Chapter 1110: Chapter 696: Feng
kilometers west of the Peak of All Mountains, within the Twin Tree Realm.
"Nai~~~" Accompanied by a graceful deer call, the snow-white Immortal Deer floated down.
The Dust Spirit Deer all raised their heads to look, some with joyful expressions, others with puzzled eyes.
Hadn’t the Bai Clan Leader just left not long ago?
They thought this farewell would last for months, but unexpectedly, the reunion came so suddenly.
As it turned out, the Immortal Deer were overthinking.
The noble and elegant Bai Clan Leader directly waved off the clan members and even instructed the Immortal Deer to lower their voices, not to disturb the master’s communication.
"Senior Sister, sorry for disturbing your cultivation." Du Yu tilted his body, looking at the woman meditating below him, "There’s a task."
Upon hearing the word task, Jiang Feng immediately floated up: "Junior Brother, there’s no need to apologize. Whether it’s a task or something else, if you need me, just call me."
With that, she turned and walked towards the Lion Bone Saber stuck in the ground.
Du Yu watched his senior sister’s back, his mind filled with doubts.
The reason I should apologize, of course, is not for disturbing your cultivation or taking you on a task, but for the content of the task.
Master Qing’s secrecy measures were very strict.
Until now, Jiang Feng hadn’t received the slightest hint of the news, so she naturally wasn’t prepared mentally.
Who knows what her reaction will be when she sees her hometown of yesteryears for the first time in a while.
Thinking of this, Du Yu sighed lightly in his heart: Ah...
At this moment, Jiang Feng had already arrived in front of the Lion Bone Saber and reached out to grasp the hilt.
These two slender bone sabers had blades nearly 2 meters long; including the bone handle, they were close to 2.4 meters.
The stark white bones were rather intimidating.
The effect of the Demon Soldier Array did not diminish its reputation; once unleashed, the Lion Bone Saber was enough to cleave stone and tear the earth!
Simply put, it could be understood as the Yue Mountain Lion clan’s Demon Skill· Earth Splitting Palm, with highly destructive power!
Jiang Feng extracted the Lion Bone Sabers, one in each hand: "Thank you for the gift, Junior Brother. I like it very much."
"As long as Senior Sister likes it." Du Yu approached on his deer, with an Illusory Ancient Bell floating in his palm, "Senior Sister, float up. We’ll be in high places."
"Yes!" Jiang Feng’s feet immediately wrapped in wind, entering a battle-ready state.
With the flicker of the Bell Shadow, the two and a deer returned right above the Bottomless Camp.
Jiang Feng’s body was tense, looking around, discovering that those floating around her were all her own people.
"Master Qing." Jiang Feng floated half a length down, respectfully greeting with her head slightly below Yang Qingqing’s.
Yang Qingqing looked at Jiang Feng and spoke softly, "Are you still accustomed to the Mountain Realm?"
"Accustomed. Junior Brother has been very attentive, providing for me and the Three Spirits Coin..." As she spoke, Jiang Feng slowly stopped speaking.
She slightly frowned, looking down at the camp area below.
Judging by the architectural style and layout, this was surely a Bottomless Camp, but...
Jiang Feng pursed her thin lips, her heart trembling slightly faster.
She recognized this place!
Looking around, Jiang Feng took in the vast military camp within kilometers of her line of sight.
Gradually, Jiang Feng tightened her grip on the bone saber’s hilt.
Her knuckles turned slightly white, blending with the color of the bone saber in her hands.
Indeed, as Du Yu thought, Jiang Feng, unprepared mentally, had a significant reaction.
Though Jiang Feng’s actions were subtle, Bai Yujing detected the intense trembling in her heart.
This veteran, entrenched in the Bottomless for 12 years, at this moment, forgot the words of conversation, her eyes slightly dazed.
In fact, to Du Yu and others, the environment below was nothing special.
But in Jiang Feng’s eyes, the Bottomless Camp below, the surrounding desolate mountains and wilderness, was a peaceful little town.
Shiyan Town twelve years ago, Wilderness Forest twelve years later.
On that midsummer night twelve years ago, the Bottomless Abyss quietly opened without warning.
The sleeping people, along with the city area of 5 kilometers in radius, were swallowed into the Bottomless Pit.
