The Eternal Heart - Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Fallen from The Sky

Translator: Alsey

Editor: Chrissy

The Great Fiend really gave up all his hope.

The young man before his eyes could be considered to be the greatest bane in his life.

The other party’s cultivation wasn’t considered to be high, but he was abnormally vicious and had inhumane strength, as well as a tyrannical physique.

The Great Fiend seemed to be able to vaguely see that a fiendish madman, who was ten times more frightening than him, was born in this land in the state of Chu.

At this moment, there was a hint of cautiousness in that young man’s leisurely expression.

The Great Fiend’s heart was in agony. On top of that, he was powerless. Things had reached such a point now, so how could he still have cards hidden up his sleeves?

Countless years ago.

Honghu’s Three Fiends killed a disciple of a sect by a fluke in the neighboring state of Qi and it even seemed to be an inner sect disciple.

They had obtained the “Blood Constituent Pill”, “Mysterious Flute”, “Torrential Pear Blossom Needles” and other items from that inner sect disciple who died, including a few Metastones and some rare books.

However, Honghu’s Three Fiends all possessed Temporal Physiques.

Based on their age, even if they obtained this opportunity, it was difficult for them to make a breakthrough.

“Young man, you can kill me, but please release my daughter. If you can make proper arrangements for her so that she can get through life safe and sound, I, Chu Lifeng will work like an ox and a horse in my next life…” implored the Great Fiend.

At that moment before his death, the sole virtuous thought Honghu’s Great Fiend, who moved unhindered for many years, had was on his own flesh and blood.

“If I knew it would come to this, I would have acted differently.”

Chen Yu sighed in his mind as he glanced at the Great Fiend’s daughter, who had a broken arm.

One could imagine how great the significance would be even if this woman survived.

Chu Fengyun originally let the Great Fiend’s daughter live as a chess piece. If the Great Fiend abandoned his hatred, this woman had the possibility of surviving safely for the rest of her life.

But of course, right now, this thought was all an extravagant hope.

“I can give the items I have on me from killing that inner sect disciple before,” the Great Fiend said in an earnest manner.

A hint of hesitation appeared on Chen Yu’s face.

He would definitely kill the Great Fiend, but this woman was a victim herself as well.

Thump!

The Great Fiend got up explosively all of a sudden and pounced at Chen Yu, who was in front of him like a ferocious tiger.

Bronze Fist!

Without thinking, Chen Yu hit the Great Fiend right in the middle of his head with his powerful Bronze Fist, which was supported by a tyrannical and fiendish Inner Breath.

The Great Fiend was instantly killed!

Chen Yu was stunned. He never thought that he would succeed so easily.

When he thought back to it, what the Great Fiend did a moment ago forced Chen Yu to make a move.

“Ah…”

At this moment, a woman’s shriek could be heard.

It was the Great Fiend’s daughter.

Chen Yu didn’t pay attention to that woman, but rather, he fumbled a few items out from the Great Fiend’s body.

Except for a few secular silver and junk, he found a few sect objects. There was a keepsake amongst them that represented some kind of identity.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

All of a sudden, an intense warbling that intimidated the heart and soul came from the sky.

The qi and Blood in Chen Yu’s body vibrated as he felt uneasy. He felt a surge of violent gale assault him to the point where he almost got blown up.

He raised his head and saw an astonishing scene. A gigantic green-feathered bird that could be compared with a small courtyard when it spread its wings was currently descending. It brought gale and flying dust while doing so as its chirps immediately made the sky shake.

A visual assessment deemed that the gigantic green-feathered bird was at least 10 to 13 meters in length and width.

This gigantic bird’s aura gave Chen Yu a feeling that was more than ten times stronger than the Metal Brown Bear King did that day.

“Hmm?”

All of a sudden, Chen Yu vaguely saw a slim and beautiful figure on the gigantic bird’s back.

Following the gigantic green-feathered bird’s descent, a remarkably beautiful young lady dressed in white muslin as the peerless beauty of an immortal being emanated from her appeared before Chen Yu’s eyes.

This was…

The powerful grandeur of the gigantic bird oppressed Chen Yu to where he could only barely hold himself down.

That young lady’s eyes were as cold as water as her fine black hair that drifted down covered less than half of her jade countenance. Even so, the beauty revealed from half of her complexion could already captivate even the birds and beasts, looking as flawless as jade.

