrows—he was guaranteed to look like a beehive just from the number of holes he would have.
However, Helian Xun Xue still had a Spirit Tool on her that could activate on its own, so if anyone wanted to kill her… it was practically an impossible feat!
Ling Han gave a sigh; he actually couldn’t do anything to a woman that couldn’t even fight back.
Now, he could only hope that this princess of the Sea Race would have amnesia for a long enough period of time—long enough to allow him to develop to an extent that he no longer had to fear her.
Helian Xun Xue stared at Ling Han blankly yet with clear hope in her gaze, as if hoping that Ling Han could tell her who she was. There was a touching glint of emotion brimming in her large sea-blue eyes.
Ling Han felt that this woman was a little cute at this moment. Previously, she had been so insufferably arrogant, and now she actually seemed like a pitiful little puppy.
He could not help but smile, and said, “My name is Ling Han. Your name is Helian Xun Xue—do you have any recollection of this name?”
“Helian Xun Xue? Helian Xun Xue?” The princess of the Sea Race shook her head endlessly, and the only missing gesture was biting on one of her fingers. After a long time, an expression of pleased surprise appeared on her face. “My name is Helian Xun Xue?”
Ling Han was defeated; did this woman have an attribute of being stupidly adorable?
“Where are we now? Why are we here? What is the relation between the two of us?” Helian Xun Xue asked in a single breath like a curious kid.
Ling Han pondered for a moment, then answered, “This is Fire Country. As for you, I was the one who picked you up. I also do not know who you actually are. As for this place, we came here to walk around! All right, now that our walk is over, let us both go back to our respective mothers. Goodbye!”
He turned around and prepared to leave. He really did not want to stay by the side of a high-level Heaven Tier cultivator; who knew when this woman would regain her memories? If she suddenly made a move on him at that time, he’d be done for.
He could not be soft-hearted in this situation!
Pa . He had only took a single step when he felt a tightening brace around his legs; Helian Xun Xue had actually clamped her arms around his legs. This woman was behaving like a shrew—without any care for her image, she sat on the ground as her arms wrapped around one of his legs.
More importantly, this woman was terrifyingly strong, and Ling Han was actually unable to struggle out of her vice-like grip.
How could this be possible!?
Wasn’t she no longer able to circulate Origin Power? How could she still possess such tremendous strength?
…Could it be?
Ling Han immediately came to a realization. This woman was in the same situation as he; she, too, had cultivated a physical technique! At this moment, she was using purely her physical strength, and he guessed that it had to be on the level of the Spiritual Infant Tier at least. This was what made Ling Han feel as if he had been locked in chains forged from divine metal, unable to move a single muscle.
“Let… go!” he said.
“No!” Helian Xun Xue said with a great amount of determination. She indeed did not release him; on the other hand, her grip became even tighter than before.
‘Damn!’
Instantly, cracks could be heard from the bones in Ling Han’s leg. He had formed Body of Iron Sheet and his physical body was as tough as precious metals on the same level as he, but the problem here was… how could Level Six metal be able to withstand the brute force which was, at the very least, on Level Seven?
If this went on, the bones in his leg could really be broken into pieces just from this!
Ling Han hurriedly surrendered as he said, “All right, all right, all right. I’ll let you continue to follow me, okay?”
Helian Xun Xue had lost her memory, but her intelligence did not seem to have been lowered from that. She raised her head to look at Ling Han doubtfully and asked, “Really? You’re not lying to me?”
“If I lie to you, then I’m a Sea Demon!” Ling Han blurted out carelessly.
Helian Xun Xue was a member of the Sea Race in the first place, so did not have any prejudice against Sea Demons. She released her grip and got to her feet, but then she immediately took hold of one of Ling Han’s hands, as if still fearing that he would escape.
Ling Han gritted his teeth. When this princess of the Sea Race recovered her memory and found out that she had actually held hands with him, who knew if she would dissolve into humiliated fury and tear him into a few hundred or a few thousand pieces.
“Sea girl, remember, you were the one who took the initative to hold my hand. Don’t you act dumb about it in future,” he said seriously.
“Oh.” Helian Xun Xue had lost her memory, so she naturally couldn’t care less.
