“If you weren’t there, what would be the point of me staying in that palace of yours?” Han Sen asked distractedly as he turned the needle over in his hands .
“That is my business, just do as you’re told,” Yisha said .
Han Sen smiled at Yisha . “I must apologize, my Queen . I am a guy who would rather have his freedom and be able to relax as he chooses . I’m not a fan of staying put and looking after something . You should really go and take care of your own palace . ”
Yisha returned his smile with a wry one of her own . “If I could return, I wouldn’t be talking to you right now, would I?”
She started to say something more, but suddenly, Han Sen froze . He was staring at the ghost statue, and with a flick of his wrist, he tossed the needle toward it .
Yisha sighed . She had spent some time researching that bone needle . It was almost completely indestructible, but it had no power . She had been unable to feel any power residing at its tip . If she had been able to use the bone needle and any power it possessed to break the ghost statue, she wouldn’t have been bound there when Han Sen found her .
But Yisha stared with a slack jaw as the bone needle sailed toward the statue, completely unimpeded . The ghost statue had knocked Han Sen to the ground countless times, but it didn’t react to the bone needle at all . It merely watched the bone needle strike its forehead .
“This… How is this possible…?” Yisha’s eyes were wide . She gazed at the strange scene with disbelief .
When the bone needle pierced the ghost statue’s forehead, the needle lit up red . It shone brighter and brighter, and before long, the ghost statue started to shake . The noise of breaking rocks began to rumble around them .
Pang!
The next moment, the statue fell to pieces . The grip holding Yisha and the blood kirin was suddenly released . They fell to the bridge, the shattered remains of the statue’s hands falling around them .
The blood kirin was injured, but it hadn’t lost much strength . It gathered itself back up, and its signature red cloud swirled around it .
Yisha was close to death, and the blood in her body had almost run dry . She was very weak, and she didn’t have the strength to react . She fell to the ground limply .
Han Sen caught her in his arms to prevent her from hitting the bridge . He smiled and said, “My Queen, it looks like you are going to have to tend to your palace after all . ”
The purple air across the entire jade bridge began to spread and thin . Giant rocks began to fall . Yisha was held in Han Sen’s arms . As she looked up at Han Sen from below, her heart started to feel strange .
She had never seen a man from a lower angle . She was always the one up high . She had never felt like this before, and suddenly, she started to feel even weaker .
As the last pieces of the ghost statue fell, the purple air across the bridge began to evaporate . Han Sen, the blood kirin, and Yisha started to return to normal . The jade bridge that had seemed endless now looked as it previously had . They could see the other twelve jade bridges around them and the thirteen teleporters in front of them .
Fox Queen and the others, however, were gone . They must have traveled through the teleporter and left that palace .
Because the blood kirin was injured, Han Sen opted not to ride it . He was still holding Yisha as he strode across the jade bridge .
“You’re not going to go through the teleporter?” Yisha asked weakly from where she was cradled against Han Sen’s chest .
“Of course I will, but before that, I want to walk across the rest of the jade bridges,” Han Sen said with a smile .
Han Sen wanted to walk the thirteen bridges for one simple reason: he wanted to get each statue’s power .
After Yisha gave him the bone needle, he realized that the bone needle was a xenogeneic treasure that combined with Blood-Pulse Plunder . If he used Blood-Pulse Plunder by itself, he would need to beat the enemy first . He couldn’t use Blood-Pulse Plunder to take away an opponent’s blood pulse until the enemy didn’t have enough power to fight back .
If Han Sen was squaring off against an extrstrong enemy, though, there was always the chance that he might not be able to beat them . During times like that, Blood-Pulse Plunder wouldn’t be very useful .
But with this bone needle, things were different . Han Sen could imbue the bone needle with the powers of Blood-Pulse Plunder . After that, he only had to put the bone needle into an enemy’s body, and the bone needle would plunder the enemy’s blood pulse . Han Sen only needed to stick the needle into a foe .
That being said, the bone needle wasn’t powerful on its own . Han Sen would have to use his own strength . But piercing a needle into an enemy was still far easier than trying to beat an opponent that had him bested .
The statues on the thirteen bridges were each prepared for the combination of Blood-Pulse Plunder and the bone needle . The bone needle could easily pierce the statues and take the hidden blood pulse power that resided within them . Han Sen would basically have to repeat what he did to the ghost statue . The bone needle had a concentration of power now, too .
It was just a drop, but it was a blood pulse hell power . It was a deified power .
There had to be something similar on the other twelve bridges . That was something Han Sen was most assuredly not going to miss out on .
Han Sen switched positions and carried Yisha on his back . He walked to another jade bridge, and just as he had expected, the first half was safe . When he approached a statue in the middle of the bridge, he used the bone needle to absorb the blood pulse power inside the statue . The statue then fell, and the bridge lost its protection . It became an ordinary jade bridge again .
Han Sen walked through the rest of the bridges and took the blood pulse power from the statues . Yisha’s surprise was written plainly across her face, making it obvious that she had no clue why the bone needle was so powerful in Han Sen’s hands .
Yisha had picked up the bone needle, but she had no idea that the needle had to be used in conjunction with Blood-Pulse Plunder . She didn’t have Blood-Pulse Plunder, so aside from its sturdiness, the needle had no utility in her hands .
The second Sacred Leader statue had been destroyed for some reason, so Han Sen hadn’t been able to retrieve the bone needle personally . Yet it landed in his hands anyway when Yisha volunteered it .
The Sacred Leader had blocked all the routes, but something had been left on each path for those that traversed it . The items were connected with each other in ways that Han Sen hadn’t yet figured out . The Sacred Leader’s full plans were still a mystery .
The Silver Sycees, Blood-Pulse Plunder, the bone needle, thirteen blood pulse powers—they were all very rare and valuable treasures . At this point, he could easily start a fight with a deified being .
The treasures were meant to be obtained through tests given by the Sacred Leader . No one had realized how scary the Sacred Leader’s treasures could be .
“My Queen, are you afraid of needles?” Han Sen asked Yisha .
Yisha was shocked, and she did not know what he meant .
“I mean, are you afraid of being pricked with a needle?” Han Sen blinked and asked .
“Are you going to give me a shot?” Yisha looked at Han Sen .
Han Sen lifted his bone needle while he smiled at Yisha . “Close your eyes if you are afraid . The pain will be over in a second . ”
After that, Han Sen thrust his bone needle into Yisha’s chest . A drop of hell blood came out, and it blended into Yisha’s own blood .
If he wanted to survive, he had to get rid of Fox Queen . And unless another deified elite challenged her, it was unlikely Fox Queen could be defeated .
Even with Han Sen’s deified blood pulse, his actual power wouldn’t be deified . Yisha, however, was different . She was half a step away from being deified herself . Getting the hell blood pulse would give her a boost towards the lofty goal of becoming deified . This was their best chance of taking the Sacred Leader’s treasure .
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