Chapter 254 “You’ve Messed with the Wrong Person.”
Why did someone in the ruins want to see her brother?
“Chong Yu.”
As everyone was still puzzled, the man on the platform looked at the person standing beside Huang Quan and said, “Come over here.”
Chong Yu?
What the…!
Wasn’t her brother’s name Nangong Mian?
At this point, even the most clueless person understood.
He wasn’t Huang Quan’s brother at all—they had all been deceived!
Foxin, hearing the name “Chong Yu,” glanced over at the High Priest.
Chong Yu, who was standing next to Huang Quan, heard this and started walking toward the stairs.
“A-Ah Mian…” As he approached the man, Chong Yu looked up at him and smiled weakly. “F-Finally, I g-got to see you.”
Rong Mian looked at him and said, “I told you to leave. Why didn’t you?”
Chong Yu bit his lip, unsure of how to respond.
“I’ll deal with you later,” Rong Mian said in a stern voice. “Go stand behind me.”
Upon hearing this, Chong Yu pleaded, “D-Don’t hurt her. She b-brought me here, and the person by her side might be my…”
“I know,” Rong Mian interrupted him, looking at him intently. “You don’t need to worry about that. Go stand behind me.”
Chong Yu glanced at Huang Quan and the others before moving behind Rong Mian.
“High Priest?” Those who witnessed this scene immediately turned to the High Priest. “The person you brought knows someone inside? What’s going on?”
**”Why Didn’t You Tell Us?”**
“Did you know what was inside?”
“You knew but didn’t tell us? Were you planning to let us die here?”
“This has nothing to do with him,” Rong Mian said, cutting in as the group was questioning the High Priest. “In the final tower level, I instructed Huang Quan to bring the person I care about the most. They weren’t aware of this from the beginning. As for why I told only Huang Quan and not the rest of you…”
Rong Mian looked at them and chuckled softly. “I tell who I want to tell.”
The others were left speechless.
“You remind me of those people from Luoyou City many years ago,” Rong Mian said calmly. “Without Huang Quan, you wouldn’t have made it this far. And now you question them? What gives you the right?”
Hearing this, the group’s expressions turned sour. One of them tried to argue, “Even without Huang Quan, we still have Master Foxin. With Foxin—”
“He wouldn’t help you.” Rong Mian interrupted before the man could finish.
The man protested, “How do you know Master Foxin wouldn’t help us?”
“Because I won’t,” Foxin replied coldly.
The protester was left speechless.
“Come and stand before me,” Rong Mian said, his tone indifferent. “If you can make it to me alive, you’ll earn the weapons and techniques inside this ruin.”
Hearing this, the group became excited, but then…
They remembered the person who had been struck by the statue earlier. Their excitement quickly faded.
Those statues were huge. They hadn’t even seen how the statue moved before it attacked. Could they really make it to him?
It wasn’t impossible, but they’d need Huang Quan and Foxin’s help to deal with the statues. But after what they had just done…
Feeling embarrassed, no one dared to ask Huang Quan and Foxin for help.
“I have no interest in anything inside here,” Huang Quan said coldly, her gaze as icy as frost. “Rong Mian, you’ve messed with someone you shouldn’t have.”
“Messed with someone I shouldn’t have?”
The High Priest’s eyes darkened as he looked at Rong Mian. “Where is Nangong Mian?”
“What did you do to him?”
Hearing this, Rong Mian’s expression became unreadable as he stared at the High Priest. “You care about him a lot, don’t you?”
Chapter 255 “You Want to Kill Me”
“He’s my student, of course I care about him,” the High Priest said, glancing at the man behind Rong Mian. His voice was stern. “We’ve brought the person you wanted to see; now you should return our person.”
Rong Mian listened to these words and chuckled lightly. “I’m afraid that’s not possible for now.”
“I still have use for him,” Rong Mian said, turning his gaze to Huang Quan.
Huang Quan looked at him with a cold smile, then stepped up the stairs, moving towards the upper level.
When Jing Shen and the others saw this, they tried to follow but were stopped by the High Priest.
Lin Xu looked at the High Priest and said, “He said we could go directly up. Why are you still stopping us?”
Lin Xu couldn’t care less about others, but he had to get up there. The man had said that anyone who reached him would get the weapons and techniques!
The weapons and techniques inside were incomparable to those outside!
The High Priest’s gaze turned cold as he looked at Lin Xu. “If you want to die, then go.”
Lin Xu was left speechless.
Jing Shen and Feng Jiu Yuan were entirely focused on Huang Quan, not paying attention to anything else.
Soon, Huang Quan reached Rong Mian.
Zhong Yu, standing behind Rong Mian, looked at Huang Quan with a worried expression.
“You want to kill me.”
Rong Mian looked at Huang Quan and chuckled lightly. “But you won’t make a move.”
Huang Quan stared at him with a frosty expression, not denying his words.
“I won’t harm him, so you can rest assured,” Rong Mian said. “Wait a moment. Once I’ve dealt with those people, we’ll discuss our matters.” He then turned his attention to the people in the plaza below.
“Don’t you want the things inside this ruin?”
Rong Mian looked at them and said, “Why aren’t you moving yet?”
“If you want the techniques and weapons, you must come to me,” Rong Mian said. “If you don’t want to, you don’t have to come up, but in that case, you won’t be able to leave this place.”
Hearing this, some people began to move.
They had wanted the techniques and weapons from the start, and now that they heard they couldn’t leave unless they came up, their fear was forgotten.
Huang Quan stood beside Rong Mian, her expression cold as she watched everything unfold below.
“Rumbling——”
As the people below began to move, the statues on either side of the plaza also started to come to life.
Although the statues still appeared to be stone, once they began moving, their speed and power were immense. Those who engaged with them were easily thrown aside, and the battle became intense and brutal!
When Huang Quan saw the statues heading towards Fo Xin, she raised an eyebrow. “Those things are useless.”
Rong Mian also watched Fo Xin and, upon hearing this, merely smiled. “Those things were never of much use.”
Huang Quan glanced at him. “Then what is useful to you?”
“Don’t play games. Once we’ve dealt with them, I’ll tell you,” Rong Mian replied.
Huang Quan did not say more.
“Boom!”
A statue was thrown away as the Buddhist disciples set up formations to push back the statues, ultimately destroying them under Fo Xin’s command!
With Fo Xin present, the Buddhist sect found it easy to handle the statues, but it was much harder for the others.
Those with insufficient cultivation were easily thrown by the statues, while those with higher cultivation could resist but still sustained injuries.
In fact, among all the people present, the only one who wouldn’t be harmed by the statues was Fo Xin!
“Pfft!”
A long sword held by one of the statues pierced the shoulder of a member of the Nine Abyss City team.
End of Chapter. Hope you enjoyed reading it!
