I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch

Given the current situation,

it seemed that the conflict over the Holy Relics involved a great many powers.

Rushing into the fray was not a wise choice.

However, to be a dark chess player hidden in the shadows seemed not too bad of an idea.

The moment Xia Feng touched the temporal box and received the information inside, which took but an instant, he quickly altered the information within. At the same time, he looked around.

The fire sea was filled with sharp roars coming one after another as one rotted corpse after another, covered in congealed Blood Flame, horrifically surged toward him with savage faces.

These were the furnace slaves who had lost their sanity to the flames, emitting a terrifying aura.

Xia Feng's expression turned grave as he seized the temporal box and leaped into the air, operating the Blood Spirit Mechanism to fly toward the exit with blood ablaze all over his body.

Xia Feng moved too fast for everyone to snap back from their incredulous shock,

and by the time they did, he had already returned by the same path he had come, bursting out from the top of the furnace. Below him, a dense mass of rotten corpses piled up, reaching for his ankles in vain before collapsing back into the sea of Blood Flame with a thunderous crash.

When Xia Feng did indeed appear unharmed from within the furnace,

everyone's eyes, which had been tightly constricted, began to slowly dilate. No way, he'd only been in there a few minutes and he'd already learned how to use an A-rank Spiritual Clothes?

After passing this ridiculous thought through their minds,

people shook their heads, quickly realizing it must be due to the special constitution of a Divinity Half-Dragon or that the man already knew how to use Blood Spirit Mechanism.

After all, mastering A-rank in ten minutes was even more preposterous than the world ending today.

Besides, the boy did have fluctuations of Spiritual Pressure on him just now, and it was even True Martial Spirit Pressure!

Although he was not a Venerable, it was enough to leave everyone speechless.

They had long heard Jiang Qiue was extremely cautious, but no one expected her to be this cautious. When she had dealt with Olivia before, the Life Puppet she cultivated had not even shown its full strength.

Xia Feng patted the residual flames off his trousers and when he looked up again, the twelve prodigies had already surrounded Jiang Qiue and himself.

Justice Saint Heir and Jin Jili stood, blocking the retreat to the west.

Yeli Kong stood with arms behind him in the east, his Heavy Pupils indifferently looking down: "Jiang Qiue, your scheme was indeed good, but unfortunately, you've encountered me."

"This time, even if your Escape Technique is strong, you won't be able to get away," he said, spreading an intangible force field around himself.

"....."

Jiang Qiue was not listening to Yeli Kong's arrogant words; right now, she just wanted to beat up this jerk named Xia Feng.

She had been cautious for many years, never causing trouble—steadily moving forward, living low-key, and never actively seizing any treasure to put herself in a siege.

But unexpectedly...

it seemed that ever since she met Xia Feng, she was always running into danger. Jiang Qiue's face remained indifferent, slowly raising her eyes.

The tall man with golden hair and a shoulder-length drape stood with his arms behind him in the distance, speaking calmly from a superior position: "You have two choices, either hand over the holy box, or I'll take it myself."

"Hisss~ Holy Daughter, this guy is so arrogant." By then, Xia Feng had already come to Jiang Qiue's side, his thoughts somewhat excited, "If I were you, I'd just blitz him! Teach him the consequences of looking down on the Nine-tailed Star Lord!"

".....!" Hearing Xia Feng's schadenfreude tone, Jiang Qiue ground her teeth in anger; how could someone be so infuriating!

It was really hard to imagine that she had raised this foul mouth herself.

Frustrated, Jiang Qiue gave Xia Feng a cold glare before wrapping her arms around his waist, thinking: "Hold on to me tightly."

As Xia Feng did as he was told, a golden "遁" character appeared before their eyes, and the two vanished on the spot right under the eyes of the crowd.

But they couldn't really escape.

It was as if the space had been subjected to a slowing field; they hadn't run far before Jiang Qiue was caught up by everyone and was surrounded again.

