Long Tian looked down at Nong Sanniang. "Don't resist. I know that the Nong family's secret technique is difficult to deal with, and you have an innate gift as well. However, that attack just now heavily injured you. Even if you manage to escape, you won't be able to participate in the next fight."
Nong Sanniang wiped the blood from her mouth and stared at Long Tian. "I just want to know if it was a spatial innate gift that defeated me."
Not just her, but everyone else wanted to know as well.
Long Tian's lips curled up. "Yes."
The crowd was shocked; it really was a spatial innate gift.
Lu Yin frowned. A spatial innate gift?
She was truly blessed by the heavens.
Long Xi remained calm, but there was a trace of mockery in his eyes that no one noticed.
Bai Shaohong looked at Long Tian in a different light. "No wonder you never revealed your innate gift during the Origin Wheel Sacrifice."
Long Tian looked at Bai Shaohong. "I'm sorry, Brother Bai, but this innate gift is very difficult to grasp. If you're not careful, you might die."
Bai Shaohong's eyes narrowed.
"Brother Bai, your innate gift doesn't seem to have been exposed either."
Bai Shaohong smiled. "It's not worth mentioning."
"Is that so?" Long Tian smiled as well. Not worth mentioning?
Only an idiot would believe that.
Nong Sanniang had no intention of resisting. Prince Gui Qian was dead, and the only person who didn't belong to either team was Xia Taili.
Everyone looked at Xia Taili.
Xia Taili was terrified, and even his Divine Martial Qi was withdrawn. He looked like he had accepted his fate. "This is too much. So many people are attacking me alone."
Long Tian smiled. "Don't worry, we won't hurt you." He then raised his hand, and the White Dragon Heaven-Inspecting Mirror trapped Xia Taili. He then looked at Wen Shengyi.
Wen Shengyi acted, using his Seven Layered Literary Prison to surround the White Dragon Heaven-Inspecting Mirror. Following that, smoke condensed in one direction and turned into Yun Tingting. She raised her hand, and a cloud of smoke wrapped around the Literary Prison.
The three sealing powers completely trapped Xia Taili.
Xia Taili's aquatic plant could only defend, but it couldn't break through the sealing powers.
Long Xi walked in front of Xia Taili and opened his hand. "Give it to me."
Xia Taili blinked and feigned ignorance. "What?"
Long Xi replied, "Cosmic ring."
Xia Taili cried out, "You want to steal my cosmic ring? Stop dreaming! You've gone too far! Since when did the White Dragon Tribe become robbers? Long Xi, you've fallen! Where did you learn this from?"
Long Xi looked at her calmly. "Cosmic ring."
Xia Taili angrily rebuked, "Long Xi, don't forget that you are a princess. How can you rob us? What does the White Dragon Clan not have?
I'm just a weak little girl. There's nothing good about me. Go away, go away! "
Long Xi looked at her calmly. "I'll hand it over to Xia Shenfei. Give me your cosmic ring."
Everyone looked at Xia Taili calmly. Only the heavens knew if she had some sort of offensive power vessel in her cosmic ring that could break through these defenses.
Xia Taili really did have one. She had thought that these people had forgotten about it, but Long Xi still remembered it. She gritted her teeth and glared at Long Xi, "Just you wait, I won't let this go. I'll remember this!" She then glared at Lu Yin, "And you, you shameless bastard! How dare you take advantage of me! I'll tell my brother!"
Everyone stared blankly at Lu Yin. Take advantage?
Even Long Xi was stunned. He subconsciously looked at Lu Yin, the coldness in his eyes growing stronger.
Lu Yin was speechless. "Please explain clearly. I just borrowed your power vessel to avoid being hunted down by those creatures. Brother Wen can testify."
Wen Yi replied, "That's right, don't misunderstand."
Everyone looked away, feeling that it was a pity. It would have been more interesting if there had been some sort of scandal.
Long Xi looked at Xia Taili with even more displeasure. "Hurry up and give me your cosmic ring."
Xia Taili snorted. "Just you wait. My brother won't let you off if you gang up on me." She then took off her cosmic ring and threw it on the ground, stomping on it twice.
Long Xi waved his hand and grabbed the ring. He didn't even look at Xia Taili as he turned to leave.
Longtian glanced at Xia Taili and Nong Sanniang before leading the way.
Bai Shaohong and the rest also headed in the same direction.
It didn't take long for the two groups to walk away.
Xia Taili kept cursing and muttering to herself.
Not too far away, Nong Sanniang was also trapped by the White Dragon Heaven-Inspecting Mirror and Literary Prison. However, she was heavily injured and could only use healing pills.
"Don't be angry. From their perspective, what they did was right. We can only blame ourselves for being unlucky," Nong Sanniang said helplessly. "It's better than dying."
When she said this, Xia Taili subconsciously looked at Gui Qian's corpse. That guy was the unlucky one.
Eh?
Something wasn't right. Xia Taili noticed something and stared at the corpse. "Sanniang, look. Isn't the blood flowing from that guy's corpse too red?"
Nong Sanniang turned around and her expression changed. Indeed, it was too red. Blood was red, but once it flowed out, it would gradually darken and not be as red.
"Come out, Gui Qian! You're not dead!" Nong Sanniang shouted.
Xia Taili's hair stood on end. Gui Qian really lived up to his name, not dying even after being cut in two.
