Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 352: Abandoning One's Martial Arts
"The city walls are locked up as the light and shadow of the sun rise and fall."

Shen Jichi muttered to himself, then suddenly sensed something amiss behind him. He turned around and saw Gu Jingnian and Pei Nian suddenly appear there.

He immediately smiled slightly and said, "You've finally arrived."

Upon hearing the word "finally," Gu Jingnian realized that Shen Jichi had done it on purpose.

"Looks like I didn't disappoint you?"

"Yes." Shen Jichi nodded in satisfaction. "You did even better than I expected."

Pei Nian said, "You deliberately sent Gu Jingnian to find Xun Yan because you expected Xun Yan would activate the furnace, so that you could be sucked here from your place of imprisonment and then find a way to escape?"

“That’s right, this is part of my plan,” Shen Jichi said.

"Aren't you afraid of getting trapped here and actually being refined?"

Shen Jichi picked up the wooden plaque in his hand and shook it, saying, "I have found a way to escape. What Qiu Funan can do, I can do too."

He was extremely confident.

Qiu Funan was his defeated opponent. Back then, it was he who led the army to destroy the Yue Kingdom and captured countless Yue people to be put into this furnace. After Qiu Funan escaped, it was he who was responsible for investigating the reason.

He certainly dared to take the risk himself and seek a chance to escape from this furnace.

"It's you guys who found me so quickly that I'm truly surprised," Shen Jichi said. "I was actually thinking of going to see you."

Pei Nian could sense that Shen Jichi was in much better condition than Gu Jingnian, which made her worried. So she said, "Gu Jingnian promised to release you after rescuing Fourth Sister, so why are you going to such lengths?"

“I do believe him,” Shen Jichi chuckled, “but it seems you haven’t fully grasped my purpose yet.”

"What is your purpose?" Pei Nian asked.

Gu Jingnian suddenly shouted, "Stop this furnace!"

At this moment, more and more superhumans were being sucked into the furnace. Most of them were prisoners that Gu Jingnian had kept in the underground refining field in Jusai City, but the superhumans outside the refining field could also be seen.

It is easy to imagine that the city of Jussai was in complete chaos, shaking as if it were a cave.

However, Shen Jichi was not the type to obey Gu Jingnian's orders. Upon hearing this, she looked at Gu Jingnian with disdain and cold eyes.

Will I answer you?

Beams of light from the furnace were already wrapping around Gu Jingnian.

Pei Nian hugged Gu Jingnian, trying to block the beams of light with her body, but it was no use. The beams still passed through her and pierced into Gu Jingnian's flesh.

Gu Jingnian fell to the ground in pain.

Pei Nian quickly helped him up and said to Shen Jichi, "Marquis Wuding, we'll just let you go. Why continue refining it? It's risky for you."

She is better at dealing with people than Gu Jingnian.

After asking the question, she observed Shen Jichi's reaction and noticed from the subtle details of his expression that he did not have any worries about being refined.

Either he is skilled at controlling his expressions without giving himself away, or he has a way to avoid being refined.

“I’m not taking the risk,” Shen Jichi said. “You can take the risk yourselves.”

After saying that, he casually threw the wooden sign at the two men and slapped them a few times, hitting the people surrounding him.

With a muffled thud, he killed those men on the spot. He picked up a corpse in each hand and casually slung it on the ground. The corpse, which was originally limp, stiffened when he touched it and soon formed the shape of a door.

"correct."

Just as Shen Jichi was about to take a step, he suddenly remembered something and said, "If you've thought it over and want to be my son-in-law, you can come find me."

Having said that, he stepped through the door made of corpses and disappeared.

"He went over there?" Pei Nian asked, somewhat surprised.

In her opinion, although both were furnaces, the other one was obviously more dangerous and harder to escape from, since Xun Yan had said that Qiu Funan had escaped from Jusai City.

Of course, they can ignore Shen Jichi for now; protecting themselves is enough.

"I'll take you out."

Pei Nian helped Gu Jingnian up and looked up, trying to find an exit.

Above them, gasps of surprise rang out incessantly, but not noisily, because all the strange people sucked into the furnace quickly became drowsy and could only utter soft groans.

Only someone with extraordinary willpower like Shen Jichi, or some weaker superhumans, can have some control over themselves.

