Chapter 1539

The old man with missing front teeth saw a few familiar faces among the flying figures. He cursed under his breath and rushed to the tavern.

But it was too late. All five men flew out.

The old man rushed into the tavern and saw the ugly lame fool standing at the entrance. Beside him, the mute granddaughter was pitifully pulling on the ugly lame fool's arm. Half of her face was already red and swollen.

He didn't have time to ask what happened. Besides, what could an idiot and a mute explain?

Next, the five men sat in the small tavern and angrily discussed the matter of compensation.

The ugly cripple stood at the side, while the mute girl had tears in her eyes.

The old man kept explaining in a low voice.

The five men who came to collect protection fees gradually calmed down. They took twice the protection fee from the old man and left.

They took twice the amount not because they were nice, but because they were afraid of the ugly cripple.

That guy was simply too strong. He carried them as if they were little chicks. Moreover, when the ugly fool limped towards them, they actually felt fear in their hearts. It was as if they saw a bloodthirsty demon king walking towards them.

After the five men left, the pretty mute girl hurried forward and gestured at the old man with missing front teeth. Her pretty face was full of grievance and panic.

She wasn't afraid of the men. She was only afraid that her grandpa would chase the idiot away.

The old man turned around and looked at the ugly cripple with empty eyes. Tears welled up in his muddy eyes.

Whoever said the ugly cripple didn't know how to talk was an idiot.

He knew how to protect his granddaughter. He wasn't an idiot. He wasn't an idiot at all.

On this day, the old man with missing front teeth cried. Tears streamed down his face.

On this day, the mute girl cried.

On this day, the ugly cripple grinned.

After that, the ugly cripple really became a member of the tavern. Like a family of three, they became the joke of the tavern.

The ugly cripple was Zi Chen, the leader of the hundred powerhouses from the Domain Realm. He was the one who led the team and completed the impossible mission.

Zi Chen propped up his own world and protected the passage. In that instant, he saved the last of the people.

After that, the world was destroyed, and endless darkness swallowed Zi Chen.

The alien leader's soul had already fused with the world. After the world collapsed, he had already died.

The three guides turned back and came to Zi Chen's side. At the cost of their lives, they worked together to tear apart the dark space and seek a chance of survival for Zi Chen.

Zi Chen rushed out of the dark space and encountered the energy storm. The power of the other races that he had been painstakingly suppressing completely erupted when Zi Chen resisted the storm.

Sensing that death was approaching, Zi Chen had no choice but to preserve his life first. He forcibly withdrew all of his spiritual senses into his Sea of Consciousness and then sealed the world of his Sea of Consciousness.

As for his physical body, he would be left to his own devices.

Fortunately, Zi Chen's physical body was said to be perfect. Coupled with the tempering of the Lightning King Physique, his physical body was even stronger than a Realm Soldier of the same level.

Without the control of his spirit sense, his physical body stopped the alien energy from erupting again and again. After the continuous eruption, the alien energy gradually calmed down and lay dormant in every part of Zi Chen's body.

As a result, Zi Chen became an ugly cripple.

This was because every part of his body contained an unimaginable amount of alien energy. It was this alien energy that caused Zi Chen's appearance to change.

As for why he was an idiot, it was because this physical body didn't even have a soul other than vitality.

Zi Chen had experienced this once before. However, at that time, Zi Chen's spiritual senses could still awaken on their own. This time, however, Zi Chen's spiritual senses were completely sealed. He had lost his soul and looked like an idiot instead of a walking corpse. This was already very extraordinary.

Within his physical body, in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness, Zi Chen's spiritual senses were undamaged.

Around his undamaged spiritual senses, there was an endless amount of alien energy. Surrounding this alien energy was a seal that Zi Chen had personally set up.

If Zi Chen's spiritual senses wanted to return to his physical body, he had to refine this alien energy and then forcibly break the seal.

Within his spiritual senses, Zi Chen was sitting cross-legged. This was his soul.

When he opened his eyes, Zi Chen's soul was awakened. He recalled the scene that had happened before. After that, his eyes lit up. He looked at the alien energy around him and murmured, "I escaped from death. I wonder how my physical body is and if it's still there."

Within the seal, if his physical body collapsed, Zi Chen's soul would automatically drift between heaven and earth. If he accidentally merged with a type of ore, he was afraid that it would be used as a material to be refined into a weapon's soul.

Just like his Dragon Soul Spear, that was a real dragon's soul.

Zi Chen didn't know anything about the outside world. The most important thing now was to refine his own soul power again.

One had to know that when he was stimulated, he forcibly broke through a realm. This kind of crazy breakthrough directly caused his foundation to become unstable. If Zi Chen wanted to go out, the first thing he had to do was to stabilize his realm.

Zi Chen, who was trapped in his Sea of Consciousness, first stabilized his realm and then went into seclusion.

The next time he woke up would be when his realm was completely stabilized.

As for the time, Zi Chen wasn't sure.