Just the collapse of buildings alone could take countless civilian lives, let alone when people fell into the abyss with the buildings.
To say something insensible, people dying in their sleep spared them lots of suffering.
Those within the collapsed city area, before they could react, had thick tree trunks and sharp branches piercing through the buildings.
While for those beyond the 5-kilometer radius, the nightmare had just begun.
The frenzied Youhan Trees shook their endless gray branches.
Masses of gray mist billowed outward, with Cold Beasts opening their blood-red eyes, roaring fiercely...
All kinds of sounds mixed with the cries of people, heart-wrenching screams, tearing through the silent night sky, enveloping what should have been a quiet and peaceful small town.
"Ha..." Jiang Feng deeply exhaled, her long sigh carrying a trace of trembling.
She certainly missed her hometown.
Even though...
Even though she had never returned.
Perhaps because performing tasks kept her too busy, leaving her no time to return.
Or maybe she didn’t want to return, or perhaps she dared not return.
But Jiang Feng always paid attention to this place, through mobile internet, television news, and many other ways, watching from afar.
She witnessed the broken town’s relocation, the leveling of the old site, and its eventual transformation into a camp and wilderness.
The scene was too recognizable for her to not recognize.
It should be there.
It must be there...
Jiang Feng looked southwestward, where there was a barren sand training ground.
Her eyes were full of memories; at the sand ground’s location, there once stood a 7-floor residential building. In room 701 on the seventh floor lived a family of four.
A father and mother in their forties, a sixteen-year-old sister, and a five-year-old brother.
In the pitch-black summer night, the lights in most houses were already out, and the people inside slept deeply.
"Crack! Crack!"
"Rumble..." The sudden sound of the earth cracking and collapsing roared like thunder.
In the girl’s chamber, she suddenly opened her eyes.
With the building tilting and collapsing, her body involuntarily rolled off the side of the bed.
The entire world was skewed.
The bookshelf, along with books, mingled with adorable Demon Pet figures, medals, and trophies, all crashed towards the bed.
"Hiss!!!"
Mud Soul Imprisonment suddenly sprung out of the girl’s body, its claws swatting the falling books, toppling the collapsing bookshelf.
"Dad! Mom... Mom!" The girl hurriedly summoned the Demon Pet.
"Flap flap flap~" The Celestial Flash Butterfly quickly assembled itself.
"Roo!" The Fire Orange Pig appeared abruptly, letting out a loud bellow.
"Fire! Fire up!"
In the pitch darkness, the girl shouted loudly.
"Roo!" The Fire Orange Pig, standing at a full height of 1.8 meters, ignited in blazing flames.
One of its hooves shot a burst of fire, blasting towards the falling wardrobe ahead.
"Mom, Dad... Xiaofeng!" The girl screamed in panic, angrily pushing the Fire Orange Pig upward.
Glory Gold· Fiery Flame Headbutt!
The burning pig’s head shattered the door of the bedroom, also smashing the piled-up furniture outside.
The Celestial Flash Butterfly landed behind the girl, trying hard to hold onto the owner, desperately flapping its wings.
The girl stepped on the window frame, pushed hard with her feet, and jumped upward, the Celestial Flash Butterfly suddenly spun, taking the owner out of the house and falling into the living room.
In the completely tilted world, the girl stepped on the wall and rushed straight for the master bedroom.
"Roo!" The Fire Orange Pig shattered the chaotic furniture before the door, the Mud Soul Imprisonment viciously tore apart the door of the master bedroom.
The heavy bed was tipped over against the wall, between the bed and the wall, came a cry of children.
"Xiaofeng!" The girl flew down swiftly.
She lifted the heavy bed with one hand and saw her parents leaning against the window, with her younger brother in their arms.
"Take Xiaofeng away, go quickly!" The middle-aged woman screamed heartbreakingly.
The man struggled to lift the 5-year-old child and handed it to the girl, "Quick, quick..."
"Bang!"
A Cold Wood tilted into the sky, piercing the tilted house vertically.
It shattered the two glass windows on the west side of the master bedroom, blasted through the wall of the master bedroom, and continued to stab upward.
The glass shards burst and flew, splattering all over the man.
