Chương 15: You're such a jerk... friend

.. friend Scenes of Cai Ni talking with her mother when she was a child instantly resurfaced in her mind.

A little girl-like child was pouting and wagging her tiny snake tail, acting coquettishly with a beautiful woman.

"Mother! Mother! They're all afraid of me and won't play with me! Humph!"

"Because you are the future empress of the entire snake-people race, of course you need to make others fear you, so that they will submit to you."

"Being an empress is no good at all, it's meaningless."

That's because you haven't made any friends yet.

"What kind of friend are you referring to?"

"Hehe, a friend... is someone you can completely trust with your back, someone who will never abandon you, and someone who truly cares for you!"

"Can I have friends?"

"Of course, one day you will meet someone who truly cares for you. You don't need many, just one will be enough..."

"One is enough..."

"......."

Cai Ni's eyes were glazed over; she was already prepared to face what was to come at the cost of her own life.

"Mother... save me... sob sob..."

Her soft murmur seemed to have an effect; someone really did save her.

click!

click!

collapse!

"Ice Blast!" A deep shout rang out, and the air was filled with the continuous explosions of ice.

"Watch out!" Gui Da's eyes had never left Xiao Yao's body. Now, facing the ice explosion beside him, he couldn't help but shout in alarm.

"What kind of technique is this? How can it be so powerful!" Gui Da hurriedly warned, then was horrified to find that a cold aura had gathered in his body, blocking the battle qi within him, and even carrying some toxins, which made him sluggish for two breaths.

"Battle Aura Gauze Robe!" Although he was a Battle Master, his speed in mobilizing Battle Aura was still no match for the burst speed of the Ice Explosion Technique, and he managed to withstand nearly half of the damage from the Ice Explosion Technique.

He never expected that this nine-star warrior would launch an attack silently right under his nose.

"Ah!!" Before Gui Da could retaliate, a dark ruler slammed into the heavily injured Lao Er, killing him instantly.

"Second Brother!" Seeing that Gui San's face was covered in blood, he was about to be hit by a foot.

"court death!"

Yellow-rank intermediate combat skill: Vajra Fist!

Gui Da unleashed a powerful punch, using his strongest move, and finally cleared the cold poison from his body, restoring his battle qi to its previous speed.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. Xiao Yao had already begun his secret plan the moment he took out the pills, because he knew these guys wouldn't let them go.

He carefully concealed the use of his soul power in order to catch the enemy off guard and eliminate their fighting force as much as possible.

Feigning to abandon Cai Ni was both to lower her guard and to shorten the attack range to increase the damage of Ice Blast—the closer you are to her, the higher the damage, and vice versa.

There was another, more important reason: he had only just learned the Ice Blast spell and had not yet fully mastered it.

Within a ten-meter radius, Cai Ni can be effectively isolated from the outside and unaffected; otherwise, she would be injured, making the current situation even more unfavorable.

"Ah! Big brother! My eyes! Ah!!!" Gui San let out a shrill scream, his expression one of unbearable pain, as two streams of blood gushed from his eye sockets.

"Third brother!" Gui Da shouted anxiously, but the fighting technique he had just formed was abruptly stopped.

"Don't move! Otherwise, this one won't live either!" Xiao Yao's heavy ruler was held horizontally across Gui San's face.

To be precise, it was positioned across the eyes. The surface of the Xuanzhong Ruler was now covered with a layer of icy green frost, and countless sharp spikes extended from the broad peak in front of Gui San's eyes, piercing into his eyes and face.

Ten Thousand Bones Poison Ice!

Cold and highly poisonous!

The power of the strange ice from heaven and earth is also beginning to emerge.

If Xiao Yao hadn't just subdued the Myriad Bone Ice and couldn't unleash its full power, that Ice Explosion Technique would probably have been enough to instantly kill the three of them.

Ghost Three was already crippled by the Ice Explosion spell, and now he has been severely injured again, his life hanging by a thread.

Gui Da suppressed his anger and the injuries within him, and said in a deep voice, "Stop right now, release my brother, and I'll let you go!"

"Caini! Come here quickly!" Xiao Yao called out anxiously, gripping the Xuanzhong Ruler in his hand even tighter.

Actually, he was gambling, gambling on the bond between the three, and whether the leader would care about the life and death of his brother.

Moreover, the Ice Explosion spell had already drained his fighting spirit, so he had to take a gamble: although it could indeed deal with Ghost Three in front of him, what would happen afterward?

He couldn't withstand Gui Da's extremely powerful punches right now, even if he was an injured Dou Shi.

What happened here not only caught the Ghost Cry Trio off guard, but also left Cai Ni, who was in deep despair, standing there dumbfounded!

She finally realized that Xiao Yao hadn't abandoned her and run away on his own.

"This... damn friend!" Ignoring all other emotions, he immediately rushed towards the cave entrance upon hearing Xiao Yao's call, and even picked up the pills that Xiao Yao had placed on the ground.

"Leave the pills behind!" Gui Da noticed Cai Ni's actions and immediately reprimanded her.

"No! Give it to him!" Xiao Yao shouted anxiously again, he was about to collapse.

Upon hearing this, Cai Ni didn't linger and went around to Xiao Yao's back before exiting the cave.

"Release my third brother now, and you may leave. I will not pursue you."

"Hmph! You think I'm stupid? We'll release him once we're safe!"

Xiao Yao, holding Gui San hostage, cautiously moved his body out of the cave.

"Quick! Let's get back to the shore we came from!"

"Um!"

The group remained facing each other until they reached the riverbank.

"Give me your storage ring!" Xiao Yao had noticed long ago that only Ghost Da and Ghost San among the Ghost Cry Trio had storage rings, and they might have some treasures or methods that would allow them to catch up with the two underwater.

To be on the safe side, Xiao Yao tried to make a request to Gui Da.

"I hope you don't go too far! Otherwise, it'll be a fight to the death!" Gui Da tossed the ring to him quite readily, clearly prioritizing his brother's life, especially since all the important things were with his third brother.

"A triple kill? I think it's more like three idiots!" Xiao Yao's face turned extremely sinister.

He slammed a ruler down on Gui San's head and casually ripped off his storage ring as well.

"You! You little bastard, I'll make sure you die a horrible death!" Gui Da roared furiously, exerting all his strength as he charged straight at Xiao Yao like a cannonball.

Xiao Yao turned around, wrapped his arms around Cai Ni, and was about to jump into the river when he finally couldn't hold on any longer. Exhausted, he collapsed into Cai Ni's arms.

"Now it's up to you!"

"Yes! I won't let you die! No one!" Cai Ni quickly caught him and gently hugged him.

Her expression was serious, revealing neither joy nor anger, as if she had returned to her previous aloof and arrogant state as the successor to the empress.

"Jump! Cai Ni!" Xiao Yao also sensed something was wrong, because Cai Ni was clinging to him without moving, maintaining that ambiguous posture.

But Cai Ni just wouldn't move!

"It's over! I have to start all over again!" Now it was Xiao Yao's turn to despair.

Seeing the veins bulging on the face of the guy opposite him, who was raising his fist filled with hatred, ready to smash it down.

"No! I can't die like this, I still have the Ten Thousand Bone Poison Ice!"

Xiao Yao immediately mobilized his depleted battle qi vortex, and the Ten Thousand Bone Ice within it began to be extracted with difficulty.

However, the next sentence made him give up resisting.