Chapter 373
As soon as he grasped the crystal, its sharp corners pierced his skin and he started to bleed. The blood was absorbed by the crystal.
Then it emitted a red light. It was so subtle that if you moved your eyes an inch away from it, you wouldn’t notice it.
Gao Li wore a scornful smile.
Gao Ke was worried.
Gao Yue was puzzled, too, but she was sure her son wouldn’t cheat her with a story he had made up.
Suddenly, something different happened to the crystal. As if a fierce fire was rising, the radiance was getting more and more brilliant.
While people were still surprised, the radiance became even more brilliant, never getting weaker.
Practitioners could walk quickly even when they were seventy or eighty years old, but this man was senile.
However, as a doctor, Jiang Chen could sense that although he was old, he still had dreadfully strong power.
He was Gao Yan, who Gao Ke had mentioned, the man planning on usurping the position of lord of the Gaos.
“If you have this fight with Lily, no matter what terms Gao Li has agreed to, I’ll make him keep his promise.”
Gao Yan didn’t pay attention to others. He was gazing at Jiang Chen.
“So make a bet that can interest me,” said Jiang Chen.
Gao Li gnashed his teeth and said, “A drop of fire phoenix’s genuine blood.”
Everyone was shocked. This was a big bet.
“Jiang Chen, getting genuine blood is as difficult as Mental Wander States working on holy points. A drop of fire phoenix’s genuine blood could have taken him several years to get,” said Gao Yue.
Jiang Chen kept moving his eyes between Gao Yan and Gao Li. He finally said, “I only have to have the fight? Once I lose, you can do whatever to my mother?”
He was so direct that Gao Yan frowned his gray eyebrows and didn’t answer.
“How much more time do you want to waste? If you don’t want to have this fight, just go back to your mountains!” Lily said. She was extremely impatient.
“I hope you won’t regret it,” said Jiang Chen.
“Huh.”
Of course, she didn’t bother to respond to such an ignorant comment.
Then they went to the closest peak.
Lily heard a voice before the start of the fight. She didn’t have to look back to see who was talking to her.
“Lily, kill him.”
The fact that she had travelled to the Southwind Ridge with the group despite her young age meant she had been a part of the power struggle.
Gao Yue could do nothing if Jiang Chen was killed, because he wasn’t good enough.
“I saw your performance in the competition of the Sacred Institute. By the way, I also graduated from there. I was even invited to join the Hero Palace as top student.”
Lily said, “But the Hero Palace is only a place for powerless geniuses without any background to dream about. I decided not to stay there.”
“It’s fortunate you didn’t stay there. The level of the Hero Palace is really worrying. If you had joined it as well, it would have been even worse.”