Hearing Bai Shuanglian’s words, Hong Lingyan was stunned, not expecting that the matter of this “Little Ghost” could actually be connected to Ling Xiaoyou.
It wasn’t unreasonable for her to fail to make the connection. After all, what kind of figure was the Demon Grand Duke?
He had once been a top-tier existence even in Hell, and even though he had fallen from grace now, the Plan he had laid out didn’t seem like something a little ghost like Ling Xiaoyou could possibly disrupt.
She had originally thought that when Ling Xiaoyou said she would stay to help, she merely meant staying here to clean up the demons outside. She hadn’t expected that Ling Xiaoyou was actually connected to the Demon Grand Duke’s Plan, and from the looks of it, she had been the one to stop the Plan from happening.
Looking at Ling Xiaoyou hastily waving her little hands as if wanting to explain something, then looking at Bai Shuanglian who appeared calm and showed no signs of lying, Hong Lingyan felt she understood.
‘So this girl kept quiet about everything and just wanted to gloss over it, huh?!’
This was way too scatterbrained. That was Demon Archduke Visas! Even if his Plan was stopped, his power was still immense. What if he had thrown a hidden Curse at her before dying?!
So she immediately reached out and placed her hands under Ling Xiaoyou’s armpits, lifting her up, and hastily examined her current condition, wanting to see if she had any serious Injuries on her body.
At the same time, an vast, abyss-like Spirit Power surged from her body, sweeping back and forth through Ling Xiaoyou’s body, wanting to discover whether her physical condition was fine.
Fortunately, the Demon Grand Duke either hadn’t had time to activate a Curse, or perhaps had the will but not the power. But at least from Hong Lingyan’s level of expertise, Ling Xiaoyou’s current condition seemed fine. Of course, even so, she couldn’t afford to be careless. After all, she was a Ghost Cultivator specializing in soul and Spirit, and while at her Cultivation realm she had some cross-disciplinary knowledge in all areas, she certainly couldn’t compare to professional medical personnel.
“Come on, hurry back with me to get your body checked!”
Hong Lingyan directly hoisted Ling Xiaoyou onto her shoulder, saying urgently.
Ling Xiaoyou had been staring wide-eyed at Bai Shuanglian, who had suddenly “stabbed her in the back,” and then was lifted up like a little girl by Hong Lingyan. She was still looking bewildered when a vast, smoke-like Spirit Power scanned her from inside out entirely, scaring her so much she didn’t dare breathe heavily.
When this Spirit Power finally disappeared, Ling Xiaoyou had just let out a sigh of relief when she was immediately hoisted onto Hong Lingyan’s shoulder like a sack of goods.
Being treated like this, no matter how sharp one’s mind was, it would go blank at this moment.
‘Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?’
Just as the three great questions of life appeared in her mind, Ling Xiaoyou heard Hong Lingyan say she was taking her back to get her body checked.
‘Wait, is she going to check if I’m developing healthily?!’
‘Sister Ling, no!’
Her little head was flying with chaotic thoughts, and Ling Xiaoyou instinctively struggled, saying,
“Sister Ling, you’re making too big a deal of this. I’m really fine!”
“Be good. You thinking you’re fine doesn’t mean you’re actually fine. We still need to examine you properly.”
Hong Lingyan patted her little bottom, saying.
Many people who get hit by a car and can still stand up think the same way. In reality, their internal organs have long been hemorrhaging, it’s just not visible from the outside. Why? Because they actually look normal and can still bounce around, but before long they can only lie down.
All of this was actually orchestrated by her from the start.
Bai Shuanglian, standing to the side, heard these words and nodded in approval. All of this, of course, didn’t refer to the Imperial Capital’s sudden disaster, but rather to the matter of Ling Xiaoyou wanting to hide her involvement in the Demon Grand Duke incident and being found out. That had actually been deliberately allowed by Bai Shuanglian.
Because she too was worried about Ling Xiaoyou’s physical condition. Earlier, she had wanted Ling Xiaoyou to get a proper check-up after the incident ended. So when she saw just now that Ling Xiaoyou still wanted to hide her involvement in the incident and didn’t want to accept the credit and the examination, she naturally couldn’t just let it go.
It had to be checked!
This credit also had to be accepted!
Ling Xiaoyou naturally didn’t know that her thoughts had already been seen through by Bai Shuanglian, who had been quietly observing for a long time.
But that didn’t stop her from noticing the approving expression on Bai Shuanglian’s face when Hong Lingyan turned to leave. So she pursed her little mouth and directly pointed at Bai Shuanglian, saying,
“Sister Ling, you can take me away, but Bai Shuanglian can’t be left out either. She was involved in this incident too, so she needs a body check as well! And she’s the main force who took down the Demon Grand Duke!”
‘Hmph, you want me to go get checked alone?!’
‘Don’t even think about it. Bai Shuanglian, you’re coming with me!’
Ling Xiaoyou had expected to see Bai Shuanglian panicked by her words, but instead, after hearing her words, Bai Shuanglian merely nodded and said only one thing:
“I only played the role of the final decapitation strike. The actual main force was Xiaoyou.”
She had no intention of competing with Ling Xiaoyou for credit. In her view, everything she had done was for Xiaoyou’s sake, and without Ling Xiaoyou, no one would have even discovered it. So the credit definitely had to go to her. It was even possible that the Demon Grand Duke would have already completed his Plan, and no one would have been the wiser. So the credit definitely had to go to her.
Bai Shuanglian’s calm and composed demeanor made Ling Xiaoyou pause. Then she puffed up her little face and pointed at her, saying,
“Even so, Bai Shuanglian, you still have to come with me to get checked!”
Bai Shuanglian naturally had no objection. She silently spread her arms, ready to be hoisted up.
And so, Ling Xiaoyou gained a companion.
“Alright, let’s go!”
Hong Lingyan didn’t care what these two girls were thinking. She only knew that these two girls had recently come into contact with the Demon Grand Duke, and there was a good chance they had some internal Injuries. So they absolutely had to be taken for a check-up!
With two girls on her shoulders, she inexplicably gave off the impression of someone carrying cement at a construction site, and those two bags of cement looked very unwilling in the case of the small one, while the big one was soothing the small one, saying it was just a check-up and there was really no need to avoid medical treatment out of fear.
This strange pose made the nearby Patrollers linger their gazes on them a bit longer. Some found it amusing, but more were moved with emotion, realizing that the two girls who had helped them so much were actually still just children.
Then, under the gaze of the Patrollers, Hon Lingyan shot into the sky, flying into the distance.
The ground gradually grew smaller. Ling Xiaoyou took a moment to glance at the ground and found that the demons on the surface had decreased even more, and they had suddenly, at some unknown point, begun killing each other.
Thinking of Hong Lingyan who had suddenly appeared, Ling Xiaoyou guessed it was probably her doing. After all, Sister Ling was a master specializing in soul and Spirit. With just a casual little Magic Art, she could make these demons kill each other.
No wonder so many people had been watching when they left. So it was because there was nothing left to do!