Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
As over ten flashes of white light lit up the field.
Ji Ningshuang looked at the unstoppable group of Skeleton Soldiers, all the way up at Level 80.
Her first reaction was not tension but joy!
Because she knew these Skeleton Soldiers, who had once even protected her, and their master, far too well!
"Qin Ming!" Ji Ningshuang had already guessed who had come and couldn't hold back the happiness in her heart.
Though it had only been two days since they last met.
To Ji Ningshuang, it felt like two years!
Sure enough.
In her line of sight.
The next second, a high priest in a blood-red cloak, a golden book on his left palm, with an otherworldly air and strength plain to see, walked slowly out from behind the thirteen Skeleton Soldiers:
[Arbiter · Nether] (Lv80 Fourth-Turn Judge · Second on the Heaven Ranking)!
"Second on the Heaven Ranking!"
"That's the hidden-class player who even beat Liuli, first on the Heaven Ranking!"
While the Blood Dance players around them grew tense and fearful, only Ji Ningshuang couldn't hide the joy of seeing Qin Ming again after so long.
"Long time no see, Qin Ming."
"I never thought we'd meet again like this."
Ji Ningshuang felt a pang of bitterness.
And guilt along with it.
"I'm sorry. I didn't know Godfather had been lying to you all this time."
Qin Ming looked at Ji Ningshuang and said, "You don't need to apologize to me. It has nothing to do with you."
"It was me who broke my word. I said I'd take you leveling."
Ji Ningshuang looked at Qin Ming with hopeful eyes.
"Then, can you come back?"
Qin Ming was silent for two seconds, then said, "I can't go back."
"We're on different paths. We can't work together."
"I don't want to be your enemy," Ji Ningshuang said, downcast. "But Qin Ming, don't push me either."
Qin Ming said, "We each carry a different mission."
"Just do what you think is right."
With that, on Qin Ming's mental command, two Skeleton Soldiers moved toward the BOSS's corpse.
"I told you, I don't want to be your enemy, but don't push me either!" Seeing that Qin Ming meant to grab the Holy Wings, Ji Ningshuang's eyes went cold at once.
"Except Nether."
"Everyone else, kill on sight!"
At Ji Ningshuang's command.
Around them, the Blood Dance Guild players surged with fighting spirit and swarmed the Skeleton Soldiers Qin Ming had summoned!
The Level 80 Skeleton Soldiers, empowered by three A-Rank talents, were strong, but they still couldn't stand against the Blood Dance Guild's host of troops!
While the Blood Dance Guild tied up Qin Ming and Ning Fei and the others.
Ji Ningshuang went to the BOSS's side and picked up the Holy Wings.
"So close!" Ning Fei said with regret.
"Sorry."
Ji Ningshuang's coldly beautiful eyes turned to Qin Ming, and she said flatly, "Godfather's plan can't fail."
"So I can't give you this."
"Once it's destroyed, Liuli can't finish the quest, and Mo Shouchenggu can't get out of the Land of Abandoned Ghosts."
"It all ends here."
As she spoke, Ji Ningshuang held the Holy Wings in her left hand and raised a sharp dagger in her right.
Seeing this, Zhao Lingyun gasped, "Oh no! She's going to destroy the Holy Wings!"
Ning Fei, trapped in the thick of the Blood Dance Guild's players, couldn't seize the Holy Wings from Ji Ningshuang's hands and had to find another way.
And in fact, besides seizing the Holy Wings, from the very start Ning Fei had had another way to deal with Ji Ningshuang more perfectly, just like when he had turned Qin Ming.
After all, with Lonely Island away, Ji Ningshuang was the key.
Everything here was up to Ji Ningshuang.
Get a grip on Ji Ningshuang, and he'd have a grip on everything!
It was only that for now, Ning Fei couldn't be sure the method would work.
Ning Fei's eyes were locked on a video data loading panel in front of him.
The loading progress bar on it read:
85%!
86%!
87%!
...
'Almost there! Just a bit more!'
'If I can just find a way to hold her off a little longer!'
But Ji Ningshuang had already raised the dagger.
Just as she was about to slash it across the Holy Wings.
