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Liu Xiao hesistantly asked.

Wu Qingge quickly answered.

Liu Xiao asked.

Wu Qingge answered.

Liu Xiao's grandpa suddenly grabbed him and boasted about his appearance.

Liu Xiao frowned at pushed his granpa. his mouth was sealed again by his granpa and he struggled to speak while staring daggers at him.

the elder replied, unsealing Liu Xiao's mouth. Liu Xiao shouted loudly, struggling from his grandpa's grasp.

In a blink of an eye, Liu Xiao was already in Wu Qingge's arms, carrying him in bridal style and looking at the two elders. Liu Xiao also struggled in Wu Qingge's arms so Wu Qingge put him down while his granpa hmped at him.

Liu Xiao's granpa scowled and suddenly transformed into a orange bird between a phoenix and a swan and went inside of the jewel on his forehead. Liu Xiao was surprised and repeatedly slapped the jewel on his forehead and yelled,

!" the voice of his granpa rang to his both ears. He was about to yell again when Wu Qingge went infront of him and stared at the jewel on his forehead.

Liu Xiao's body stiffened as Wu Qingge went to caress it with his thumb. The jewel slightly twinkled and made a clinging sound like it was happy to be caressed. Liu Xiao awkwardly laughed and let Wu Qingge caress it for a moment.

The Former Mount Hua Peak Master was already nowhere to be seen as they both examine the place. Liu Xiao glanced at the twinkling silver crystals, the twinkling slowed down seeing that there's no spiritual qi to absorb. Liu Xiao caressed it with his whole palm, it was cold and also warm maybe because the crystal is a non living thing while the spiritual core inside it was alive.

Liu Xiao asked, feeling the warm and cold feeling in his palms while while pressing it on one of the twinkling silver crystals.

Wu Qingge replied, slowly charging his demonic qi on his palm.

Liu Xiao paused, slowly understanding everything his granpa and the elder were shouting about. He gasped and shouted with disbelief,

Liu Xiao immediately cleared his throat after seeing Wu Qingge staring at him. He turned around and massaged his temples feeling shocked and embarrassed at the same time.

Fucking hell i have trust issues now! The floating palace old master did this? But why? He also sealed the old fart from what i heard! This is so confusing! The floating palace old master never did anything hostile for the past years but i still need to be alarmed infront of him if we meet. Should i tell this to everyone? Or maybe should i tell master first?

Wu Qingge said beside him, also raising his hand to press against various crystals. He continued pressing his palm against the variety of crystals and he spoke, ."

Liu Xiao felt awkward and he didn't know what to say so he keot his mouth shut and watch Wu Qingge press his hand on the crystals. Later on, he also joined him and asked,

Wu Qingge answered and as soon as their both hands touched and pressed on a rectangular twinkling silver crystal at the same time, the cylinder jade that his granpa was sitting on when he was sealed twisted open, exposing a deep hole that looked like an abyss.

Wu Qingge leaned forward peeking on the hole and stepped his other foot down.

Liu Xiao insisted. He saw Wu Qingge was paused while looking at him and he only awkwardly laughed and continue to give reasons.

Wu Qingge sighed, feeling defeated and gestured his hand then spoke, Liu Xiao pondered for a bit and went ro approach Wu Qingge.

Wu Qingge gently grabbed his waist and his other hand holding on the edge of the hole. Their bodies were slightly pressed together when Wu Qingge leaned in his ear to speak in a deep voice,

Liu Xiao silently nodded and brace himself as Wu Qingge's other hand pushed their weight to fall into the abyss. Everything was black and it feels like they were undergoing a long freefall but for some reason, Liu Xiao was not scared at all. His both hands gripped tighter on the sleeves of Wu Qingge's robe as they both fall down, Wu Qingge pulled him closer with his both hands wrapping around Liu Xiao's waist but Liu Xiao was focused on how they are going to land.

We thought about falling but i forgot about the landing! Is our heads first? Or maybe our butt? Is my spinal cord going to survive the fall?! AND WHAT IF THERE ARE LAVA DOWN THERE! I'M NERVOUS AAAAAAAA I'M SO NERVOUS!!!! ( TДT)

As Liu Xiao's nervousness spread around all over his body, he couldn't help but unconsciously lean his head on Wu Qingge's shoulder, his eyes tightly shut. Wu Qingge's body seemed to frozed on what he did but after his body gradually relaxed and let Liu Xiao lean on him.

