"Senior Brother Chen..."

Zhou Chen found Chen Yunpeng, who had fainted, and patted his face.

After several pats, Chen Yunpeng's muscles tensed, his eyelids opened, and a glint of light flashed in his eyes.

He only relaxed when he saw that it was Zhou Chen swaying in front of him.

"Junior Brother Zhou?!" He blinked, as if he were looking at a dead man. "You're still alive?"

After escaping through the golden passage, Chen Yunpeng and Gao Tian waited for Yi Yan to appear.

Only at the very end did they see Zhou Chen fall from the sky like a meteorite, and they were stunned by a sonic boom that went straight to their souls, without even confirming whether Zhou Chen was dead or alive.

Zhou Chen pulled him up and said with a smile, "Luckily, God isn't planning to take me away yet."

Without exchanging many pleasantries, the two woke up one by one the people beside them who had been stunned by the soul-stirring roar of the Eternal Mother.

Upon waking up and seeing the terrifying figure above Xingde County disappear, everyone's hearts finally settled down.

Some people squatted down and covered their heads, some knelt on the ground, and some turned their backs, not daring to look at Xingde County in the distance again.

No one spoke, only suppressed breathing and occasional sobs.

Zhou Chen stood in the crowd, without saying a word.

"Junior Brother Zhou, where do we go next?" Gao Tian asked Zhou Chen with a sad expression.

In a single day, everything changed.

The vast Xingde County was reduced to ashes, and only these few thousand people survived.

Zhou Chen's strength and character displayed today are enough for everyone at the Crimson Flame Martial Arts Academy to regard him as their backbone, even the mature and steady Gao Tian is no exception.

"Perhaps someone will come to pick us up soon." Zhou Chen felt the ground shaking and skillfully integrated his divine sense into the earth's veins.

Before long, they discovered that several miles away, squads of soldiers clad in black armor were rushing towards them. These were the Xijiang Guards who had been floating in the sky and fighting the terrifying blood-red phantom before they fainted.

Immediately afterwards, the ground shook more and more violently, and even the sound of clothes fluttering in the wind could be heard as people moved quickly.

Gao Tian looked at Zhou Chen with surprise, then quickly calmed down.

Since Zhou Chen joined the Crimson Flame Martial Arts Academy, he has brought far too many surprises, and he has long since become accustomed to them.

Tatata!

"There's someone in the distance!"

"Judging from their disheveled appearance, they must have fled from inside the city!"

"Quickly! Ask if anyone knows the whereabouts of the official seal. Don't keep the lord waiting!"

The sound of hurried conversation reached Zhou Chen's ears.

"Captain, what would happen if the official seal were lost?" A young-looking warrior from the Xijiang Guard asked curiously.

Zhao Heng moved with lightning speed, covering a distance of dozens of feet in the blink of an eye.

Hearing his subordinate's question, Zhao Heng's face lit up with reminiscence.

"In recent years, there have been no cases of official seals being lost, except for an old incident from ten years ago that can be used as a reference."

He kept walking, and his words were carried by the wind to his subordinates' ears.

"Ten years ago, when pirates attacked, the magistrate of Linhai County activated the official seal formation to protect the million people in Linhai County. He himself also survived by chance and even merged with a trace of the fortune of Linhai County within the official seal." Zhao Heng couldn't help but shudder when he thought of this, even with his high cultivation level of True Qi Realm.

"In the end, this person not only did not receive any reward, but was also taken to the capital. The then Left General, Marshal Long Xuan, personally took action to abolish his cultivation and used the Heavenly Fire Refining Technique to strip away that wisp of Linhai County's fortune and return it to his official seal."

"If the official seal is undamaged and can be retrieved successfully today, everything will be fine," Zhao Heng said solemnly. "But if the official seal is damaged and the fortune is scattered, neither the Wusheng Sect nor the martial artists of our Great Qian will escape the same fate."

