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Chapter 312 - 289: Jumping Off the Cliff

Chapter 312: Chapter 289: Jumping Off the Cliff

While Li Chen was distracted by Lin Yi, he didn’t notice the sneak attack from behind and was struck hard by a palm!

Li Chen stumbled forward, sending his attacker flying, only to see Li Zheng watching him coldly from the pavilion with a sneer.

"Li Chen, you might as well surrender now, or else, these two." The implication in Li Zheng’s words was clear.

"Brother-in-law, don’t worry about us," Lin Xiaoxiao shouted anxiously. Li Zheng’s tactic was despicable indeed, using the two of them to pressure Li Chen.

Li Chen felt like he was going insane. With a slap of his left palm, a surge of power shattered the attacker’s meridians. He then turned his eyes towards Li Zheng.

"Li Zheng, you want to kill me? Come at me, what kind of skill is it to target them?" Li Chen roared, his eyes burning with fury.

"Because they are your weak points," Li Zheng said coldly, while his subordinates grabbed Lin Yi and Lin Xiaoxiao, pointing swords at them as if ready to kill at any moment.

Li Chen, seeing Lin Yi and Lin Xiaoxiao captured, was filled with rage. Just then, a longsword thrust at him; he couldn’t dodge in time, and the blade sliced open the back of his clothes, drawing blood.

After kicking the attacker away, An Dao and others, seeing this, charged relentlessly. They didn’t care for Morris, only wanting Li Chen dead for the money.

For a moment, Li Chen, who was about to explode, was forcefully restrained by Li Zheng’s move, only able to take hits passively.

After last time, Li Zheng knew very well that though Li Chen’s outbursts were terrifying, they wouldn’t last long; as long as he could hold out until the peak passed, he could kill him!

Li Chen, with Lin Xiaoxiao and others in his hands, couldn’t concentrate fully. Moreover, every time he tried to kill, Li Zheng would verbally interfere, keeping him at a disadvantage.

Lin Yi, witnessing this, felt unspeakable heartache but was powerless to change anything.

As time ticked by, Li Chen became increasingly wounded, no longer retaining his former combat power.

Li Zheng’s tactic was exceedingly vile, and Lin Xiaoxiao, unable to bear it, said, "Uncle Li, I actually used to think of you as a hero. I didn’t expect you to be nothing more than a lowly villain!"

"A lowly villain?" Li Zheng laughed loudly, "I only care about the victor and the defeated. Today if I win, I am the king!"

A chill in Lin Yi’s heart, she coldly said to Li Zheng, "Uncle Li, although I am saddened by Xinshan’s death, nothing can bring Xinshan back. Why not step back? Our families have been allies for generations, and we are willing to offer compensation."

"Compensation? What use is your compensation to me, can it bring Xinshan back to life?" Li Zheng suddenly exploded in rage, "If it weren’t for you, why would Xinshan have died! Today, no matter what, Li Chen must die!"

Seeing the frenzied state of Li Zheng, Lin Yi realized that he was beyond reasoning. But continuing like this was no solution. If Li Zheng kept using herself and Xiaoxiao, Li Chen would eventually be defeated, and the only outcome for Li Chen was undoubtedly death.

Thinking this, Lin Yi sadly closed her eyes, regretting that she became the breakthrough point for Li Chen’s situation. Without her, how could Li Chen have ended up in such a predicament?

Li Chen, nearly mad, kept taking hits and then erupted again, roaring like the God of Slaughter, intimidating An Dao and others such that they dared not approach further.

Seeing this, Li Zheng simply sneered, directing his men to seize Lin Xiaoxiao and Lin Yi, holding them up in mid-air.

"Let me go!" Lin Xiaoxiao struggled, but it was in vain. She and Lin Yi were tightly held by Li Zheng’s men, ready to drop them at any moment.

"Li Chen!"

Li Zheng roared at Li Chen, who was in mid-combat. Li Chen turned sharply, catching sight of this scene and momentarily hesitating.

"Lin Yi, Xiaoxiao!"

Li Chen shouted, but An Dao and others took this moment to attack, adding several new injuries to Li Chen.

Surrounding tourists, witnessing this, couldn’t help but feel indignant, but they were merely tourists and couldn’t intervene in the ordeal, while tourists recording the scene felt distressed, seeing how insidious Li Zheng was.

Lin Xiaoxiao struggled, to no avail. Lin Yi, seeing Li Chen’s anger, felt somewhat desperate.

If only she hadn’t been a burden to Li Chen, would he not have been safe?

Li Zheng, watching Li Chen constantly get hit and letting out cold laughs, you think you are so capable, keep fighting then, when I hold your weakness in my hands, let’s see how you jump around.

The injuries on Li Chen accumulated, and he also couldn’t effectively counterattack. Whenever Li Chen gathered momentum, Li Zheng would interrupt him, preventing him from focusing.

