# Chapter 2448: Still Held Back
Jiangnan shook his head, tears streaming down his face, and no longer wanted to speak!
How unlucky could this be? Was the reverse word spirit this lethal? Even telepathic communication counted?
Could even the heaven-defying luck of the Child of Destiny not withstand the ferocious misfortune brought by Little Cherry and gum?
The system's darling was right after all!
[(๑ˇ◠ˇ)～Hmph～]
Seeing Jiangnan burning badly, Mila once again cast a Restoration Light Pillar over him!
Now no one dared to approach Jiangnan, not even daring to speak!
Who knew what kind of messed-up things the reverse word spirit would make come true?!
However, the mental group chat exploded into chaos!
Wang Dalei directly @'d Jiangnan!
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Uncle Jiang, you stopped mid-sentence? What happened?"
Seeing the situation was bad, Xia Yao quickly explained!
(งᵒ̌﹏ᵒ̌)ง "It's fine, it's fine, Little South is fine. The Child of Destiny has indeed been taken down, and the Triumph Group Army has been wiped out. It just came at a considerable cost!"
"He ate a Little Cherry and is now suffering through the bad luck. Everyone, don't..."
Before she could finish, her message was buried by an avalanche of new messages. After all, all three sides were fighting fiercely, and the information exchange was intense!
"What? That Child of Destiny actually forced Uncle Jiang to eat a Little Cherry? Was he that strong?"
The next moment, Jiangnan's eyes bulged wide. He uncontrollably stuffed a Little Pudding into his mouth and directly transformed into Little Lanlan!
Then, a towering flame erupted from his philtrum, blazing fiercely!
Jiang Lan:୧(꒪ͦ།口།꒪ͦ#)୨ Ahhh!!!
Punctuation! You need punctuation! It's "actually/forced/Uncle Jiang!"
Not "actu/ally for/ced Uncle Jiang"! You couldn't even conjure one up that wasn't there?!
Zhong Yingxue was shocked. How did he catch fire again? Wang Dalei hadn't said anything either!
So Snowy, acting as the firefighter, began frantically putting out the flames!
Jiang Lan:(#꒦ິ﹏꒦ີ) "Don't you all say..."
But the messages were once again buried!
Odin clicked his tongue: -`(￢益￢〃)´- "To be able to push Big Brother to this extent? Tsk tsk tsk～ He really went all out to support us, huh? Stabbing himself in the ribs for his brothers!"
"Pfft pfft～"
Two spatial barrier blades materialized, and Jiangnan directly stabbed them into his own ribs. His eyes bulged, and he spat out two mouthfuls of old blood!
=͟͟͞͞=͟͟͞͞7(꒪ัཀ꒪ั#)＜=͟͟͞͞
Liu Mang grinned: ☻ "If you ask me, Boss Nan is truly perceptive. If he hadn't eaten the Little Cherry, who knows what chaos might have occurred? Cutting losses was the right move!"
"Whoosh～"
Two jets of flame shot directly from Jiangnan's eyes. Jiangnan covered his eyes and rolled around wildly!
(ﾉ)☄口☄(ヾ) "Ah～ My eyes! My eyes～"
Frickin' "truly perceptive"! Stop praising me! I can't take it anymore!
Zhong Yingxue's forehead was covered in cold sweat. She had just put out the fire on his philtrum, and now his eyes were on fire? Little South really was a hot-blooded boy — highly flammable and explosive!
So she started extinguishing the fire on Jiangnan's eyes!
Wang Gang: (┘⊙ﾛ⊙└) "But to take down the army carefully prepared by a major clan so quickly, Boss Nan is really cool to death!"
Freya giggled: (ॢಡ̫ಡ) "Cool to death? He's freaking awesome to explosion, okay? Giving you a thumbs up! Qiu le ge mi～"
"When are you coming to support? We're in a bit of a pinch over here?"
Just then, Jiangnan's Sha Armor pants shattered completely, suffering an instant pants death, and his philtrum exploded again!
He couldn't help but grab his own Xingtian Eye with both hands!
(இ口இ|||) Puwa～
(ﾉ)••(ヾ)
╰UーU╯
Zhong Yingxue: !!!
She didn't care anymore and directly transformed into a Flame Garment, replacing Jiangnan's exploded pants!
Jiangnan was pinching himself until his eyes rolled back in his head. Damn it, as expected of you, Drunkard Goddess! You managed to hit me with a deadly triple whammy in one sentence!
It's qiu, not jiu!
Xia Yao was horrified. Little South was so far from the three groups, and this was a mental conversation. Could the curse still affect him?
The bad luck really went to any lengths to make Little South suffer!
(งᵒ̌﹏ᵒ̌)ง "Everyone! Please stop talking about Little South for now. He's really unlucky right now. Any unfavorable remarks about him will come true on Little South!"
"If you keep praising him, you might praise him to death!"
After all, Little South was currently stabbing himself in the ribs, had vision like a torch, was cool to death, awesome to explosion, and had qiu le ge mi'd himself!
To make sure everyone saw, Xia Yao specially @'d everyone!
Everyone shuddered violently. Was this really that sinister? Eating Lucky Little Cherry could cause this much bad luck?
Holy crap!
This was the first time they had heard that praising someone could actually praise them to death!
Zhong Yingxue nodded repeatedly: "So for now, everyone should treat Little... treat him as if he doesn't exist. That's the best way to protect Little South!"
Jiangnan raised a trembling hand:
٩(꒦ິ⌓꒦ີ#」∠)_ "Wait until this bad luck passes, then I'll come support..."
"Crack～"
Before he could finish, a crisp sound rang out, and Jiangnan's head twisted 180 degrees backward! His head was on backwards, leaving Zhong Yingxue staring at the back of his skull!
