139: Chapter 139 Reencounter with Jiang Luoli

Jiang Fengyu suppressed his fear and shouted, his voice masking his inner terror.

"This is the Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony, and a Transcendent Heroic Spirit is monitoring us."

"If you dare to commit murder here, aren't you afraid of..."

"A Transcendent Heroic Spirit?" The leading Man in Black sneered.

"I'm afraid you don't know that after the Snowy Plateau, something has happened in the East Sea as well."

"Their true forms are currently overwhelmed dealing with the mess in the East Sea."

"What remains here are merely weakened clones; they can barely look after themselves, so how would they have time to deal with this place?"

Jiang Fengyu felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Suddenly, a terrifying possibility occurred to him.

"Do you intend to destroy this Contract Ceremony?"

"Do you want to strangle the geniuses of our Great Xia's younger generation?"

"Geniuses?" The leader of the dark shadows seemed to find the word laughable.

"They are nothing more than unripened seedlings."

"If they are strangled, then so be it."

"If you want to blame someone, blame yourselves for being born in the wrong era and standing on the wrong side."

He stopped wasting words and reached out with his black claw again.

Jiang Fengyu was, after all, a young prodigy martial artist. He roared in anger, and a sharp blade light began to slowly form in front of him.

However, his desperate struggle and ethereal potential were simply insufficient in the face of such an absolute gap in strength.

The black claw pierced through the blade light without any obstruction and ruthlessly crushed Jiang Fengyu's heart.

The jade talisman on his hand only flickered once; it failed to transport him out of the secret realm.

A prodigy martial artist had just fallen, just like that.

The shadow leader shook off the non-existent blood from his claws, as if he had just done something trivial.

"Leader, wouldn't this be too conspicuous?"

"After all, Jiang Fengyu is the most outstanding young martial artist of the Jiang Family in this generation, and he is the eldest legitimate son..."

Another shadow spoke with some hesitation.

The Jiang Family's influence in Jianghai City is quite significant.

"Conspicuous?" The leader said coldly.

"Conspicuousness is exactly what we want."

"If we don't kill a few famous ones, how will 'they' know our resolve?"

He paused and continued.

"According to the information obtained from the soul-searching just now, as well as our own observations."

"Let's choose her as the next target."

"That woman named 'Jiang Luoli', a member of the Huayu Association, third in points, and also the eldest daughter of the Jiang Family."

"Her status is sufficient, and her strength is decent."

"Killing her will be enough to make both the Huayu Association and the Jiang Family suffer for a while."

"Furthermore, she seems to have a close relationship with the top-ranked 'Xiao Yan'. Both of them are from the Huayu Association and are teammates."

"It's perfect; we can lure them out and finish them off together."

"Yes!" The remaining shadows responded in unison, their figures blending into the surrounding shadows like ghosts, disappearing.

...

Su Chen was completely unaware of everything that had happened in the secret realm.

He was moving rapidly toward the central area of the spirit realm, following the vague directions indicated on the jade talisman.

Monsters continued to swarm along the way, but their frequency and intensity seemed to have decreased slightly compared to before.

Su Chen was happy for the ease; while clearing them out casually, he pondered his next plan.

"Jiang Luoli is ranked third, so she should also be rushing to the central area."

"According to our agreement, we will meet there."

Su Chen glanced at Jiang Luoli's points on the jade talisman, which were still slowly increasing, and breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems she is still normally participating in the trial and has not been eliminated.

The points of Jiang Fengyu, who was ranked second, had not increased for a long time; presumably, he had most likely been eliminated.

It was just unclear who was capable of taking out the person ranked second on the leaderboard.

The closer he got to the center, the taller and denser the forest trees became, and his vision was somewhat obstructed.

Suddenly, Su Chen's footsteps faltered.

He fully activated his spiritual perception.

From the area ahead, faint but strong energy fluctuations were coming.

And the level of these energy fluctuations was far beyond what a participant in this trial should have.

"Who's there?"

Su Chen did not panic; he simply concealed his aura.

He leaped onto a giant tree and looked down, hiding behind the dense foliage.

With the Affix and System by his side, as long as he didn't actively reveal his figure, it should be difficult for the enemy to discover his presence.

He saw a familiar figure in black activewear rushing out from the depths of the dense forest, looking rather disheveled.

It was Jiang Luoli.

But her current state was very poor.

Her originally neat activewear had multiple tears, revealing the blood-stained skin underneath.

Her face was pale, her breath was chaotic, and she had clearly suffered significant injuries.

What shocked Su Chen even more was that she kept looking back in fear, as if something extremely terrifying was chasing her.

"Senior Sister Jiang!"

Su Chen leaped down from the tree and blocked Jiang Luoli's path.

Jiang Luoli was startled at first, but when she saw it was Su Chen...

Her eyes showed joy at first, followed by fear.

"Su Chen, you must leave, get out of here!"

"Go, run in the opposite direction from where I came! They haven't discovered you yet; Senior Sister cannot become a burden to you!"

She grabbed Su Chen's arm and pushed him in the opposite direction.

"A large group of Men in Black are hunting down the participants, and the experts at the top of the leaderboard have all been killed."

"Yes, they have been completely erased from this world; even the jade talisman couldn't transport them out."

"They are so strong; the weakest among them is at the Eighth Order."

"And their methods are strange; my attacks have very little effect on them."

"They seem to be targeting me; I managed to escape with great difficulty..."

Before she could finish, a few cold, mocking laughs came from the dense forest behind them.

"Run? Do you think you can run away?"

Four figures in Black Robes emerged from the shadows of the trees like ghosts.

They surrounded the calm and composed Su Chen and Jiang Luoli, who was terrified but still struggling to stand in front of Su Chen to protect him.

"Oh? It seems our luck is good."

"Buy one get one free... This must be the top-ranked 'Xiao Yan', right?"

"Perfect, we can finish them off together."

"It saves us the trouble of looking for him later."

Several Men in Black Robes let out a series of sinister laughs.

Then, they met Su Chen's calm, composed, and even somewhat mocking gaze.

Seeing that the other party was not intimidated by them at all, the four of them were immediately furious.

"Kid, aren't you afraid?"

"Don't think that just because you have that jade talisman in your hand, you'll only be eliminated and transported out if you die."

"In our hands, if you die, you are truly dead..."

"And so what?" Su Chen smiled slightly.

"Why don't you say a few more harsh words?"

After saying that, he shifted his body slightly, revealing what was behind him.

Countless monsters that had chased after him when he stopped.

Although those monsters were not strong, there were enough of them.

"Run!"

Taking advantage of the Men in Black being entangled by the monsters, Su Chen grabbed Jiang Luoli's arm and ran straight toward the deepest part of the thick fog.