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Chapter 30 : Tian Shou Mountain

(Tian Shou means heavenly beast in chinese.)

Mo Xian asked, his face turning into a frown and his breathing becoming fast.

Chen Yi said, approaching her Master and calming him down.

Mo Xian sighed and sat on his bamboo chair, Chen Yi beside him poured a cup of tea and handed it to him. Mo Xian accepted the tea and nodded in gratitude then after taking a sip, he spoke.

Chen Yi also poured a tea for herself, took a sip while sitting down to the opposite bamboo chair and replied,

Mo Xian softly said.

Chen Yi cleared her throat and continued,

Mo Xian paused and glanced at his disciple, he pondered for a bit and sighed with a frown. Mo Xian instructed.

Chen Yi replied, standing up and slightly baowing and cupping her hands. Mo Xian smiled and patted her head before wearing his second layer of white robe and went of his chambers.

Liu Xiao grabbed the last one small biscuits in the table and ate it before going out of the carriage. He frowned and tilted his head while looking at the place they had arrived, he glabced at Wu Qingge and lightly grabbed the hem of his black red robe and asked,

Wu Qingge's lips curved slightly and his eyes lingered on Liu Xiao's beautiful puzzled face, stopping on the mark on his forehead. He couldn't help but to raise his hand and went to caress it. Liu Xiao didn't seem to feel displeased but his expression was still asking Wu Qingge for an explanation so Wu Qingge answered,

Wu Qingge reached out his hand, planning to lead the way while holding Liu Xiao's hand but Liu Xiao hesitated and only held the cuff of his sleeves and forced a smile. Wu Qingge didn't say anything and started to walk forward to the mountain.

Just like the Shen Hua Mountain, the Tian Shou mountain had a barrier outside so as soon as you enter, you would feel a huge amout of pure spiritual qi covering the whole mountain. But even though Tian Shou mountain had a barrier, it didn't have a trap illusion that they experienced back on the Shen Hua Mountain. Cultivators were always allowed here to sharpen their skills and make their spiritual qi stronger by fighting the mystical beasts and making it their mounts or battle pets.

The whole mountain didn't feel sinister nor did it had a faint of demonic qi. Everything was pure and only a warm spiritual qi can be felt inside. These pure spiritual qi came from the mystical beasts, they feed on the refined spiritual qi on the mountain and the spiritual qi they feed on would be released as a much purer spiritual qi after; like how a human breathe in carbon dioxide inside their lungs and breathe out oxygen after. So simple ヾ(¯∇￣๑).

Liu Xiao glanced at the mystical beasts all over, the beasts showing up were not hostile at all, maybe the hostile ones were hidden somewhere. There were white deers with golden eyes and horns, black rabbits, a bird with different colors and many more beautiful mystical beasts than you can imagine. Liu Xiao frowned at them and clicked his tongue.

My human snakes are much more cuter than them! What is that?! They were just animals painted in colors! We, in the modern times can do that! But a snake with a human face is different! It's much rare and cuter—it's interesting!

Wu Qingge saw his sour expression and asked, Liu Xiao turned at him and shifted back his calm and unbkthered expression and only shook his head.

Wu Qingge asked again, letting out a faint of his black lotus qi in his palms, readying himself to catch the alarmed beasts. Liu Xiao's face soured again and immediately shook his head. he simple answered while they continued on walking.

Wu Qingge seemed to be confused but he didn't asked any further. He continued to walk in different pathways while Liu Xiao was following behind him. Liu Xiao glanced at the giant beasts there were all about to pounce but as soon as their eyes stopped on Wu Qingge who was walking on the front, they immediately back off and pretend to be dead.

Liu Xiao silently grinned at the enormous beasts who were trembling and curled up in a corner. Fufufu! How is it?! The protagonist halo?! Isn't it awesome?! Hahahahaha you ugly monsters! Be scared! Pee yourselves! HAHAHAHHAHA!

Liu Xiao immediately composed himself and glanced at Wu Qingge who was standing beside a large volcano crater. Liu Xiao was shocked on how large it is, it can swallow up the whole Shen Hua Mountain by it's gigantic mouth. Who would've thought that the Tian Shou Mountain had a large volcano buried like this? Wu Qingge reached out his hand to him. he said, referring to the quivering giant beasts hiding behind stone corners.

How could they hurt me? Can't you see they are scared to even dare making a move? Liu Xiao frowned but he also reached out his hand to Wu Qingge and they both jumped down the large crater. There was neither blazing magma nor hot flowing lava. The volcano was empty.

