Chapter 464 - Sudden Return

“Can it still be restored?” Su Qi asked from behind, “Doesn’t his ability have a delay?Maybe, if we wait a while…”

Jiang Wang didn’t speak; he just shook his head.

Among the three from Seven Stars Valley who entered the Divine Shade Land, he and Qing Qishu were the most familiar.

The first person he met upon entering the Forest sea source realm was Qing Qishu.

This guy was careless and overly confident.

He looked down on this and that.

Yet he was also very naive.

Whatever Jiang Wang said, he would believe it, calling him Mr.

Zhang repeatedly, and even fully accepted the “getting along” method Jiang Wang had made up, cluelessly attempting it in front of Qinghua every day.

Dying in battle is a samurai’s honor, and Qing Qishu became the hero he wanted to be.

It’s not quite right to say it’s sad.

Jiang Wang just felt, regretful.

At least, he really wanted to see that guy “get along”.

The silence continued for a while.

Wu Quji suddenly asked, “Yan Xiao is dead, so why hasn’t the gateway to leave the realm opened?”

Jiang Wang quickly pulled himself together, stood up, with a serious expression.

He realized what the problem was.

As “Divine Envoys” summoned here, after they killed Yan Xiao, that Dragon God should have opened the gateway for them to leave the realm.

Of course, they shouldn’t be without a reward either.

But now, Yan Xiao was gone.

Yet that Dragon God showed no reaction.

He was sure that all the damage had been caused by them, “the ones who descended,” and that it would not trigger Yan Xiao’s resurrection condition.

Yan Xiao should be truly dead—if what that old Priest of the Holy Tribe said was true.

So, where is the gateway to leave the realm?

Or is it that they didn’t fulfill the Divine Will of the Dragon God?

Did the Dragon God want something other than Yan Xiao’s death?

Was there a miscommunication or omission in the process of Qinghua’s transmission and the Priest’s interpretation?

Or was it…

deliberate?

“Let’s leave this place first,” Jiang Wang said.

After all, standing here blankly wouldn’t accomplish anything.

They either need to find the reason or return to the Divine Shade Land to ask.

He walked over to Yan Xiao’s body, eyes on the two others: “I need Yan Xiao’s beak, if you two have any thoughts, we can discuss.”

He once jokingly asked Qing Qishu, how he would be killed.

Back then, Qing Qishu was so choked up he couldn’t speak.

Yan Xiao gave him the answer.

Yan Xiao’s beak could suppress Qing Qishu’s powerful recovery ability.

Wu Quji said directly, “Su Qi can choose second, I didn’t contribute as much as you two in killing Yan Xiao.”

In his words, the order of dividing Yan Xiao’s body had been set.

Su Qi then said, “I’m sorry for not telling the truth earlier, I actually come from Tianfu, my real name is Su Qiyun.”

Perhaps it was because her true identity was exposed, or perhaps the battle had built up trust.

She had no objection to the distribution and simply reintroduced herself.

Jiang Wang glanced at her, somewhat surprised.

Tianfu and Beam Top Building are of completely different levels of Sects.

The latter wasn’t even noteworthy, while the former could even compete with East King Valley.

Su Qiyun explained, “I just borrowed the identity of Beam Top Building to participate in the Secret Realm of the Seven Star Tower.”

Certainly, a Sect like Tianfu wouldn’t be affiliated with the territory of Qi Country, and the Seven Stars Secret Realm was open to people of Qi.

“It’s okay,” Jiang Wang said as he neatly cut off Yan Xiao’s beak with Longing, “You know, I’m not Zhang Linchuan either.”

Wu Quji was stunned for a moment.

So I’m the only one using my real name?

“Actually, I’ve known about you for a while,” Su Qiyun said as she bent down to cut off Yan Xiao’s right wing, “I’ll take the wing then.”

Of course, Jiang Wang knew his intelligence was no secret to Su Qiyun, and he casually said, “Am I that famous?”

“Little Fish…” Su Qiyun paused in her actions and continued, “Little Fish and Biqiong are good friends, and Biqiong mentioned you in a letter a while back.”

Perhaps it was because Yan Xiao had been killed that she was finally able to bring up the name “Little Fish”.

