Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

"What did you say?" The drug that Zhang Zhiyi used to poison Huo Wen’an was naturally the most sinister poison in her possession, a poison so deadly that even she couldn’t find an antidote.

Therefore, upon hearing Xu Xingguang’s words, Zhang Zhiyi lost her composure on the spot.

Zhang Zhiyi hurriedly grabbed Xiahou Shang’s wrist, trying to calm down as she took his pulse, only to find that his meridians were all in disorder, and two opposing cold-fire energies were coursing through his body.

This symptom was exactly the same as Huo Wen’an’s grave illness!

Only then did Zhang Zhiyi dare believe that Xu Xingguang had indeed gone all out against Xiahou Shang.

"How do you have this kind of drug?" It was a virus she had accidentally developed after tens of thousands of experiments. This virus could break the patient’s meridians in the shortest time, devour their nerves, and finally result in sudden death.

How did Xu Xingguang get it?

Pointing to his own head, Xu Xingguang said, "Perhaps I’m smarter than you. The virus you took countless years to research, I managed to crack and successfully replicate in just a few days."

Xu Xingguang deliberately provoked Zhang Zhiyi, "Senior sister, isn’t it infuriating?"

Zhang Zhiyi was indeed a bit shaken.

Looking at Xu Xingguang, she felt as though she were looking at a monster.

If what Xu Xingguang said was true, then her abilities far surpassed those of all mortal world healers, and she could even stand on par with the geniuses of the Ying Family in the Divine Martial Realm.

"Xu Xingguang, Xiahou Shang is an innocent man, how could you poison him?" Saying this, Zhang Zhiyi forgot that her hands were stained with the lives of countless innocents.

"It’s merely returning the favor in kind." Xu Xingguang understood she shouldn’t have harmed Xiahou Shang, but Xiahou Shang was the only one who could restrain Zhang Zhiyi. When necessary, necessary means must be employed; a merciful heart can only end in ruin.

Gazing at the dawn outside the window, Xu Xingguang said, "In at most three days, Xiahou Shang will suddenly die. Senior sister, only I know how to cure this virus; even you are helpless."

"Whether Xiahou Shang lives or dies depends on your choice."

Zhang Zhiyi quietly gazed at her husband, her heart filled with boundless pain. Of course, she hoped Xiahou Shang would survive, but...

Though Zhang Zhiyi was from the Divine Martial Realm, her family was just a weak sect in that world. Her mistake had implicated her entire family, resulting in over thirty family members being imprisoned in the Divine Martial Realm.

As for her, she was sent to this filthy mortal world to atone.

Only by earning merits could she clear her family’s name.

She did love Xiahou Shang, but compared to her family’s honor, the love was misaligned.

"Then let him die." Zhang Zhiyi made her decision immediately, saying, "Xu Xingguang, he’s just a man, not important enough to stop my plan."

"Senior sister, I didn’t mean for you to halt the entire plan. You’ve schemed for so many years to cleanse the mortal world; how could you easily relent because of a man?"

"I just want to make a deal with you."

A hint of surprise flashed across Zhang Zhiyi’s eyes, and she asked thoughtfully, "What deal?"

"Answer three questions truthfully, and I’ll spare Xiahou Shang."

After a moment’s ponderance, Zhang Zhiyi nodded, "Ask."

"First," Xu Xingguang looked in the direction of Chuancheng and said, "what exactly is the Medicine King Tower?"

"To question the Medicine King Tower, Xu Xingguang, you’re surprisingly clever." Zhang Zhiyi told her, "Speaking of the Medicine King Tower, it takes one back to over two thousand years ago, when the mortal world and the Divine Martial Realm split."

"Over two thousand years ago, an interstellar meteorite containing toxic gas crashed onto our planet..." After explaining that unknown history, Zhang Zhiyi then said, "The Medicine King Tower is an entrance hidden in the mortal world by the Divine Martial Realm. Only through it can one enter the Divine Martial Realm."

Upon hearing this, Xu Xingguang’s mind recalled the No-man District in the Kunze Mountain Range, the space she initially entered through the district—where was it?

"According to you, the Kunze Mountain Range was formed by that meteorite?"

"That’s right."

"What kind of place is the No-man District in the Kunze Mountain Range?"

Zhang Zhiyi frowned and said, "Over two thousand years have passed, and that meteorite is still continuously releasing toxic gas. The No-man District is the meteorite’s core. It’s the only place in the world that can’t be detected by any technological instruments."

Xu Xingguang’s bright eyes narrowed slightly; she said, "So, even people in the Divine Martial Realm don’t know what’s hidden inside there?"

Zhang Zhiyi scrutinized her before saying, "Actually, not all superpower users moved to the Divine Martial Realm two thousand years ago."

Xu Xingguang was a bit surprised, "You mean, there were also mutated superpower users who chose to stay in the mortal world and stand together with the Infected?"

Nodding, Zhang Zhiyi recounted the sealed past, "That man, named Divine Hidden Crane, was the last emperor of the Ancient Xia Country. It’s said his power far exceeded any mutated being in the Divine Martial Realm."

"As an emperor, he supported superpower users moving to safe areas, but he couldn’t stand by and watch the infected citizens suffer. So, he resolutely stayed in the mortal world. According to researchers in the Divine Martial Realm, the reason the Infected survived in the mortal world back then was that the emperor leapt into the meteorite’s core and controlled the spread of its toxic gas."

What Zhang Zhiyi didn’t tell Xu Xingguang was that the Divine Martial Realm didn’t dare act against the mortal world because, after that emperor’s death, an invisible divine consciousness had gathered.

That divine consciousness has been protecting the mortal world.

And the people of the Divine Martial Realm could no longer open the barrier to the mortal world.

The Medicine King Tower became the only passage between the two worlds.

But it doesn’t matter; once the rubbish in the mortal world all mutate into beasts, no one will be able to resist the Divine Martial Realm.

By then, the warriors of the Divine Martial Realm would easily reclaim this land.