“No, that’s not right.” Ming Yi stopped in her tracks, finally realizing, “If they knew I was still alive, the Empress Dowager wouldn’t have sent him to find me.”
Having let her go once, why would she give him the chance to do it again, unless the Empress Dowager was doing this deliberately, wanting to confirm something?
A chill ran down her spine. Ming Yi gritted her teeth and suddenly started running even faster towards the competition venue on the outskirts.
She couldn’t save Ming An now; going back would only mean her death unless Ji Bozai came to help her.
She needed Ji Bozai.
At the venue, the competition was already halfway through, and the battle was exceptionally fierce. The teams that had been relatively easy to deal with yesterday had all changed their members today.
Muxing City’s team lacked a divine weapon forger, putting them at a disadvantage. They were being besieged by teams from other cities. Ji Bozai was already injured, while Luo Jiaoyang and the others were in even worse shape. Qin Shangwu wanted to send in replacements, but he had no divine weapon forgers at hand. He could only watch the situation in the arena anxiously.
“Qin, I must say, having Ji Bozai in your Muxing City is wasting talent,” Zuo Ping sneered. “Why not sell him to our Xin Cao City? At least we have plenty of divine weapon forgers.”
“Hey, your Xin Cao City’s buildings are prone to collapse. Better sell him to our Fei Hua City. With Zheng Tiao as his partner, he’d be more useful than those unfamiliar youngsters.”
“Your buildings are the ones prone to collapse! All the buildings in your Fei Hua City are prone to collapse!”
“Don’t be too upset, Qin. After all, your Muxing City is used to losing. Losing this round today won’t make much difference.”
A group of perfectly good people, why did they have to have mouths?
Qin Shangwu’s face turned green with anger. Who’s content with always losing? Especially when they could have won. Ji Bozai’s Yuan Power was so strong that even after his divine weapon was damaged, he could use his own Yuan Power to fight against several teams using divine weapons. Such a genius should be winning!
However, these teams had planned. Unable to win in a fair fight, they resorted to stalling tactics, not allowing Muxing City’s team to stand in the moonlight for half an hour. Shamelessly, they even sent two teams at once.
His fists were clenched so tight they turned white. If the rules allowed it, he would have gone in himself.
“Muxing City substitution—” someone called out.
Qin Shangwu turned back, ready to scold whoever was shouting nonsense. Muxing didn’t have anyone left to substitute.
But when he turned around, he saw Ming Yi standing in the arena, her face pale. The white cloth bandaging half her arm was soaked through with blood, and she was swaying unsteadily, barely able to stand.
“This is madness!” He hurriedly stood up to meet her. “Why are you here?”
“Master, I need to save someone, but I can’t do it alone. So I’ve come to help them win this round,” she said softly and quickly. “After we win, please help me, Master, along with them!”
Seeing her so anxious was rare. Qin Shangwu nodded without thinking: “Alright.”
After nodding, he couldn’t help but laugh bitterly: “Do you think this is some game where you can win just because you say so? Not to mention you’re severely injured. Even if you weren’t, they’re already at their limit in there…”
“In this world, there are no battles that can’t be won, only teams that don’t know how to win.” Pushing Xiu Yun towards him, Ming Yi walked towards the Void Realm in the arena.
“What an arrogant brat!” The masters of several cities in the main seats all sneered. “Looking like that, he’ll be torn to pieces as soon as he enters the Void Realm.”
Substituting halfway through a competition was very difficult because when a new person enters the Void Realm, they can’t immediately join their team. They might be intercepted and killed halfway, especially someone as weak and injured as her.
Everyone’s eyes were on her, but few held out much hope. Some even ordered their medical officers to stand by.
However, She Tianlin was extremely excited.
When he had seen Ming Yi earlier, due to her damaged meridians, she had lost all fighting spirit, calm and resigned. But now, her eyes were no different from when she was in Chaoyang City. The aura around her was so intense that some of the spectators below found it difficult to breathe.
This wasn’t Ming Yi; it was like Ming Xian.
He didn’t know what had stimulated her, but She Tianlin was eager to see what she could do with such damaged meridians.
As soon as she entered the Void Realm, Yuan Power attacked from the side. Ming Yi cast a pure white shield for herself, then raised Starfall Sunset and launched a massive counterattack in the direction of the assault.
With a thunderous boom, white light shot up towards the sky, almost penetrating the Void Realm.
“Utterly foolish,” Zuo Ping watched and scoffed. “In this arena, one needs to hide their whereabouts. Making such a big commotion will only attract opponents faster.”
“No, you’re wrong,” She Tianlin smiled. “Such an action won’t just attract opponents.”
The huge white pillar of light burst out from the vast flower forest. Ji Bozai whipped his head around to look in that direction and immediately barked: “Go find her.”
“Ming Yi?” Luo Jiaoyang half-opened his eyes, blood flowing down from his eyelids. “She came. Is she unwilling to see us die here?”
Without comment, Ji Bozai cleared the way for them, leading them toward the light at top speed.
Pure white Yuan Power was rare, let alone such powerful Yuan Power. For a moment, the other teams were stunned, thinking Chaoyang City had substituted Ming Xian.
However, the Chaoyang City team had dark expressions and were rushing aggressively towards the white light pillar. As they got closer, they started attacking.
“Traitor! Traitor!”
Multicolored Yuan Power surged towards her. Ming Yi threw out over a dozen defensive divine weapons, forming them into an egg-shaped shell to protect her inside.
The Yuan Power hit the shell, only making a few dents. The masters watching from outside immediately looked at She Tianlin.
She Tianlin put on a righteous face: “Why are you looking at me? I didn’t teach her that.”
He would never teach Ming Yi such an unimpressive divine weapon. She must have learned it on her own.
King Yong wasn’t here today. Wei Changsheng was leading the Chaoyang team. His eyes turned red as he immediately ordered: “Crush this turtle shell and her into powder!”
Forcefully attacking divine weapons wasn’t a wise move; it was inefficient. But these people were driven by personal grudges. They immediately channeled all their Yuan Power into attacks, crashing against the eggshell like giant waves.
Ming Yi had wrapped a layer of pure white Yuan Power outside the shell. When the attacks came, she was only pushed away with the shell, not crushed.
“Their Yuan Power will take half an incense stick’s time to recover. What are you waiting for?” Ming Yi shouted using her Yuan Power as the shell bobbed up and down.
The Xin Cao City team, lying in ambush nearby, heard this and immediately came forward to eliminate the Chaoyang City members who were so angry their lips had turned white.
The huge waves of Yuan Power they had created continued to attack the surroundings. Ming Yi drew a thread of her own Yuan Power and tossed it out, diverting the disaster and drowning the gleeful Xin Cao City team.
Yuan Power without its master didn’t cause much damage, but there was so much of it that it was very troublesome. The Xin Cao City team was just about to curse her in frustration when they felt a chill on the back of their necks.