World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 393 - 210: Save Zhi Ning! Secret Meeting (2 updates)_3

Chapter 393: 210: Save Zhi Ning! Secret Meeting (2 updates)_3

Moreover, time was extremely urgent as Brother Zhi Li would be returning very soon.

Thus, Zhi Ning chose the most resolute method, slitting her wrists to commit suicide.

In doing so, she would not only alarm the people in the Hidden Garden but also the Dragon Temple, which would send medical experts to save her.

Grand Mage Byron loved her the most and would surely come to visit her. At that time, she could plead for his assistance, and perhaps she would have a chance.

Not only did Grand Mage Byron love her dearly, but he also had an innate reverence for life. He believed that preventing the birth of a life was an enormous sin.

Her plan was correct.

The female cultivator assigned to monitor her, upon discovering the suicide attempt, was scared out of her wits and immediately rushed to the Dragon Temple to fetch a medical expert at top speed.

During this process, the news of Zhi Ning’s suicide inevitably leaked out.

However, there was an oversight in Zhi Ning’s plan.

Because the Zhen Yan Princess had left the Dragon Temple, Grand Mage Byron was heartbroken and chose to go into secluded meditation, refusing to see anyone.

Therefore, the news of Zhen Yan’s suicide did not reach his ears, and naturally, he could not save her.

But when one door shuts, another opens.

Although Zhen Yan Princess had left the Dragon Temple, she had spent over a decade there and was the temple’s most outstanding disciple in a hundred years. So she received the news almost immediately and rushed to the Dragon Temple’s Hidden Garden as fast as she could.

However, even quicker than her was Chief Eunuch Li Chenglian.

...

At this moment, within the Hidden Garden of the Dragon Temple.

The cultivators guarding Zhi Ning, along with the experts sent by the Zhi Li Sect, densely surrounded the underground chamber, making it impenetrable.

After a quarter of an hour’s lifesaving efforts, Commandery Princess Zhi Ning slowly came to.

But the instant she opened her beautiful eyes, she did not see her beloved teacher, Grand Mage Byron, but rather the cold face of the female cultivator who guarded her.

At this moment, the female cultivator was holding an energy pill in her hand, the very one that Zhi Ning had desperately forced herself to vomit.

"Your Highness, what were you trying to do?" the female cultivator asked coldly.

Then, Chief Eunuch Li Chenglian floated in, looking at Zhi Ning with a face full of pity.

Suddenly, Commandery Princess Zhi Ning felt ice cold and filled with boundless despair.

She ultimately couldn’t surpass her brother, Zhi Li. He did not give her any chance at all.

"Everyone, leave," ordered Li Chenglian.

Instantly, the chamber was deserted, and the protective experts outside also withdrew completely.

In the entire chamber, only Li Chenglian and Zhi Ning were left.

"Grandfather, are you also here to kill my child?" Zhi Ning’s voice trembled as she spoke.

With her calling him "Grandfather," Li Chenglian’s heart trembled, and his eyes instantly grew wet.

He had personally saved this girl from the enemy’s blade when she was three years old, and then escorted her all the way to Yanjing.

During the decade or so in Yanjing, he had spent half of that time by her side.

She was a ruthless girl, but even more so a pitiful one.

Her ruthlessness was for outsiders. In front of him, Li Chenglian, she was always that delicate little girl.

He truly loved her as if she were his own granddaughter.

If Zhi Ning had married and had children normally, he did not know how happy he would have been, just like any ordinary old man ecstatic about embracing a great-grandchild.

But now...

Li Chenglian’s voice trembled, "Girl, this child should not be kept. It is Suo Lun’s offspring, and you will still need to marry someone else in the future."

Zhi Ning said, "I don’t care whose offspring is in my belly, but he is my child. Our family consists of just me and my brother, and now we finally have one more. Are you really going to kill him, Grandfather?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Chenglian could no longer hold back, and tears slid down his face.

He felt that after experiencing this scene tonight, he would lose at least five years of his life. An episode of such heartache really could exhaust one’s spirit.

FInally, Li Chenglian ceased speaking, approached Zhi Ning, placed his palm on her stomach, and said softly, "Girl, don’t worry, I will be quick and gentle. You won’t feel any pain."

Then, Li Chenglian was to activate the Dragon Power to eliminate the newly sprouted life within Zhi Ning’s belly.

"Swoosh!"

Just at that moment, a stunningly beautiful immortal figure flew into the chamber like a meteor, her sword thrusting straight towards Li Chenglian.

Zhen Yan Princess, having received the news a bit later than Li Chenglian, thus arrived a bit later as well.