Chapter 205: Parting Words

Jiang Yong screamed hoarsely, “Run with all your might, go back and tell our master…”

Aunt Lili had already rushed behind Jiang Yong amid the clashing sounds of scythes and longswords. She did not use her wolf-fang mace, but instead dropped that vicious weapon, spread her arms open, and forcefully embraced Jiang Yong’s body. Long Cheng sighed helplessly when he saw that terrifying scene—wasn’t it just like a big brown bear hugging a poor little white rabbit?

His face pale as a ghost, Jiang Yong was pulled into Aunt Lili’s embrace. Her two long arms wrapped around his body like monstrous pythons. Aunt Lili roared in a low voice, her eyes bloodshot, “No one can bully the young master! You castrated little chicken, do you also want to try Aunt Lili’s power?”

The sound of cracking bones echoed incessantly. Terrified, Jiang Yong dropped his longsword and began striking Aunt Lili wildly with his transparent palms, which emitted a freezing chill. Over a dozen of his bones had already been shattered. The air in his chest was nearly squeezed out. If Aunt Lili continued to exert force, Jiang Yong would undoubtedly die—and it would be a miserable death.

Aunt Lili snorted coldly, allowing Jiang Yong’s icy-cold palms to strike her body. Her body trembled slightly, and every muscle twitched violently. Her innate divine power, which surpassed even the Black Tiger Family and could easily crush Blackbeard, erupted like a volcano. Strange magic runes densely covered Aunt Lili’s face.

Her bulging muscles emitted a red glow—a sign of vigorous life force and surging blood energy. Aunt Lili’s whole body grew hot, and a thick blaze of fire enveloped her. Jiang Yong’s strikes on Aunt Lili became increasingly weaker. After landing over a dozen hits, his arms were crushed by Aunt Lili, and then his ribs cracked into countless fragments.

He spat out a stream of icy blood. Aunt Lili grabbed Jiang Yong’s head and slammed her hands together, causing his skull to explode and brain matter to splatter everywhere. Brutally gripping Jiang Yong’s shoulders, Aunt Lili smashed him forcefully onto the ground. His frail body suddenly expanded several times in size—his flesh and blood spread outward, making his “surface area” seem much larger.

Bar and Long Cheng had already charged into the scattering eunuchs. Long Cheng, now revealing his true strength, mercilessly unleashed a vast blood-red glow. Eighteen arcs of bloody light swept across the sky, and in a blink, all sixteen eunuchs were hacked into dozens of pieces.

Panting heavily and radiating intense heat, Aunt Lili picked up her wolf-fang mace. She casually slipped it into a ring on her left middle finger and then strode over to Lin Qi.

She grabbed Lin Qi and affectionately pulled him into her embrace.

“Oh my, my Young Master Lin Qi, those despicable scoundrels didn’t scare you, did they? No matter who dares to harm a single hair on our little master’s head, Aunt Lili will pound them into paste. Oh my, little master, are they all your friends?”

Lin Qi’s entire head was buried in Aunt Lili’s ample bosom, nearly suffocating him. When Aunt Lili finally loosened her grip, he lifted his head and took several deep breaths.

“Yes, Aunt Lili, they are my best friends. Enzo, of course. This is Yulian, a typical playboy. And also, Vic, Vic…”

Vic emerged from the snow behind Lin Qi, slipping over to his side and greeting Aunt Lili with a smile.

Hearing that Yulian was a playboy, Aunt Lili gave him a cold glare. Rolling her eyes at Yulian, she gave Vic’s shoulder a strong pat. “Poor little chick, your mother’s milk must not have been enough! Well, you’re still young. Eat more beef and drink more milk from now on, and Aunt Lili guarantees you’ll grow into a real man! Poor little chick, with such skinny arms and legs—your mother must have put a lot of effort into raising you!”

Grimacing, Vic crouched on the ground, looking up at Aunt Lili with fear.

This terrifying aunt, whose arms were thicker than Vic’s waist, possessed unimaginable strength. Her casual pat felt like being rammed by over a dozen bulls, nearly shattering his bones.

What an awesome, mountain-like aunt to be admired and feared! But the feeling of being cared for—it was really good!

Rubbing his sore shoulder, Vic obediently nodded.

The Golden Armored Warriors were turned into pincushions by three hundred armor-piercing crossbows. Even if these warriors brought by Jie were only High-Rank Earth Riders at best, even a Celestial Knight would be in danger of falling against three hundred armor-piercing crossbows. When the rain of arrows stopped, the area where the Golden Armored Warriors had stood looked like a field of hemp, densely packed with steel crossbow bolts.

Leo led his three hundred subordinates down. He greeted Lin Qi with a smile and promptly sent his men to retrieve the arrows.

