According to the city's rules, beginner martial artists can take refuge on their own, while intermediate martial artists and above have an obligation to defend against external attacks.
"This is your martial arts gym, I can't run away..." Jiang Xuan said softly.
"Are you stupid? How much is a martial arts gym worth? Besides, would you risk your life for money?" Shen Qian said helplessly.
"I...I didn't know there would be so many scavengers..."
Jiang Xuan blushed and said somewhat shyly.
"Fool."
Shen Qian patted Jiang Xuan's head again, then took her hand and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to a safe place first."
“Outside…” Jiang Xuan hesitated.
"Oh, you mean those scavengers? Don't worry, at least there aren't any living people around the martial arts gym for the time being."
Shen Qian said casually, "I cleaned it up when I came here. I originally planned to kill the scavengers in the martial arts hall as well, but I changed my mind after seeing your performance. It's a rare opportunity, so I'll treat it as a training session for you."
Jiang Xuan then realized that Shen Qian had actually arrived long ago. Thinking that Shen Qian had seen her crazy behavior just now, Jiang Xuan blushed even more.
"I didn't think too much about it at the time, so..."
"No need to explain, I'm not the Leshan Giant Buddha, I don't hold back when dealing with these scavengers."
He waved his hand before sinking.
"Ah, wait a minute!"
Just as Shen Qian was about to leave with Jiang Xuan, Jiang Xuan seemed to remember something.
She broke free from Shen Qian's grasp and ran upstairs amidst his puzzled gaze. A short while later, when Jiang Xuan returned, she was tightly clutching a photo album in her arms.
Shen Qian's gaze pierced through, instantly revealing the contents of the photo album, and he was momentarily stunned.
He had seen the photos there once before, but it was in Jiang Xuan's cramped bedroom in Jingcheng...
"You refused to run...is that also because of this?" Shen Qian asked with mixed feelings.
"Yes." Jiang Xuan wasn't shy this time. She nodded, meeting Shen Qian's gaze. "It's very important."
"Don't do that again. Your life is more important to me."
Shen Qian pinched Jiang Xuan's delicate face, "It's just a photo, you can take it however you want later!"
"Really?" Jiang Xuan's eyes lit up.
"Of course... cough, except for nude photos."
After teasing Jiang Xuan, Shen Qian pulled the delighted girl out of the martial arts hall.
At this moment, the sky over Jiangzhou was quite strange, with one half shrouded in gloom and the other half bathed in sunshine.
This is a sign that the weather system is malfunctioning.
The streets were littered with corpses, stretching as far as the eye could see—all the work of Shen Qian just now.
Without letting Jiang Xuan see the bloody scenes any longer, Chen Qian moved swiftly and pulled Jiang Xuan to the sky.
In the surrounding sky, there were dozens of battlefields, all where the mountain and sea warriors of Jiangzhou were fighting against the strong among the scavengers.
Amidst the flames rising from the ground and the collapse of buildings, besides the scavengers scattered everywhere, one could also see the figures of various monstrous beasts.
These monsters entered Jiangzhou through underground caves, mixed among the scavengers. The current chaos in Jiangzhou is largely due to these monsters.
After all, the strength of monsters is far more terrifying than that of scavengers.
Not far from his feet, the collapsed cave was clearly visible. Looking closely, he could vaguely see a series of interconnected ravines underground, forming a maze-like passageway.
Upon entering Jiangzhou, Shen Qian had already discovered that it seemed as if another world was hidden underground.
These scavengers were able to enter Jiangzhou through the collapsed tunnel, which must have been premeditated.
When Jiang Xuan saw the entirety of Jiangzhou for the first time, the devastated scene before her made her gasp in shock.
"I'll take you to the city lord's mansion's refuge first."
With his duties to fulfill, he dared not delay. He grabbed Jiang Xuan's slender waist and in a few swift movements, they arrived at the bustling city lord's mansion in a short while.
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He put Jiang Xuan down and was about to leave when Jiang Xuan grabbed his sleeve again.
"That voice... appeared again when the ground collapsed, saying that the 'door' was about to be pushed open..."
Shen Qian raised an eyebrow.
Jiang Xuan had told him before that after arriving in Jiangzhou, a strange voice would often appear in her mind that gave her a splitting headache, and it was all related to a "door".
Before sinking, he secretly wondered if this was related to Jiang Chengye.
If the voice in Jiang Xuan's mind wasn't a hallucination, then this information might indicate something.
However, Shen Qian was still unsure whether the "door" Jiang Xuan mentioned was the same "door" that Jiang Zhongjunwu had mentioned.
After parting ways with Jiang Xuan, Shen Qian flashed into the sky and spotted two martial artists from the Mountain and Sea Realm fighting. He then charged over with his Mountain and River Blade.
According to internal dispatch information from the military, the Jiangzhong Army's Lushu Camp and Pulao Camp are already on their way to Jiangzhou.
With his current level of cultivation, he could have easily killed countless scavengers in an instant by launching a direct, indiscriminate attack. However, the city was in chaos, with martial artists, civilians, and scavengers mixed together, so he couldn't use any large-scale killing methods.
On the contrary, the army is more suitable for handling the chaos in the city.
However, these mountain and sea scavengers who seem to appear out of nowhere high in the sky are the most conspicuous targets.
Whoosh!
Hundreds of meters above the ground, accompanied by a flash of dazzling blade light, the Mountain and Sea Warrior who was fighting the Scavenger suddenly stopped in astonishment, watching helplessly as the Scavenger, whose cultivation was as high as the fourth level of the Mountain and Sea Realm, was instantly cut into pieces.
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