After Defying the Villain’s Fate for Nine Lifetimes, the Heroines Turn Mad!

Chapter 339

Since then, Jiang Chen had gained a fiancee.

Several days later, still in the small courtyard in front of the pavilion, Jiang Chen wasn’t lying around idly.

Instead, he stood facing the wind, staring blankly at the sky.

In the distant sky, several spirit boats were skimming through the air.

A conspicuous red line connected him with a woman on one of the spirit boats.

Although the spirit boat had traveled far, Jiang Chen could still feel that the woman on the boat seemed to be looking back at him.

The people on these spirit boats were from the Ancient Pill Tower and the Myriad Dao Demon Sect.

After spending nearly half a month at the Jiuyan Sect, they were finally planning to leave.

Before their departure, disciples from the Ancient Pill Tower came to him one after another to express their warm concerns.

After some hesitation, Jiang Chen returned the ‘Ancient Pill Scroll’ and the ‘Four-Legged Divine Pattern Cauldron’ to their original owners.

He wasn’t particularly interested in the Way of the Pill, and now that Shi Ning was the legitimate true master of the Ancient Pill Tower, it was only right to return the items to her.

Shi Ning’s reaction upon receiving these items was not surprising to Jiang Chen.

This imaginative aunt had actually construed these items as tokens of affection…

If Xiao Hongyi hadn’t been there at the time, Shi Ning might have come up with the idea of eloping with Jiang Chen again.

Additionally, apart from Nangong Jiuxi, the Sect Master and disciples of the Myriad Dao Demon Sect had also come to visit him.

Jiang Chen was well aware that the reason Nangong Jiuxi didn’t visit was to give him time to think and to avoid pressuring him too much.

This was a kind of gentleness that warmed the heart but also brought a sense of helplessness to him…

The words of Nangong Jiuxi that day kept resurfacing in Jiang Chen’s mind.

He defied the heavens, and thus, he also had a certain level of resistance towards Nangong Jiuxi, the woman born for him.

But he had never really considered that even if it was not because of heaven, perhaps Nangong Jiuxi was truly born for him.

To die for him perhaps was Nangong Jiuxi’s own choice.

Both Nangong Jiuxi and Jiushuang were tied by the red thread of fate by the heavens.

The difference was Jiushuang didn’t like Lin Feng, so she spent nine lifetimes trying to resist the red thread and defy fate.

As for Nangong Jiuxi, the person she liked just happened to be Jiang Chen, who was tied by the red thread.

Both of them had their own choices and were not puppets under the mandate of heaven.

It’s worth mentioning that, after several months of slumber, Jiushuang in the Ghost Tower had just awakened yesterday.

But as soon as she woke up, she was forced by the female ghost Su E to devour hundreds of ghosts and then fell back into slumber…

“A hundred-year marriage contract?” Jiang Chen murmured.

This was an important reason why he did not refuse the marriage contract that day.

After all, in a hundred years… He would have ascended.

Of course, he didn’t plan to just walk away.

Whether it was Nangong Jiuxi or Xiao Hongyi, if it was possible to return after ascending, he would do everything he could to take them with him.

After all, this world was really too troublesome.

He really didn’t want to stay…

“Ah, let’s just take it one step at a time.” he rubbed his forehead and withdrew his gaze.

At this moment, he was completely unaware that at the summit of the Ninth Peak.

Ever since learning about Jiang Chen and Nangong Jiuxi’s marriage contract, Qingning often carried a wine jug to drink with Mu Kui, who was cultivating.

She, who was not good at drinking, would get drunk and chase Mu Kui around with Xiaobai and hit him.

Although Mu Kui was mad, he dared not fight back and could only flee in all directions, to the point where he was now terrified at the sight of Qingning.

In the secret chamber for true disciples to cultivate in seclusion, Jiang Lianyue could no longer focus on her cultivation, often lost in thought, occasionally whispering softly, calling out ‘Eldest Senior Brother’.

Inside the Peak Master’s pavilion, Xiao Hongyi stood by the window, also staring blankly in the direction of Jiang Chen.

These past few days, she had been doing just that, standing all day long as if she had lost her soul.

Regarding the marriage contract between Jiang Chen and Nangong Jiuxi, she was envious and jealous.

But more than that, she was fearful.

Fearful that this disciple, who was more important to her than her own life, would keep his distance from her because of the marriage contract, would grow tired of her following him around, and stop relying on her…

“Ah…” Xiao Hongyi sighed softly.

At this point, all she could do was remain silent.

Because she was well aware that compared to Nangong Jiuxi’s nine lifetimes of reincarnation, she, as a master, was indeed not qualified.

While everyone at the Ninth Peak was immersed in their own thoughts,

Deep beneath the Main Peak, Jiuyan Old Ancestor saw all of this and rose from his coffin, laughing wildly.

