Saleh's subconscious movement paused. As he turned his head, he saw the Black Dragon Long Sword less than ten centimeters from his forehead! The powerful dragon's breath and pure light of purification struck down ruthlessly from above his head!
Everywhere it passed, the gray souls were thoroughly purified, accompanied by a painful wail...
Ghost King Saleh! Completely vanished!
At the same time, Jin Baoer also plummeted straight down, her radiance slowly fading, like an angel who had fallen to earth and lost her original brilliance...
"Bang!"
The gray mist completely dissipated, and Tianshu rushed forward immediately... catching the disheveled girl who had once again exhausted all her strength. The little girl sensed the depletion in her dantian and was about to repair it when she was refused.
Jin Baoer shook her head, panting, a tragic and gentle smile gracing her lips.
"You're out of strength, rest for a while."
The little girl's movements paused. She looked at Jin Baoer with earnest eyes. How did Big Sister know she was out of strength? And at this moment, Big Sister was so gentle and kind, just like Mother!
The ghost cultivators finally reacted, shouting excitedly! Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Hundreds of years of oppression and constant fear were finally over!
"Hail the New Ghost King!"
The old man was the first to kneel before Jin Baoer, his face filled with excitement and anticipation. The others followed suit, their eyes filled with admiration and respect!
However, Jin Baoer, lying on Tianshu's broad back, spoke with a tone of sarcasm and ice.
"New Ghost King? Hmph... Old man, do you really take me for a fool? If you truly wanted me to be the Ghost King, why would you bribe Mo Ke to monitor me? Why would you constantly trap me with your words? I suspect you've been using me since the day I arrived in the Ghost Realm! I wouldn't dare to be this Ghost King!"
Her words were laced with barbs, clearly indicating her deep dissatisfaction with being manipulated. However, given their common goal, she had been willing to follow their plan step by step...
Furthermore, she and Mo Ke had only met recently. Even if she had saved an entire city before her death, Mo Ke couldn't have been so foolish as to risk his life to draw the enemy's attention for her.
With this thought, she shifted her gaze to the crowd of ghost cultivators, as if spotting a stiff figure.
As if sensing Jin Baoer's gaze, the tall man indeed walked out, his face a mixture of complex emotions.
"So you discovered it long ago! I entered Ghost City before you and was recruited by Uncle Qiu. After all, those who die the fastest in Ghost City are at the Golden Core stage. I..."
He was already dead, and the Ghost Realm was his future home. Ghost King Saleh had to disappear. Uncle Qiu had said that Jin Baoer was the only one who could save the Ghost Realm, and he couldn't refuse.
Jin Baoer withdrew her gaze. She didn't care anyway; he was just a stranger she had met a few times!
Just then, lying on her back, she suddenly saw something, and her brows furrowed. But her utterly weak body couldn't move at all...
This was bad! She had just refused Bao Bao's spiritual energy input... and now she had no strength.
Her abnormality was quickly noticed by the old man. Following her gaze upwards, his pupils instantly widened!
"You... you're not dead? No... that's impossible!"
To be hit directly by that strike, how could he still be alive! That was the Purification Heavenly Thunder!
Everyone's faces changed drastically, and they became vigilant.
However, Jin Baoer was slightly surprised. This aura... was wrong! It wasn't Saleh; there was no sense of evil ominousness about this person!
But... this aura was so powerful. Just looking at it made her feel a tremor of fear! The Saleh from moments ago was nowhere comparable!
Could there be such a powerhouse in the Ghost Realm? Who was it! Was it another Ghost King from another city? But wasn't Saleh said to be the strongest? If this person was truly stronger than Saleh, then today... she was doomed!
For a moment, the atmosphere fell silent again. Jin Huang and Tianshu, however, looked up at the sky with displeasure. You show up only after the fight is over! No wonder you're getting hostile looks.
It wasn't until the figure slowly descended, and the dim sight gradually cleared, that Jin Baoer finally saw the newcomer...
Shiny black hair cascading down, sharp, slanted, heroic sword eyebrows, narrow eyes filled with a keen purple gaze, thin, tightly pressed lips, a well-defined face, a tall and slender but not bulky physique, like a dragon in the night, cold and aloof yet emanating overwhelming might, standing alone with an aura of defiance that surveyed the heavens.
Handsome yet not lacking in boldness, arrogant yet not lacking in dominance. Even without revealing any oppressive aura, his mere presence made one feel suffocated.
The man stopped not far from her and approached step by step, but there was no killing intent or threat in his presence...
At this moment, "Plop!"
She felt as if she heard a heartbeat! Her unusual state brought her back to her senses in an instant. She warily watched him, and with a wave of her hand, she tightly gripped Soul Slasher and aimed it at the man! Killing intent flared!
However, seeing her defensive stance, like a startled cat, Long Lixing merely raised an eyebrow, a flicker of surprise in his eyes.
"What? You don't recognize me?"
Indeed, this little girl was seeing him in his true form for the first time, so it was understandable she wouldn't recognize him!
Jin Baoer frowned.
"Who are you?"
These three words made Tianshu turn her head in shock, Phoenix gasp in surprise, and Soul Slasher silently prayed for her...
"Apologies, Master, but offending this dragon... even I cannot protect you if I fight to the death! Wish yourself luck."
Sympathetic gazes fell upon her, making Jin Baoer puzzled, but she truly didn't remember!
Long Lixing's brows furrowed even deeper, the oppressive aura around him gradually intensifying. His purple eyes were filled with displeasure, and a hint of jealousy could be vaguely seen.
"You don't recognize me? But you recognize that cat and bird?"
For some reason, the moment Jin Baoer heard him refer to himself as "I," she instinctively felt that the man in front of her seemed angry!
"Them... I don't recognize them either!"
The after-effects of taking the Seven-Star Pill were making her extremely difficult to speak. Logically, she shouldn't recognize Jin Huang, let alone that tiger.
"That's not right. If you don't remember us, how did you accurately call out Soul Slasher's name just now? Baoer, stop messing around."
Hearing this, Jin Baoer then remembered that she had indeed called out Soul Slasher's name earlier. She hadn't paid attention to the last four words Tianshu spoke.
Long Lixing pursed his lips, his expression unchanging, but his aura became increasingly oppressive, making one's heart pound.
The next second, he reached out and grabbed Jin Baoer's wrist. The sudden movement made her instinctively resist, but the man held her firmly, no matter how she struggled!
"What did you eat?"
A cold voice came from beside her, followed by a pair of purple eyes filled with a hint of anger, and a trace of barely perceptible worry and unease within them.
It was these eyes that made her pause slightly... and she instinctively spoke.
"Before I died... I should have taken a Seven-Star Pill. A pill that can temporarily boost one's cultivation..."
Before she could finish, the man let out an angry laugh, his words becoming extremely sarcastic and unpleasant.