555: Chapter 555 Everyone's busy, inside and out.

"Run!"

Wan Jinqing moved rapidly through the air, circling around Er Liangzhong from time to time to block the attacks coming from behind.

Er Liangzhong also hoisted Long Tianxing higher on his back and ran a few points faster.

Behind them, Ye Qingjue was in relentless pursuit.

Ye Qingjue's clothes were somewhat tattered, and she looked a bit disheveled, but her eyes remained sharp, and her silver teeth were clenched tight.

"You all must die!!!"

Ye Qingjue's flight speed couldn't catch up to the two, but she remained within striking distance, drawing a longbow to fire at the trio.

Not long ago, Long Tianxing had led the two of them to the agreed-upon location very quickly.

But while they were waiting, a strange barrier suddenly rose outside.

If it weren't for the fact that they hadn't received the antidote yet, the two even planned to run away immediately and leave this place of trouble as fast as possible.

But with their lives still in someone else's hands, they were forced to continue waiting.

They constantly used the excuse that "this is Liyan Holy Land's territory, even if something big happens it has nothing to do with small fries like us" to endure the pressure and wait for the contact person to arrive.

But who could have guessed that the person who arrived wasn't some contact person, but Ye Qingjue, who had been waiting there all along.

After some negotiation, Ye Qingjue gave them the antidote. Once the two confirmed it was real and swallowed it, they had fewer worries.

However, Ye Qingjue did not let them go. After they took the medicine, she immediately changed her expression and captured them on the spot.

Although the two had hidden Long Tianxing in advance, their aura still couldn't withstand the Miechen Sect's inspection, and Long Tianxing was quickly found.

Things began to get delicate.

The two could clearly feel the hostility from the several people behind Ye Qingjue. If they simply handed Long Tianxing over to her, they would surely be finished as well.

Long Tianxing also knew that the two of them couldn't contend with Ye Qingjue and her group, so they wouldn't hand him over; they would even take action to save him.

Unless they wanted to die with him.

Although Long Tianxing wasn't afraid of Ye Qingjue's people now, he would fall into a deep sleep from time to time. Without their help, he wouldn't be able to escape either.

Along this journey, although the atmosphere among the three was discordant, they shared a certain tacit understanding.

After mutual consideration, they exchanged a glance, and the three of them exerted their power simultaneously, choosing to fight their way out directly.

Long Tianxing broke free from the shackles Wan Jinqing had set. This move made Wan Jinqing feel like he had been played, but given the situation, he couldn't care less and could only cooperate with Long Tianxing.

Long Tianxing immediately engaged in battle with Ye Qingjue, and with his superb sword techniques, he once held the upper hand.

Unfortunately, the duo was truly incompetent. They were suppressed and beaten by Ye Qingjue's subordinates, lacking even a shred of the demeanor expected of the Nascent Soul Stage.

At this critical moment, Long Tianxing took action!

He launched the Star-Plucking Hand at Ye Qingjue, intending to seize her Magic Treasure to support Wan Jinqing and the other.

This way, he could wear down Ye Qingjue while also rescuing Wan Jinqing and Er Liangzhong.

But perhaps luck played a role, as Long Tianxing inexplicably pulled out a piece of cloth.

The feel and texture of it momentarily reminded him of the psychological shadow he had caused when practicing his hand speed in the Sect years ago.

It's a bellyband!

That was Long Tianxing's first thought.

An opening!

That was Long Tianxing's second thought.

Perhaps it was a bit shameless, but after stealing the bellyband, Long Tianxing's mind raced, selecting the most perfect escape plan.

He balled up the bellyband and stuffed it into his chest, a scene that fell right into Ye Qingjue's eyes.

Even though Ye Qingjue had fought her way out of the Miechen Sect, facing such an insult, she was frozen in place by sheer fury.

At that moment, while appearing to stuff the bellyband into his chest, Long Tianxing actually pulled a series of Magic Treasures from the Storage Pouch in his robe.

It was precisely a set of lighting equipment he had scavenged when he went to the Eastern Extreme Secret Realm years ago.

Accompanied by light that even those at the Nascent Soul Stage couldn't block, Ye Qingjue was instantly blinded, and even her Divine Sense wavered for a moment.

Long Tianxing seized the opportunity to charge into the crowd. After quickly repelling several Miechen Sect Disciples who were surrounding them, he grabbed the two and fled toward a major city in the Southern Desert.

Long Tianxing's flight speed had been baptized in the Eastern Extreme Secret Realm and deliberately trained. In less than fifteen minutes, he had opened up a vast distance.