“Hehehe!”

Naive!

Truly too naive!

Jiang Chen was naive, Nangong Jiuxi was naive, and Xiao Hongyi was equally naive!

Who didn’t know that he, Jiuyan Old Ancestor, could see a hundred steps ahead with every step he took?

He was two steps ahead!

Jiang Chen and the others weren’t even born yet when he was scheming against the world!

Now everyone thought that it was he who had arranged the marriage contract between Jiang Chen and Nangong Jiuxi.

Is that really the case, though?

It’s true that a marriage contract was set, but not with just one person!

In the letters he sent to the Jiang family of the Upper Domain, there were actually two marriage contracts!

Apart from Nangong Jiuxi, there was also Xiao Hongyi!

As the Jiuyan Old Ancestor is also an ancestor of the Xiao family, how could he only care about outsiders and ignore Xiao Hongyi?

Having watched the ‘nine cycles of reincarnation’ numerous times, he indeed hoped that Nangong Jiuxi and Jiang Chen would come together, but he was also very concerned about the happiness of his own descendants!

Now, everyone thinks that he used the tactic of ‘turning raw rice into cooked rice’ to help Jiang Chen secure a marriage contract with Nangong Jiuxi.

Little do they know that this is just a smokescreen!

His real purpose was to use Nangong Jiuxi to also secure the marriage contract between Xiao Hongyi and Jiang Chen!

Since the two are master and disciple, he only mentioned Nangong Jiuxi publicly and didn’t breathe a word about Xiao Hongyi to avoid unnecessary complications and to prevent Jiang Chen from overreacting.

Now that Jiang Chen has tacitly accepted the marriage contract, he probably never dreamed that he had agreed to two marriages at once, right?

By the time Jiang Chen realizes everything, both marriages will have already been approved by the Jiang family, leaving basically no room for him to back out!

If he weren’t worried about making too big a fuss and losing control, he might even add the marriage contracts of Jiang Lianyue, Qingning, and others!

“Haha!”

Jiuyan Old Ancestor stroked his beard and laughed heartily, looking very pleased with himself.

Apart from himself, the only other person who knew about these matters was the Jiuyan Sect Supreme Great Elder, Xiao Ting.

At this moment, Xiao Ting was standing by, constantly giving thumbs up and praising his Old Ancestor’s awesomeness and martial prowess.

Jiuyan Old Ancestor waved his hand modestly, inindicating it was nothing to fuss over.

Then, he straightened his expression and asked, “Any news from the Upper Domain?”

“Yes,” Xiao Ting replied seriously.

“As the Old Ancestor predicted, for this Central Domain competition, all Four Great Sacred Lands of the Upper Domain plan to send people to participate. And the one presiding over the Grand Sect Competition is none other than the thirteenth prince of the Imperial Dynasty!”

“The thirteenth prince…”

Jiuyan Old Ancestor’s white eyebrows furrowed slightly, his gaze becoming a bit more solemn.

The Imperial Dynasty’s attitude towards the Jiang family was not unified, divided into ‘peace’ and ‘destruction’ factions.

And this thirteenth prince, although known as a waste prince in the Imperial Dynasty, was indeed a true ‘destruction’ faction member.

The current empress sending this person to preside over the Grand Sect Competition might indicate an intention to target Jiang Chen, to strike the mountain and shock the tiger!

“The Jiuyan Sect must advance to become an Upper Domain sect. Go to the mission hall and issue a task for our disciples to go to places like the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion and Buddha Temple to capture more people,” Jiuyan Old Ancestor instructed.

“As your command.”

Xiao Ting bowed to take the order, then asked, “But ever since the great battle with our sect, the Buddha Temple has been closed. The Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion has also been closed since the Mysterious Ice Realm incident, and people from both sects never go out, all hiding within their formations.”

“If the two sects don’t come out, then quietly capture their affiliated forces and sects. Make these forces and sects turn against them at the critical moment!” Jiuyan Old Ancestor said.

Xiao Ting nodded, seeing no problem with the plan.

But he felt that such a big move, if noticed by the Imperial Pavilion, might be suspected of provoking trouble.

“As long as we don’t reveal our intentions, any excuse will do. With the Grand Sect Competition approaching, the Imperial Pavilion won’t bother us over such trivial matters,” Jiuyan Old Ancestor said unconcernedly.

“Alright, then we’ll use the excuse of looking for ‘menial disciples who have gone out and not returned for many days,'” Xiao Ting responded.

He had thought about using ‘Lu Lin’ as the excuse.

After all, this excuse had been used before and would be easier to employ again.

Unfortunately, ever since the Mysterious Ice Realm incident, most people now believe that Lu Lin, the Human Sacred Body, is Jiang Chen.

To avoid stirring the Imperial Pavilion’s nerves, they had to look for unknown menial disciples instead.