A beautiful woman in red suddenly appeared underwater.
This startled Chen Nan.
He hadn't expected such a beautiful woman to be in the water.
Judging by her attire and appearance,
it was clear she was either wealthy or noble.
Moreover,
she was perfectly mature.
It was a pity she died here.
Just as Chen Nan was about to press the round stone on the riverbed,
he clearly saw.
The beautiful woman in red exhale a bubble.
And.
her body began to slowly descend.
Chen Nan frowned.
He had thought the woman had been dead for a long time.
But now it seemed.
things were not as he had imagined.
If she had been dead for a long time, she wouldn't have exhaled bubbles.
And.
her body would have floated upwards,
instead of sinking towards the bottom.
Without further thought,
he reached out and grabbed her wrist.
Hmm.
She was still warm.
The woman's body was slightly warm, and she had a pulse.
It was obvious she had just drowned.
Although he didn't know why she had drowned,
he was not one to stand by and watch someone die.
He immediately untied the rope binding him and wrapped it around himself and the woman.
Then he channeled the yin energy within him and forcefully pressed it onto the round stone on the ground.
This stone was as heavy as a truck tire, extremely heavy.
But Chen Nan's strength was astonishing.
Crack!
As he pressed the round stone down by more than ten centimeters.
The cracks on the ground widened.
Collapsing.
A huge vortex appeared.
The surrounding river water surged in,
creating a powerful suction force.
But before the suction force could spread, Chen Nan suddenly yanked the rope binding him.
However.
The strength of Wu Jiu and the others was not enough for him to escape this suction force.
Therefore.
He decisively unleashed his spatial domain, creating a circular vacuum within the water.
Using this buoyancy, he was pulled out of the water by Wu Jiu and the others.
Then.
With one swift move, he used his spatial domain to appear on the city wall.
At this time.
A large vortex with a diameter of over three meters had already appeared within the city.
It was clear that river water was being discharged along the city wall to a lower-lying area outside the city.
Song Yunfei looked at the drenched Chen Nan in disbelief, "No, you... you went down to open the floodgates, how did you bring back a beautiful woman?"
Wu Jiu scoffed, "Don't talk nonsense, she's not a beauty, she's a mature auntie."
Chen Nan weakly untied the rope, "I don't know what's going on. When I went down, this auntie was in the water. I saw she was still warm, so I brought her out." He then laid the woman flat on the ground.
And proceeded to straddle her, placing his hands on her chest.
The woman had drowned and was unconscious.
She needed immediate treatment.
Otherwise, her brain could be starved of oxygen.
"Chen Nan, you're a complete beast!" Seeing Chen Nan perform artificial respiration on the woman, Wu Jiu sighed deeply.
The others also looked at him with disdain.
You saved her because she was still warm?
Heh!
We're too embarrassed to see through your lie.
You wanted to take advantage of her warmth to do something.
But...
You're too impatient, aren't you?
"You don't understand anything, I'm saving her!" Chen Nan said irritably, then pinched the woman's nose with one hand, parted her cherry lips with the other, and gave her a breath.
"So it was to save her, I misunderstood you!" Wu Jiu said with shame, "Well, you just opened the floodgates and saved Tongcheng, you're a great hero to Tongcheng. As for saving people, let me do it!"
Chen Nan looked at him with astonishment.
This guy was truly shameless.
He ignored the other man and continued to perform artificial respiration on the woman.
Ugh!
He persisted for nearly three minutes.
The woman coughed out a mouthful of yellow water.
Her pale complexion regained some color.
She then slowly opened her weak eyes.
At this moment.
She saw a strange man puckering his lips towards her.
A cold glint flashed in her eyes.
She raised her hand and slapped Chen Nan.
Slap!
With a crisp sound.
Chen Nan, like a kite with a broken string, flew backward, spitting out blood after landing on the ground.
"Damn you, how dare you hurt my brother?" Wu Jiu was furious, drawing the saber from his waist, "Brothers, let's kill this bitch!"
Clang clang clang!
Song Yunfei and the others also glared, drawing their sabers from their waists.
Chen Nan had risked his life to save this woman from underwater.
And even saved her life.
Not only did she not offer thanks,
but she even injured Chen Nan.
This was something they could not tolerate.
"I am Du Yuan, the Mistress of Hundred Flowers Valley, you dare to hurt me?" The woman stood up with difficulty, her voice cold, but with a hint of fear in her eyes.
She was severely injured.
She couldn't exert her full strength.
Let alone, facing a group of constables.
Wu Jiu roared, "So what if you're the Mistress of Hundred Flowers Valley? My brother risked his life to save yours, and you not only didn't thank him, but you even attacked him."
"To put it mildly, you are ungrateful, and to put it severely, you are provoking the dignity of the imperial court."
Hundred Flowers Valley was a hidden sect.
With hundreds of disciples.
Normally.
Wu Jiu would have been wary of her.
They couldn't afford to offend such a person.
But times were different now.
Chen Nan had just opened the floodgates and saved Tongcheng.
After this flood,
the imperial court would surely reward him.
Putting that aside,
even as brothers, they would not stand by and watch Chen Nan be severely injured by this woman.
Song Yunfei swung his saber at her, "Why talk so much? Kill her!"
Du Yuan quickly dodged.
At the same time, she understood what had happened and said with a face full of apology, "Officers, it is my fault. I am willing to apologize to this young man."
"Actually, we are all on the same side. I was ordered by Lord Han to open the floodgates, but I had an accident underwater due to my poor swimming skills."
Hearing her say this.
Wu Jiu and the others frowned in unison.
They had already felt that the Mistress of Hundred Flowers Valley shouldn't be here.
But they didn't expect she was here on Han Zongyuan's orders to open the floodgates.
Since they were on the same side.
She could not be considered an enemy.
Wu Jiu looked at Chen Nan with a questioning gaze.
Chen Nan stood up weakly, his head still buzzing, but he said, "Since this sister is on our side, let's consider what happened just now a misunderstanding!"
Hearing him say this.
Wu Jiu and the others naturally had nothing more to say.
However.
You call her sister?
Isn't that a bit too shameless?
"Sister?" Du Yuan's heart fluttered like a deer's. She couldn't remember how many years it had been since she was addressed like that.
Thinking of this, she showed a wry smile, "At my age, I could be your mother."
Chen Nan said indifferently, "For cultivators, age is just a meaningless number."
Du Yuan was about to speak.
But her expression changed, her delicate body collapsed to the ground, and she fainted.
Song Yunfei couldn't help but say, "What's going on? Why did she faint again?"
Wu Jiu sighed, looking at Chen Nan with a complex expression, "An opportunity to save the damsel in distress has arrived. Aren't you going to seize it?"