In the distance, the two halves of Gui Qian's body moved and gradually approached each other. Finally, under the horrified gazes of the two women, the halves fused together. Gui Qian's closed eyes opened, but there was no change in them.
"Ahhh!"
Xia Taili screamed as if he had seen a ghost.
Nong Sanniang's face paled. "You're really not dead."
Gui Qian moved his arm. "Playing dead isn't easy."
"Nonsense," Nong Sanniang snapped. She wanted to play dead too, but she didn't have the skills to do so.
"You … How did you play dead?
Bai Shaohong isn't stupid. "Xia Taili felt as if he had seen a ghost.
Gui Qian said indifferently, "It's just a body that was cut in two. I can just reconnect it."
Xia Taili and Nong Sanniang fell silent. Reconnect?
That was easy to say. If it was that easy, then no one would die.
Bai Shaohong's attack hadn't just cut his body in two; it had also severed space. Even if they wanted to reconnect the two halves, it would be impossible. Gui Qian's resurrection wasn't any easier than that.
It could only be said that they had underestimated Gui Qian's strength. Everyone had been afraid of Gui Qian all this time. The Four Cardinal Scales had been suppressing Gui Qian, but they didn't understand why. Now, they understood that Gui Qian had unfathomable strength, and even Bai Shaohong had been fooled.
"Alright, it's time to make a deal." Gui Qian looked at Xia Taili. "I know you have a map of where they're going. Give it to me, and I'll promise you one thing."
Xia Taili rolled her eyes. "Only an idiot would give it to you. Don't you know how to follow them?"
Gui Qian said indifferently, "You're dreaming if you think you can follow Junior Ancestor without being discovered."
"It's good that you know," Xia Taili said.
Gui Qian looked at her seriously. "I promise you that I'll help Xia Shenfei when we get there. That's my condition."
Xia Taili was tempted. Bai Shaohong's team was now complete, and although Long Tian's team was missing one person, there was no guarantee that that person would join them. Wang Su's team was missing two people, and Big Brother's team was missing one person. If Gui Qian helped Big Brother, then Wang Su's team would be missing three people, and Big Brother's team would have an advantage.
Nong Sanniang frowned. "Gui Qian, Wang Su was the one who brought you here. If you betray them so easily, who will trust Gui Qian in the future?"
Gui Qian said indifferently, "I forced Wang Su to bring me here. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to bring anyone else. What happens in the future has nothing to do with me."
Nong Sanniang said, "You can betray Wang Su now, but who can guarantee that you'll help Xia Shenfei after you get the map?"
Xia Taili was on guard. "That's right."
Gui Qian looked up. "Even if I don't help Xia Shenfei, I'll still be Bai Shaohong and Long Tian's enemy. An enemy's enemy is a friend."
Xia Taili fell silent.
Gui Qian waited patiently.
After a while, Xia Taili gritted her teeth and handed over the map. The map was not in her cosmic ring, but she had kept it as a backup. "Remember what you promised me. Help my brother. Even if you can't, you have to cause trouble for Bai Shaohong and the others."
Gui Qian replied, "Don't worry, Bai Shaohong killed me once." He then followed the map and headed in the direction of Long Tian and the others.
As she watched Gui Qian leave, Nong Sanniang asked, "Do you really believe him?"
Xia Taili rolled her eyes. "Only an idiot would believe him. However, he'll definitely cause trouble for Bai Shaohong. That's for sure."
Nong Sanniang nodded.
Bai Shaohong had not expected Gui Qian to be able to revive, and Gui Qian's main opponent was Lu Yin instead of Bai Shaohong. Even when he had been surrounded, Gui Qian had not revealed that secret, as he had wanted to keep the map for himself.
At this moment, Lu Yin was also in trouble because Yu Hua Mavis had been exposed.
When Long Tian asked him about his relationship with Yu Hua Mavis, Lu Yin could only say that he did not know her. As for the fact that Yu Hua Mavis had helped the three Guan brothers hide the evidence of Redback, Lu Yin had suffered the consequences of his own actions.
It was all Guan Hai's fault for dragging Lu Yin down with him.
"Brother, what are you trying to say?" Long Xi asked coldly.
Long Tian's group headed in a certain direction, and as they walked, he said, "I just don't want the White Dragon Clan to be implicated because of that woman. You should know how hateful those stowaways are. If not for them, our region might have had a few more Progenitors."
Long Xi frowned. "Now is not the time to talk about this."
Long Tian stared at Lu Yin for a moment before turning to look ahead.
Lu Yin felt guilty and subconsciously glanced at Long Xi. Coincidentally, she was also looking at him.
Long Tian did not know, but Long Xi knew that he was not from a branch of the White Dragon Clan. Furthermore, she had never asked him about his origins.
Long Xi was the princess of the White Dragon Clan and one of the Four Sides of the Scale. Her status was respected, and she did not care about an ordinary cultivator like him. This was normal, but Lu Yin believed that she would investigate him thoroughly after the trip to the Ruler's Realm.
The moment he joined the Humble School, he had been very high-profile, capturing spies and exposing Redbacks. These were not things that ordinary people could do, and many of them were too coincidental. It would be better if he did not think about it carefully, but once he did, it would be easy to expose his flaws.
After the trip to the Ruler's Realm, he might not be able to escape unscathed from Long Xi's interrogation.
Even now, Long Xi looked at him with a complicated gaze and a trace of vigilance.