"Wait!"
Ning Fei hurried to stop Ji Ningshuang.
Then he suddenly said to her in dead earnest, "Don't let Lonely Island use you!"
"He's been using you from the very start!"
Ji Ningshuang looked up at Ning Fei, gave a cold snort, and said composedly, "So what?"
"It was Godfather who raised me!"
"It was Godfather who avenged my brother!"
"It was Godfather who gave me a second life!"
"Even if Godfather is using me, I'm more than willing!"
"You want to drive a wedge between Godfather and me?"
"You've picked the wrong trick!"
"What if I told you the one who got your brother killed back then was your Godfather?" Ning Fei's single sentence made Ji Ningshuang's pupils shake. To her, it was nothing less than a fatal blow!
It instantly stopped the motion of her hand, which had been about to slash the Holy Wings.
"What did you say?"
While Ji Ningshuang stood there, her face full of disbelief.
On the loading screen in front of Ning Fei, the progress jumped from 99% to 100%!
The video had finished loading!
'Thank goodness!'
'It's done loading!'
Ning Fei suddenly felt fully confident!
He looked up and said to Ji Ningshuang, "I said."
"Your original name isn't Ji Ningshuang. It's Liu Wanning. And you also have a brother six years older than you, named Liu Hao."
"Ten years ago, your brother was beaten to death by a few thugs by accident while trying to save a girl."
Hearing this, Ji Ningshuang looked at Ning Fei, utterly baffled. "How do you know that?"
What startled Ji Ningshuang wasn't the past itself.
It was that she had never told anyone she had another name, Liu Wanning!
In fact, if Ning Fei hadn't brought it up, even Ji Ningshuang herself would have forgotten that her original name was Liu Wanning!
Then Ning Fei went on to Ji Ningshuang, "What I want to tell you is this."
"Your brother's death back then was no accident. It was a deliberate murder, and the one who killed your brother was Godfather, the person you hold dearest, Lonely Island!"
Ji Ningshuang's heart lurched. "Impossible!"
Talking more was useless.
Ning Fei knew his word alone was no proof.
So he said, "You have Qin Ming as a WeChat friend, right? I'll send a video to Qin Ming and have him send it to you. See for yourself."
As he spoke, Ning Fei sent the video that had just finished loading to Qin Ming over WeChat.
Qin Ming forwarded it to Ji Ningshuang as a matter of course.
Of course Ji Ningshuang didn't suspect her own Godfather.
She had only meant to see just how laughable Ning Fei's trick to drive a wedge between them was.
But she never expected that after she opened the video.
The belief Ji Ningshuang had lived by collapsed in an instant.
She seemed dazed, staggering back several steps.
If Qin Ming hadn't mentally commanded the Skeleton Soldiers to form a protective wall behind Ji Ningshuang, she would have collapsed to the ground.
Because even Qin Ming, seeing the video Ning Fei had passed along, found himself feeling sympathy and pity for Ji Ningshuang's past.
He had never imagined.
That Ji Ningshuang, who was usually so easygoing, as cold as her name and tough on the outside, had such a tragic past...
Meanwhile, outside the Divine Temple map.
The battle raged like wildfire.
Under the siege of fifty-odd guilds.
The Iron Blood, Golden Age and Chaotic World guilds were gradually starting to give way.
"Holy shit, we're done! Forget covering my Sister-in-law Mo into the Divine Temple, it feels like we're all going to die right here today!"
As soon as Wang Junjie finished speaking.
Ruthless Iron Blood said, "It doesn't matter if we go down. What matters is that, going by what Liuli said, if she can't get the quest item Holy Wings inside the Divine Temple, she can't finish the quest."
"If this quest fails, Mo Shouchenggu will stay trapped in the Land of Abandoned Ghosts and can't get out!"
"And if Mo Shouchenggu can't get out, no one can deal with the Ghost King, and the whole situation will be a dead end!"
Just as everyone was anxious and at a loss.
Even Ning Xi was starting to get a little worried.
Suddenly, her mail began to flash.
Ning Xi opened her mail.
[Ding~ You have claimed the item · Holy Wings +1 sent by player Shuangwu through mail!]