65: fiery red egg

Guo Linshan looked at the gold-and-red tail feather in Su Ze's hand and seemed to understand something, falling silent.

However, after looking around, Jiang Chen asked somewhat uneasily, "Su Ze, where is our Young Master Tianlong?"

As the saying goes, if dead, show the body; if alive, show the person.

Under an explosion like that, it was unlikely for the already heavily injured Jiang Tianlong to survive, but without a body, it would be difficult for Jiang Chen to explain things to his father upon his return.

Su Ze looked up at him and said indifferently, "He's right here. He's everywhere."

"What do you mean?" Jiang Chen asked with a frown, having already guessed something in his heart.

Sure enough, Su Ze tightly clenched the tail feather in his palm, stood up with a tremble, and said, "In order to kill me, he self-detonated! But unfortunately, I'm still alive, while not even a speck of dust remains of him!"

Just as the Fusang Dark Guard self-detonated earlier, Su Ze had immediately noticed the anomaly and wanted Feng Qingyi to take him away through the air, flying as far as possible to avoid the blast.

But Jiang Tianlong had held them back, and amidst a fit of maniacal laughter, he chose to self-detonate as well.

Just as the explosion was about to reach Su Ze, Feng Qingyi used her wings to shield him within.

However, the two successive explosions caused her Mirage Beast to be heavily injured, especially from Jiang Tianlong's close-range self-detonation.

His Aurora Unicorn, being a rare platinum-level Demonic Beast, possessed even greater self-detonation power than others of the same level.

Feng Qingyi's wings were snapped directly in the explosion, allowing Su Ze to use his void spirit shield to withstand the subsequent damage.

Hearing the news of Jiang Tianlong's death, Jiang Chen's expression turned extremely ugly. "Young Master Tianlong was a young genius highly valued by our Jiang Family Ancestor. If he dies here, the Jiang Family will absolutely not let you off!"

Su Ze gave him a cold look. "Suit yourself. He brought this on himself! But now that I no longer have a Diamond-rank Demonic Beast, will the Jiang Family still be willing to come after me at any cost like they did this time?"

Although he had guessed the possibility when he saw the tail feather in Su Ze's hand, hearing it directly from Su Ze's mouth confirmed that the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird was indeed dead.

Jiang Chen had no reason to doubt him; under the power of that explosion, Su Ze had been at the center of the second blast.

Since he was able to survive, it meant the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird must have sacrificed its life to protect him.

As for the body, high-level demonic beasts rarely left one behind.

Their pride did not allow their bodies to be utilized by humans after death, so they would destroy their own bodies with their last breath.

Unless they were killed directly by someone with overwhelming strength, it was impossible to preserve the corpse of a high-level demonic beast intact.

Therefore, the crystal cores and materials of high-level demonic beasts were extremely precious; even for someone like Guo Linshan, a Detachment Commander of the Great Xia Spirit Guards, applying for a level seventy monster beast crystal core was fraught with difficulties.

For the Fusang Dark Guards to throw in an eightieth level monster beast crystal core just to trigger the Tianyun Volcano was an even more extravagant gesture.

Looking at the Great Xia Spirit Guards gradually surrounding the perimeter, and the unfriendly gazes Su Ze and Guo Linshan were directing at him,

Jiang Chen felt that things were taking a turn for the worse.

One must remember that the current situation was all thanks to the strategy he had provided.

Although he was the only high-level Beast Tamer above level sixty remaining, his Mirage Beast had been severely injured in the explosion, and his Spiritual Power consumption was not small.

If he were surrounded by so many Great Xia Spirit Guards, the outcome would be hard to predict.

Thus, while the others had not yet closed in, he immediately flew into the sky and departed.

Guo Linshan spat forcefully as he watched the man's retreating figure.

At this time, Sun Hao and the others finally rushed over after the mist dissipated. Seeing the original site of the camp completely reduced to powder, they couldn't help but step forward and ask.

"Commander, Brother Su Ze, what exactly happened just now? Why was there such a loud explosion?"

Guo Linshan sighed and said, "This is another 'good deed' by the Jiang Family, and those bastards from Fusang also took the opportunity to interfere. However, this is no longer at a level where you can get involved. I will personally go to the Legion Headquarters to report and... ask for punishment, resigning from my position as Detachment Commander."

Hearing this, the other team members immediately crowded around, trying to stop Guo Linshan from making that decision.

"Commander, this has nothing to do with you!"

"That's right, it's all the work of those Jiang Family bastards. You didn't do anything wrong!"

"Commander, we don't need anyone else to be the commander. We only follow you..."

When he heard this, Guo Linshan's eyes widened with anger as he said, "Nonsense! How can you say such things?! Are the Great Xia Spirit Guards of Beishan City my private army?! No matter who becomes your commander, as long as their decisions benefit the people, you must listen and obey! Do you understand?!"

"Understood..." everyone said in a low, unwilling voice.

Seeing this, Guo Linshan shouted, "Give it to me louder! Did you all hear me?!"

The crowd hurriedly pulled themselves together and answered loudly, "Understood, Commander!"

"Very good!" Guo Linshan nodded with satisfaction, then patted Su Ze's shoulder and said, "Little brother Su Ze, I really have to thank you this time."

Su Ze shook his head and replied, "No need to thank me. If they hadn't been trying to scheme against me, it wouldn't have affected you and the others."

Guo Linshan frowned in dissatisfaction. "What kind of talk is that? Don't forget the oath you took when you joined the Great Xia Spirit Guards! My mission is to protect all of you. No matter what, if they want to get to you, they'll have to go through me first!"

After speaking, he pulled Sun Hao over and whispered a few words in his ear.

Sun Hao was confused at first, but after listening, his eyes widened and he looked at Su Ze with a few glances of pity.

Guo Linshan patted Su Ze again, then pushed Sun Hao forward and said, "Alright, the camp is completely destroyed, and there's a lot to be done next. Sun Hao, you help me send little brother Su Ze back first."

"Yes, Commander!"

Su Ze and Sun Hao left the ruins together. The atmosphere along the way felt somewhat heavy.

He felt it was understandable. If he had contracted a Diamond-rank Demonic Beast only to lose it in an accident, he would probably be in a much worse state than Su Ze was now.

Sun Hao shook his head, and looking up, he noticed Su Ze was already several steps ahead of him, and he seemed to be heading in the wrong direction.

"Little brother Su Ze, you're going the wrong way. Home is over here."

Su Ze shook his head and said, "I don't want to go home for now. I've taken several days off in a row; I want to go back to school first."

As Su Ze spoke, he reached into his jacket.

In his hand, he seemed to be clutching a fist-sized, round object. It looked like... a fiery red egg!