Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

Ying Huai asked quietly, ”What happens if you don’t have a Passage Token?”

The corner of Ying Jing’s lips curled up and she said, ”You turn to ash and vanish.”

Ying Huai shrank his neck in fear.

”Let’s go.” Just as Ying Jing was about to step through the door, she was startled by the sound of waves behind her. She turned to see a black cane with a python pattern emerge from the water, followed by a young man wearing a black mask, holding a dripping wet man in one hand, surfacing from the sea.

Zheng Qin exclaimed, ”My suitcase! My hotpot base and milk tea!” He was also wearing a black mask.

Ying Ziyao followed, surfacing with a black mask too, and said to Zheng Qin, ”I warned you, you can’t bring luggage over.”

Zheng Qin was on the verge of tears.

Ying Jing glared at the man in the middle holding the cane, gritting her teeth, ”It’s you!”

Huo Wen’an, seeing that Xu Xingguang was safe, jumped out of the water, nodded to Ying Jing, and said with gentlemanly poise, ”Thank you for graciously giving us the Passage Token. Your kindness will surely be repaid in the future.”

Ying Jing: ”...”

She cast a sinister gaze at Huo Wen’an, smiling mischievously, ”Aren’t you afraid the Passage Token I gave you is fake?”

Huo Wen’an’s enchanting long eyes curved as if smiling, and he said, ”It’s unlikely that the Passage Tokens in your and Ms. Zhong Mei’s hands are fake, right?”

Upon understanding Huo Wen’an’s meaning, Ying Jing was momentarily stunned, her face turning pale. ”Are you trying to steal our Passage Tokens?”

Huo Wen’an: ”That depends on how sincere you are.”

For the first time, Ying Jing found the term ’you’ to be so grating.

”The Passage Token can’t be faked, rest assured.” Ying Jing eyed Huo Wen’an and the two men behind him, letting out a strange laugh, ”You only have two Passage Tokens, yet there are three of you. Is the remaining one waiting to turn to ash?”

”That’s not something you need to worry about.”

Huo Wen’an took the Passage Token from his neck and handed it to Ying Ziyao and Zheng Qin, ”You two go in first.”

Ying Ziyao had been to the Divine Martial Realm twenty years ago, so he was experienced. Holding the Passage Token with his right hand, he instructed Zheng Qin, ”Hold the Passage Token with your right hand, with the Medicine King Tower’s silhouette facing forward.”

”Follow me.”

Seeing Ying Ziyao clearly familiar with entering the Divine Martial Realm, Ying Jing’s eyes showed a hint of surprise; could it be the other party had been there before?

Ying Jing scrutinized Ying Ziyao’s face closely, but the mask obscured his lips and nose, making it impossible to discern his true appearance.

Holding the Passage Token, Ying Ziyao walked toward the black door frame, nodded at Zheng Qin and Huo Wen’an, and without hesitation stepped in successfully.

The moment Ying Ziyao stepped into the door frame, his figure vanished from everyone’s sight.

Seeing this, Zheng Qin glanced back at Huo Wen’an.

”Go on.” The seawater had already submerged Huo Wen’an’s calves, and delaying any longer would close the Barrier Gate.

Zheng Qin no longer hesitated, gritting his teeth, he crossed the door frame and disappeared.

Seeing Huo Wen’an still outside the barrier, and recalling he didn’t have a Passage Token, Ying Jing instinctively tightened her grip on hers, fearing he might rob her.

Ying Zhongmei and Ying Huai also quietly tightened their grip on their Passage Tokens.

Only Xu Xingguang seemed to smile enigmatically.

Huo Wen’an walked to Xu Xingguang’s side and whispered in her ear, ”Wife, I’ll go in first, see you in the Divine Martial Realm.”

Xu Xingguang: ”Hurry up and go in.”

Without further delay, Huo Wen’an strode toward the black door frame, poised to step through.

Ying Jing sneered, ”You think you can just waltz through the Barrier Gate? Don’t wait to turn to ash...” Before she finished her sentence, Huo Wen’an effortlessly crossed the door and disappeared beneath the frame.

From start to finish, the black door frame never sounded an alarm.

Ying Jing: ?

Ying Zhongmei and Ying Huai were equally incredulous.