The Xijiang Guards behind Zhao Heng were startled.

"Wasn't the Heavenly Fire Refining Technique banned because it was too cruel?" someone asked.

Zhao Heng glanced at the person who had asked the question, his gaze turning cold, the warning evident in his words, "Do not speak recklessly about the imperial family."

In an instant, the entire team fell silent, with only the whistling wind remaining.

After a while, the Xijiang Guards, clad in black armor, finally came into the view of Gao Tian and the others.

Zhao Heng gestured to stop his subordinates and strode over.

He was about thirty years old, with a resolute face, and his black armor was spotless, clearly indicating that he had reached a level of true qi that was difficult to be enhanced by external factors.

"Did you all escape from Xingde County?" The captain clasped his hands in greeting, his gaze sweeping over the crowd, his tone urgent.

"I am Zhao Heng, commander of the Xijiang Guard, and I have been ordered by the prefect to search for survivors within the city."

"May I ask where Magistrate Chen Wu of Xingde County is? And where is his official seal?"

A barrage of words came out like a machine gun, but without the slightest hint of being aggressive.

"Captain Zhao, I am Chen Wen from the Chen family of Xingde, and Chen Wu is my son." Chen Wen stepped forward, clasped his hands in return, and showed a hint of joy on his face.

"Where is Chen Wu?" Zhao Heng's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this, and he asked.

"Uh..." Chen Wen paused for a moment, then large tears suddenly slid down his cheeks. His voice was choked with sobs. "My son, my son activated the great array engraved in the official seal to save us common people, and he died from his own body exploding."

"What!" Zhao Heng's pupils shrank sharply, and a hint of imposing aura was revealed in his emotional fluctuations, making everyone's breath catch in their throats.

"Then! Where is the official seal?"

"Could it be that it has fallen into the hands of those treacherous members of the Wusheng Sect?!"

Zhao Heng's heart sank. Before setting off, Cheng Jue had said that Xingde County's fortune had not been lost and the official seal had not been taken away by that terrifying monster.

It's better to be safe than sorry.

If the official seal is lost, the situation will become even more serious.

"Official seal...this official seal..." Chen Wen paused, unsure how to respond.

In the final moments, he and several other awakened martial artists, including Li Mingde, stepped into the golden passage and were teleported here, but no one knew the whereabouts of the official seal.

"Speak quickly!" Zhao Heng, seeing Chen Wen hesitate, drew his sword three inches from its sheath at his waist, exuding a chilling aura. "Who was the last person to come into contact with the official seal?"

Faced with the overwhelming aura of Zhao Heng, a master who was a whole realm above him, Chen Wen's body immediately went limp and he fell to the ground.

"It was Zhou Chen! Zhou Chen was the last person to come into contact with the official seal!"

He lowered his head, a hint of resentment flashing in his eyes.

After escaping through the golden passage, those below had already explained the relationship between the Chen family and Zhou Chen in detail.

If it weren't for Chen Wu's incident, the Chen family might have been able to maintain a good relationship with Zhou Chen and plan for development, thanks to Chen Yunpeng's influence.

However, after Chen Wu activated the formation, he wanted to drag Zhou Chen down with him, thus creating a blood feud between the Chen family and Zhou Chen.

Others are experienced and shrewd, and they don't expect a young and impetuous genius like Zhou Chen to let the Chen family off the hook.

I'm afraid that Zhou Chen will take action against the Chen family soon after he recovers.

With a thought that flashed through his mind, Chen Wen leaned to the side and glanced at the crowd of people from the Crimson Flame Martial Arts School not far away.

"that is……"

"Yes……"

His pupils contracted, and he blinked as if he had seen a ghost.

"It was just here a moment ago?" Chen Wen asked incredulously.

At this moment, Zhao Heng, who was standing to the side, showed a hint of impatience.

He followed Chen Wen's gaze and walked to Gao Tian and the others, his black armor clanging.

Where is Zhou Chen?

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