Dragon-Marked War God

The deep voice left Jiang Chen incomparably shocked. He could not make out who this man in black before him was at all, but his aura was even stronger than Louis XVII’s and gave Jiang Chen a sense of enormous pressure. Yet this pressure was not aimed at him. It was being released at the other two.

Jiang Chen could not see his face, nor make out his features. With just one deep voice, he had sent Jiang Chen away. But Jiang Chen knew that this person was at least a friend, not a foe!

“You are——”

Jiang Chen said, puzzled.

“You don’t need to know who I am. Leave those two to me. You can go.”

The man in black said lightly.

Jiang Chen frowned. Who was this person? He really wanted to know, but his current situation did not allow him to linger. Jiang Chen could only nod heavily, his expression stern. He pulled Yu Jingxian along and quickly fled.

“Want to leave? It’s not that easy!”

Dongfang Lianshuo laughed coldly and moved to chase Jiang Chen, but the man in black directly blocked him. With a move that deflected a thousand jin with four ounces, he forced him back, sending him staggering.

“You’re courting death! Just who are you? You dare to meddle in the affairs of my Futu Pagoda?”

Dongfang Lianshuo roared furiously, extremely indignant.

“Who I am isn’t important. What’s important is that you want to kill him, and that’s impossible.”

The man in black blocked the direction in which Jiang Chen had left. Louis XVII and Dongfang Lianshuo could do nothing about it.

“Must Your Excellency insist on opposing us? I am the master of the Forbidden Demon Clan. And who are you?”

Louis XVII said in a deep voice.

“I said, who I am isn’t important. If you want to deal with him, you’ll have to get past me first.”

The man in black stood with his hands at his sides, looking down proudly on the two of them.

Dongfang Lianshuo and Louis XVII exchanged a glance and silently nodded. It seemed that unless they dealt with this reckless fool who did not know what was good for him, there was no way they could go after Jiang Chen.

“Stubborn fools.”

The man in black said lightly. When he made his move, it was one against two, and he handled it as easily as strolling in a courtyard. Even with Dongfang Lianshuo and Louis XVII joining hands, they could not shake him in the slightest. The man in black was like something rooted in the ground, a lone rider holding back a thousand troops.

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Jiang Chen and Yu Jingxian fled for tens of thousands of miles before finally stopping. Jiang Chen looked back once, his heart extremely complicated. Although he would not have been utterly defeated in this battle, even if he had fought to the end, it would certainly have ended with both sides badly hurt. The appearance of that man in black had perfectly solved the problem before him. Jiang Chen knew this was no place to linger, so he could only leave quickly.

As for who that man in black was, Jiang Chen wanted very much to know, but the answer was not something he could imagine. That man in black’s strength was in no way inferior to Louis XVII’s. Since he had told Jiang Chen to go first, he must be quite confident in himself. Although he did not know who it was, Jiang Chen was still grateful.

“We finally escaped.”

Having survived the disaster, Yu Jingxian’s face was full of smiles. Although they were full of bitterness and they had been separated from Han Yan, at least they were still alive. But Jiang Chen’s face did not look good at all. Yu Jingxian knew it must be because of Han Yan’s departure that Jiang Chen felt guilty.

Now that Han Yan’s whereabouts were unknown, Jiang Chen’s heart was naturally even more desolate.

“Tonight, let’s rest well. We’ll set out again tomorrow.”

Jiang Chen looked at Yu Jingxian, forced out a smile and said. He did not want Yu Jingxian to worry about him.

“What happened with Han Yan isn’t your fault. You don’t need to put so much pressure on yourself. I don’t want to see you in so much pain.”

Yu Jingxian held Jiang Chen’s hand, her eyes full of concern.

Jiang Chen nodded. The two of them found a cave that sheltered them from the wind and rain and finally rested.

But when Yu Jingxian woke up the next day, she found that Jiang Chen was gone. In that instant, Yu Jingxian’s heart skipped a beat. She seemed to have an extremely bad premonition.

By her hand there was a sound-transmission jade slip, and also the Lightning Mother Seed that the entire Azure Feather Clan longed for and had told her she absolutely must bring back.

Yu Jingxian trembled as she slowly picked up the sound-transmission jade slip.

“By the time you wake up, I will already have gone. I’m sorry, Erniang. I still like calling you that. The me of now doesn’t have that much strength, doesn’t have that much time, and even less the heart, to think about things that I shouldn’t be thinking about. Since I have loved, I will admit it. From the moment we met in the Qilian Boundary, I fell deeply for you. Sometimes loving someone isn’t hard. Admitting it is harder. Because once I admit it, I have to give you more responsibility and protection. But the me of now can’t do that. I hope that one day I will. Following me, you would face far, far too much oppression and far, far too many dangers. Many of the things I carry on my shoulders are things you don’t know about. There are the hopes of my family, the entrustments of my friends, and even more, the waiting of those I love. When I have soared to the heights, I will surely come back to marry you. Don’t worry about me. Jiang Chen.”

The moment Jiang Chen left, he had already made up his mind. In his future there was still a very hard road to walk. Whether he could hold on to the end, even he himself did not know. Xiao Yu and Sister Ning were both missing, Qingcheng was trapped in captivity, and Han Yan bore a great grudge and had lost the love of his life. How could Jiang Chen’s heart possibly settle down? Keeping Yu Jingxian by his side would only make him suffer even more and feel even worse.

Jiang Chen knew that from this moment on, he was that fearless traveler. He was going to step onto the stage of the Central Region Divine Land to search for the ones he loved. The only promise he could leave Yu Jingxian was to have her wait quietly, and to confess what was in his heart.

“Why, why wouldn’t you even say goodbye to me? Why…”

Yu Jingxian clutched her chest tightly in unrivaled, heart-rending pain. The sound of her sobbing echoed through the valley. She had thought that having just put their past grievances behind them with Jiang Chen, she would finally have the chance to fly side by side with him. But the ending was still not what she had imagined. Looking at the Lightning Mother Seed before her, Yu Jingxian had not the slightest thought about it, because even ten, even a hundred Lightning Mother Seeds were simply not comparable with Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen was the love she would chase her whole life.

Yu Jingxian did not know how many things Jiang Chen had to do, nor how much love and hate, gratitude and grudges he carried. But she was willing to bear it with him, and even if she died nine times over she would have no regrets. But Jiang Chen was unwilling to let her do that, because doing so would be no different from putting Yu Jingxian in danger.

It was precisely because Jiang Chen loved her and liked her that he had left quietly. Who does not know that having someone by your side who cares for you and loves you is a happy thing? But Jiang Chen could be in danger at any moment. Keeping Yu Jingxian by his side would undoubtedly be selfish.