Rise from a Poor Family: My Martial Arts Counterattack

Chapter 551 Eating Meat

Chiba Castle.

The warriors in the city were collecting the corpses of the warriors from the Eight Desolate Domains and cleaning up the bloodstains on the streets.

All the martial artists were overjoyed to have survived the ordeal, and a rainbow light fell from outside the city onto the city lord's mansion.

"Senior Brother Lin."

As soon as Lin Chen landed, Gu Kong came forward and knelt down in front of Lin Chen with a thud.

"What is Junior Brother Gu doing?"

“Senior Brother Lin, I was unaware of the relationship between that Miss Murong and you. Leaving Miss Murong in the city almost led to a terrible mistake. I will accept any punishment you may give me.”

Gu Kong's face was filled with deep guilt. He knew that a large part of his strength was due to his senior brother Lin.

Senior Brother Lin took good care of him. Even after Senior Brother Lin left the sect, he was able to enter the inner sect through Senior Brother Lin's connections. Moreover, the senior brothers in the inner sect, including Deacon Gao, all took good care of him.

Without Senior Brother Lin, I would never have been able to cultivate to the peak of the first rank in these three years, just one step away from the first innate realm.

"This is not your fault; you did nothing wrong."

Lin Chen helped Gu Kong up. Faced with the imminent invasion of the Eight Desolate Domain warriors, Gu Kong was not wrong to lead the warriors in the city to resist. Moreover, Gu Kong did not know about the relationship between Murong Yan and himself.

"Reassure the warriors in the city, and do not be stingy with compensation for those who died in battle."

"Yes."

Lin Chen patted Gu Kong on the shoulder, and after watching Gu Kong leave, he turned and entered the City Lord's Mansion.

After killing Wu Ke, he went to several surrounding cities and killed the other innate martial artists in the Eight Desolate Regions before returning to Thousand Leaf City.

In the courtyard of the city lord's mansion, Murong Yan's complexion had returned to its rosy hue. Before leaving, Lin Chen gave Murong Yan some healing pills. The pills he had on him could save any martial artist below the entry level who had a breath left, while Murong Yan was only suffering from excessive consumption of her spiritual energy.

For ordinary martial artists who haven't reached the highest level, this is considered a serious injury. It would take several months to recover, since even innate-level pills are beyond their means.

"came back."

Murong Yan smiled slightly when she saw Lin Chen, while Su Qin, with great tact, took the initiative to leave the courtyard and closed the door behind her.

Under the moonlight, Murong Yan, having shed her previous deliberately plain outer garments, now wore a simple silk dress that flowed like clouds over water. The sheer fabric subtly revealed the delicate lines of her shoulders and neck, which appeared to be coated with a cool, frosty hue by the moonlight. Her long hair was styled up, with a few strands falling to the side of her neck, making her gracefully curved swan neck appear even more slender.

She wore a well-tailored, moon-white ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), with a silk ribbon cinching her waist to accentuate her slender figure. As she walked, the hem of her skirt rippled like water, and her eyes sparkled with a captivating charm.

One word: alluring.

Two words: very alluring.

As Murong Yan gracefully approached, Lin Chen was about to speak when Murong Yan placed her delicate finger on his lips: "Don't say anything..."

The moonlight is alluring, and a beautiful woman makes a rendezvous...

Lin Chen picked up the beauty, and even the moon shyly hid in the clouds.

The shadows on the bed cannot express the endless longing, only eliciting a playful smile from the beauty...

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The next day.

Su Qin watched as her princess gazed towards the city gate, a look of hesitation on her face.

"Princess, why don't you leave with Young Master Lin?"

Su Qin couldn't understand what her princess was thinking. She had spent more than two years looking for Young Master Lin, and now that she had met him, they had to part ways again.

If she were a princess, she would choose to follow Young Master Lin.

She didn't believe that if the princess made this request, Young Master Lin would be able to refuse.

“This is not a normal time. The Eight Desolations Sect and the Canglan Sect are at war, and the Canglan Sect is at a disadvantage. As a proud disciple of the Canglan Sect, Lin Chen cannot stay out of it. He is in Qianye City because he is going to the Wanhuo Sect.”

