Primordial Emperor
Chapter 544: Crossing the River and Tearing Down the Bridge or Courting Death

Chapter 544: Chapter 544: Crossing the River and Tearing Down the Bridge or Courting Death

Among those martial artists who returned, five of them were from the Spirit Sword Sect.

At this moment, everyone saw Lin Chen and Bai Shan join forces to defeat the giant Skeleton Frame, and they felt quite surprised.

After all, they knew full well the prowess of the Skeleton Frame, which had previously crushed a Half-Step Heavenly Human Realm martial artist to death with a single slap.

Right now, among the disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect who had returned, a fat-faced man exchanged glances with the other four disciples, then they surrounded Lin Chen with an ill-intentioned smile on their faces.

Seeing this, Lin Chen smiled indifferently, as he could clearly see what these fellows intended to do.

"It seems you wish to repay kindness with enmity, and destroy the bridge after crossing the river," Lin Chen said, looking at the crowd with a calm tone.

"Stop, what are you doing?"

Bai Shan, seeing his own junior sect brothers surrounding Lin Chen with a hostile demeanor, immediately grew angry and sternly rebuked the five men.

Inside the Spirit Sword Sect, Bai Shan still had considerable prestige, and the five men felt compelled to obey his command.

Consequently, the five men stepped back, intending to spare Lin Chen.

However, Bai Shan stepped in front of them, his gaze sweeping over each one of them in turn.

"Who took the Lightning Sword from the distance, hand it over," Bai Shan said seriously, looking at the five disciples.

That Lightning Sword was originally for Lin Chen and himself. However, Bai Shan had previously stepped in to rescue the others, and later Lin Chen also joined the fight. These fellows not only fled for their lives but also took the opportunity while they were engaged in battle with the Skeleton Frame to seize the Lightning Sword.

This was truly an unprincipled act.

"I... We obtained it by our own strength, why should we hand it over?" the fat martial artist among the Spirit Sword Sect’s five disciples said, glancing at Lin Chen from afar.

When they were fleeing to this place, they had seen Lin Chen and Bai Shan contending for the Lightning Sword. In their view, although Lin Chen and Bai Shan had indeed come to their rescue, the sword was unowned to begin with. If they had taken it, then it belonged to them.

One must know, that was a Heavenly Superior Magic Artifact with a lightning attribute, which in the Sect would require the accumulation of contribution points for perhaps decades before one might be able to exchange for it.

So naturally, the fat man was unwilling to hand it over.

"Are you going to hand it over or not?" Bai Shan asked, his tone growing increasingly cold as he faced the fat man.

If Bai Shan had known that these people were of such character beforehand, he most certainly would not have stepped in to save them.

Watching them die at the hands of the Skeleton Frame, would that not have been better than causing them to be ungrateful now?

Under Bai Shan’s pressure, the fat man finally handed over the Lightning Sword.

Bai Shan took the Lightning Sword and nonchalantly tossed it to Lin Chen.

"Consider this your compensation for stepping in to help, with this, we’re even," Bai Shan said earnestly to Lin Chen, not liking to owe favors to others.

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen smiled faintly and accepted the Lightning Sword.

After Lin Chen received the Lightning Sword, he took another look at the Skeleton Frame in the distance and made a sweeping gesture with his hand, pulling it into his Spatial Ring.

Witnessing Lin Chen take both the Lightning Sword and the Skeleton Frame, the stout disciple from the Spirit Sword Sect couldn’t help but frown, his gaze towards Lin Chen and even Bai Shan filled with resentment.

Lin Chen was aware of the dissatisfaction in everyone’s expressions, but he did not act out. Instead, he chose a direction and left.

Out of respect for Bai Shan, Lin Chen did not strike at the five Spirit Sword Sect disciples, but if those fellows troubled him again, he would not show them mercy.

Yet, the five of them continued to stare after Lin Chen’s departing figure with icy glares, not realizing that they had just narrowly escaped death at Ghost Gate Pass.

At this moment, Lin Chen was leaving the crowd of the Spirit Sword Sect, heading alone towards a forest in the distance. The direction he was taking was coincidentally the same path that the disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect had fled through. Just around the periphery, the disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect had encountered those powerful skeletal creatures. Venturing further inside, he would likely meet even more formidable beings. However, this was precisely what Lin Chen needed. Opportunity often comes with danger.

After entering the forest, Lin Chen found a secluded spot and retrieved the Skeleton Frame he had killed earlier. Before its destruction, the Skeleton Frame had exuded strong Yin Sha Qi. Now that the sinister energy had dissipated, he could finally see the Skeleton Frame for what it truly was.

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