Qingqing clung tightly to Chu Xuan, her face already drenched in tears. He came to save me; he really came to save me.

Back in the Mountain God Temple, watching Chu Xuan rescue Ayue, Qingqing had fantasized in her mind about the day he could save her in the same way.

Now that fantasy had come true. Chu Xuan really came like a great hero, to lead her away from this sea of bitterness.

Holding the sobbing Qingqing, Chu Xuan softly whispered in her ear, "Hush, don’t cry, don’t cry, it’s all over." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

At that moment, his entire body was almost without a patch of unscarred skin, having a layer of flesh and blood devoured by the Demon Fetus in a short time.

Yet, the Celestial Marrow constitution burst forth with tenacious vitality, and Chu Xuan’s injuries not only didn’t worsen but were indeed healing, with new, fair skin gradually growing.

Behind them, the Demon Fetus was no longer moving. No, to be accurate, it was scared, rolling backward to distance itself from Chu Xuan, as the terrifying power the Six Souls Banner had just unleashed truly could obliterate it.

"Why are you so foolish?" Qingqing finally looked up, tear-eyed.

Chu Xuan just smiled, "I wanted to hold on a bit longer, but your cries, your tears, your trembling, your sobs — every part of you called out for rescue, even now, I can still hear your inner cry: Save me, save me."

"The sound is so deafening; how could I possibly ignore it?"

Qingqing cried even more fiercely, nearly unable to speak. After countless days and nights of despair when in her utmost pain no one came, rescue had finally arrived.

While speaking, Chu Xuan took out a new garment, made a knot, and draped it over himself, having no time to wear it. The scream the Demon Fetus let out earlier was so startlingly loud, it was likely people would soon come to investigate, and they had to flee!

Li Chengfeng and others had already burst in when the Demon Fetus screamed, and were now surrounding the two.

Honestly, Li Chengfeng was in a state of extreme conflict; he never expected that someone could really interrupt the Demon Fetus’s feeding and forcibly rescue Qingqing from its mouth.

But, it had ended. There’s no way Chu Xuan could escape with Qingqing!

Merely an act of reckless bravery, failing to foresee the consequences — breaking off the "sacrifice" once meant Qingqing still had to endure in the future.

Giving her hope only to let her fall into despair seemed even more cruel.

Li Chengfeng firmly believed that Chu Xuan’s actions were not saving her but harming her.

Qingqing wiped her tears, firmly gripping Chu Xuan’s hand, determined to escape with him.

But before they could breach the formation encircling them, a voice, angry and surprised, reached them.

"What on earth are you doing?!"

Chu Xuan looked up to see a mature, beautifully attired woman in a black, wide-sleeved gown with a group, having sealed off Yama Palace thoroughly.

The newcomer was indeed Yao Yufei, and seeing a young man holding her daughter, and the Demon Fetus curled at the palace’s edge lifelessly, she was nearly driven to madness!

The white-bearded elder, who Li Chengfeng had previously stopped, approached immediately to report the incident.

Yao Yufei, after hearing, was furious, her heaving chest rising and falling, even distorting her beautiful face.

"Well, well, a disciple from the Cyan Lotus Daoist Palace comes to my Demon Sect to cause trouble. Today, I shall make sure you have no grave to rest in!"

Never had Qingqing seen this woman so enraged, ever capable of maintaining composure and responding calmly even in the face of immense crises.

How unimaginable it was that she, with such character, could lose her cool like this.

Was she worried about me? No, surely concerned about the Demon Fetus...

Indeed, in the next instant, Yao Yufei’s figure appeared beside the Demon Fetus, gingerly presenting a Spirit Fruit to soothe it, nervously checking on its condition.

At this moment, Qingqing found herself incredibly ludicrous, to have naively believed she had any importance to her, when in reality, her safety meant less than the Demon Fetus.

Despite being cornered, Chu Xuan showed not a trace of fear on his face, gripping Qingqing’s hand firmly:

"Today, I will take her with me, and no one can stop me!"

Yao Yufei turned around in fury, "Who do you think you are?! No one can stop you?"

To her, he was as good as dead.

Yet Qingqing gazed at Chu Xuan’s steadfast face, lost in it.

Suddenly, she drew a dagger to her neck, threatening Yao Yufei:

"Let us go, or I will die before you right now, and ruin your plan to cultivate the Demon Fetus!"

The Demon Sect was abuzz; no one expected the Saintess would threaten her own mother with death for an outsider.

Li Chengfeng was dizzy, nearly unable to stand still. Why, why does this man mean so much to her??

Chu Xuan furrowed his brow. He had already secretly retrieved the Six Souls Banner, prepared to fight to the death.

Just now, he had reached a secret agreement with the Master of the Ghost Market:

I will release you from the Six Souls Banner right now, but you must help create a massive chaos, preferably unleashing all your little ghosts from your belly.

When the time comes, we’ll each make our escape, you don’t worry about me, and I won’t concern myself with you.