Chapter 773 - 89: In the Capital, Kings Meet_4
At that moment, Ji Zichang felt a tight grip on his arm and instinctively looked up, only to see the young man standing in the sunlight suddenly reach out and grasp his arm, his palm forceful as if pulsing with the rhythm of a beating heart and pulsating veins.
Li Guanyi said, "I see that expression on your face, and it doesn’t seem like it."
"Besides, you were just here drinking sulkily, and you haven’t done much yet, but you’re already planning to go back."
"Being the head of an aristocratic family must be so exhausting and stifling for you."
"I have thought of a way to repay you."
Ji Zichang said, "I... "
The young man smiled and exerted force.
Sitting under the dense, large tree, Ji Zichang instinctively resisted.
But as an Emperor of the Fourth Layer Heaven, who still relied on his ancestral artifact to summon the Red Dragon Dharma Form, how could he possibly match a fierce general known for his combat prowess on the battlefield?
This ancient tree, planted by the hands of the Red Emperor himself eight hundred years ago when the Academy was established, had been well cared for by generations of scholars, and now it was not just towering but lush to the extreme, blocking out any sliver of the intense summer sunlight.