Jiang Qiue was unwilling to reveal her true strength, still pretending to be in the realm of True Martial Second Realm, using some not very powerful Spiritual Clothes, as her injuries gradually worsened and her eyebrows furrowed.

"In fact, you could have just left me behind and then used your Law of Manifestation to teleport yourself away," Xia Feng earnestly suggested.

Jiang Qiue's Law of Manifestation worked only on herself, so if she wanted to escape, it wouldn't be difficult.

"How about my proposal?" The boy's indifferent voice by her side made Jiang Qiue's frown deepen. "Shut up!"

She had only just gotten her hands on Xia Feng, and she was not willing to let go of him just like that!

"Fine, since you won't leave me behind, let's just throw away the Holy Relics," Xia Feng said with a light laugh, tossing the Golden Box behind him.

"You—" Jiang Qiue was slightly shocked, but the Holy Relics were already thrown far away.

She had thought Xia Feng was such a greedy and despicable man that he would never give up the Holy Relics, which after all, represented a shortcut to divinity.

That's why she hadn't urged Xia Feng to discard the item before.

But she had not expected this guy to be so easygoing, tossing away such a treasure so casually.

"Boom—"

At the same time, the group pursuing them from behind was stunned.

They hadn't anticipated that Jiang Qiue would actually throw the Holy Relics away!

But what happened next caused their expressions to undergo a drastic change—the moment the Holy Relics were thrown, they were in an open state!

A burst of golden light spilled out, coalescing mid-air into a stream of information that seemed to be constructed by the Law, directly entering everyone's eyes and flooding their minds.

[The information contained within this space-time box: The Holy Relics are buried at the Holy Spirit Temple·Spirit Mountain]

Everyone: "!!!!"

"Damn it!" Ye Li's face slightly darkened.

The information regarding the location of the Holy Relics was crucial, but letting so many powers in on it was not good news.

"To think it's in Spirit Mountain...." The stern and cold expression on the Justice Saint Heir shifted at that moment, his scalp tingling with trepidation.

The Holy Spirit Temple was the sacred ground of the three Churches, with Spirit Mountain being the most important of all.

The Churches would never allow the power factions and legions to set foot on Spirit Mountain!

But if the power factions and legions joined forces.... Even the deeply rooted, divinely protected Three Churches wouldn't be able to stop them.

In that instant, a myriad of thoughts flashed through everyone's minds, each wearing a different expression.

At the same time, Ye Li and the Justice Saint Heir appeared beside the Holy Relics, touching them with their hands.

The pale golden Spiritual Light within the Holy Relics shimmered, weaving into ancient and mysterious chains of Law, flowing slowly; there was nothing else, nor any additional information.

The Justice Saint Heir furrowed his brows even more. If this information was indeed true, then the Three Churches would have big trouble on their hands.

Now he could only hope that this was a false message deliberately released by the Shiming Monk to trick the Empire's higher-ups.

But the Holy Spirit Temple was where the Three Saint Star Gods were worshipped, and it made perfect sense for the Holy Relics of the Three Saint Star Gods to be buried within Spirit Mountain...

Xia Feng, who had already run a considerable distance, looked back and saw that the representatives of various factions had seen the information from the space-time box and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He had been asked by the Old Dragon King to break the seal on Spirit Mountain, which he, a mere novice, naturally lacked the power to do.

But some things didn't necessarily need him to act personally...

However, Xia Feng had merely cast a line; whether the Empire's various factions would bite was yet to be seen.

Especially with the variable of the Shiming Monk, who knew the original information contained within the space-time box.

But that was no longer important. If it worked out, everyone would rejoice.

If not, it was no big deal—he had nothing to lose anyway.

As he pondered, Xia Feng's pupils suddenly constricted.

The group behind had stopped pursuing both him and Jiang Qiue.

But the mysterious nun wearing a white hood and the strange woman in a red cloak continued the pursuit, one in front and one behind.

It was Theresa and Tang Ruyan!