Be Passive In The High Martial World

Chapter 43: The Emperor's Deception

Qing Cuo was taken aback by Chen Kuang's words and shook her head.

"If anyone should delay, it should be me. My cultivation is higher than yours, and you are weak and heavily injured. Going there would be suicide."

She was still so sincere, it made me want to cry...

Chen Kuang, who was called "weak," twitched the corner of his mouth.

From a factual standpoint, it was indeed true.

But...

"Your cultivation is indeed higher than mine, but only to a limited extent."

"If we were to compare ourselves to the elders of the Embracing Moon Realm, you and I are no different. We would both be walking to our deaths."

Chen Kuang knew that he had too many explanations to make about his passive situation, so it would be better to persuade her to leave from her perspective.

He glanced at Chu Wenruo and her daughter and smiled.

"And you came here to escort Lady and the princess, right? As long as you can bring them to a safe place, it wouldn't be in vain for you to have spent ten years undercover."

No, I came here for you.

Qing Cuo silently said in her heart.

Ever since Huo Hengxuan asked her to follow Chen Kuang, her blind loyalty had been entrusted to this musician who was recently a prisoner.

Therefore, if Chen Kuang insisted on going himself, she couldn't disobey his orders.

Persuasion was the job of a strategist.

And she was a loyal warrior who would give her all without regret.

No matter what her master wanted to do, she would only be loyal like a weapon.

She pledged her loyalty to Huo Hengxuan only because he promised to help her seek revenge.

She didn't care about the Liang Kingdom, only the bones by the Qu Chun River.

The name Qing Cuo was nothing more than a black sharpening stone, not even worthy of being called a weapon.

Now that her revenge was complete, Qing Cuo was still Qing Cuo. After ten years of hiding, she had taken Huo Hengxuan's knife and honed Liang Hongling's blade, but she still hadn't learned how to be a person.

If Chen Kuang were to die as well, she would find a place to end herself after completing this final task.

Knowing the danger of Chen Kuang's actions, Qing Cuo fell silent for a moment before nodding.

"Alright, I will bring them to a safe place."

"Then let's go, we must hurry."

Chen Kuang returned the well-preserved paper crane to her. "I've kept it for a while, but now it's back where it belongs. I'm not a delivery person, running so far to deliver something to you."

"You bury this paper crane by the Qu Chun River yourself."

Without any explanation, he stuffed the paper crane into Qing Cuo's hand.

What does he mean by delivery person?

Qing Cuo was puzzled. "But you clearly promised to do it."

Chen Kuang looked at her with a smile that wasn't a smile. "Think back, did I really promise?"

Qing Cuo racked her brain and recalled the scene at that time.

It seemed...

He really didn't promise?!

In an instant, Qing Cuo felt a bit annoyed and a little aggrieved.

The young girl stared at Chen Kuang with her restored clear black eyes, never expecting that this person would stoop so low.

He even had to lie to her about something like this!

But it was true that he didn't promise, so the young girl could only silently put away the paper crane and turned around to pick up Chu Wenruo and the sleeping princess.

Chen Kuang's expression was strange.

He remembered being carried like a princess by her before and was almost scared into thinking that this black-armored guard had some special fetish.

It turns out it was just a habit...

Chu Wenruo was plump and much taller than her, but she effortlessly carried her like a princess.

It looked strangely comical.

"Wait."

Chen Kuang coughed twice and said speechlessly, "Are you really planning to go out like this?"

At this moment, Qing Cuo was only wearing a chest wrap on her upper body. Her slender figure resembled that of a child, but her graceful waist revealed her identity as an adult woman.

Chen Kuang took off his own coat and let Qing Cuo wear it.

Fortunately, his body had automatically cleaned itself during the first phase of cultivation.

Otherwise, there would still be bloodstains on the clothes, which would be embarrassing to give to her.

Now, there were only a few holes in the white linen robe, which didn't affect its overall appearance.

Chen Kuang had only one thin undershirt left, so he simply tucked it into his waistband as a shirt, making it more convenient for movement.

