Liu Yong broke down in an instant.

He was never a person of strong will, and even if he was forcibly trained into a high-level beast tamer, he was still a defective product produced by pulling up seedlings to grow.

After realizing that provoking Mingxi would not only fail to regain the face he and Boss Wei had lost, but might even cost him his life, he lost all his spirit.

"I surrender!"

"Don't kill me!"

"I am still useful! Really! I am the descended Holy Son, the talent most valued by the Holy Lord!"

Mingxi squinted her eyes slightly.

Another Holy Son?

Just how many Holy Sons does this Advent Organization have?

Wasn't it said that there were only three holy sons (or daughters) in total?

One was Mia, who brought the Butterfly Demons here; another was the Saintess Mo Ci, whom they captured on Green Field Star; and the third was named 'Yue Xiu'.

According to Mo Ci, she had never met this person before, and even the person's gender was unknown, but she said that this person was a hundred times more dangerous than Mia.

“When Mia and I were still the most insignificant pawns in the Advent, he was already a Holy Son.”

The significance of Mo Ci's statement needs no evaluation.

But what made Mingxi even more wary was something she revealed next: "According to my investigation, I can confirm that he was the mastermind behind the Black Forest City incident back then."

The Blackwood City Incident was a major event that occurred on the planet Crimson Flame.

Before this incident, Black Forest City on Crimson Flame Star was known as the jewel of the Beast Taming Era, because it was the first city in the history of Beast Taming civilization to achieve a perfect harmonious coexistence between humans and wild extraordinary creatures.

But one day, this city fell into eternal silence.

right.

It's the kind of silence you can understand.

Utter stillness.

Time and space in the entire Blackwood City were erased from the level of rules, and the humans and supernatural beings living here were forced into a state of absolute stillness.

Unable to move, unable to breathe...

Immortal.

Neither dies nor is born.

Simply put, everything except existence itself is completely stripped away, including life, which should have faded with time.

Like an exquisite castle encased in a glass dome, it was forever frozen in that day.

No one can break it, no one can enter it, no one can undo it, and no one can change it.

However, there have been no clues as to how the Blackwood City incident happened or who caused it.

It wasn't until Mo Ci said that this matter was related to the Holy Son Yue Xiu.

After investigating based on the clues she provided, the Silver Radiance Group has been able to almost confirm this claim.

In other words, Yue Xiu ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) is someone who has the means, the strength, and the cunning...

"Holy Son? You can't just be Yue Xiu, can you??"

Mingxi couldn't help but raise her voice by a notch.

It's really not her fault.

In Mingxi's imagination, the mystery and danger level of this Yuexiu were similar to that of the Holy Lord. The Silver Radiance Group even speculated that there was a high possibility that the two were the same person.

Now she's being told that Yue Xiu, this mysterious, special, and extremely dangerous big shot, is the same person as the one standing on the roadside in front of her?

Stop joking!

Upon hearing the name 'Yue Xiu', Liu Yong flinched slightly.

Mingxi raised an eyebrow.

Is Liu Yong very afraid of Yue Xiu?

"...I am the backup candidate, the backup Holy Son, no, not Yue Xiu." Liu Yong's face, covered in blood and gore, was very white, as white as a dead man.

interesting.

Mingxi raised an eyebrow again, "So there are many more candidates for Holy Son like you?"

"...No...not many, right?"

Is he lying, or does he genuinely not know, given his uncertain tone?

"Then you've met Yue Xiu, right? What kind of person is he?"

Mingxi noticed that after she asked the question, Liu Yong's pupils visibly contracted, even though he tried his best to hide it.

"I have no idea!"

"Don't ask anymore!"

"Stop asking!"

His fear was so real that even a straight-laced woman like Mingxi felt it was a little contrived.

What exactly is this person here for?

Mingxi's brows furrowed into a reasonable "川" shape.

"Judging from your previous attitude, someone must have sent you to relay a message. Tell me, what does he want you to say?"

Upon hearing that she had corrected the question, Liu Yong immediately felt his dizziness and leg pain subside, and he felt fully recovered.

He did indeed come to deliver a message.

"Our Holy Lord sent me to tell you something."

Perhaps because the Holy Lord was mentioned, Liu Yong regained his energy. Even with his head being stomped on by the girl's foot, he still acted like a general with overwhelming momentum.

He cleared his throat in a serious manner: "If you don't want to see the people of Longhua suffer endless hordes of corpse rats, then stop interfering in the affairs of the Ghost Nightmare Land!"

Before he finished speaking, only the sound of breathing remained in the space.

You could hear a pin drop.

"..."

Liu Yong's face was pressed against the cold stone platform.

The foot stepping on him neither increased nor decreased in pressure; the force was not heavy, yet it was as unshakeable as a mountain.

They were not affected by his words at all.

Mingxi simply glanced down at him.

One glance is enough.

There was no murderous intent, no anger, no anxiety in that glance, only a calmness that looked down upon ants.

Liu Yong's heart trembled. The little courage he had just mustered deflated like a punctured balloon, and his lips trembled like the lips of a fish out of water.

"Are you done talking?"

Mingxi's voice was very faint, like the omnipresent air, so faint that one could ignore its existence.

Liu Yong's throat bobbed, and he answered tremblingly:

"...I'm done talking."

"Then you can go die."

As Mingxi spoke, she raised her foot, about to stomp on Liu Yong's large head.

In that very instant. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Unsurprisingly, yet another unexpected event occurred!

Mingxi: (´⌒｀。)

Really! Not surprising at all!

Liu Yong's body suddenly began to convulse violently.

It wasn't fear, it wasn't struggle, but rather, like a spirit medium possessed, my limbs twisted at an eerie angle, my back arched sharply, and my head tilted back to an angle that a normal person could never reach.

Those eyes, which were originally filled with fear and despair, have changed.

Two grayish-white lights shone deep within the pupils.

That light had no warmth, no emotion, only a kind of indifference that looked down upon all living beings.

Mingxi's foot was suspended in mid-air, and she did not step down.

She stared coldly at Liu Yong, who was 'possessed', or more accurately, at the 'thing' awakening within his body.

She was quite willing to wait despite the unusual situation.

Three seconds later.

Liu Yong, or rather, the 'certain being' currently occupying Liu Yong's body, spoke.

The sound clearly came from Liu Yong's throat, but it was completely different from his previous voice.

Deep, hoarse, with a metallic, friction-like quality, each word caused the surrounding air to tremble slightly.

"Mingxi".

"We meet again."

Mingxi did not move.

She looked into those greyish-white eyes, her voice calm:

"It really was you."

Holy Lord!

Just like what happened in the Star Ocean Cup finals, the so-called Holy Lord once again 'descended' upon someone else.

This is utterly unscientific!

Mingxi was very curious about what the conditions were for this Holy Lord to possess her.

He can't possibly possess just anyone.

The Holy Lord, using Liu Yong's body, smiled—a strange smile that stretched from his lips to his ears.

"You seem to have known I would come?"