Chapter 240: It's That Little Girl from the Gufang Family! Eat Her!

"Five Saints!" Jiang Xun's eyes went round upon hearing this. Even the top-tier dynasties of today only have one Saint each. The Junlin Dynasty had five Saints back in the day; no wonder it was a super dynasty.

This also aligns with what Tu Qingtian said at the time, that at least nine Saints are needed to fight back to the Northern Wasteland.

And it's not just nine Saints; the more people there are below the Saint realm, the better, as the number of Demonic Beasts is simply too high.

So, what Tu Qingtian is doing now is raising the cultivation realms of the high-level members of the Void Sect one by one, starting with nine in the Integration Realm.

Then, the Integration Realm cultivators will work together to besiege a Saint, allowing Tu Qingtian to become a Saint.

Then, Tu Qingtian will pull his brothers and sisters to the position of Saint one by one, while simultaneously cultivating his own forces through the Wushang Pavilion and the Void Sect; he must have a group of disciples under his command.

This is also the reason why the disciples of the Baiyun Sect were not all killed back then, but were instead persuaded to surrender.

"Setting off for the Western Regions?" Si Yuyan eased her mood, then asked.

"Setting off." Jiang Xun nodded and stood up to go to the next room, where Jiang Yan was gorging herself, while Gufang Ninglin stood to the side, dumbfounded.

She was looking at Jiang Yan with a face full of shock.

It was unclear how long she had maintained this expression.

"Big sister, where is your veil?" Jiang Xun said, looking at Jiang Yan speechlessly.

"Ah?" Jiang Yan was stunned at the words, the chopsticks in her hand stopped, she touched her face, and then hurriedly looked around for her veil: "Where is my veil?"

"Stop looking, she's been watching for quite a while," Jiang Xun said, sitting next to Jiang Yan.

Only then did Jiang Yan turn her head to look at the dumbfounded Gufang Ninglin.

"Jiang... Sect Leader Jiang... you're not dead?"

Gufang Ninglin said woodenly.

"You, you've mistaken me for someone else." Jiang Yan turned her head away after speaking, lowered her head guiltily to continue eating, and then reacted: "By the way, I was scammed. Look at this, it's thin and watery, radish stewed with cabbage, it costs two hundred Spirit Stones. Don't pay for it later, I haven't even touched it, have them refund it."

Jiang Xun looked at the table in the direction of Jiang Yan's finger, also feeling somewhat helpless.

Emerald Golden Silk Soup—who wouldn't want to taste something with a name like that?

"Ninglin, don't tell anyone about her identity," Jiang Xun said, looking at Gufang Ninglin.

Gufang Ninglin nodded, looked at Jiang Xun and said: "But, why? Wasn't Sect Leader Jiang captured by the Tianwu Sect?"

"Don't ask too much, this is a secret," Jiang Xun smiled.

"... Alright." Gufang Ninglin nodded; she still listened to Jiang Xun's words.

"I haven't eaten anything for too long, I forgot how delicious food is," Jiang Yan said with a smile, swallowing the food in her mouth.

"Don't eat until you're fat, it won't look good if you get fat," Jiang Xun said, propping his hands on the table and looking at Jiang Yan.

"How is that possible? I can digest it very quickly after eating, I won't get fat," Jiang Yan said immediately, then buried her head in her food again.

Jiang Xun was helpless and looked at Gufang Ninglin: "Aren't you going to eat some?"

"No appetite..." Gufang Ninglin shook her head.

"Then it will all go to waste, she can't finish it alone."

Jiang Xun said upon hearing this.

Upon hearing this, Gufang Ninglin picked up her chopsticks and started to eat.

Jiang Xun understood her; she certainly wouldn't want to waste it.

A moment later, after the two had eaten their fill, Jiang Yan took out a new veil and put it on, and Jiang Xun took the two of them and left.

"The manager has given orders, no need to collect your money."

When checking out downstairs, the waiter looked at Jiang Xun and smiled.

Jiang Xun nodded, didn't say much, took the two of them and left, arriving at the Teleportation Array.

"The Gufang Dynasty has a Teleportation Array, right?" Jiang Xun asked, looking at Gufang Ninglin.

"Yes, it's in the Imperial City, Aktan, but there isn't one to return; the Teleportation Array over there no longer has guards," Gufang Ninglin nodded.

"That doesn't matter." Jiang Xun nodded, took out Spirit Stones and handed them to the guard: "To Aktan, three people."

"Alrighty." The guard nodded, took the Spirit Stones, checked the quantity, and began to activate the Teleportation Array, saying at the same time: "A kind reminder to you all, Aktan isn't very peaceful right now."

"Alright, understood." Jiang Xun nodded, the array shone brightly, and then the three disappeared into the array.

A moment later, Jiang Xun and the others opened their eyes, and the scene before them had changed.

The once incomparably prosperous Tianling City had now turned into a wasteland, with yellow sand filling the sky, and everywhere there were collapsed houses buried by sand and soil, revealing parts of stone bricks.

The yellow sand even blotted out the sun, not even letting the sunlight in.

Under the tattered tents and ruins all around, many thin, bloodless, bone-thin men and women were squatting.

Seeing the Teleportation Array emit light and Jiang Xun's group of three appear on the array, a group of people quickly stood up crookedly and limped toward the direction of the Teleportation Array, surrounding them.

This scene was practically a zombie movie.

"Look at the clothes they're wearing! It's all fine fabric, they must be very rich!"

"Please, help us."

"Hand over all the money you have on you!"

"Don't run!"

"Is there any water? Give us a drink of water, I beg you."

Various voices rang incessantly in the ears of the three; there were those robbing and those begging, but their actions were uniform: they surrounded Jiang Xun and the others within the array, leaving not a single gap.

"This is the Imperial City?" Jiang Yan couldn't help but say as she looked around.

It wasn't even a city; this was clearly a vast desert of ruins...

"Everyone! Everyone, calm down!" Gufang Ninglin looked at the commoners and hurriedly blocked Jiang Xun and Jiang Yan: "I am Gufang Ninglin!"

"Gufang... Gufang Ninglin!"

"It's that little girl from the Gufang family!"

"Eat her! It's the Gufang family that caused us to trade our children and eat them!"

"Eat her!"

Unexpectedly, upon hearing the name Gufang Ninglin, the commoners were first stunned, and then those who had just been begging turned red-eyed and began to shout along.

"Why should Gufang Chennian's child be allowed to live! While my child is to be eaten by others!"

As the voice came, a stone was hurled toward Gufang Ninglin's head.

Hearing these words from the surrounding commoners, Gufang Ninglin was already dazed and did not notice the stone at all.

Exchanging children to eat?

Is... is it true?

Jiang Xun stepped forward and caught the flying stone, shielding Gufang Ninglin in his arms: "Whoever dares to take one step forward, this will be your fate!"

As Jiang Xun spoke, the stone in his hand was crushed into powder.

The surrounding commoners stopped in their tracks; Jiang Xun thought they were afraid, but then, as if gathering strength, everyone accelerated and rushed toward Gufang Ninglin.

Two of them had even already rushed onto the Teleportation Array.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun had no choice but to use a whip kick to send them flying, then he picked up Gufang Ninglin and flew up, and Jiang Yan immediately followed upon seeing this.

"It seems the commoners hate the people of the Gufang Dynasty to the extreme," Jiang Yan said as she caught up to Jiang Xun.