Blue Phoenix Chapter 24 – Farewell, Oh King of the Forest!

Within the edge of the forest stood two figures clad in black. Neither moved as both kept a keen eye on the five men who were slowly making their way back to the city holding the storage stones that contained the many corpses.

Each step was slow as a downtrodden expression was apparent on all five faces, and a grim atmosphere surrounded them.

Hui Yue’s eyes were filled with killing intent as he looked at these five men. They had been behind the matter with Sun, trying to sell her for the sake of keeping their own harvest to themselves. Although Hui Yue somewhat understood their sentiment, he refused to accept the choice they had made.

“Why didn’t you kill them?” Deng Wu’s voice cut straight through the eerie silence left behind within the forest as the bloody battle had ended. The black-haired man was easily capable of distinguishing the killing intent within his good friend’s eyes.

“Killing them would have solved nothing,” Hui Yue sighed. He slowly turned around when they vanished into the distance. “If I had killed them then a new City Lord would take over, and who knows if he would have wanted to challenge me, the King of the Forest,” Hui Yue explained, his voice tired and his body aching from the fight against the soldiers.

Although it seemed incredibly one-sided, it had truly been a challenging task for Hui Yue to move around that huge chunk of earth. Even one moment of indecisiveness would have completely ruined the attack he was launching.

“Scaring them is far better than killing them. This way no new brave men will arrive after our departure. They should be safe for at least a few years to come,” complaining slightly, Hui Yue walked on wobbly legs back the way they had come from earlier. Their speed slowed drastically, as the white-haired young man had invested his entire cultivation base for the sake of terrifying the City Lord and his elders.

The return to the cabin took more than ten times as long as the trip out. As soon as they made it to the clearing, Hui Yue sat down in meditation and started

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