Chapter 3839 — Inner Struggle
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
And yet such a temptation lay before him: kill Nan Tianyong, and it would be worth fifty years of his own bitter cultivation—and he could even blow the matter up, using the Threefold Pavilion to force that Lin Er out of hiding. If he let this chance slip, he would never have another in this lifetime.
To just give it up—Yu Jiang could not bring himself to accept it!
Seeing the onlookers drawn from afar coming closer and closer, Yu Jiang gritted his teeth hard, made his decision on the spot, hurriedly dug Nan Tianyong out of the earth at his feet and hoisted him onto his back, then without a word turned and ran.
"Someone's running!" a sharp-eyed onlooker in the back shouted, and a hubbub immediately arose.
But they had no idea what was really going on. Even those harboring thoughts of profiting from the chaos dared not rashly give chase.
The commotion just now had been far too exaggerated; at a conservative estimate, it would take at least an expert at Foundation Establishment great perfection to produce such a spectacle. Even if both sides of the clash had fought to mutual ruin, it was not something anyone present could handle.
To contend with an expert at Foundation Establishment great perfection—even one gravely wounded—one would need at least peak late-Foundation Establishment strength to have the nerve to fish in troubled waters. Otherwise, one might well fail to gain any advantage and instead get oneself killed.
But peak late-Foundation Establishment experts were hardly common goods to be found on every street—at least not on the outer streets of this market! For although quite a few onlookers had been drawn by the great commotion, not one of them possessed such strength.
As for the rest, lacking the strength, they naturally lacked the nerve to act rashly. In the world of cultivation, the strong preying on the weak was long taken for granted, and fishing in troubled waters or kicking a man when he was down was nothing to bat an eye at—but the prerequisite was having the strength to do so.
It was precisely thanks to this hesitation that Yu Jiang was able to carry Nan Tianyong away smoothly. Otherwise, with his mid-Foundation Establishment strength and his injuries, slipping away unscathed before so many passersby would have been a very difficult feat.
Carrying the barely breathing Nan Tianyong on his back, Yu Jiang did not run far. Reaching a quiet corner, he promptly stopped.
Drawing a deep breath, the killing intent in Yu Jiang's eyes was now even more resolute than before!
The reason he had carried Nan Tianyong to this deserted, quiet spot was not that Yu Jiang had abandoned the idea of patricide—quite the opposite. His sole purpose in doing so was to shake off those onlookers and keep them from ruining his grand plan.
Because Nan Tianyong and Yu Jiang, master and disciple, had been frequenting the market these past days, even the passersby could easily recognize the two of them. So Yu Jiang had never entertained the notion that he could remain unrecognized.
Once recognized, any move he made would easily leave loose ends. No matter how covertly he killed Nan Tianyong, the risk involved would still be enormous.
So Yu Jiang carrying Nan Tianyong off in front of so many people was not to conceal his identity. The one thing he truly wanted to conceal at this moment was simply this: whether Nan Tianyong lived or died!
Yu Jiang did not want anyone to know that Nan Tianyong was still barely clinging to his last breath!