810: Chapter 810 Invitation to be a Husband?

Cold sweat poured down from the man at the Golden Core Stage.

He even had the feeling that his death was imminent...

Fear! Unease! All kinds of negative emotions swirled in his heart.

"Mr. ... Mr. Ye, I was wrong!"

"Please spare my life! I was only following orders..."

He had completely broken down.

Ye Chen looked down at him, his gaze devoid of warmth: "If begging for mercy worked, what would we need the police for?"

Before his voice had even faded, he tightened his fingers.

"Snap!"

The neck of the man at the Golden Core Stage was snapped instantly.

The next second, his body slid to the ground, his eyes wide open in death...

Ignoring him, Ye Chen walked straight toward Jin Meiting.

Jin Meiting was still sitting there, her shoulders trembling slightly.

She hadn't shed a single tear when facing that group of people earlier, but now, seeing Ye Chen walk up to her, all her tough defenses collapsed in an instant.

Ye Chen bent down and reached out to pull her into his arms from the sofa, one hand wrapping around her back while the other gently stroked the back of her head.

"It's okay now."

"I didn't arrive too late, did I?"

Jin Meiting buried her face in his chest and spoke in a muffled voice: "If you had been half a minute later, you might have seen me tied up in four directions."

The corner of Ye Chen's mouth twitched. "Then I suppose I arrived just in time."

Jin Meiting lay in his arms for a while before her emotions calmed down slightly, and she lifted her face to look at him.

"What exactly is going on? Who were those people? Why did they want to capture me?"

Ye Chen sighed helplessly: "It's a long story."

Jin Meiting stared at him, her little hand drawing circles on his chest: "Then why not stay today... and tell me slowly?"

Ye Chen coughed dryly, just about to say something... when footsteps suddenly came from the doorway.

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow and looked toward the door. Suddenly, a figure walked inside through the security door.

They had the same blue hair. Only the mask was gold, inlaid with nine different colored gemstones.

Ye Chen pulled Jin Meiting behind him and stared at the man in front of him.

"You wouldn't happen to be here to deliver your head to me, would you? Like a subscription renewal?"

That's right. The figure in front of him was clearly from the Gui Xu. And... they were significantly stronger than the Gui Xu protector from earlier.

Most importantly, she appeared to be a woman, and a very young one at that.

The woman stopped and took off her mask. Beneath the mask was a very young face.

Her eyebrows were long and slender, her eyes light in color, and she exuded an ethereal aura, like a noblewoman who had stepped out of an ancient painting.

She gave a slight nod to Ye Chen: "My name is An Miaoyi, the Saintess of the Gui Xu."

Ye Chen chuckled. Good grief! One moment, he had just killed a person from the Gui Xu. The next moment, the Saintess of the Gui Xu appeared?

He looked amused and asked, "Saintess?" "Then I have some news for you. A little while ago, one of your people was killed by me."

An Miaoyi's face remained calm, her tone indifferent: "If he died, he died. His skills were inferior, so there is nothing to discuss."

Ye Chen was surprised. "Then are you here to avenge him? Or to steal my bronze key?"

An Miaoyi shook her head: "Neither."

"Then what are you here for?" Ye Chen was even more curious.

"To invite you." An Miaoyi looked directly at Ye Chen, her eyes serious.

Ye Chen blinked: "Could it be... an invitation for me to be the Saint? That depends on the benefits. Do you provide room and board? Is there a year-end bonus?"

An Miaoyi did not entertain his joke, instead refuting Ye Chen's guess. "Not the Saint."

But her next sentence stunned both Ye Chen and Jin Meiting. "It is as a husband."

Ye Chen: "???" Jin Meiting: "???"

Good grief! This was practically overtaking on a curve...

Ye Chen felt a bit confused himself: "Wait, say that again?"

An Miaoyi looked at him and repeated herself. "The Saintess of the Gui Xu invites you to become my husband."

"Are you serious?" "The Saintess of the Gui Xu never jokes."

She was serious. She was so serious... Ye Chen couldn't hold it together anymore and subconsciously looked toward Jin Meiting.

Jin Meiting looked back at him, looking speechless. "Don't look at me, I'm just as confused as you are."

Ye Chen turned back to look at An Miaoyi again: "Did you find the wrong person? I just killed your people not long ago!"

An Miaoyi spoke calmly. "The Gui Xu is not a monolith." "Recruiting you is also for my own sake."

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow, looking at her with interest: "Oh? How so?"

An Miaoyi walked to the single sofa in the living room and sat down on her own, her posture as elegant as a white lotus.

"The Gui Xu clan has continued to this day for over a thousand years."

"Over these thousand years, different voices have naturally emerged within."

