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The Wolf King struggled to stand up. Seeing that, Shui Qingyan tensed up and stood up like a carp.

On the ground, the Wolf King's blood had already flowed down.

Shui Qingyan looked at the Wolf King vigilantly. The Wolf King also looked at Shui Qingyan cautiously. They had all reached their limits.

Shui Qingyan looked at the Wolf King's slowly darkening eyes, and pursed his lips: "I don't know why the moment you laid eyes on me, you had killing intent in your eyes. If it's because of the ice in my hands, there's no need, this is my first time here."

The Wolf King's Qi was getting thicker and thicker.

Seeing that the Wolf King had already untied her eyelashes, Shui Qingyan slowly opened her mouth. "Break!"

Instantly, the ice shards from the Wolf King's wounds turned into countless cold air and invaded the Wolf King's body.

The Wolf King's pupils abruptly dilated, and all of her internal organs were frozen.

Bang, the Wolf King fell.

At the same time, Shui Qingyan also dropped to her knees, breathing heavily.

"Awoo!" The wolves guarding the side let out wails that rose and fell one after the other, their wails echoing in the air.

Shui Qingyan looked at the pack of wolves that approached step by step, supported herself up, and then moved towards the crevice while retreating.

Just now when she was fighting the Wolf King, the cold energy from her shield not only invaded the Wolf King's body, it also invaded Shui Qingyan's body. In order to resist the cold energy, Shui Qingyan had already exhausted a large amount of her mental energy.

Furthermore, when they went up the mountain, this body was already overloaded from running, and after fighting with the Wolf King, this body could no longer bear the burden.

If the current Shui Qingyan jumped into the underground river, she might have a chance to live. If she were to fight with these wolves, she would die.

Shui Qingyan slowly moved to the edge of the crevice, where the wolves were only ten meters away from him.

Suddenly, the wolf pack jumped up and pounced towards Shui Qingyan.

Shui Qingyan jumped into the underground river without looking back.

Plop, plop, plop …

After Shui Qingyan jumped into the crevice, there were also wolves that couldn't help but fall in.

After a while, the wolf that had jumped into the water came back up wet.

The rest of the wolves caught up with the natural crevasse and bared their teeth at the dark river.

At this moment, a black shadow streaked across the sky in a beautiful arc. A cold light flashed, and the smell of blood instantly permeated the entire mountain peak.

In a pack of wolves, not a single one was alive.

Chu Chen kept his flexible sword and looked at the crevice. With a frown, he also jumped into it with a poof.

Just as Chu Chen jumped into the water, the group of snakes also followed his scent and jumped into the water one after another. It was a spectacular scene.

In the dark river.

Shui Qingyan swam powerlessly in the direction of the water flow, but her body could not withstand the impact of the water current and was almost swept into the whirlpool.

Just as Shui Qingyan felt that she was about to collapse, her arm tightened and was held back by someone.

Lifting her eyes, Shui Qingyan saw that Chu Chen was still as handsome as ever, with a face that angered both humans and gods.

Shui Qingyan smiled and rubbed Chu Chen's face, thinking to himself, I never thought that before she died, he would actually think of Chu Chen, it's really too funny.

Chu Chen frowned as he looked at Shui Qingyan's silly smile, then at the bubbles that kept on spitting out from Shui Qingyan's mouth.

Finally, Shui Qingyan could no longer hold on.

Before losing consciousness, Shui Qingyan seemed to feel an ice-cold sensation on her lips.

A group of snakes swam to Chu Chen's side, and then spat out their tongues at him.

Chu Chen exhaled his last breath to Shui Qingyan before covering Shui Qingyan's mouth with his hand and started to swim after the snake.

After a while, Chu Chen was able to breathe the fresh air.

When they reached the shore, Chu Chen immediately put Shui Qingyan down without a word.

The group of snakes saw that Shui Qingyan had not woken up, and anxiously circled around, unwilling to leave.

Chu Chen looked at Shui Qingyan's snake and then looked at Shui Qingyan. He believed that if Phoenix Yaoling saw this scene, he would definitely go crazy. Other than the Third Miss of the Feng Family, there was no one else in the world who could have the snakes help themselves.

When Shui Qingyan woke up, it was already the middle of the night.

"You're awake." When Chu Chen's voice was heard, Shui Qingyan suddenly opened her eyes.

She was sure there was a hole in front of her.

"I'm alive?" Shui Qingyan looked at her hands. "I thought I was going to die."

"You didn't die." Chu Chen's voice sounded again.

Shui Qingyan looked around, but Chu Chen was not there. He looked at his clothes again.

Shui Qingyan was puzzled. She remembered that she had jumped into the dark river.

"Hiss!" Shui Qingyan stood up, and when she moved, her entire body was in pain.

Endure the pain, Shui Qingyan hobbled over to where Chu Chen's voice came from.

Outside the cave, Chu Chen's clothes had already been dried by inner force, and was currently looking down with both of his hands behind his back.

Shui Qingyan stood by Chu Chen's side and looked in the direction Chu Chen was looking at, his mouth wide open.

