"Jiang Ning!" Liu Qing came running in from outside and called out to him loudly when she saw him.

Her voice trembled slightly and her eyes turned red immediately as she ran over to him. She opened her mouth but hesitated and wasn't sure what to say.

"Why...why did you come back?"

Why was he back?

Liu Qing's emotions were very conflicted. She missed Jiang Ning and really wished he would come back, but she didn't want him to come back because she knew that this place was too dangerous for him. He didn't belong here in the first place.

"I have to come back," said Jiang Ning. "If I don't come back, what's going to happen to you?"

He laughed.

"These people can't protect you, you know?"

Liu Qing immediately burst into tears.

Jiang Ning had come back to protect her!

Liu Qing cried with her eyes all red. She wanted to say something but couldn't get any words out.

Jiang Ning reached out and gently patted her shoulder.

He turned around and saw Liu Zong and Liu Heng return from the battlefield with murder emanating from their bodies. They looked at Jiang Ning with a conflicted look in their eyes.

They never thought the person who would rescue Qingshan Sect from this impending disaster would be the person that they had looked down upon and despised the most before this. But if Jiang Ning hadn't appeared in time, they wouldn't have been able to hold up at all. Qingshan Sect would have been destroyed and razed to the ground by now.

"Thank you so much," said Liu Zong very

simply.

He didn't know what else to say or how else to express himself in front of Jiang Ning.

"Thank you so much!" Liu Heng said the same words and didn't add anything else to it.

But these simple words encompassed all the gratitude that they felt.

They didn't blame Jiang Ning for making them Sinners. That was his way of honing them for what they had to go through today, and they realized it only now. Jiang Ning nodded and didn't say anything either.

Some things didn't need to be said. Just an exchange of glances was enough for everyone to understand each other.

"What's the situation now?" asked Liu Chuandao.

"The men from the six sects have

from the

gone back down the mountain on

the northern side, so there's no issue

there for the moment. They've also left the other areas, so they

shouldn't be coming up again for the time being," said Liu Zong.

They watched them for a long time and finally breathed a sigh of relief after they had ensured that everyone had gone down the mountain.

They were really in great danger earlier. If Jiang Ning hadn't appeared with his men in time, they didn't know what would have become of them now.

"A group of men appeared rather mysteriously and helped us to fend off several attacks." The Third Elder looked up at Jiang Ning. "Are those your men?"

He didn't know Jiang Ning had backups.

Even though those men weren't very powerful by themselves, they were completely different when they worked together and they were powerful beyond his imagination!

"Yes, they're mine." Jiang Ning didn't

keep the wolves a secret because

there was no need to. The wolves

were going to be very important in

the future, so it didn't matter if they knew about them now.

"They're really impressive," said the Third Elder. "I didn't think that such an attack formation was possible."

"Third Elder, you don't have to doubt

their background or worry about it."

Jiang Ning could tell what the Third Elder was thinking about. "Nothing is more important than protecting Qingshan Sect right now. We can talk about the rest after all, this is over."

The Third Elder nodded.

He had some questions but it wasn't the time to ask now.

Jiang Ning's background was mysterious and he was shockingly powerful. And now he had suddenly brought along a group of men.

He looked at Liu Chuandao and the Senior

Elder. He knew that these two definitely knew more about Jiang Ning but just didn't tell the rest.

"Qingshan Sect owes you one," he said very seriously.

Jiang Ning laughed.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

"This is not the time to talk about all this. As I said earlier, we need to stop this war as soon as possible. So I'm going to look for the six sects and negotiate with them." "Negotiate with them?"

Everyone's expressions changed.