He instructed, "We'll meet at the Wild Crossing. You can't break your promise this time."

Qing Cuo turned her head back, feeling resentful in her heart, and gave him a cold glance before saying lightly:

"It will only be you who breaks the appointment."

Chen Kuang smiled brightly, "Indeed, if you don't see me in three days, then you should leave immediately."

Qing Cuo glanced at him deeply and left the water pool.

Chen Kuang stretched lazily, his newly healed bones feeling like a rejuvenated machine, making a crackling sound as his joints moved.

Perhaps it was because the people from the Three Tribulations Sect had already arrived nearby.

He felt the spiritual energy in his body gradually surging and stimulating the healing medicine inside him, exerting its full effect.

His injuries had already healed ninety-nine percent, and there would be no hindrance to his actions.

The seven opened acupoints were rapidly filling up like a water pool being released.

This surprised Chen Kuang a little.

His gaze flickered, "This recovery speed... is a bit too fast."

"Perhaps this passive ability is triggered differently for each individual and can also stack?"

If that were true, the more people who came, the greater his chances of escaping.

As for the route, he had already thought of the most suitable one, but it was also a route with great risks.

The only reason for Qing Cuo to take Chu Wenruo and her daughter away was that they were too much of a hindrance.

Chen Kuang took a deep breath and muttered to himself,

"I really want to know what effect it would have if 'Flesh Reishi' and 'Indestructible Witness' were combined."

He waited quietly in place.

However, after a quarter of an hour, Chen Kuang felt a tingling sensation on his scalp, and a sudden sense of danger almost suffocated him, causing his whole body to tremble.

Then, he heard an extremely terrifying sound, like the intertwining of a storm and thunder.

"Boom!"

The entire cave was instantly overturned and exploded!

In front of Chen Kuang's eyes, there was a bright knife light that split the sky and a blurry figure suddenly appeared in the clear sky above.

Chen Kuang only felt a fleeting pain along his body's meridian lines before being crushed under the rocks.

The figure was high up in the sky, not even casting a glance down.

The figure seemed to be talking to someone else.

"I didn't expect that the one who killed the young master would be such a low-cultivation guy. Huo Hengxuan must have given him some powerful Law Treasure to let him succeed in the sneak attack."

Another voice came, annoyed, "You killed him? Without even asking for any clues? How are we going to explain this to the sect?"

"I killed him. He's just a worthless ant. Why waste words on him?"

"Huo Hengxuan is really cunning. I thought he would be dead by now, but he unexpectedly came back to life. We couldn't find the Elixir of Immortality, and the arrangement of the Eternal Lock was also destroyed."

"...Forget it, let's do it again."

"But without the suppression of the imperial city and the national fortune, I'm afraid... we'll have to find the Dragon Nails to suppress the dragon veins of Liang Kingdom."

It seemed that they still didn't know that the Elixir of Immortality was inside him.

In other words, so far, everyone who knew about this had already died...

It would take some time for the remaining people to figure it out.

"Heh..."

Chen Kuang grinned and couldn't help but let out a strange laugh.

They were too close...

The spiritual energy in his body was endless, like waves, terrifying even more than when he used the Divine Jade of the Mountain God.

The speed of his physical healing was even more inhuman.

In the instant when death had not yet arrived, vitality had already been restored, catching up and reassembling him.

He couldn't even kill a single cell!

The laughter echoed in the silent night sky, sounding somewhat eerie.

The two elders paused and looked at each other.

The one holding the knife had an extremely astonished expression, as if he had seen a ghost, "Wait, he's not dead?!"

"Boom!"

The other person raised his hand and lifted the stone, indeed seeing Chen Kuang, who not only hadn't died but also had not a single scratch on him.

Chen Kuang sat up calmly, patted his clothes, looked up at the sky, and suddenly smiled brightly,

"Hello, two elders."

"Unfortunately, I have to correct you on one thing. I am not some insignificant nobody, a worthless ant—"

"I wonder if you two have ever heard of the Void Imperfection Pure Land?"

He wanted to improvise and pull off a scam like the First Emperor.

(End of this chapter)