The Azure Sword God
Purpose: Forest of Death

The next day, when Jian Chen was playing around with Hui-Ying who was always clinging to him, someone knocked on the door of the residence they were occupying.

Jian Chen who was playing with Hui-Ying also looked towards Xiao Yu who immediately opened his eyes as he meditated. The two nodded to each other.

“Sign in.” said Jian Chen.

Someone opened the door, he was one of Yan Shi's subordinates. “Young Master called you both. Coming to the Young Master's residence, the group that wants to leave will leave soon.”

“Ya, we will get ready.” Jian Chen nodded slightly as he slowly stood up.

After the departure of Yan Shi's subordinates, Jian Chen and Xiao Yu immediately walked out of the residence moving towards Yan Shi's residence.

Arriving there, there were very many cultivators who had high strength, the lowest among them was a fourth stage Martial Master cultivator, just like Xiao Yu.

Many pairs of eyes were currently staring towards Jian Chen and Xiao Yu. They had all naturally obtained information about the two that circulated very quickly in all of Yan shi's subordinate ears.

Many of them were looking down on the two because their strength was so low. Although they were considered geniuses, right now they would go to a certain place and a fight would definitely happen. All that was needed by them right now was a powerful fellow, a high-level genius sage.

“You two have arrived, if so. I will convey a few words to all of you.” Yan Shi said as he stared at the arrival of Jian Chen and Xiao Yu.

“Your current goal is to enter the Deathly Forest Region. You all must have heard of the forest located on the outskirts of Jingwu City. A few days ago, there was widespread news that a dazzling light emanated and enveloped the entire Deathly Forest.”

“There has never been such a reaction known to all cultivators. However, there was a certain record in the Yan Kingdom that it was the emergence of something extremely precious. Although the information we receive is not very specific, we will not waste the opportunity to see what it really is. There will be many cultivators who enter there including for the cultivators who come from the Yan.” Kingdom

“This trip may take a long time, it may not. But one thing is for sure, this journey is very dangerous, the percentage of deaths is 60%. If any of you want to retreat, I won't stop you.” Yan Shi also spoke and looked at all the cultivators who were loyal subordinates of his father first.

The subordinates of Yan Shi put on a stern expression. None of them spoke up because they all wanted to go to the Deathly Forest.

“Uncle, next I will hand over command to you.” Yan Shi also looked at the middle-aged man next to him as he said that.

“Good Young Master.” The middle-aged man gave a small nod and stared at all the cultivators who were about to take part in the journey. “I am Yan Zhong, almost all of you have known me. You know how I lead the army. Just one I want to say before leaving, don't dispute the order!”

“Good!” All of Yan Shi's subordinates shouted in unison except for Xiao Yu who seemed not to care much and Jian Chen who was caressing Hui-Ying in his arms.

Yan Zhong did not care at all about Jian Chen and Xiao Yu as he had learned that the two were like a hired force.

Jian Chen and Xiao Yu also instantly made a move, although both of them could be categorized as the weakest group, the speed of the two would not be inferior to those cultivators of the sixth stage Martial Master level.

Yan Shi stared at the departure of all his subordinates. In that place, leaving only around thirty cultivators who would guard their base, all of them were also elite warriors so that they could defend the base despite the attacks.

“Hopefully what appears in the Forest of Death is something that can bring us to be closer to our goals. I leave everything to you, uncle Yan Zhong.” Yan Shi muttered and he turned around and entered his residence to cultivate.

**

Yan Zhong led his army of over fifty cultivators. His face looked serious the whole time. He glanced to the right and left several times to make sure that there were no enemies around where they were.

As for Jian Chen and Xiao Yu, the two of them were at the very back of the line and continued to move without lagging behind at all even after several hours of moving.

That made Yan Shi's subordinates a little astonished as the two of them seemed to have no signs of exhaustion at all. Assuming they were all, since Jian Chen and Xiao Yu were young, the stamina of the two would not be as great as that of a cultivator who had reached full adulthood.

They all did not know that Jian Chen and Xiao Yu had been doing hell training in the Spirit Forest. The training of the two was certainly not simple at all because Jian Chen and Xiao Yu had even tied up a tree trunk that was half the size of their body to run there and come. It made both bodies very sturdy and the stamina of both of them was terrible.

Even if both of them moved for days without stopping, both of them would only look a little exhausted. This was the bar-bar training method created by Jian Chen and it turned out to be indeed effective.

“Jian Chen, how long will we arrive at that place?” Xiao Yu asked as he had not previously listened too much to the conversation between Jian Chen and Yan Shi.

“He did not explain anything about the distance of the place to go before.” Jian Chen replied as he rolled his eyeballs towards Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu felt awkward and did not ask anymore.

The group kept moving. When night falls, they will rest because the location they pass now is a forest. Many spirit beasts were about to attack from behind the shadows at that time so Yan Zhong decided to stop. After all, it made the condition of his subordinates to be in top condition if any cultivators tried to attack them during the journey during the day.

When morning arrived, Jian Chen walked over to Yan Zhong and spoke, “How long will it take to reach the destination from this place?”

“We will arrive at night. However, I decided to stop at a certain distance in the Deathly Forest and continue the journey the next day because that place was indeed quite dangerous. Not only cultivators need to be wary of, but spirit beasts as well since many of the spirit beasts in the Death Forest reached the strength level of the seventh and eighth stage Martial Master.”

“And also, there is another reason why the forest was referred to as the Forest of Death, that was because many cultivators died when entering the place and their bodies were not visible at all even for traces of blood from the battle was not visible.” Yan Zhong explained.

Jian Chen's eyes narrowed slightly knowing that the dangerous level of the Deathly Forest and Spirit Forest only seemed to be a mediocre forest in the eyes of cultivators of Yan Zhong's level even to all of his subordinates.