“No, you have to swear.” Ling Han wanted to use something to control her as much as possible; that way, if she actually managed to recover her memory in future, he could still babble some nonsense to deliberately anger her, which would allow him some time to escape alive.
“What kind of swear?” Helian Xun Xue asked a little dumbly.
“Just say… that you are the one who took the initiative to take my hand. If you wrongly accuse me of it in future, the Sea Emperor is a great big idiot,” Ling Han said.
Helian Xun Xue naturally, without a doubt, held up her fair, slender right hand and swore.
A thought flashed through Ling Han’s head: could he make use of the Vial of Curses? Though she looked a little dumb and cute at the moment, he only had to recall how she had been like before to know that this woman was definitely a firm, ruthless woman.
The moment she regained her memory, it would be Ling Han who would be rendered absolutely helpless.
He made a move to pluck a hair from her head, but that pendant immediately shone and blocked his hand from moving any further. Ling Han, with no other choice, could only say, “Pluck out one of your hairs and give to me.”
Helian Xun Xue bit on one of her fingers, and after a moment, she shook her head and said, “I can’t.”
“Why not?” Ling Han was astonished. Could it be that she had already begun to regain her memory?
“I seem to remember Mother saying before that I can’t recklessly give a man something from my body,” Helian Xun Xue said with absolute seriousness.
‘This!’
Ling Han thought for a moment, then asked, “So if it was a woman, it would be fine?” He could let Hu Niu out if that was the case.
“No!” Helian Xun Xue shook her head stubbornly.
Ling Han was speechlees. Why? Why couldn’t he even manage to deceive a stupidly cute woman who had lost her memory? This was too much of a failure!
“Ai!” He gave a sigh, and took a step to leave.
Helian Xun Xue hurriedly followed behind him, one hand still firmly gripping onto the corner of Ling Han’s shirt as if she was a little wife who had been wronged.
Ling Han walked to where the army of Sea Race had once been. The only thing visible now was a scene of slaughter and carnage. Every single one of them had died from their bodies bursting. There was not a single complete corpse visible here anymore as all of them had been turned into ripped pieces of bone and flesh, blood soaking all over the ground.
“Ah!” A scared expression appeared on Helian Xun Xue’s face, and she could not help but throw herself into Ling Han’s arms, hugging him tightly to herself.
Ka, ka, ka . Immediately, loud noises could be heard from Ling Han’s rib
s.
‘F***, be a bit gentler. With you strangling me in such a way, I am just about to join those people on the ground, crushed by your embrace. Moreover, your small breasts really have no gradation or texture, and I don’t have the slightest feeling that there are two lumps of flesh pressing down on my chest.’
“If, you keep, holding, on, I, am going, to die,” Ling Han gasped out.
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Helian Xun Xue finally released him, but hid herself behind Ling Han, tightly gripping onto the corner of his shirt. Ling Han could distinctly feel her trembling.
Such an overbearing, domineering woman actually had such a delicate side to her?
Could amnesia cause someone’s character to experience a tremendous change? Or would it cause someone to show a side that they usually kept hidden deep within?
Ling Han did not know, nor did he care. The biggest problem for him now was: how was he supposed to throw this huge burden away? This was practically a time bomb. When she actually managed to regain her memories, this time bomb would explode. Just the mere thought of it would give him insomnia.
” Hai Niu 1 , let’s see how fast you can run,” Ling Han said. He had already led Helian Xun Xue far away from the mine to avoid her going into another emotional turbulence and strangling him into a corpse.
“Oh!” Helian Xun Xue nodded, then asked curiously, “Why do you call me Hai Niu?”
“Because I want to!” Ling Han glared at her.
Instantly, Helian Xun Xue’s eyes brimmed with tears. Thne, she said with an aggrieved pout, “Why are you being so harsh toward me?”
Immediately, Ling Han bared his teeth. If you want to cry, just go ahead, but why do you have to grip a hand around his neck? Did she not know that this move could cause a fatality? However, he did not dare to carelessly toss away such a time bomb, either. Otherwise, if she really did explode, even if she only possessed the physical strength of the Spiritual Infant Tier, it was still a very terrifying thing.
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