The Journey Home

As soon as Su Ye emerged, he circulated his spiritual energy and cast the Water Shield Technique in front of himself. Then he used the Ice Arrow Technique. Several ice arrows appeared out of thin air and shot swiftly toward the space between the burly men's brows!

The burly men were clearly startled by Su Ye's sudden appearance. Then they saw a blue shield appear in front of the young man, followed by several ice arrows materializing out of thin air and hurtling toward them!

"Whoosh!"

"Bang!"

The ice arrows pierced the men's foreheads in an instant. In the brief moment of confusion, only two of them managed to react and fire at Su Ye, but both shots were clearly blocked by his Water Shield Technique!

Their skulls pierced by the Ice Arrow Technique, the eight burly men fell to the ground and soon stopped breathing!

To tell the truth, this was Su Ye's first time killing anyone, but he felt no revulsion. Of course, that was also because the men had all been killed instantly by a single use of the Ice Arrow Technique, sparing him any sickening sights.

Su Ye dismissed the Water Shield Technique and brought Xiao Xiao out!

The battle had lasted only a dozen or so seconds from beginning to end. At most, a few minutes had passed inside the Immortal Spirit Space, and Xiao Xiao was still unconscious!

Su Ye laid Xiao Xiao beneath a tree and walked over to the burly men. Each of them had a finger-thick wound in his forehead, with flecks of white frost forming around it and freezing the hot blood flowing from it!

Su Ye picked up their guns and tossed two rifles and a pistol into the Immortal Spirit Space, then set the remaining guns aside!

Only after finishing that did Su Ye come to Xiao Xiao's side and squat down. He took a bowl of spiritual energy water from the Immortal Spirit Space and fed it to her!

After a little while longer, Xiao Xiao finally woke up in a daze!

Xiao Xiao opened her eyes and rubbed the back of her head. Then she sprang to her feet with a start and looked around!

She saw Su Ye standing to one side, watching her with a faint smile. At that moment, Xiao Xiao also saw several people sprawled haphazardly on the ground nearby. Clearly, Su Ye had subdued the criminals!

It was just a pity that she hadn't seen Su Ye in action. That damned Su Ye, couldn't he have taken them out while I was awake?

"Are you all right?"

Su Ye put away his smile and asked Xiao Xiao seriously.

"What could happen to me? What about you? You're not hurt, are you?" Xiao Xiao asked in return.

"What could happen to me? Against a few rotten fish and shrimp like these?" Su Ye said, full of himself.

"That's true. You're so amazing, they definitely couldn't beat you!" Xiao Xiao said, looking at Su Ye with admiration!

Wait, I was just showing off. How could you take it seriously? Su Ye wondered.

"So, what level was the strongest of them?" Xiao Xiao asked.

"Huh? I don't know. I killed them all in one move!" Su Ye said.

When he finished speaking, Su Ye saw Xiao Xiao looking at him with admiration in her eyes. He shuddered, pointed at the corpses lying on the ground, and asked uncomfortably:

"What do we do with them?"

Xiao Xiao brushed back her hair and shook her head blankly.

"How would I know?"

Well, that was a waste of breath. What would a young lady from a wealthy family know about this?

Su Ye touched his forehead, at a loss for words. He walked over to the burly men, squatted down, and pulled the muscular leader's hood off with distaste.

"Just as I thought, he's American!"

Su Ye exclaimed.

The burly man whose hood had been removed had a face covered in beard and a head of blond hair. He looked every bit an American.

Su Ye then searched the muscular leader and found a lighter, a pack of unfamiliar cigarettes, a stack of US dollars, and an iron token engraved with a snake!

Su Ye placed the items in front of Xiao Xiao, picked up the iron token, and asked her:

"Do you know what this is?"

Xiao Xiao took the iron token and examined it carefully before handing it back to Su Ye and venturing a guess.

"I don't know. Maybe it's the emblem of some faction."

Su Ye handed the iron token to Xiao Xiao and said:

"Keep it. When you get back, have your grandfather look into where it came from!"

"Okay!"

Xiao Xiao took the iron token and tucked it safely into her pocket.

Su Ye then threw all the burly men lying on the ground into the pickup truck. He drained the fuel from its tank and poured it all over the vehicle.

After clearing a firebreak on the ground, Su Ye lit a small wooden stick and threw it toward the fuel-soaked pickup truck!

"Boom!"

The little flame caught the fuel, and the fire immediately engulfed the entire pickup truck!

Once the fire had burned out, only wreckage remained on the ground. Su Ye drove off in the black sedan with Xiao Xiao, never looking back. They traveled farther and farther away until they vanished at the end of the road.

By the time Su Ye and Xiao Xiao returned to Lingnan, it was already past midnight. At Xiao Xiao's enthusiastic insistence, Su Ye had no choice but to spend the night at her villa.

Early the next morning, Xiao Xiao got up and made breakfast herself in the kitchen!

Since Su Ye had done almost all the driving the previous day, Xiao Xiao had already slept in the car. She wasn't sleepy, and in fact, she hadn't fallen asleep until the early hours of the morning.

A little while later, Su Ye got up too! He was wearing Xiao Xiao's little dinosaur pajamas!

Su Ye had worked up quite a sweat the previous day and hadn't brought any pajamas. By the time they returned to Lingnan, it was already late at night, and the shops were all closed, so he couldn't buy any!

Xiao Xiao told him she had never worn the pajamas since buying them and gave them to Su Ye. Seeing that there was no other option, he made do with them!

"Su Ye, why are you up already?"

Xiao Xiao, who was making breakfast in the dining room, saw Su Ye yawning and stretching on the balcony and asked.

"Hm? Oh, I'm used to getting up early!"

Su Ye replied.

In fact, now that Su Ye was at the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, he wouldn't feel particularly sleepy even if he went two or three days without closing his eyes to sleep.

"Now that you're up, come down and have breakfast!" Xiao Xiao called.

"Oh, okay. I'll come down after I change!" Su Ye replied.

Sitting at the dining table, Su Ye looked at the breakfast Xiao Xiao had made and asked her:

"When did you get up? You made such a big spread?"

"Not long ago. Most of this was in the freezer. I just took it out and heated it up."

Xiao Xiao explained.

After breakfast, Xiao Xiao drove Su Ye out of the villa and headed toward a car dealership.

"Huh? Weren't you going to take me back? Where are we going?"

Seeing that Xiao Xiao wasn't driving toward Nanping Town, Su Ye asked.

"I'm taking you to pick up your new car!"

Xiao Xiao replied.

"My new car? What new car?"

"Your payment for protecting me this time! I ordered it yesterday. I'll take you to pick it up!"

"But I already have a car!" Su Ye said.

"Oh, come on, that pickup of yours is for hauling things. I ordered you a sports car!"

"A sports car?"