Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

”In simple terms, it means that within the Divine Hidden Clan, there are very few people who can achieve the rare condition of their bodies dying, but their souls still existing.” Xu Xingguang glanced at Huo Wen’an, whose breathing was becoming more rapid, and she said, ”When the soul of a newborn approaches the deceased ancestor, there is a soul-tearing pain.”

”Huo Wen’an.” Xu Xingguang gazed into the darkness at the end of the long stairs and said, ”The more I look at you, the more I feel you resemble the Emperor.”

Huo Wen’an was utterly stunned.

Song Chi looked at Huo Wen’an, then at Xu Xingguang, who was speaking in baffling phrases he couldn’t comprehend.

He belatedly realized that his boss seemed to be hiding many secrets.

She seemed to have met the real, living Divine Hidden Crane.

Huo Wen’an leaned against the wall, breathing heavily, and said, ”Your hypothesis has a flaw. As far as I know, after the death of the Divine Hidden Crane, he jumped into the center of the meteorite. This is Divine Concealment Island, and there are over a hundred thousand miles between us. I shouldn’t be experiencing the pain of a soul tearing.”

”But is it possible that the resting place of the Divine Hidden Crane is not in the No-man District of the Kunze Mountain Range, but here instead?”

Huo Wen’an and Song Chi simultaneously denied it: ”It’s impossible, unless he didn’t jump into the meteorite.”

Shaking her head, Xu Xingguang said, ”You neglected another piece of information Zhang Zhiyi provided. She said, the Divine Hidden Crane is the most powerful among all superpower users.”

”The superpower users of the Divine Martial Realm, they can stir winds and clouds, and instantly raise seawaters for battle. So how powerful must the Divine Hidden Crane be? Who dictated that he would definitely perish in the meteorite?”

Xu Xingguang stared into the pitch blackness ahead and said, ”I can feel a terrifying energy in the front. To find out the truth, let’s get closer and investigate thoroughly.”

Song Chi was half-doubtful.

Huo Wen’an’s steps grew increasingly heavy.

An Everlasting Lamp became a pinpoint of starlight in the darkness.

The three of them continued along the long stairs for two or three hundred meters, finally sensing the light. Xu Xingguang extinguished the Everlasting Lamp, looked up towards the source of the light, and discovered that they had reached the end.

Before them stood a stone wall built with stones, within which light was constantly flickering.

”What is that?” Song Chi felt a chill up his back.

Huo Wen’an said nothing, as if he was very familiar with everything here, he walked straight to the front, stretched out his hand, and forcefully pushed open the stone wall.

Song Chi and Xu Xingguang looked up to see that inside the stone wall was an enormous, elliptical seawater pool. Above the pool, a black meteorite ball with a diameter of about ten meters hovered.

Above the black meteorite ball sat a human in black armor, who had died many years ago. The flesh had long decayed, leaving only white bones that still maintained the posture of sitting cross-legged.

He was using his flesh and energy to continuously suppress the poisonous gas from the meteorite below him!

Song Chi opened his mouth, unable to suppress his startled low cry: ”A black meteorite. Could this meteorite be the one that landed in the Kunze Mountain Range over two thousand years ago, causing our world to split into the Divine Martial Realm and the Mortal World?”

If true, then is the owner of those white bones really the Divine Hidden Crane?

Huo Wen’an’s knees suddenly went soft, and he uncontrollably knelt down by the pool.

He looked at the white bones, a sudden explosive pain in his mind.

He helplessly cradled his head and quietly moaned in pain, ”Xingguang, help me!”

Xu Xingguang quickly put a mint candy made from Ice Crystal Grass into Huo Wen’an’s mouth. With the help of the Ice Crystal Grass, Huo Wen’an’s chaotic and intensely painful head cleared a little.

He suddenly leaned up and hugged Xu Xingguang, burying his head in Xu Xingguang’s abdomen.

He said nothing, just quietly embraced her.

Xu Xingguang didn’t push him away.

She gently stroked Huo Wen’an’s head and said, ”Did you remember something?”

Huo Wen’an, sweating all over, and feeling a little drained, said, ”Shh, let me hold you for a moment.”

Overwhelmed with information all at once, Huo Wen’an felt a bit exhausted.

Holding Xu Xingguang brought him comfort.

Huo Wen’an directly, in a kneeling position, slept in Xu Xingguang’s embrace.

Xu Xingguang simply sat down on the ground, holding the fainted Huo Wen’an, looking at the black meteorite, and said to Song Chi, ”Song Chi, that meteorite is the strongest weapon the Divine Hidden Crane left us.”

Song Chi stared at the black meteorite emitting faint starlight, frowning heavily, muttering, ”The meteorite emits toxic gas, if this is taken outside, the Mortal World will face another disaster.”

Shaking her head, Xu Xingguang affectionately stroked Huo Wen’an’s hair and said, ”Haven’t you realized? This Nocturnal Palace was built by the Divine Hidden Crane as his own mausoleum. The indigenous residents living on Divine Concealment Island are followers of Divine Hidden Crane. They stayed here just to await the arrival of the Huo Family, to tell the legend that finding the Emperor’s Tomb would lead them to the strongest weapon.”

Her eyes proudly gazed at the skeletal man above the meteorite, and Xu Xingguang gently smiled, ”He hid the Kunze Mountain Range meteorite within the Emperor’s Mausoleum, choosing to use his own energy and body to slowly absorb all the toxic gas of the meteorite.”

”Now, the toxic gas within the meteorite has been completely absorbed, and what he left us is a threat-free miraculous meteorite. I believe it will bring us unimaginable surprises.”

Upon hearing this, Song Chi’s heart was filled with shock.

Xu Xingguang lowered her head, kissed Huo Wen’an’s forehead, ”Xiao An, you fulfilled your promise, you have become the Emperor I am most proud of.”

She remembered, before her death, being tightly held by the young Emperor.

He wept bitterly, begging her not to die.

She looked at the child she had protected as he grew up, leaving her testament in that world.

She said—

[Xiao An, do not stray from your path, you must become the Emperor I am most proud of.]