Chapter 871: Chapter 871

Zuo Yan couldn’t help but burst into laughter, his arrogant and reckless laughter echoing in the pitch-black alley.

Suddenly, a voice filled with overwhelming anger shouted, startling the now complacently smug Zuo Yan.

Before he could react, the other person struck directly, sending him flying.

Zuo Yan’s body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, finally crashing hard to the ground, splattering the puddle.

Zuo Yan spat out a mouthful of blood, utterly mortified.

He clutched his chest, which had been shaken with pain, and looked at the suddenly appearing Nie Jiuque with venomous eyes.

Despite the resentment in his heart, he didn’t dare to retaliate in front of Nie Jiuque.

So close, just a little more, and it would have been destroyed.

Zuo Yan was almost too angry to breathe.

"Zuo Yan, how dare you! Today, I will surely beat you until your soul scattered."

Seeing Nie Jiuque raise his hand, ready to strike him again, Zuo Yan gritted his teeth and disappeared, full of unwillingness, quickly fleeing from the scene.

Watching Zuo Yan flee in panic, Nie Jiuque didn’t pursue him.

Because he knew that in his current state, he was not Zuo Yan’s match.

He had been barely holding up in front of Zuo Yan, suffering greatly from the aftermath of taking forbidden drugs last time.

If it weren’t for Zuo Yan’s fear of the Blood Poisonous Insect, he would probably have already tried to probe him in various ways and turned against him.

"Master, please look at him quickly."

Ye Yin’s anxious voice sounded from behind, and Nie Jiuque quickly turned, crouching down to check Gu Sheng’s condition.

"Master, what should we do?"

Nie Jiuque quickly examined Gu Sheng’s condition and couldn’t help but curse out loud, "Damn it!"

He hurriedly cast a spell to lock Gu Sheng’s soul that was about to leave his body. Just as he was about to take Gu Sheng away for treatment, he glanced at Gu Sheng, who was tightly clutching Gu Yao in his arms.

After pondering for a few seconds, he finally reached out to check Gu Yao’s pulse.

There was still a pulse, she wasn’t completely dead.

Nie Jiuque didn’t waste any more time and quickly performed a spell to start treating Gu Yao first. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs novel⦿fire.net

"Master, why are you saving her?" Ye Yin didn’t understand.

"If she dies, do you think Gu Sheng can still live?"

He truly had been careless. When Ais planned to approach Gu Yao, he perhaps should have stopped him.

He hadn’t expected things to develop to this extent at that time.

"Master, how about I take a risk and enter the Gu Family’s ancestral hall to see if I can retrieve that Magic Artifact?"

Nie Jiuque had always been trying to get Ais to find a way into the Gu Family’s ancestral hall to retrieve it, a Magic Artifact from the Netherworld.

He had discovered it by chance, not knowing why that Magic Artifact had ended up as the incense burner in the Gu Family’s ancestral hall; perhaps it was simply passed down through generations of the Gu Family’s ancestors.

The artifact is called the Soul Locking Cauldron, as the name implies, it’s an artifact that can contain souls and provide protection.

His intention in obtaining the artifact was to retrieve and safely protect the Soul Fragment within Gu Sheng and Ais.

To prevent himself from constantly worrying that one of them might get hurt, injuring that crucial Soul Fragment.

The ancestral hall that has been worshipped for a hundred years is bathed in Buddhist light, and they, as people of the Demon Realm, simply can’t enter.

But Ais is different; although the Soul Fragment within him is from the Netherworld, it hasn’t awakened yet, so his mortal body can naturally come and go freely.

"Don’t act recklessly, lest you disturb those who shouldn’t be disturbed."

"But without that artifact, in Gu Sheng’s situation, how will you save him?"

"Even with that artifact, I can’t let him die."