Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 592 - 24 The Unique Bubble

Li Yan carefully extracted the fragile Golden Sky Nine Card from the chunk of flesh.

[Unique Bubble]

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Note one: It only comes into existence on the spirits of all things in Heaven Jiazi Nine, and has absolutely nothing to do with all the matter, time, and space in Yan Fu—a truly unique bubble.

Note two: This bubble is on the verge of bursting, and only some of Yan Fu’s secret treasures, the Three Souls and Seven Spirits of those who are extraordinary, or a large amount of Awakening Degree can temporarily stabilize it.

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Li Yan’s eyelids trembled as he took out various oddities that could increase the Awakening Degree, such as the Kui Xing Dough Effigy, from his personal seal. These were leftovers from his dealings with Guan Bing, originally meant to be returned to Cha Xiaodao according to the shares and points, but had been forgotten and carried on his person. Now, he couldn’t afford to care about that.

This person was certainly not Lady Dan, but he was the only one who knew, and for that alone, Li Yan had to save him.

What exactly had happened here, the whereabouts and life-and-death of Lady Dan, might all depend on this so-called "unique bubble"!

He didn’t know how much it had taken, but Li Yan had used almost all of his supplies on this piece of golden card. He silently prayed for a response from the card, and finally, the cracks on it began to heal slightly, at least not looking as though they might shatter into powder and pieces at any moment.

Right after that, the Golden Sky Nine Card uncontrollably burrowed into the charred flesh. It took a few breaths before the chunk’s chest began to heave.

Li Yan watched as a faint golden light flowed over the entire chunk of flesh; however, the body’s injuries were too severe. The healing golden light circulated for a long time, but even after dimming, it failed to restore the flesh chunk to a human appearance—it only vaguely outlined a head and torso. The only things completely repaired were a mouth and a pair of ears.

"A mouth is enough," Li Yan thought to himself.

The chunk of flesh swallowed twice: "Gongshu, is that you?"

Li Yan narrowed his eyes and remained silent.

"Gongshu?"

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After a long silence, the flesh chunk spoke again: "Thank you for saving me, I was betrayed. I am Zheng Jinghong, the Second Seat Representative, acting in place of Guan Zhong. Take me to a woman named Gongshu, and I will not leave you unrewarded."

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"Indeed, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but I really don’t have anything on hand to repay you with. How about this, I have a few tickets to ’Jie of the Seven Kingdoms’ in my personal seal, you can take them for now. With my introduction, they will be happy to forge a special refined treasure for you."

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"Any other issues? The items carried by the members of the Six Ministries are not that valuable, but Gongshu will repay you—how about a legendary item? My connections are not bad either, I can also agree to help you find other components of the same legacy, if you are interested in Yan Fu’s secret treasures..."

Li Yan interrupted him: "My name is Li Yan."

"Spare my life."

Zheng Jinghong said quickly.

"I’ll ask only once, think carefully before you answer me, where is Taishuai?!"

Li Yan gritted his teeth angrily.

"She’s still alive. My companion and I tried to ambush her, but at the very last moment, a door leading to the venue opened between the two of us. I was a step too slow, and she had already entered the venue. If you don’t believe me, go in yourself or find her after the Yan Zhao Club ends."

"Suppose you’ve lied to me, do you think I could kill you in front of everyone else after the Yan Zhao Club is over?"

"Everything I’ve said is true. I’ll agree to any conditions you have, we can even make a contract and have it verified by Yan Fu. If you kill me, you won’t be able to hide it, and then both you and the Mountain Spirit will be in trouble."

Li Yan laughed bitterly out of sheer anger, "So you’re saying that I should tuck my tail and run away now, and pray that both you and Taishuai are safe?"

"You saved me; you’re my savior. Without you, I might not have survived until now. I have no reason to take revenge on you."

"You had no reason to kill Taishuai either."

"...I don’t want to provoke you, but please understand. In my view, you have a much greater chance than her of ascending to the second seat in a few years. We don’t care if Taishuai returns, but we can’t accept an outsider reaching the core of the Yan Zhao Club. We didn’t plan to kill her. The Mountain Spirit has the complete Taishuai inheritance and it’s not recorded in Yan Fu. She could very well travel through Daqian Yanfu herself without being killed by any bomb. It’s just that after this Yan Zhao Club, the Ten Masters will further tighten security on the Heaven Jiazi Nine barrier system, and she won’t be able to come back."

After saying so much in one breath, Zheng Jinghong weakened again, "I’ve told you everything I could. If you’re willing to spare me, we could be friends. Or if you still want to kill me, there’s nothing I can do."

After a long while, Li Yan patted Zheng Jinghong’s chest. Just as he was about to say something, his expression turned fierce and he thrust his bare hand into the heart of the flesh, seizing a golden playing card.

Above their heads, a military helicopter had appeared at some unknown time. A short-haired woman wearing tight leather jacket and black headphones jumped from the aircraft and landed directly in front of Li Yan and Zheng Jinghong. The scorched earth whipped up harsh hot winds, but her face was as cold as ice.

"Let go of him."

The woman said coldly.

"What did you say?"

Li Yan raised an eyebrow, and Zheng Jinghong took the opportunity to cough violently.

The woman’s face grew even colder, "I hate being threatened, I’ll say it one last time, let go of him. Otherwise, you’ll die with him."

The completely disfigured Zheng Jinghong nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood at these words, "You’re not serious, are you?"

A purple line appeared on Li Yan’s forehead, "Coincidentally, I feel the same way. Otherwise, shall we see who dies first?"

Zheng Jinghong quickly tried to mediate, "Don’t get excited, please don’t get excited. She’s just joking! She doesn’t want me dead; she’s just scaring you, don’t stoop to her level," he babbled on.

If he could feel his eyeballs at all, Zheng Jinghong felt like he was about to cry, "Gongshu, please don’t talk, I’m begging you. I don’t want to die like this, I might have lived if you hadn’t come."

Gongshu’s face looked terrible as she defended herself, "He wouldn’t dare to kill you."

"He would, he really would," Zheng Jinghong shouted. "Please don’t be rash, don’t gamble with my life!"

Gongshu took a deep breath, "What do you really want?"

Li Yan shook his head, "He just said he wanted to be friends with me. I’d like to take my new friend here for a few more laps. As for you, the Yan Zhao Club is about to start. You should head to the venue."

"Gongshu, listen to him, Gongshu, please go."

After much hesitation, Gongshu finally climbed back into the helicopter and looked down at Li Yan from the sky.

Li Yan picked up Zheng Jinghong like a stick, tied him to his back with rope, saluted Gongshu in the sky, then summoned the Dodge Tomahawk and sped away.