My Little Brother, You Finally Came

Lu Ying felt as if every bone in her body had shattered. She lay limp on the ground, her cheek burning with searing pain.

At some point, the sky had turned gloomy.

A fine drizzle came abruptly, at first only two or three drops.

But very quickly, it went from sparse to dense. Pattering raindrops fell to the ground, stirring up dust until they turned muddy, splashing onto her body and face.

Through the curtain of rain, she lifted her eyes with immense effort.

In the distance, she saw a figure dressed in a Moon White Long Robe walking toward her step by step, growing larger in her pupils.

The next moment.

That figure stopped before her and reached out with a pair of long, fair, well-defined hands, dragging her up by the hair by sheer force. Ignoring her agony and struggles, he hauled her off the ground like he was dragging a dead dog.

A voice as warm and smooth as jade sounded softly by her ear.

"Do you believe me? Even if I kill you here, that Nirvana Realm father of yours wouldn't dare seek revenge on me."

"On the contrary, if I kill you here and the news gets back to the Chen Family, in order to strangle the threat in its cradle, the Chen Family will take the first step and suppress your father."

Lu Ying's throat rolled. She struggled to lift her head, and her gaze met the face before her—delicate and handsome, with a pair of long, narrow eyes and the faintest smile at the corners of his mouth.

For some reason, she only felt a chill rush from her spine straight to the crown of her head.

"I..." She opened her mouth, yet she did not dare utter a single word.

This guy would really kill her!!

"So, learn to be a little smarter."

"The first lesson in life is learning to recognize your own status and strength."

"If I hear you gossiping again next time, I'll send you and your father to the Western Paradise together."

Chen Zhixing's palm lightly patted Lu Ying's cheek.

The next moment.

Under Lu Ying's deathly pale expression, a wisp of blue light spread from her wrist and wrapped around her entire body.

Lu Ying immediately vanished, shifted out of this Trial Land.

Chen Zhixing rose to his feet, then turned to look toward a dense forest in the distance where violent energy fluctuations kept surging.

"In this world, there are always people who think they hold all strategies in their hands, blindly confident."

Chen Zhixing murmured to himself, then immediately walked toward that forest.

"Haven't you been shouting every day that you want to find me? Fine, as you wish."

At the same time.

In Southern Frontier, not far from the Chen Family's Trial Land.

Inside an abandoned Broken Temple.

Hiss.

Streaks of incandescent array patterns emerged on the ground.

The next moment.

Two figures appeared out of thin air atop the array patterns.

"We're finally here."

Mo Qingyue let out a long breath. "Good thing the Dao Lineage has a Teleportation Array that goes directly to Southern Frontier. Otherwise, we really wouldn't have made it in time."

Then.

Mo Qingyue looked at Fei Long True Person beside her with a smiling expression and said, "Let's go."

Fei Long True Person raised a brow and smiled. "Your Highness is that confident you won't lose?"

Mo Qingyue shook her head, her face full of resolve. "It's not confidence that I won't lose. It's that I will definitely win."

"That guy has never disappointed me."

Hearing this, Fei Long True Person narrowed his eyes and said, "Oh? Then I truly am curious. This is the first time I've ever heard Your Highness give someone such high praise."

Mo Qingyue gently tucked a lock of hair by her forehead behind her ear. Hearing that, she only smiled faintly and did not answer.

The next moment.

The two of them looked toward the Chen Family's Trial Land. Their figures gradually faded, disappearing from this Broken Temple.

At the same time.

Above the Trial Land, over a sea of clouds.

A large rattan chair had been set on the deck.

Chen Tianchen sat with one leg crossed over the other, lounging comfortably in the large rattan chair. From time to time, he lifted a cup of steaming Spirit Tea from the chair's armrest and took a gentle sip.

Behind him stood a group of Chen Family disciples who had already been eliminated from the Trial Land.

Hiss.

A flash of light passed, and Lu Ying's figure appeared on the deck.

"Hmm? Miss Lu Ying?"

Chen Tianchen looked at the wretched-looking Lu Ying and was immediately shocked. "Wh-wh-wh-what bastard did this? How could they use such a vicious hand?"

"Zhaoguang Elder, quickly, give Miss Lu Ying a Spirit Treasure Pill."

"Yes, Fourth Master."

The white-haired, white-bearded Zhaoguang Elder hurriedly took a Spirit Treasure Pill specially used for healing from his sleeve pouch and handed it to Lu Ying to swallow.

