"Wife!"
"Husband!"
The moment Hu Yan and Dongli met, they glued themselves together. Jiang Kai and Ruan Yu were left speechless.
"Old Hu, you literally came by just last night… was this really necessary?" Ruan Yu let out a sigh.
Jiang Kai was caught off guard and got force-fed a mouthful of dog food…
Before, Dongli was probably the most beautiful woman Jiang Kai had ever seen, but now he felt like she didn't seem as pretty as Chang Siyao… Was this that so-called beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder thing?
Just as Jiang Kai walked over, Dongli and the surrounding fox demons suddenly looked at him with alarm. A few fox demons even bared their teeth at him, full of hostility!
"Back off!" Dongli realized something was wrong with her subordinates and shouted angrily.
The fox demons scattered at once, still sneaking tense glances toward Jiang Kai.
Jiang Kai frowned a little. "Dongli, what's going on?"
"I suddenly sensed an extremely dangerous aura on you… even I felt it. Much less them. That's probably why they lost control for a bit!"
Jiang Kai's brows pinched tighter. That wasn't right. He had already deliberately stored the Demon-Slaying Sword in his card pouch.
Maybe it wasn't the sword!
Jiang Kai suddenly thought of something and said to Dongli, "I remember when we first met, you said some little thing bit you. Was it… this guy?"
As he spoke, Jiang Kai pulled a small mouse out of his pocket.
The moment she saw the little thing, Dongli suddenly showed some foxlike traits and bared her teeth at it in warning!
The little thing wasn't scared of her at all. Even with Jiang Kai pinching the back of its neck, it still clawed and snarled at Dongli.
"Looks like it really is this guy." Jiang Kai glanced at the little thing in his hand. "You little menace, cut it out, she's my friend!"
The little thing looked back at Jiang Kai, then at Dongli, thought for a moment, and finally settled down.
Jiang Kai set the little menace on his shoulder. Seeing it behave without overreacting, he let out a breath. "Dongli, no offense, but this tiny thing can actually hurt you?"
Dongli's appearance returned to normal. "Its attack is strong. I wasn't paying attention and got hurt by it. I didn't expect it could actually injure me and even drain some of my essence."
Jiang Kai frowned.
This little thing could attack? Wasn't it only supposed to heal?
But now wasn't the time to dig into that.
"Dongli, in a month, Huaxia will open the Guardian of Zhulu Ridge. That's your best chance to leave Taiping Mountain Path."
Dongli looked troubled. "Even if the Guardian is tied up, the barrier affects me too much. I'm not sure I can get out."
Hu Yan said, "Wife, didn't you say my primal spirit can help you resist the barrier? Don't worry, I'll nourish myself well these days and transfer more essence to you!"
"If it's not enough, I can help too!" Ruan Yu said enthusiastically.
Hu Yan glared at Ruan Yu. "Help with what?"
Ruan Yu widened her eyes, totally wronged. "I'm obviously helping her resist the barrier! What are you thinking?"
Jiang Kai said, "Dongli, get ready. When the Guardian is activated, we'll come pick you up."
"And if I escape, where do I go?"
Jiang Kai thought for a moment. "The farther the better. The problem is, I don't know how far you can go."
Dongli shook her head. "Neither do I…"
"Then just go as far as you can. Huaxia's strength is climbing fast, and new areas are opening up quicker and quicker. If you don't run far enough, you'll just have to escape again later."
"In short, we'll protect you as best we can."
Dongli looked at Jiang Kai. "Your strength… I can tell only you've reached Transcendent Stage Five… uh, but you seem different from a normal Transcendent Five, and also different from an Eerie Five…"
Jiang Kai smiled faintly. He wasn't normal Transcendent Five, nor Eerie Five. He was Heaven-Judged Five.
Looks like even Dongli couldn't tell.
"Don't worry about my rank. Success or failure, this is the moment. We'll give it everything we've got."
Hu Yan stepped forward, choked up. "Captain Kai, I don't even know what to say… it's all because of me…"
Jiang Kai patted his shoulder. "With our relationship, you really need to say that? Your problem is my problem!"
"Exactly! Old Hu, your woman is basically my sister-in-law!" Ruan Yu said fiercely.
"Don't call Lao Zhao or Ouyang this time. This mission is too dangerous. I don't want to drag them into it," Hu Yan said.
Jiang Kai nodded. "Right. When the Guardian opens, every guild needs to contribute, especially District 18. We need people to stay behind and handle guild matters. They'll stay and guard the guild."
When it came time to part, Hu Yan and Dongli clung to each other with heart-wrenching reluctance. Jiang Kai and Ruan Yu really couldn't stand the mushy scene anymore, so they simply waited at the side.
"Captain Kai, what're you thinking about?"
Jiang Kai looked at Ruan Yu. "Thinking you two could just break through to Transcendent Five first, then go train. That would help Dongli more too."
"Easy for you to say, Captain. Neither of our classes has Transcendent-Five materials… A few batches did show up before, but they were all bought off by some lunatic!" Ruan Yu said helplessly. "Captain, don't you think that person has something wrong with his brain? He doesn't buy his own materials. He buys all sorts of weird stuff."
Jiang Kai thought for a bit and suddenly realized she might be talking about him…
"So you think he's nuts? And if you saw him, you'd want to beat him up?"
"Of course! It's not that I hate rich people, but that guy is too awful! He buys other people's materials, leaving nothing for others!"
Jiang Kai snorted. "And you never thought that annoying guy… might be me?"
"You? The vibe kinda matches you, but you were dead in that mining accident back then…"
"Is there a chance that not only did I not die, I also mined quite a lot?" Jiang Kai chuckled meaningfully and got up to leave.
Ruan Yu thought carefully. That brain-damaged buyer had paid in Blood-Essence Stones and Sky-Crystal Stones. And right before the mining disaster, the fiercest eruption at the mine had produced a huge amount of Blood-Essence Stones, including definitely many Sky-Crystals.
If Captain Kai didn't die and really went mining, then…
Even though the odds were tiny — so many war gods had fallen — but things others couldn't do didn't necessarily mean Captain Kai couldn't do them!
Suddenly, Ruan Yu's eyes widened. "Captain Kai, wait, let me explain!"
Over there, Hu Yan finally finished saying goodbye and jogged over.
"Ruan Ghost, what're you doing?"
"Old Hu, hurry, catch Captain Kai!"
"Why?"
"He's that idiot buyer from the auction!"
Hu Yan froze for a second, then instantly understood. He looked at Jiang Kai's back with horror and chased after him with Ruan Yu. "Captain Kai, the person I love most… is actually you!"
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