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However, the moment Li Tiannan gave chase, Gao Neng’s voice rang out.

"Master, help me!"

"Master, I’m seriously injured!"

"Master, I’m done for! It’s so dangerous here!"

"..."

"Seriously injured?!" Li Tiannan finally turned back. Although he could see that Gao Neng didn’t seem to have a scratch on him, he still stopped.

"Master!" Gao Neng continued to shout at the top of his lungs.

"You little brat, who told you to come down here? Didn’t I warn you to only go down eight thousand meters?" Li Tiannan was truly exasperated.

"I... got lost?" Gao Neng blinked, a miserable look on his face.

"Got lost? Are you trying to fool a three-year-old? Where are you hurt? Can you still walk?" Li Tiannan cursed, but in this situation, he really couldn’t just leave Gao Neng here alone.

Not to mention this was twenty thousand meters deep in the Demon Abyss.

Just considering the dangers on the way back, he couldn’t possibly abandon him.

"My internal organs are injured. I can’t walk..." Gao Neng said, his face scrunched in pain.

"You can’t walk?"

"Yeah. Master, why don’t you just leave me here? I’ll rest for a day or two, and I should be able to climb back up on my own," Gao Neng offered.

"Rest here for a day or two? You think you’d survive?" Li Tiannan really had no other choice. He quickly moved to Gao Neng’s side and hoisted him onto his shoulders.

However, doing so made it much harder to catch up to Gao Xiaomeng.

But fortunately...

Li Tiannan knew that Sword Elder, Yutian, and the others were still up above.

So, as Li Tiannan pursued them from below with Gao Neng on his back, he let out a piercing whistle.

The sound was extremely sharp.

And it possessed immense penetrating power.

Gao Neng guessed it was some kind of warning signal.

’Who is Li Tiannan warning?’

’This is bad!’

’It’s Sword Elder!’

Li Tiannan was using this sound to alert Sword Elder of danger. At this rate, it would be incredibly difficult for Gao Xiaomeng to escape the Demon Abyss.

Moreover, the biggest problem now was that Gao Xiaomeng’s identity had been exposed. Sword Elder and the others would definitely treat her as one of the other races.

"BOOM!"

Just then, another tremendous explosion echoed from ahead.

Gao Neng knew Gao Xiaomeng must have run into an obstacle. Judging by the sound, she wasn’t actually far from him and Li Tiannan.

’She was stopped so quickly?’

’Who could it be?’

As he was thinking, a sharp shout came from above.

"Where did this beast come from?!"

"It’s Sword Elder!" Gao Neng instantly recognized the voice.

Li Tiannan, on the other hand, was slightly stunned for a moment before a laugh escaped him. "That Elder Jian is pretty reliable, huh? He actually came down this far?"

"Master, let’s hurry up!" Gao Neng was burning with anxiety.

"You think I don’t want to be fast?" Li Tiannan cursed. Although he was one of the Strongest, he was restricted within the Demon Abyss and couldn’t teleport like he could outside.

Besides, he had expended too much energy.

Carrying Gao Neng now, he really couldn’t pick up his speed.

"Master, you rest here for a bit. I’ll go up and kill that alien!" Gao Neng immediately leaped off Li Tiannan’s back, materialized his Flying Earth Dragon, and shot upwards like a streak of light toward the source of the voice.

"..." Li Tiannan was utterly dumbfounded.

’What the hell?’

’Didn’t he just say he was seriously injured and couldn’t walk?’

’How is he faster than a rabbit in the blink of an eye?’

The most infuriating part was that he had dumped his master just to claim the credit. How was Li Tiannan supposed to feel about that?

But, regardless.

Gao Neng had truly flown up.

Li Tiannan gritted his teeth and could only follow closely behind.

Meanwhile, Gao Neng accelerated again. He had just eaten half of the Golden Tree Heart, so his body was brimming with energy. His Spiritual Power could cover a radius of several hundred meters.

Soon, he located Gao Xiaomeng’s position up ahead.

Just as he expected, Gao Xiaomeng was in trouble.

The group that had come down wasn’t just Sword Elder. There was also Yutian and other high-rank experts—a total of eight people blocking Gao Xiaomeng’s path.

"Sword Elder, Elder Li is warning us!" Yutian and the others had naturally heard Li Tiannan’s whistle, so they had intercepted Gao Xiaomeng at the first opportunity.

"Kill her!" Sword Elder was decisive.

An alien who had infiltrated the Demon Abyss—this was something the Human Alliance absolutely could not tolerate. No matter what, he had to take down the alien girl before him.

"Yes, sir!" Yutian and the others immediately moved to attack.

But at that very moment, a loud shout came from below.

"Let go of that girl! Let me handle her!"

Before Yutian could even react, a figure shot past him and, with an overwhelmingly dominant posture, seized Gao Xiaomeng in an instant.

"???" Yutian was baffled.

If he remembered correctly, judging from the alien girl’s aura, he was certain she was at least at the high-rank level.

’Who is that strong?’

’Could it be Elder Li?’

’But the voice was clearly different, wasn’t it?’

