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Cha Xiaodao had a long scar on his forehead that had already scabbed over, posing no serious problem.
Drops of water dripped from his chin.
Li Yan, lying on the ice, blinked and then uttered in surprise, "You're not dead?"
Cha Xiaodao rolled his eyes, "You look much closer to death than me."
As they spoke, Li Yan sat up and looked far into the distance, the sea was scattered with huge fragments of broken ice.
He stood up and said to Cha Xiaodao, "It's precisely because I'm in such a sorry state that I thought you couldn't have escaped your fate."
Indeed, the final strike from Huang Jiuya's monstrous form was more powerful than Li Yan had anticipated. If they hadn't been above the Bohai Sea, if Li Yan hadn't had the "Red Water Essence" item, if there hadn't been only four beasts left when the black needle tide erupted...
Perhaps Li Yan would've had to use one or two of his own Ghost Chariot lives to kill Huang Jiuya...
