“Hand over the item!” The three shouted at Ye Chu, their imposing pressure bearing down. Each of their strengths was no less than that of an Emperor.
Ye Chu retreated two steps, gripping Tan Miaotong’s hand, his body tensing as he stared straight at the three. He spoke in a low voice beside Tan Miaotong’s ear, “In a moment I will hold them off. You run first!”
Tan Miaotong tightened her grip on Ye Chu’s hand. Her soft small hand held onto Ye Chu without letting go.
“The three of you want the item, naturally we can give it to you. But if we give it, will you let us leave?” Ye Chu looked at the three and said, patting Tan Miaotong’s arm to signal her to get behind him.
“Apologies. At this moment, you do not have the qualifications to negotiate terms with us. Hand over the item, and you must also come with us!” The three looked at Ye Chu with cold expressions, the corners of their mouths carrying a few degrees of coldness. Ye Chu was not taken seriously by them. Though they did not know how Bamboo Emperor had died at this brat’s hands, he was after all merely a King. A King, that was all. He could be easily exterminated.
Ye Chu took a deep breath and said nothing more. The aura on his body shook as he looked coldly at the three and said, “Since the three of you are pressing so hard, I can only fight desperately.”
“What qualifications do you have to fight desperately with us!” The other party laughed heartily, full of contempt and disdain. “Right now I shall have you die!”
Having spoken, the three’s auras surged out. The Emperor-level aura shot straight to the clouds, stirring the heavens, vast and boundless, pressing down upon Ye Chu. Ye Chu’s expression changed drastically, his body retreating frantically, wanting to avoid being crushed by the other party.
“It is useless. If the three of us Emperors cannot even handle a single King, we would have long since ended our own lives.” As one of them spoke, power surged out in vast quantities. The terrifying force was like a surging tsunami, rolling toward Ye Chu.
This force made Ye Chu’s heart tremble with fear. Power surged out from his body. He dared not dodge, because Tan Miaotong was right behind him. Ye Chu could only use his own power to resist the other party. But Ye Chu had no confidence whatsoever in facing this kind of power. This person was even a few degrees stronger than Bamboo Emperor.
Just as Ye Chu met this force, a figure descended from the sky, blocking in front of Ye Chu. The other party’s force struck before him, and at a distance of less than one centimetre, it completely vanished.
“A person of my Carefree Peak is not for you to bully!” A not very loud voice carried infinite majesty. “I am rather curious. The guts of you Blood Guards are growing bigger and bigger. You actually dare to run so close to Carefree Peak.”
A familiar voice rang beside Ye Chu’s ear. Ye Chu’s heart filled with great joy as he looked at the man before him, yawning, appearing as if he had not slept enough. He was none other than Ye Chu’s eldest martial brother, Shui Gu. Ye Chu had not expected that Shui Gu, who always only knew to stay in seclusion and never leave home, would actually appear at this time.
Shui Gu’s face was very handsome, but the drowsiness on his face greatly discounted that knife-sharp perfection. But seeing Shui Gu arrive, Ye Chu was completely relieved. Though Shui Gu only knew how to sleep, whether it was Ou Yi or Jin Wawa, when they ran into Shui Gu they would keep their distance, afraid that Shui Gu would make a move on them.
Shui Gu’s sleepy gaze fell upon Ye Chu, then immediately upon Tan Miaotong. In this instant, even Shui Gu felt a sense of stunning beauty. “The brat has no other abilities, and his strength is so weak I want to beat him to death. However, his skill at seducing women is master-level. Not bad, his eyesight is still very good, no worse than Bai Xuan’s.”
Shui Gu’s words made Tan Miaotong secretly glance at Ye Chu, her creamy white, delicate, beautiful face once again brushed with an intoxicating flush of red.
“Eldest martial brother, they want to kill me! Wuwu, this time going out, your junior martial brother, that is me, was pursued by people all the way, frequently beaten until coughing up blood, never having anyone to care for me. Poor me, this child with no father and no mother to love me, bullied by others with no one to stand up for me!” As Ye Chu spoke, he rubbed snot and tears onto Shui Gu’s body, as pitiful as could be.
Seeing Ye Chu’s appearance, Tan Miaotong secretly covered her small mouth and giggled.
“Enough, enough. Since you, brat, are still alive, it means you bullied others for the most part.” Shui Gu hurriedly retreated a few steps, afraid that Ye Chu’s snot would rub onto his body. He was very clear about Ye Chu’s character. This journey may have been hard, but he reckoned Ye Chu was not one to suffer losses. Since he was still alive, he had probably harmed quite a few people.
“Eldest martial brother, I am your cute, kind, delicate, obedient junior martial brother. Can you tolerate others bullying me like this? Look, these three people pursued me for ten thousand li. I fled for my life all the way, my feet are broken. Wuwu, even you will not stand up for me? Poor me, this child with no father and no mother to love me, wuwu…” Ye Chu continued to rub tears and snot as he tried to pounce on Shui Gu, growing more and more sorrowful, as if he had truly been abandoned by the entire world.
“Stop!” Shui Gu shuddered, feeling goosebumps rising all over his body. He yawned and looked at the three people besieging Ye Chu. “The Blood Guards have re-emerged in the Passion Domain? What is it for this time? To resurrect the Blood Slaughter Supreme, or something else?”
Shui Gu’s single sentence made the three Blood Guards’ expressions change. They stared at Shui Gu and shouted, “Who are you? How do you know the Blood Guards want to resurrect the Blood Slaughter Supreme?”
The three could not help but be shocked. That they wanted to resurrect the Blood Slaughter Supreme was known only to the Blood Guards themselves. Outsiders who knew were extremely few. But they had not expected the person before them to speak their secret as soon as he opened his mouth. Thinking of how the other party had casually blocked an Emperor-level strike just now, the three’s expressions turned grave.
“They want to take an item!” Ye Chu took the dragon-shaped metal from his back and tossed it into Shui Gu’s hands.
Shui Gu opened it, and upon seeing the blood-coloured dragon-shaped metal, his expression also changed slightly. He immediately put it away and tossed it back to Ye Chu.
And when the three Blood Guards saw this item, their expressions instantly turned feverish. Light flickered in their eyes as they stared straight at the item in Ye Chu’s hands.
“Hand over the item!” The three roared, their auras erupting.
Ye Chu paid no attention to the three. At this moment, Ye Chu no longer placed the three in his eyes at all. But he was surprised by Shui Gu’s slight change of expression just now. Shui Gu always only knew to sleep in seclusion. Things that could make his expression change were extremely few. Yet this dragon-shaped object had actually made him react so. This made Ye Chu wonder in his heart what exactly this thing was.
“Could this be a Supreme Vessel?” Ye Chu asked Shui Gu.
Shui Gu shook his head and said, “No!”
“Then what is it?” Ye Chu continued to ask.
Shui Gu did not answer Ye Chu. Instead, he turned his gaze to the three and said, “This item will be kept by my Carefree Peak. If any of you want it, come to Carefree Peak to retrieve it.”
The three looked at each other in bewilderment, their eyes full of confusion, not knowing what Carefree Peak represented.
“Oh, I forgot that your level is not yet sufficient to know what Carefree Peak represents. Very well, today I shall properly settle accounts with you.” Shui Gu yawned, swaying as he walked toward the three.