157: A jinx?

Li Mengru finally managed to get in line. The Martial Artist who was rumored to be Zhang Chen's Disciple used a Martial Skill to treat her, and her complexion had improved significantly.

She could already get out of bed for simple activities... but it would still take a long time for her to recover her strength.

Unless she received a few more healing Martial Skills...

As for Wang Ying and Li Qi, just as Chu Yuan had expected, they had also sustained varying degrees of Soul injuries.

The Nightmare Insect Clan were experts in the field of mental attacks, and since neither Wang Ying nor Li Qi knew any mental Martial Skills, they could only endure it head-on.

Chu Yuan had already grasped the basics of the Soul Law, so he attempted to nourish and repair their injuries himself.

Perhaps because his Divine Sense was at a relatively high level, the results were unexpectedly good...

At the very least, Wang Ying said that her head didn't hurt as much anymore.

However, this kind of delicate work was very mentally taxing, and Chu Yuan had no way to heal them completely in one go...

"Amazing, Chu Yuan! In the future, if we have any more Soul injuries, can't we just come to you?" Wang Ying said excitedly, thinking she could save a lot of military merit in the future.

Li Qi immediately retorted, "What are you thinking? Chu Yuan is about to go back."

"So what? He has to come back eventually, right? Back then, I started coming to the Outer Heaven Battlefield for training in my sophomore year..."

Li Qi paused for a moment; that was true... They were all graduates from various major martial academies, and the cream of the crop at that! Li Qi himself had also started coming to the Outer Heaven Battlefield for training during his sophomore year...

Chu Yuan smiled. "Sure."

"Oh right, Chu Yuan, that friend of yours asked me to tell you to go to this address to find him after you get back."

Jiang Fei, huh...

Chu Yuan looked at the address Wang Ying had sent to his terminal; it was right in Dawn City.

...

Inside the noisy bar, Chu Yuan walked toward the back.

People along the way unconsciously made a path for him... Although the person who arrived looked like a youth, his aura was unfathomable; he was clearly a powerhouse!

It was also very likely that he was a Martial Artist directly under the Ninth Legion, whom they couldn't afford to provoke...

Chu Yuan sat down and said to the obsequious manager beside him, "Bring the best wine, fill the table."

Jiang Fei was sprawled on the sofa like a boneless old turtle, laughing, "Aren't you afraid he'll rip you off?"

"Does he dare?"

"I suppose he doesn't..." Jiang Fei was rendered speechless, swirling the wine in his glass before downing it in one gulp.

Rows of various wines were brought over. The waiter didn't say much, just set them down and left.

Not far away, the manager was smiling obsequiously toward them again... Such a powerhouse didn't need him to make arbitrary arrangements.

Chu Yuan didn't know anything about wine; he picked up a glass and downed it indiscriminately.

Aside from it tasting bad... it didn't seem to have any other effect.

Jiang Fei said lazily, "You can't drink like that... You can't use your energy to neutralize the alcohol; otherwise, you won't get drunk even if you drink until tomorrow morning."

"Looks like you have a lot of experience."

"A little more than you... What's wrong? Something on your mind?"

"Am I not allowed to drink if I don't have something on my mind?"

"Of course not... Fine, don't tell me." Jiang Fei raised his glass in a toast and spoke to himself.

Following Jiang Fei's advice, Chu Yuan actively suppressed the circulation of his spiritual energy, not neutralizing the alcohol.

But it still didn't work... His Physique was too powerful; the alcohol was purified the moment it entered his body.

Could this be considered a lack of control over oneself in another sense?

Chu Yuan thought self-deprecatingly as he leaned back on the sofa.

Jiang Fei drank the wine he had ordered without hesitation, watching the dance floor on his own.

Chu Yuan said out of the blue, "Do you ever feel like I'm a jinx?"

"How so?"

"Chenyang City, Secret Realm No. 7, Bell Tower Squad... It seems like everywhere I go, trouble follows, and even you were exiled because of a mission related to me..."

Jiang Fei rolled his eyes. "You're right. Three hundred years ago, it was because you were about to be born that Great Qin ushered in the revival of martial arts; the Outer Heaven Battlefield also appeared because of you. If you hadn't come, the various clans wouldn't even be at war... It's all foreshadowing!"

Chu Yuan frowned. "I'm serious... Feng Hou died, he was a member of the squad I was in; and Li Mengru... she almost died too! Before I arrived, the Bell Tower Squad hadn't lost a member in a long time..."

Jiang Fei's gaze drifted, and he said casually, "Chenyang City was due to the Day of Vengeance's decade-long scheme; Secret Realm No. 7 was a game between the higher-ups and the rebels... Regardless of whether you were there or not, what was meant to happen would have happened anyway.

In fact, if you hadn't been there, the losses might have been even worse... It's just that before you stepped into the world of Martial Artists, these things had nothing to do with you; they were just too far away.

If the world would be free of conflict without you, I'd definitely urge you to end yourself... As for me... I suppose I deserved it, right? How is Liu Yan?"

"...Rest assured, she's still alive."

Jiang Fei nodded. "As long as she's alive... You say the Bell Tower Squad lost members, but why don't you look at how many people die in the Dark Blade Camp every day? When does the Outer Heaven Battlefield ever go a day without people dying? In places you can see, and places you can't..."

"When you kill those alien races, why don't you think about whether their teammates will be sad? Whether their families will be heartbroken? You can only kill others, but can't be killed... That's not how it works."

Jiang Fei paused, then continued, "Why hadn't the Bell Tower Squad lost a member in a long time? Because your captain has connections and the privilege to choose missions, allowing them to take smaller risks and reap greater rewards... What about other squads? Do the people in other squads deserve to die?"

"How do you know all this?"

"Xu Feiran told me."

Chu Yuan thought to himself, no wonder Xu Feiran acted so... unfriendly toward Yuan Yang.

"They wanted to reap more rewards themselves, wanting to take advantage of you being in the squad to get quintuple military merit... Should they just be allowed to take it easily and comfortably? There's no such thing in this world."

Chu Yuan sighed. "But for this mission, they were originally hesitant about whether to go; it was because I said you were my friend..."

Jiang Fei sat up straight and said seriously, "First of all, no one forced them to take the mission! Quintuple military merit, plus my teacher's bounty... even for a Seventh Realm squad, that is a sufficiently generous reward!"

"Secondly, if your captain decided to take this mission because of what you said... it only proves that he is unqualified! He is an idiot! He is simply not fit to lead a squad! Risking his other teammates for the sake of 'friendship'... I wouldn't be surprised if they were wiped out one day!"

Chu Yuan was somewhat dissatisfied. "You're being too cold-blooded..."

Jiang Fei sneered, "Since ancient times, benevolence does not command troops! If all the high-level Martial Artists of Great Qin thought like you... they would have been tricked to death long ago! Who doesn't have friends, family, or fellow Disciples? Take my teacher for example, I don't know how many people are watching her. As long as she dares to come save me... someone will dare to ambush her!"

"Then if I were in a desperate situation, would you come to save me?"

Jiang Fei was stunned for a moment, then replied vaguely, "I'm not a high-level Martial Artist..."

Chu Yuan smiled. Jiang Fei wasn't a high-level Martial Artist, so he could afford to be 'impulsive'...

"You have to remember, you are not the instigator of events, but a witness... at most, a participant." As Jiang Fei said this, his gaze fell on a woman.

Chu Yuan chewed on Jiang Fei's words and looked in the direction he was gazing; a quite beautiful woman...