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The news of the old man with missing front teeth finding an ugly lame fool for the mute girl spread in this small place. Everyone treated this matter as a joke.

Ever since the ugly lame fool protected his granddaughter, his granddaughter would bring the ugly lame fool along whenever she went out.

As a result, wherever the two of them went, they would be pointed at and whispered.

It seemed that the ugly lame fool had brute strength and could easily throw out five large men with high realms. When everyone pointed at the two of them, they didn't find trouble with the ugly lame fool.

In the blink of an eye, the ugly lame fool had stayed in the tavern for half a year. During this half year, everyone gradually got used to the existence of this pair of weirdos. Wherever they went, they would no longer be pointed at, but they would still be ridiculed once or twice.

During this half year, other than going out with the mute girl to buy things, the ugly lame fool stayed in the tavern and didn't go anywhere else.

The tavern's business wasn't good to begin with. It couldn't support the family and could only make ends meet. Because of the ugly lame fool's arrival, it was even more difficult to make ends meet.

In addition, during this period of time, those large men came a few times and asked for more protection fees. They ate and drank a few meals without paying. The tavern was about to run out of food.

As a matter of fact, the usual customers were starting to complain that the alcohol was becoming less and less tasty.

On this day, the old man with missing front teeth was calling for business. He asked his granddaughter to bring Zi Chen out to buy things.

The mute girl walked in front, ignoring the ridicule. She wore a dress with a dozen or so patches sewn on it. She skipped as she walked, occasionally turning around and smiling at Zi Chen, like a happy little angel.

Zi Chen, who had turned into an ugly lame fool, would occasionally grin at the mute girl.

A group of people riding exotic beasts was charging in their direction. The leader was a young man wearing shining armor.

When the other party rushed in, they didn't have any intention of stopping. Everywhere they passed, there was chaos.

The mute girl happened to be in the other party's path. When she saw the ferocious black tiger that the young man was riding, she was scared silly and didn't move at all.

Seeing the girl who was scared silly, the young man smiled coldly. He didn't dodge and directly charged in her direction. If he hit her hard, the mute girl would definitely die.

Many people couldn't help but close their eyes when they saw this scene.

Everyone usually laughed at the mute girl, but no one cursed the two of them to die. To put it bluntly, they were both pitiful people.

"Bang!"

A loud sound was heard. Those who closed their eyes also trembled. They all thought that a poor little girl had died just like that.

A painful cry was heard. Naturally, it wasn't the mute girl.

Everyone subconsciously opened their eyes and saw a shocking scene.

The ugly lame fool had unknowingly rushed to the mute girl's side and hugged her with his back facing the exotic beast.

The young man riding the exotic beast had already flown dozens of meters forward and was lying on the ground. His dazzling armor was covered in dust.

As for the black tiger, it was dozens of meters behind. It rolled a few times before getting up.

The man and the beast fell one after the other. No one could understand what had happened.

However, someone in the distance saw that when the black tiger was about to crash, the ugly lame fool somehow appeared in front of the mute girl and protected her with his back facing the black tiger. The black tiger rushed up, but when it was still a distance away from the ugly lame fool, it seemed to have hit a wall and was sent flying.

The young man on the black tiger's back flew dozens of meters forward because of the black tiger's sudden stop and fell flat on his face.

The young man got up from the ground. His face was covered in dust. He spat twice and there was dirt in his mouth. He pointed at the ugly lame fool and said angrily, "Where did this ugly thing come from? How dare you block my path?"

The mute girl escaped from death and looked at the ugly lame fool gratefully. However, the two of them were in an ambiguous position. She couldn't help but blush. At this moment, the young man questioned her. The mute girl's face was full of fear. She struggled free from the ugly lame fool and gestured at the young man with a pleading face.

"Damn it, an ugly thing and a mute. How unlucky." The young man spat at the ground and slapped the mute girl three meters away.

"How dare you block my path? You're courting death." The young man ignored the mute girl and stared at the ugly lame fool.

However, the latter ignored the young man and went to help the mute girl. He grinned at the mute girl.

After being together for half a year, the mute girl could more or less understand what the ugly lame fool's expression meant. His grin was not a smile, but anger.

The mute girl shook her head at the ugly lame fool. She was very worried.

The young man was ignored and the anger on his face grew. He had already lost face and fell flat on his face. Now, he was ignored by an ugly thing.

The others stopped their exotic beasts and stood still with indifferent expressions.

The young man turned around and said to the black tiger, "Go, tear this ugly thing to shreds."

At this moment, he was so angry that he ignored the question of why the black tiger was suddenly sent flying.

"Roar."

The black tiger let out an earth-shattering roar and rushed toward the ugly lame fool.

The surrounding people still didn't understand what was going on. When they saw the ferocious tiger about to hurt the young man, they couldn't bear it anymore. They thought that the ugly lame fool with some strength was about to be torn apart by the ferocious tiger.