“Zhu Bijing?” Jiang Wang was surprised to hear a friend’s name mentioned so far from the Secret Realm of the Seven Star Tower in the Forest Sea Source Realm.

He was rather curious, “What did she say about me?”

He didn’t doubt its authenticity.

Firstly, Su Qiyun had no reason to lie about this; if she wanted to form a connection with him, she would have done so on the first day they met, not wait until now.

Secondly, Sea Tower and Tianfu could be considered sects of the same tier, and that little fish indeed had the potential to be friendly with Zhu Bijing.

“She said you’re a good person,” Su Qiyun said.

“That’s it?”

Su Qiyun got up to search for the other wing, “What else do you want?

That you know how to exploit her?

Making a disciple of a famous sect work herself to death in your rundown town, while you go off to enjoy yourself in Linzi?”

Jiang Wang touched his nose, feeling quite embarrassed.

This explanation also clarified why Su Qiyun was willing to trust him from the start.

It wasn’t just because she had gathered intelligence about him; it was also because of Zhu Bijing’s “guarantee.”

Wu Quji listened quietly for a while and didn’t interject in their conversation, just saying, “You two pick what’s leftover; I want all of it.

I need to return to the sect to study Yan Xiao’s corpse and figure out why it can’t die.”

Jiang Wang was surprised, “Your storage box has enough space?”

The larger the storage space, the more expensive the storage box.

A typical storage box has very limited space.

Usually, the box is divided into compartments where each can hold a few items, but not many.

It’s used to store things like clothes, bottles of medicine, Prime Stones, and the like.

A corpse the size of Yan Xiao’s wouldn’t fit inside.

The one Jiang Wang commonly used had only twenty compartments.

“We’ll just have to dismember it,” Wu Quji said nonchalantly.

“Oh,” Jiang Wang’s response was just as casual.

He was cutting off the beak, Su Qiyun the wings; they were effectively “dismembering” Yan Xiao.

Wu Quji would just need to do it a bit “more thoroughly.”

After he “took care” of Yan Xiao.

Jiang Wang picked up Qing Qishu’s body.

“Let’s go.”

He needed to return the body to Divine Shade Land for burial.

Leaping into the air, he felt a strange sensation when he flew out of the swallows’ nest.

He felt momentarily bewildered, then found himself in front of the wooden house.

The wooden house was the same as before, but under the eaves of that nest, there was no tailless swallow poking its head out any longer.

Jiang Wang turned and walked away; with Yan Xiao dead, he had no intention of investigating the wooden house.

The passage out of this realm was now his priority—he did not want to spend the rest of his life trapped here.

Su Qiyun and Wu Quji had no objections.

The Skull Hanging Forest was still gloomy, but with Yan Xiao dead and his body cleanly divided among them, the tension from their first arrival was gone.

“There won’t be any more heads hanging up here; the Skull Hanging Forest will soon become history,” Wu Quji couldn’t help but glance at Qing Qishu and lament.

Upon entering the Skull Hanging Forest, Qing Qishu had once said—”In the future, the one hanging from this tree might be me, or it might be my child.”

It was perhaps those words that made him determined and led him to sacrifice everything.

“Let’s hope so,” Jiang Wang said.

The rest of the way was silent.

As they were almost out of the Skull Hanging Forest, Jiang Wang stopped in his tracks and looked up at the sky, “It’s getting dark fast.

It should still be a while before nightfall, yet night has come early today.”

“The days have their long and short moments; this is normal,” Wu Quji commented.

“Let’s travel through the night,” Su Qiyun suggested.

“Yan Xiao is dead.

There’s nothing to fear in the night anymore.”

Jiang Wang turned around quickly.

“No, we go back!”

Wu Quji and Su Qiyun were perplexed, but since they had just established trust with him, they followed suit and turned around as well.

The wind howled.

The three of them had just rushed back into the forest towards the wooden house.

Jiang Wang had already taken out the Dragon Incense he had found on Qing Qishu and flicked his fingers to light it.

“What’s happening?” Wu Quji barely got the words out when

It suddenly went dark around them.

Night in the Forest Sea Source Realm fell all at once.

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