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Chapter 1026: Huh? Where Did My Pearl Go?
chapter 1026: huh? where did my pearl go?
hmm? why did they run away?
it was at this moment du nanhai noticed something strange. instead of taking advantage of his weakness and mounting a greater assault, his ambusher had run off to the distance. it made no sense. there was no way they waited so long just to give him a scare, right?
wait. where’s my calm mind pearl?
suddenly, du nanhai discovered that his calm mind pearl was nowhere to be found.
the calm mind pearl! that is what he was aiming for! he took my calm mind pearl!
du nanhai’s eyes widened like saucers when realization struck him like a lightning bolt.
the reason he did not notice the theft immediately was because of two reasons. one, his mind was a little sluggish after his yang god took a serious blow just now. two, he had nurtured the calm mind pearl for many years and so had formed a connection with it. logically speaking, he should have sensed the theft as soon as it happened, but strangely, he couldn’t feel the calm mind pearl’s presence from the thief’s person. that was why he did not notice until the thief was already far away.
“bastard! stop, thief!”
du nanhai wasted no more time thinking. he gave chase while attempting to contact the calm mind pearl with his thought and retrieve it.
unfortunately, it was as if the spiritual connection between himself and the calm mind pearl was severed. no matter how hard he tried, he just could not perceive its presence.
worse, the xun armor and the zhen armor blocked his path as soon as he made a move.
du nanhai roared his fury again and again, but he just could not break free fromthe xun armor and the zhen armor no matter what he tried. he could only watch as the thief slipped further and further away.
“general, we have come to assist you!”
it was only now tijian, podao, chenglang, and wufeng finally showed up.
“useless! the four of you couldn’t even keep one zhen armor at bay?!” du nanhai couldn’t stop himself from yelling at his subordinates.
it wasn’t completely unreasonable. if the zhen armor hadn’t appeared out of nowhere and caught him by surprise, there was no way the thief could have stolen his calm mind pearl.
“we apologize for our failure,” the four subordinates hurriedly apologized. they did not know why they were being yelled at, but arguing against the general at this time could only be pure folly.
to be honest, they didn’t know why the zhen armor had suddenly appeared here either. up until a moment ago, they were fighting against zhen armor at a disadvantage. in fact, they had been at a disadvantage throughout the fight. in fact, the zhen armor could have killed at least two of them during their final clash. instead, it disappeared in a flash of lightning.
at the time they did not understand why the zhen armor had let go of such a golden opportunity, but now they realized it was because of zhen nanhai.
“i leave them to you. keep them busy no matter the cost.”
now that four truemen had joined the battle, du nanhai’s pressure immediately decreased drastically. after issuing the order, he immediately extracted himself from the battlefield before chasing after ye qing.
the four trueman still did not know why du nanhai was reacting like this. they also knew very well that they could not handle even one divine armor, much less two of them. du nanhai was basically asking them to die for him. still, they were soldiers, so they did not hesitate for even a moment to attack the xun armor and the zhen armor and buy time.
“where did they go?!”
at first, du nanhai could still perceive ye qing’s presence. however, after chasing after ye qing for a couple kilometers or so, the trail came to an abrupt end, and du nanhai found that he could no longer sense ye qing anywhere.
“fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!”
“at once!”
du yicheng stopped talking and transmitted the orders. a dozen or so breaths later, their remaining seventy thousand troops immediately departed for the nanjiang royal court post haste.
du nanhai wasn’t the only intelligent man in the army. kui pingshan and jin wujiu had arrived at the same conclusion as well. once they had recovered their wits, they all rushed toward the nanjiang royal court post haste.
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“you’re back, joyless.”
on the nanjiang royal court’s city gate tower, feng qingyou greeted the returned ye qing with a blooming smile on her face.
“mm. i’m back!” ye qing too cracked a smile when he saw that feng qingyou was safe and sound.
for a time, neither of them said a word. they simply watched each other quietly.
“you’re back.” “i’m back.” and all was well in this world.
a while later, feng qingyou finally broke the silence. “so, what took you so long?”
“ah. it’s to steal something precious.” ye qing lifted an eyebrow and answered with a slightly boastful tone.
“is it the calm mind pearl?” feng qingyou asked.
“yep!” ye qing grinned widely.
“that’s so you, joyless!” feng qingyou shook her head smilingly.
“it’s ripe for the taking, so why not?”
ye qing shrugged. “besides, du nanhai destroyed the gen armor. i think it’s reasonable for him to compensate my loss with his calm mind pearl.”
“speaking of which, how many divine armors did you lose, qingyou?”
“two. the li armor and the dui armor!”
feng qingyou answered. “they were destroyed by the king slayer saber.”
“right. i felt its killing intent. it was quite terrifying.” ye qing instinctively shivered when he recalled the terrifying killing intent from earlier.
“how can it not? the innate unbounded killing intent can kill anything and everything.” feng qingyou also sighed wistfully.
“we’ve lost three of the eight divine armors, and the three armies should’ve realized at this point that we’re just buying time. they’re going to show up very soon. what do we do now?” ye qing asked.
“nothing. all you need to do now is to sit tight and watch.”
feng qingyou replied enigmatically, “you have my word that it’ll be a good show.”