Chapter 23: Knocking on the Door of the Hidden Force Realm!

The night was like a curtain.

Outside the Listen to the Rain Pavilion of Lake Heart Small Building, a hunched figure that almost blended into the gray and dark light was quietly lurking under the eaves of the adjacent water pavilion.

Jiang Ye's face had long since returned to his usual old and wooden appearance, the true intent of the Spirit Ape's Thousand Changes had faded, and he had returned to the appearance of that inconspicuous gatekeeping old man, only those eyes were unusually clear in the dimness.

He had been guarding here for nearly an hour.

He watched with his own eyes as the candles in the room were completely extinguished, listening to the heart-rending wailing sound gradually turning into suppressed sobbing, and finally returning to a deathly silence.

He saved them, avoiding falling into Zhang Xu's demonic claws, but what happened afterward... pushed him into a more complex quagmire.

Finally, after the long wait that made people anxious, the door was gently pushed open a crack.

Two slender figures, supporting each other, extremely cautiously, and even carrying a trace of panic like a bird startled by the bow, quietly moved out from the door.

It was Liu Yiyi and Su Yan.

Liu Yiyi's face was still frighteningly pale, her eyes swollen and red, but her eyes no longer had the collapse and emptiness of the beginning, instead condensing a cold calmness and vigilance.

Su Yan was no better, tear stains still on her face.

The usual gentle and bright smile was gone, replaced by a kind of forced calmness and deep fatigue. She held Liu Yiyi's arm tightly, her gaze constantly scanning the surroundings, guarding against any movement.

"Finally came out..."

Jiang Ye secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart, which had been tight like a bowstring, relaxed a little.

What he was most worried about was Liu Yiyi's cold-outside-hot-inside, extremely proud temperament.

This girl had been different since she was a child, her emotions rarely revealed, as if nothing could truly shake her ice-sealed heart lake, and she valued her own purity extremely highly.

Jiang Ye was really afraid that after encountering such a huge change, she would be instantly swallowed by despair and do something irreversible.

Su Yan came from a wealthy family, her upbringing was strict, and she naturally valued her reputation and purity extremely highly.

The bursts of sorrowful crying in the room just now also proved this point.

Seeing that both of their emotions were relatively stable now, and there was no tendency to commit suicide, Jiang Ye felt that a huge stone in his heart had landed.

"Then I should go back and knock on the door of the Hidden Force realm."

Jiang Ye thought silently, slowly withdrawing his gaze.

At this moment, Liu Yiyi and Su Yan were at the most sensitive and fragile moment of their hearts, like frightened young deer; any extra attention or tracking might be keenly perceived by them.

Moreover, with Liu Yiyi's Hidden Force strength, there were not many people in Anxi County who could pose a threat to them except for those Transformation of Force experts.

He finally looked deeply at the two slender and graceful figures, a complex emotion flashing in his old eyes.

Then, he did not stop, his figure melted into the pitch-black night, silently sliding down from the eaves, and with a few leaps, he was far away from Lake Heart Small Building.

"Hiss... I'm going to die... how can it be... so painful..."

Su Yan's brows locked tightly, her silver teeth biting her lower lip, almost bleeding.

Every step she took, the fiery strange pain would be clear by one point, making fine cold sweat ooze from her forehead.

It even made her feel a bit weak and trembling in her legs.

She secretly glanced at Liu Yiyi beside her, and saw that although she still straightened her spine and her face was cold, her pale lips were also tightly pursed, and every step was extremely slow and heavy.

Obviously, the other party's situation was not much better.

The two walked one after another, not supporting each other, but maintaining a tacit distance, as if getting closer would make them see their own embarrassment and unbearable state at this moment.

About a cup of tea later, they finally managed to support themselves and walked out of the range of Lake Heart Small Building, stepping onto a quiet path connecting to the shore of Mirror Lake.

"Mm?!"

Liu Yiyi, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, her cold eyes narrowed suddenly, locking onto a place on the lake shore in the distance, "That shore... seems to have someone."

Su Yan heard this, also forced her spirit, and looked in the direction of her gaze.

Sure enough, on a rocky beach not far from the water, a figure could be vaguely seen lying on the ground, motionless, with half of his body still immersed in the shallow water, shaking gently with the micro-waves.

The two looked at each other and decided to walk up to see.

When they finally walked close and saw the face of the person lying on the ground—

The blood in their bodies seemed to freeze in an instant.

Immediately after, like a dormant volcano erupting, boundless anger and bone-deep hatred rushed to the top of their heads like magma.

Because the figure lying on the shore was actually Zhang Xu!

Only his current appearance no longer had half of the arrogance and arrogance of the second young master of the Zhang family on weekdays.

The corners of his mouth were covered with dark red blood, mixed with mud and sand, and blood foam constantly overflowed with his extremely weak breathing.

