Chapter 1870: Chapter 602: Kindred Spirits and Grievances, Invisibility Techniques

Although Li Longyu’s fabricated story was wildly imaginative, she managed to concoct it successfully. Yet, after she finished, she waited for Xia Hong’s response for a long time without receiving it. When she looked up, she saw Xia Hong’s ambiguous smile and immediately guiltily avoided his gaze, instead looking elsewhere.

Little did she know, this action of "the absence of silver here" further exposed her lie, not to mention that Xia Hong had clearly seen her flushed ears.

"So, you’re from Lulong Prefecture and just stumbled in here by accident, bumped into her along the way, thinking that more people would provide more help, thus you took her along to escape, and finally got saved when you ran into me..."

"Exactly, the life-saving grace of Lord Xia, this humble girl will never forget!"

Seeing that Hong Yu was still stubbornly defending herself, Xia Hong was somewhat speechless. But after staring at her for a dozen breaths, his expression slowly softened and he finally nodded gently.

"Got it!"

Strangely enough, even though he knew she was lying, he couldn’t feel any anger in his heart. The inexplicable feeling of familiarity when he first saw Hong Yu’s face, which he had initially thought was an illusion, now seemed all too real, even to the point of feeling extremely absurdly close.

Close?

It seems there is a special clear aura about Hong Yu...

Recalling how his emotions were about to lose control earlier, and how they unwittingly calmed down upon contact with her, Xia Hong could only attribute all the familiarity and closeness to that clear aura.

Putting aside these irrelevant thoughts, he turned to Li Baobao. His previously gentle expression immediately turned somber as he sternly asked, "Where are Jiang Yiqing and Xiahou Yong?"

Xia Hong vaguely sensed that once he let go of Hong Yu’s hand, the inexplicable irritability would immediately rush back, yet he had no time to think it through. If not for Li Baobao stealing gold from Chilong Lake, he wouldn’t have been brought here inexplicably, so he naturally had no good looks for this woman.

After six days of desperate fleeing, almost losing his life several times, and just recently escaping from peril, Li Baobao was already in shock. Xia Hong’s sudden stern questioning startled her into a shiver.

Li Baobao looked up at Xia Hong’s angry face, thinking about his kind demeanor toward Li Longyu, and even though Li Longyu had concocted such an obvious lie, Xia Hong did not get angry after hearing it, yet his attitude toward her was like this, all the grievances accumulated over six days almost erupted.

"Those two are too weak, their soul bodies were mostly eaten at the start of entering the Dark Realm, and they completely lost their consciousness. I couldn’t bear to leave them here to die, so I used Tribulation Qi to protect their soul bodies and took them toward White Bone Mountain to escape.

But just as I entered White Bone Mountain, I encountered a large number of demon soldiers. There’s no way I could escape far with them, so I hid them in a cave on the outskirts of White Bone Mountain. I can take you to find them."

This woman, at least she has some conscience!

Upon hearing this, Xia Hong’s expression lightened slightly, but the nameless anger in his heart simply couldn’t dissipate. Seeing a hint of grievance on Li Baobao’s face, he couldn’t help but sneer coldly and curse angrily: "Wretched woman, you’re feeling wronged now? If not for you stealing gold from the lake bottom, alarming that Demon Dragon, how would we have ended up here?"

The lake bottom Dragon Palace was that Demon Dragon’s lair, and the pool that brought them here could only be manipulated by the Demon Dragon, so it seemed to Xia Hong that only the Demon Dragon could have brought them here.

Of course, not only the Demon Dragon but also Li Longyu, who kidnapped Li Xuanling’s mother and sons to the Dragon Palace, likely played a significant role.

Based on the current information, Xia Hong naturally regarded the Demon Dragon as the mastermind. In his view, the Dragon had been in a state of slumber until he rescued Li Xuanling’s family, during which it showed no movement.

Clearly, it was Li Baobao’s theft of gold that led to the clash within the Dragon Palace, creating such a disturbance that awakened the Demon Dragon, ultimately causing it to manipulate the bottom pool to send them to the Dark Realm.

Thus, logically, Xia Hong naturally felt full of resentment toward Li Baobao.

"Xia Hong, you..."

"Princess Li, enough with the nonsense. The priority now is to quickly find a way to leave the Dark Realm. What’s the point of pointless arguments here?"

Li Baobao was about to retort but didn’t expect Li Longyu to interrupt.

Clearly, Xia Hong was the one who initiated the insult toward her first, yet Li Longyu’s words seemed to imply she was being unreasonable. Li Baobao was furious and was about to speak, but Xia Hong spoke again afterward.

"Miss Hong is right, I have no time to waste words with you now. Once we’re out of the Dark Realm, just obediently return the gold you stole to me!"

"You guys..."

"What about us? You stole Lord Xia’s gold first, now what else is there to say? Lord Xia is magnanimous, he’s temporarily not holding it against you, don’t babble on, we’ll talk once we’re out of the Dark Realm."

Interrupted twice in her words, Li Baobao’s inner frustration and urgency were almost unbearable, even on the brink of tears.

The problem is that Li Longyu has a life-saving favor with her, as does Xia Hong, and currently it seems the hope of exiting the Dark Realm rests solely on Xia Hong. Even if she is resentful inside, she can only suppress it.

This young lady is both sensible and so adept at speaking, how rare...

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