My mom is waiting for treatment, and you're summoning me to be a hero?

Lin Mo pulled out the sword, shook off the blood, bent down and wiped the sword clean on the corpse's white robe, then casually tossed the corpse aside.

The three had already fought their way to the end of the hall.

Before me was a tightly closed stone door, made of the same material as the outer door, but slightly smaller, about the size of an ordinary room door.

The two thickest transparent pipes extend from above the door frame.

The spiritual energy emanating from inside the pipe was much denser than that from other pipes in the hall, exhibiting a deep blue color that was almost liquid.

Lin Mo kicked the stone door open.

Amidst the flying debris, the scene behind the door unfolded before the three of them.

This is a much smaller hall, only a little over a hundred square meters in area, and the lighting is much softer than outside.

In the center of the room were two stone slabs, and on each slab lay a person.

One male and one female.

The man was older, with a handsome face, and even in his sleep, he maintained the dignity unique to those who had long held high positions.

He was wearing a dark purple robe embroidered with star patterns, which had faded somewhat due to long-term exposure to the mental energy field.

His hands were folded in front of his chest, his fingertips long and pale, his nails neatly trimmed.

A head of long, silvery-white hair was scattered on both sides of the stone slab.

There was a very faint silver line between his eyebrows, which was the mark of the Star Elf royal family.

The woman's face was similar to his age, while maintaining the exquisite beauty and elegance unique to the Elven race, with only a few very faint lines at the corners of her eyes.

She was wearing a long, silver-white dress.

She wore a delicate silver crown on her forehead.

Two thick pipes hung down from the ceiling, their ends embedded in the center of the two people's heads.

The tube interface blends perfectly with the scalp, and the nerve fibers around the connection point pulsate slightly inside the tube wall.

Its pulse frequency is much slower than other star spirits, but the spiritual energy transmitted with each pulse is several times more intense.

Yin Xue walked into the room, but paused when she recognized the two people's faces.

She quietly walked to the Queen's side, reached out and grasped the thick tube embedded in the top of her head, her slender fingers tightening on the tube's surface.

She didn't pull it out directly, but turned to look at Lin Mo.

"Their mental energy fluctuations are several times stronger than those outside. The tubes have already grown into their brain tissue. If they are pulled out directly, they will die."

Lin Mo nodded without speaking, and the killing domain spread out beneath his feet.

But this time, the color of the domain was no longer that cold, blood-red hue, but rather filled with the green laws of life.

Having gained insights from his previous time with the elves, Lin Mo now wielded the Laws of Life with even greater proficiency.

A faint green glow emanated from within the crimson domain's light, as the two laws merged and intertwined within its boundaries, enveloping the two stone slabs in a warm and vibrant aura.

He transformed the laws of life into the finest and softest threads, which slowly seeped into the gaps in the pipe connections above their heads, beginning to repair the nerves that were about to break.

Seeing this, Yin Xue no longer hesitated.

She first used both hands to pull the two pipes out from above their heads at the same time.

The moment it was pulled out, two pale blue waves of spiritual energy surged out from the interface, exploding into two dazzling bursts of light in the air.

The two men lying on the stone slab convulsed violently at the same time, their brows furrowing sharply and their faces showing extreme pain.

The wound at the interface on their heads was rapidly expanding, and the mental energy circuits under their skin were starting to go out of control without the guidance of any tubes, causing dense blue cracks to appear on their skin.

But this time is different.

The pale green light of the Law of Life within Lin Mo's Killing Domain suddenly accelerated as it spread to the two of them.

The pale green threads of law flowed into their bodies through the interface.

They reconnected their disintegrating neural circuits one by one, and forced the spiritual energy that was leaking out of the wounds back into their bodies.

The crimson domain held the last line of defense, preventing any life force from leaking out of the two.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Three seconds later, the two of them suddenly opened their eyes.

The queen frowned, clearly still lingering from the intense pain she had felt upon waking. Her fingers twitched a few times along the edge of the stone slab, leaving shallow scratches on the milky-white surface.

Then the breathing gradually calmed down, and the rise and fall of the chest changed from rapid to slow and deep.

The Queen looked up at the unfamiliar ceiling and the three faces she had never seen before with a bewildered expression.

On the stone slab beside him, the king slowly turned his head, his deep purple eyes scrutinizing the three people in front of him.

A human in black robes and a black sword, a mature female demon with red hair and red eyes, and an eight-legged black spider.

His gaze lingered on Lin Mo for a moment, sensing that the fluctuations of law emanating from this human were incredibly strong.

Then his gaze swept over Yin Xue and stopped.

His pupils contracted for a moment.

"You...you're Yin Xue? Why are you back?"

Upon hearing this, Yin Xue was taken aback, then pointed to his nose: "You know me?"

The king gave a wry smile upon hearing this: "Of course, in a way, you are our daughter."

Yin Xue's hand trembled slightly, clearly indicating that these words had a great impact on her.

Just then, Lin Mo stepped forward and first grabbed Yin Xue's hand to soothe her emotions.

Yin Xue watched as Lin Mo finally stabilized.

At the same time, Lin Mo frowned and asked the Star Elf King, "What do you mean by 'to some extent'?"

The king did not answer immediately.

He sat on the edge of the stone slab, his long, silvery hair slipping down his shoulders, the ends brushing against the faded star patterns.

He looked exhausted, not physically, but mentally exhausted, like someone who had been imprisoned for thousands of years and had even exhausted their anger.

He glanced at the Queen beside him. She sat quietly, her silver eyes calm as still water, and nodded slightly to him.

"Tell me first, how did you get here?"

Lin Mo spoke up: "The Star Stone, the Elf race thought it was the Star Elf race's divine artifact, but Yin Xue recognized the magic array inside, which was the same one that summoned her to the continent back then."

The king remained silent for a long time.

Then he laughed, a laugh that was both helpless and bitter.

"It's because of that thing. That stone isn't a divine artifact at all. The real Star Elf artifact was already melted down by us long ago."

Lin Mo raised an eyebrow. The stone that the elves regarded as a divine artifact had actually been melted down long ago?

The king continued to explain.

"We melted down the artifact and made it into a sealing stone—indestructible, with only one purpose: to seal that teleportation array. We left it in the likeness of the artifact among the elves, hoping that one day the descendants of the Star Elves could use it to find their way home. But instead, it was you, Yin Xue, who came. The creation we sent away with our own hands has returned on its own."