Murong Yan shook her head. As a woman, she knew when she could cling to her man and when she couldn't be sentimental.

“Then Princess, you can also go to the Myriad Fire Sect with Young Master Lin. With Young Master Lin’s strength, even if you bring the princess along, it won’t take too much time.” “It’s different.”

Although Qin Gu was very loyal to her and would never betray her, there were still some things she couldn't tell Qin Gu.

Lin Chen told her about the situation on the battlefield, including the fact that the Canglan Sect was currently at a disadvantage. She sensed something from Lin Chen's words; this sect war seemed to be more complicated than it appeared, and there was a sense of crisis in Lin Chen's tone.

She didn't know where Lin Chen's crisis came from, but she didn't want to become a burden to Lin Chen.

Lin Chen's strength was very high in the eyes of Qin Gu and himself, but in the sect war between major sects like Canglan Sect and Bahuang Sect, if he was slightly crushed, he would be unable to change the course of the battle.

"Miss Murong, Senior Brother Lin asked me to escort you to the sect."

Gu Kong's voice came from outside the courtyard gate, and Murong Yan replied, "Okay, please wait a moment."

"Qin Gu, pack your things, let's go."

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Outside Chiba City, after a brief night with Murong Yan, Lin Chen left, feeling somewhat reluctant to part.

No matter how reluctant he was, he couldn't take Murong Yan with him.

After returning to the sect, Grandmaster Ye's words filled him with a sense of crisis. Although reaching the peak of the fourth realm of the Innate Realm in just three years was already a miracle, it was still not enough...

He gave Murong Yan many pills and some soul cultivation techniques. Once she arrives at the sect, Murong Yan should be able to break through to the Innate Realm.

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One day later.

Lin Chen arrived at the border between Canglan Domain and Wanhuo Domain. It was here that he met Senior Brother Wen Yunting on his first trip to Wanhuo Sect. Senior Brother Wen was very polite to him and told him about some things in Wanhuo Domain so that he wouldn't encounter a volcanic eruption on his way to Wanhuo Sect.

Upon returning to the sect, he saw Senior Brother Wen's name on the sect's monument to martyrs.

The Martyrs' Monument was a stone tablet personally ordered to be cast by the sect leader after the war broke out in the Eight Desolations Sect. There was only one at first, with the names of the innate disciples who sacrificed their lives in the war engraved on it, but now there are three.

Each stone tablet was engraved with names.

Lin Chen went to check it out and saw many familiar names, including Senior Brother Wen.

The border was no longer guarded by disciples of the Canglan Sect, so Lin Chen didn't delay and directly entered the territory of the Wanhuo Sect.

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At the entrance to the Wanhuo Sect, the same giant stele still stands.

Back then, he felt the scorching heat of the eerie blue flames. Now, standing here again, Lin Chen feels the yearning of the innate fire within his body.

Crystal fire can cleanse impurities.

Impurities in a martial artist's body, impurities in medicinal herbs, impurities in weapon-refining materials...

Impurities in all things under heaven can be washed away.

Lin Chen suppressed his inner desire. He came to the Ten Thousand Fires Sect this time not only because Elder Zhuang invited him, as this old man had always valued him highly, but also to understand his next path in refining innate fire.

Gazing at the golden waterfall of flames cascading down from the heavens at the Wanhuo Sect's mountain gate, Lin Chen stood quietly, waiting for the Wanhuo Sect's disciples to appear.

"Who goes there... Lin... Lin Chen?"

The Wanhuo Sect disciples who appeared at the mountain gate showed surprise on their faces when they sensed Lin Chen with their divine sense.

"I have received an invitation from Elder Zhuang of your esteemed sect to come to the Wanhuo Sect to keep the appointment."

Lin Chen clasped his hands in greeting, but as soon as he finished speaking, Zhuang Lie's familiar voice came from inside the Wanhuo Sect's mountain gate: "Stop dawdling and get over here quickly."

　Asking for a monthly pass

　　
　
(End of this chapter)