Chapter 1054
Chapter 1054: Running Without Any Regard for Oneself
This spear was the treasure of this world?
This was clearly just something materialized by the power of the divine dao!
However, An Lin didn’t tell Lan Xiaoni this as she continued toward him.
In reality, he didn’t even have the strength to tell her anymore.
Even though he had his second-stage Evergreen Technique and his body of the War God to prolong his life, he was still unable to completely arrest the flow of his receding vitality.
After crossing over the river of fire, Lan Xiaoni continued to fly toward An Lin.
There were still more lethal realms around the sacrificial altar.
There was a sea of flames on the outer layer and an extremely corrosive poisonous cloud on the inner layer.
When Lan Xiaoni entered the sea of flames, the terrifying heat evaporated the barrier of water around her.
She let loose an anguished wail upon being scorched by the flames and immediately released her little blue fish.
“Sacrifice, blue fish!”
Bam!
A crisp sound erupted.
The little blue fish that had been by her side all this time glowed with scintillating light and strengthened the power of water around her body.
After its sacrifice, the little blue fish lost all of its lusters and became a useless piece of jade.
Lan Xiaoni’s body was enshrouded in a layer of blue as she made her way over the sea of flames as fast as she could.
“Get back!”
Xi Haizi’s enraged cry erupted in the air.
Boundless might descended from the sky before instantly vanquishing the blue barrier around Lan Xiaoni’s body.
Insanely scorching flames pounced toward her like wild beasts, incinerating her body in a frenzy.
“Ah…!” Lan Xiaoni screamed with pain as her white skin became scorching red and was beginning to become carbonized.
A pampered mermaid princess like her had never experienced such agony.
An Lin stared at Lan Xiaoni, who was wailing with agony within the flames, and it felt like he was looking at a fish struggling in a pot of boiling hot oil. He opened his mouth, but he didn’t know what to say.
Just when he thought Lan Xiaoni was going to leave him behind, she came back for him despite how much danger she would place herself in by doing so.
She was already crying tears of agony and had bitten through her lower lip, but she still flew toward him with unrivaled determination, and the sight of the single-minded ferocity on her face put An Lin in a bit of a daze.
Was this still the same underling that would hide behind him and trembled with fear every time they encountered any danger?
Was this still the same princess who was terrified of death and would even resort to screaming “save me daddy” in a dire situation?
Lan Xiaoni looked much more like a warrior with no fear of death at this moment in time.
An Lin’s vitality was still receding, and his eyes gradually began to glaze over, but he could still indistinctly make out a figure struggling through a sea of flames while charging toward him without any regard for herself.
“Lan Xiaoni… You’re going to die.”
He couldn’t help but call out in a hoarse voice.
Lan Xiaoni didn’t appear to have heard him as she broke through the sea of flames through astonishing force of will before diving into the cloud of poison with zero hesitation.
The poison cloud was extremely corrosive and gradually seeped through the barrier constructed by the white ball.
Lan Xiaoni’s skin slowly lost its luster as the poison seeped into her body, and the sections of her body that had been charred black had even rotten away before flowing down her body as inky-black pus.
The poison continued to dwell deeper into her muscle and bone, bringing with it indescribably agony.
Her beautiful blue fish scales were also slowly dropping off her body, and blood splattered everywhere as a result, but she still forged ahead with unshakeable determination.
Lan Xiaoni was trembling with agony, but she stubbornly hobbled onward.
She couldn’t turn back now; nor did she have any intentions of doing so.
In the end, she finally broke through the cloud of poison and successfully arrived at the sacrificial altar.
“Success.” Lan Xiaoni forced a smile onto her face, which was previously as fair and intricate as white jade but was now a charred and bloodstained mess.
No one knew just how much pain she had endured.
The agony of being cooked alive before having her entire body assaulted by excruciating poison had her trembling reflexively, despite the fact that it was already behind her.
She dragged her broken body and whipped her tail feebly as she crawled toward An Lin, leaving a trail of black blood and charred scales behind her.
An Lin’s calm demeanor finally shattered, and he clenched his trembling fists as he looked at the mermaid crawling toward him. “Are you insane?”
“If I don’t go insane, you’ll die.” Lan Xiaoni crawled her way to An Lin with difficulty, but a ball of unyielding flames seemed to be burning in her eyes.
An Lin looked at the mermaid, who was mangled beyond belief, and he asked, “Does it not hurt?”