"Some advocate for remaining hidden from the world, maintaining the neutral stance the Gui Xu has held since ancient times."

"Others advocate for entering the world to compete, showcasing the power of the Gui Xu to the world once again."

"The protector you just killed belongs to the latter."

She paused and lifted her eyes to look at Ye Chen. "And the reason the Bai family was able to contact the Gui Xu is precisely because of the latter's tacit approval and support."

After hearing this, Ye Chen suddenly realized: "So your meaning is, there are people within the Gui Xu who want to mess with me, and you belong to the faction that doesn't want to?"

"That is more or less the right way to understand it." An Miaoyi nodded slightly.

"But the situation is more complex than you think. The Elder that the Bai family contacted holds significant power within the Gui Xu."

"Now, having won over two-thirds of the Elders, they have formed a faction capable of swaying the decisions of the Gui Xu."

Ye Chen shrugged: "That is your own family business in the Gui Xu; what does it have to do with me? I am not a member of the Gui Xu, and I have no interest in getting involved in your mess."

Upon hearing this, An Miaoyi was not annoyed, just quietly looking at him.

"Do you think you can stay out of this?"

"In order to deal with you, the Bai family has already made the news that you hold three bronze keys public within the Gui Xu."

"Now, everyone in the Gui Xu knows that you are holding the bronze keys."

"And the bronze gate is the foundation that the Gui Xu clan has guarded since ancient times."

"Do you think you can distance yourself from this matter?"

The smile on Ye Chen's face faded a little. He didn't reply, but he had already started calculating in his heart.

This was indeed a trouble. If it were just the One Clan, Three Sects, Five Gates, he wouldn't care about them at all. But the Gui Xu... the words spoken by Great Elder Tantai Honghou still rang in his ears.

An Miaoyi seemed to see through his thoughts and continued speaking.

"Therefore, you only have one path you can take." "Become my husband."

"Only by entering the Gui Xu as the husband of the Saintess of the Gui Xu, carrying the three keys, can you have a say within the Gui Xu and suppress the voices targeting you."

"Otherwise..." "At the Antarctic Martial Arts Tournament in a few days, you will be facing not just the One Clan, Three Sects, Five Gates, but also the schemes of those dozens of Elders from the Gui Xu."

"They will not act directly, but they will use the Bai family's hands to let you die on the ice caps of Antarctica."

"Then let me ask you..." Ye Chen thought for a moment and asked with a smile. "What do you want?"

"I mean, what do you want to get from me?" "Don't tell me you just took a liking to me; that kind of nonsense might fool a three-year-old."

An Miaoyi was silent for a few seconds. She had indeed come here to recruit Ye Chen. After all... the Gui Xu was terminally ill inside, and there were no other options left. Therefore, if she claimed to want nothing, it would seem insincere.

A few seconds later, An Miaoyi finally spoke. "What the Gui Xu wants is..." "To open the bronze gate of the Kunlun Ruins, and we also want to go inside."

Ye Chen became curious: "Then you should know what's inside, right?" "We don't know." An Miaoyi answered very crisply and cleanly.

Ye Chen was even more confused: "Wait... aren't you the creators and guardians of the bronze gate? You're telling me now that even you don't know what's inside???"

An Miaoyi pursed her lips and answered. "Although the gate was forged and sealed by the ancestors of the Gui Xu with their own hands." "That was a very long time ago." "The current Gui Xu..." She paused, "many things have already been lost."

Ye Chen's eyes flickered slightly: "For example?" "Records regarding the truth inside the gate."

An Miaoyi looked up, staring directly into Ye Chen's eyes. "At the time the bronze gate was forged, the ancestors of the Gui Xu left behind detailed records regarding the things inside the gate."

"But about five hundred years ago, a riot occurred within the Gui Xu, and during that riot, the library building that housed those records was mostly burned down."

"Since then, no one in the Gui Xu has known what is actually sealed behind the bronze gate." "We are also very curious, what is inside?"

After hearing this, Ye Chen almost lost it. The Gui Xu, as the creators of the bronze gate, actually didn't know what was behind the gate either. This matter was becoming increasingly absurd.

Ye Chen stretched. "I understand what you mean." "But I'm sorry, I cannot agree to your request."

Upon hearing this, An Miaoyi's eyebrows furrowed slightly: "Why?"

Ye Chen grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. "Because I, personally, hate being arranged clearly by others."

"You want me to be your husband, so I have to be? Wouldn't I be losing a lot of face then?"

"Besides..." He glanced at Jin Meiting and then turned back. "The people who want to marry me are all lining up."

"If you really want to be my wife, that's fine, but you'll have to get in the back of the line and be a concubine." "As the Saintess of the Gui Xu, can you accept being a concubine?"