Chapter 62: Survival from a desperate situation

Perhaps because he felt that he had already pushed the Nguyen Dynasty to a point where there was no room for retreat, Chen Ci was no longer in a hurry.

The cold and sticky gaze like a poisonous snake roamed over the girl recklessly.

It passed by her torn dress, her messy hair, her slender white arms that were constantly oozing with bright red blood, and finally stopped at that beautiful and fresh face.

Enjoy her panic and helplessness when she is cornered.

"The Ruan family hid your furnace very well. I have never seen you in all these years."

The mountain road was already bumpy, and Nguyen Chao's legs and feet were injured, so he felt severe pain just by standing.

His lagging foot missed another step and Nguyen Chao fell to the ground.

He propped himself up and tried to look calm.

The fingers hidden behind the body were trembling constantly, and the fingertips were white from being taut.

"Since you know of my existence, you must also know that I had an engagement with the Chu family in the upper realm six years ago. Chu Xinglan, the young master of the Chu family, is my fiancé...Aren't you afraid that Chu Xinglan will retaliate against you after knowing this when you treat me like this?"

Chen Ci sneered disdainfully.

"Even the top-tier family in the lower world is not as good as a finger of the family in the lower world... let alone the famous Chu family."

"If Chu Xinglan knew that I was wronged here, the journey of cultivating immortals for everyone in your family would end here!"

Chen Ci nodded thoughtfully: "You make a lot of sense."

"But you are just a little girl who serves me. You stole my family's treasure. After I caught you, you became crazy because you were afraid of being tortured. You talk nonsense all day long and never tell the truth. Now you are even trying to get involved with Master Chu from the upper world... and you want to get in touch with him."

Chen Ci leaned down, stared at Ruan Chao's pale face, and spoke in a soft voice.

"As long as I keep saying this, no one will know your true identity."

Ruan Chao said angrily: "You are a despicable villain, and you have no shame in your behavior."

The girl seemed to be extremely angry with him. Her chest heaved up and down, and her eyes turned red silently, with a thin layer of mist forming.

She looks really horrible now.

Her goose-yellow skirt was covered in dirty mud and dead leaves. Her long, soft hair was wet from the rain and stuck to her porcelain-white cheeks. Her exposed skin was covered in blue and purple marks from bumps.

Seeing this scene of a beautiful woman in distress, Chen Ci felt a rare surge of tenderness in his heart.

"Don't think that Chu Xinglan can come to save you. A man like him who is blessed by heaven, he has all the resources he wants. With just one order from him, beauties with top qualifications like you will line up from Canglanzhou to Yunlaizhou..."

"You don't really think that he will always think about you, right?"

He seemed to want to reach out and touch the girl's soft cheek, but she dodged it without hesitation.

The man's eyes darkened, but his tone still contained a hint of seduction.

"As long as you follow me obediently, I will treat you well."

"Be good to me?" Ruan Chao's eyes flashed with obvious sarcasm, "Can you give me a top-grade spiritual vein as a gift? Or can you collect all kinds of natural treasures as little toys for me to entertain myself?"

Chen Ci choked.

Spiritual veins only exist in the upper realm.

Not to mention the Chen family, even in the entire Canglan Continent, there is not a single immortal cultivation family with spiritual veins.

Even in the upper realm, families with spiritual veins are extremely rare. Only the Chu family is wealthy enough to give spiritual veins as an engagement gift to a cauldron in the lower realm who has no foundation in cultivation.

Chen Ci's face turned ugly.

He possessed himself and approached Nguyen Dynasty.

"So what? You are in my hands now. Whether you live or die depends on my mood."

He reached out again, trying to grab the girl's arm and pull her into his arms.

A handful of dirt mixed with stones hit him hard in the face.

"Get away! Don't come over here! Don't touch me!"

The edges of the stone were very hard and contained some spiritual power. Chen Ci was not on guard, or perhaps he simply did not bother to be on guard.

