Proud Goddess Falls in Love with Me
Chapter 1417: 1376: People of the Penglai Immortal Domain

Chapter 1417: Chapter 1376: People of the Penglai Immortal Domain

“Rest… let’s take a break, I really can’t hold on much longer.”

Miao Conglu bit her lip tightly, her cheeks flushed, and sweat trickling down.

The wrist wielding the Mountain Splitting Saber had long since become swollen and sore, even raising it was difficult.

After all, without the Gu Insect drawing strength from Lu Chuan for support, Miao Conglu was just an ordinary person.

Facing this rugged mountain road stretching hundreds of miles, it was indeed too difficult for a delicate woman like her. Lu Chuan and Yun Ji exchanged a glance and tacitly agreed to stop.

Clearly, the distance to the Old Lands of Qingqiu was getting shorter, and along the way, Lu Chuan and the others even encountered a few martial artists planning to rob them, but were swiftly dealt with by Lu Chuan.

However, encountering other people at least proved their path had not deviated and that they were indeed heading towards the Old Lands of Qingqiu.

Since Miao Conglu couldn’t hold on, Lu Chuan couldn’t force her too much.

“Let’s rest for two hours. You can take a nap. Don’t worry, we wouldn’t stoop to such treachery as to kill someone without any ability to retaliate.”

“I know, I trust you.”

Miao Conglu’s chest heaved as she panted, wiping her fragrant sweat with a handkerchief, and leaned against a tree trunk to sit down.

The reason she could completely relax actually had nothing to do with Lu Chuan, but more with trusting her own judgment.

With Lu Chuan’s strength, if he wanted to kill her, he could do so anytime, why wait until now?

Besides, she really was exhausted.

This Lu Chuan completely lacked any consideration for a woman’s delicateness; after walking for nearly six hours without offering a shred of assistance, even when trouble arose, he merely watched coolly, only acting when their names were threatened.

As her thoughts churned, Miao Conglu felt both physically and mentally exhausted, and inevitably drifted off to sleep.

She didn’t know how much time passed, but suddenly heard a burst of cursing, and upon slowly opening her eyes, saw Lu Chuan holding Hokuzo Kuniyasutuna, effortlessly piercing through a person’s chest, and with a flick of his wrist, split the man in two!

Blood and meat sprayed into the air, causing Miao Conglu to gasp, instinctively wanting to retreat, pressing her body even more against the tree trunk.

Seemingly noticing the sound Miao Conglu made, Lu Chuan turned his head coldly, glanced over her, and said in a deep voice, “Hide.”

“Hide? None of you are getting away!”

In the distance, a man wearing a Penglai Immortal Domain-style robe sneered, forming a spell with his hand, a glow covered his shoulders, charging directly at Lu Chuan with great force!

Seeing this scene, Lu Chuan didn’t dodge, but prepared to take the hit with full strength!

Watching this, the masked man sneered.

“Clashing head-on with me, courting death!”

Boom!

A muffled sound spread out as a strong impact rippled like waves, sending the surrounding leaves and stones flying. Miao Conglu hurriedly raised her arms to shield her face, peering through her fingers, witnessing a scene that left her utterly shocked!

That masked man’s ferocious charge was actually dissolved by Lu Chuan with a single hand, and he even pierced through his forehead, instantly severing his vital signs!

Lu Chuan then withdrew his fingers, disdainfully wiped them on the masked man’s robe, and casually pushed him to the ground.

“Seeking your own death.”

To pit oneself against his physical body and strength, isn’t this courting death?

It must be known that the strength of Lu Chuan’s physical body now was absolutely on par with, if not beyond, Saint Realm martial artists. Such a body was comparable to a magic artifact; battling him head-on was truly courting death.

“Yun Ji, how is your side?”

“Already taken care of.”

Yun Ji walked gracefully to Lu Chuan’s side, and from her crimson lips, there seemed to still be a trace of blood.

Yun Ji then stretched out her pink tongue to lick off the blood from her mouth’s corner, and smiled, “It’s quite a nice blood food indeed.”

“However, it’s quite strange.”

Lu Chuan nodded slightly and, after putting away Hokuzo Kuniyasutuna, crouched down and began sifting through the masked man’s body.

From these outfits and methods, it wasn’t hard to ascertain they might belong to a Penglai Immortal Domain-affiliated force.

This made it very peculiar.

Isn’t Penglai Immortal Domain notoriously reclusive? Why have so many suddenly appeared in the secular world?

Furthermore, these people’s realms were all without exception in the Nascent Soul Realm. If not for Lu Chuan’s recent transformation, this battle wouldn’t have been so effortlessly won.

“Six, seven… eight people in total. Were only eight dispatched, or have only these eight reached near Southern Border?”

Lu Chuan frowned, attempting to find more details from the corpses but found only some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, nothing else.

“Anyway, the journey will need to be more cautious from here on.”

People from Penglai Immortal Domain are hard to deal with, especially due to the grudge between Lu Chuan and them. Once encountered, it will inevitably be a battle to the death.

In fact, Lu Chuan had a reason to believe this group specifically targeted him, intending to kill him.

Otherwise, when he met the masked man, why would he say: “It seems I’m the luckiest one; I’ll be taking this guy’s head!”

This sentence not only revealed their mission to be beheading him and bringing his head back to Penglai Immortal Domain, but also indirectly indicated there are more cultivators besides them.

This gave Lu Chuan quite a headache.

After all, this group of Penglai Immortal Domain cultivators never regarded people of the secular world as anything more than expendables, burning, looting, pillaging, doing whatever suits them.

Thinking to this point, Lu Chuan turned to Yun Ji and asked, “Did you find out anything?”

Yun Ji shook her head helplessly, saying, “They wouldn’t say anything. I tried to manipulate their consciousness, but it seemed they practiced a technique that protected their Divine Sense from being controlled. All my attempts failed.”

“No matter; I can roughly guess their objectives, the only concern is their numbers.”

I just hope Penglai Immortal Domain doesn’t send too many people, as these eight Nascent Soul cultivators alone could cause irreversible damage to the secular world.

“However, you slept quite soundly.”

Lu Chuan put away Hokuzo Kuniyasutuna and turned to look at Miao Conglu, smiling, “Even the sounds of such a big fight didn’t wake you up.”

“I… I was so tired. Who were they?”

“You don’t need to know, it’s irrelevant to you. If you’re feeling better, let’s set off; there’s no time to waste.”

Seeing Lu Chuan was unwilling to divulge more, Miao Conglu didn’t press the matter.

However, she kept a thought in mind, planting a Corpse Gu in a passing corpse as they resumed their journey to continue leading the way.