The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 868 Those who intrude into Death Valley shall die!
Which way should we go?

Lin Chen thought for a moment and said, "Since we're already in Donghuang Prefecture, why don't we go find your sister together?"

Gu Yuexi's eyes lit up immediately, and she excitedly agreed, "Great!"

Lin Chen laughed and said, "Penglai is at the easternmost part of Donghuang Prefecture, so let's head east. Anyway, we're completely in the dark and don't know where we are in Death Valley. Let's see how we fare."

Gu Yuexi said with a wry smile, "Don't go the wrong way and end up in the center of Death Valley..."

"This is the East."

Lin Chen looked at the sun in the sky, pointed ahead, and then pointed behind: "The direction the giant eagle carried the rhinoceros. When animals finish hunting, they carry their prey back to their nests. That giant eagle is so powerful, I think its nest should be in the direction of the center. So we should head east, which is the opposite direction, which may be the direction away from the center."

Gu Yuexi's eyes lit up: "That makes sense, brother, you have such a keen eye!"

Lin Chen laughed and said, "It's just a guess out of necessity. Who knows if it's right or wrong?"

"Let's walk around and see. If it doesn't work, we'll turn around."

The two headed eastward for more than ten kilometers before a towering peak blocked their path.

The two flew stealthily along the foot of the mountain. When they were halfway there, Lin Chen suddenly seemed to sense something and looked up sharply.

On a prominent rock at the edge of a cliff atop the towering peak stood a woman in white, staring coldly at him.

The woman in white looked very young, only about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. She was beautiful and aloof, but she had a pair of almost eerie red eyes.

Lin Chen was startled. What was going on?

This is the Valley of Death!
How come we keep encountering human cultivators?
The middle-aged man from before, the woman in white now...

Just as Lin Chen and Gu Yuexi were filled with doubt and uncertainty, the woman in white suddenly moved. She leaped down like a meteorite and pounced directly on the two of them.

Without thinking, Lin Chen grabbed Gu Yuexi by the waist with one hand and took a step forward.

Shrunk into inches.

The two figures instantly appeared seven or eight hundred meters away, instantly widening the distance between them.

The woman in white looked surprised. Her figure flickered like a ghost as she quickly chased after Lin Chen. At the same time, her voice, as cold as ice, reached Lin Chen's ears.

"Shrinking the earth to an inch! What is your relationship with Jiang Rukong?"

Jiang Rukong?
Jiang family?

The family that Tang Li mentioned that was wiped out, the one that possessed the great secret technique of shrinking the distance to an inch, was the ancient Jiang family? Is Jiang Rukong the middle-aged man from earlier?

A flurry of thoughts flashed through Lin Chen's mind, but he had no intention of giving any answer; he simply ran away as fast as he could.

Dao patterns continuously emerged beneath Lin Chen's feet, his body moving like a flying shuttle, yet he could not shake off the woman in white. Moreover, she was rapidly closing in at an extremely high speed.

In the blink of an eye, she appeared behind Lin Chen. She raised her jade-like hand, her scarlet eyes gleaming coldly: "Those who trespass into Death Valley shall die!"

Just as she was about to strike with her palm, Lin Chen swiftly pulled out the Water-Fire Mirror.

As the incantation was completed, flames shone brightly in the fire mirror, and Lin Chen unleashed large amounts of fire essence as if it were free.

After the essence of fire was released, it floated in the air like clusters of fiery red mist, weightless, enveloping the woman in white. Its light and airy appearance made it seem as if a gust of wind could blow it away.

The woman in white unleashed a palm strike that seemed to tear space apart, creating a towering, mountain-like, and sharp palm print that pressed down on Lin Chen with astonishing power.

The palm print struck the large amount of fire essence that Lin Chen had scattered without any suspense, but a strange thing happened.

That incredibly powerful palm print shattered instantly!
It's like a race car speeding at 300 km/h suddenly crashing into a concrete bridge pier, and the car just falls apart.

The woman in white was like that race car; she spat out a mouthful of blood, her bloodshot eyes filled with terror.

"The essence of the five elements!"

The fire essence, like mist, enveloped the woman in white. She retreated in terror, but still couldn't dodge in time and was touched by some of the fire essence.

It was just a light touch, but it felt as if a towering mountain had crushed the woman in white; her arms, which were protecting her chest, were instantly severed.

The woman in white coughed up blood as she retreated, finally managing to escape the range of the fire essence.

Looking at his severed arms, and then at the front of him, he saw no sign of Lin Chen and the other person; they had already vanished during the escape.

The woman in white let out a deafening roar, then leaped into the air, abandoning the chase and heading towards the mountain peak that had appeared earlier.

Lin Chen ran frantically for over a hundred kilometers. Seeing that no one was chasing him anymore, he breathed a sigh of relief, stopped, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Luckily, we collected a lot of water and fire essence, otherwise we would have been finished just now."

Gu Yuexi said with lingering fear, "The power of this fire essence is too great! Such a powerful attack shattered upon encountering the fire essence. That woman was so strong, yet you almost killed her with that one strike..."

(End of this chapter)