"Together!" The girl leaned over to embrace her father and mother, with her 5-year-old brother in the middle, and jumped upward.
With a muffled "dung" sound and the sound of shattering, the Mud Soul Imprisonment smashed the collapsed wall above, but also caused the girl’s body to sink downward.
"Flap flap flap~" The Celestial-level Celestial Flash Butterfly tried its best to flap its wings, doing everything it could to drag the family of four upward.
"Roo!" The Fire Orange Pig reappeared.
This awakened Godslayer has never disappointed anyone.
It fell rapidly, a pair of pig’s hooves landed on the edge of the window, a pair of pig hands lifted the middle-aged couple, and leaped heavily with its feet.
"Rumble!"
At the moment when the Fire Orange Pig exerted its power to leap, the falling house crashed heavily onto a transverse Giant Tree.
The girl’s pupils constricted violently!
There wasn’t even time to react.
There wasn’t even time to react...
"Roo!!" The fiercely burning Fire Orange Pig, regardless of burning ordinary people, instinctively held the couple tightly in its arms.
The awakened Godslayer did not attack this time.
At the very last moment, the Fire Orange Pig used its chubby body to cushion the family of four, trying its best to protect the owner and guard the owner’s family.
"Hiss!" The Mud Soul Imprisonment roared, its hands wildly brushing off the falling stones, bricks, furniture, and broken wood...
The collapsing residential building crashing into the Youhan Giant Wood was no different from an egg striking a stone.
The collapsing building was instantly shattered upon impact, endless broken building stones fell into the abyss, accompanied by the screams and cries of people.
"Crack!"
"Tch!" The branches pierced like wood thorns, breaking through the Fire Orange Pig’s Battle Robe, penetrating its chubby body.
And the couple in its arms did not escape fate. Even without the wooden thorns, the ordinary couple had already been killed by the violent impact.
"Mom, Dad... Orange." The girl, dizzy from the fall, muttered in a trance.
The bones below made no response, nor any sound.
Only the Celestial Flash Butterfly behind the girl continued to spread its wings strenuously, together with the Mud Soul Imprisonment, guarding the owner’s back.
"Uh, uh..." Painful moans came from the girl’s embrace.
The girl held her groggy head, trying hard to open her eyes and look into her arms.
The young child was encircled in the very center, seemingly the safest place, but that small body was still squeezed enough to fracture bones and deform.
"Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng?" The girl hurriedly hugged her younger brother.
"Sister, I’m scared..." The tender child’s voice trembled with pain and carried a crying tone.
"Don’t be afraid, sister is here."
"The night is so dark, I’m scared again... so I secretly sneaked into Dad’s and Mom’s room to sleep together..."
"It’s okay, it’s okay." The girl’s eyes reddened, and a layer of mist rose in her eyes.
She carefully picked up the child, her legs trembling, wings behind her desperately flapping, "I’ll take you out right now, it will be okay, everything will be okay."
"Sister, it hurts a lot."
"You’re already 5 years old, you’re a man, Xiaofeng, sister is going to take you out soon, just a little more."
"It hurts so much, sister, I want mom, I..."
The boy’s voice grew softer and softer, his eyes gradually unfocused, breaths shallow and faint.
"Xiaofeng? Xiaofeng!!"
The last mental support faded away along with the life of the child in her arms.
In the Bottomless Abyss shrouded in cold mist and ashes, the cold branches swayed, the endless trees intertwined and collided, constantly threatening lives.
But none of that mattered anymore.
"Xiaofeng..." The girl tightly embraced her younger brother’s small body, the hot tears rolling down her dirty cheeks.
Also falling onto the painful face of her brother, who had left.
...
"Xiaofeng."
Jiang Feng stood motionless, staring vacantly at the distant battlefield.
"Xiaofeng?"
"Huh?" Jiang Feng suddenly awakened, raising his reddened eyes, looking up to see the gentle face of Master Qing.
Yang Qingqing reached down a hand, gently caressing Jiang Feng’s cheek.
She wiped Jiang Feng’s moist eyes with her fingers, softly saying, "It’s time for the mission."
Jiang Feng’s eyes were still clouded in a layer of mist, speaking in a deep voice, "Yes!"
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