Chapter 115: Zhu Zhuqing

After Qin Jian shook off the young girl who was being hunted, he continued walking deeper into the forest.

But whether it was bad luck or good luck today, it wasn't long before he encountered that group of people hunting the girl again.

If his aura hadn't already merged with the Star Dou Great Forest, he might have been discovered already.

"Captain, there are bloodstains here; it should be Zhu Zhuqing's."

Qin Jian had originally been prepared to avoid them, but the words of one of the men made his body freeze in place.

"Zhu... Zhu... qing..."

His expression became particularly strange, because he had never thought he would encounter her here...

"Could this also be some sort of fated arrangement... I can even run into her being hunted while on my way home?"

Qin Jian sighed, turned around directly, and quietly followed behind them.

"I can't not save her now..."

"Who told her to be my next heartbreak target..."

He concealed his figure and followed this group of people silently.

He also hadn't expected that the words he had casually said to Dai Mubai earlier would actually come true, and in the end, he really did encounter this extremely troublesome heartbreak target...

To get involved with her, he would have to go to Shrek Academy, then Ning Rongrong, who knew his whereabouts, would also follow, plus Xiao Wu, who would go anyway...

Whether the future Shrek Team would be more powerful, he didn't know, but the relationships within the team would definitely be a mess.

Qin Jian thought about these messy things, and then discovered that the eight or nine people in front had gradually slowed their tracking speed.

"The bloodstains end here, and the smell of blood is gone too..." one person said.

The clearly leading armored man then said: "She must have erased her tracks here and cleaned the blood off her body... but doing all this must have taken a lot of time. We will split up to track her; once found, take her down immediately!"

"Yes!"

The others responded and left, and this leading Captain also chose a direction and walked off.

Qin Jian frowned; he couldn't split himself up, so how could he follow all of them?

"My suggestion earlier was to head deeper; if she took my advice, the high probability is that she should have headed in this direction..."

He judged the surroundings and decided on a direction, and that side was exactly the path their Captain had taken.

"It depends on luck; I hope she is in this direction..."

Qin Jian quietly followed...

"Huhu..."

And just a few hundred meters ahead of him, Zhu Zhuqing was panting heavily, one hand supporting her waist and the other leaning against a tree trunk.

"I'm too severely injured and have lost too much blood; I can't run fast like this..."

She looked at the forest behind her: "I hope they won't continue to hunt deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest..."

Unfortunately, heaven did not grant her wish; she hadn't even stumbled another few dozen meters before footsteps approached from behind.

"Zhu Zhuqing, you really dare to head inside. Is this preferring to be eaten by a Soul Beast rather than return to the clan with us?" The Captain's cold, harsh voice rang out.

Zhu Zhuqing knew instantly that she really couldn't escape this time, so she turned around and looked at the other party with a cold face: "Return to the clan with you? Hmph! Do you really think I'm stupid? You lackeys of Zhu Zhuyun would kill me first thing, right?"

"Lackeys? We only have to do this... there can only be one heir in a clan; you just suffered a loss because you are young..."

The Captain said indifferently: "We disciples of the affiliated clans are also taking sides for our own clans, so we can only ask you to die."

"Chi!"

He clearly didn't want to waste any more words. Having hunted her all the way to the Star Dou Great Forest, he had already witnessed Zhu Zhuqing's excellent escape skills, and wasting more time might lead to some unknown trouble.

Facing the Sword thrusting toward her, Zhu Zhuqing wanted to dodge, but her legs went weak, and her physical condition no longer allowed her to make any evasive maneuvers.

"Am I really going to die here..."

"I didn't expect my ending to be like this..."

"Zhu Zhuyun, Dai Mubai... I hate... you..."

She closed her eyes in despair, and a line of clear tears slid down her cheeks and fell...

"Xiu!"

And just as the tip of the sword was about to pierce Zhu Zhuqing's throat, a pale blue figure suddenly flashed by, dangerously and narrowly holding Zhu Zhuqing as they rolled a few times, avoiding that fatal sword strike.

"Who?!" the Captain shouted sharply.

And at this moment, Zhu Zhuqing also opened her eyes: "Is... is it you?"

"Who else could it be..."

Qin Jian said indifferently, exerting force with his feet, and instantly dashed out while holding Zhu Zhuqing.

"You stop right there!"

That man roared and chased after them.

This god-like interception made him so angry his heart and liver ached, everything ached...

"Only a fool would listen to you..."

Qin Jian sneered and ran even faster.

Zhu Zhuqing was being held in a bridal carry, her head resting on Qin Jian's shoulder.

Her gaze remained fixed on the youth's exquisite profile, showing slight signs of being unfocused...

This heaven-sent rescue was truly capable of touching a young girl's heart, especially since she had clearly offended Qin Jian before.

Moreover, at that time, Qin Jian had also appeared very cold, looking as if he would kill her if he were even slightly displeased.

Yet in the end, when she closed her eyes waiting for death, it was precisely this cold youth who appeared and saved her regardless of the danger...

With the previous coldness as a contrast, Zhu Zhuqing was even more moved now.

"A rat that only knows how to run, you're simply courting death!"

The person behind finally flew into a rage, his entire body's soul power surged, and in an instant, Soul Rings appeared on his body.

Qin Jian glanced back in his spare moment, his pupils instantly shrinking: "White, yellow, yellow, purple, purple, five Soul Rings, a Soul King?!"

"Second Soul Skill, Leopard Possession!"

Seeing the person behind them increase their speed by twenty percent and draw closer and closer, Qin Jian frowned deeply: "What a nuisance."

Zhu Zhuqing subconsciously pursed her lips; she felt she would be abandoned by this youth.

Sure enough, she soon felt one of Qin Jian's hands leave her body...

"Is it still like this? No matter who it is... in the end, they always abandon me..."

The sorrow in her eyes gradually deepened, and memories of the past welled up.

That Third Prince who had a marriage contract with her—when she was being hunted, when she was in despair, when she most needed help, he could not even protect himself, and in the end, he even chose to flee alone...

"Perhaps... this is the fate of me, Zhu Zhuqing... truly a short and ridiculous life..."

Her gaze continued to grow unfocused, but at this moment, the three Yellow, Purple, and Purple Soul Rings on Qin Jian's body dazzled her eyes.

"Both the second and third Soul Rings are thousand-year ones?!" she said, her eyes filled with shock.

Qin Jian had no time to pay attention to her shock; he directly turned around while holding her with one arm, and his martial soul Sword appeared in his hand, held high above him.

"Hum!"

The Third Soul Ring lit up.

"Third Soul Skill... Ice Heart Snow Sword!"

Qin Jian gave a cold shout in his heart, and the giant martial soul Sword in his hand immediately turned the color of Ice and Snow, locking onto the enemy rapidly approaching from the front from afar.

Then, he exerted force with his right hand and slashed down violently...

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(End of this chapter)