This was the first time Chen Yu met a woman who could triumph over Mu Xueqing in terms of looks and charisma.

Chen Yu didn’t dare look at her any longer. That woman had an icy cold look that thoroughly penetrated one’s bone marrow. A single gaze from her made his body go cold, as though he was sinking into an icehouse.

Whoosh!

That remarkably beautiful young lady lightly jumped up and floated down from a height of several dozen meters like a spotlessly white feather.

“What martial arts form is this?”

Chen Yu couldn’t express his feelings.

How high were a few dozen meters? Ordinary one-story houses were three meters high, so a few dozen meters were already comparable to jumping off of a cliff.

However, the young lady’s body didn’t seem to hold any weight as she landed on the ground so lithely.

“Hand it over.”

The young lady’s eyes that resembled cold autumn were fixed on Chen Yu’s body.

Chen Yu’s blood almost froze over.

The young lady didn’t have murderous intent, but he couldn’t resist the aura she merely released subconsciously.

“Dare I ask which sect your distinguished self comes from? I am Chen Yu, a disciple of Yunyue Sect from the state of Chu.” Chen Yu tried to inquire about her whereabouts as he took out the items he found on the Great Fiend’s person.

Sects were the true masters of this entire Kunyun Continent.

Chen Yu reckoned that this woman’s strength was at the “Qi Transformation stage” at the very least. She definitely wasn’t someone he could provoke.

“Yunyue Sect? I seem to have heard of them before. Only that ‘Bone Devil Palace’ seems to be a little worth looking at among the sects in the state of Chu.”

The young lady took the keepsake from him and muttered to herself.

Chen Yu was speechless right away. He didn’t know whether this woman was intentionally doing it or whether the reputation of Yunyue Sect was just too small.

As for that Bone Devil Palace, it was once the number one influential sect in the state of Chu. However, due to its arrogance and expansion in influence, it gave rise to a joint attack from the three great sects — Metal Sword Sect, Yunyue Sect, and Water Moon Faction.

After that great battle, Bone Devil Palace suffered a disastrous loss and went on a gradual decline. They already kept a low-profile for a few dozen years now.

“Not bad. This is Elder Martial Sister Li’s keepsake. If it weren’t for the fact that she struggled with a monster and received a fatal injury at that time, Elder Martial Sister Li wouldn’t die under the hands of tiny secular individuals with no power like Honghu’s Three Fiends …”

The young lady straightened a few items out and nodded slightly.

Chen Yu saw a purple flute amongst them. That just so happened to be the one the Third Fiend, Soul Scattering Fragrance, used.

Honghu’s Three Fiends? Tiny individuals with no power?

Chen Yu felt that this woman’s tone was considerably haughty. The others and himself had suffered untold hardships to exterminate the Three Fiends, yet in her eyes, they were merely tiny individuals with no power.

But this woman out of all people had such strength and means to do so.

“I’m done.”

The remarkably beautiful young lady put those objects away and threw a small porcelain bottle to Chen Yu. “This is a mid-ranked ‘Profound Body Pill’. Consider this to be your fee for your hard work. If you don’t have an aptitude that’s considered to be inferior, this pill will be sufficient in helping you attack the middle Connective Meridian stage.”

Fee for his hard work?

Chen Yu was a little dumbfounded. “Dare I ask Senior what exactly is going on?”

The remarkably beautiful young lady floated high up in the sky until she reached the gigantic bird’s back before she replied, “My Master ordered me to investigate the truth surrounding Elder Martial Sister Li’s death. After finding the murderer, I fled to the state of Chu before I finally rode on my sect’s flying mount “Deep Green Bird”, reaching this place.”

So that was the case.

Chen Yu finally understood what was going on. As expected, the other party came from a sect, but the rank of this woman’s sect definitely surpassed Yunyue Sect. Not only that, but it also seemed that her position in it definitely wasn’t low either.

“As for this woman… since she is the daughter of a murderer, there is naturally the need to destroy the roots and branches. She can’t stay in this world.”

The young lady’s cold eyes fell on the body of the Great Fiend’s daughter.

Pfft!

The young lady brandished her sleeves as a surge of green biting cold frost struck the body of the Great Fiend’s daughter from a distance away.

Hiss, hiss!

In just a split second, a layer of cold frost solidified on the Great Fiend’s daughter’s whole body. Her limbs rapidly hardened as the life force within her froze over in a flash, leading to her death.

