Jin Huo stared dumbly at Lu Yun for a prolonged period of time before she nodded with a rueful smile.

“Don’t worry, I’ll protect the two of you while you are in the burial mound.”

The elder giant had used an unknown method to place Chu Xun into a deep sleep; she slumbered in Lu Yun’s arms. When the young man stripped out the last hint of the order of life from her body, it enabled her to break free of a certain fate.

At the same time, it inflicted essential damage to the young girl. As Lu Yun gazed upon a face that so closely resembled Jin Huo’s, he strongly wondered whether Chu Xun was a manifestation of one of Jin Huo’s soul parts.

“Is he still alive?”...