There was a red mark on his forehead from the blow.

Chen Ci wiped it with his hand and saw clear bloodstains on his fingertips.

The man's eyes suddenly turned sinister and depressing.

"Very good, very good."

He moved forward without hesitation and grabbed the cloth on Nguyen Chao's chest, as if intending to tear it apart.

The alluring aroma hits your face, making you lose your mind.

Chen Ci raised the corners of his lips and said in an ambiguous tone: "All of you are bastards. Now you are pretending to be pure and heroic women. Isn't the fragrance emanating from your body still tempting me?"

"It turns out that she can't live without a man..."

Before he could utter the next two hateful words, his speech came to an abrupt end.

A silver-white long sword pierced through his chest.

Drops of blood slid down the tip of the sword and soon gathered into a sticky pool on the ground.

This move completely cut off all his chances of survival.

He opened his blurry eyes, trying to see clearly who was trying to kill him. A fierce spiritual power exploded in his body, crushing his flesh and bones into pieces.

Ruan Chao also knew that something had happened.

His eyelashes trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.

Under the cold moonlight, stood a young monk.

He has an upright figure and a handsome face. He is dressed in a spotless white robe, which is tied tightly with a jade belt around his waist. The cuffs of his robe are embroidered with dark gold cloud patterns that symbolize his status.

The young man lowered his eyelashes and looked at Ruan Chao calmly.

His eyes were tinged with a faint golden hue, like sunlight slanting down on the rippling water of a lake, illuminating the entire pond.

Then the wind started to blow and the clouds began to move.

The coldness and alienation in his eyes disappeared instantly, joy and panic were reflected in the boy's eyes, and the cold immortal stepped into the mortal world.

He squatted down almost hastily and extended his hand to Ruan Chao.

Ruan Chao was stunned.

The person in front of him looked very strange, but his features looked so familiar that he couldn't recognize him.

"Don't be afraid, it's me."

"I'm here."

There is only one person in the world who would call him so affectionately.

The tears that I had been trying hard to hold back suddenly burst out.

He ignored the hand the boy stretched out to him and threw himself directly into his arms.

The slender arms tightly embraced his waist, as if to confirm his existence, to make sure that this was not his dream, nor an illusion caused by his worry and panic.

Chu Xinglan was at a loss for a moment. He patted Ruan Chao's back awkwardly, opened his lips but didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only apologize first.

"I'm sorry, I came late and made you feel wronged."

"You, you're not here... they all bully me." The soft voice contained a faint cry, and the warm tears penetrated Chu Xinglan's clothes and burned all the way to his heart. "They all want to catch me and lock me up..."

Ruan Chao's body was very dirty, with blood and dirt, which also soiled Chu Xinglan's clothes, making him stained with the mud of the world.

The young immortal, who always had a serious cleanliness obsession, didn't seem to care at all and let Ruan Chao wipe his tears with his sleeve.

"I smell blood..." Chu Xinglan said, "Are you injured? Let me take a look."

Ruan Chao nodded.

He tore open his tattered sleeves and let him see the wound on his arm.

The blood has stagnated.

But the bright bloodstains and various blue and purple marks on the girl's delicate white arms were extremely shocking to look at.

Chu Xinglan was still remembering etiquette at first, but when he saw Ruan Chao suddenly tearing the fabric of his sleeves, his eyes dodged slightly. He didn't dare to look at him directly, but only dared to glance at him with the corner of his eyes, and a faint blush appeared on his ears.

But seeing how badly Nguyen was injured, he threw all courtesy out the window.

"Who hurt you?" The few words squeezed out from between his teeth were filled with murderous intent, "...was it him?"

He pointed to the cold body on the ground.

A small piece of red lotus fire ignited at the boy's fingertips.

The corpse on the ground was burned to ashes in an instant.

It truly achieved the goal of grinding bones and raising ashes without leaving a single trace.