Lan Xiaoni gripped her hands tightly around the spear in an effort to pull it out. However, the exertion of force caused the charred and poison wounds on her body to tear open again.
Tears fell from her eyes like a river. “Of course it hurts! How can it not hurt?
“But… but if you were to die here, it would hurt even more for me!”
The mermaid princess held on through sheer force of will and tugged on the spear protruding from An Lin’s body with all her might!
She slit open her wrist, and a few drops of what little blood she had left flowed down her arm.
Spirit Fish Divine Blood Mystical Technique, Fish Dragon Dance!
An ear-splitting dragon roar erupted as boundless force surged toward the spear.
Boom!
The blue spear was finally pulled out from the blue rock and out of An Lin’s body.
Lan Xiaoni slowly fell to the ground, and her feeble arms were unable to even hold onto the spear in her hands.
“Finally… I’ve succeeded…”
In the next instant, her slender waist was caught by a set of strong arms.
An Lin looked at the woman in his arms with a smile. “You dropped your spear.”
Lan Xiaoni also smiled. “I…”
She had only just begun talking when An Lin continued, “I’ll keep it for you for now.”
An Lin quickly pulled the storage ring off Lan Xiaoni’s finger before putting the spear into it and then placing the storage ring onto his own finger.
Lan Xiaoni: “…”
“Why have I risked my life both times to save ungrateful curs?” Lan Xiaoni coughed up blood with rage, and her breathing was extremely faint as she began to shed tears again. “Am I going to die?”
“Don’t worry. You’ll be fine with me here.” An Lin guaranteed.
Lan Xiaoni’s heart finally settled a bit upon hearing this. She would often do things like this in the spur of the moment, and only now was she struck by the delayed onset of fear. She really didn’t want to die.
An Lin swallowed an immortal pill first to ensure he didn’t die before bringing out a red jade coffin and placing Lan Xiaoni into it.
Lan Xiaoni’s tears flowed like a river again. “You’ve already prepared a coffin for me, and yet you told me I’ll be fine!”
However, Lan Xiaoni soon discovered that she had misunderstood the situation.
This coffin could somehow absorb the energy in her surroundings, which was then converted into powerful life energy to heal her injuries.
“Open your mouth,” An Lin instructed.
Lan Xiaoni didn’t know what he was doing, but she still spread apart her charred black lips as requested.
An Lin placed his last regenerative immortal pill into Lan Xiaoni’s mouth.
Lan Xiaoni swallowed the pill and was a little moved by this gesture. “You’re not so bad after all.”
An Lin’s lips twitched. This stupid fish was so easy to appease!
“Look away! I’m so ugly right now, I refuse to let you see me like this!” Lan Xiaoni suddenly realized something as she exclaimed in a firm voice.
An Lin rolled his eyes. “You’re on the brink of death, and that’s what you’re worried about?”
Had this mermaid princess’ brain been fried by the flames?
However, Lan Xiaoni really was extremely and severely injured. Her soft, fair skin was either charred black or rotten from corrosion, presenting an extremely ghastly and gruesome sight.
An Lin’s heart throbbed with pain at the sight of Lan Xiaoni’s mangled body.
Thinking back to what Lan Xiaoni had just said and done, he was suddenly a bit flustered and at a loss for what to do.
“I told you not to look!” Lan Xiaoni yelled.
“Alright!” An Lin turned to meditate while facing another direction.
Everything fell silent.
There was only the sound of the bubbling river of lava as the backdrop soundtrack.
“Big Boss An Lin, I’m really stupid, aren’t I?”
Lan Xiaoni broke the silence after a long time.
“You sure are! You risked your life to save the man who was indirectly responsible for the death of your fiance. You really are stupid!” An Lin didn’t deny this.
“He’s not my fiance!”
Lan Xiaoni immediately flared up and began to cough up blood again.
“I’ll admit I was entranced by his looks and misled into thinking that this arranged marriage wasn’t so bad after all. I made a rash decision to sacrifice myself in exchange for his life, but he was dead to me as soon as he chose to run away without any hesitation! Luckily, he never took my first time away from me. Otherwise, I would have made sure to exterminate the entire Black Fox Tribe!”
Lan Xiaoni’s voice slowly softened as she said, “Men that are too handsome really are all scum. Men like you are much more reliable.”
An Lin: “…”
Was that an insult or a compliment?