The Emperor of the Three Realms

chapter 89

Jiang Chen kicked the bones aside and took out a precious bow as well as a place of arrows.    

“And I was thinking of how to find a precious bow for Xue Tong. This Xue Sha is the man who brought the gift.” Jiang Chen was someone who could distinguish good from bad. He knew that this bow was unusual.    

After finishing off Xue Sha, Jiang Chen did not linger and walked out.    

At the same time, he communicated with the Sword Bird Division in beast language, having them search for Fatty Xuan and Hubing Yue from the first to third level.    

Other than the Golden Winged Sword Bird, which was barely able to comprehend Jiang Chen's words, the other Winged Sword Bird was only reachable through the orders of the Golden Winged Sword Bird.    

Jiang Chen did not sit idly by, he also started searching at every corner.    

“Xuan Fat, nothing better has happened to you.” Jiang Chen knew that Fatty Xuan and his friends were actually suffering from improper misfortune. If not for someone else wanting to take action against him, they would never have targeted Fatty Xuan and the others.    

There were still five or six days left until the time allotted for the mission ended. Jiang Chen was in no hurry to leave.    

The number of heirs remaining in the Boundless Catacombs in the past few days had been significantly reduced. In addition, traces of battle can be seen throughout the Catacombs. We can also see that the trial this time was very bloody and the fight between the various heirs took place quite seriously.    

“This is a Long family sin. These heirs are most likely all suffering from improper disasters.” Jiang Chen let out a light breath.    

The traces of the brothers manipulating the contest this time were very clearly visible. Looking at the corpses, some of them were close to the Long family, while some others were not close to the Long family.    

There must be a struggle and a dispute between the two camps.    

It seemed like the loss rate during the competition this time would exceed at least thirty percent.    

For the kingdom, this represents a higher level of loss. We should know that the level of losses in the previous exams and trials will not exceed ten percent.    

An amount over ten percent would be considered a huge loss.    

“Internal friction, is this likely a bad result due to internal friction? The Duke of Soaring Dragon used this method to build up his strength. Even if he replaced the royal family and controlled the entire kingdom, the vitality of the kingdom would be greatly weakened. Moreover, how would these dukes voluntarily submit to him?”    

Jiang Chen shook his head. In the end, he was actually completely uninterested in the power struggles of the ordinary nobles and nobles. However, the flow of the bigger picture had led him to stand on the opposite side to the Duke of Soaring Dragon.    

The fact that the Duke of Soaring Dragon had hired assassins this time also made Jiang Chen furious.    

“Duke of Soaring Dragon, I, Jiang Chen, will one day make your Long family clan disappear from the Eastern Kingdom region!”    

Jiang Chen was really angry this time.    

He made no progress on the first day. He did not find Fatty Xuan or find Hubing Yue!    

In these circumstances, no news is the best news.    

Not finding them meant they might still be alive!    

The next day, the remaining heirs in the Boundless Catacombs had basically resigned. Jiang Chen still had not found any clues.    

“Could they not be dead and already gone?”    

Jiang Chen was not willing to give up. He decided to look for another day. If he still did not find anything on the third day, then he would leave the Boundless Catacombs.    

There are still two or three days left, there is still enough time to return!    

On the third day the Goldwing Swordbird found a trace of clues. There was a breath of people living in one of the random swamps in the second level.    

Jiang Chen immediately rushed over and discovered that there were indeed people living in the swamp. Most of his body had been sucked into the swamp, but this fellow gripped the branch tightly, unable to climb or retreat. He was in a coma, but his hands were still wrapped around branches in the grasp of death.    

“Xuan Fat?” Jiang Chen was stunned when he saw this person's face clearly.    

He hurriedly ordered the Goldwing Swordbirds to save him.    

Fatty Xuan was quickly dragged to safety, he was extremely weak and weak. Jiang Chen gave him a medicinal pill and massaged him for a while.    

Fatty Xuan woke up casually, his lips turning white. “Brother Chen, is... am I not dead yet?”    

“Silence fat, I really thought you were dead. Have you seen Xiaoyue?” Jiang Chen asked.    

“No... I haven't seen it. I was so unlucky. I sank into this swamp on the third day of entering this place. I screamed day and night, but no one heard me!” Fatty Xuan complained.    

This swampy patch was extremely isolated, it was quite impressive that Fatty Xuan had made it to this abandoned place.    

Jiang Chen also secretly rejoiced, it was fortunate that you drowned into this swamp. Otherwise, your path will be full of bleak possibilities.    

“Ai. Brother Chen, this time I fell. I have not collected a single green spirit pearl. Damn it, even this swamp oppresses fat people? I'm just a little heavier. My qinggong is not too bad, why am I drowning?” Fatty Xuan was reproaching himself.    

Jiang Chen fell silent and he glanced at Fatty Xuan. She smiled, “You don't fully use your bare hands. Look at your body fat, most of it is gone.”    

Fatty Xuan was flabbergasted and lowered his head. His original tight-fitting clothes of fluttering leather, were like stolen clothes.    

The waist thicker than the bucket was almost equivalent to an ordinary person.    

After almost a month of not eating or drinking, if not for the fat in his body, he might have long since starved to death.    

“Brother Chen, I... I managed to diet?” Fatty Xuan leaped as his eyes twinkled. “Haha, am I really successful dieting? It means when I take a chick in the future, none of them will complain because I lean so much on her that she can't breathe?”    

Jiang Chen was completely silent. Fatty was not only in a good mood. He only used one sentence to talk about failure in the exam, and in fact, he started thinking about picking up the chicks.    