Ruan Chao blinked and looked at the boy with an indifferent expression again.

He had no power to fight back against Chen Ci and could only be bullied and teased by him like a pet. He watched helplessly as he got closer and closer to him, but was unable to make any move to resist.

But Chen Ci, who he couldn't even defeat with one move, was as weak as a child who had just learned to walk in front of Chu Xinglan, and was easily defeated by him with just one sword.

He once again realized that there is a gap between geniuses.

Chen Ci had already built a complete foundation at the age of less than 30, and could be called a young genius in the lower world. However, compared with Chu Xinglan, he was like a firefly compared to the bright moon, they could not be compared in the same breath.

There is a world of difference between the two.

Ruan Chao couldn't help but grab Chu Xinglan's wrist, as if he was grabbing the last straw.

In such a world, only Chu Xinglan can protect him.

Chu Xinglan checked his wounds and his brows furrowed more and more, as if it was not Ruan Chao who was injured, but himself.

"How could it be so badly injured?"

"To avoid them, I rolled down the cliff."

"…Does it hurt?"

Ruan Chao's eyes turned red again, and he said softly, "It hurts."

A fragrant pill was stuffed between Nguyen Chao's lips and teeth. Without much hesitation, Nguyen Chao bit the pill and swallowed it.

"What is this?"

"It's just ordinary wound medicine. After taking it, the wound will stop hurting."

In the upper realm, just this small pill can be sold for millions of spirit stones at an auction. Its ability to revive the dead means it is doomed to be in short supply. However, in the eyes of the young master of the Chu family, it is just an ordinary medicine that can heal his fiancée's injuries.

Nguyen Dynasty's wounds scabbed and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The spiritual energy that was originally exhausted in Dantian also became full.

Ruan Chao clearly felt the changes in his body and thanked Chu Xinglan very seriously.

Chu Xinglan shook his head: "There's no need to thank me between you and me."

The atmosphere was a little dull.

The two of them haven't seen each other for several years.

Although they exchanged letters every two weeks, this was the first time in the past six years that they had seen each other face to face.

Chu Xinglan coughed lightly and turned his eyes away politely.

"Your dress is torn, do you want to change it?"

"I didn't bring my storage ring, so I don't have any other clothes to change into."

Chu Xinglan handed over his storage ring to Ruan Chao.

"I have."

Ruan Chao: “……?”

He leaned his consciousness in and saw the beautiful dresses neatly stacked together.

The colors and shapes are different, but they are all exquisite and beautiful without exception.

There were also many scattered pearl hairpins and jewelry nearby, almost piled up into a small mountain half a person's height, making the entire interior of the storage ring look magnificent and glittering.

Ruan Chao looked suspicious: "Why are there so many girls' clothes and jewelry in your storage ring?"

Chu Xinglan: "I bought it for you."

Ruan Chao: “…”

"The dresses and jewelry popular in the upper world are different from those in the lower world. I thought you would like them."

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

More in another, larger storage ring.

It was the betrothal gift he had accumulated for the Nguyen Dynasty over the years.

Ruan Chao pretended to be calm and said "oh".

He quickly changed his clothes and tied his hair into a simple bun with a jade hairpin. He knocked on the light-proof barrier created by Chu Xinglan to indicate that he was done.

Chu Xinglan hurriedly put away the barrier.

Ruan Chao lifted the hem of her skirt and turned around in front of him, tilting her head and asking him with a smirk.

“Does it look good?”

"...beautiful." It was countless times more beautiful than he had imagined.

Every time he bought clothes, dresses and jewelry, he couldn't help but wonder what it would look like if the Nguyen Dynasty wore them.

Although this is very unethical and even violates the six commandments of a gentleman.

But he still couldn't control himself, and he spit on himself while secretly describing it in his mind.

The wish that he had always cherished came true today... Chu Xinglan suddenly found it difficult to hold the sword in his hand.