"Kill Liu Rusi and Su Chen!"
Ding Zerui was laughing savagely!
While Su Chen was slaughtering all before him at the Aeternus Sect, he had already been waiting for this chance.
No one knew how much torment he had endured these past three years; his fiancée had fallen in love with another man, making him the laughingstock of the entire Duravia Trade Prefecture.
In an instant, a dozen or so Ding family cultivators, along with several guest elders from the Aeternus Sect, charged toward Su Chen and his group!
"Brother Su, take Liu Rusi and flee."
Three Nascent Soul experts and over a dozen Golden Core cultivators were bearing down on them, yet Li Xinnian's expression remained calm as he spoke to Su Chen.
Su Chen's expression changed. "Junior Brother, what about you and Senior Sister?"
"Even if they had eight times the nerve, do you think they'd dare to touch us? Now hurry up and get lost! We can't hold them off for long."
Nangong Qingya let out a derisive laugh.
Hearing this, Su Chen no longer hesitated. Gritting his teeth, he fled with Liu Rusi.
After only a moment, Su Chen could already feel the powerful auras erupting behind him.
He saw Li Xinnian's Primal Giant Dharma Body manifest, and Nangong Qingya's Worldly Black Lotus Dharma Body emitting a cold, sinister aura.
But even so, no matter how talented Li Xinnian and Nangong Qingya were, how could they possibly stop so many cultivators, let alone experts at the Nascent Soul realm?
Two Nascent Soul cultivators were already in hot pursuit.
They fled all the way to an immortal mountain, but the shout of a Nascent Soul cultivator came from behind.
"Liu Rusi, my Ding family does not wish to make an enemy of your Liu family! Repent now, and you can be saved. You have one last chance."
"Laughable!"
Su Chen narrowed his eyes, but when he turned his head to look at Liu Rusi, his face went pale.
He saw Liu Rusi... hesitating!
"Rusi!"
Liu Rusi turned a deaf ear to Su Chen's call.
She stopped in mid-air.
The auras behind her drew closer and closer, making her eyes turn red and her entire body tremble.
She saw Su Chen staring at her in utter disbelief.
She remembered what Li Xinnian had said to her.
She had refuted him constantly in the side room, but at this moment, her refutations seemed so powerless.
"We can't escape... The Li family members are being held back. I can't escape with Su Chen. Why should two people die together? I don't want to die!"
Liu Rusi sensed it—people were chasing them from all directions!
The Divinity Transformation cultivators of the Aeternus Sect were in a standoff high in the clouds, but there were still Nascent Soul cultivators.
And in front of Nascent Soul cultivators, Su Chen was nothing.
"Prove it to me..."
A haunting voice echoed in her ear; Li Xinnian's words from the side room were as if whispered right beside her.
At that time, Liu Rusi hadn't known what he wanted her to prove, but at this moment, she knew.
Li Xinnian wanted her to prove that she truly wasn't the person he said she was. But...
Two streams of clear tears streamed from the corners of Liu Rusi's eyes.
Cultivator after cultivator in pursuit flew past her.
Su Chen, who was ahead, gave her one last resentful look, then departed without turning his head.
"Liu Rusi." A Ding family retainer stopped beside her and sneered.
"My young master's spirit ark is waiting just behind us. Congratulations on making the right choice."
...
"Young Master Li."
Back at the very place where the Ding family members had just given chase, Ding Zerui was actually bowing respectfully to Li Xinnian!
Ding Zerui made no attempt to hide the reverence on his face.
"The retainers from my clan have already sent word—Liu Rusi is in my hands."
Hearing this, Li Xinnian remained silent.
Nangong Qingya, too, had already been chased elsewhere by the Ding family's experts.
"Young Master Li."
Seeing Li Xinnian's silence, Ding Zerui asked in a solemn voice, "I was wondering, Young Master Li... as for Su Chen and Nangong Qingya, do you want them alive, or..."
"Brother Ding, you jest." Li Xinnian wore a gentle smile on his face.
"Brother Ding, that you would spare me on account of my Li family—that is, you giving face to my Li family's elders.
As for what Brother Ding does, how could I, a mere Li Xinnian, possibly order you around?"
"Yes, yes, this one understands."
When Ding Zerui heard this, a knowing look flashed in his eyes.
The two of them stood facing the wind in the shadows for a long time.
As more and more experts gathered in the sky above, Ding Zerui's eyebrow twitched.
A message had arrived from a Ding family servant.
It was a message sword, and hanging from it was a storage ring. His eyes lit up, and he hurriedly handed the storage ring to Li Xinnian. A trace of greed flashed in his eyes.
"Young Master Li, this is what my clansmen stripped from Liu Rusi's Divine Soul after taking her away: all her memories concerning Su Chen.
Following Young Master Li's instructions, the Divine Soul Memory-Stripping Art was used in private; besides the user, no one else knows.
And that person has already been dealt with after the interrogation was finished, ensuring that only Young Master Li knows about it."
"This one believes that Young Master Li must have planted agents from the Hall of Heavenly Principle within my clan.
Whether what I'm saying is true or not, it cannot escape Young Master Li's eyes."
Ding Zerui's face was wreathed in smiles. "I was wondering about what Young Master Li mentioned... concerning helping me become the Ding family's direct heir in a hundred years..."
"Brother Ding, you jest."
Li Xinnian glanced at Ding Zerui. "However, if Brother Ding can become the direct heir, it would be a good thing for both you and me. Don't you think?"
"Since that is the case, this one shall take his leave!"
Ding Zerui could no longer hide his smile. He departed toward his clan's spirit ark, his speed growing faster and faster, his elation clear to see.
His smile gradually twisted into a savage sneer.
"Su Chen, Liu Rusi? Hahaha, in my eyes, you are nothing!
With Li Xinnian helping me, I can become the direct heir, I can become the Family Head!"