Chapter 323: The Saint's Right Arm

"Is he alright, Senior!" Seeing Lingyun drop from the sky carrying the already unconscious Xiao Gucheng, Himeragi Yukina immediately rushed over and asked with a nervous expression.

"It's nothing, this guy just got too carried away and passed out from exhaustion." Lingyun casually handed the Xiao Gucheng in his arms to Himeragi Yukina.

"How could Xiao Gucheng release a familiar here? Doesn't he know that he cannot fully control his own familiars, and that it's very easy to cause a familiar to go berserk?" Nangong Nayue snorted coldly, then asked Himeragi Yukina.

"Senior did this to protect me." Seeing signs that Nangong Nayue was getting angry, Himeragi Yukina hurriedly explained. "Just now, someone appeared here attacking the Demon Race, calling himself an Armed Demon Exorcist from Lotharingia named Rudolf Eustach. By his side was an Artificial Lifeform named Astarte, and that lifeform is capable of controlling familiars. Senior Gucheng was injured by a familiar controlled by that girl while trying to protect me, which is why the familiar within his body went berserk."

"Rudolf Eustach? An Exorcist from Lotharingia?" Nangong Nayue frowned slightly. "To think that the person attacking the Demon Race on the island all this time was actually them? It seems things are not that simple. You take Xiao Gucheng back first; it would be better for you not to interfere in this kind of matter for now."

"This, Teacher, are you and Teacher Lingyun... Attack Mages?" Himeragi Yukina asked with some hesitation.

Nangong Nayue did not answer, but her gaze had already given Himeragi Yukina the answer.

After Himeragi Yukina left with Xiao Gucheng, Nangong Nayue asked Lingyun beside her: "Lingyun, are you alright?"

Lingyun coughed lightly: "I'm fine. In my eyes, this kind of battle doesn't count as particularly intense. However, is this the power of a familiar? It really is strong. If Xiao Gucheng weren't a half-baked amateur and hadn't lost consciousness, I really wouldn't have been able to resolve this familiar in such a short time!"

"If a half-baked True Ancestor can control such a powerful familiar, then just how strong must those True Ancestors who have existed for who knows how long be?" Nangong Nayue said, frowning. "By the way, Lingyun, were those few dragons from just now your familiars?"

"Familiars? No, those weren't my familiars, but martial arts techniques." Lingyun shook his head slightly.

"Martial arts techniques? In this world, there are still such martial arts?" Nangong Nayue looked somewhat puzzled. "No, that's not right. In the battle just now, why didn't you release your familiar?"

"You should also know that my Vampire bloodline is incomplete and is still in the process of being restored, so I don't have any familiars in my body right now." Lingyun spread his hands.

"No familiars? Can a Vampire without familiars even be called a Vampire?" Nangong Nayue looked at Lingyun with a puzzled expression.

"Not having familiars is only temporary. After a while, once my bloodline abilities recover a bit, I will be able to summon familiars," Lingyun said.

"An incomplete Vampire ability that can even automatically restore itself—I am truly becoming more and more curious about your identity," Nangong Nayue said with interest.

"Now is not the time to talk about this. The biggest trouble right now is this Exorcist named Rudolf! If we can't stop him in time, this island is finished!" Lingyun said.

"Do you know something?" Nangong Nayue asked.

"I remember when you were introducing this island to me, you once said that the reason Itogami Island can stand upon this ocean is because at the center of this island lies an incomparable foundation—the Saint's Right Arm," Lingyun said slowly.

"The Saint's Right Arm, an Exorcist from Lotharingia? Could the other party's goal be to seize the Saint's Right Arm located at the Foundation Gate?" Nangong Nayue's expression changed slightly. "This is terrible. If the Saint's Right Arm is truly taken by him, this island will definitely sink! We must stop them before they take the Saint's Right Arm!"

"That is your business. When it comes to searching for things, you are much better at it than I am," Lingyun said, his body already disappearing from where he stood.

"Brother, you're back?" In the Cloud Realm, Ruoxi, who was sprawled on the sofa with no regard for her image, flashed a smile at Lingyun as he appeared beside her.

"How is the analysis going?" Lingyun stroked Ruoxi's head and asked with a smile.

"The analysis process hasn't been very smooth. I haven't been able to fully parse the information within it yet, but the ability to summon familiars has already been analyzed."

Ruoxi stretched out her hand, and a multicolored Light Ball appeared in her palm. In her other hand was a drop of red blood—the very drop of essence blood taken from Xiao Gucheng earlier. Because Xiao Gucheng had been completely off-guard at the time, the extraction of this essence blood did not trigger much of a reaction from the power within his body.

"As for the source of the Vampire power in this world, things like the so-called God's Curse and Secret Spell are just chicken ribs to you, Brother," Ruoxi said.

"There is indeed no need to study such things. After all, gaining immortality because of a curse really doesn't count for much to me. By the way, to what extent has your research on Vampires reached?" Lingyun asked.

"I have no interest in these Vampires at all. My idea is to use these curses and Secret Spells to reverse-engineer the power of the gods that have already disappeared from this world," Ruoxi said, pouting.

"The gods that have disappeared from this world? You really dare to think big. Can you succeed?" Lingyun asked.

"I don't know. Right now, we only have the essence blood of one person, Xiao Gucheng, so there isn't much that can be deduced. If we could get the essence blood of other True Ancestors, this matter would be much easier," Ruoxi said, blinking.

"Don't be greedy like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. Right now, I'm already struggling to deal with one berserk familiar of Xiao Gucheng's, let alone dealing with those veteran True Ancestors. Getting essence blood from their hands is definitely not an easy task," Lingyun tapped Ruoxi's head and rolled his eyes.

"Hee hee, Brother will definitely be able to do it in the future. Besides, as long as I research those divine Secret Spells and curses, dealing with them won't be difficult at all." Ruoxi smiled and handed the colorful Light Ball to Lingyun. "Brother, try summoning a familiar's power and see what kind of familiar you can summon."

After the Light Ball in Ruoxi's hand slowly merged into Lingyun's body, Lingyun felt a chaotic, indistinct aura appear within him.

"By the way, Brother, you can't summon familiars in the Cloud Realm!" Ruoxi reminded him.

"I know," Lingyun nodded, and his figure disappeared from the Cloud Realm.

"Hee hee, I wonder what kind of familiar Brother will be able to summon. If it's just an ordinary familiar, it definitely wouldn't be worthy of Brother's status."

Seeing Lingyun leave, the sofa beneath Ruoxi rapidly expanded into a large bed. Ruoxi rolled around on the large bed, revealing a beautiful smile.