Hearing this, Jiang Bei's heart sank sharply. Then he said, "Master has shown me kindness as weighty as mountains. This is my duty! I will do everything in my power to protect Master and escort him safely to the Tianyao Alliance! It's just..."
He paused, his sharp gaze sweeping over Cheng Poyue and Xiao Zhantian. "Prefect Cheng, Prefect Xiao, if those giants under the Devil Master launch an all-out assault, Dongyao City..."
Cheng Poyue waved a large hand and declared loudly, "Jiang Bei! Do not underestimate your two martial uncles! We may be old, but our bones have not gone soft! We are, after all, prefects who have governed our territories for many years! We may not be able to defend the entire Demon Realm, but if we stake our lives on it, we still have some confidence in holding this lone city of Dongyao, and the hundreds of thousands of surviving people within it, this patch of land for ten days to half a month! Besides, there is a city-protecting grand formation here. They will not breach it so easily! Just escort Old Qin back without worry!"
Jiang Bei looked deeply at the two of them. Then, without further hesitation, he nodded heavily. "All right. I'll set off at once!"
Qin Tianhong's injuries had reached such a grave extent that if he was not hurried back to the alliance, he truly might not survive.
Moreover, if Jiang Bei wished to handle the current chaos in the Demon Realm, his present Major Refinement Golden Immortal cultivation was still insufficient.
He needed to become stronger. He needed to break through to the Eternal Immortal realm.
And only the Tianyao Alliance possessed the cultivation method for that realm. He needed to return and see whether he could obtain it.
Jiang Bei turned