Chapter 53: Prologue

Facing Yan Yi’s roar, Jenny’s brows furrowed, and she threw away the gun. In fact, it was useless to hold it. Now everyone was equal, and neither could do anything to the other. In the case of Jenny, who was already serious, there was no need to pose with a gun.

“Why?” Jennifer was silent for a long time, almost a minute, before she asked why. But the figure in front of us never retreated, and it was clear that a heavy result could not change her determination to protect me.

“Huh, Jennifer, I think you’ve been fooled by your travels, or you’ve shut yourself off from the world. Do you know what that brat behind you has done? He has awakened the remnant soul left by your old lover! He has extinguished a strand of Kunlun soul! Don’t tell me you don’t know that there is a strand of Kunlun remnant soul in the Lake of a Thousand Demons, and why that remnant soul has been allowed to exist until now! When the old man heard the news, he was furious!” Yan Yi paused for a moment before continuing, “That’s fine, but the point is that a remnant soul can be extinguished. The key is that we have determined that the remnant soul left by your old lover can only be awakened by this kid. Do you know what this means? It means that he has blocked our path to immortality and our last hope of tearing open the door to Kunlun. Your old lover left mysteries everywhere in the human world. You know what it was for.

Yan Yi said this with extreme anger, staring at me with eyes that wanted to devour me alive. But I was still in a fog, unable to understand what he was talking about. I only understood that I could awaken the remnant soul of my master? With what? The art of the middle moxa?

In contrast to our stunned expressions, Jenny’s expression was wonderful. In the end, she said with a heavy voice, “What did you just say?”

“You didn’t hear clearly, do you want me to repeat it?” Yan Yi’s expression was strange.

“No, you mean Chengyi can awaken what?” Jenny’s expression became more serious.

“It can awaken the remnant soul of your old lover. Do you understand?” Yan Yi was already helpless.

After hearing this, Jenny suddenly laughed out loud, pointed at Yan Yi and said loudly, “Well, for this sentence, I don’t hate you so much. You are a better one among a bunch of rubbish!” Then she suddenly turned around and hugged me, and then hugged Cheng Qing, Cheng Xin… and so on, hugging all of us in the Li family in turn.

Finally, with tears in her eyes, she said excitedly, “Did you hear that? That annoying guy said that your master is my old lover.”

We looked at each other in shock. This was a matter for the elders, and we dared not say anything. Yan Yi was already beside himself, shouting, “Jennifer, please understand the point. You’d better stay out of this mess! You may be a genius, and you’ve managed to squeeze into the top circle of cultivators in this world, but you’re still a generation below the top people. Your power is not enough to change this fact! If you step aside, we will kill him, and the Li lineage will not be cut off. If we let this kid get away, we will not be the only ones to bear the wrath.

Jenny was originally holding Chengyuan, but after hearing this, she suddenly turned around and looked at Yan Yi and his group and said, “Your way is different from ours. I am not going against my way by stopping you and keeping Chengyi, not to mention that he is… his true successor, and he can still awaken the traces he left behind! Yes, I really have no way to deal with that century-old trash, but as I said, we can still do it by restraining each other. I will bear all the consequences. Today, I must keep Chengyi.”

“Huh, women! They never get the point. They always hold onto those fleeting feelings as treasures. Fine, you showed up today to protect Chen Chengyi, but for how long? We won’t change our minds about killing him. Why don’t you come up with a solution?” Yan Yi suddenly said.

“Oh, no matter man or woman, true feelings are treasures, and true feelings, even if they have to be put down in the end, cannot hide the brilliance of their treasures! Can you trash understand this? Come up with an explanation. It’s very simple. I will protect Chen Chengyi. If your superiors want to take action against him, I and my people will also disregard the rules.” Jenny was unusually straightforward.

“Oh, just restrain the people at the top?” The half-breed nobleman, who had been silent, suddenly seemed to have found a loophole and said excitedly.

Jenny frowned slightly, but before she could speak, Ge Quan stepped forward and said, “You others can go ahead and kill him, and we will openly protect him. How about it?”

Yan Yi smiled contemptuously, not saying anything, and apparently agreed to Ge Quan’s conditions.

Jenny frowned and said, “Then let’s follow the most common rule in the world of cultivators. Those who pursue and those who protect each other will not interfere with each other, and they will not kill each other. Chen Chengyi’s life is in the hands of the heavens. He will survive on his own.”

Afterwards, Jenny looked at me apologetically, but I knew that this was the limit. I was not clear about the division of classes in the circle of cultivators, but I still understood that compared to restraining the most dangerous people from attacking me, Jenny was already struggling.

From her conversation with Yan Yi, I could tell that she was not actually the oldest. The real old guys, she was just a genius who accidentally stepped into the top. But can you imagine, does this have anything to do with my master?