All the corpses were piled together. Leo swiftly took a fist-sized oil pot from his waist and poured thick, pungent-smelling fire oil over the heap. The three hundred burly men also took out their oil pots, dousing the corpses with fire oil.

All valuable items were stripped from the bodies. Gold and silver coins went directly to Leo’s subordinates. The large gold notes and rare jewels from Jie and Jiang Yong were handed over to Lin Qi for safekeeping.

Even Jie’s oddly shaped longsword was tucked into a ring Lin Qi wore on his toe. When everyone saw Lin Qi actually wearing an incredibly precious spatial artifact on his toe, they all felt like losing their minds! That was so disrespectful to the grandmasters capable of crafting spatial artifacts. Besides Lin Qi, who else would wear a space ring on their toe?

What pleased Lin Qi was that Jiang Yong had an exquisite bracelet on him, which stored a large quantity of gold bricks and gold bars—clearly the travel expenses for his journey. Lin Qi transferred the gold into his ankle chain and gave the bracelet, which had limited capacity, to Vic—for a thief, owning a storage artifact was a dream come true.

As for Jie, he actually had two space rings on him. Lin Qi decided to distribute these two rings.

Yulian and Enzo each received a space ring. However, since these items were stolen goods, Lin Qi advised them to find a way to alter the rings’ appearance—at least by plating them with gold or covering them with another metal. Wearing such rings in public would only invite trouble.

After everything was settled, Long Cheng dragged Lin Qi to a large tree at the edge of the depression.

With a serious expression, Long Cheng’s left hand transformed into a green dragon head and spat out a white jade talisman. The smooth talisman was carved with intricate, mysterious patterns, but now all the patterns were shattered.

Lin Qi looked at the jade talisman cluelessly—he didn’t understand what it was.

“I placed a tracking spell on that fat man. I was curious—who would dare to scheme against Tixiang and the Church’s higher-ups, especially when that fat man clearly knew those two women possessed innate divinity. Only Divine Descendants would dare to target Divine Descendants!”

Long Cheng stared severely at Lin Qi.

“Lin Qi, my little brother, I don’t want to see you sent to the stake. So I placed a tracking spell on that fat man to see who was behind all this. But that person’s strength clearly exceeded my expectations. He actually managed to break the tracking spell I set. His mastery of Divine Art must have reached at least the Celestial Rank Peak level.”

“So, be cautious, you must be cautious! Remember one thing—Tixiang’s involvement with those two women has nothing to do with you. Keep that in mind! A Divine Descendant with strength at the Celestial Rank Peak—you need to understand how terrifying that is!”

Lin Qi obediently nodded—he understood how much concern lay in Long Cheng’s words.

Taking a deep breath, Long Cheng crushed the jade talisman into powder.

“Because of my presence and the spiritual talisman the High Priest of the Celestial Temple bestowed upon me, even a Saint Realm expert from the Church wouldn’t know that you and I worked together to kill Elham and the others. As long as you don’t talk, no one will know. If you stay silent, no one will know that the Nirvana Crystals of Ya and Ling are in your possession. Just try to figure out that fat man’s origins… No, don’t provoke him. Stay steady as a mountain, let the storm pass, and adapt flexibly—that’s more reliable.”

“As for Tixiang’s side… You must find out one thing—why would Tixiang be willing to offer such a high price to win you over? Just because we helped him win a bet? No, believe me—anyone born into a noble family, anyone raised with political cunning, wouldn’t let even a tiny bit of benefit slip to someone unrelated.”

“If Tixiang treats you so well, there must be a reason behind it. Investigate it, understand it, and be wary. Unless you have enough strength, never get involved in any country’s struggle for the imperial throne! That leads to death—lots of deaths!”

“For the imperial throne, a father can kill his son, a son can kill his father, brothers can kill brothers, a wife can kill her husband. For the imperial throne, no one in the world is beyond killing, let alone a newly attached follower like you without any foundation? Remember, remember—just take advantage under Tixiang’s name, but never dare to meddle in the struggle for the throne. Many will truly die! Unless you possess absolutely overwhelming strength, do not get involved.”

Hearing Long Cheng’s words, Lin Qi laughed easily, spreading his hands as he replied lightly, “I have no interest in the imperial throne. I just like gold coins.”

Long Cheng’s profound gaze fixed intently on Lin Qi. Suddenly, he chuckled softly.

“No great ambitions, Lin Qi, my little brother!”

“Having no great ambitions—that’s not good. You’ll waste your life and miss many brilliant and beautiful scenes in this wonderful world!”

“You just like gold coins? Have you ever thought—if you could stand at the peak of the Western Continent, with a single command, all the gold coins on the entire continent would belong to you?”

All the gold coins on the entire continent would belong to him? Lin Qi’s eyes suddenly turned golden!

In that instant, Lin Qi’s heart stopped beating. A wave of dreadful greed surged within him, making Long Cheng instinctively step back several paces.