Below them were the eighteen strongholds that were hidden halfway between the two mountain ranges.

Because the other side of the mountain was steep, no one could go up, so there was no need to worry about anyone attacking from behind.

Moreover, there was only one road leading to the interior of the 18 Barracks and that road was controlled by the 18 Barracks. There were people guarding it night and day.

Thus, for the past ten years, no one had been able to take down the eighteen tribes that only had five or six hundred people.

As she thought about it, Shui Qingyan took out a map from her bosom.

"Where's my map?" Shui Qingyan looked at Chu Chen.

Chu Chen pointed to the piece of cloth at the side: "Which one are you talking about?"

Shui Qingyan picked up a piece of cloth from the ground and stared at Chu Chen: "prince is so bored that he doesn't have anything to do. Did he do crazy things?

Chu Chen looked at Shui Qingyan and slowly said: "I'm talking about that."

It was only then that Shui Qingyan saw another person in the distance.

Shui Qingyan threw the piece of cloth in her hand and immediately picked up the sheepskin map.

Blowing the dust off the map, Shui Qingyan took it up and carefully looked at the map. Then, she could not help but laugh: "That's right, it's here."

Chu Chen looked at Shui Qingyan and did not say a word.

"Once the soldiers enter from here, regardless of whether they descend to fight or throw stones from a high vantage point, the 18 strongholds are like turtles in jars." Shui Qingyan muttered to herself.

Seventeen really did help out a lot.

Vaguely, Shui Qingyan heard the child's playful voice.

Shui Qingyan withdrew the map, and then, returned to Chu Chen's side. "prince, did you hear anything?"

Chu Chen shifted his gaze from Shui Qingyan's face down: "There are children."

Hearing this, Shui Qingyan frowned: "The children of the eighteen strongholds are the sons of bandits. There's a high chance that they won't be able to survive."

"It's not like there's no way to protect these children." Chu Chen said.

"If we were to secretly protect these children and let the emperor know, then that would be the crime of deceiving the sovereign." Shui Qingyan, "Unless the eighteen tribes surrender themselves to the government, these children will not be able to be saved."

Chu Chen turned and looked at Shui Qingyan: "Since that's the case, Fourth Miss might as well think of a way to turn these bandits around."

"What do you mean?" Shui Qingyan did not understand.

"The 18 tribes have people who kill without blinking. They also have people who are naturally innocent and can be taught a lesson." Chu Chen said, "There are some that have nowhere to go."

Shui Qingyan looked at Chu Chen, and slowly said: "To commit murder without batting an eye, to bear the blame of the eighteen strongholds, to allow those who are educated to receive an education, and to give people who have nowhere to go a path to survival."

Chu Chen slowly smiled.

Shui Qingyan subconsciously tensed up when she saw Chu Chen's smile.

The feeling of suppression she had been suppressing ever since she woke up slowly rose.

She felt that this was all part of Chu Chen's plan, including the matter of her choosing to jump into the water.

The fist under his sleeve slowly tightened: "Why did you bring me here?"

The smile on Chu Chen's face instantly froze.

Shui Qingyan knew, that since Chu Chen had saved her, she should not doubt Chu Chen. However, she did not believe that Chu Chen would save her for some unknown reason.

Chu Chen said expressionlessly: "Turn around and enter the cave. Walk straight for thirty steps, then turn left twenty steps. There is an entrance to the undercurrent there, and it was your snake that brought me here.

Shui Qingyan pursed her lips, turned around, took thirty steps, and then turned left twenty steps. There was indeed an entrance to the undercurrent, and there were indeed marks of snakes crawling on the ground.

No, to be exact, there was a snake in the water looking at Shui Qingyan.

Instantly, Shui Qingyan frowned, why did these snakes save her? Also, was Chu Chen really here to hunt wolves? Also, did Chu Chen really save her once for no reason?

Shui Qingyan pursed her lips, and carefully thought back over everything that had happened.

The letter was given to her by the Seventeen and the map was also given to her by the Seventeen. Coming from Broken Mountain, it was also because her eyes were ready, so she decided to let it go on the spur of the moment. It was also possible for Chu Chen to come to the Broken Mountain to hunt wolves.

The only thing that was hard to explain was that Chu Chen would jump into the crevice to save her.

The crevice led straight into the underground river. If she was not careful, she might have died without even a trace of her body remaining.

After Shui Qingyan cleared up the matter, she pursed her lips. The truth told her that perhaps she had really misjudged Chu Chen.

Even if Chu Chen had counted the number of Seventeen's letters, he would never have predicted that she would come to Broken Mountain tonight.

She didn't even know about these snakes that had inexplicably approached her, let alone Chu Chen.

The only thing that could be explained was that she had saved Chu Chen and that Chu Chen had paid her back and saved her.

With that thought, Shui Qingyan turned and walked towards the cave entrance.

"Yes …" Before she could finish her sentence, Shui Qingyan had already shut her mouth because at this moment, Chu Chen's figure had already disappeared.