Chapter 172 The Realm of Trials (End)
Outside the window, the rain was pouring down. Xiao Qingyan stared at the person in front of him in disbelief, staggered backward, tripped over his knee, and fell straight into a chair.
The Fire Rope extended from Jiang Gu's fingertips, piercing into Xiao Qingyan's primordial spirit and completely imprisoning him.
The hand that had been choking him was removed, and Xiao Qingyan was finally able to breathe heavily. His face was pale as he looked at Jiang Gu, "Gu, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm sorry." Jiang Gu met his gaze expressionlessly. "I tricked you into entering the Trial Realm because I wanted to use your name as Xiao Dan's son."
Xiao Qingyan asked in astonishment, "What lie? Didn't you say you wanted me to hone my skills—"
He stared into Jiang Gu's emotionless eyes, suddenly fell silent, and slowly frowned. "You used me?"
Jiang Gu did not deny it.
"Why?" Xiao Qingyan's eyes flashed with anger. "I've been searching for you for so long and treated you with such sincerity, and you turn around and use me! How are you any different from everyone else?!"
“Nothing’s different.” Jiang Gu suddenly grabbed his wrist and pulled him up, causing his wide sleeve to slip down, revealing a hideous scar on his arm. His eyes grew even colder. “Was that scar really something you were born with?”
The scars on Jiang Gu's arms sensed his presence and began to heat up slightly. The scars on Jiang Gu's neck also reappeared, and the burning sensation made Jiang Gu's eyes grow even colder.
"Of course!" Xiao Qingyan tried to break free from his grasp, but the murderous intent in Jiang Gu's eyes startled him, and a storm raged within him. He forced himself to remain calm and asked, "What do you mean?"
Jiang Gu slowly released his hand. "I won't kill you now, as long as you do one thing for me."
Xiao Qingyan was furious. "Jiang Gu, you'd better think this through before you do anything. My father is Xiao Dan, the head of Yanyu Terrace. If anything happens to me, do you think you can still leave Wangyue alive? Oh, and your elder brother Jiang Xiangyun and the Jiang family too. No one in Pingze Continent can escape responsibility!"
“Perhaps Young Master Xiao should be worried about himself.” Jiang Gu condensed his spiritual power into a knife and slowly cut open the scar on Xiao Qingyan’s arm, merging the black jade bracelet and half of the primordial spirit hidden inside into it. He gave Xiao Qingyan a deep look. “The reason why spirit beasts live peacefully and are protected by butchers is because it is not yet time for them to be slaughtered.”
Xiao Qingyan was shocked, but before he could ask any more questions, Jiang Gu disappeared from the spot.
He was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand to take out the black jade bracelet that Jiang Gu had buried in his arm, only to find to his horror that his arm was no longer under his control.
The next instant, a brilliant golden light shot into the sky from the black jade bracelet, piercing through the blood rain that filled the second realm.
In the southeast of the second realm, Wen Ziheng, who had just entered, straightened his expression and rushed towards the golden light.
At the same time, Luo Xiaoyuan and the others chased the enemy to Qiansui City and saw the bright golden light soaring into the sky. Without saying a word, they restarted the Binding God Cage, but it was blocked by a long sword dharma image.
Blood rained down, and the Binding God Cage, dozens of feet high, exuded rich spiritual power. The Dharma Image Longsword was even larger than the cage. Luo Xiaoyuan, holding the spirit beast, looked up and saw a man in azure robes standing on the hilt of the sword. He had sharp features, thin, narrow single eyelids, and lazily lowered his head, seemingly looking at them indifferently.
Luo Xiaoyuan's expression changed drastically, "Chu Guanshan!?"
Standing amidst the ruins, still reeling from the shock, Xiao Qingyan's face instantly lit up with joy. "Uncle Chu!"
Chu Guanshan turned his head and gave Xiao Qingyan a helpless yet doting smile, "Azhuo, how did you end up in this trial realm?"
Xiao Qingyan's expression turned somewhat grim.
"No rush, let's talk in detail after we deal with these people." Chu Guanshan smiled slightly, glanced at his bright golden primordial spirit, a look of surprise flashed across his face, and then looked back at Luo Xiaoyuan, his smile deepening, "Xiao Jiu, I thought you remembered our previous agreement."
Luo Xiaoyuan's hand moved harder, her fingers piercing the little spirit beast's head. The once obedient and peacefully sleeping spirit beast let out a miserable howl, turned into ashes and disappeared without a trace. Luo Xiaoyuan raised her head, her double pupils filled with hatred, "You lied to us first!"
