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The Ghost Fire, glowing green, personally escorted them to the entrance of a desolate mountain path, where a vast army of Ghost Fires densely surrounded Lan Xi.

However, the green Ghost Fire stopped above Ya’s head, ready to dive into the purple-clad youth’s body and devour his soul if Lan Xi dared any deceit.

"Lan Xi, you can’t do this. Without the Primordial Spirit Blood, you’re no longer a god. You will die!" Ya roared angrily with his last breath. He would rather die than see her lose her Primordial Spirit and then slowly perish.

She was only ten thousand years old and had not yet gone through the coming of age ceremony.

Lan Xi didn’t have time to care for him; if she delayed any longer, the purple-clad youth would die before she could extract the Primordial Spirit Blood.

She took out the dagger she carried with her, gave the purple-clad youth a faint smile, "It’s right for me to save you since you took all the blame for me and helped me get the Blood Third Seven. You also saved me, so now we’re square."

As Lan Xi spoke, she plunged the dagger into her heart, forcefully cutting open a slit, followed by a crystal-clear drop of blood that flowed out of the wound.

The green Ghost Fire immediately leaped excitedly, let go of the purple-clad youth, and rushed forward with a jade vase to catch the crystal-clear blood.

The dagger in Lan Xi’s hand dropped to the ground, and blood immediately soaked her shoulder, drenching her white clothing in an instant.

She fell to the ground and took a long time to catch her breath before crawling toward the direction of the purple-clad youth.

"Damn it, Ya, you’re not going to die, are you!"

The purple-clad youth stared dumbly at the delicate features of the girl, whose lips had already lost their color.

She really gave her Primordial Spirit Blood to someone else to save him.

He was filled with both joy and anger.

Joy, because she truly cared for him; anger, because how could she harm herself to save him.

This foolish woman, does she not realize that even without her rescue, these creatures wouldn’t dare to harm him.

The purple-clad youth mustered his last breath, got up from the ground, steadied Lan Xi’s hand, and said with conviction, "Let’s hurry back, Imperial Father will definitely have a way to save you."

Lan Xi cracked a smile, but in her heart, she knew.

As soon as she got out of the Demon Realm, she would be fine.

The Ghost Fire, having taken the Primordial Spirit Blood, quickly disappeared with its Demon army.

Lan Xi and the purple-clad youth supported each other and walked towards the edge of the Demon Realm.

As the sky grew brighter, they were about to leave the desolate mountains, but at this critical moment, the road ahead was blocked by row upon row of terrifying skeletons, making it impossible to get through.

The leader was a Golden Skeleton, its hollow eye sockets and row upon row of terrifying teeth inspiring fear at a glance.

"Hand over the Blood Third Seven. This belongs to the Demon Realm, and we won’t allow it to be taken into the Immortal Realm."

Lan Xi clenched her palm; her blood had already soaked the Blood Third Seven. For this, she had paid such a heavy price, and now they were intercepted just as they were about to succeed.

How could she possibly hand it over?

Moreover, even though she couldn’t use Spiritual Power here, she could still summon the Heavenly Sword.

Lan Xi laid the purple-clad youth on the ground, instructing, "Don’t move around, rest assured I will get you out of here."

Her tone was so firm, as gentle as a warm spring breeze.

He felt like he was dying, but every time he saw her white garment fluttering, he couldn’t help but believe her words.

In Lan Xi’s left hand, she gripped the Blood Third Seven tightly, while her right hand slowly revealed a seven-foot-longsword.

Even though forcibly using Immortal Technique caused a sweet taste in her throat and a surge of blood, she bit her lip and forced the blood back down while staring straight at the Golden Skeleton and the vast army of millions behind it, "If you have the guts, come and take it!"

She was truly enraged.

Though she had never faced such things before, she was a favored child of the heavens, and the nobility of a god was inviolable.

Besides, she had already given the Demon Realm a drop of Primordial Spirit Blood, wasn’t exchanging a drop of Primordial Spirit Blood for a piece of Blood Third Seven enough?

Since they were forcing her into a corner, she might as well go on a killing spree.

The Golden Skeleton soldiers seemed to sense the girl’s murderous aura and fell silent for a moment. But upon closer thought, Lan Xi was just a Demigod without Primordial Spirit Blood, and this was the Demon Realm; she couldn’t use Immortal Technique, so killing her would be easy.

As for Ya, who was seriously injured on the side, if they captured him and made the Heavenly Emperor trade for him, it would be killing two birds with one stone.

"Kill her!" commanded the Golden Skeleton soldier.

At that command, the thronging army of white skeletons surged toward Lan Xi.

