Chapter 696

Just right, it gave him some time to think.

Zhao Quan was a noble.

Now the rebel army was encircling and suppressing the nobles.

Psychologically, Zhao Chi wanted to fight alongside the rebel army.

He had absolutely no psychological burden about killing nobles.

But objectively…

Although the rebel army's primary target was the nobles, they had no intention of letting people like him from these families off either.

The rebel army was made up of many factions.

He didn't know what the other rebel factions were like, but at least these ones were like this.

Zhao Quan had collapsed just ahead; if left unattended, he probably wouldn't last much longer.

If Zhao Quan died, it wouldn't change the situation.

One more of him or one less of him wouldn't make any difference to the entire nobility.

And although Zhao Quan looked on the verge of death, Zhao Chi wasn't sure whether he still had other means to save himself.

If he stood by and did nothing this time, once Zhao Quan didn't die, the one to die would be himself.

Besides, he couldn't kill him either.

After all, that Titan was right beside them.

If he killed Zhao Quan, he wouldn't survive either.

Zhao Chi had no choice.

What he had to do now was follow Zhao Quan's commands and provide him with medicine.

Enduring full-body numbness, Zhao Chi took out various medicines and delivered them to Zhao Quan's side.

Zhao Quan hadn't lost consciousness.

But blood was already streaming from all seven orifices, blue blood smeared all over his face.

If this blue blood was spiritual power, then Zhao Quan could convert spiritual power into various bodily states like life force.

It seemed this blue blood had nothing to do with spiritual power; it must have some other use.

Zhao Chi stuffed various pills into Zhao Quan's mouth.

Zhao Quan devoured them greedily.

With the supplement of medicine, Zhao Quan recovered very quickly.

He let out a long breath.

He sat up and gripped the sword hilt.

He gritted his teeth and pulled hard.

Pfft!

Another spurt of blue blood flew out.

This time Zhao Quan didn't ask Zhao Chi for medicine again, but took out a few bottles of potion from his system space and drank them down in one gulp.

Soon, his body was completely restored.

The battle just now had been too intense; life and death hung on a single instant, with no opportunity to drink medicine at all.

And neither pills nor potions provided instant recovery; they all required time.

Only now could he finally consider himself alive again.

Zhao Quan snorted: "I say, Zhao Chi, why do you only have pills? No potions? You nearly choked me to death."

"No… potions have poor value for money."

"Dammit, you're so broke. Here's medicine money for you."

Saying so, Zhao Quan tossed over a gold ingot.

Zhao Chi caught it immediately, but discovered it wasn't a gold ingot—it was a gold treasure chest.

Huh?

A gold treasure chest?

Zhao Quan snorted: "What? Already shocked? Damn, you really haven't seen the world. Hurry up and leave; a low-level lord like you staying here is just waiting to die!"

Saying so, Zhao Quan looked around, searching for something.

Zhao Chi was truly shocked.

This gold treasure chest—he called it medicine money?

He had only just fed him some high-grade elixirs, worth at most a few silver coins; how could a gold treasure chest possibly cover the medicine money?

This probably wasn't medicine money, but money to thank him for saving his life.

Regardless, Zhao Chi had essentially saved Zhao Quan's life.

Although it could only be considered a casual effort…

Zhao Chi suddenly had a greatly improved impression of Zhao Quan.

No matter what his character was like, he really was very generous…

Zhao Chi put away the gold treasure chest and also hurriedly observed his surroundings.

No matter what he had obtained now, the most important thing was still staying alive.

First, he needed to find a path for retreat.

Zhao Chi looked around, but suddenly discovered that the towering Titan had vanished at some unknown moment.

How could that be?

Zhao Chi couldn't help searching everywhere—the Titan had truly vanished, without a trace.

The Titan couldn't have left — with a body that massive, if it had departed, it would have caused an earth-shaking commotion.

"Stop looking. That Titan I could only summon temporarily. Those rebels are really troublesome. Let's pull back."

Temporary summoning?

Zhao Chi wasn't entirely sure what that meant.

He didn't know whether it had been temporarily summoned from a territory, or summoned out of thin air directly through summoning arts.

But if it was summoned out of thin air…

The expenditure would absolutely be astronomical…

Zhao Quan had already determined his own direction.

"Alright, be careful, don't die. Damn it — me, the dignified fourth heir of the Holy Flame family, almost lost here…"

Zhao Quan flashed once and vanished.

Zhao Chi didn't linger either, immediately charging toward the southwest.

But not long after charging forward, he was blocked again by fighting ahead.

Zhao Chi had run from the ruins of the virtual training hall all the way here — it should have been over three kilometers already.

But it seemed fighting was breaking out everywhere.

If the rebels' aim was to raid and wipe out the nobles watching the match, there shouldn't be fighting on this scale, right?

Could it be… that was only the tip of the iceberg?

The rebels' operation tonight was far more than he had imagined?

Could the rebels' target be the entire River Valley Town?

Thinking this far, Zhao Chi immediately opened the system.

But communications were still blocked.

Now no one could be reached; he had no idea what the situation was like elsewhere.

Never mind.

Return to the territory first.

Zhao Chi moved carefully, twisting and turning through seven or eight detours.

He was finally about to leave River Valley Town.

Now he didn't care which road was shorter — whichever road had fewer people and wasn't a battlefield, that was the road Zhao Chi took.

In any case, heading southwest in the general direction couldn't be wrong.

As he walked farther and farther, the people nearby grew fewer and fewer, and the surroundings grew darker and darker.

Zhao Chi's mood gradually eased a little.

Looking back, the entire River Valley Town was already a sea of fire.