Jiangnan spat blood. Even "back" counted?
That was way too thorough!
You really couldn't guard against it!
Zhong Yingxue was anxious: "Little South... don't talk anymore. Don't say a single word. Don't be afraid, I'll stay with you, okay?"
Jiangnan's tears scattered across the starry sky as he nodded repeatedly!
In this state, he couldn't go support Xiao Chuihuo, Mi Ye, and the others!
Otherwise, discussion about Jiangnan would be unavoidable. With a million-strong army, if everyone said one bad thing about him, Jiangnan might explode on the spot, sacrifice himself, and spiral into the heavens!
He had to wait until this bad luck passed!
It had to be said that although Jiangnan had taken down the Child of Destiny and the Triumph Group Army extremely quickly,
He had suffered a heavy price in return — his actions were delayed. He couldn't go support any of the other three groups!
From this perspective, the big clans' plan had still succeeded to some extent. Jiangnan had indeed been held back!
Just not in the way they had imagined!
Yakeli's expression hardened: "You all guard him for now. Staying here is useless to me. I'll go support. Be careful!"
Everyone nodded. Yakeli used Crack-Open Butterfly to teleport away in an instant!
Jiangnan and his group found a nearby rocky planet and hid inside its core to deal with the randomly triggering word spirit!
Zhong Yingxue transformed into a Flame Armor and stayed with Jiangnan the whole time, while Mila crouched beside him, occasionally casting Restoration on him!
Xia Yao, Wu Liang, and the others surrounded the planet where Jiangnan was hiding, protecting it from any unexpected incidents!
Just three hours. Get through this, and a brand new Jiangnan would emerge!
However, even with complete silence, occasional word spirits still came true on Jiangnan!
After all, Jiangnan's reputation was too great. Who in the starry sky didn't know him? There would always be a few discussing him!
Not all of them would come true, but there was always the blind squirrel finding a nut!
Jiangnan was suffering immensely. He even considered crawling into Jin Kela's sack and pressing up against Qing Ke zero distance to use her luck to protect himself!
But thinking about the indescribable contents of that sack, he decided to forget it!
For unlucky Jiangnan, every second felt like a year. Half an hour passed like this!
Then came two loud "BOOM" sounds as two huge holes blasted open on the rocky planet!
Mila and Zhong Yingxue, each with a shoe print on their faces, were kicked out of the planet's core by the bucking Jiangnan, flying into the starry sky!
Their eyes twitched!
(٥ớ།Ϡờ)(٥ᵒ̴̶̷̥́Ϡᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀)…
Had the Horse Biscuit's effect time already passed? This really was hard to guard against!
Even staying with Jiangnan made you unlucky?
Truly — words could be spoken freely, but cherries and gum were best not eaten casually!
...
At this moment, the Sequence Support Group outside Julang City was also confused. What was going on?
Why had Jiangnan found a planet and hidden himself?
The other three human groups were clearly being fiercely attacked. Some had even been forced to crush their life tokens and withdraw!
Jiangnan should be supporting them, not hiding and lying low!
What was the situation?
Even Zhi Yin was baffled:
(๑•̌.•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Boss Nan's move here is really puzzling. Shouldn't he be supporting the other groups and taking down the besieging armies in one fell swoop? Why is he..."
Yue Li analyzed: ↜(⃔っ❛ั～❛ัC)⃕ "Hah, can't you see? Boss Nan's teammates are all in a defensive posture. Before the battle ended, his actions were strange, his aura was chaotic, he was spontaneously combusting, and even stabbed himself. Could it be... he was injured in battle? Suffering from qi deviation? So that's why..."
Then Yang Jian's eyes lit up, his face full of excitement as he slapped his thigh!
(͡°͜ʖ͡°)✧ "Good! Excellent! Strange phenomena appearing frequently, aura raging, dark clouds overhead — this is a sign of a breakthrough, isn't it? Tsk tsk tsk～ It seems he gained quite a bit from that battle!"
"Taking down the Child of Destiny wasn't for nothing!"
The sequence members looked at Yang Jian in shock. Boss Nan was about to break through?
Breaking through during the Cosmos Grand Hunt?
Jiangnan was already freakishly strong. If he broke through, wouldn't his strength reach another level?
Sss～
But... did humans always behave so strangely before a breakthrough?
Chong Feiyu's mouth twitched. Frickin' "about to break through". This three-eyed kid's acting was impressive!
Was he trying to cover up the fact that Jiangnan was in trouble by using the breakthrough as a smokescreen?
Yang Jian knew better than anyone that Jiangnan had eaten a Little Cherry. At such a critical moment, choosing to hide meant his bad luck was so severe that even he couldn't handle it!
So he hid in the planet's core to minimize the impact, right?
Three hours. Hopefully Xiao Chuihuo, Odin, and the others could hold out. Get through this wave, and humanity's total points would be secure!
Meanwhile, on the Sequence Throne, the Star Devourers watched the diving Jiangnan with confusion!
This didn't look like signs of a breakthrough!
Perhaps something had gone terribly wrong. Should they take the opportunity to attack Jiangnan? Maybe they could take him down!
But as soon as this thought appeared in Saint York's mind, he shuddered violently!
Who knew what scheme Jiangnan was cooking up? That guy was as cunning as a fox. What if he was deliberately feigning weakness to lure them in?
Even if he really was in trouble, Jiangnan still had his ultimate trump card — Black Hole Devouring Star. Without dealing with that, forget about capturing Jiangnan!
Better not court trouble. Regardless, Jiangnan showed no intention of supporting the other three groups!
Although the plan had deviated and the Child of Destiny had been captured, the goal of holding Jiangnan back had been achieved in another form!
At this rate, they would surely be able to devour those three human groups. The three human squads currently under siege were fighting with unimaginable difficulty!