"Whoosh!"
Zhan Kong naturally knew this was dangerous, but this was the city he guarded.
Now that this demon wolf ran amok, if he could not sever its head, how could his heart find peace!
Zhan Kong had once been a rising star, but unfortunately, because he offended the Holy Court, his Zu Family's principal cultivation was sealed. Otherwise, he would have been able to slay this mere magic wolf by himself!
Precisely because of this, how could the pride belonging to him be lost here?
"Awooooo~~~~~~~~~!!!!"
Looking at Zhan Kong diving down, the Winged Azure Wolf also let out an angry roar. With no way to run, this beast also chose to trade life for life!
"Hoo!!"
Its already tattered, gigantic flesh wings flapped once again. Although taking off looked somewhat difficult, it exerted force with both legs and directly shot up into the air!
"Bang!!!p"
One wolf and one man collided across space!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~~!!!!"
Amidst the sweeping violent winds, the Yinmao Building and the buildings within a hundred meters around it completely turned into a ruin...
Yet right at the center of that storm, Zhan Kong's figure plummeted almost in a straight line!
Judging by his appearance, he should have already fallen unconscious...
Chen Ming and Ink Shadow's expressions both changed, but very quickly, they saw that at the place where the storm dissipated, the Winged Azure Wolf's body and its massive head were... severed!
Ink Shadow caught Zhan Kong the moment he was about to fall to the ground.
Chen Ming also arrived by his side shortly after.
"He's still alive..." Ink Shadow briefly checked Zhan Kong and then spoke.
Zhan Kong's strike just now undoubtedly exhausted the Magic Power in his body, which was why he had weakly fainted at this moment.
"Hoo... This kid from the Zu Family really is reckless!"
Chen Ming looked somewhat ashamed, then said, "I'll take him for treatment first. You go protect Chen Lang."
"Alright."
On the other side, Chen Lang and the others had already arrived inside the Mu Clan Villa.
The commotion over there was huge, perceptible from almost anywhere in Bocheng.
As the magical Qi waves in that area dissipated, Chen Lang already had a guess in his heart... This calamity should have ended!
Zhan Kong himself possessed the ability to fight the Winged Azure Wolf one-on-one, and in the original world, it was also after he recovered from his injuries that he went deep into the mountains to slay it.
Now with Chen Ming and Ink Shadow assisting, in Chen Lang's view, slaying the Winged Azure Wolf naturally wouldn't be difficult.
In fact, Chen Lang still underestimated a Commander level creature. Or rather, he somewhat underestimated just how formidable the vitality of a Commander level creature was!
Speaking of which, the reason Zhan Kong was able to re-enter the mountains and slay the Winged Azure Wolf in the original world was actually because his first life-risking battle left it severely wounded.
Yet he himself had also had a narrow escape with his life.
It was just that human recovery conditions were clearly much stronger than those of the Demon Clan.
This was also why during their second battle, the Winged Azure Wolf was slain and its head carried back to Bocheng...
About half an hour passed before Ink Shadow arrived at the Mu Clan Villa.
He had gone to the Safety Zone and also seen Mu Zhuoyun and the others. When he learned that Chen Lang had not come to the Safety Zone, his heart jumped right into his throat.
Fortunately, Chen Lang was safe!
Following the execution of the Winged Azure Wolf and the complete blocking of the Demon Beast entrances, even though this torrential rain had not yet stopped, this calamity could be considered to have finally ended.
As for the reconstruction of Bocheng and such, these were no longer things Chen Lang cared about.
Come to think of it, he didn't have much opportunity to care about them either; Chen Ming reported the events here to the family. Of course, there were also decisions regarding him that did not put his own safety first... Therefore, he was brought back toward the Imperial Capital that very day.
The Chen Clan.
As soon as he returned, Chen Lang was brought before Chen Jin.
Seeing Chen Lang return safe and sound, Chen Jin also relaxed quite a bit.
Chen Lang, however, looked at Chen Jin before him and took the lead to speak, "Does the Old Master feel that I was wrong in this matter?"
Hearing what Chen Lang said, Chen Jin, who had a bellyful of preaching, didn't quite know how to begin at this moment.
Was Chen Lang wrong? He was not wrong at all, and perhaps even acted very correctly. No matter which Great Clans it was, all of them needed the momentum of public opinion to push things forward.
This time, with Bocheng's crisis resolved, the Chen Family undoubtedly gained tremendous renown.
However... this required the premise that Chen Lang remained safe and sound.
What if he had met with some mishap??
Then these gimmicks might still be very important to the Chen Clan, but the losses would also be incomparably huge!
An extremely outstanding junior was the most important thing to every Great Clan.
Putting oneself in a dangerous place for the sake of unrelated commoners in a city?
This was simply sheer nonsense!
In the eyes of a power-holder among elite clans like Chen Jin, the lives of ordinary people had never been respected.
In fact, when most aristocratic elders stripped off their hypocritical skins, they were just like this...
The concepts of this world had actually always been skewed, one could even say they retained a trace of ancient ideology, especially since Chen Lang had stayed in this family for eighteen years, allowing him to feel it even more clearly.
The longer the family history, the more they felt they were born superior to others.
Undeniably, this was a cruel fact, yet Chen Lang could never integrate into it... He was just an ordinary mortal; he couldn't put on that kind of hypocrisy, let alone treat a human life like grass.
Yet words aside, this was not something he could change—at least for now, he did not possess that capability.
Chen Jin was silent for a long time before saying, "You weren't wrong, but I hope that next time, you won't get involved in such matters again."
Chen Lang was at an age of surging pride and possessed a chest full of grand ambitions.
It was simply that he hadn't been worn smooth by the edges of reality.
Chen Lang did not lower his head in compliance, but instead asked a rhetorical question, "Old Master, this request is very hard for me to agree to. After painstaking years of cultivation, if I don't strike when facing a similar situation, then what is the meaning of this day-and-night cultivation of mine?"
The meaning of cultivation...
In his view, the meaning of cultivation was naturally to stand up when the family needed it.
Yet since he was at this age, how could he not understand that this was selfish?
He was already someone deep in the mire, but to teach his own junior to be like this... As an elder, he truly couldn't bring himself to do it.
As the two looked at each other, another period of silence ensued.
Chen Jin was usually eloquent as well, but today he was somewhat speechless.
Seeing that he remained speechless for a long time, Chen Lang did not continue the topic, because in the end there was no answer.
"Old Master, I want to return to Bashu, enter the Chen Family's Lightning Pool, and complete my coming-of-age ceremony."
Showing similar tact, Chen Jin did not pursue the previous topic, but instead asked out of curiosity, "Why do you suddenly want to enter the Lightning Pool to cultivate now?"
You must know that previously, he had been urging Chen Lang to enter and cultivate inside for a period of time.
Yet Chen Lang had consistently shown no intention to go, and now that he went out for a trip, he instead came back wanting to enter and cultivate there?
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