Chapter 281: Chapter 279: Unable to Rest in Peace

At the final moment, the Teleportation Array activated.

He had killed twelve people!

He had killed Nangong Jinjie!

No one could have imagined that Jiang Jichen could actually do it.

It was too shocking, too incredible!

Everyone stared with bloodshot eyes at Jiang Jichen, who was now enveloped in the light of the Teleportation Array.

They had been just a hair’s breadth away. Those ultimate treasures, those eight hundred million points, would have been theirs, but...

Hatred, fury, rage, unwillingness...

Their emotions swirled together. They had been on the verge of success, only to fail at the last second. But what could they possibly do to him now, bathed in the Light of Teleportation?

Furthermore, under the Light of Teleportation, the disintegration of Jiang Jichen’s body was halted; he was no longer collapsing.

In the distance, Blood Hand and Qing Xun stood together, their gazes complex as they watched Jiang Jichen.

"It seems we made the right choice. How could Jiang Jichen be so easy to kill?"

Blood Hand said coolly.

"But if we had joined the fight, perhaps the outcome would have been different. You must have seen that he deliberately bribed us to stay out of it. It’s obvious he was most wary of us,"

Qing Xun said with a sweet smile.

"Then why did you agree?"

Blood Hand asked impassively.

"He was risking his life to protect those two women. As a woman myself, I was moved. Would you believe that?"

Qing Xun said with a playful grin.

"If Qing Xun, the so-called Cold-blooded Fairy who slaughtered three thousand, can be moved, then I suppose anything in this world is believable,"

Blood Hand replied gravely.

"Haha... You know me best, Sister Blood Hand!" Qing Xun laughed lightly, a deeply hidden trace of wildness in her eyes.

"I’m called Blood Hand. Add anything else to it, and I’ll kill you without a moment’s hesitation." A Bloodthirsty glint flashed in Blood Hand’s eyes; she looked dangerous.

"Sigh. How boring..." Qing Xun let out a faint sigh.

...

In contrast to the relaxed demeanor of Blood Hand and Qing Xun, Ling Dong and the others wore expressions that were ugly to the extreme.

"Why did it turn out like this? Ah, I can’t accept this!"

Ling Dong’s hair was a mess and his eyes were bloodshot. He stared intently at Jiang Jichen healing within the Light of Teleportation, his heart filled with such unwillingness that he nearly went mad.

Jiang Jichen was clinging to a single, unyielding breath of life. It was a stroke of luck that the mysterious Light of Teleportation had descended in time to suppress his disintegrating body.

Otherwise, even after killing Nangong Jinjie, he would have undoubtedly perished by now.

Seizing the moment the mysterious Light of Teleportation halted his body’s collapse, Jiang Jichen frantically began refining the Mysterious Exotic Fruit, simultaneously stuffing Blood Qi Pills and Muscle Regeneration Pills into his mouth as if his life depended on it.

The surging power of the Exotic Fruit and the Blood Qi were finally refined and integrated into his mangled body, at last stopping his flesh from disintegrating further.

Now, even without the Light of Teleportation, Jiang Jichen wouldn’t fall apart for a good while.

If he hadn’t been a Body Refiner who had cultivated the Undying Scripture and the Source Character Qi Condensing Technique, consumed an Immortal Grass, and possessed a Seven-Colored Soul, he would have died countless times over with his body in such a ruined state. How could he possibly have clung to that final breath of life?

However, Jiang Jichen was still not safe; he could perish at any moment. If his focus were to waver for even an instant, he would likely turn to dust and vanish into the Void forever.

The giant cauldron on his back had already landed, and Hua Xiaoling and Yee Youmeng stepped out.

However, they didn’t dare disturb Jiang Jichen in the slightest. They simply watched quietly from the side, waiting for the Light of Teleportation to carry them away.

