Chapter 206: A Bit Unorthodox, Chu Xingchen
The capital city of Black Tortoise Country.
Zhao Xuan's gaze swept over the battle report of the great victory in Bing Province placed before him.
The moment Yu Zhu played the demon army card, it was decided that Yu Zhu no longer posed any threat to the Black Tortoise Country.
This was closely related to the composition of Yu Zhu's army.
The soldiers of Yu Zhu's army were mostly refugees who had fled to Bing Province after experiencing the chaos of the Demon Nation.
Having reached a dead end, they joined Yu Zhu's army just to have a bite to eat.
After the demon soldiers entered the fray, the morale of Yu Zhu's army collapsed rapidly.
After the cultivators of the Black Tortoise Country appeared to suppress the demon soldiers, the soldiers of Yu Zhu's army began to defect to the Black Tortoise Country.
At the same time, Yu Zhu's army's reputation began to completely collapse, and they became like rats crossing the street.
After all, if a person is bad, they might just be scolded for having no morals.
But becoming a human traitor means being expelled from the human race.
Yu Zhu has currently been expelled from the human race.
With the dust settling in Bing Province, the Black Tortoise Country can, for now, be considered to have landed safely.
In the direction of Chi Province, as long as disaster relief is in place, it will no longer be able to cause too big a stir.
Although matters had settled, Zhao Xuan felt no excitement in his heart, nor any sense of relief.
There was only an inexpressible sense of grief.
No matter how brilliantly the battle report was written, those who died were his subjects.
And what was destroyed was entirely his territory.
News also came from the direction of Cang Province; after all, the news of that world-shaking great battle that day could not be concealed.
That Karma Nascent Soul Dharma Form, the terrifying demonic creature capable of fighting the Karma Nascent Soul, the Black Tortoise Phantom...
When Zhao Xuan read it, he only felt cold sweat flowing down his back.
His small Black Tortoise Country, what virtue and ability did it have to gather these deadly things together?
Zhao Xuan only felt that his ancestors had truly accumulated virtue in every sense.
They dared to leave anything to their descendants.
"Yo, isn't this Little Xuan? How have you been lately?"
A familiar teasing voice came, and Zhao Xuan hurriedly looked up.
He saw Chu Xingchen followed not by the somewhat playful girl from before, but by a relatively cold and aloof woman.
She was beautiful, but Zhao Xuan dared not look too much.
Zhao Xuan hurriedly stood up to welcome him, smiling bitterly: "For an emperor, the real difficulties are just beginning."
Chu Xingchen nodded in great agreement: "I am very gratified that you can think this way. Now is the time when all things are waiting to be revived."
Zhao Xuan revealed gratitude, cupped his hands, and said: "It is also thanks to the senior fighting hard in Cang Province, not letting that demonic creature succeed. Otherwise... I estimate there would be another million disaster victims in Cang Province."
"I only exerted some insignificant strength."
Chu Xingchen reached out to help Zhao Xuan up, then changed the subject and said, "However, it was indeed not easy. I have a very important partner who was seriously injured in the battle of Cang Province..."
Xie Lingyu glanced at Chu Xingchen, looking at his slightly sorrowful expression.
They hadn't seen each other for some days... Not only had his cultivation increased significantly, but his skill in acting hadn't regressed in the slightest.
Zhao Xuan's expression was anxious as he hurriedly asked: "Then dare I ask how the situation is? Is there any help this humble one can provide?"
"Although seriously injured, he is fine."
"This time, I truly thank you, senior. I remember there is still... in the national treasury..."
Chu Xingchen waved his hand upon hearing this, his expression serious and solemn: "There is no need for this. I didn't come here for any benefits."
Zhao Xuan looked at Chu Xingchen's serious expression, and his heart couldn't help but feel even more unsure.
Regarding Chu Xingchen, Zhao Xuan had interacted with him for a few days, so he understood him to some extent.
Him not wanting benefits could probably be understood as—I look down on these benefits, give me something else.
Zhao Xuan looked at Chu Xingchen, his expression seeming to want to speak but stopping.
Chu Xingchen felt the lead-up was almost done, so he began to cut to the purpose of this trip: "Coming today, I am actually here to return the thing I borrowed from you."