Liu Xiao and Wu Qingge already saw the ground, Liu Xiao, realizing that he was huggijg Wu Qingge, pushed him and immediately spread spiritual qi all over his body to make himself float. Wu Qingge on the other hand transfered his qi on his feet and landed on the ground, making a loud thud and the ground cracked. Liu Xiao let out a sigh of relief seeing that there was no lava but the place seemed odd for them.

It was as if a large amount of enormous ant were living under this cave. There were large holes that looked like it was dug out using a sharp claws or fangs, there were no signs of twinkling silver crystals but there were so many red glowing strange flowers all over the place, making the cave look demonic.

Wu Qingge suddenly started walking in one of the holes so Liu Xiao went to follow behind him, readying to unsheathe his sword if ever something or someone went to attack them. All of a sudden, a loud shrieking sound echoed all over the cave and a loud scratches were heard. Wu Qingge stopped and Liu Xiao unsheathed his sword, making a smooth shing sound.

The sounds of stones, scratches and shrieking echoed all ovet the quiet cave but Liu Xiao focused on one place near a hole beside them because a faint of demonic qi and spiritual qi emerged on one place. He was confused on deciding whether it's a beast or a demon because two types of qi was felt but he was certain that it was combined in one body of a certain person or creature.

Once the sounds stopped, a large black ant with a glowing red outline on it's edges appeared on one of the hole. As soon as it's glowing red eyes lingered on Liu Xiao and Wu Qingge, it made a shrieking sound, it's unsightly mouth opened and went to attack them.

Liu Xiao immediately poured spiritual qi on the blade of his sword, the jewel on his forehead twinkling and glowing in a beautiful orange color and making a clinging sound. As soon as the sword was poured by his spiritual qi, he tipped his foot and jumped on the head of the ant, placing his blade on the tip of it's head and pushing it down from top to bottom with a force, slicing it's body into two.

Wu Qingge on the other hand, seeing a flyinf black ant with the same red glowing outline on it's edge, simply stared at the ant, his eyes and his mark glowing red and the flying ant was smashed into pieces in a flash.

Liu Xiao squatted on the dead body of the ant that he sliced into two. He lightly tapped his hand to feel it's inner energy. It was surely both demonic qi and spiritual qi residing inside the body of the ant. He glanced at Wu Qingge who was staring at him and spoke,

Wu Qingge replied with a smile.

Liu Xiao asked, standing up and unsheating his sword while approaching Wu Qingge.

Wu Qingge simply answered.

Liu Xiao said, examining the large number of holes all over. There might be more ants who will come and attack us. I was confused when the protagonist halo was not worjing in this ants and they were not backing off in fear, it was actually because they had a master... But who is it?

Wu Qingge answered, caressing the jewel on Liu Xiao's forehead again but Liu Xiao seemed to be used to it so he doesn't mind and only nodded to Wu Qingge's answer.

They both walked again with Wu Qingge leading the way. As they walk and entered various types of holes dug out by those insect demons, they ended up in a wide area full of red flowers. A little elegant teahouse was built in the middle of the glowing red flowers but there was no person inside. The glowing red flowers looked so magical but scary at the same time, and the cave was so bright to the point that there were carved letters seen in one corner.

Liu Xiao grabbed Wu Qingge's hem and gestured him to come with him and they both approaches the corner that had carved letters. In a far glance, it looked like an ancient letters but if you took a closer look, it was a huge carves of lines and there were red round mark on each line. In the end of those endless lines with round red marks, there was a one line carved with a circle, and a small letters down below.

First step, first war, underworld gates, demons.

It was such a simple words that makes no sense if you are a commoner but as a cultivator, Liu Xiao knew what was written on it. Those lines were represented as a year and they were marked with a round red ink-no it's blood after a year passed. Liu Xiao counted the lines and it was all 500 lines. And according to the original novel, it was five hundred years ago when the Former Mount Hua Peak Master sealed the demon king so the person must've planned the combining of underworld gates 500 years ago and the last line that represents a year that was circled in a red ink that is actually blood meant that the current year, right now, the plan they waited in patience was already completed and was about to happen!

Liu Xiao agressively stood up but he was stunned seeing so many glowing eyes of the black ants in the dark staring at them, slowly crawling out of the shadow and surrounding them all over.

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