“We’ll go that way.”

This time, Pei Nian quickly noticed something unusual and pointed with some surprise to a broken spot on the furnace wall.

Gu Jingnian looked up and suddenly understood something, muttering, "No wonder Ye Liunian can use his supernatural abilities inside the furnace."

He had already recognized that this was the furnace deep beneath the Jusai City refining ground, which had once refined a group of extraordinary people from Yong Kingdom, but Ye Liunian escaped.

However, the last time it was a man-made refining process, but this time the scale is incomparable.

But we can still try. Once we reach the damaged area, see if he can use his teleportation technique to take Pei Nian away. "Okay, let's go..."

At this point, Gu Jingnian paused for a moment, then changed his tone and said, "Let's go back."

"go back?"

Pei Nian followed Gu Jingnian's gaze and saw a graceful figure fly into the furnace, quickly enveloped by beams of light.

The figure was beautiful, and she couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache when she saw the other person droop their head in dejection.

Then, Pei Nian realized that it was Feng Niang.

As Xun Yan said, this time the altar was opened, and it was refining the entire cave and everyone in the entire city of Jusai.

She then realized that Gu Jingnian wanted to go back in order to catch up with Shen Jichi and find a way to stop the furnace.

"They're all here..."

Gu Jingnian weakly raised his hand and pointed to the many people who had just been sucked into the furnace.

Gu Jize, Zhao Boheng, Miao Chunniang, Gao Changgan, Lao Hei...

“If we flee, we might be able to escape, but these people, I must save them, I will try to save them.”

When pointing to the group of people, Gu Jingnian did not deliberately avoid mentioning Feng Niang, but he did add a sentence.

“They are all my relatives and friends.”

"it is good."

Pei Nian knew that Gu Jingnian's actions were not solely to save Feng Niang.

She knew he had been a loner since childhood, and that having these relatives and friends now meant a great deal to him.

"Let's go back."

Only Pei Nian could quickly understand Gu Jingnian's feelings under such circumstances and immediately decide to go on the adventure with him.

Almost without hesitation, the two held hands and walked toward the door made of corpses.

The bodies of those who had just died were twisted in bizarre postures, staring straight at the two with stiff, mournful eyes, creating an inexplicable sense of terror.

Walking towards them felt like walking towards death; it was hard to imagine that it was a door.

But Pei Nian didn't think too much when she walked over. She kept an eye on Gu Jingnian to see if he glanced at Feng Niang again when he left.

Although she supports and understands Gu Jingnian, she is actually a little concerned about whether Gu Jingnian has feelings for Feng Niang.

Just a little bit.

Therefore, she didn't have much doubt about whether the door made of corpses was passable.

The two descended the steps again, and with a flash of light, they found themselves inside the large furnace they had just been in, with all sorts of strange beasts floating above it.

The beam of light quickly entangled Gu Jingnian again.

Where is Shen Jichi?

"there."

They thought that Shen Jichi must have a way to escape if he dared to return here, but when they looked, they saw that Shen Jichi was just sitting cross-legged.

He sat in the very center of the stove, hands raised high, eyes closed, expression devout, muttering incantations.

The movement was somewhat strange, resembling the magical powers that command wind and rain, or perhaps the act of burning incense and praying.

"What are you doing?!" Pei Nian stepped forward and shouted.

She had a vague premonition that Shen Jichi's actions might be very detrimental to Gu Jingnian.

Pei Nian acted decisively and decided to stop Shen Jichi. As she stepped forward, she vaguely heard Shen Jichi's murmured whispers.

"Release my spirit, relinquish my supernatural abilities..."

In a moment, the flowing beam of light gathered in front of Shen Jichi. He reached out and grasped it, and the beam of light became like a sword blade.

"puff."

Without hesitation, Shen Jichi plunged the light blade into his own heart.

He swayed a few times, and his face turned deathly pale.

In just a moment, as if all his energy and spirit had been drained, he quickly withered away.

But not only did he not die, the beams of light that were wrapped around him disappeared.

Pei Nian didn't stop her movement and kicked Shen Jichi, knocking him to the ground. Shen Jichi didn't fight back, coughed twice, and then laughed.

"Ha. Now, I've become a mortal too."

(End of this chapter)