Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Like dragging a heavy bag of sand and gravel, carrying the almost unconscious Liu Yueli, he staggered desperately in the smoke and dust from the collapsing cliff edge and the shadow guards' fearless strangulation!

Underfoot were charred corpses, slippery insect corpses, mud, and scalding gravel! Every stumble brought danger!

Liu Yueli even twisted her ankle hard on a boulder!

The severe pain caused her consciousness, which was on the verge of collapse, to struggle suddenly! She groaned!

"Go!!" Chu Ying's roar was like thunder!

His huge body was blocking the gap on the edge of the cliff that was trampled down!

He had no weapon in his hand! Half his arm had been slashed by the Shadow Guard's scimitar, leaving a deep groove visible to the bone! But he was like a violent bear without any sense of pain! His huge hand grasped the shaft of a short spear thrown by the Shadow Guard!

Hold on tight with your shoulders! Sink your feet into the gravel and mud! Let the short spear scrape against your flesh, making a harsh sound!

Poof! A scimitar struck his side! The armor shattered! Blood gushed out like a fountain!

Chu Ying's body shook violently! He suddenly spat out a large mouthful of filth mixed with blood and bile! The filth mixed with Changbai Mountain's poisonous blood sprayed all over the knife-wielding shadow guard's head and face!

"Ugh!"

The shadow guard roared in shock and anger! Chu Ying's eyes flashed with madness!

He used up his last bit of strength, like a dying mammoth, with the scimitar stuck in his ribs, his huge body rushed forward! He slammed into the blood-stained shadow guard!

At the same time, he swung the short spear with his other hand and swept it back recklessly! Like a final giant axe!

"boom!"

The two of them rolled like gourds, knocking away several pieces of burning wood nearby, and tumbling towards the thick smoke deeper in the cliff! The Shadow Guard Centurion's cold gaze penetrated the melee, and he stopped pursuing, but gave a cold order:

"Release the smoke! Force that female fox out! Seal the valley!"

The sealed bamboo tubes were smashed by the shadow guards onto the burning corpses and charred mud ground!

The pungent, dark green smoke, with a foul smell, spread like a venomous snake! In the blink of an eye, it engulfed the area where Chu Ying and the shadow guard had tumbled and disappeared!

"General!" Zhao Tiezhu's eyes were bloodshot! But he could only grit his teeth and, along with the broken-eared soldier dragging Liu Yueli, rushed desperately to the last stretch of crumbling ruins deep in the downwind camp, near the several dilapidated cellars where the camp stored kerosene! The thick smoke had been blown away slightly by the wind! Perhaps there was still a glimmer of hope!

The sound of water. The monotonous, deadly, bone-chilling sound of the churning water was infinitely amplified by the narrow stone cave.

Chang Baishan collapsed on the narrow stone edge at the mouth of the ice crevice, barely maintaining a weak breath through his mouth and nose.

Every breath he inhaled felt like sucking in a razor blade, the cold air mixed with the strong stench of blood and decay tearing through his lungs, and every breath he exhaled brought out tiny blood foam and ice crystals that stuck to his stiff chin.

Under the repeated crushing of cold and pain, the consciousness would touch the cold and hard edges under the tongue every time it sank.

Bone Talisman.

Every time the cold, rough edge slid between the teeth and scraped the tongue coating that had been numbed and fragile by soaking in ice water, it brought a brief but clear pain.

This pain was like the only anchor in the dark abyss, forcibly pulling his scattered and collapsed mind back from the complete dark chaos for a moment, and back into this cold and desperate sarcophagus.

Click.

The tips of his teeth clenched unconsciously.

It wasn't deep, but a sharp corner of the bone ridge happened to pierce the thin flesh at the bottom of the tongue.

"Ugh..." A barely perceptible sound, distorted by intense pain, was squeezed out from the depths of his throat. This pain was no longer a simple warning, but a piercing pain!

His eyes suddenly opened a crack, and his pupils instinctively contracted and focused under the stimulation of severe pain!

At that moment, the field of vision briefly became clear: the turbid blood-red water rolling above the water, the dark green algae condensed on the rock wall, and in the narrow darkness deeper in the cave, the water reflected the bleak light spots of chaotic fire on the edge of the cliff above... In the light spots, the corpse of a rot-armored insect was caught in the vortex, its shell gently hitting the crevice in the water, turning silently, and drifting away.

The cold and ruthless reality of death captured him again.

The body trembled more violently, not because of the cold, but because of the instinctive trembling caused by pain and fear.

The laceration on his left shoulder, lodged in the stone ridge, seemed numb from the icy water, but each faint beat of his pulse evoked an indescribable dull ache deep within the flesh torn by the noose's barbs. The burn on his right arm seemed frozen solid in the cold, yet deep within that ice, countless sharp, tingling, itching spots, like ants biting, burned his nerves like an inextinguishable poisonous fire.

Can't survive.

This thought is like ice water, colder than the water in the pond.

But the sharp pain under his tongue struck again! It violently crushed this sinking thought! The sharp corners of the bone talisman scraped against his gums!

His teeth chattered under the instinct of survival! He couldn't let go! This was not only his anchor to survive, but also the only trophy from his bitter enemy! It was the evidence that brought Caligon to this purgatory!

at this time!

Boom!

There was another clear vibration coming from the edge of the cliff above!

Then came the muffled thud of a massive, flaming log crashing down! Carrying with it countless rubble and burning sparks, it slammed fiercely into the icy depths like a hellish meteor shower, sending up a ten-foot-high splash!

The explosive water flow instantly rushed into the narrow stone cave!

The powerful water pressure was like a heavy hammer, hitting Chang Baishan's stuck chest and abdomen fiercely! The numb tear on his left shoulder was torn apart violently! The cold water suddenly pierced deep into his lungs like countless steel needles!

“Ahhh!!”

The howl that had been forcibly suppressed deep in his throat, mixed with the large amount of ice water that had choked on him and the blood clots in his lungs, suddenly burst out from his mouth and nose like a flash flood! The blocked airway was instantly cleared! But it also took away almost all of his body temperature!

My consciousness was instantly pulled away! The pain under my tongue became blurred! The roar of the water seemed to be through thick glass! Before my eyes were countless distorted and magnified phantoms burning with falling flames!

No! Can't die!

Kaligon! Toluhan! Those shadows...

A huge black shadow filled with cold, sticky and corrupt liquid was thrown into the gap in the crevice by the shock wave along with the falling objects in the chaotic water flow!

It was the charred, but not yet completely disintegrated, corpse of a Toruhan Shadow Rider! The heavy corpse! Wrapped in tattered, inky leather armor! The last traces of a faint green phosphorescent light seemed to still linger within the charred chest cavity!

The corpse was pushed by the water like a battering ram!

boom!

A huge impact force hit the stone wall! The corpse's shoulder blade was stuck just above the entrance to the crevice!

The heavy and rotten horse carcass was supported by the current, with its lower half hanging limply in the rapids. The chest cavity, which was half-charred and dripping with black liquid, was like a huge black wedge, blocking the light and the water flow at the top of the stone cave entrance!