I smiled at Jenny’s gaze and nodded, saying to her, “That’s enough. You’ve protected me from the worst of the storm, and our elders have protected me from the storm for a while. If I can’t survive this and find my masters, I’m ashamed to be a disciple of the Li family’s Shan branch.”

“Very good!” Jenny patted my shoulder.

At this point, the white-robed man, Bai Laoren, finally stood up and cleared his throat, saying, “Well, since everyone has finished discussing it, I will speak on behalf of the Snow Mountain lineage and explain our position. We have decided to protect Chen Chengyi within the Snow Mountain lineage, so we will take Chen Chengyi and his group with us. Do you have any objections?”

I looked at Jenny and the elders, who all waved their hands and said, “Go, go…” But Jenny just smiled and ripped my shirt open.

I looked at Jenny in surprise, but she brushed her finger over the scar from my gunshot wound and said angrily, “I really don’t appreciate this Jiang Yi’s style of doing things. He’s so cautious and conservative that he even used you to take risks in exchange for a balance of power! But what’s there to be afraid of? If it’s a festering sore, it’s going to be removed eventually, and the pain is inevitable. Hehe, he still wants the men of the Li family to act like a turtle to avoid trouble in exchange for peace! How can a young eagle fly high without experiencing the wind and rain?”

I heard Jenny say this and muttered to myself, “He’s also trying to protect me.”

“If he didn’t have this heart, I would have come to him to settle the score! He is a person who carries too much, sometimes walking on a tightrope without knowing it. I hope he doesn’t fall. Okay, I won’t say anymore. I will handle Jiang Yi’s side. Your future actions will be less restricted, but also more dangerous. Go.” Jenny said simply.

I also understood what she meant. From now on, Jiangyi would not be involved in our operations. She would strongly prevent that extremely cautious and conservative person from dragging our feet, but at the same time, we would indeed be facing greater dangers.

I don’t know if I’m sensitive, but I definitely felt that Lushan was relieved.

She looked at Jenny gratefully, and we were about to leave, but Yan Yi, who was smiling in front of me, said, “As soon as you leave the Snow Mountain clan’s sphere of influence, the hunt will begin.”

Ge Quan stepped forward and said, “We will protect you!”

Jenny walked over casually, pretended to hug me, and whispered in my ear, “In the circle of cultivators, the upper echelons are roughly divided into several levels of power. I am barely the top level, and Jiang Yi and Yan Yi are the second level. Don’t underestimate them. None of them are not old monsters who have lived for a long time. In the future, when you encounter these two levels of people, you, the first person of the younger generation, are nothing. You have to hide. Taoism is not martial arts. What is there to fear about the young? Strength and spiritual power are accumulated over time. Do you understand?”

“Then how high is my master?” I couldn’t help but ask.

“Your master is a genius. No one in China can match his understanding of the martial arts. He can be considered a leader of the third level. Under the right circumstances, he can barely squeeze into the second level! But your master’s grandfather was a true pinnacle, a monster. His disciples’ strength cannot be classified like that. Even if you ask me, I can’t answer you.”

“What about me?” I couldn’t help but ask again.

“The first person in the younger generation, in terms of the entire circle of cultivators, his strength can also barely squeeze into the upper echelon, that is, the upper four layers. However, your fate is connected to your master, which is even more difficult to calculate! However, because the gap is somewhat large, you should not even think about the first and second layers of people. Just stay away. You are still young, you don’t need to know so much, and you don’t need to get involved in the mess. As for the second tier, people like Yan Yi, if they hadn’t met you today under special circumstances, they probably wouldn’t have been so easy to deal with. Don’t look at the people of the righteous way who are silent in the face of this drama, they have restrictions between them at a glance. Jenny explained it to me in detail, and then let go of me.

The old man in the yellow robe sneered and said, “You’ve been hugging your disciples for so long, Jennifer. You’re not thinking that he can summon the spirit of Old Li, are you?”

Jenny turned around with a smile, suddenly rushed over, and with an incredibly fast speed, slapped the old man in the yellow robe in the face, shouting, “You have a bad mouth! Go complain, and see if those old trash on your head will stand up for you because of this slap.”

How handsome! I exclaimed in my heart, but the old Bai urged, “Hurry up!”

I had no choice but to leave the show, and the group quickly followed Bai Laoren to the stands. The people from the four major powers, because of the constraints of Jenny and the elders, never caught up.

Halfway through our journey, the people in the stands suddenly dispersed under the organization of the Snow Mountain clan. The scene was a bit chaotic for a moment, and Bai Laoren dragged us quickly into a blind spot. The people behind him took off their cloaks and quickly put them on us, saying, “Follow us and don’t get lost.”

From this moment on, the adventure years began.