“Yes, back then, Pavilion Master Chu promised to set us free once the task was completed, but in the end, our contract with the Eight Pavilions was never broken.” Lu Liyu said with a smile, “And we’re still being hunted down by the Eight Pavilions. I’m afraid you were planning to kill us once we’re done with us from the start.”
Chu Guanshan sighed regretfully, “Li Yu, I had high hopes for you back then, and you lived up to expectations by bringing Song Sui Lou back from Pingze. But now Xiao Jiu is out of her mind, and you’re just going along with her nonsense.”
Lu Liyu shrugged, "Who told me I had no other choice?"
The Binding God Cage and the Dharma Image Longsword, which were secretly competing in spiritual power, emitted a buzzing sound. Chu Guanshan stood high in the sky and said, "Then I can't let you live."
He raised his hand, and a huge Dharma image gathered in the air and shattered the God-Binding Cage with a single palm strike. The entire Thousand-Year City shook violently, and cracks several feet wide appeared in the ground. Luo Xiaoyuan and the others were forced back a few steps by the powerful palm wind. Two purple-robed men were a little slower and turned into ashes along with the cage.
"Chu Guanshan, it was you who insisted on driving us to our deaths first!" Luo Xiaoyuan roared angrily, her thin body arching like a beast, her white bones piercing through her flesh and clothes, her body suddenly growing hundreds of times larger, transforming directly into a hundred-zhang-long bone dragon. Her long tail swept across, shattering all the houses in the city, and crashed down on Chu Guanshan.
Meanwhile, Bai Luan summoned his Dharma form, a huge Bagua diagram appearing behind the half-human, half-skeletal purple-robed figure. The spiritual energy in the air condensed and transformed into countless sharp arrows, unleashing a barrage of arrows.
Lu Liyu made hand seals, and the beggar-like Dharma image was even taller than Bai Luan. With hand seals, spiritual power condensed into countless threads, forming a net that was similar to the God-Binding Cage, blocking Chu Guanshan's retreat from all directions.
Chu Guanshan was not afraid at all. The Dharma Image behind him slowly raised its head, grabbed the Dharma Image sword with one hand to block Bai Luan's sharp sword, and swept his sleeve with the other hand to grab the Bone Dragon's seven-inch mark. The spiritual energy between heaven and earth began to tremble violently, and cracks appeared faintly in the entire second realm.
Xiao Qingyan watched from a distance. He tried to leave, but the black jade bracelet on his arm pinned his entire primordial spirit to the spot, making him unable to move.
Wen Ziheng arrived at this time.
She looked at Chu Guanshan, who had appeared there, with some surprise, her eyes darkening. "Why would Pavilion Master Chu come to my Trial Realm?"
Chu Guanshan was surprised by her speed in arriving. He chuckled and said, "I found several traitors from the Burning Platform Hall in the Eight Pavilions Hall. Seeing that Lord Wen was busy, I took some time to help you deal with them."
"Is that so?" Wen Ziheng turned his gaze to Luo Xiaoyuan, Bai Luan and the others, his delicate eyebrows slightly raised. He had already made up his mind and said slowly, "I am quite curious about what kind of traitor is worth Chu Pavilion Master coming here in person."
Luo Xiaoyuan let out a screech, and taking advantage of Chu Guanshan's momentary distraction, the enormous dragon head suddenly twisted, tearing apart Chu Guanshan's Dharma Image arm. Losing its strength, it slammed backward dozens of feet, then propped itself up and said, "Wen Ziheng, you probably don't know, but the Eight Pavilions' rebellion five years ago was orchestrated by Chu Guanshan! The Water Pavilion rebelled first because he disliked you, so your position as Pavilion Master was demoted to the Yin-Yang Tower. He'll kill us all, swallow the Jade Steps, and then frame you for it, thus achieving his goal—I wonder if Xiao Dan will spare your life this time!"
"Nonsense!" Chu Guanshan shouted coldly, raising his hand to strangle her completely. Unexpectedly, Wen Ziheng's Dharma Image suddenly intervened, drawing out several white ribbons from the halo behind the Dharma Image to block his attack.
"Sect Master Chu, Sect Master Xiao has given orders that if Luo Xiaoyuan and the others show up, they must be captured alive and severely interrogated to find out the truth about the rebellion back then." Wen Ziheng said calmly, "Are you trying to disobey orders?"
