Chapter 1366: Passing on a Message

SWISH, SWISH, SWISH—

The centipede traveled across the barren Gray Realm land. Amidst the bumps, Jian Changsheng let out a muffled groan and managed to open his eyes...

"Where... is this place?" Jian Changsheng tried to sit up, but the next second, a wave of pain came from his waist, making him wince. "Was I hit by a Realm Train???"

"You're awake?" Jiang Xiaohua's voice came from the side. "We're almost at the Xuanyu Realm."

"Xuanyu Realm?"

Jian Changsheng was stunned. He recalled for a long time before he remembered what had happened before he fainted, and his expression became incredibly colorful.

His full-force attack had been so easily blocked by Chen Ling with one hand... It hadn't even caused any substantial damage to him, while he himself had fallen into a weakened state due to excessive consumption of murderous intent and was knocked unconscious by a wave of Chen Ling's hand in the black robe.

That mocking and violent face lingered in Jian Changsheng's mind like a terrifying shadow. The gap in strength between the two sides was simply too large. The absolute crushing power brought him an unprecedented sense of decadence and loss...

Jian Changsheng felt that his strength had improved very quickly, and he even confidently believed that he could definitely beat Chen Ling. But until he truly fought Chen Ling, he realized how naive he was.

Chen Ling was already standing on another level, like a ghost sparrow above the nine heavens, visible but unreachable.

"What kind of 'General Jian' bullshit..." Jian Changsheng sat on the centipede's back, his fists clenched silently, veins popping out on the back of his hands. "I was actually complacent before... I'm such a damn idiot! Away from the battlefield, I'm nothing."

Jian Changsheng's whole state was a bit low. Just as he was frantically belittling himself in his heart, a sound of smacking lips from sleeping came from the side.

Jian Changsheng turned his head to look, and in a fit of anger, he kicked Sun Bumian, who was sleeping on the centipede!

"Still sleeping!! We were beaten so badly we lost all face, and you can still sleep?!"

Sun Bumian was jolted awake by the kick.

His hair was a bit messy. After looking around blankly, he gritted his teeth and looked at Jian Changsheng:

"What are you going crazy for, Spade? I was knocked out, can't I sleep for a while?"

"You still know you were knocked out? The two of us joined forces and didn't even break Heart's armor! I at least hurt him a little, you didn't do any damage at all!"

"I... I'm not a Soldier Path, it's normal that I couldn't hit him, right?" Sun Bumian felt a bit guilty. "Besides... I wasn't serious, was I?"

"You even opened your domain, and you say you weren't serious?"

"Anyway, I didn't use 100% of my strength."

"Just tell me if it's embarrassing to be beaten and thrown out of the house!!"

“……”

Just as Jian Changsheng and Sun Bumian were attacking each other, Jiang Xiaohua on the side suddenly spoke: "Heart asked me to pass on two sentences to you."

The two's voices stopped abruptly, and they turned to look at Jiang Xiaohua at the same time.

Jiang Xiaohua first looked at Jian Changsheng, cleared his throat, and imitated Chen Ling's demeanor and tone, saying slowly:

"Spade, you're too weak, not even as good as that scorpion that brings you plates every day."

Jian Changsheng: ?????

Jian Changsheng had thought that the words Chen Ling left behind would be something like a farewell, or even a word of encouragement... But he never expected that Chen Ling would start with a top-tier mockery.

He was so provoked by this sentence that he jumped up from the centipede's back, his face flushed red. "He... he he he..."

"If you're only at this level, don't tell people you're from the Twilight Society's 6-series when you go out; it's really embarrassing." Jiang Xiaohua restored it word for word,

"Your murderous intent, besides scaring small calamities and bluffing onlookers, is okay. But when you really fight, you're clumsy and dull, and you don't know how to adapt at all... And that crappy sword of yours at the end, it's hilarious. You seriously charged up for so long, are you afraid people won't know you're about to use a big move? Do you want to shout the name of the skill again so everyone can applaud you?

Next time, if you're still at this level, don't come to me for a spar; it's a waste of my time."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Jian Changsheng's eyes were red, and he was waving his claws on the centipede's back, angry and ferocious, almost punching his own chest twice.

The original Jian Changsheng was still immersed in self-abasement and annoyance, but these few words from Chen Ling made him so angry that his lungs were about to explode. His extreme unwillingness and competitive spirit were aroused, and he was jumping up and down like he had been injected with chicken blood.

Didn't Chen Ling just crush him once?!

What's so great about that!!!

Jian Changsheng could even imagine the sarcasm and smile on Chen Ling's face when he said these things. The more this was the case, the more annoyed he was. He could accept looking down on himself, but he absolutely could not accept Chen Ling looking down on him!

"Damn it!! Heart, you just wait!!! Sooner or later, I'll beat you until you're looking for your teeth all over the floor!!"

Jian Changsheng waved his fist fiercely.

He made up his mind that no matter what, he would improve his strength. And that murderous intent that was called dull, and the Selfless Sword that was mocked so hard... He didn't believe he couldn't find a way to improve them.

When he returned to the battlefield of the Xuanyu Realm, he would use those calamities to practice.

Sun Bumian saw Jian Changsheng so angry and was grinning, but the next second, Jiang Xiaohua turned to look at him:

"Diamond..."

"Have you spent your whole life just eating?"

Sun Bumian: ?

Sun Bumian stared at Jiang Xiaohua for a long time...

"...That's it?" Sun Bumian asked tentatively.

"That's it." Jiang Xiaohua shrugged. "That's the only sentence Heart left for you... He seemed to say... he was worried that if he only scolded Spade and not you, Spade would feel unbalanced... so he scolded you symbolically... Oh, he also said, he can protect himself well, thank you for holding back."

Sun Bumian clicked his tongue.

Chen Ling, he sees things very clearly...

Chen Ling probably saw long ago that he had held back when fighting him... But from the beginning, Sun Bumian hadn't intended to use the power of reincarnation; that shouldn't be a means to deal with his own brothers. Aside from the power of reincarnation, Sun Bumian had indeed gone all out.

Among the three of them, Jian Changsheng's background was the simplest, and his foundation was the weakest. Only he had to rely on his own efforts to move forward step by step, so Chen Ling only left a激将法 (method of provocation) for Jian Changsheng. As for Sun Bumian... Chen Ling knew from the beginning that he didn't need him to do anything; he knew where he should go himself.

Sun Bumian had lived for thousands of years after all, and he directly saw through Chen Ling's intention. He looked leisurely at Jian Changsheng, who was still cursing angrily on the side, a faint smile curling at the corners of his mouth:

"This kid Heart... although he didn't follow us, he didn't miss a single bit of the worrying he should do."