Yan Qing's feelings at this moment can only be described as "fuck you!" She went through all that trouble, only to have it delivered to her door; she was lucky she wasn't driven mad with frustration.
As for the man who spoke, he was somewhat surprised when he saw her, but he was mostly delighted.
So, disregarding everything else, he dropped the man he was carrying, slowly walked to Yan Qing's side, took her hand, and smiled.
"What, Qingqing, you couldn't wait any longer, so you came to find me on your own initiative?"
Yan Qing tried to pull her hand away twice, but couldn't, and could only let him hold it. Since she couldn't pull it away, she could only roll her eyes at him, which actually made him laugh again.
Holy crap! Has this guy gone mad?!
Yan Qing finally calmed down completely; let him do whatever he wants.
At Chu Jiang's feet lay a man and a woman bound together, and coincidentally, she recognized them both. One was Lingxi, whom she had sent out on official business, and the other was Guo Hu, the one Yue Qi had mentioned who had gotten separated from him.
The two people on the ground were struggling desperately, trying to signal to her, hoping she could quickly rescue them from their misery.
Yan Qing was completely bewildered; what on earth was going on?!
She turned to look at Chu Jiang, who had been standing beside her the whole time, and after thinking for a moment, she finally spoke.
"Um, could you release them for now? I swear on my honor, they're good people and will behave themselves."
Chu Jiang raised an eyebrow at her but did not answer her question.
Yan Qing sighed inwardly and added, "Don't worry, I promise I won't run away again."
"make a deal."
Without turning his head, Chu Jiang waved his hand, and the two people who had been tightly bound felt their freedom. So, without prior arrangement, they crawled and knelt towards Yan Qing's side.
"Bang—bang—"
Two loud thuds of heavy objects hitting wood rang out, bringing Yan Qing back to her senses. She realized that the two people running towards her had somehow been thrown far away.
Judging from the force of the fall, Chu Jiang had no intention of holding back at all. These two were truly thrown to the ground.
"Chu Jiang, what exactly do you want?" Yan Qing reacted immediately, grabbing his hand and then turning to signal to Guo Hu.
"Hurry up and leave!" He added, pointing in a certain direction at the end.
Although Guo Hu was dazed and confused from the fall, he was very strong, so upon hearing Yan Qing's words, he immediately struggled to his feet and ran in the direction Yan Qing was pointing.
"Tell Yue Qi for me that I'm safe now, and that he and my brother should find a way to leave as soon as possible. Today is the fifteenth, and the barrier at Cangyun Mountain is open. Remember to get out of there quickly, and I'll find a way to find you!"
Guo Hu nodded heavily, limped over, and the next moment, he suddenly disappeared from the Zhang family's old house.
Yan Qing then focused her attention on Chu Jiang. As for Ling Xi, she was a strange creature after all, and being thrown around twice didn't hurt her at all.
Chu Jiang seemed to thoroughly enjoy the feeling of her holding his arm, and just looked at her with a smile on his face.
At such close range, and with that face so incredibly alluring, she couldn't help but shrink back. As expected, she heard another soft laugh.
Yan Qing pretended not to hear. She coughed loudly and reorganized her thoughts.
"Well, I didn't mean to run away. The dust in that cave was just too much."
Chu Jiang was still all smiles, looking every bit the big bad wolf.
"I know you didn't do it on purpose, you've been planning this for a long time."
"Cough cough cough—" He was met with a series of coughs.
Yan Qing felt a little awkward. This person had brought her here by kidnapping, but clearly didn't intend to hurt her. So what did he want? He couldn't just keep feeding her like this, could he?
She was somewhat slow to realize that the entire Zhang family mansion had been reduced to ruins, as if it had just been attacked by a bomb.
She was puzzled. How could the entire Zhang family mansion have been turned into this state in such a short time?
Yan Qing looked at Lingxi. This girl must know something, right?
Lingxi was subtly approaching her master; that person was terrifying, and he was even the legendary one—
Lingxi's fear was so obvious that Yan Qing, being not blind, could see it clearly. So, it subtly transmitted a message, and the next moment, Lingxi suddenly vanished from the spot, transforming into a strange card that slowly flew back into Yan Qing's palm.
Throughout the entire process, Chu Jiang kept his eyes on her, but he did not make any attempt to interrupt her.
The first thing Lingxi did upon returning was to complain, "Master, that person, he, he, he—is not human!"
"Not human? What does that mean?" Yan Qing's heart suddenly skipped a beat. Could it be what she was thinking?
"But didn't you and Xiao Li personally confirm that he was a living person during the Qinglong Coffin Riding Ceremony? Why did you suddenly change your mind?"
Yan Qing immediately asked the crucial question, and Lingxi also felt a headache coming on. "I don't know either! But right now, I'm absolutely certain that he is a mystery, and the king of mystery—a titled mystery of the gold rank!"
"Gold Rank? The title is bizarre?" Yan Qing was so shocked she could hardly close her mouth. She couldn't believe it, so she quickly asked Youming Jinli, and sure enough, she got the exact same answer.
Now she was even more curious. "Wait a minute, I remember that monk Yuanhui was barely half a silver rank, and he managed to fool everyone. If this person really has a strange gold rank title, wouldn't it be even easier to fool him? How could you have discovered it?"
This just doesn't make sense.
However, the answer from Youming Jinli that followed taught her a valuable lesson.
"In our bizarre world, the highest level is the titled bizarre, each of whom has awakened supernatural abilities. Among them, the gold-rank titled bizarre are the kings among kings. All of us bizarre, upon seeing a gold-rank titled bizarre, will feel the suppression of our bloodline to the bone and have no choice but to submit."
So that's it. The reason Lingxi and the others were so afraid was because of their innate sense of superiority.
"However, this gold-tier title is strange. How many are there? Could there be several?"
Yan Qing's words earned her a glare from the Netherworld Brocade Fox. "Master, do you know the conditions for the arrival of the World of Rules of Strange Tales? — It's related to the mysteries of the Gold-Rank Titles. But you'll probably have to ask them yourself to find out the specifics. So, from this perspective, I can guarantee that there are absolutely no more than three Gold-Rank Title Mysteries in this world!"
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