Corpse Recovery Diver

Mountain Girl's gaze intentionally shifted between Sun Yan and Xu Ming. Earlier during the escape, she hinted at Zhao Yi to abandon these two burdens who were heavily injured.

But Zhao Yi was unmoved.

She couldn't believe he didn't understand; she liked this man because he had a sharp mind and could see things clearly when it mattered most.

Zhao Yi sat there, clutching his chest, occasionally letting out painful nasal sounds.

The life-and-death escape during this period had caused the temporary heart made by the spider to become overwhelmed.

Mountain Girl's gaze narrowed slightly as she asked, "Why not tell them that the people at the guesthouse have a piece of broken jade, and they're both badly injured, making it easier to snatch?"

Zhao Yi looked up, gazing at Mountain Girl with eyes as if he was looking at a fool.

The boy surnamed Li really isn't afraid of making himself the big whistleblower.

Do you think if he sings a bluff others will believe it?

Without a bright column of corpse energy standing there, no matter how much doubt there is inside, no one will "play smart"; they won't risk their lives for an uncertain possibility.

A bluff and inviting someone into a trap can almost be considered synonyms.

Mountain Girl asked puzzledly, "Is it not possible?" 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Zhao Yi shook his head, "No, it's not possible."

Mountain Girl: "But if we continue like this, we'll really die, we'll die!"

Zhao Yi lowered his head again, one hand pressing on his chest, the other covering his forehead. Not only was his chest hurting now; his head hurt even more.

Mountain Girl reproached him bitterly, "A decision must be made; we can't all die here!"

This time, Zhao Yi didn't raise his head but instead took a deep breath and said seriously:

"Scheming against others is one thing, but if I start plotting against my people and can easily abandon them, what point is there in walking through this domain, becoming the Dragon King for nothing?

Don't say such things again, or I'll turn hostile!"

In the sky, a bird with broken wings struggled to circle around, letting out a blood-crying low chirp; enemies were closing in.

Mountain Girl gritted her teeth, intentionally looking defeated, supporting herself on the ground with both hands, her mouth making sounds resembling crying and laughing, as if heartbroken:

"Why do you speak of me like this? I only do it for your own good."

Two centipedes crawled along her palms into the earth, then silently appeared on Sun Yan and Xu Ming's bodies.

Mountain Girl kept staring at Zhao Yi with her watery eyes, and seeing Zhao Yi not once lifting his head, she thought to herself:

You refuse to be the bad person, I'll help you; their injuries are so severe, I'll help them be freed!

Just as the two poisonous centipedes were about to bite, Sun Yan suddenly opened his eyes from unconsciousness, and a sable sprang from inside his clothes, slicing through the centipedes with its sharp claws, then leapt onto Xu Ming's body at an extremely fast speed, snatching the other centipede.

With one arm severed, Xu Ming let out a low growl, his body spinning in the air, joints emitting explosive sounds, crashing into Mountain Girl, knocking her down heavily while grabbing a silver needle with one hand and stabbing it into the back of her neck.

The needle was enough to cause her entire body to convulse and temporarily prevent her from deploying the Gu Worms within.

Zhao Yi finally lifted his head, looking expressionlessly at Mountain Girl, and said in a somber tone:

"I told you, I'd turn hostile."

After recovering from the initial shock, Mountain Girl screamed, "Zhao Yi, everything I do is for you!"

Sun Yan stood up, the sable sitting on his shoulder, eagerly gnawing on a centipede.

Above, the bird dove downward, and the sable tossed a centipede upward, which the bird caught; it knew not to eat alone.

"Zhao Yi, I did it all for you, yet you plotted against me. I liked you so much, yet you plotted against me!"

"What you did wasn't out of love for me; it's because you don't want to die here with me."

Zhao Yi crouched down before Mountain Girl, carefully observing her face and continued:

"I'm different from that guy surnamed Li; I see no emotions in his eyes, which is why I fear him.

Even if all his subordinates are heavily injured lying there, I'd still believe he could sacrifice them all to stand up and make a last desperate struggle.

I'm different from him. If you genuinely love me to the point of death, I wouldn't let you die before me."

"You're lying, you're ridiculous, Zhao Yi, you're shameless, you heartless man!"

Suddenly, Mountain Girl let out a cold laugh, "How long can you lock me up? Or are you thinking of killing me? Don't forget, you rely on the Life Gu I've placed on you to stay alive. Zhao Yi, your life belongs to me, yet you dare treat me like this, hahaha..."

Mountain Girl's laughter abruptly stopped.

Because she saw Zhao Yi reach towards his chest, forcibly pulling off the big spider.

The area immediately became a bloody mess, but it vaguely revealed a severely damaged heart, weakly beating.

"How... How can it be, wasn't your heart... already..."

"Old Tian didn't have to spend the rest of his life bedridden; he risked everything just to help protect the last bit of my heart.

He said, young master of the Zhao family shouldn't let his life be in others' hands.

Did you think I didn't know, in that Ancient Burial site of the Corpse Gu Sect, the person secretly aiding that Evil against me was actually you?

It was only when you saw that Evil failing that you stepped in saying you were willing to rescue me."

Mountain Girl's gaze turned vicious, she sneered, "Then why did you still bring me along through this domain?"

Zhao Yi: "Old Tian wasn't able to continue, the team needed an extra person; most importantly, it needed someone ready to be sacrificed at any moment. You were perfect."

Mountain Girl's gaze fell on the piece of broken jade emitting corpse energy, "What's the point? Unless you learn from that one to hand it over, otherwise you'll all die. But if you do hand this over, how much longer can your broken heart keep beating?"

Zhao Yi picked up the broken jade and placed it on the big spider.

The spider's legs wrapped around the broken jade, starting to crazily absorb the corpse energy from it, its color instantly turning black.

Mountain Girl widened her eyes, "How can it be, how could you know the Gu Technique, how could it be..."

"It's been fed with my heart's blood for so long, it listens to me, is that so odd?

Heh, do you know why that guy surnamed Li is willing to play with me? Because even though I'm not at his level, I'm not too bad either."

Zhao Yi stuffed the big spider into Mountain Girl's mouth, then used his heart's blood as a talisman, pressing it on her forehead, forcibly activating all her Gu Worms, making them go berserk in absorbing the corpse energy from the broken jade.

The absorption was so fierce and fast that the originally pitch-black broken jade began to show its original emerald color.

Mountain Girl's body began to transform, gradually becoming monstrous, like a ghost with sharp teeth.

Soon, she began to violently struggle, growling fiercely, with Gu Worms writhing inside her.

Zhao Yi kicked Mountain Girl off the cliff, a large amount of corpse energy rising from her body, while the broken jade in Zhao Yi's hand no longer emitted corpse energy, though it continued to darken at a visible speed.

But, this period was enough.

He had purposely compressed his range of movement during this time, attracting all the pursuers close together. Now that their attention was drawn by Mountain Girl, he could use this gap to escape the encirclement.

Zhao Yi glanced at Xu Ming and Sun Yan, waved and said:

"Let's go, find my Brother Yuan!"

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Adding one more chapter tomorrow to make up for the word count in this chapter.