Hua Xiaoling’s eyes were bloodshot, and she was moved beyond words. Carrying Nangong Jinjie’s head, she suddenly recalled Jiang Jichen’s bold declaration to him: "I once said I would spare your life and let Hua Xiaoling kill you with her own hands one day, but... your words today have successfully enraged me. Therefore, I have decided to kill you right here in the Exquisite Treasure Tower. Of course, I will leave one person from your Nangong Family alive to carry your head back to the Nangong Family. Tell them to wait. It won’t be long before we pay them a personal visit and take their heads as well!"

Those words still echoed in her ears, making her heart pound with emotion.

Her gaze fell on the sole surviving Noble Family Descendant of the Nangong Family in the distance—Nangong Tao.

Nangong Tao was still trembling, his heart gripped by profound fear.

From start to finish, Jiang Jichen had several opportunities to kill him, but he never took them...

Jiang Jichen wanted to keep him alive. Otherwise, he would have long since followed the others to their deaths.

Thus, his heart was filled with incomparable terror. He had nearly broken down when he saw how ferociously Jiang Jichen had fought to kill the Young Master.

He had never seen such a savage person, nor had he ever faced such a terrifying enemy. For the rest of his life... he would likely be trapped in a nightmare.

Although Hua Xiaoling didn’t recognize Nangong Tao, how could she miss the Nangong Family insignia on his clothes?

She tossed Nangong Jinjie’s head over to him as if it were a ball and said, "Take Nangong Jinjie’s head back. Tell the Nangong Family that one day, I, Hua Xiaoling, will come for them. Tell them to wash their necks and wait!"

Only at this moment did the people present recall what Jiang Jichen had said.

Back then, they had thought Jiang Jichen’s words were empty boasts, that he was incredibly ignorant to think he could take on a super-class Noble Family all by himself.

They thought he was delusional, an ant trying to topple the heavens!

But... Jiang Jichen had done exactly as he’d said.

His words had seemed arrogant and unrealistic, but had he ever failed to deliver on them?

As they thought about it, a chill ran down the spines of the various Noble Family and Sect disciples present.

"You... Jiang Jichen! You dared to kill my Nangong Family’s Young Master! For this grievance, the Nangong Family will repay you a hundred, a thousand times over! When the time comes, a single Spirit Infant Realm elder from my Nangong Family could slaughter you all like cutting vegetables! Just you wait!"

"Ah, Young Master, your death was so tragic! Rest assured, I, Nangong Tao, will make it back alive and take you with me. I’ll have the clan elders avenge you! May your spirit in the heavens rest in peace!"

Nangong Tao first shouted a volley of threats, then clutched Nangong Jinjie’s head and began to wail.

He tried to close Nangong Jinjie’s wide-open eyes, but they remained fixed in a dead stare, refusing to shut no matter what he did.

This was truly the image of one who could not rest in peace.

"VMMMM!"

Just then, the Void trembled. The teleportation began, and the figures of the crowd slowly faded within the Light of Teleportation until they vanished completely.

The remaining thirteen people were all transported to... the Sixth Layer of the Exquisite Treasure Tower!

When Jiang Jichen emerged from the Light of Teleportation, his body trembled, and blood oozed from all over him.

Without the mysterious Light of Teleportation to suppress it, his body nearly began to disintegrate again.

He couldn’t move an inch. He could only sit still and enter the deepest state of meditative healing.

Because Hua Xiaoling, Yee Youmeng, and Jiang Jichen had been in the same beam of light, they weren’t separated and arrived together.

They only relaxed after seeing Jiang Jichen’s condition stabilize.

Only then did they begin to survey their surroundings on the Sixth Layer of the Exquisite Treasure Tower.

They saw before them a world of... floating Meteorites!

The floating Meteorites were scattered like stars, layered one upon another in a chaotic formation, drifting through a vast, empty expanse.

Beneath their feet was... a small, irregular Meteorite, only about a dozen square meters in size.

It was floating, moving forward as if pulled by some mysterious, attractive force...