Chu Guanshan narrowed his eyes with displeasure. "Wen Ziheng, I'm giving you some face out of consideration for our past colleagueship, but you should also understand what you can and cannot interfere in. Could it be that you're protecting Luo Xiaoyuan because she was your former subordinate?"
Wen Ziheng sneered: "In my Trial Realm, you are not allowed to act so presumptuously!"
The two enormous Dharma images immediately clashed, and the entire Thousand-Year City was sealed off by Chu Guanshan's spiritual power. Luo Xiaoyuan and the others could not escape and could only grit their teeth and join the battle. If Wen Ziheng won, they would still have a sliver of hope, but if Chu Guanshan won, they would die without a burial place.
"Kill Chu Guanshan!" the Bone Dragon roared, and the others moved in response. In an instant, explosions echoed throughout Thousand Years City, several Dharma Images clashed, and the rifts within the second realm widened.
Xiao Qingyan was frozen in place, not understanding how things had developed to this point, and that the culprit who caused everything had quietly left outside Qiansui City.
Jiang Xiangyun watched as powerful figures battled within the city, their enormous forms obscuring the sky. He turned to Jiang Gu with a complex expression and asked, "How confident are you?"
Jiang Gu stood beside him with his hands behind his back, calmly saying, "Thirty percent."
"Thirty percent?" Jiang Xiangyun was instantly taken aback.
"He's a madman! Young master, we'd better leave this place quickly." Yao Li looked solemnly at the distant Thousand-Year City, gripping his sword tightly.
“No.” Jiang Xiangyun rejected his suggestion, pondering deeply, “Thirty percent… is already quite high.”
The powerful figures currently engaged in a battle within the city are all beyond their ability to defeat; a 30% chance is already quite high.
“We have set up a great formation underground in Thousand Year City as you said.” Jiang Xiangyun looked at Jiang Gu. “Seventh Brother, Yao Li and I have put all our resources into this trial, half of it. Don’t go back on your word.”
Jiang Gu looked up at the gradually ceasing blood rain in the sky, and felt a little more at ease. "Of course not."
——
A sea of blood beneath the earth.
Bai Yi looked at the hundred-foot-tall blood-red Bodhi tree in front of him and turned to ask, "Are you sure?"
Hou Wenxin's hands trembled as he touched the roots of the Blood Bodhi. "It is our clan's sacred tree. How... how could it be tainted with such a heavy stench of blood?"
Bai Yi looked around the sea of blood with her bone eye. Countless filthy primordial spirits were being dismembered again. She sighed, "They have truly committed countless sins."
Then, tears welled up in his eyes, and he slammed his staff heavily into the sea of blood. Behind him, a bright, pure white Bodhi tree appeared, its milky-white branches spreading and entwining around the roots of the blood Bodhi. Golden Sanskrit characters floated above the sea of blood, and pure Bodhi energy flowed continuously into the blood Bodhi.
Bai Yi, watching from the side, became somewhat nervous. "Fellow Daoist Wenxin, can this really sever the connection between Blood Bodhi and Chu Guanshan?"
"Our Bodhi clan is interconnected. Whether it's the relic or the Sumeru Heart, it can be used by one person when necessary. Now, it's not just my Bodhi essence, but the essence of our entire clan awakening the sacred tree." Hou Wenxin's face showed a devout expression. "Once the sacred tree awakens, it will not only sever the master-servant contract with Chu Guanshan, but also turn against him—"
As if to confirm his words, the branches and leaves of the Blood Bodhi began to tremble slightly, and the roots in the Blood Sea gradually turned white.
Meanwhile, inside the Thousand-Year City.
Chu Guanshan's Dharma form had been severely damaged. Wen Ziheng, Luo Xiaoyuan, and the others were all his original primordial spirits. Under their combined attack, the shards he had created were at a disadvantage.
Wen Ziheng sneered, "Sect Master Chu, you're at least half distracted. If you die at this second level today, you can only blame yourself for underestimating your opponent!"
"Heh, that depends on whether you have the ability." Chu Guanshan glanced at Luo Xiaoyuan and the others, who were already at their limit, and used the Blood Bodhi to try to forcefully summon Wei Feng, who had not yet appeared. However, for some reason, he could not sense Wei Feng's aura at all.
His expression changed as Wen Ziheng's killing move was already upon him.
Chu Guanshan felt a chill run down his spine. In a flash, he weighed the pros and cons and his original spirit, which had been left outside, suddenly arrived and forcefully withstood Wen Ziheng's attack. He had to eliminate the threat completely. No one, whether it was Wen Ziheng or Luo Xiaoyuan, could leave the trial realm alive.