Once the Spirit Treasure Pill entered her stomach, Lu Ying's complexion immediately improved.

"Miss Lu Ying, tell me, who laid such a heavy hand on you? Watch Uncle stand up for you!" Chen Tianchen hurriedly said.

Seeing this, Lu Ying only wore a complicated expression and gently shook her head.

No matter how Chen Tianchen pressed her, she kept her mouth shut and said nothing. Only at the very end did she softly say, "Uncle Tianchen, don't ask."

"This..."

Chen Tianchen nodded. Originally, he had not had much fondness for Lu Ying either. In fact, when he learned that Lu Ying had listed Chen Zhixing's faults to his face in the Family Head Main Hall, his heart had burned with fury.

Chen Zhixing was his own nephew!

How could he allow an outsider to humiliate him? It was just as well he had not been in the main hall that day, or he would have argued this little girl to death!

Only, the matter had already passed. If he went to fuss over it now, it would instead make him seem as if he cared greatly, as if he could not bear being insulted.

Therefore, the reason he had asked just now was nothing more than to do the superficial duties of an elder.

After all, Lu Yuan and the Chen Family could currently be considered allies. As the person in charge of this trial, if Lu Ying had been beaten into such a state and he still acted as if he neither heard nor asked, it would inevitably make him, as the senior party, seem somewhat ignorant of etiquette.

But since Lu Ying had said so herself, he simply went along with the slope to get off the donkey and could not be bothered to care.

"Counting the time, this trial should be ending soon, right?"

Chen Tianchen changed the subject and looked toward Zhaoguang Elder. "Who is still inside the Trial Land now?"

"Fourth Master, at present there are only three people left in the entire Trial Land. They are those two children, Zhaosheng and Zhixing, as well as a collateral disciple called Chen... oh, right, Chen Chou'er."

He paused.

Zhaoguang Elder continued, "According to the positions shown by the Bracelets, Zhaosheng and Chen Chou'er are currently close together. As for Zhixing..."

Zhaoguang Elder gave a wry smile. "After that child entered the Trial Land on the first day, he moved a little, then stopped in one position and has not moved again since."

Hearing this, Chen Tianchen laughed despite himself. "Haha, that fellow Zhixing is quite clever. He must know he isn't a match for the others, so he simply found a place to hide away."

"As for Chen Zhaosheng and Chen Chou'er..."

Chen Tianchen's brows furrowed. As a direct-line member of the Chen Family and the master of the Fourth Peak, he naturally knew the relationship between Chen Chou'er and Chen Zhaosheng.

For a moment, he faintly guessed something.

"Chen Chou'er... sigh, he's also a pitiful person."

Chen Tianchen shook his head and said, "Wait another half an hour, then end this trial."

"Yes."

Zhaoguang Elder nodded.

At the same time.

In the Trial Land, beside the Great Lake.

Amid the torrential rain.

Chen Zhaosheng stood in the air, his black hair dancing wildly, divine light constantly flickering in his eyes.

"A lowborn wretch is a lowborn wretch."

"Have you recognized the gap between you and me? Your so-called effort, or whatever else—before absolute talent, it isn't worth mentioning."

Chen Zhaosheng looked down from above and spoke coldly.

Beside the lake, a figure could be seen supporting himself with one hand on a broken blade, slowly and weakly kneeling onto the wet, soft mud of the lakeshore.

Streams of fresh blood continuously flowed from his chest, mixing with the rainwater, gradually forming a pool of blood beneath him.

Crack, crack.

The half mask covering his face, like a glass mirror dropped onto the ground, was instantly covered in countless cracks, then shattered with a bang.

Beneath the mask was a shocking face, covered in sinister black markings.

"How ugly."

Chen Zhaosheng shook his head and mocked blandly, "As a rat in the gutter, you should live in the gutter and never see the light. Don't delude yourself into thinking you can change your fate. No matter how hard a rat tries, it is still just a rat."

"Put away those naive ideas of yours. Listen properly to your mother and work hard at playing the role of a servant in the Chen Family."

The instant his words fell.

Clap, clap, clap.

A burst of applause rang out from the depths of the silent, dense forest.

The next moment.

"Mm, what a truly wonderful speech."

A handsome, refined figure dressed in a Moon White Long Robe walked out step by step from deep within the forest.

Chen Zhaosheng looked toward the sound. First his pupils shrank, then the corners of his mouth gradually hooked into an icy smile.

"My little brother, you finally came."