Published: February 25, 2025
In the bewildered gaze of everyone, Shen Subing suddenly knelt on the platform, tears streaming down her face.
She covered the neck of the Shadowy Wraith with her left hand and pressed her right hand against the Wraith’s chest, which was spurting blood, as she cried out in terror, "Don't die! Please tell me where you got the pendant around your neck... Wuwu... Please tell me!"
The atmosphere was heavy with despair as Tan Yun and the others watched in shock. The urgency of the situation hung in the air, and the cries of Shen Subing echoed like a haunting melody.
"Someone, hurry! Get a ninth-grade spiritual herb! We need it to stabilize her condition!" Tan Yun shouted, his voice cutting through the tension.
The crowd stirred, panic spreading among them as they rushed to find the needed herb. Time seemed to stretch, and every second felt like an eternity as Shen Subing continued to plead with the Wraith.
"Please, hold on! Don't leave me!" she sobbed, her heart aching with fear.
Finally, someone shouted, "I found a ninth-grade spiritual herb!"
With a burst of hope, Tan Yun took the herb and rushed towards Shen Subing. "Here! This will help!"
He placed the herb against the Wraith's chest, and a faint glow surrounded the area as the herb's spiritual power began to take effect.
Slowly, the bleeding started to subside, and the Wraith's breathing became steadier.
Shen Subing looked at Tan Yun with a mixture of gratitude and hope in her eyes. "Thank you... thank you so much... please let her be okay..."
As the moments passed, they watched anxiously, praying for a miracle to unfold before their eyes.
The Wraith’s shuddering voice suddenly stopped, her delicate head weakly nodding in Shen Subing’s embrace.
"Don't die... Wuwu... Wake up!" Shen Subing cried out heart-wrenchingly. Suddenly, she seemed to recall something and turned to look down at Tan Yun on the platform, her face filled with despair, "Tan Yun, hurry and release her from the spirit pool's confinement!"
"Whoosh!"
Tan Yun noticed from Shen Subing's actions that her relationship with the Shadowy Wraith was extraordinary. He didn’t dare delay, transforming into a streak of afterimage as he darted up to Meritorious High Platform No. 1. With a swift rotation of his right hand before his chest, a spirit power imprint formed in front of him, made of faint golden spiritual power.
"Go!"
With a wave of his hand, the spirit power imprint struck the Wraith’s forehead from a distance, lifting the confinement of the spirit pool!
Shen Subing, in a state of emotional turmoil, used her spiritual sense to enter the Wraith's body, only to find that the Wraith's heart had already stopped beating after being pierced through by her sword!
"No... No!" Shen Subing cried out in despair, "Wake up! I beg you, wake up!”
Seeing Shen Subing in such pain, Tan Yun quickly released his spiritual sense into the Wraith’s body and discovered that the sword wound on her neck wasn’t enough to kill her completely, but the sword that pierced through her chest guaranteed her death!
However, as long as they acted within twelve hours after her death, there was still a chance!
"Tan Yun, you have a way to save her, right? You must be able to save her!" Shen Subing looked at Tan Yun with desperate eyes, tears blurring her vision.
"Whoosh!"
At that moment, a soul that resembled the Wraith's leaped out from her corpse, followed by a second and a third!
Tan Yun’s expression changed dramatically. Ignoring Shen Subing, he anxiously shouted at the three souls of the Wraith, "Quickly enter your spirit pool! Once the last of your souls leaves your body, you’ll be beyond saving!"
"Get in quick!" Tan Yun shouted again with urgency!
Hearing this, the three souls of the Wraith looked confusedly at Tan Yun and Shen Subing, not understanding why Tan Yun suddenly cared about their life and death and why Shen Subing was crying for them.
The three souls hesitated. They knew that after the physical body died, their souls needed to escape the spirit pool as soon as possible; otherwise, the souls would also perish within.