"Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, wake up. What happened? I asked you to investigate the Death God's Messenger's whereabouts. How did it come to this? Where are Jiang Nannan and the Holy Son?"
Within a quarter of an hour, Xuan Lao and Zhuang Lao located the signal flare's launch position and arrived first, finding the cave where the Death God's Messenger's bandit group was stationed.
At this moment, Zhuang Lao stayed behind to treat Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao's injuries. The light of life from the Life Tree showered down, giving the two women new vitality.
Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen slowly opened their eyes, still a bit dazed. Upon seeing Zhuang Lao, they both instinctively grabbed his hands:
"Zhuang Lao, it's bad! Hurry and save Little Martial Uncle (the Holy Son)! He's fighting the Death God's Messenger, and his life is uncertain!"
"What? The Death God's Messenger?!" Zhuang Lao exclaimed in shock.
Hearing this, Zhuang Lao paced anxiously. Something had indeed gone wrong! Even outstanding inner court students like Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen couldn't defeat the Death God's Messenger. How could the Holy Son possibly handle it? Wasn't that just courting death?
Is the Sea God Pavilion's ten-thousand-year plan going to be ruined like this? How am I going to explain this to Old Mu?
Losing Su Qingfeng on the continent, it's like a long night from now on!
Immediately, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, enduring the erosion of the death poison, wanted to bravely charge into the depths of the cave.
Just then, an old man holding a wine pot walked out from the depths of the cave, his face flushed, unsure whether from drinking or some other reason.
This person was Xuan Zi.
"Xuan Lao, what's the situation inside? What about Holy Son and Jiang Nannan? Speak up, you're killing me with worry!"
"I want to go in and see for myself!" Ma Xiaotao said urgently. If Su Qingfeng died, she didn't want to live either.
"Oh, why are you all so anxious? I just don't know how to put it. This, this, this… young people's affairs, how can I possibly explain it?!"
Xuan Lao was stuttering at this point, but he stopped Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Zhuang Lao. He said:
"Holy Son and Jiang Nannan are both inside, they should be out of mortal danger, but you two can't go in right now. Listen to me, you two go out and heal your injuries first. We'll wait outside for them to come out."
Xuan Lao waved his hand and spoke with an undeniable tone. Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen's stubborn personalities surfaced at this moment, they wouldn't give up until they personally confirmed Su Qingfeng's safety.
Xuan Lao actually used his own pressure to force them back: "You won't even listen to me? Don't forget, I'm the Vice-Captain of the Supervisory Team, I have the right to directly command and deploy you!"
There was no other choice. Since Xuan Lao had said as much, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen could only retreat from the cave.
Finally, Zhuang Lao frowned at Xuan Lao and asked in a low voice,
"Xuan Lao, tell me, what's going on? I just sensed something in there. It seems like there was impact and fighting, even screams. What's happening?"
To be honest, Zhuang Lao was also full of confusion.
If Su Qingfeng was still fighting the Death God's Messenger inside, Xuan Lao shouldn't have come out so easily.
Moreover, the frequency of the fighting, impacts, and screams seemed to follow a strange pattern. There wasn't the uncertainty of a desperate battle, and it was even possible to predict when the next collision would occur.
However, because he was a healing-type soul master, mental power detection wasn't his strong suit, so his perception wasn't very clear, it was quite vague.
Xuan Lao rubbed his temples. "Alright Zhuang Lao, don't ask anymore. Anyway, that Holy Son kid is not in any mortal danger... wait, wait, he might actually be in mortal danger. Oh, whatever, it's fine, what a headache this is!"
As he spoke, Xuan Lao himself looked bewildered. When he and Zhuang Lao arrived, they found Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen already seriously injured, so he had Zhuang Lao stay to heal them while he went deeper into the cave to investigate the situation and search for Su Qingfeng and Jiang Nann's whereabouts.
At that moment, he was terrified that Su Qingfeng would get into trouble. But when he got inside, his old face flushed red, and he fled in panic.
The sound was both enchanting and tinged with pain. Xuan Lao knew immediately what was happening. Although he didn't know why such a thing would happen, he chose to give them some privacy to protect those involved.
Afterward, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Ning Tian also arrived, followed closely by Chen Zifeng and Dai Yaoheng.
But they all immediately inquired about Su Qingfeng's situation. His stunning appearance at Sea God Lake had instilled a special sense of awe or admiration in everyone for him.
Xuan Lao said nothing, only telling them to wait outside.
Seeing the scene of killing and bloodshed for the first time, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and the other outer court disciples were shocked.
"Judging from the traces of the fight and the remaining elemental energy, you two should have killed these people. Tell me what happened."
Xuan Lao guarded the cave entrance, not allowing anyone to enter. He observed the surrounding corpses and the scene of the fight and spoke to Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao.
Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao exchanged glances and recounted everything that had happened.
Hearing that the two had encountered a Death God's Messenger and lost their ability to fight, everyone's hearts tightened.
But when they heard that at the most critical moment, Su Qingfeng had actually charged in to save them, both Dai Yaoheng and Chen Zifeng's eyes flashed with admiration.
Facing a Dark Soul Master for the first time, facing killing, and still possessing such a fearless spirit was indeed quite good.
Xuan Lao, however, snorted. "Impulsive. Both of you, when you return to the academy, you will be punished with seven days of reflection. Think carefully about how you should handle such situations in the future. The academy has already had such an example, which caused the inner court to suffer a heavy lesson. Do you still want to repeat your senior sister's path?!"
Hearing this, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen both lowered their heads in shame. "Xuan Lao, we know we were wrong."
If they had chosen to remain calm from the start, not arguing or fighting, and waited for Xuan Lao and the others to arrive before taking action, such a crisis would not have occurred.
Fortunately, from Xuan Lao's words, Su Qingfeng and Jiang Nannan were still recuperating in the cave and hadn't died, so a major mistake hadn't been made.
And so, the people from Shrek Academy stood guard outside the cave until dawn.
Until the sun rose in the east, casting a faint morning light that filtered through the gaps between the leaves and branches and fell upon everyone, some of the students awoke from their short naps.
Old Zhuang walked to Old Xuan's side and asked anxiously: "It's been the better part of the night, and the Holy Son still hasn't come out. Could it be that his injuries are too severe? Or should I go in and heal them, to avoid any irreparable damage?"
Old Xuan was also pondering: I didn't expect the young people of today to have so much energy, able to go at it for a whole night, truly...
Just then, the sunlight happened to shine into the cave for about two or three meters.
A woman with long, flowing wavy hair, wearing a light blue dress, her legs still trembling, and looking somewhat tired, was supporting an even weaker, peerlessly handsome young man, who even needed her support to move.
The two of them, leaning on each other with great difficulty, came out. When they saw that everyone was there, they finally relaxed.
Immediately, everyone surrounded them: "Holy Son!"
"Jiang Nannan!"
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