Chapter 866: Qi Soaring to the Stars, the World Stunned!

Facing this sudden, unexpected exchange of gazes.

Jiang Yan felt as though his heart had stopped, his whole body stiffened, rooted to the spot.

Although there was no real evidence, a vague feeling still rose up in his heart.

As if Brother Chen had already recognized him?

But how could that possibly be?!

Clearly, to prevent being exposed, he had deliberately altered his appearance — so how could the other party have recognized him?

Jiang Yan shook his head, dismissing it as nothing more than a coincidence.

However, just as he was about to look away.

He saw Jiang Chen, standing on the spirit boat, shift his body slightly, then suddenly leap down toward the spot where he stood!

At the sight of this, the surrounding watching cultivators all startled in unison and instinctively dodged aside.

In the blink of an eye, only Jiang Yan was left standing dazed in place, at a loss.

Boom—

A muffled thud rang out.

As Jiang Chen's feet hit the ground.

A fierce gust of wind spread outward from him as its center, sweeping through the surroundings, making the nearby cultivators' robes flap loudly, forcing them to raise their hands to shield their faces; some, whose cultivation base was too low to stand firm, couldn't help but stagger back several steps, looking rather wretched.

In an instant, the whole place fell utterly silent, with only the lingering terror in their hearts refusing to fade!

Under the gaze of countless eyes.

Jiang Chen slowly lowered his head, looking at Jiang Yan, who was a head shorter than him.

Gazing at that familiar look in his eyes.

A faint smile unconsciously surfaced at the corner of his mouth.

Then, under Jiang Yan's utterly bewildered gaze.

He suddenly extended his right hand.

Jiang Yan's mind went completely blank; he actually forgot to dodge, letting the other's fingers land on his cheek.

Not until a slight sting came from his cheek did he finally come to his senses, hurriedly saying, "Ow, ow, ow......."

Jiang Chen gave Jiang Yan's cheek another pinch, smiling as he said, "What? Only a few months away from home, and you don't even recognize your own brother?"

Only after saying this did he let go.

Jiang Yan covered his reddened cheek with his right hand, his eyes full of grievance, and weakly said, "Chen... Brother Chen....."

His heart was filled with doubt.

He didn't know which step had gone wrong, causing his carefully crafted disguise to be seen through by the other party in a single encounter.

Jiang Chen seemed to read the doubt in the other's heart, and said with a smile, "Nice disguise — fooling others wouldn't be hard, but I'm your brother. If I couldn't even recognize my own silly little brother, that would really be too much of a failure........"

Having said this, without waiting for Jiang Yan to react, he continued, "Come up with me. Although I don't know what you've been through to end up like this, refusing to show your true face, with your brother here, you can rest easy."

"It just so happens I'm curious too — I want to see exactly who dares to bully my Jiang family as if it has no one left!"

The moment his words fell, an overwhelmingly powerful aura surged skyward, like a blazing great sun, forcefully suppressing the two towering sword intents high above with absolute dominance!

Its momentum pierced the heavens, churning the skies!