It was fortunate that Jiang Chen had collected quite a number of green spirit pearls from the bodies of the heirs who died on the way home.    

Even after summing up the amount required by his mission and the Fatty Xuan mission, there was still more than enough left.    

“Fat, we're brothers, so don't ask about this. The more you know, the worse your fate.” Jiang Chen knew that Fatty Xuan was destined to have no particular martial dao achievement in his life. Better he doesn't know this.    

“Alright, no matter what happens, you are still Brother Chen whom I admire the most.” Fatty Xuan did not ask further. “Brother, how many days is it?”    

“27 or 28 days?”    

“Is it 27 or 28 days?” Fatty Xuan was depressed. “If it is 27 days, then the army is still outside the mountain valley. If it's 28 days, then the army will leave and we should go back alone. If we do not have a fast horse, how can we arrive on time?”    

“Don't worry about this, I'm currently worrying about Xiaoyue.” Jiang Chen sighed.    

“Xiaoyue is eight meridians true qi. What could possibly happen to him?” Fatty Xuan asked haphazardly.    

Jiang Chen spread out his hands but did not say anything.    

If Hubing Yue died, whatever the reason, Jiang Chen would definitely make the Long family pay the price, a price that was hundreds and thousands of times more expensive than his death!    

After resting another night, around sixty to seventy percent of Fatty Xuan's injuries had recovered. After the two of them had walked around in the Boundless Catacombs for several hours, they finally came out of the Catacombs!    

Blue sky and bright sun outside, the trees provide pleasant shade.    

Fatty Xuan tilted his head to the sky and took a breath, shouting loudly. “Is anyone alive? It feels good to be alive! The air of the outside world is so good to breathe!”    

Walking out of the mountain valley and up to where the army had originally camped, it was a chaotic scene. Everyone's been gone a long time.    

“After all, we're really late?” Fatty Xuan was somewhat embarrassed. “Brother Chen, it looks like I have dragged you down again.”    

“Stop your nonsense.” Jiang Chen looked around. “Seeing from this trail, they should have just departed a day ago. This means we have two days to return.”    

“Then what are you waiting for, let's leave immediately!” Fatty Xuan said hurriedly.    

“Do not rush.” Jiang Chen smiled faintly and muttered a few words in the beast language. The Ten Golden Winged Sword Birds immediately left the bushes and flew away.    

“I want to return to the capital and need to borrow your wings.” Jiang Chen instructed.    

He arranged the six Golden Winged Sword Birds to take turns carrying the two of them. The other four were in charge of leading the Swordbird army.    

Jiang Chen would naturally not bring the Swordbird army to the capital. He placed them deep in the mountains a few kilometers from the outskirts of the capital.    

A distance of several kilometers was a five-minute job with Swordbird speed.    

With this flying army, Jiang Chen felt even calmer in his heart.    

In the capital, a huge uproar has also been going on lately.    

The loss rate on the trial this time had reached thirty percent. Of the hundred heirs, only seventy to eighty appeared.    

And of these seventy to eighty people, nearly half were injured.    

Rumors about the heir of Soaring Dragon manipulating the competition spread throughout the capital, shocking the entire Eastern Kingdom!    

If it was said that the conflict between the Duke of Soaring Dragon and the royal family had been conducted in secret before, then manipulating the competition was almost a public provocation against the royal authority.    

Although there was no rule in the Hidden Dragon Trials that mentioned the manipulation of the competition, the movements of the Soaring Dragon heirs, namely “those who followed me up and those who opposed me died”, was a blatant pressure of coercion. other dukes under their banner.    

It forms a group to pursue their own selfish interests!    

A duke begins to form his gang in public. This was the beginning of the rebellion!    

Of course, this was just one of the public opinion in the capital.    

There are other rumors that contradict this version. It was said that Jiang Chen from the rank of a duke Jiang Han was the one who manipulated the competition.    

This saying made Jiang Chen a behind-the-scenes person who manipulated the competition. The reason for the internal strife within the heirs was pushed to Jiang Chen.    

Moreover, this rumor also mentioned extremely sensitive intelligence, that Jiang Chen had attempted to ambush the Long brothers and snatch the first duke rank from the Soaring Dragon Duke!    

Both versions represent two competing powers in the capital!    

Although the first version was clearly more persuasive and close to the truth, yet of the 108 dukes in the capital, over half had secretly acknowledged the power of Soaring Dragon by now.    

Therefore, although this version was closer to the truth, it was slowly suppressed.    

As for the second version, due to the disappearance of the person in question, Jiang Chen, became even bigger. It also shows that, to a certain degree, his scale slowly leads to Duke Long in the conflict between the royal family and Soaring Dragon.    

Although Jiang Feng was able to stabilize the internal situation of the Jiang Han household, he was powerless to stop the rumors in the outside world with his influence.    

After all, Jiang Feng's foundation was shallow. He did not possess a tenth of the power of the Duke of Soaring Dragon in the capital.    

Another way to say that after the royal family was withdrawn as supporters, Jiang Feng would become completely isolated without the support of the masses. The entire Jiang Han household was like the only canoe in the wild sea, facing the violent impact of the Duke of Soaring Dragon and his accomplices alone.    

The situation in the capital is becoming more and more complicated.    

Within the Soaring Dragon family, Long Zhaofeng was full of high spirits. The thorn by his side, Jiang Chen, had finally been removed. Although the Long brothers were unable to see Jiang Chen's death with their own eyes before leaving the catacombs, Duke Long felt quite calm. Jiang Chen broke through to the fourth level, the openly acknowledged forbidden zone. Once he entered, he would have already died!    

Therefore, in Duke Long's eyes, Jiang Chen was undoubtedly dead.