Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

”In the end, you killed all voices of opposition in the Huo Family and successfully reclaimed the position that was rightfully yours.”

”Consequently, that segment of history was termed the ’Sun and Moon Struggle Incident’ by the Huo Family.”

After recounting the legendary deeds of Huo Canghai in his youth, Xu Xingguang shifted the topic with a laugh, ”But today, what I want to discuss with Mr. Huo is not the riveting process of reclaiming the position of Pilot. What I want to know is, where did you go during those twenty years you disappeared?”

Bang!

Huo Canghai suddenly slammed his fist onto the stone table beside him.

”Xu Xingguang, don’t presume, just because Huo Wen’an likes you, that I truly wouldn’t dare touch you!” Though the lion is aged, when it roars, it still possesses a formidable presence.

”You can try; let’s see whether I kill you faster or Huo Wen’an saves you faster.”

Xu Xingguang smiled suggestively, ”Then Mr. Huo, perhaps you should try; let’s see whether you kill faster or I draw my blade faster.” As she spoke, a long and sharp sword appeared out of thin air in Xu Xingguang’s delicate slender right hand!

Huo Canghai’s pupils slightly trembled as he stared incredulously at the mysteriously appearing sword.

Xu Xingguang was wearing a white dress today, with no pockets, and even if there were, they couldn’t hide such a long sword!

This sword had suddenly appeared in her hand!

Stunned and pale, Huo Canghai said, ”You’re from the Divine Martial Realm!”

Divine Martial Realm?

A hint of understanding flickered in Xu Xingguang’s eyes.

It turns out this world of theirs harbored a mysterious existence called the Divine Martial Realm.

Xu Xingguang deliberately displayed the long sword out of thin air in front of Huo Canghai to show her ’uniqueness’, thereby causing a misunderstanding that she was part of the same faction as the master of that battlefield.

Indeed, Huo Canghai was fooled.

”No way!” Huo Canghai quickly realized he had been misled, shaking his head, he said, ”You’re not from the Divine Martial Realm, you don’t even know of its existence!”

If Xu Xingguang knew about the Divine Martial Realm’s existence, why would she deliberately attempt to trick him?

”What on earth are you?”

Xu Xingguang did not answer Huo Canghai’s question.

She held the sword, pondering aloud, ”It seems then, those twenty years Mr. Huo disappeared, he went to that place called the Divine Martial Realm?”

Having realized the existence of the Divine Martial Realm, many questions that had puzzled Xu Xingguang suddenly became clear, finding their answers. ”Seems the battlefield Huo Wen’an visited also belongs to the Divine Martial Realm, doesn’t it?”

Huo Canghai snorted coldly, choosing to play dumb.

Sheathing the sword, Xu Xingguang said, ”I understand now.”

Huo Canghai couldn’t help but snort, ”What do you understand?”

Xu Xingguang said, ”Mr. Huo, you are a towering figure, the global leader of the noble families. For someone so universally revered, even mentioning the Divine Martial Realm makes your face display fear and awe. Evidently, in the presence of those from the Divine Martial Realm, you and I are like ants.”

”Your reluctance to speak of the Divine Martial Realm’s secrets is indeed an act of protecting us.”

Upon hearing these words, Huo Canghai’s eyes couldn’t help but flutter.

He truly did not anticipate that this girl, Xu Xingguang, could uncover the oddity in this world. ”Exactly how did you discover it?”

How indeed did she discover it?

When Xu Xingguang found out that in the field of traditional medicine only a single copy of ’Ancient Medicine Transmission’ existed, she felt a bit strange. Upon discovering that the organism parasitizing Xiahou Huai Gui was a Corpse Centipede, a seed of doubt was planted in her heart.

Because the Corpse Centipede is a mutant organism cultivated only by advanced civilizations; even in the interstellar world that Xu Xingguang lived in, it is a formidable existence.

And the technological and biological research level of her world had not reached that of an advanced civilization.

Until today, the appearance of Mo Xiao finally enlightened Xu Xingguang.

”How I discovered the world’s dissonance is not important. What matters is that this world is no longer safe.” Xu Xingguang doesn’t believe that Huo Canghai hasn’t noticed.

She said, ”That young master from the Xiahou Family has been parasitized by a mutant biochemical weapon. And I, on the photo wall of the abandoned mansion in Pilot Mansion, have seen a photo of a creature that resembles water grass in appearance but possesses extremely strong mutability, which is an essential genetic source needed by that mutant weapon.”

”And such a creature doesn’t exist in our world. Yet your father has seen it; it’s truly inexplicable.”

”That’s all?” Huo Canghai said with indifference, ”It’s just a plant; perhaps my father encountered it by chance.”