As for that disobedient beast Wei Feng, once he swallows the jade steps, I will kill him without hesitation!
A burst of intense light erupted within Qiansui City, and terrifying spiritual energy tore at the solid barrier, attempting to escape. Centered on Qiansui City, cracks stretched for thousands of miles. Accompanied by a massive explosion, sand and stones flew, and the earth shook violently for a full quarter of an hour before subsiding, plunging the entire Qiansui City into a deathly silence.
Jiang Gu and Jiang Xiangyun, who had been waiting for a long time, exchanged a glance and, the moment the barrier of Qian Sui City disappeared, transformed into streaks of light and rushed away.
Inside the city, the Dharma image behind Chu Guanshan was slowly dissipating. Wen Ziheng's primordial spirit glared unwillingly as it sank into a deep pit, dismembered into several pieces. The dead bone dragon pierced Chu Guanshan's chest, while Bai Luan was killed by a thousand arrows piercing his heart. Lu Liyu's primordial spirit was entangled in a net of heaven and earth, hanging upside down. Chu Guanshan's primordial spirit was also severely injured, and he didn't even have the extra strength to devour the primordial spirits in front of him.
He grabbed the bone dragon's tail, gritted his teeth, and pulled it out from his heart. He staggered to his feet, supporting himself with his sword, ignoring the countless wounds on his primordial spirit, and walked step by step toward Xiao Qingyan.
Xiao Qingyan seemed to be stunned. He stared blankly at Chu Guanshan, who was getting closer and closer, and a chill suddenly ran down his spine. "Uncle Chu, are you alright?"
Chu Guanshan chuckled and gently twisted his half-chopped neck, his voice soft and reassuring, "Don't worry, it's alright. Uncle Chu will take you out now and hand you over to your father—"
As he was speaking, his expression suddenly turned ferocious, and his primordial spirit surged, about to devour Xiao Qingyan's primordial spirit. Unexpectedly, a thick, dark light suddenly shot out from Xiao Qingyan's arm, striking him directly between the eyebrows. Caught off guard and ambushed, Chu Guanshan, despite his swift movements, still had half his head severed. Enraged, he laughed, his eyes turning ferocious and ruthless, "A-Zhuo, how dare you ambush me?"
Xiao Qingyan quickly shook her head, "It wasn't me, it was—"
Damn!
A cold, sharp sword light shot straight toward the back of Chu Guanshan's neck. Chu Guanshan suddenly bent over to dodge, and the gleaming sword grazed past the tip of his nose. A slender, pale hand grabbed the black jade bracelet that was spinning in mid-air and kicked it hard in the chest, then quickly retreated.
Chu Guanshan clutched his chest and slowly straightened up, meeting Jiang Gu's gaze. After a moment's thought, he remembered who this person was and chuckled softly, "Hmm, it's Wei Feng's little beauty master from Pingze. What, are you planning to pick up some bargains?"
Jiang Gu sized up Chu Guanshan in front of him. This man was not only ugly and repulsive, but also frivolous in speech and behavior. Apart from his cultivation, he had nothing to offer.
The thought of Wei Feng's years of hardship under this man's control filled him with even more disgust—Jiang Gu rarely disliked anyone in his life, Zhou Huaiming who killed Chi Xue was one, and this shifty-eyed Chu Guanshan was the second.
Without hesitation, he summoned his Dharma form, formed an array, and charged straight at Chu Guanshan with his sword. Chu Guanshan looked at his newly formed Dharma form and laughed out loud: "What an overconfident thing, daring to show off in front of me!"
He also summoned his Dharma image, which was more than ten times larger than Jiang Gu's. It looked down at Jiang Gu from above and struck him with a palm strike.
Jiang Gu nimbly dodged his attack and swiftly appeared behind him, gripping his sword with both hands to pierce his spine. However, his body was incredibly hard, and the Crimson Snow Sword could not harm him in the slightest. Jiang Gu immediately stopped fighting and hid in the space of the Ink Jade Bracelet the moment he turned to attack.
Chu Guanshan sneered, "A mere trick!"
He manipulated his Dharma Image to reach out and grab into the void, but a long sword Dharma Image pierced straight through his palm from the void. Yao Li gripped the sword and twisted it fiercely, instantly disappearing from the spot. Chu Guanshan was instantly furious, his spiritual power surging around him. Just then, Jiang Xiangyun appeared behind him, the Xuan Yang Halberd wrapped around his injured arm, and the Dharma Image behind him summoned lightning to strike him directly between the eyebrows.
