Ming Chen fell backwards, twitched several times, and went silent. Wu Jian, Wu Meiying, and Hou Jingsnu took gasping breaths of air. It hurt just to breathe. Only the knowledge that they were still on the battlefield kept them from letting their guard down.
“We… we did it…” Wu Jian gasped.
“Yeah… I don’t know how… but we did,” Hou Jingshu added.
Wu Meiying smiled as she wiped the sweat from her forehead. “It’s because… because we’re amazing together. That’s why.”
All of them shared a smile. Against all odds, against logic, they had fought someone at the fifth subrealm of the Hunger Realm and won. That was a feat unheard of as far as they were aware. Of course, they never would have won if it wasn’t for the poison they learned about from Tian Hao when she poisoned the Wu Clan’s farm. Ev
