Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation

Li Chong’s request was simple.

He hoped Chen Yan could make a trip to the Northern Protectorate to see whether the reinforcements promised by Song Jingze had actually arrived or not.

In return, Li Chong offered a mansion covering over ten acres of land located in the Great Yu capital, Ningjing City.

“The situation at Sandwind Pass is critical and urgently requires reinforcements. Therefore, I earnestly request you, young hero, to go to the Northern Protectorate and deliver a message to the Northern Protector. Several envoys previously sent north have not returned with any news.

“If you are willing to help, no matter what difficulties you encounter in the future, no matter where you are, the Great Yu Jing’an Marquis Estate will be willing to assist you with all its strength!”

These were Li Chong’s exact words.

His true purpose, of course, was not merely to have Chen Yan go see what was happening with Protector Song at the Northern Protectorate.

If that were all, he could simply send any trusted subordinate north.

The root reason was that he wanted to seize this excellent opportunity to establish a connection with the other party.

The legitimate son of the Jing’an Marquis, Left General Li Chong of the Wei Protectorate, being on good terms with a young martial master.

The weight of this relationship in the eyes of the entire Great Yu civil and military officials was far heavier than Chen Yan could imagine.

Because, as a cultivator, he simply couldn’t imagine just how terrifying the existence of the Kang Family, this martial arts family from Yunxi, was in the eyes of ordinary people.

Decades ago, the various Shanrong tribes once dispatched tens of thousands of elite troops across the Mei River to raid Yunxi.

Waiting for them on the opposite bank of the Mei River were only a little over a thousand Yunxi infantry.

And about a hundred martial masters from the Kang Family.

The outcome was a crushing defeat for the Shanrong, who retreated in disgrace.

This incident caused a huge shock among the surrounding nations.

Compared to vast numbers of troops, martial artists whose combat power far exceeded that of ordinary soldiers seemed capable of playing a much greater role on the battlefield.

After that, Great Yu had also secretly tried to send envoys to contact martial masters from the Kang Family’s branches, promising many benefits.

But they were politely refused by the Kang Family’s martial masters.

Because there was no need; the treatment Yunxi Country gave their Kang family members was already sufficiently generous. Betraying that trust would only tarnish the Kang Family’s reputation.

The Kang Family placed great importance on their family’s honor.

It was precisely because of this that when Li Chong saw the extraordinary young man standing alone beneath the city wall, he immediately decided to spare no effort to build a good relationship with him.

Chen Yan smiled slightly, then nodded.

“No problem.”

The Great Yu Jing’an Marquis sounded quite impressive.

If he decided to temporarily put down roots in this Great Yu and focus on cultivation, the protection of the Jing’an Marquis Estate would indeed be a good condition.

…

Great Yu, Northern City.

Several cavalrymen trotted past the walls of Northern City, while at the city gate stood a number of heavily armored guards. Dozens of archers stood ready atop the walls.

Clearly, this was a wartime state of alert.

While still at Sandwind Pass, Chen Yan had already changed out of his coarse linen clothes and into a set of comfortable gray garments made of good cloth.

He rode a warhorse from Sandwind Pass and carried in his bosom a sealed letter bearing Captain Li’s official seal.

As he approached the gates of Northern City, several guards quickly stepped forward to stop him.

“The war in the Northern Desert is intense. Those without a travel permit may not enter or leave Northern City!”

The guard at the front said sternly.

“Is that so?”

Chen Yan slightly raised his gaze, appearing to pay no mind to the other party at all, then smiled.

“Since you are also aware the war in the Northern Desert is intense, why has Sandwind Pass not seen reinforcements for so long?”

Hearing this, the guard’s expression immediately changed slightly.

He was just an ordinary soldier; he couldn’t influence decisions from above.

But as a garrison soldier of Northern City, he did know that Protector Song, who should have long ago dispatched reinforcements to the front lines, had indeed made no move at all.

If this continued, Sandwind Pass would likely be in grave danger.

Chen Yan, of course, wouldn’t make things difficult for this lowly guard either. He simply took out Li Chong’s sealed letter from his bosom and waved the seal impression on the wax seal in front of the guard’s eyes.

“A letter from Captain Li to Protector Song. I must deliver it into Protector Song’s hands personally.”

“Understood.”

The heavily armored guard nodded with a rather serious expression, then stepped half a pace to the side and gestured for Chen Yan to follow him.

Chen Yan led his horse and followed the guard through the thick gate tunnel. What met his eyes was a scene completely different from Sandwind Pass.

At this moment, although Northern City was also shrouded in the grim atmosphere of war, as the most important city in the north of the Great Yu Dynasty, it was countless times more prosperous than the border fortress.

Chen Yan’s gaze fell on the blue bricks of the road beneath his feet and the roof structures of buildings not far away, then he pondered for a moment.

The architectural style of this city seemed somewhat similar to that of the northwestern part of the Southern Region of the Chenping Continent.

When Chen Yan was searching for Ascending to Immortality Dao Basis and traveling extensively in the past, he had learned about such things.

And this discovery made Chen Yan lean even more towards the possibility that he might still be somewhere on the Chenping Continent at some point in time.

Chen Yan’s gaze swept over the tightly shut grand residences and the anxious-looking commoners in the city, then locked onto a distant complex of buildings that was large in scale and surrounded by very high walls.

The Northern Protectorate.

Immediately after, Chen Yan continued following the guard towards the direction of the Protectorate.

At the entrance to the Protectorate stood two rows of tall, burly personal guards wearing fine iron armor and holding long halberds.

The guiding guard stepped forward and exchanged a few words with the personal guards at the Protectorate’s gate. Then, the personal guard’s gaze fell upon Chen Yan.

The Protector’s personal guard walked towards Chen Yan.

“The letter.”

He said.

Chen Yan took out Li Chong’s sealed letter from his bosom, intending to let the personal guard see the seal impression on the wax.

Who would have thought the personal guard would directly reach out to take the letter from Chen Yan’s hand.

Chen Yan took half a step back, avoiding the personal guard’s hand, then smiled.

“Captain Li’s orders. This letter must be delivered into Protector Song’s hands by me personally.”

Hearing this, the personal guard first glared at Chen Yan, but he truly had no other recourse. After a brief standoff, he turned around.

“Follow me.”

Immediately after, Chen Yan followed this personal guard into the Protectorate.

Upon entering the Protectorate, the atmosphere inside was even more grim and tense than outside.

Moreover, everywhere were soldiers clad in armor. After Chen Yan stepped into the Protectorate, their gazes all fell upon him one after another.

The soldiers stared at Chen Yan with rather fierce looks.

Of course, there wasn’t excessive malice. They just saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old kid entering the military camp and wanted to scare him a bit, finding amusement in it.

Chen Yan, however, met the soldiers’ gazes head-on.

When his eyes met theirs, those men put even more effort into making the most intimidating and ferocious expressions they could muster.

Chen Yan simply smiled at them.

Walking through this Protectorate filled with soldiers was, to him, no different from taking a leisurely stroll through a garden.