"Oriental Zhi? What is he doing here?" Feng Yuqin asked Mo Xuanye beside her in confusion.
The Yan Xiao brothers, as well as Meng Xingyu and Nightingale, all looked over.
"Of course, I'm going to the Central Region with you guys," Oriental Zhi replied with a mischievous smile upon hearing Feng Yuqin's voice. "What? Aqin, are you not welcome me?"
Feng Yuqin rolled her eyes ungraciously. "If I say I'm not welcome, will you not go?"
"Nope," Oriental Zhi answered without hesitation.
Mo Xuanye beside him said, "It'll be somewhat useful for him to go."
"So, to you, I'm just somewhat useful?" Not because of a good friendship?
"Otherwise?" Mo Xuanye replied calmly.
"... " Oriental Zhi gritted his teeth. "So, you don't even want to know about your wife's safety?"
Mo Xuanye narrowed his eyes slightly. "If you're not afraid of death, you can shut up."
Oriental Zhi: "... "
"What's wrong with me?" Feng Yuqin asked.
Oriental Zhi surely wouldn't keep it a secret. Looking at Mo Xuanye and Feng Yuqin, he said, "I've got some news. There are people who can't stand your wife's amazing talent in alchemy and plan to nip her in the bud."
Feng Yuqin: "... " That's why she had hoped to keep a low - profile before. She was just worried about arousing others' jealousy.
As a result, in order to deal with Feng Yao and the others last time, she had to expose her strength as an alchemist.
Now, she had indeed attracted others' jealousy.
"Who wants to kill Aqin?" Yan Xiao and the others asked anxiously.
Oriental Zhi knew these people had a good relationship with Feng Yuqin, so he didn't beat around the bush. "The Qi Family in the Central Region, the family that Feng Yao and the others have defected to."
"So, was it Feng Yao and her brother who exposed my identity as an alchemist?" Feng Yuqin stared at him and asked.
"To be precise, it was Feng Yao and her brother's master, Qi Hai. The Qi Family is Qi Hai's family. But since Qi Hai was from a side branch and had committed a small offense back then, he was exiled to the Western Song State," Oriental Zhi said. "Now that the matter has been resolved, he's naturally going back to his family. And the news about your identity as an alchemist can help him secure a more stable position in the family."
Hearing this, Yan Xiao and the others all regretted not having stopped Feng Yao and the others back then and letting them escape.
Feng Yuqin sneered. "So, it's not enough for Feng Yao and her master - apprentice trio to scheme against me. They even want to use my name to gain more glory. If I don't settle the score with them, even God won't forgive me."
She didn't travel through time just to be schemed against by others.
"There will be a chance," Mo Xuanye looked at her and said in a gentle and doting voice. "The Qi Family is a sworn enemy of the Alchemy Guild."
Feng Yuqin raised her eyebrows. "To be a sworn enemy of a powerful organization like the Alchemy Guild means the Qi Family is quite strong, right?"
"Although it's just called the Qi Family, its power can actually rank among the top three in the Central Region," Mo Xuanye said.
"So, I've already made such a powerful enemy even before reaching the Central Region?" Feng Yuqin was helpless.
"Aqin, don't worry. No matter how dangerous it is, we'll stand by your side," Meng Xingyu said.
"Even for the sake of my demonic pet, I'll stand by your side," Nightingale said jokingly.
Needless to say, the Yan Xiao brothers were firmly on Feng Yuqin's side.
Feng Yuqin felt a warm current in her heart seeing them so protective of her.
She looked at Oriental Zhi and said, "I might need to trouble you with something."
"Go ahead," Oriental Zhi said.
"Please take them safely to the Central Region," Feng Yuqin pointed at Yan Xiao and the others and said to Oriental Zhi.
Oriental Zhi was speechless. "Are you that confident in my ability? Are you sure I can take them to the Central Region safely?"
"I'm confident in Mo Xuanye," Feng Yuqin said.
She didn't believe that Oriental Zhi, who was such a good friend of Mo Xuanye, didn't have more aces up his sleeve.
"Ye, is the wife you've found a bit too powerful?" Oriental Zhi complained to Mo Xuanye speechlessly.
"She's perfect," Mo Xuanye said proudly, instantly silencing Oriental Zhi. He didn't want to say another word and risk being stuffed with more lovey - dovey stuff.
Finally, Oriental Zhi took Yan Xiao and the others away. Feng Yuqin found a place and first let Mo Xuanye enter the space.
Then she set off alone.
Along the way, she didn't hide her whereabouts and seemed eager to reach the Central Region.
When she was about to reach the Central Region, a dangerous aura made her suddenly become cautious.
"Someone's coming," Feng Yuqin said to Mo Xuanye in the space with her spiritual sense.
"Be careful," Mo Xuanye said. "Find out how many of them there are and then... wipe them all out."
"Okay," Feng Yuqin replied calmly and then walked forward indifferently.
When she turned a corner, her way was blocked by a dozen people.
She used her spiritual sense to detect the surroundings and found no one else. Then, with a cold look in her eyes, she looked at the people opposite and asked, "Who are you? Why are you blocking my way?"
"The people who will send you to hell," one of them answered. Then he waved his hand and said coldly, "Finish this quickly."
As soon as these people moved, Feng Yuqin could clearly feel that their strength was much stronger than the people she had met before.
She couldn't help but complain in her heart. So, as her strength increased, the level of her enemies was also rising?
Just as these people were about to surround her, Mo Xuanye suddenly appeared in front of her.
This unexpected change made the person in the front freeze for a moment.
He couldn't understand how a person could suddenly appear in front of Feng Yuqin.
During this moment of distraction, Mo Xuanye waved his sword, and all the dozen or so people in front were dead.
Feng Yuqin widened her eyes in disbelief.
She knew Mo Xuanye was very powerful.
But this level of power still shocked her.
When Mo Xuanye turned around, he saw Feng Yuqin looking stunned. A faint smile curved his lips. "Scared you?"
"Just how powerful are you?" Feng Yuqin asked.
If she had to deal with these people, it would take her at least half an hour.
But Mo Xuanye had solved the problem so easily, which made her extremely shocked.
"I can protect you for sure," Mo Xuanye didn't elaborate.
With her current strength, knowing about higher - level power wouldn't be beneficial for her cultivation.
Feng Yuqin trusted him completely, so when he didn't say, she understood that he must have his reasons.
"Now, let's speed up and go to the Central Region," Feng Yuqin said.
Mo Xuanye nodded and led Feng Yuqin on a shortcut.
The shortcut was very risky for ordinary people.
But Mo Xuanye was no ordinary person, so he led Feng Yuqin into the territory of the Central Region without any hindrance.
The moment she stepped into the Central Region, she could clearly feel that the spiritual energy here was denser than that in the Western Song State.
It was on par with the spiritual energy in the Trial Ground.
Of course, people from the Western Song State dared not come here.
After all, this was the territory of the Central Region. If people from the Western Song State came here without a powerful backer, they would die in no time.