In Bagua City, there is a bloody battlefield at the end of the street, and endless darkness is approaching from behind.
The vast majority of people in the city did not think calmly, but just moved forward blindly.
Pang Jian was watching closely behind.
They kept a suitable distance from the darkness and headed towards the city center without panic.
After slowing down, Pang Jian can also try the "Earth Flame Art" method of exerting force in order to have more combat power when the war breaks out.
"Zhou... Junior Brother Zhou."
Suddenly, a delicate cry was heard from the stone building on one side of the street.
The voice was timid, sounding somewhat surprised, yet not quite sure.
Zhou Qingchen was shocked, and his rough and unruly face was instantly filled with ecstasy.
He suddenly looked towards Shi Lou, suppressed his inner excitement, and whispered, "Senior Sister Jiang, is it really... you?"
"Junior Brother Zhou..."
An elegant woman in a black robe with a red mountain pattern on her chest appeared from the window where the sound came from.
She had a delicate oval face, which looked a little pale at the moment. There were beads of sweat on her smooth forehead that kept oozing out, as if she was enduring excruciating pain.
Zhou Qingchen suddenly let out a strange cry, startling everyone. He then rushed straight to the stone building and shouted from a distance, "Senior Sister Jiang, why are you here?"
The woman who spoke in the room breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was actually Zhou Qingchen.
Immediately, she said with a sad look: "The remains of the Phoenix have appeared in the world, and the Phoenix bones have exploded and scattered all over the place. I and a few good brothers and sisters went to explore the place where the Phoenix bones fell. By chance, we saw a white mountain, and a mirror tunnel appeared on the mountain wall..."
She walked out of the stone building talking about her experience.
After the beautiful and elegant lady revealed her true appearance, Zhou Qingchen shouted, "Senior Sister Jiang, your left hand?"
"It was chopped in half."
Jiang Li smiled sadly, glanced at the half arm that only reached the elbow, and sighed sadly: "We are just heading to the center of the city, who knows..."
She recounted the experience lightly.
The corpses that Pang Jian and his companions had encountered before were the Hongshan monks who were with Jiang Li. They were ambushed and killed on the way.
Only Jiang Li, whose arm was chopped off, escaped the disaster by retreating into a nearby stone building and hiding carefully.
The rest were all killed.
Only when a column of light shot up into the sky from the center of the city and rare treasures suddenly appeared, and everyone was rushing to the center of the city, did Jiang Li dare to show his head.
Seriously injured, she was left behind, not daring to get too close to the city center, and walked slowly. Unexpectedly, she met Zhou Qingchen and others who deliberately slowed down their pace to keep a suitable distance from the darkness.
"Who did it?"
Zhou Qingchen had already come forward. He hurriedly took out some bottles and jars from his storage bracelet. His tiger eyes were red as he said, "This is some healing medicine, Senior Sister Jiang..."
"No need, I bandaged it myself and the bleeding has stopped long ago."
Jiang Li forced a smile.
"Who did it?!"
Zhou Qingchen shouted again in anger.
"He is from the Second Realm. Others seem to call him Qi Qingsong. That's all I know."
Looking at the anxious and furious Zhou Qingchen, Jiang Li's curved eyebrows trembled slightly. She couldn't bear to lie to him anymore, and said tearfully: "Junior Brother Zhou, I avoided you everywhere before and rejected you again and again because... I am older than you, my talent is limited, and I don't have a good background."
"I'm sorry I treated you so cruelly."
"Actually, I feel that I am not worthy of you, and I don't want to hinder your future."
Jiang Li kept shaking her head, and crystal tears fell on the stone floor as she moved.
Zhou Qingchen's eyes flushed red, and he forced out what he thought was a brilliant smile, grinning and saying, "Senior Sister, I don't care about these things. I've liked you since the first time I saw you, and I've always wanted you to know that."
"I know."
Jiang Li's shoulders trembled slightly, and she responded in a mosquito-like voice.
"Senior Sister..."
Zhou Qingchen took out a green pear wrapped in a white towel from the most important small corner inside the storage bracelet.
He wiped the green pear clean meticulously, then handed it to Jiang Li with a bright smile: "I know you like to eat pears, I always carry them with me. I gave you so many before, but you refused to accept them. Eat one today."
He wiped the green pear until it was shiny and even the skin was almost broken.
Looking at the green pear he handed to her, and the determination and seriousness on his face, Jiang Li's eyes were misty, and she couldn't help but think of Zhou Qingchen, who behaved like a stiff big boy when they first met.
She thought it was funny at the time, but later she realized that the older boy only seemed restrained and at a loss when facing her.
When dealing with other senior brothers and sisters from Hongshan, the older boy acted calmly and was not at all stage frightened.
"good."
Jiang Li took the green pear with a smile, and without saying anything else, she lowered her head and began to eat it in small bites.
