Chapter 114: Who Is the Next Heartbreak

The next day.

"Click..."

When the door to Shui Bing'er's bedroom opened gently, all six girls in the hall stood up, looking over with faces full of worry.

Shui Bing'er was still wearing that Ice Phoenix Luan Phoenix Dress, stepping down the stairs, one step at a time, in her Water Crystal high heels.

Her expression looked no different from usual, except for her slightly red and swollen eyes...

"Big sister, are... are you okay?" Shui Yue'er couldn't help but step forward to ask.

"I'm fine now..."

Her voice had also returned to normal.

There was even a hint of a smile at the corners of her mouth, which greatly surprised the others.

It seemed as if something had been added to her, but it was unclear what...

"From now on, the Tianshui Team will be under the charge of me, the vice-captain."

She smiled lightly: "Do you have any objections?"

Although she said it this way, her expression clearly did not allow for any dissenting opinions.

The few of them shook their heads repeatedly.

"Aren't you supposed to become the captain now?" Yu Hairou asked.

Shui Bing'er shook her head gently and said: "The captain of the Tianshui Team will always belong to only one person; I will not allow anyone to change that."

"And you all..."

She stood on the stairs, looking down slightly, then said: "Train hard... our team's goal is..."

Her gaze became extremely aggressive at this moment: "The Elite Soul Master Tournament of the entire Dalu, first place!"

The other six immediately looked solemn: "Yes!"

Shui Bing'er raised her head slightly, looking outside the gate at the warm glow of the morning sun...

Qin Jian...

I know what look you like best on me...

Then I will become that look you like best...

When we meet next time, I hope you...

Won't be frightened by me...

When hurt, no matter who it is, they will seek out their own harbor.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, Qin Jian walked toward the depths.

For him, the very center of the Star Dou Great Forest was the place where he would nurse his wounds.

This breakup seemed light and breezy, but in reality, he was just escaping.

He didn't dare to bid farewell to Shui Bing'er in person, nor could he say those words...

All he could do was sneak away...

"I didn't expect the third person... to actually be her..."

Qin Jian pushed aside the grass and leaves of the jungle, moving forward with a rustle, his face showing unconcealable distress: "These Nine Trials simply won't stop until they've tormented me to death... she... she is already betrothed..."

"Forget it, I'll deal with it when the time comes..."

He shook his head: "It seems the next step is to go to the Bala Ke Kingdom... Shrek Academy... there's really no escaping it..."

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

And just at this moment, there was a sudden, rapid sound of wind being broken in the forest.

"Could it be that someone is hunting a Soul Beast in a group?"

Qin Jian frowned and decided not to pay it any mind.

He was in a bad mood himself right now, so he had no interest in meddling in other people's business...

"Chase quickly! We are almost out of the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest! Whether we catch up to her or force her into the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, she is doomed to die."

A man's voice rang out from not far away.

"Yes!"

Following that were seven or eight voices in response.

"It seems it's not hunting a Soul Beast, but chasing down a person..." Qin Jian speculated to himself.

He shook his head casually; regardless of whether they were hunting a Soul Beast or a human, even if the sky were falling, he was in no mood to care.

The next moment, he walked in the direction away from this area...

Another half an hour passed like this, and the commotion from the chase had long since disappeared.

But at this time, Qin Jian suddenly sniffed, and a faint smell of blood drifted into his nostrils.

He looked in the direction the scent was coming from, feeling it was quite close...

After walking a few steps, he frowned and pushed aside the dense jungle, and then he saw a figure in black leaning against a tree trunk.

Qin Jian glanced at her curvaceous figure and her slightly childish, pretty face, and determined that this was a young girl...

Then... he turned and left.

He said he wouldn't care, so he wouldn't care; Qin Jian was full of unhappiness right now, so he wasn't going to meddle in other people's business!

"Ssh!"

And just as he was about to step over the tree trunk the girl was leaning against, he didn't know what startled her, but she suddenly opened her eyes...

Qin Jian didn't even have time to react before five sharp, long fingernails clawed right in front of his eyes!

"Hmph!"

He erupted with Sword Qi at the first moment, and streaks of sharp Sword Radiance spread outward.

"Bang!"

The girl was already severely injured and had no strength left after the sudden attack, so she was immediately repelled and slammed into a tree trunk with a bang.

I didn't intend to provoke you, yet you delivered yourself to your death?

Qin Jian could not tolerate this, and his already foul mood became even worse.

He took a few steps, appearing suddenly before the girl in black, and without a word, he reached out a hand and lifted her up by her throat.

"Do you want to die?"

His icy gaze made the girl before him tremble slightly, and blood began to trickle from the corner of her mouth.

Yet the girl stared back at him just as coldly, her gaze seemingly carrying a natural chill.

This was a girl with an innately aloof temperament.

"Not talking? Then go to hell."

Qin Jian would not show mercy just because the other party was beautiful and had a figure so well-endowed she couldn't see her own toes; the next moment, his hand began to slowly tighten...

"No... don't..."

A trace of fear finally appeared in the girl's eyes, and she spoke with difficulty: "I... I mistook you for those... people hunting me..."

Not only was her temperament aloof, but even her voice carried a chill...

Forget it, after all, she couldn't see her own toes when she looked down...

Qin Jian's hand loosened slightly: "I'm in a bad mood, don't provoke me again."

He tossed the aloof girl back onto the ground with a casual flick.

For a moment, waves rolled.

"Cough, cough..."

She covered her throat, which had been left with red marks, with both hands and knelt on the ground coughing repeatedly.

But Qin Jian couldn't even be bothered to look at her again and turned to leave directly.

In fact, when facing people who had nothing to do with him, he had always been this indifferent...

"Wait... wait..."

The girl's weak voice rang out from behind him.

But Qin Jian did not stop his pace at all, merely saying indifferently: "I have no interest in saving you, stop with the nonsense..."

"I..."

Before the girl could finish her words, they were cut off.

She could only watch helplessly as that youth walked further and further away, just like her life, gradually slipping away from her...

"Hey..."

At this moment, the youth's voice suddenly rang out, and she quickly looked up to see his back stopped ahead.

"If you don't want to die, then hurry and leave that place... the smell of blood is too heavy..."

Qin Jian's voice traveled from afar: "You can head toward the depths of the forest; although there are many high-level Soul Beasts there, if you are lucky, there is a glimmer of survival."

Afterward, he lifted his feet again and walked toward the depths.

The girl opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end, she didn't say a word.

She knew this was already all Qin Jian could do... after all, they were just strangers...

Not to mention she had attacked him earlier; it was already good enough that he hadn't kicked her while she was down...

She didn't know that along the path Qin Jian had walked, she wouldn't encounter any high-level Soul Beasts, because they had long since been scared off by the aura of a Million-Year Soul Beast he had occasionally released on purpose...

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(End of chapter)