Urban All-Round Master

Chapter 943: Chapter 972 The Origin of the Magic Bracelet

”Do you really want to know that badly?”

”Yes!” Lin Zifeng answered without hesitation.

”Even if you find out, what difference does it make?”

Jia Zhenjing gazed at the sky, seemingly reluctant to recall this unpleasant memory.

”At least I can know if my parents are alive or dead! At least I need to know what they used to do.”

”Alright, since you’re so insistent, I’ll tell you. But you must promise me, that no matter who mentions the Blazing Angel, you must pretend to know nothing.”

Jia Zhenjing feared that once this guy learned the secret of the Blazing Angel, it would not be a good thing for him.

Moreover, now with him sitting in Eastern Earth, what would happen once he leaves?

Would those hidden families target him? Or even kill him?

”Why?!”

Lin Zifeng did not quite understand, wasn’t the Blazing Angel the strongest symbol of the East? What kind of misunderstanding did Eastern Earth have with the Blazing Angel?

”Don’t ask so many questions. I’m only telling you about the Blazing Angel. If someone from the Empire ever asks you about it, just pretend you know nothing, no matter who it is! Even if someone from the Empire asks about it, you must keep it a secret!”

Jia Zhenjing solemnly urged.

Although Lin Zifeng didn’t fully grasp his meaning, he nodded nonetheless.

Was the Blazing Angel, nurtured by the Empire, hiding a deeper secret?

”The story should begin in 1860 at Yuanming Garden in Eastern Earth. During the Qing Dynasty’s prime, the garden, known as ’The Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens,’ acquired a mystical bracelet from the populace. It was said to have the power to bring the dead back to life, and the Emperor kept it in Yuanming Garden as the garden’s treasure. Legend had it that this miraculous bracelet had resurrection abilities, so the emperors regarded it as a divine gift.

Every emperor longed for eternal life and the ability to resurrect. Later, word of it reached the ears of many Empire dukes. After Yuanming Garden was destroyed in 1860, the Eight-Nation Alliance specifically demanded to take the mystical bracelet.

However, when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Yuanming Garden, the mystical bracelet vanished and wasn’t seen again until 2009, when an Egyptian martial artist discovered it and revealed it, claiming it had been assimilated by Greek civilization. Everyone regarded this mystical bracelet as a holy artifact of Greece, and outrageously, many claimed it was a relic of an Ancient Greece Goddess—it was laughable! Later, the Empire’s leaders demanded the Blazing Angel to reclaim the national treasure lost by Eastern Earth.

At that time, nearly a hundred Blazing Angel members were dispatched, yet only Nangong Shui and I made it out alive.”

His voice trembled as he continued, ”The battle for the bracelet was monumental; countless fierce Blazing Angel members were killed on the Greece Wilderness. We Blazing Angels faced the onslaught from elite combatants worldwide, forcing us to fight desperately to retrieve the bracelet.

Your father was the terror of that battle, single-handedly slaughtering over a thousand Fusang ninjas! The entire Greece Wilderness was almost completely stained with your father’s blood. To this day, the wilderness remains desolate.”

”What about my mother?”

Lin Zifeng’s eyes were red; he was desperately eager to know what happened to his parents during that battle.

This was his main reason for asking.

Jia Zhenjing glanced at him with a forlorn expression.

Sighing, he continued, ”Your father fell off a cliff with your mother to help us escape.”

Boom!!!

”What!”

It was as if Lin Zifeng was struck by lightning, his mind went blank.

”Was the Holy War and Yun Angel spoken of by Nangong Shui my parents all along?”

Lin Zifeng couldn’t believe it. He had lived with his mother and father for so long, and yet he still had no idea who they really were?

Even the truth about their death had been kept from him!

”Are you saying they are already gone!!!”

”Yes.”

Jia Zhenjing nodded, not lying to him.

”Impossible! They can’t be dead! They can’t truly be gone!”

Lin Zifeng was utterly desolate; he couldn’t believe this to be true. His faith in life was the hope of seeing his parents again, but now the news he received crushed him utterly.

Utterly crushed.

The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. He could not have imagined the outcome he’d been desperately searching for and waiting for was no more than a mere death certificate...

”Their death was meaningful. They died for the Empire, it was a noble death!”

”Hmph! A noble death! Yet even now, no one remembers them. Can such a pointless death be considered noble?” Lin Zifeng scoffed coldly, replying, ”Can’t even a message of their death be spread? I waited and searched in such agony all these years, do you know the pain of a son?”

”Lin, you must understand that their death was not meaningless! The treasures of Eastern Earth belong to Eastern Earth alone! Others may possess them, but they never truly belong to them!”

Jia Zhenjing said.

”Moreover, they only fell off a cliff. Maybe they survived, just unwilling to come out.”

Not only did Jia Zhenjing hope that the Holy War and Yun were alive, even as a self-consolation, Lin Zifeng was willing to believe it.

”Yes! They are not dead, they only fell off a cliff.”

Even knowing they had fallen to their deaths, Lin Zifeng’s heart was still filled with hope because the Magic Bracelet with resurrection capability was in his possession!

”Now you should know our Blazing Angel’s story.”

”That miraculous bracelet belonged to Eastern Earth?”

Lin Zifeng asked in confusion, ”Was the Magic Bracelet revered in Greece initially an Eastern Earth treasure?”

He had a thousand doubts; just as Jia Zhenjing had mentioned earlier, over a hundred years ago, the Magic Bracelet, collected by the emperor, was said to have the power of resurrection. So why didn’t the last emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty escape death?

During the time when Empress Dowager Cixi held power, even if the Magic Bracelet had resurrection capabilities, it should have been kept safe by her as an invaluable treasure.

With a thousand secrets intertwined, perhaps if Lin Zifeng took out the Magic Bracelet now, Jia Zhenjing would reveal everything to him.

However, Lin Zifeng ultimately chose not to reveal the Magic Bracelet, keeping this secret buried deep within his heart forever.

The Magic Bracelet had already formed a very subtle bond with him. Even in the presence of a powerhouse like Jia Zhenjing, he couldn’t sense it.

Back when the instructor discovered him, Lin Zifeng’s cultivation was weak, and his relationship with the Magic Bracelet was tenuous. But it was different now. The Magic Bracelet was like his second life; without it, he was truly nothing.

Afraid of losing, he tirelessly climbed forward—