There were only ashes on the ground that came from a miscellaneous crushed small rocks and a large entrance of a cave appeared in the corner. Wu Qingge entered the cave, holding Liu Xiao's hand but they both didn't seem to mind it because their attention is focused on the huge amount of pure spiritual qi emitting inside the cave.

Even though Liu Xiao looked calm on the outside, his senses inside were all alarmed. His whole body was ready to dodge any attack at anytime, his hand staying on the hilt of his sword to pull it out on it's scabbard and his eyes wandering anywhere, examining the whole cave.

There were a faint light of silver crystals that were close to transparent twinkling as if it was dancing, some corners of the cave where bright from it's twinkling and some corners where pitch black and there were also different colors of crystal but they never emitted a glow like the sliver crystals did. Liu Xiao glanced at the twinkling silver crystals and only shook his head.

The pure spiritual qi didn't come from those silver crystals. Although they emit a faint spiritual qi, the spiritual qi they leak were not as pure as the one they felt earlier. It was like a one big wave, like it's telling us it's direction by releasing the pure spiritual qi, it was as if it's asking for help.

As soon as another wave of spiritual qi emerged again, a large amount of demonic qi appeared outside the Tian Shou Mountain. Wu Qingge clicked his tongue in annoyance and Liu Xiao immediately unsheated his sword out of it's scabbard, making a smooth shing sound. Wu Qingge stopped him and spoke, Liu Xiao didn't debate and only watched Wu Qingge went out on the cave and jumped up the deep crater.

Judging by his reactions, it must be the demons who escaped the underworld and went straight to kill him. If i go there and accompanied him, i might get in his way and mess his plan. Since Wu Qingge is strong, i might as well let him handle it.

ﾍ(￣▽￣*)ﾉ Liu Xiao was about to went out the cave to wait for Wu Qingge to return but a large wave of pure spiritual qi appeared for the third time, this time, the spiritual qi was visible, it was a beautiful ocean blue spiritual qi that went past Liu Xiao's body, emitting a warm and comforting feeling after it passed through him.

After he felt the warm and comforting feeling, a loud cry rang inside his head and his vision was turning black and red. He realized how idiot he was by letting his guard down, the attack pattern if the spiritual qi was the same as his! It emitted a strike without killing intent at first but the aftershock will be opposite if you let yourself be striken by it. A loud cry, shriek and scream rang inside his head and his spiritual qi flowing on his meridians was suddenly in chaos. He let out a loud groan of pain as the mark on his forehead uncontrollably glowed orange and started to become itchy.

After he endured the unbearable pain, a low cry of a man and a woman was heard, saying two words repeatedly,

"Help....me."

"Help....me."

"Help....me."

"Help....me."

"Help....me."

Liu Xiao shook his head and immediately get a grip of himself. He forced his weakened body to stand while looking at the direction where the wave of pure spiritual qi emerged. Catching his breath and his body slightly quivering, Liu Xiao walked forward to that direction. As he stared at the twinkling silver crystals and the lifeless colored crystals around the cave, he realized the place where he was now and unconsciously uttered the word,

(Sheng Jing means Sacred Crystal in chinese.)

This is the cave where they mine these twinkling silver crystals to build the floating palace! No wonder the silver crystals felt familiar but the twinkling made me so confused. Liu Xiao raised his trembling hand to pull out one twinkling silver crystal near him, as soon as he pulled it out, it let out a wailing sound and the twinkling suddenly stopped.

His eyes aggressively shrunk as he throw the silver crystals away, he glanced at all the twinkling silver crystals and looked at them with disbelief. After his cries, Liu Xiao gasped and thought, could this be the continuation of the novel that i wasn't able to read?! But who would do things like this?! This is cruel!

One spiritual core is equivalent to one soul of a person! And yet they were all sealed within these crystals?! No wonder the floating palace was so sturdy and unbreakable! It was made by a crystal with spiritual cores! And most importantly these cores was able to absorb the excess spiritual cores of the cultivators inside the arena to make it more sturdy because it was cultivating automatically! What the hell is this?! Just how many cultivators died while their souls were buried inside these crystals?! This is too shocking!

Does the floating palace old master knew this? He should've known it because his cultivation is higher than me, he's already an immortal! Oh my god, what should i do? Wu Qingge is not here yet... (╥╯﹏╰╥)ง

Liu Xiao strengthen himself and continued to walk straight to the path were the pure spiritual energy was appearing. While Wu Qingge was taking care about his underwolrd stuff, he might as well take care about this and not wait for him like a damsel in distress.

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