Lin Yi, seeing this, finally made up her mind and said to Lin Xiaoxiao, "Xiaoxiao, from now on, you must take care of yourself."

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Lin Yi, seeing the despair in her eyes and couldn’t help feeling alarmed, "Sister, what are you going to do?"

With that, Lin Yi showed Lin Xiaoxiao through her actions—she suddenly bit the hand of the person holding her and then with a struggle, she broke free and plunged towards the cliff below!

"Sister!"

Lin Xiaoxiao was terrified and hurriedly reached out to grab Lin Yi, but in doing so, Lin Xiaoxiao was also pulled down the cliff by Lin Yi, and the two of them fell toward the bottom together!

"Ah!"

Lin Xiaoxiao screamed aloud while Li Chen happened to witness this scene!

"Lin Yi, Xiaoxiao!"

Li Chen’s eyes suddenly filled with blood!

Rushing toward the spot where Lin Yi and Lin Xiaoxiao were falling, Li Chen charged over, and An Dao and others who originally wanted to intercept him couldn’t get close at all. The terrifying aura surrounding Li Chen was suffocating, and his surging power seemed to easily crush anyone.

With his fists thrown out, those black-clothed men who had taken drugs hadn’t even approached before they were directly killed by Li Chen’s blows to the head, unable to block him. Then, Li Chen leaped down the cliff!

This whole scene happened extremely fast. Li Zheng had a grim face, and the tourists hiding around were dumbfounded.

The tourists recording videos hadn’t even reacted. He just, just jumped down like that? Was he disregarding his own life?

After Li Chen jumped down, the top of the mountain was in chaos, with dozens of corpses lying around, and everything calmed down. An Dao, Carefree Young Master, and others were in a sorry state. If they continued to fight, they would lose.

The subordinates reported to Li Zheng. The outcome was unexpected. Lin Xiaoxiao and Lin Yi had jumped off the cliff, and Li Chen had also jumped down after them.

Li Zheng’s face looked grim. He looked down at the cliff but couldn’t see anything. It was known that Duan Ya Mountain was as high as five thousand meters. Some areas hadn’t even been explored by the park staff, and even if they were willing to jump down, finding the three of them again was not guaranteed.

Moreover, jumping down like that, the probability of dying from the fall was over 99%, with very little chance of survival.

"Patriarch, what should we do?" his subordinates asked for instructions, and Li Zheng, with an unsettled expression, frankly, this was not the outcome he wanted. He merely wanted to kill Li Chen, but he wouldn’t harm Lin Yi and Lin Xiaoxiao because the Lin Family could still be useful. With such a large influence in Yanjing, the Li Family would benefit from the Lin Family’s support.

But what he never expected was that Lin Yi was too bold and resolute. To avoid implicating Li Chen, he actually jumped down!

It could be said that Li Zheng directly caused Lin Yi’s death, and once this news reached Lin Shu, it would definitely lead to a breakup. This would create an enemy out of thin air!

"Send someone to look for them," Li Zheng finally said.

Receiving the order, the subordinates began the search, but Li Zheng held little hope for finding them.

Some experts carefully climbed down the cliff to search, but they couldn’t go too far; otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to come back up.

One person scanned the area below and shouted with great joy, "Patriarch, the Lin Family’s daughter isn’t dead!"

Upon hearing this, Li Zhen eagerly leaned out to look down and saw not far below in a lush grove of trees, a woman was lying unconscious. It was Lin Yi, who had jumped off the cliff earlier!

"Bring her up!"

Li Zheng ordered, and his subordinates went down and carried Lin Yi back up. For the experts, this wasn’t too difficult. Meanwhile, the surrounding tourists, noticing that Li Zheng and his people weren’t paying attention to them, quickly scrambled down the mountain. What had happened today completely overturned their understanding of things. It turns out that in Huaxia, there were such powerful people and hidden families.

Often, our ignorance of something is simply because we have not reached that level.

After Lin Yi was brought up, Li Zheng let people continue the search for a while, but they found nothing. Li Chen and Lin Xiaoxiao were nowhere to be found.

This could only mean that Li Chen and Lin Xiaoxiao had fallen off the cliff, while Lin Yi, who was lucky, got caught on a tree.

"Patriarch, we’ve searched three times, and found nothing else," they reported.

"Patriarch, that man must have died from the fall. No one could survive such a height," they added.

Li Zheng did not speak. Duan Ya Mountain was too steep and deep, making the search exceedingly difficult.

Li Zheng eventually had to give up. Falling from such a height, even a master stood no chance of survival. Li Chen was definitely dead.

"Let’s go," Li Zheng said indifferently. Although the expedition had lost soldiers and officers, the good news was that they had managed to kill Li Chen in the end.

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