143: Chapter 143 The Past of City C a Century Ago?!

Elder Su, his face filled with confusion and bewilderment,

suddenly sat up from the ground.

His turbid old eyes instantly widened.

Memories flooded back like a tide.

The lethal chains of Death Qi.

The terrifying might of the Amethyst Ninth Tier.

And that desperate moment of burning his Origin... "Young Miss! Young Master! Run!!"

He practically roared these words.

His voice was hoarse and urgent.

However,

when he clearly saw the surrounding scene,

his entire body froze.

Jiang Yun and Su Qingxue stood before him, completely unharmed.

Apart from the traces left by the battle all around,

where was there any sign of that Cult Elder?

"Wh-what happened?"

Elder Su's mind went completely blank.

He instinctively grabbed Jiang Yun's arm,

anxiously looking him up and down.

"Where is that Cult Elder? Are you two alright? Are you hurt?"

A timely expression of lingering fear and relief appeared on Jiang Yun's face.

Following the story he and Su Qingxue had agreed upon with a glance, he explained: "Elder Su, we didn't see clearly either. At that moment, an incredibly terrifying figure passed by. His aura... I felt it was countless times stronger than that Cult Elder, probably a Diamond Rank Senior. He seemed to disapprove of the Yuhai Cult's actions, casually struck once, and annihilated that Cult Elder, then left instantly. We didn't even have time to thank him."

This explanation was indeed quite far-fetched.

Elder Su listened, stunned.

His brows furrowed tightly... his face etched with disbelief.

A Diamond Rank Expert?

Passing by?

Casually annihilating an Amethyst Ninth Tier?

This sounded simply like a fantasy.

He instinctively looked at his own Young Miss, only to see Su Qingxue giving a slight nod, her pale face carrying a trace of fragile relief after surviving a disaster.

Elder Su's gaze returned to Jiang Yun.

His Beast Taming strength was at the Gold First Tier!

The Young Miss's was even only at the Bronze Fifth Tier... Yes!

Even if Jiang Yun's combat power was Heaven-Defying,

being able to fight above his rank was already earth-shattering.

How could it possibly be so Heaven-Defying as to defeat, or even slay, a Peak Amethyst Ninth Tier?

This simply defied all reason!

The only explanation... could only be the passing Diamond Rank Expert Jiang Yun mentioned.

Thinking of this,

Elder Su let out a long sigh of relief.

His taut nerves finally relaxed.

He murmured: "So that's it... We actually encountered a passing Senior of great ability. Heaven truly protects the Young Miss, protects the Young Master! To escape death this time is truly the greatest fortune!"

He chose to believe.

Because this was already the only reasonable explanation.

Seeing that Elder Su believed him,

Jiang Yun secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

At the same time, he glanced towards Su Qingxue.

He saw her eyelids lowered,

as if everything had nothing to do with her.

Jiang Yun shook his head helplessly.

He then brought up the root cause of this assassination attempt.

"Elder Su, this assassination was orchestrated by the Qin Family Old Master, Qin Xiaotian, colluding with the Yuhai Cult. I'm afraid the Qin Family has already become a pawn of the cult."

"Qin Xiaotian!"

Upon hearing this,

the anger that had just subsided in Elder Su surged up again.

His beard and hair bristled.

"That old scoundrel! He's simply insane! I vaguely heard his conversation with that Cult Elder earlier, though I was powerless to resist at the time... Fine! What a fine Qin Family! What a fine Qin Xiaotian! To think you were once publicly recognized as a hero of C City, and now you've fallen to such depths! Colluding with a cult, ambushing our Su Family Eldest Miss! Tolerating your Juniors' evil deeds without repentance is one thing, but you even dare to attempt to kill the future hope of C City! Such actions are an affront to both gods and men!"

The more he spoke, the angrier he became, his chest heaving violently.

"When I return, I will report this matter in its entirety to the Family Head! The Family Head will surely personally go to the Mayor to seek justice for you, Young Master, and for the Young Miss! We must make this Qin Family pay the most painful price for their betrayal!"

Jiang Yun nodded.

He was utterly unconcerned about the Qin Family's fate.

That was already a foregone conclusion of destruction.

But he was somewhat surprised by Elder Su's evaluation of the man as a hero and couldn't help but ask with confusion: "A hero? Elder Su, why do you call the Qin Family Old Master, Qin Xiaotian, a hero from back then?"

Elder Su sighed.

The anger on his face transformed into a complex look of reminiscence.

He began to narrate a sealed chapter of C City's past.

His voice carried the vicissitudes of time.

"Young Master, you are young, it's normal you wouldn't know. This Qin Xiaotian is an old monster who has lived for nearly two hundred years. A hundred years ago, C City was far from the peaceful and harmonious place it is today. Back then, it wasn't under the direct jurisdiction of the powerful Human Federation as it is now; it was merely a human settlement struggling to survive under the claws of Vicious Beasts."

