Pursued by the Top Grade Saintess after Engagement Annulled

Chapter 640 - 636: The Death of Morris and the Eerie Death Qi

Xia Feng raised an eyebrow, while Morris was frantically struggling and shouting, "Don’t, don’t let that thing come near me. I can tell you anything you want to know."

"Keep that Flower of Life away from me!"

"How can someone your age grasp such methods? Damn it, who are you really? You’re not some old geezer reborn, are you?"

Xiao Qingxue initially just wanted to try it out and didn’t expect it to work right away. She was originally quite happy, holding the flower to show off, but then she heard Morris’s words and angrily shoved the Flower of Life right in his face.

"Shut up. You’re the old geezer here."

Morris howled in pain, as the skulls on his body dissipated like snow exposed to sunlight, turning into clouds of gray Death Qi, which were then absorbed into the thorns on the green vines and converted into the Power of Life.

Morris visibly weakened, and judging by his terrified look, this kind of weakening was different from the kind where he mentioned that after dying, he would return to the Netherworld’s embrace. This kind of demise was probably irreversible damage to him.

So, he struggled to plead for a ray of hope, and Xia Feng paused to ask a few questions.

"Does this Flower of Life affect you greatly?"

Morris’s expression turned slightly hesitant, "No matter how formidable the operation of the pure Great Dao of Life, it can’t hurt me at all. But this thing is different. It is the purest application of the Power of Life."

"The Death Qi that dissipates when hit by this thing can only be cultivated back little by little, meaning if I lose too much, I would drop from the Great Monarch level to an ordinary High Level Nether Race, or even possibly..."

He didn’t finish the sentence, but Xia Feng understood that if he lost too many realms and became an ordinary Death God, that kind of Death God with no cognitive ability would completely lack its own consciousness.

At that point, he would be nothing but cannon fodder, and it would be utterly impossible for him to restore to his current realm on his own.

That’s why he became so spineless upon seeing the Flower of Life, cherishing his life dearly, willing to answer whatever Xia Feng wanted to know.

Xia Feng’s eyes flicked as he directly inquired about the Star Power, "Earlier when I attacked you with Star Power, you were clearly afraid. Why did you relax when I got closer?"

Morris responded almost immediately without much thought, "At first, I thought you would directly bring down a star. This is just a Secret Realm. If a real star were brought down, the entire realm would cease to exist."

He left his sentence half-finished, but Xia Feng understood the rest.

If the Secret Realm were gone, the demons and Death Gods here would naturally not pose a threat.

However, Xia Feng didn’t have that level of control over the technique. Let alone that the air was full of Death Qi, connecting to the stars was already very difficult for Xia Feng, and he couldn’t possibly bring a star down.

Even if, by some miracle, Xia Feng could summon a star, precisely hitting the target would still be challenging for him.

Moreover, the girls were busy holding Morris down at the time and had no time to enter the Dream Realm Pearl.

Besides the demons and Resentful Beasts, there were probably some struggling prodigies in Guang Ao’s Celestial Pill Secret Realm, and Xia Feng couldn’t cut off all their chances of survival.

Thinking of this, Xia Feng sighed softly and asked his last question, "Earlier, you said the old guy controlling the Star Power was lured elsewhere by you guys. Who is that person?"

Morris hesitated for a moment, and just as he was about to explain to Xia Feng, his body suddenly started burning.

Within the blink of an eye, he turned into a wisp of gray smoke, and it directly burrowed into Xiao Qingxue’s body along the sprawling vines.

By the time Xia Feng reacted to stop it, it was too late. The wisp of gray smoke already dissolved into Xiao Qingxue, penetrating deep within her.

The vines that originally bound Morris seemed to be affected by something, collapsing into a heap of deadwood, turning into ashes.

Xia Feng couldn’t care less about these things, nor could he bother with the Death Crystal that Morris dropped. He stepped forward, grasped Xiao Qingxue’s wrist, and infused Divine Power into her body to check if the gray smoke had caused any harm to her.

In his examination, Xia Feng noticed that the gray smoke expanded several times as soon as it entered Xiao Qingxue’s body, splitting into many threads invading her meridians, trying to take control of her body.

However, the Power of Life within Xiao Qingxue’s body wasn’t to be trifled with, and within the blink of an eye, it had organized several counterattacks, entangling with the gray Death Qi smoke.

Xia Feng wanted to intervene in this battle several times but couldn’t find the right opportunity, fearing that he might cause Xiao Qingxue even more harm by carelessly involving himself.

His brows furrowed tighter, and the expressions of the women nearby grew worried as well. Sun Yazhu glanced around at the spreading miasma and said with some concern, "Let’s see if we can suppress it inside the Dream Realm Pearl."

"The Death Qi here is too thick, and it might be affecting Qingxue as well."

Xia Feng immediately snapped back to reality, pursing his lips as he led the women into the Dream Realm Pearl. At least here, time was on their side, and Xia Feng could think of other ways to help Xiao Qingxue deal with those strange things.

Before entering the Dream Realm Pearl, Xia Feng bent down to pick up the Death Crystal that remained from Morris.

Though he wasn’t sure what had happened, judging from the state of this Crystal Stone, Morris’s hopes of reviving by returning to the Netherworld had become a distant luxury.

Once inside the Dream Realm Pearl, under Xia Feng’s deliberate manipulation, the surrounding atmosphere was imbued with the Great Dao of Life, casting a faint green glow on everyone’s faces.

At the center of this green glow, Xiao Qingxue’s brows slightly relaxed as two rays of light suddenly burst from her body.

One was gray Death Qi and the other was green Power of Life. The two beams of light continuously tangled and slowly entwined, with neither willing to retreat first.

This scenario persisted in the Dream Realm Pearl for ten thousand years, with the two rays of light gradually merging, forming a somewhat strange radiance.

Xia Feng stayed by Xiao Qingxue’s side all this time, vigilant, fearing that if he let his guard down, Xiao Qingxue might be engulfed by that gray Death Qi.

But now it seemed, his worry was somewhat excessive. Xiao Qingxue not only wasn’t corrupted by that Death Qi but seemed to have benefited from it, comprehending the Dao of Life and Death.