The Bodyguard King’s CEO Wife Chapter 1782: Found the Ji Family

"No comment." Ye Shikai said blandly. "Xin, my mind is made up. No matter what, I’m going to the Kunlun Secret Realm. Also, I still advise you to go down the mountain."

"No. If I go down the mountain now, you’ll never come looking for me again." Chen Yuxin wasn’t stupid. She was very clear that Ye Shikai now felt disgusted with her. It hadn’t been easy for her to finally find Ye Shikai this time—if she let him go again, who knew whether Ye Shikai would ever come back. Besides, the dangers of the Kunlun Mountain Secret Realm were real. Just now, Ye Shikai had almost been killed by a Snow Demon. If they went any higher, the danger would only increase. On top of that, there were all those Huaxia aristocratic families—each family had at least a few hundred people, some even over a thousand, while Ye Shikai was all alone.

"Unless you swear that you will definitely come back."

Ye Shikai remained silent. What he wanted was to go back and find He Linghan. His feelings for Chen Yuxin were already dead, but after all, she was still carrying a child. If Ye Shikai ignored her completely, he would still feel somewhat guilty in his heart.

"So you really never planned on coming back." Chen Yuxin sneered. "Why? Why are you treating me like this?"

"I once tried to fall in love with you, but I really couldn’t do it. The two of us can’t possibly go back to the past anymore. As for the child, I feel very guilty, but I won’t run away from that responsibility. When the child is born, I will also raise him."

A sharp pain tore through Chen Yuxin’s heart. The moment she heard these words, all the fantasies in her heart were shattered. She knew why Ye Shikai hated her so much, but she still couldn’t accept the reality before her. She couldn’t imagine a life without Ye Shikai. In the two months he’d been missing, Chen Yuxin had been sunk in decadence and pain. If she hadn’t heard that the Kunlun Secret Realm contained the power to traverse time and space, she hadn’t even planned to come.

"Kai, you really... want to leave?"

"I’ve said it already. I have to go."

"Fine. In that case, I’ll go with you, okay?"

"Xin, you’re pregnant. This place is full of dangers. You really shouldn’t go." Ye Shikai tried to persuade her.

"Since you won’t listen to me, why should I listen to you?" Chen Yuxin suddenly stepped forward and wrapped her arms tightly around his waist.

"Kai, I need you as my husband, and the child needs you as his father. I absolutely won’t allow anything to happen to you. If something really does happen to you, the only precondition is that I die first."

Chen Yuxin was determined to go with him. Ye Shikai ultimately couldn’t win against her and could only agree in the end. This inevitably added a few more shades of guilt in his heart toward Chen Yuxin.

"Family Head, son-in-law, we’ve already driven those Snow Demons away. We can set off at any time." Chen Ruoya stepped forward to report.

"Alright, let’s go now. We mustn’t delay any longer." Chen Yuxin turned her head to look at Ye Shikai.

"Kai, those families behind us are about to catch up. We’d better hurry."

"Mm."

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"Family Head, three more people have suffered frostbite. Their condition is very serious."

"Send a few people to escort them all back." Ji Tao said calmly.

"Yes."

"Father, these days, every day there are people getting frostbitten and frozen to death. It’s not just our family—other families are in even worse shape." Ji Qian was somewhat worried, because she didn’t know whether the situation ahead would be even worse, but the temperature was indeed dropping.

"You’re right." Ji Tao nodded slightly. Advancing together with the Ji Family were over a dozen other families, numbering in the thousands. Every few hours, dozens of corpses were left by the roadside. All along the way, they could see cultivators who’d been frozen to death lying by the road. Before setting out, the Ji Family had already ordered those with weaker cultivation to turn back. Those who remained were all Ji Family elites, which avoided many unnecessary casualties.

"Stop and rest for a while. Also, remind everyone to pay attention to maintaining their body temperature. If anyone suffers frostbite, report immediately."

"Alright."

The Ji Family could be said to be walking at the very back of all the families. It wasn’t that Ji Tao wasn’t anxious, but he was someone who liked to strike later and gain the upper hand. There was still a long distance to the Kunlun Secret Realm. Seizing first place now was meaningless. On the contrary, if an accident happened, those at the very front would inevitably bear the brunt—for example, these cultivators frozen to death by the roadside.

Late at night, in the camp.

Ji Qian was alone in her tent, with a fire burning inside for warmth. She took out a book to read to relieve her boredom. Within the Ji Family, there weren’t many people she could confide in. Ji Yu was her younger sister, but Ji Yu wasn’t a cultivator, so she hadn’t come to Kunlun Mountain this time.

"Who’s there?" Suddenly, Ji Qian shouted, pulling out a dagger and pointing it toward the entrance.

"Lord Moon God, it’s us." A soft voice came from outside the tent. Though not loud, Ji Qian already recognized it—it was Nightmare’s voice.

"So it’s you. Hurry and come in." Ji Qian quickly said, letting the few people outside into the tent.

"Great, we finally see a fire. I’m freezing to death." Wang Kai hurried over to the fire to warm himself, with Nightmare, Illusion Fox, and Ghost following behind him.

"I finally found you." Ji Qian was a bit excited. After the avalanche, she had lost contact with the generals of the Netherworld Palace. She hadn’t expected them to actually come looking for her on their own.

"Wait a second—why are there only four of you?" Ji Qian asked back. By rights, even if there had been an avalanche, it shouldn’t have ended with only the four of them left. Yet she hadn’t seen a single member of the Three Temples.

"Where are Soul Destroyer and Demoness? Why didn’t they come?" Ji Qian pressed. The four of their faces fell at once.

"We ran into an ambush by the Shadow Organization. Feng Ling and Xue Ming were all there. After a fierce battle, we lost many people. Soul Destroyer was gravely injured..." Nightmare explained, slowly lowering his head.

"Soul Destroyer’s injuries were too serious, so I decided to have Demoness and the remaining members escort him down the mountain. The few of us continued up the mountain." Ghost added.

"You did the right thing." Ji Qian nodded in approval, but what she was more concerned about was the fact that they’d actually been attacked by the Shadow Organization.

"How did you end up running into people from the Shadow Organization?" Ji Qian knew very well that the Shadow Organization was a secret trump card in Chen Yuxin’s hand. Kunlun Mountain was so vast—how had they run into each other?

"This is a long story. Ever since the avalanche, we’ve been hurrying along the road. We happened to run into the Chen family’s team, so we secretly followed them from behind, going up the mountain along a deserted small path to get here. It was there that we were ambushed by the Shadow Organization."

"A secret path—so that’s how it is." Ji Qian suddenly understood. No wonder they hadn’t seen any trace of the Chen family along the way. It turned out Chen Yuxin had already taken the small path and was quietly walking ahead of everyone.

"So you didn’t run into the Heavenly Chasm either."

"Heavenly Chasm? What Heavenly Chasm? We came here by following the small path."

"Just as I thought."