Zu An looked in the direction of the sound, and his heart skipped a beat.

A burly man with red hair stood there arrogantly, looking down at him as if he were prey waiting to be slaughtered.

"Chen Xuan! What are you doing here?" Zheng Dan frowned and asked in a deep voice.

The man before him was none other than Chen Xuan of Black Wind Stronghold. He hadn't expected to run into Zu An, who had been captured, here. What a pleasant surprise!

"Ah, I came to discuss something with the gang leader, but I didn't know he wasn't on the island. Please forgive me." Chen Xuan cupped his hands in apology.

Zheng Dan frowned. After all, the other party was a powerful figure in the area. Since he had apologized, even if it wasn't very sincere, she couldn't say anything more: "I wonder what important matter the chieftain has to discuss with me?"

Chen Xuan chuckled: "Before we get down to business, let me kill this bastard first."

After saying that, he leaped up and grabbed at Zu An's head with his large hands.

Zuan was completely restrained and had no way to resist. He could only watch helplessly as the opponent's claw-like hand descended.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, trying to think of a way to escape, but in this haste, he couldn't think of any solutions.

My life is over!

Just then, a fragrant breeze wafted by, and Zheng Dan appeared before him, raising her hand to greet him.

The two exchanged a palm strike instantly, and Chen Xuan flew backward, landing and looking at her: "What is the meaning of this, Chief?"

At the same time, he was secretly surprised; this woman's cultivation was more advanced than he had imagined.

He wasn't the only one surprised; Zu An's eyes widened as well, partly from the joy of Zheng Dan saving him, and partly from the shock of the other's strength.

Chen Xuan is a sixth-rank expert, yet Zheng Dan went head-to-head with him without being at a disadvantage. Could it be that she is also a sixth-rank expert?

That can't be right, can it?

At this moment, Zheng Dan also spoke up, looking coldly at Chen Xuan: "I would like to ask Chief Chen what his intentions are?"

Chen Xuan pointed at Zu An: "Chief Guan should know the deep hatred between Zu An and me. Now that he is your prisoner, given the relationship between our two families, handing him over to me shouldn't be a big problem, right?"

Zheng Dan replied, "If it were anyone else, I would have no problem giving it to the chieftain, but I still have a use for this person, so I'm really sorry."

Chen Xuan was somewhat surprised, but after a slight pause, he laughed and said, "Fine, I'll have plenty of opportunities to kill him in the future anyway, so I'll give the gang leader some face today."

"Thank you for your understanding, Chieftain." Zheng Dan was a little puzzled. Everyone said that Chen Xuan was the kind of person who was unreasonable and domineering, so why was he so easy to talk to today?

"Now, Chieftain, can you explain the purpose of your visit?" Zheng Dan then asked.

"Let's go inside and talk about it in detail," Chen Xuan laughed and gestured for them to go in.

For a moment, Zheng Dan was in a daze, as if this Giant Whale Island was Chen Xuan's territory, and he was the host entertaining him.

This feeling made her very unhappy, but she wasn't about to fall out with him over such a trivial matter, so she could only walk towards the council hall with a gloomy face.

"Boss, you're back!" A thin man with a mustache greeted him with a big smile.

He is Liu Chan, the second-in-command and strategist of the Giant Whale Gang. He is in charge of the daily work when Zheng Dan is not on the island.

"Did you send the message by carrier pigeon?" Zheng Dan asked in a deep voice.

Liu Chan also lowered his voice and replied, "That's right. Chen Xuan suddenly came to the island, and we don't know how to deal with it. We ask the leader to come back and make a decision."

“Oh~” Zheng Dan walked straight to the leader’s seat, Chen Xuan sat in the first chair to her left, and the other important figures of the Giant Whale Gang took their seats in turn.

Ya Xiao was one of them, and he sat at the fifth table behind Liu Chan.

As for Zaun, he was relegated to the far corner.

As the servants served tea to everyone, Zuan knew they would soon be discussing serious matters, and once that was over, he would be in trouble.

Moreover, he didn't believe that Chen Xuan would let him off so easily. Zheng Dan had protected him once, but she might not be able to protect him a second time.

Moreover, Zheng Dan himself was most likely going to kill him.

He hurriedly called out to Mi Li in his heart: "Empress, Empress? If you don't come out soon, you'll die with me!"

Unfortunately, no matter how he called out, there was no response whatsoever.

Remembering that Mi Li had said before that the poison she was afflicted with had damaged her soul and that she was in a deep sleep to expel the poison, it seemed that she really couldn't count on her.

"This woman is really carefree. Isn't she afraid I'll really mess things up?" Zuan complained.

But despite the complaints, now I can only rely on myself.

But no matter how many methods he tried, he couldn't come up with a solution.

The ropes binding him were easy to deal with, but the key issue was that Zheng Dan had sealed all his vital points, preventing him from circulating his vital energy and making him unable to move at all.

"Sigh, if I could mobilize even a tiny bit of vital energy right now, I could slowly break through my acupoints." Zu An closed his eyes and began to sense whether he could condense vital energy within his body.

Unfortunately, Zheng Dan's method of sealing acupoints was very skillful. He tried many times, but couldn't find a single trace of dissipated Yuan energy.

Just as he was in despair, he suddenly sensed a chilling aura.

"Huh?"

At first, he thought it was his imagination, but upon closer inspection, he found a faint, icy presence deep within his dantian.

"This is……"

Zu An was both surprised and delighted. He was very familiar with this aura. He had been healing Chu Chuyan every day for some time and was extremely sensitive to her aura.

Why does Chu Chuyan's icy energy reside within my body?

You know, the other party gave him a book called "Snowflake Divine Sword" some time ago, and he did read it and practiced for a while in his spare time.

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