Lan Xi gripped the longsword in her hand, slashing relentlessly, without the slightest mercy.

Soon, she had sliced through the bones piece by piece, and a mountain of white bone ash had swiftly piled up beneath her feet.

The Golden Skeleton soldiers had not anticipated that the sword in Lan Xi’s hand was so formidable; truly befitting of an immortal. Even at the brink of her strength, she still possessed such lethal destructive power. If she were allowed to grow into a true god, that would be unthinkable.

Kill, no matter what, she must not be allowed to return.

More and more skeleton soldiers charged at Lan Xi, who could not use Spiritual Energy, and she had already lost a Primordial Spirit, with blood flowing continuously from the wound on her chest. Her snow-white garment had long been dyed red.

Over time, coupled with the Heavenly Sword’s backlash against the immortal, her mind started to spin, and she felt increasingly unable to hold on.

She bit down on her teeth, exhausting the last bit of her strength, she told herself she could not fall.

However, the skeleton soldiers before her were increasing in number, and it seemed no matter how many she cut down, they were neverending.

"Stop fighting, I’ll go with you. Please, let her go!" The youth in purple was already in tears, as he strained his broken body crawling toward Lan Xi.

But his voice was drowned out among the cold white bones, unheard by anyone.

Lan Xi’s body teetered, about to collapse, when suddenly a bony hand pierced through her abdomen, causing more blood to flow out.

Lan Xi spat out a large mouthful of blood and, turning with her sword, directly shattered the bony hand into fragments, but her abdomen was brutally wounded, blood pouring out.

She leaned on the sword, kneeling directly onto the white bones.

The Golden Skeleton soldier looked at her with a cold and sinister laugh, "Chatter chatter, minions! The things of my Demon Realm, the flora and fauna of my Blood Demon Sea, nobody can take them away. Lan Xi, so-called ’god’, is merely this after all."

Lan Xi gasped heavily, she closed her eyes, having already made up her mind.

Today, she would let them witness the power of a god.

Just as she was prepared to burn the second drop of Primordial Spirit Blood, an ear-piercing sound of cutting through the air arrived, and then she saw an ocean of skeleton soldiers being flung away.

Before her, a wide and clear path had appeared.

The youth in black, holding a longsword, had cut a path littered with white bones from afar, quickly closing the distance towards her.

Seeing this, Lan Xi revealed a smile at the corner of her mouth, just on time, he had arrived.

She no longer needed to burn her body’s precious second drop of blood.

"Lan Xi!" The youth in black called her name for the first time, not as ’Your Highness Lan Xi.’

He rushed to her side, embracing her bloodstained body in his arms, showing a look of panic for the first time in his cold and detached eyes.

"Ah Qing! Kill them all!" Lan Xi leaned into his embrace, the blood from her mouth staining the other half of her shoulder as it flowed down her garment, her white clothes only speckled with white, the rest a glaring crimson.

The youth in black tightened his grip on the longsword, taking another from her hand, and slowly stood up from the ground.

Your Highness Lan Xi had given the order to kill them.

Without hesitation, he plunged into the ranks of the skeletons like a ferocious demon, his sword rising and falling, turning the skeletons instantly into dust.

Battalions of skeleton soldiers fell one after another, terrifying the Golden Skeleton enough to make it turn tail and flee.

The youth in black wouldn’t give it the chance, vanishing in an instant, only to reappear in front of the Golden Skeleton. Both deadly longswords struck directly at the Golden Skeleton.

Without any effort, the most fearsome Golden Skeleton was instantly reduced to dust.

Seeing this, the other skeleton soldiers fled in terror.

In a single breath, the view on the desolate hill became clear.

Were it not for the layer of white bone ash on the ground, one might think everything that had just happened was nothing more than a dream.

The youth in black rushed to Lan Xi’s side, holding her once more in his arms, his gaze cold and bloodthirsty, "I’m getting you out of here."

"No! Ah Qing!" Lan Xi shook her head, gasping for breath as she clutched his hand, struggling to sit up. "Close your eyes, and only open them when I tell you to."

The youth in black did not understand what she was about to do, but seeing that she was severely injured and still insisted on doing something.

He could not refuse her, so he obediently closed his eyes.

The youth in purple climbed the desolate mountain, and for a moment, when he saw the girl sitting on the small path not far away, he felt a flicker of joy.

Because thankfully, she was still alive.

As for the other youth? Lan Xi had her back turned to him, yet he could clearly see her undoing the ribbon tied around the youth’s wrist, taking out the Blood Third Seven and Seven-Colored Immortal Soil, then forcefully using immortal power to mix the two before evenly applying it to the youth’s palm.