"Outside the city, the Misty Forest stretched endlessly. That was the territory of the Beast Domain, where powerful Gold Rank and Amethyst Rank Vicious Beasts frequently appeared, attacking human villages. Inside the city, resources were scarce, order was chaotic, and people lived from day to day, uncertain of the next. The C City of that time was an island watered with blood and life."

"Later, the increasingly powerful Human Federation turned its gaze towards this chaotic land. The Federation dispatched several true powerhouses. Their Spirit Beasts blotted out the sky and their strength was immense, aiming to liberate this place and bring order and civilization."

"That was an extremely brutal War of Liberation! The ancestors of the various families in our C City today—the Qin Family, the Xiao Family, the Zhao Family, the Li Family, including the Old Ancestor of our Su Family branch—were all merely Beast Tamers struggling to survive at the time. For the sake of a stable future for later generations, we united, followed the Federation's powerhouses, and engaged in a bloody war lasting several years against the Vicious Beast legions entrenched here!"

"Back then, the powerhouses of the various families joined forces and, under the leadership of the Federation's powerhouses, gradually drove out and slaughtered thousands of Gold Rank Vicious Beasts, and even several Amethyst Rank Beast Kings! In the end, we drove them deep into the Misty Forest. What you now know as the Misty Forest Core Area was, from the perspective of that time, merely the first line of defense established by us humans, the true outer barrier isolating the savage Beast Domain from human civilization!"

"After the war ended, the Federation established the C City Federal Government here and stationed Amethyst-rank Experts long-term. As for our Su Family branch, we were exiled here back then because of a grave mistake committed in the main Family. It was due to the distinguished service we rendered in that War of Liberation that we managed to gain a foothold and secure a place in C City. One could say, without that war, there would be no C City today."

Jiang Yun listened quietly, slight ripples stirring in his heart.

He hadn't expected

that beneath this seemingly peaceful land,

such a passionate and tragic history was buried.

He also suddenly understood.

Why he had heard before from Principal He Tiangang and others

that he wasn't a native of C City.

So they were all elites dispatched by the Federation from other places to build and manage C City.

At this moment,

Elder Su shook his head and sighed.

His tone filled with regretful disappointment: "Ah, who would have thought! After living in peace for so long, this Qin Xiaotian has instead regressed the longer he lives, becoming so muddle-headed! He is about to personally push the Family he helped establish through blood and sweat into an abyss of eternal damnation!"

Hearing this, Jiang Yun's eyes were icy cold, utterly without ripples.

He spoke indifferently: "Past achievements are no excuse for his current evil deeds. I don't care what identity he once held. Since he chose to harm my Family, he must pay the price."

His voice wasn't loud,

but it carried an indisputable firmness and a killing intent

that made even Elder Su startle for a moment, then fall silent.

He understood that the young man before him

possessed a resolve far beyond ordinary people.

Jiang Yun didn't dwell on this any longer.

Instead, he turned his concern to Elder Su's injuries.

"Elder Su, how are your injuries?"

Elder Su waved his hand.

A weary, bitter smile appeared on his face.

"It's nothing serious. I just expended too much Beast Taming Power and burned some of my blood Qi Origin. I'm just an old bag of bones. A Gold Rank Beast Tamer, nourished by Beast Taming Power, has a Lifespan of at most two to three hundred years. I only have about fifty or sixty years left. It's not a big deal; I'll recover after some rest and recuperation."

Although he said this,

his face revealed unconcealable grief and melancholy.

"It's just... my old partner suffered..."

His main Spirit Beast had taken a fatal blow for him in the previous battle, sustaining extremely severe injuries, nearly on the verge of death.

This pained him more than his own injuries.

Then,

he thought of a practical problem, his brows furrowing tightly.

"My mount, the flying Spirit Beast, has been killed. This place is still several hundred miles away from the Su Family main house in S Province. The mountain roads are rugged, and Vicious Beasts occasionally lurk. How are we going to travel from here?"

Hearing this,

Jiang Yun also fell into deep thought.

If Little Cloud Sparrow's injuries were fully healed,

with the speed and agility of a Storm Thunder Sparrow,

carrying them on the journey would naturally be no problem.

But... Little Cloud Sparrow was severely injured by that strange Death Qi erosion. After being recalled into the Beast Taming Space, it had been completely silent.

Although the Beast Taming Space had excellent nurturing and healing effects on Spirit Beasts, could such severe injuries really be completely cured?

How long would it take?

This was the first time his Spirit Beast had suffered such heavy damage.

Jiang Yun's heart couldn't help but tighten.

Filled with anxiety and worry.

"Let me check on Little Cloud Sparrow's condition."

Jiang Yun said, taking a deep breath.

He sank his consciousness into his own Beast Taming Space.

However,

the moment his consciousness entered the Beast Taming Space,

the scene that met his eyes

caused his entire body to tremble violently.

His pupils contracted sharply...