Chapter 2571: Chapter 2574: I Truly Empathize
"Mr Jiang and Zuo Qingfei are friends?"
Zuo Lincheng looked at Jiang Chen in confusion.
Since Jiang Chen is here to fight for the Su Family, he should know the Zuo Clan is the opponent, so why would he help the Zuo Clan find someone to participate in the battle?
Su Lieyang and Su Qingpeng also looked at Jiang Chen with strange expressions.
"Not really friends, just happened to cross paths, saw him setting up a formation!"
Jiang Chen smiled lightly, then said seriously: "I understand the doubts in Senior Zuo’s heart. I asked Elder Su and Fire Phoenix about it. Whether it’s the Canglan Domain formation competition or the elixir competition, or even the combat competition, although the strongest will be determined, the family represented by that person will gain some benefits."
Glancing at Su Lieyang and Su Qingpeng, Jiang Chen continued:
"But the competition is not just about selecting one person to participate in the continent-wide competition; it’s about choosing many people. And the purpose of this selection, I think everyone knows well. Facing that race, I feel we should present our strongest formation. After all, the relationships here are too significant, and we shouldn’t deliberately conceal strong hands because of opposing factions."
Jin Ang, who had followed Zuo Lincheng and the others in silence, nodded repeatedly, showing a hint of appreciation in his gaze towards Jiang Chen.
"Hmph! Sounds nice! Just empty words!"
Zuo Qiqi coldly snorted within the formation, filled with resentment, as she had yet to find the hidden killing array within it and dared not break the formation, holding a belly full of anger.
Jiang Chen looked at Zuo Qiqi indifferently, once again ignoring her.
"Mr Jiang, your words seem to carry a sense of empathy."
Zuo Lincheng spoke softly, staring straight into Jiang Chen’s eyes.
Jiang Chen glanced at Zuo Lincheng, then turned to Jin Ming: "Do you know why Grandpa Jin takes such good care of me?"
"Why?"
Zuo Lincheng also looked at Jin Ming, his eyes filled with doubt.
Jin Ming smiled slightly, his gaze towards Jiang Chen carrying a hint of reminiscence.
"Back when I met Grandpa Jin, we argued a bit, debating whether the Gold-devouring Rat Clan was truly brutal or respectable!"
Jiang Chen smiled lightly, his eyes showing reminiscence.
"Hmm?"
Zuo Lincheng and the others were all startled, looking at Jin Ming with surprise.
"At the time, I asked him, ’The Gold-devouring Rat Clan is so brutal, aren’t you afraid?’"
Jin Ming smiled lightly: "The kid back then didn’t know I was one of the Gold-devouring Rat Clan. He said he thought the clan was respectable. I got interested and asked a few more questions. Unexpectedly, we discovered something we had not achieved as a clan but this kid managed to accomplish!"
"What?"
"What was it?"
Zuo Lincheng and the others were all surprised, looking at Jiang Chen.
"Didn’t Senior Zuo just ask if I felt empathetic?"
Jiang Chen smiled lightly: "Yes, I felt empathetic! Back when the Gold-devouring Rat Clan faced invasion by extraterritorial alien races, they fought bravely, swearing to protect their homeland to the death. My and Hu Zi’s hometown also faced invaders back then. However, it wasn’t extraterritorial alien races, but..."
"I don’t know how to describe it. To us, they weren’t from our world. Our hometown was in a separate realm. At that time, we didn’t know about the existence of the Void Nether realm. We merely believed our world was the only one in existence!"
Jiang Chen struggled to explain.
"An ancient independent space?"
Su Lieyang tentatively said.
"Pretty much! Our world was an independent space."
Jiang Chen nodded lightly: "At that time, the strongest in our world only had Unification Realm power."
"Unification Realm?!"
Everyone was dumbfounded. The strongest were only at Unification Realm, which... was too weak!
"Yes, only Unification Realm, but we had internal and external threats!"
Jiang Chen spoke softly: "Internally, the Nether Kui Snake sent a fragment of its Primordial Spirit intending to control our independent space."
"Nether Kui Snake!?"
Zuo Lincheng and the others exclaimed again.
"At that time, we united everyone in our space to eliminate the fragment of the Primordial Spirit of the Nether Kui Snake, which now seems quite weak but was an absolute colossus to us back then."
To eliminate it, three ancient strong cultivators in our space, standing at the pinnacle of power there, perished, leaving only bits of their Divine Souls uncertain if they could ever revive!"
Jiang Chen’s eyes showed grief, which quickly turned to hatred: "During those battles, batches of our space’s strongest fell, eventually defeating the Nether Kui Snake, yet more invaders appeared!"
"They opened a path to our space, attempting to invade and control our world. We resisted desperately. With the path’s opening, Spiritual Power flowed into our space, allowing many of our predecessors to break through. I too reached the Semi Divine Infant Realm during that time."
"The battles afterward were nothing short of brutal. We dealt only with life and bodies to withstand those invaders, viewed as outsiders by us back then."
Jiang Chen’s eyes were moist, and Yan Hu exuded a chilling killing intent.
Everyone sensed the intense battles in Jiang Chen’s words.
"In the last battle, our space had dozens of Divine Infant Realm experts, hundreds of Semi Divine Infant, and tens of thousands in Unification Realm. But by battle’s end, only a few Divine Infant Realm experts remained, the Semi Divine Infant Realm was almost obliterated, and scarcely a hundred cultivators above mid-Unification Realm were left!"
In that battle, all our space’s top combatants nearly perished! Fortunately, we repelled those bastards’ invasion and destroyed their opened path!"
Jiang Chen took a deep breath and looked at Yan Hu:
"At the last battle’s end, the final invading leader shattered the space, causing Hu Zi, my fiancée, my sister, and me to end up in the unfamiliar Void Nether Realm back then. It took me two years before I reunited with Hu Zi, yet I still haven’t found my fiancée and sister."
You ask, how could I not feel empathy?"
Everyone fell silent, aware of the ferocity of the extraterritorial alien races’ past attack on the Void Nether Realm, yet not being from that time, they couldn’t truly empathize.
Even though Jiang Chen experienced something similar but not the exact alien race invasion, it was close enough.
He certainly felt more empathy than any of them, fueled by hatred for those wanting to invade and dominate the Void Nether Realm!