Zhou Qingchen, who had been waiting for this moment for who knows how long, just looked at her and smiled foolishly.
It seemed as if the way she ate the pear was the cutest thing in the world.
Zhou Qingchen had no idea that the endless darkness from the fifth realm behind them was getting closer and closer to them.
Seeing that Su Meng was also in tears and Luo Hongyan remained silent for a rare time, Han Duping had to urge her.
Luo Hongyan, who had always disliked him and Zhou Qingchen and acted the most distant and indifferent, was quietly looking at Zhou Qingchen and Jiang Li. Hearing this, she said coldly, "You're so annoying!"
Han Duping said with a bitter face: "I have to urge you."
"knew."
Zhou Qingchen nodded, knowing that he couldn't delay too long.
He pretended to support Jiang Li, but seeing that Jiang Li was holding the green pear in one hand and only half of her hand was left, he stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.
"I can walk by myself, but I will be slower. I... am afraid I will be a burden to you."
Jiang Li looked worriedly at the completely unfamiliar Pang Jian, as well as Luo Hongyan and Su Meng standing beside him.
Luo Hongyan said indifferently: "Except for Pang Jian, the rest are just burdens, and one more of you is not too much."
"Thanks."
Jiang Li knelt down gently to express her gratitude, and without waiting for Zhou Qingchen to support her, she walked forward sensibly.
Zhou Qingchen glared at Han Duping and asked Han Duping to go forward and take good care of Jiang Li, while he stayed behind with red eyes.
After Su Meng and Luo Hongyan also stepped forward, Zhou Qingchen took a deep breath and said to Pang Jian, who had been silent the whole time, "Help me kill Qi Qingsong. I don't care what his status is in the Second Realm! In short, you must help me this time! No matter what means, I will kill this man!"
Pang Jian nodded and said only one word: "Okay."
…
No matter how long the street is, it will eventually come to an end.
When Pang Jian and his companions suddenly arrived at the center of Bagua City, the first thing they saw was a huge square littered with corpses.
In the center of the square with a floor as white as jade, there stands a towering stone building with three eye-catching words written on it.
—City Lord’s Mansion.
The pillar of light that shot up into the sky and the rare treasure within it came from inside the City Lord's Mansion.
This strange city lord's mansion is located in the center of the square. At this moment, there are nearly a hundred people fighting in the mansion.
Pang Jian was slightly shocked.
The square was filled with a pungent smell of blood, and there were already hundreds of corpses on the ground, scattered around the square.
His previous battle with Dark Ghost and the killing of Dong Tianze were all small-scale battles.
It was the first time he had seen a battlefield like this, with so many practitioners fighting together, blood flowing like a river, and broken limbs everywhere.
"Senior Sister Jiang, have you seen Qi Qingsong?"
As soon as Zhou Qingchen came over, he glanced at the battlefield and asked with wide eyes.
Outside the City Lord's Mansion, there were nearly a hundred people fighting, and he didn't recognize any of them.
"No, not here."
Jiang Li answered his question first, then bit her lip and said palely: "Junior Brother Zhou, I know you have feelings for me, but I don't want you to die here."
"That man... only cut off half of my arm. He is from the Second Realm, and his personal combat power is really very strong. I don't want you to die because of me."
Obviously, she felt that with the strength of Zhou Qingchen and others, it would be difficult to kill Qi Qingsong.
She felt very fortunate to be alive today and to see Zhou Qingchen again. She didn't want to cause Zhou Qingchen and others to die here because of her hatred.
Seeing Zhou Qingchen remained silent, she whispered, "It's good enough that you can go back. I won't let you risk your life for me. It's not worth it."
"It's worth everything for you!"
Zhou Qingchen shouted in a deep voice.
"Someone."
Pang Jian, holding a spear, saw a girl in white suddenly appear from the entrance of a street on the left.
The girl in white had a veil on her face. She seemed to be the last one to fall behind like them, and had just shown her head.
Seeing Pang Jian looking over, the girl in white nodded slightly with cold eyes as a greeting.
"Leave this street first and watch from the edge to see if the darkness behind us will spread to the square."
At this time, Luo Hongyan suddenly spoke up. She asked everyone to leave from the street first, and then everyone entered the White Jade Square.
Seeing the darkness slowly encroaching, their attention was not focused on the people fighting, but they all turned their heads away.
Not just them.
Seeing the endless darkness of the fifth realm emerging from the eight street corners, the monks who were fighting hurriedly stopped.
At this moment, everyone was looking at the darkness appearing at the street entrance nervously.
What was surprising was that the darkness just stopped at the street entrance and did not escape into the White Jade Square at all. It seemed as if it was blocked at the street entrance by the light in the square.
"boom!"
Upon seeing this, the practitioners who had let go of their worries fell into fighting again.
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(End of this chapter)