Zhao Xuan instantly understood upon hearing this, his expression looking a bit ugly: "The Jade Seal was lost?!"
"How is that possible? I always return what I borrow. Besides, I came to return it to you, so how could it be lost."
"...Then it is... broken?!"
Zhao Xuan only felt it go black before his eyes. If it was broken, that was even worse than losing it. A scene instantly floated into his mind.
Waiting for himself to pass away, and when the Crown Prince succeeds the throne and is full of joy to see the Heirloom Jade Seal, the eunuch brings up a basin covered with yellow cloth.
Under the suspicious and strange gaze of the Crown Prince, he lifts the yellow cloth, only to find inside is a pile of broken jade shards.
The eunuch, under the Crown Prince's expression of disbelief and 'are you bullshitting me', solemnly announces—This lump is the absolute treasure of the Black Tortoise Country, the Heirloom Jade Seal.
Zhao Xuan didn't know if his Crown Prince would think this way, but if he received this thing from his old man... Zhao Xuan would definitely curse a few choice words.
At this moment, a thought popped into Zhao Xuan's mind—How about letting his old man take the blame.
After all, dead people won't open their mouths to argue.
After all, unofficial history can sometimes be used as official history...
Chu Xingchen looked at Zhao Xuan's somewhat shattered expression and felt that Zhao Xuan's psychological expectations should have dropped to the lowest point.
So he took out that one Heirloom Jade Seal, which had cracks and lacked the spirituality it had before, from his spatial ring and handed it to Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan looked at the Heirloom Jade Seal in front of him which still had a shape, and quickly let out a sigh of relief in his heart, hurriedly reaching out to take it.
Then Zhao Xuan touched the few cracks on the Jade Seal with heartache, and flipped it over to look at the eight big characters on the Jade Seal.
After discovering there were no more problems, he was considered to have relaxed a bit. Then he looked as if he was touching the deepest crack on the Jade Seal.
Zhao Xuan looked at Chu Xingchen with a somewhat helpless expression.
Chu Xingchen didn't wait for Zhao Xuan to speak before saying teasingly: "Your Jade Seal is something else, or rather, Grand Emperor Zhao is something else. His heart was truly bold; he dared to stuff anything inside."
Zhao Xuan quickly retracted his expression upon hearing this and bowed lightly to Chu Xingchen again.
The capital city, Vermilion Bird Street.
After Chu Xingchen returned the Jade Seal, he left the palace. Zhao Xuan probably understood and no longer asked about the situation of the Jade Seal.
Xie Lingyu followed beside Chu Xingchen, looking at the bustling capital city streets.
Whether it was the turmoil in Cang Province, Chi Province, or Bing Province, it seemed not to have penetrated at all into this prosperous and lively capital city.
It was still heavy traffic, still people coming and going.
Xie Lingyu glanced at Chu Xingchen sideways. When they first met, she originally thought Chu Xingchen relied on some fortuitous encounter to smoothly step from the Golden Core Stage into the Nascent Soul Stage.
But what Xie Lingyu never expected was that Chu Xingchen actually condensed the Karma Nascent Soul, the highest status of the Nascent Soul.
She also didn't expect that Chu Xingchen's cultivation level was not that of someone who had just entered the Nascent Soul Stage.
If Chu Xingchen's speech and actions hadn't remained almost the same as before.
Xie Lingyu would have started to suspect if someone had worn his skin to deceive people.
This cultivation speed is really too fast, faster than even demonic cultivators.
In Chu Xingchen's own words, that is—It is unorthodox.
Indeed, it is a bit too unorthodox. Before, when he was a small cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, if he encountered a small problem he couldn't solve, he would come to find her with eager eyes.
Showing off his talent by writing poems, then begging and pleading to let her help.
Now... it has only been a period of time that isn't very long.
And yet it makes her seem to have to start looking up to him.
Chu Xingchen sensed the gaze, turned his head to look at Xie Lingyu, and asked: "What are you thinking about? Staring at me all the time?"
Xie Lingyu thought for a moment, then uttered a Chu Xingchen-style statement: "A bit unorthodox, Chu Xingchen."
"Huh?! You definitely learned bad things from my eldest disciple!"
Xie Lingyu turned her head away and did not answer.
"Huh?! Could it be the second disciple?!"
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