Chapter 498

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Yang Fan found himself in a real dilemma, caught between the proverbial wolf in front and the tiger behind.

Neither advancing nor retreating were friendly options for him; there was no relatively safe choice.

In such a situation, Yang Fan could only choose the option that was relatively advantageous to him, one that wouldn't leave him and Xiang Xue Ting in a desperate predicament.

"I'll follow your lead!" Xiang Xue Ting said firmly.

She still looked extremely nervous, but her attitude had become resolute.

"Good, let's go," Yang Fan said in a deep voice.

Suddenly, he furrowed his brow slightly.

A strand of cold energy had entered his Dantian, only slightly less in scale than what he had experienced when he killed that Whisperer, and it was much greater than the usual mysterious phenomena.

As this cold energy flowed in, an odd change occurred within Yang Fan's Dantian.

A second strand of cold energy was born!