279: Chapter 279 The Brand of Su!

After a long time... their lips parted.

A strand of crystal-clear silver thread broke between their lips.

Su Feng smacked his lips imperceptibly, savoring the sensation from just now.

Not to mention, that [Concentration Rune Nail] on the girl's tongue, used to calm the mind, was truly a wonderful thing at a time like this.

The cool sensation mixed with the girl's unique fragrance, combined with Ji Ruxue's untaught, somewhat wild yet green and passionate response, was simply irresistible.

"I have to go..."

Ji Ruxue panted heavily, her chest heaving violently.

She took a deep look at Su Feng; those deep blue eyes, once unruly, were now filled with thick sorrow and reluctance.

"Wait."

Su Feng suddenly called out to her, looking at Ji Ruxue with burning eyes: "Before you leave, I want to do one thing."

"Hmm?" Ji Ruxue's eyes showed doubt.

Su Feng said no more and slowly raised his right hand.

"Buzz!"

Above his fingertip, a glimmer of deep blue spiritual light instantly condensed, turning into an extremely profound and precise miniature rune.

Then, under Ji Ruxue's startled gaze, Su Feng's finger passed through the gap in her battle suit and, with an irresistible Aura, lightly pressed onto her fair, flat lower abdomen!

"You?!"

Ji Ruxue's delicate body trembled violently as she looked at Su Feng in disbelief.

She wasn't shocked by Su Feng's suddenness, but by the power flowing at his fingertips!

It had only been a few short days! He had actually perfectly replicated her original [Physical Body Rune Inscription Method]?!

This kind of Heaven-Defying rune Comprehension Ability caused a sliver of strong expectation for his future to sprout within Ji Ruxue's despair.

"Sizzle..."

Accompanied by a very slight tingling sensation, Su Feng's finger moved rapidly across Ji Ruxue's lower abdomen.

In just a moment, the character "Su," written in a flamboyant style and emitting a faint purple-gold luster, was perfectly branded above her Dantian!

"This is..." Ji Ruxue looked down at the character, her face slightly flushing.

"Seeing the character is like seeing me."

Su Feng withdrew his finger and said faintly:

"No matter where you are, as long as you see this character, you can think of me."

"Okay..."

Ji Ruxue reached out and gently stroked the "Su" character mark on her lower abdomen.

She didn't use her Divine Sense to check if it contained any defensive or offensive power.

To her, that wasn't important.

She simply treated it as a form of remembrance, the only spiritual sustenance that could support her through her future life in that dark "cage."

"Squeak, squeak..."

Atop her head, the Treasure Hunting Rat "Zhi Zhi" let out anxious, urging sounds.

Ji Ruxue took a deep breath, completely hiding the weakness in the depths of her eyes.

She reached up and took "Zhi Zhi" down; though her heart was filled with all sorts of reluctance, she ultimately handed this Divine Beast that protected the Rune Clan's Luck, the Clan-Protecting Divine Beast, to Su Feng.

"I'll leave Zhi Zhi to you. It can help you find Heaven And Earth Treasures and also assist you in deducing runes."

Ji Ruxue took one last deep look at Su Feng, bit her red lips, and left her final farewell:

"You must come and get me!"

"I'll wait for you!"

The words fell.

"Swish!"

Dazzling spatial rune light erupted around Ji Ruxue, and she instantly vanished from the lakeside courtyard.

...

Above Tianshu City.

On the Rune Clan's main warship, the atmosphere was still suppressed to the extreme.

All the Rune Clan Elders looked ashen, waiting for the clan-extermination countdown to end.

Just as there was only half an incense stick of time left before the auspicious hour.

"Buzz—!"

On the bow deck, space distorted for a moment, and Ji Ruxue, wearing a black tight-fitting battle suit with long yellow hair, appeared out of thin air.

"Ruxue?! You're back?!"

Clan Chief Ji Fa saw Ji Ruxue, he was so excited that old tears flowed down his face; he was even more affectionate than if he had seen his own father, and he hurriedly went to meet her.

However, Ji Ruxue ignored his excitement.

She stood on the deck, coldly scanning the clansmen and Elders who were usually high and mighty but were now shivering in fear.

In her eyes, there was no longer the past rebellion and anger, replaced instead by a cold indifference and dead silence that had seen through everything.

Although she longed for freedom and extremely loathed this marriage alliance where she was treated as cargo, she was still surnamed Ji, and the blood of the Rune Clan flowed through her.

She could have walked away, but she could not sit idly by and watch her clansmen be slaughtered because of her.

Ji Ruxue walked silently to Ji Ruyan, who was slumped on the ground.

She leaned down and took the Big Red Bridal Veil, a symbol of marriage alliance and restraint, from the other's hand.

Under everyone's anxious gaze.

Ji Ruxue expressionlessly placed the red bridal veil over her head, covering her exotic face and completely closing off her last shred of expectation for this world.

"Clan Chief, let's begin."

From under the veil came Ji Ruxue's voice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

Like a pool of stagnant water, it could no longer produce any ripples.

From this moment on, besides that man, no one else in this world could make her say another word.

"Good! Good!"

Ji Fa felt as if he had been granted a grand pardon. He immediately channeled his Golden Immortal power and shouted toward the Su Family that towered into the clouds within the inner city of Tianshu City.

"The Rune Clan's Saintess Ji Ruxue comes to fulfill the marriage alliance agreement with the Human Race's Old Ancestor!"

"The auspicious hour has arrived! We have come to keep the appointment!"

This shout, mixed with the joy of surviving a disaster, exploded in the ears of the Myriad Races Diplomatic Mission.

Then.

Under the envious gazes of countless alien powerhouses.

The gates of Tianshu City's inner city swung open.

Su Feng stepped onto Seven-colored Auspicious Clouds, while the Human Race behind him operated Immortal Artifact Flying Chariots, soaring into the air in a grand procession and stopping in front of the Rune Clan's warship.

Like a soulless marionette, Ji Ruxue, supported by her maids, slowly stepped onto the Bridal Immortal Chariot that symbolized the highest power in the Three Thousand Upper Realms.

Watching the departing Immortal Chariot, the envoys of the myriad races sighed:

"This Rune Clan truly has dog-shit Luck. They actually managed to find this Saintess and bring her back."

"Indeed, being able to cling to the towering tree that is Old Ancestor Su, the Rune Clan's Luck for the next hundred thousand years is completely secured!"

However.

While everyone was cheering for this peerless wedding of a powerful alliance.

Sitting inside the Immortal Chariot, her vision obscured by the red veil, Ji Ruxue only clutched her lower abdomen tightly.

There, the "Su" character mark was slightly burning.

"So what if he's the Human Race's Old Ancestor..."

Ji Ruxue sneered under the red veil, her heart a scene of dead silence.

"Even if you get my person, don't even think about touching a single finger of mine. Tonight in the bridal chamber, at worst, I will sever my own Meridians; I will never let you have your way!"