Chu Guanshan directly withstood the heavenly lightning, forming an array in his hands that tore apart the surrounding void, completely exposing Jiang Gu and the other two who had been hiding. He tilted his head and laughed, "You think you can kill me?"
Even if he is seriously injured after the battle, he will never die at the hands of these useless people from Pingze!
Jiang Xiangyun and Jiang Gu all summoned their Dharma forms, but their combined power was still less than that of Chu Guanshan alone. Chu Guanshan looked at them as if they were a joke. He swept his longsword down, smashing Jiang Xiangyun and Jiang Gu into the ground. But before he knew it, he felt a sharp pain in his back. Yao Li, with a fierce expression, thrust his sword into the heart that Luo Xiaoyuan had previously pierced. Chu Guanshan was immediately enraged. A complex magic array emerged from his heart and flowed back into Yao Li's longsword. But the next moment, Yao Li was sent flying by Jiang Xiangyun's Xuan Yang Halberd, dodging the attack.
Jiang Gu was suddenly lifted up by Yao Li's spiritual power as Yao Li flew over, and he leaped up and stepped on the Xuan Yang Halberd. The Crimson Snow Sword in his hand transformed into countless sword shadows, surrounding Chu Guanshan and forcing him to take two steps back.
"What a troublesome brat." Chu Guanshan's patience ran out, and he finally gathered enough spiritual power. His natal sword shot straight into the sky, shattering Jiang Gu's Crimson Snow Sword Shadow into nothingness. He roared, "Die, all of you!"
The air in the entire Thousand-Year City suddenly thinned, as if the space was being crushed and squeezed by an invisible force. The ruins on the ground floated in the air and quietly turned into dust. Jiang Xiangyun, Jiang Gu, and Yao Li were pressed firmly into the ground, with cracks constantly appearing beneath them. Their internal organs seemed to be crushed, and their consciousness gradually began to blur.
Jiang Gu stretched out his hand and slammed it hard on the ground, gritting his teeth as he said, "Jiang Xiangyun!"
"I know!" Jiang Xiangyun replied from afar.
Further away, Yao Li roared, his blood-soaked hand piercing the ground, using his blood as a guide to pull up the array's core. Jiang Xiangyun and Jiang Gu poured all their spiritual power into the array, and the massive Refining God Array rose from the ground with a roar. Countless magical treasures were arranged at every node of the array, and crimson fire ropes spread throughout the array, like countless crimson tentacles climbing and piercing into Chu Guanshan's primordial spirit, actually imprisoning him in place.
"I underestimated you—" Chu Guanshan disregarded the fact that his primordial spirit was being torn apart by the tentacles and actually tried to break free.
But Jiang and the other two wouldn't give him a chance to escape. Almost simultaneously, the three of them leaped up from the ground, and Jiang Xiangyun shouted, "Attack his heart!"
The surging spiritual energy condensed into a blinding white light. Chu Guanshan roared in pain and slammed his five fingers into a claw, causing the three of them to be sent flying.
For a moment, Jiang Gu was plunged into complete darkness. Amidst the howling wind, a warm hand suddenly pressed against his back, forcefully pulling him forward. Then, a familiar scent swept past his nostrils, followed by the sound of spiritual energy exploding.
The darkness before him dissipated, and he forced himself to steady himself. He recognized the person who had supported him, and his heart sank. "Wei Feng!"
A young man in red stood tall and straight, holding a long sword in his hand. Behind him, the divine kite and the white-eyed ghost's avatars, each over a hundred feet tall, were locked in combat with Chu Guanshan's enormous avatar. Upon hearing the noise, they turned around and grinned at him.
Jiang Gu gripped the Crimson Snow Sword tightly, manipulating his Dharma Image to leap forward and block Chu Guanshan's attack. He turned back and angrily shouted, "What are you doing here!?"
"I'll help you!" Wei Feng swung his longsword swiftly and fiercely, glaring at Chu Guanshan before him. "I'm going to kill him with my own hands!"
Chu Guanshan sneered upon hearing this: "I thought you went somewhere else, but it turns out you've betrayed us! It seems I really have to clean house!"
"I didn't kowtow or offer tea, so what kind of master are you!" Wei Feng rarely swore, and angrily cursed, "I remember very clearly the debt you owe me for chopping up my primordial spirit and forcing me to offer my flesh and blood to the Blood Bodhi!"