Chen Yu could faintly see that countless cracks had formed on that woman’s body as a result of being frozen.

Whoosh, whoosh~

The young lady mounted the gigantic “Deep Green Bird” and rose to the sky with a puff of gale and flying dust.

As for the Great Fiend’s daughter, her frosted and rigid body scattered into countless ice fragments amidst the violent gale.

“Dare I ask what your distinguished name is so I can explain things to the others later?” Chen Yu tried to inquire one last time.

In reality, he merely wanted to know the name of this woman, who was breathtaking at a glance.

“Ye Luofeng, Sword Ascension Sect.”

That gigantic bird turned into a black dot while carrying the young lady with it, entering the clouds soon after.

Ye Luofeng?

Chen Yu retracted his gaze and turned the porcelain bottle over in his hands. There was a small lustrous and transparent green pill inside.

“Even though I didn’t get the spoils of war on the Great Fiend’s person, this travel was worth it.”

Chen Yu put the small porcelain bottle away carefully.

Soon after, he returned along his original path with the Great Fiend’s corpse with him.

Four hours later.

Chen Yu returned to the previous hilltop.

At this moment, the hilltop was brightly lit as the Castellan’s soldiers and guards had set up camp here.

“Elder Brother Yu, you’ve returned?”

A young lady, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the barracks, swiftly got up.

It was Chen Ying’er.

When they saw Chen Yu return with the Great Fiend’s corpse, there was a commotion at the camp.

“Young hero Chen, you really are divinely brave.”

Castellan Chu Fengyun looked exulted as he promptly welcomed him respectfully with people in tow.

In the barracks.

A group of experts and generals pursued Chen Yu.

He wasn’t that interested in these social niceties, so he faintly smiled and said, “I wonder when I can get hold of the bounty for beheading Honghu’s Three Fiends.”

With regards to Honghu’s Three Fiends, all of them actually died under Chen Yu’s hands.

“Relax, young hero Chen. I dare not guarantee the dynasty’s bounty, but Chu Fengyun will personally deliver the Castellan’s bounty tomorrow.”

Chu Fengyun smiled warmly while he sized Chen Yu up from time to time with a complete look of admiration on his face.

In this period of time, everyone was naturally very interested in the details of how the Great Fiend was killed.

When they got to know that Chen Yu punched the Great Fiend to death once he collapsed from exhaustion, everyone was somewhat disappointed.

A few people couldn’t help but feel vexed. How was it that Chen Yu was the one who picked up such a small advantage?

“I wonder whether the Great Fiend’s daughter is dead or alive?” asked Chu Fengyun.

“She fell off a precipice in the process of running away…”

Chu Feng lied without writing up a draft.

“Oh?”

Chu Fengyun glanced at Chen Yu as though there was a profound meaning behind it, but he actually didn’t perform an in-depth investigation into it.

Chen Yu got to know a particular detail in the following conversation. The flute in the Third Fiend Soul Searching Fragrance’s hand had disappeared without a trace.

Chen Yu’s heart trembled with fear.

Could it be that “Ye Luofeng”, who fell from the sky had finished watching him and the others fight, but only felt that it wasn’t worth interfering in a fight between tiny individuals with no power?

…

When he rushed back to the Chen Clan, the sky had gradually brightened.

When they got to know that Chen Yu had killed Honghu’s Three Fiends, the higher ups in the Chen Clan were naturally extremely stirred up.

Chen Yu and Chen Ying’er were a little exhausted, so they returned to their rooms to rest.

That afternoon, Castellan Chu Fengyun brought the bounty back to their official residence.

When he knew that Chen Yu and Chen Ying’er were resting, Chu Fengyun asked the Clan Head to not disturb them. Contrariwise, he indicated that he wanted to meet Chen Yu’s parents during the banquet.

Father and Mother Chen were a little taken aback.

Chu Fengyun was the Castellan and had a tremendous Chu Clan behind him as well. Comparatively, Xiangyang City’s Chen Clan was a minor magician in the presence of a large one.

A person like this actually wanted to meet them in person.

This was undoubtedly a rare honor.

“I heard that your son possesses a Half Soul Physique, and is even an outer sect disciple of Yunyue Sect on top of that?” Chu Fengyun asked with a smile.

“That’s right.”

Father Chen Tiande faintly nodded his head.

Chu Fengyun’s next words alarmed the hearts of everyone present on the scene.

“Dare I ask whether an arranged marriage has been set for your son?”