278: Chapter 278 I'm awesome? Ji Ruxue has fallen for me!

"Rumble—!"

As Su Feng's Shadow of God delivered the ultimatum, it turned into a puff of black smoke and slowly dissipated over Tianshu City.

However, the residual pressure of the Extreme Dao still kept the Rune Clan's Bridal Procession from daring to make the slightest move.

According to Su Feng's original plan, the Rune Clan would obediently deliver Ji Ruxue, and the two clans would form a powerful alliance.

He only needed to display the terrifying strength of the Shadow of God before the myriad races to warn and deter those alien races with ulterior motives, and the matter would reach Perfection.

But as it happened, the prickly Ji Ruxue had secretly run away and even became a teacher in his academy.

Although the rune abilities possessed by the Rune Clan were much needed by the Human Race, he had to take this opportunity to severely discipline these self-righteous Rune Clan high-levels and, at the same time, demonstrate the Human Race's bottom line to the myriad races.

"Quick! Go now! At all costs, use the ancestral secret method to send the message to the Divine Beast!"

Ji Fa no longer possessed his previous composure and arrogance.

Covered in cold sweat, his voice was trembling:

"Tell Ruxue that if she doesn't want the entire Rune Clan to be wiped out, she must come to the appointment immediately!!"

Ji Fa had completely recognized reality.

He originally thought Su Feng would at least be wary of the vast network of interests behind the Rune Clan, but he didn't expect the other party to not care at all!

In the face of absolute power, so-called commercial monopolies were a joke.

"Yes! Clan Chief!"

The Rune Clan Elders, who had been full of confidence before, could no longer straighten their backs.

Su Feng's pressure just now had made them deeply realize what a chasm-like gap felt like.

Meanwhile...

In the lakeside courtyard of the Great Qin Royal Cultivation Academy.

Su Feng, who had just finished controlling the Shadow of God with his Divine Sense, withdrew his attention.

Standing behind a rockery in the courtyard, he rubbed his cheeks hard with both hands and took a deep breath.

In just the blink of an eye.

When he walked out from behind the rockery, the confident expression on his face had completely vanished.

Replacing it was an expression mixed with shock, desolation, and even a hint of despair and sadness.

With reddened eyes, Su Feng walked step by step toward Ji Ruxue, who was standing dazed in the center of the courtyard.

"You... you are Ji Ruxue?"

Su Feng's voice trembled slightly as he looked at her with utter disbelief.

At this moment, Ji Ruxue's mind was also a complete blank.

She had personally witnessed that giant portrait in the sky and heard the extermination ultimatum issued by the supreme Old Ancestor of the Human Race.

She had seen what a true powerhouse was and saw how vulnerable the clan she was so proud of was under the other party's overwhelming power.

"I..."

Ji Ruxue opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to explain.

She thought that by escaping her ancestral land, she could escape the fate of being used as a bargaining chip.

She had been very happy here, and even... she had just found someone who made her feel something.

When she turned her head and met Su Feng's pained and affectionate gaze.

Ji Ruxue's hardened heart felt a strange, sudden sting.

"Su Qiang... I..."

She wanted to explain, but found that any words were so pale and powerless in the face of her impending fate.

"Zhi Zhi! Zhi Zhi Zhi!"

Just then, the treasure-hunting mouse "Zhi Zhi," who had been perched on Ji Ruxue's head, suddenly shrieked anxiously.

The light of an ancient Bloodline secret method flickered on its body; it had clearly received a distress signal from the ancestral land.

Looking at the anxious Divine Beast, the clansmen pushed to the brink, and then the only man who had ever entered her heart.

Ji Ruxue only felt her eyes grow hot.

Just as she was at a loss.

Su Feng slowly walked up to her, without questioning or blaming.

He simply stretched out his arms extremely gently and pulled her tightly into his embrace.

Feeling that familiar pure Yang Qi and warm, solid chest, Ji Ruxue did not push him away, allowing herself to shed all her disguises and defenses in this man's arms.

"Actually... in my heart, I never treated you as my teacher..."

Su Feng's chin rested on the top of Ji Ruxue's head, his voice low and raspy, as if every word was poured with immense emotion:

"From the first moment I saw you, I fell in love with you. I thought we could always discuss runes and research Formations like this... that we would accompany each other and spend our lives together in Tianshu City."

"Unfortunately, you are actually the Saintess of the Rune Clan, and even..."

Su Feng didn't continue, but his arms around Ji Ruxue's waist gradually tightened, as if afraid that if he let go, she would disappear forever.

"I'm sorry... I... I'm sorry..."

Hearing this incredibly sincere confession, this prickly and aloof girl who had always presented herself as strong finally broke down.

Two lines of clear tears slid down Ji Ruxue's cheeks, wetting Su Feng's clothes.

If it were any other time, any man who dared to hug her like this would have been blasted away by her Heavenly Thunder Talisman.

But at this moment, perhaps facing a desperate situation, she finally recognized her own heart.

"If it weren't for this damn marriage alliance, maybe we really could have been together, but..."

Ji Ruxue's voice choked: "I can't ignore my clansmen. If I don't go, my parents' graves will be trampled by the Human Race, and my clansmen will all die because of my selfishness."

She had rejected contact with the opposite sex since childhood, thinking they were all after profit or beauty.

But only for the human in front of her did she feel a sense of closeness that she couldn't bear to part with for the first time.

She didn't know if this was unforgettable love, but she knew very well that she liked being with him.

Seeing him, her Aversion to Stupidity would vanish, she would find everything interesting, and even the skin-to-skin contact when he engraved runes made her slightly obsessed.

"Ruxue, I know..."

Su Feng suppressed the guilt in his heart and continued his performance.

He released the embrace, cupped Ji Ruxue's face with both hands, and looked at her with an almost obsessive gaze:

"I don't have the power to stop the Old Ancestor now, but I believe that as long as I Cultivate desperately, with my talent, I will one day surpass the Old Ancestor!"

"When that time comes, I will personally storm the Nine Heavens and snatch you back from his side!"

"Ruxue... do you believe me?"

Su Feng looked at Ji Ruxue affectionately, the light of "I will defy the world for you" shimmering in his eyes.

Looking into Su Feng's firm and affectionate eyes, Ji Ruxue's heart raced like a panicked deer, and she fell deeply for him.

"I... I believe you!"

Ji Ruxue bit her red lip hard, a flash of unyielding wildness and determination crossing her eyes:

"I will wait for you! Even if that high-and-mighty Old Ancestor gets my body, he will never have my heart! My heart will always be with you!"

With that.

Ji Ruxue suddenly stood on her tiptoes, her hands tightly wrapping around Su Feng's neck, and with a determination like a moth to a flame, she kissed Su Feng's lips fiercely.

This was a kiss filled with tears and despair, clumsy yet intensely passionate.

Feeling the softness and determination from the lips, Su Feng knew that at this moment, he had successfully captured this prickly woman!

To completely conquer this Rune Clan Saintess who responded to gentleness but never to force, Su Feng's move could be called cuckolding himself.

But it was all worth it!

As long as those terrifying rune abilities attached to Ji Ruxue became his, what did this bit of maneuvering matter?

The two of them shared a long kiss in the lakeside courtyard.

Meanwhile, in the shadows, the Hidden Guards using the Sky Screen Immortal Artifact to patrol were so shocked by their Old Ancestor's god-tier play that their jaws nearly hit the ground.

"The Old Ancestor..."

"Is playing a very complex game..."