Normally, if things continued like this, the three could have even charged directly into a major city in the Southern Desert to seek help.

But Long Tianxing fainted on the spot.

This was also the reason he had to save the two of them; in his current state, he couldn't have lasted until then.

This led to the scene where the humiliated and enraged Ye Qingjue pursued the three of them recklessly.

"Kid, don't sleep! You're sleeping at a time like this? Do you want to live or not!"

Wan Jinqing was still trying to wake Long Tianxing, but it was ultimately a futile effort.

Inside Long Tianxing's body at this moment, it could be described as a cacophony of gongs and drums, firecrackers blaring, red flags fluttering, and a sea of people.

Even the old comrade Initial Flood Dragon, trapped in the mountain, sent a message of 'congratulations'.

"How on earth did you get this thing in here? Are you ever going to stop?"

"You, kid, time after time—how many times have you been hunted down now?"

"Can't you improve?"

"It's just a change of scenery but the same old medicine."

"Then people have a reason to say: 'I hunt you down every day, and you don't deal with me, so you just have to take it.'"

"What's most annoying is that every time you come in, it affects the quality of my sleep."

"It's easy for you to talk. If you're so capable, come and help me solve it." Outside the great mountain, Long Tianxing was fleeing rapidly while snapping back at the Initial Flood Dragon.

On the outside, Long Tianxing was being carried while fleeing; inside his body, Long Tianxing was still fleeing.

After a series of dreams, Long Tianxing suddenly discovered he could freely enter and exit this strange place.

In these three years, the times he could come here were few and far between. Usually, he was only summoned when the Initial Flood Dragon was causing trouble, though every time the Initial Flood Dragon was suppressed back by this strange mountain without causing any waves.

However, the reason he could now come here by his own ability was not because of the Initial Flood Dragon, but because of a broken sword that had suddenly appeared in his body.

That broken sword should have stayed obediently outside, but for some reason, one had also appeared inside Long Tianxing's body.

He could feel that the broken swords inside and outside were the same sword, but the broken sword in the outside world hadn't disappeared, so where did the one inside come from?

Setting aside the unknown reason for this sword's appearance in his body, the trouble was that it was continuously spitting out blood-red humanoid monsters.

These monsters would frantically hunt him down within his body. Long Tianxing had tried to kill them.

But no matter how many he killed, they would only increase. Kill one and two would emerge; kill two and four would emerge.

Even if their individual strength wasn't great, this kind of continuous proliferation was something even Long Tianxing couldn't stand.

So after experiencing being ganged up on, he learned his lesson. Every time, he would choose to run directly until his main body woke up and left this place.

The Initial Flood Dragon gave a cold sneer at this, coiled its body once more, and closed its eyes.

"The descendants of trash are trash, not interesting at all. And that damned human brat—once I get out, you'll be the first one I kill!"

Just as the Initial Flood Dragon closed its eyes and began to daydream, a faint, indistinct connection suddenly spread through its entire body, making it snap its eyes open instantly.

"Lu Wu!"

"You're still alive!"

A massive sense of shock mixed with joy surged into its heart. Once it recovered, it wanted to shout to the Long Tianxing outside the mountain to call him back.

But Long Tianxing had already woken up and left, his figure nowhere to be seen.

Anxious, the Initial Flood Dragon repeatedly struck the mountain, trying to call Long Tianxing back in. But before it could strike twice, several chains extended and bound it tightly.

It could only let out a heart-wrenching roar.

In the outside world, Long Tianxing slowly woke up.

As it happened, the moment he opened his eyes, he saw the person he least wanted to see right now.

"Yo, isn't this Senior Brother Long?"

"What kind of cultivation is this?"

Xiao Sheng watched the usually serious Wang Yao suddenly become sarcastic today and was somewhat surprised, while also becoming interested in the target of the sarcasm.

Long Tianxing ignored the two of them, propped up his body, and looked into the sky.

He was met with a scene that left him speechless.

In the sky, a person covered in flames was frantically pummeling the already unconscious Ye Qingjue.

While hitting her, he was also mocking her.

"Interesting, you're actually faking unconsciousness to trick me. I won't give you the chance to launch a sneak attack!"

"The one up there, calm down! She's really lost consciousness!"

Long Tianxing shouted out subconsciously, which caught the attention of the flaming figure in the sky.

"Dammit!"

"That's not Long Tianxing. This guy must be this person's Clone. To think he's still trying to deceive me at a time like this."

"You go die too!"

Watching the massive flaming punch strike down, Long Tianxing gave the two a helpless smile and pointed his finger toward that flaming fist.