Yutian focused his gaze and discovered that the person who had captured Gao Xiaomeng was none other than Gao Neng.

"Governor Yun, Sword Elder, I’ve successfully subdued this alien!" The moment he grabbed Gao Xiaomeng, Gao Neng shouted again.

"Gao Neng, you..."

"Sword Elder, Governor Yun, hurry down and help my master! He’s exhausted!" Before Yutian could finish, Gao Neng was already flying upward, dragging Gao Xiaomeng with him.

"What? Elder Li is in danger?" Yutian was shocked. Although Gao Neng said he was exhausted, what kind of place was this?

This was the Demon Abyss!

So, instinctively, Yutian assumed Li Tiannan was in serious trouble.

Sword Elder was also startled by Gao Neng’s words.

He knew Li Tiannan’s strength.

If he was in danger in the Demon Abyss, then there must be powerful Dark Creatures below—at least Ninth-Order, maybe even Strongest-grade.

Between a captured alien girl and an endangered Li Tiannan, the choice was obvious.

Sword Elder shot straight down.

Gao Neng seized the opportunity, dragging Gao Xiaomeng straight toward the top of the Demon Abyss while shouting, "Sword Elder, leave this alien to me! Hurry and help my master!"

"Elder Li can’t fall here."

"Hurry down and help!"

"Yes, sir!"

Yutian and the others exchanged glances and made their decision.

After all, in their minds, they couldn’t imagine Gao Neng colluding with an alien. That was absolutely impossible.

The group rushed down in a flurry.

They soon saw Li Tiannan making his way up.

"Why are you... coming down? Where’s the alien?" Li Tiannan watched Sword Elder and the others rush down and immediately asked.

"Gao Neng is handling her," Sword Elder replied casually, then looked behind Li Tiannan. "What happened? Where is the Strongest-grade Dark Creature?"

"What Strongest-grade?! Oh, there really is a Strongest-grade one, but... wait, you said you left the alien to Gao Neng? Impossible! He can’t handle her!" Just as Li Tiannan was about to reply, he suddenly felt that something was very wrong.

"What do you mean he can’t handle her? Gao Neng subdued the alien in an instant... Oh no! Gao Neng is in danger!" Yutian and the other high-ranks finally realized it too.

"Quick, go back now!"

"Elder Li, the Golden Tree Heart escaped downward. Did you see it?" As Sword Elder rushed back, he remembered the fleeing Golden Tree Heart.

"The Golden Tree Heart escaped downward?!" Li Tiannan naturally hadn’t seen the Golden Tree Heart; he was knocked unconscious by the Magnetic Mountain when he saw it.

"You didn’t see it? Forget it. We can search for it later. Saving Gao Neng is the priority!" Sword Elder’s brow furrowed, but he couldn’t be bothered with anything else right now.

When the group charged back up, they soon found Gao Neng standing up ahead.

That’s right!

Gao Neng was uninjured.

But the alien girl, Gao Xiaomeng, had vanished.

"What happened? Gao Neng, where’s the alien?" This time, Sword Elder’s frown was noticeably deeper than before. His intuition was telling him that something was very wrong with this whole situation.

Gao Neng had subdued the alien girl far too easily.

And the moment they turned their backs...

...the alien girl escaped and supposedly defeated Gao Neng. While the story seemed plausible on the surface, it was far too coincidental.

Sword Elder was no fool.

There was just one thing he couldn’t figure out.

If Gao Neng really was colluding with this alien girl, what was the reason? Why would Gao Neng do such a thing?

In fact, it wasn’t just Sword Elder; Li Tiannan also felt that Gao Neng’s behavior was strange.

When he was about to hunt down the alien girl, Gao Neng had suddenly claimed to be seriously injured and unable to move. But in the blink of an eye, he was alive and kicking.

Most importantly, he vaguely remembered the scene just before he was knocked out by the Magnetic Mountain.

At that time...

Gao Neng had been frantically attacking the black ink entangling the alien girl. But now, thinking back carefully, it seemed more likely that Gao Neng had actually been trying to save her.

It was just that, at the time, Li Tiannan had been single-mindedly focused on saving Gao Neng, so he hadn’t thought about it.

But now, seeing Gao Neng standing there with the alien gone, Li Tiannan would have to be a real fool not to understand what had happened.

"Gao Neng, did you let her go on purpose?" Li Tiannan’s tone was equally unpleasant.

"Yes," Gao Neng nodded.

He knew he couldn’t hide it from Li Tiannan and Sword Elder. Let alone the fact he wasn’t injured, even if he had managed to seriously hurt himself, he’d never be able to convince them.

Because neither of these two was a fool.

"Why?" Li Tiannan’s eyes narrowed. He hadn’t expected Gao Neng to admit it so readily.

"I don’t want her to die. Even if she’s become one of the other races, I still don’t want her to die." Gao Neng tilted his head back, looking up at the spot where the figure had vanished.

"Nonsense! You little brat, do you have any idea that secretly releasing an alien spy is enough to land you in a military tribunal?!" Li Tiannan’s fists clenched tightly.