The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 971 What exactly are they protecting?
Zhu Yao was eager to try: "Should we go and take a look?"

Long Yan'er frowned and said, "The direction they're chasing is the direction of Death Valley."

Ji You turned to look at Lin Chen: "Lin Chen, tell me, should we go after him or not?"

Lin Chen hesitated for a moment, then decisively said, "I won't pursue them."

Zhu Yao muttered to himself, "Such a rare opportunity, we might miss it forever."

Lin Chen explained with a wry smile, "If even more than ten Void Realm experts can't catch up, then it's useless for us to follow them. Moreover, if we go deeper into Death Valley, we will encounter unpredictable dangers."

"If they catch up, they will definitely fight again, but judging from the pace just now, although they are strong when they join forces, they can't stop Jiang Rukong."

"We're just here to watch the show, so let's not risk our lives for it."

Long Yan'er agreed, "I support it. Let's wait. I think that regardless of whether we can catch up with Jiang Rukong this time, the next step will probably be a large-scale attack on Death Valley. It's safer to follow the main force."

Zhu Yao turned around helplessly: "Alright, let's go back and have some tea and keep waiting."

The group waited for a whole day.

"They're back!"

Lin Chen and the others quickly took off and looked towards Death Valley. Sure enough, they saw about a dozen figures rapidly approaching them.

Lin Chen stared intently, his expression immediately darkening.

"problem occurs."

Zhu Yao blinked: "What's wrong? You can't even see the person clearly yet?"

Lin Chen said in a deep voice, "The number of people is too small."

Everyone's expression changed; they all understood what this meant.

Soon, the person drew closer.

The expressions on everyone's faces grew increasingly serious.

Nine people!
There were more than a dozen when they left, but only a few have returned. Several of them are covered in blood, and one of them is missing an arm. They look very pitiful.

The entire cultivator camp erupted into a cacophony of noise, like boiling water.

"go!"

People in the camp quickly came to their aid and helped the injured person up.

"What happened? Where are the others?"

An old man spoke in a deep voice: "Jiang Rukong ran very fast, and we chased after him closely. He led us around, and before we knew it, we had entered the core area. Then we encountered a middle-aged man with a bare upper body..." The old man's eyes showed a look of horror: "He was wielding a black battle sword and attacked us. We joined forces with him, but we were still no match for him. He defeated us one by one and killed two of us. When we saw that we could not resist, we began to flee. He chased us for a while and killed two more of us."

"If he hadn't suddenly stopped chasing us, and we had continued chasing him all the way, I estimate that many more of us would have died."

The onlookers were all horrified.

These dozen or so powerful figures who chased after them might not be at the Great Perfection of the Void Realm, but even with a dozen or so Void Realm experts working together, they couldn't stop the opponent from having just one person with a sword.

Four of the Void Realm Masters were easily killed like chickens?

Being chased like a stray dog?
"Where are your magic weapons? Aren't they enough to stop him?"

The old man said with lingering fear, "Our magic weapons couldn't stop his black battle blade. With one slash, no matter what kind of magic weapon it was, it would be cleanly and neatly shattered into pieces."

Everyone gasped again. Which of these people's magical treasures wasn't incredibly powerful?
It was actually cleaved in two with a single blow?

What kind of knife is this? It's so powerful!
Or, to put it another way, what level of strength does this person need to achieve to create such an overwhelming dominance?
Above the Void Realm is the Tribulation Transcending stage. Isn't the Tribulation Transcending stage only valid for three months? Can cultivators not remain in the Tribulation Transcending state for an extended period?

"Could they be immortals?"

No one knows the answer.

Lin Chen's mood turned serious upon hearing this.

Death Valley truly lives up to its reputation as a forbidden zone; more than a dozen powerful figures went in and were almost all wiped out.

But the other party was just one person!

A shirtless man wielding a black battle sword...

The last time I saw her was a woman dressed in white, which means there might be more than one guardian in Death Valley!
What exactly are they protecting?

Jiang Rukong has been loitering around here for years, yet he hasn't been killed by them. Is it because he's fast, or because he has a deep connection with them?

Or perhaps Jiang Rukong was originally meant to be a guardian of the Death Valley, like the woman in white or the man with the black knife?
Lin Chen's eyes lit up, and he suddenly felt that it was very likely.

Whether it's the woman in white or the naked man, they have clearly been in Death Valley for quite some time. Perhaps they, like Jiang Rukong, are people from ten thousand years ago?
Lin Chen asked, "Does anyone know that man?"

Lin Chen's sudden interruption startled everyone, who then all shook their heads.

"do not know."

"First time meeting."

Lin Chen shook his head and explained, "I know you haven't seen him, but someone as powerful as him couldn't be an unknown figure. What I mean is, he might be a famous expert from ten thousand years ago, like Jiang Rukong..."

(End of this chapter)