Given the choice, Qing Han wasn’t the sort to attract attention to himself. When Lu Yun and the rest had been stirring up a storm, he was calmly observing from the sidelines without joining in.

But this time, Lu Yun was determined to make his friend put himself out there.

Ever since Qing Han learned the truth about the poison plaguing him, dark emotions had been accumulating in his heart. Without a way to vent this negative mix, he would probably die from the poison before Lu Yun could fix the antidote. 

Qing Han might look resolute on the surface, but he was in fact very fragile deep down. He also knew Lu Yun was doing this for his own good, so he took a position at the forefront and imitated Lu Yun’s tone, jeering at the palace.

……

“What? How dare they have the nerve to come back?!” In the midst of tending to his wounds, Beigong Chonglou shook when he heard Qing Han’s voice.

Over the past three days, the monster court had mobilized all available manpower in the North Sea. Monster soldiers, ordinary monster spirits, and spirits who’d yet to transform into human form… even the most mundane wandering creatures had become the court’s eyes and...