The enormous divine unicorn avatar opened its blood-red maw, its ram horns on its forehead sharp and ferocious, and countless ghostly patterns swept across the sky, piercing towards Chu Guanshan, filling the world with blood mist.
Jiang Gu's expression changed. Sure enough, the next moment Chu Guanshan raised his hand, and the blood-red Bodhi root surged out from Wei Feng's chest, almost tearing his entire primordial spirit apart.
It was too late to save him. Jiang Gu raised his hand and tore off most of his primordial spirit, forcibly refining it into the Refining Spirit Array. The Fire Rope burst out with countless red lights, enveloping and entangled Chu Guanshan's entire primordial spirit, giving Wei Feng a moment to catch his breath.
Meanwhile, in the underground sea of blood, the blood-red Bodhi tree was finally purified back to pure white. Hou Wenxin and Bai Yi exchanged a glance, and then plunged their Zen staffs deep into the bottom of the sea of blood, uprooting the blood Bodhi tree. Golden Sanskrit characters burst forth with incredibly powerful spiritual energy.
Inside the Thousand-Year City, Chu Guanshan had already severed the Fire Rope. The Bodhi Root, which was controlling Wei Feng through the Bodhi Tree, suddenly froze in place. The original contract of recognition began to violently backfire, and Chu Guanshan was immediately shocked.
The shackles on his body suddenly broke free, and Wei Feng laughed with a ferocious expression. He reached out and tore off all the Bodhi roots from his heart. Behind him, the Divine Kite Shark and the Ghost-Faced White-Eyed Dharma Images held swords in both hands and chopped down at Chu Guanshan's primordial spirit Dharma Image!
Jiang Gu, Jiang Xiangyun, and Yao Li simultaneously formed a hand seal and created a formation. The Refining Spirit Formation suddenly shrank by thousands of times, completely enveloping Chu Guanshan's primordial spirit!
His primordial spirit was forcibly refined and compressed, and Chu Guanshan immediately let out a miserable roar. The Blood Bodhi backfired, and milky white roots burst out from his heart, tearing his already severely injured primordial spirit to shreds—
Bang!
The sound of the primordial spirit exploding soared into the sky. The entire second realm could no longer withstand the terrifying fluctuations of spiritual energy and exploded into fragments.
At the same time, countless trial spirits within the trial realm were forcibly ejected.
Jiang Gu and the others were also knocked away by the aftershocks of Chu Guanshan's primordial spirit explosion.
Before Wei Feng was blasted into the torrent of fragments by the gale, he used the last bit of his spiritual energy to gather the entire trial realm into his primordial spirit. However, in the next instant, caught off guard, a pale and slender hand forcefully grabbed his wrist.
He was stunned and before he could react, he was pulled tightly into a warm embrace, and Jiang Gu's familiar, cool scent instantly enveloped him.
Jiang Gu grabbed his wrist with one hand, protected the back of his neck with the other, and pressed his arm against his back, domineeringly holding him in his arms in a completely irresistible posture. The surging spiritual power forcefully condensed his almost shattered primordial spirit into one place, and even felt that was not enough, he wrapped him in his golden primordial spirit.
It was airtight.
Wei Feng buried his face in Jiang Gu's shoulder. The roar of the shattered torrent and the sound of the spiritual energy explosion suddenly faded away. The excruciating pain of his primordial spirit being torn apart seemed imperceptible. The spiritual energy in his meridians was still boiling due to the fierce battle, but it could not distract him. He had just swallowed the Trial Realm and his mind was still in a daze, but he instinctively absorbed the aura on Jiang Gu's body and carefully felt Jiang Gu's primordial spirit approaching him.
"Master..." he called out in a daze.
"Mm." Jiang Gu's voice was steady, with his usual composure and calmness. "Don't be afraid."
Wei Feng wanted to say that he wasn't afraid, that he wouldn't die at all, and that he even thought he could kill half of Chu Guanshan again, but he still responded softly, hugged Jiang Gu's waist, and obediently rested his head on Jiang Gu's shoulder.
Jiang Gu's hand, which was holding his, was trembling slightly.
“Master, we caught him this time.” Wei Feng squeezed his hand back hard, his voice quickly swallowed by the storm.
Jiang Gu held his nearly dissipated soul, his jaw clenched, and after a long while, he finally responded.
"Um."
Volume Four: Viewing Flowers in a Mirror
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