On his chest, the clothes together with the metal inner armor vaguely visible below were deeply sunken, and his ribs were broken.

His face was as pale as gold paper, his aura was wandering like silk, a miserable appearance that was about to break his life.

Obviously, after being blasted into the lake by the white-haired old man's punch earlier, relying on the protection of the soft armor close to his body, he did not die immediately, but swam back to the shore with the instinct to survive.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Liu Yiyi said three "good" words in a row, but her voice was as cold as the polar cold wind.

She laughed out of extreme anger, and there was no warmth in that smile, only monstrous killing intent and the satisfaction of revenge, "This beast... actually has one breath left! It's really heaven has eyes!"

In a rage, her right hand instantly pinched into a fist, and she was about to smash it fiercely at Zhang Xu's already sunken temple.

If this punch hit, let alone he was now seriously injured and dying, even in his prime, there would be no chance of survival.

"Wait a minute, Yiyi! Don't rush to kill him!"

At the critical moment, Su Yan suddenly reached out and grabbed Liu Yiyi's wrist, which was ready to go.

Her voice was equally cold, but it carried a trace of suppressed extreme, near-cruel calmness than Liu Yiyi.

"What do you mean?"

Liu Yiyi's fist momentum paused, tilted her head slightly, and the gaze looking at Su Yan contained not only the raging fire but also a trace of incomprehension and impatience at being interrupted.

"Killing him just like this is too cheap for him!"

Su Yan let go, her gaze piercing Zhang Xu's unbearable body like an ice cone, her voice low and clear, carrying a chill that made people's hearts tremble:

"Dealing with this kind of beast, there is actually a way that will make him live more uncomfortably than dying!"

She paused, her eyes flashing with a complex light of reason and hatred intertwined, and continued to analyze:

"And, have you thought about it? If he just dies here inexplicably, and in such a seriously injured state..."

"The Zhang family will definitely bite us back, saying that we harmed Zhang Xu."

"So, let's take this beast to the Zhang family to ask for an explanation before he dies!"

"Of course, we have to avoid many details, focusing on how Zhang Xu designed to frame us..."

Liu Yiyi heard this, the boiling killing intent cooled slightly, and she was silent for a moment.

Su Yan's words were not unreasonable; Zhang Xu had a special status after all, and his death would never be quiet.

She stared at Su Yan and said coldly: "Then you say, what method can make this beast live more uncomfortably than dying?"

"Dealing with this kind of beast, that's not simple!"

Su Yan's eyes suddenly became incomparably sharp, even carrying a trace of ruthlessness that Liu Yiyi had never seen before, near-ferocious.

She didn't say any more, stepped forward, raised her right foot, operated her force, and stepped fiercely toward his lower body.

This kick was fast and ruthless; even a stone could be kicked to pieces, let alone a fragile flesh body.

Paji.

It seemed like the sound of something breaking.

Zhang Xu was no longer a man from now on.

Seeing this scene, even Liu Yiyi, whose killing intent was boiling, couldn't help but be slightly stunned, her pupils shrinking, as if she were truly recognizing this eldest lady of the Su family, who had always appeared with a gentle and kind face, for the first time.

"Heh... heh..."

The intense pain even made Zhang Xu, who was in a coma, wake up.

Seriously injured and dying, he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes, and could only subconsciously make a begging sound like a wail:

"Please... please don't kill me..."

At the same time.

Martial arts academy, inside the gatehouse.

Jiang Ye had already returned quietly.

He took off the outer clothes stained with night dew and lake fishy smell, changed into another set of old but clean clothes, and sat cross-legged on the hard bed.

After a night of intense consumption, the Qi and blood and Bright Force that were originally full and overflowing in his body, far from being exhausted.

Instead, under some strange external stimulation and his own extreme emotional tempering, they became more solid and pure, like refined iron that had been repeatedly forged, removing the last trace of impurities, exuding a restrained and dangerous luster.

"Knocking on the door of the Hidden Force realm, it is at this moment!"

He had no more distracting thoughts in his heart, muttered a sound, and set up the fist stance of the Five Birds Fist with his body following his intent.

The energy that had already boiled to the extreme in his body launched the final, water-to-channel-formed impact toward that invisible and solid barrier.

Boom!

It was as if a fire dragon was swimming in his body; Jiang Ye's skin was frighteningly hot, his breathing was rapid, and the breath he sprayed out was as scorching as steam.

Bright Force is emitted externally, Hidden Force sinks internally.

This is the process of Jiang Ye's internal force penetrating the whole body and sinking into the bone marrow.

I don't know how long it took.

The red warmth on Jiang Ye's body surface faded slowly, and his breathing gradually became steady.

The moment he opened his eyes again, there was no longer that kind of overflowing essence, but a depth that was restrained to the extreme.

Hidden Force, done!