Ying Zhongmei asked Ying Jing, ”Weren’t you saying the Barrier Gate would turn those without a Passage Token to ash?” Staring in the direction Huo Wen’an disappeared, she murmured, ”Then how did he pass through smoothly?”

Ying Jing was also taken aback, ”How is this possible! It’s impossible to cross the Divine Martial Realm’s Barrier Gate without a Passage Token.”

”Unless...” She furrowed her brow and said quietly, ”Does he have a Passage Token from another continent? Could he have connections with the Divine Hidden Alliance?”

Apart from that, Ying Jing couldn’t think of any other possibilities.

Even with a hundred brains, she wouldn’t have imagined that Huo Wen’an wasn’t dealing with the Divine Hidden Alliance but was actually Divine Hidden Crane himself!

”Let’s go.” Ying Jing looked at the water now reaching their thighs, ”If we don’t go, the Barrier Gate will close.”

Hearing this, Ying Zhongmei clutched her Passage Token with her right hand and was the first to cross the threshold.

Ying Huai said to Xu Xingguang, ”Sister Xingguang, I’ll wait for you on the other side.” With that, he also went in.

Seeing Ying Huai pass through smoothly, Ying Jing asked Xu Xingguang, ”Why aren’t you going in?”

”I’m afraid you’ll stab me in the back, Envoy Ying Jing.”

Ying Jing paused, her right index finger trembling slightly.

Seeing Xu Xingguang’s cautiousness, Ying Jing’s original plan to kill Xu Xingguang the moment she stepped through the door frame, and dump her body in the sea, fell apart.

Knowing Xu Xingguang wouldn’t be easily eliminated, Ying Jing had to give up.

”Coward!” Ying Jing sneered, glancing at Xu Xingguang with disdain, and raised her leg to step through, only to hear Xu Xingguang say, ”Wait.”

Ying Jing frowned, glaring impatiently at Xu Xingguang, ”What is it now?”

Xu Xingguang stared at the Passage Token in Ying Jing’s right hand and said, ”Let’s switch Passage Tokens.”

Ying Jing: ”...”

She refused to nod.

Xu Xingguang smiled gently and said, ”What’s wrong? Unwilling?” She reached into the void with her right hand, and a sharp silver long sword appeared at her fingertips.

With the sword at Ying Jing’s neck, Xu Xingguang’s lips curved into a smile, ”Switch, or not?”

Seeing Xu Xingguang summon a sword out of thin air, Ying Jing exclaimed in shock, ”You’re a Superpower User too?”

”Aren’t you just some Mortal World trash?”

How could a Mortal World trash awaken a superpower?

Summoning a sword out of thin air indicated that Xu Xingguang had awakened the Space Conversion ability, a considerable power even among Superpower Users.

Ying Jing’s own ’Plant Acceleration Ability’ was quite useless, making her combat capability equal to that of an ordinary person.

Facing the unknown combat strength of Xu Xingguang, Ying Jing, utterly powerless, had no chance.

Irritated by Ying Jing’s hesitation, Xu Xingguang frowned, ready to slash Ying Jing’s neck with the sword. Seeing the killing intent in Xu Xingguang’s bloodthirsty eyes, Ying Jing dared not resist and could only grit her teeth and say, ”Switch!”

Only then did Xu Xingguang retract her sword, while Ying Jing’s neck, cut by the blade, began to bleed.

Xu Xingguang took the Passage Token from Ying Jing’s hand and placed her own into Ying Jing’s palm, gripping the token with her right hand, and briskly stepped through the door frame, disappearing beneath the Barrier Gate.

Ying Jing stomped her foot and cursed, ”Bitch! How did she guess my plan?” Indeed, Ying Jing intended to kill Xu Xingguang.

After all, Xu Xingguang had insulted her as ugly in front of Ying Huai and the others the day before.

Her original plan was to kill Xu Xingguang at the Barrier Gate and claim that Xu Xingguang’s Passage Token was faulty upon returning to the Ying Family.

Being just a little Mortal World trash, her death wouldn’t hold Ying Family Head accountable.

Little did she know that Xu Xingguang guessed her plan and even took her Passage Token.

In anger, Ying Jing threw down the token in her palm, then discreetly took a black Medicine King Tower Passage Token from her storage bag.