Don't be fooled by Xu Jie's countless kills, his tendency to repay every grievance, and his ruthless methods. In truth, he valued gratitude deeply.
In his previous life, he had once owed a favor to his military instructor.
So after that instructor died, Xu Jie set out to find the child who had been trafficked away.
He spent two years going through countless life-and-death crises, wiping out more than a dozen zones.
After enduring every hardship imaginable, he finally rescued the instructor's only child and sent them to Huaxia.
A debt of a single meal must be repaid!
By saying this to Chu Mingyue now, Xu Jie had clearly made an enormous resolution.
Perhaps Chu Mingyue did not know just how much weight Xu Jie's words carried.
Without exaggeration, from then on, Chu Mingyue's affairs would be Xu Jie's affairs, and Chu Mingyue's grudges would be Xu Jie's grudges.
Anyone who dared touch Chu Mingyue or the Chu Family, Xu Jie would kill at any cost!
As for the issue of Chu Mingyue being an M and definitely clinging to him in the future...
Xu Jie felt it was nothing much. If Chu Mingyue was willing, he could reluctantly try being an S!
After meeting Xu Jie's unwavering gaze for a while, Chu Mingyue finally sighed and nodded. As though compromising, she slowly said,
"I don't know much... The Fang Family of Central Prefecture was a great family second only to our Chu Family. They were once immensely illustrious, but later they were charged with the grave crime of colluding with Outer Regions gods, and then..."
"Charged?"
"Yes. Actually, we all knew the Lu Family had framed them. Their methods were crude and despicable, but because the Lu Family had an ancestor on the verge of breaking through to godhood, everyone simply turned a blind eye. Later, once the matter was settled, the Lu Family used methods to cover it up... What is it? Do you know someone from the Fang Family?"
"I... don't know."
Xu Jie could not be certain whether his mother was truly a member of the Fang Family.
If she was, then he and the Lu Family shared a blood feud as deep as the sea—or rather, he shared one with a family that had a half-step god.
Even if she was not...
The Jiang Family coveted Xu Jie's Little Black, and before long, they would come to Jincheng City to cause him trouble. That was also a major headache.
"Instructor Chu, do you know Jiang Yan?"
"..."
Upon hearing that name, Chu Mingyue's expression became complicated and strange. There was hatred, fury, and guilt within it, like a dye shop had been opened.
In the end, Chu Mingyue put away all those expressions and nodded calmly.
"I know him! He is recognized as one of Central Prefecture's prodigies. I heard he has already cultivated to the peak of the third-grade Bone Forging Realm!"
"Oh."
A prodigy at the peak of third grade!
Interesting!
He had truly gotten himself into a whole heap of trouble. If they were not third grade, then they were fourth grade; there might even be a half-step god!
It seemed he had no choice but to leave the school tonight and hunt demons outside the city.
If he did not go, it would be no different from slow suicide!
After clarifying a few matters, Xu Jie turned and left without the slightest reluctance!
Chu Mingyue froze. She had actually wanted to ask Xu Jie whether he wanted to have dinner together. She could tidy herself up quickly and would not make him wait long.
Before Chu Mingyue could ask, Xu Jie, who had already left, suddenly stopped. Without turning his head, he said,
"Thank you, Chu Mingyue! I hope you can help me... look into the Fang Family. I would be endlessly grateful!"
"Alright!"
Chu Mingyue withdrew her jade-like hand, which had been about to stop him, and watched Xu Jie leave in a daze. A blush could not help rising on her lovely face.
After parting from Chu Mingyue, Xu Jie looked up at the sky, then turned toward the standalone dormitory building.
Killing the Xu siblings did not mean this matter was over!
Next, he still had to face the Jiang Family members and Xu Bin, the father of the Xu siblings.
These people all wanted to kill him and obtain the treasure his father had left behind—Little Black.
Although Xu Jie already knew what treasure his father had left behind.
He still needed to retrieve his father's belongings.
Striding into the standalone dormitory, Xu Jie asked several fourth-year students he encountered along the way and learned where the Xu siblings lived.
When those fourth-year students faced Xu Jie now, they were no longer as arrogant as before.
Each of them was as docile as a rabbit; even their gazes had become much clearer.
Reaching the Xu siblings' residence, Xu Jie kicked the door open and walked inside with a calm expression.
The moment he entered, he noticed something wrong with the room...
Those two siblings couldn't have been... doing that, could they?
Outrageous!
It was not that Xu Jie was maliciously speculating. Everything in the room was simply far too obvious.
The siblings apparently barely cleaned their room at all. If Xu Jie could not see it, that would truly be seeing ghosts.
What a wild player, the Jiang Family's fiancée!
Or perhaps... this was simply the rhythm of the High Martial World?
Did everyone play like this, as open as Southeast Asia had been in his previous life?
Xu Jie clearly remembered encountering quite a few warlords in his previous life. Their antics had been utterly absurd.
Sisters#, mothers and daughters#, uncles and nieces#, even three generations of a single family without leaving a single one out...
Looking at it now, the High Martial World was no less outrageous in that regard!
Shaking his head with a soft laugh, Xu Jie entered the Xu siblings' room, found the belongings of his father that they had stolen, packed them up, and took them away.
Back in his own dormitory, Xu Jie laid out all of his father's belongings before him and frowned as he examined every clue.
An old-fashioned alloy battle saber, battered and chipped, had already been taken apart.
Several pieces of clothing his father often wore had their cuffs torn to shreds.
There was also a registered credit-point card!
There were no useful discoveries...
Xu Jie frowned slightly and habitually scratched Little Black's head, which was hanging from his finger.
In the end, he smiled helplessly, took out a box, and prepared to put away all of his father's belongings.
The next moment, as Xu Jie's several blood-stained fingers brushed over one of his father's shirts, something miraculous happened.
Several incomplete words appeared on the shirt stained with a trace of blood.
Xu Jie keenly noticed this, then realized something.
He hurriedly peeled away the nearly scabbed blood on his fingers and smeared the shirt with the blood on his hand.
As Xu Jie soaked the entire shirt in blood, a picture and several passages of writing emerged on its back.
It was a picture of a young man and woman embracing while holding a baby!
The young man in the picture bore a ninety-percent resemblance to Xu Jie's father, while that young woman...
Was she his mother?
Xu Jie stared fixedly at the young woman's face, as if he wanted to carve her appearance into his mind.
After a long while, Xu Jie took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, and lowered his head to look at the small writing below.
"Little Jie, when you see these words on the clothes, Father should already be dead!"
"But do not be afraid. Father has left you a treasure—a treasure that originally belonged to our family but was stolen by others!"
"Your mother died because of it... Father endured for many years and finally seized this opportunity to take that treasure back. With that thing, your martial foundation can be rebuilt, though the effect may not be as good as it was at the beginning..."
"Remember, Little Jie, your mother's surname was Fang. She was the Fang Family of Central Prefecture's second daughter, named Fang Ya!"
"Father does not hope that you will do anything for us. He only wants you to live well. You also do not need to inquire into the Fang Family of Central Prefecture. Those matters have nothing to do with you..."
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