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Liu Xiao immediately unsheathed his sword out of it's scabbard and released six to ten surging waves of orange spiritual qi, making the jewel on his forehead radiated a beautiful orange glow and clinging sound. A large number of flying and crawling ants were sliced into pieces in a flash but more of them crawled out from the shadow, looking endless.

Wu Qingge simply said, the black lotus flower went out of his body and a black purple shadow enveloped around it, transforming into a long bow with a small black lotus flower in the middle of it's grip. It's top limb and bottom limb were all black while the string looked like a crystal purple, the both sides of it's riser radiated a purple glow, looking so majestic and demonic at the same time.

Wu Qingge demanded and went to grab Liu Xiao's arms but Liu Xiao only shook his head and replied,

Wu Qingge was left stunned behind him while Liu Xiao jumped on the crawling ants and shouted, Wu Qingge was still stunned but later on, he let out a small grin before muttering a few words,

Liu Xiao asked from afar. Wu Qingge only smiled and shook his head before lookijg indifferently from the flying ants, their red eyes glowed from the sight of Wu Qingge, as if they refer him as a big threat. They let out a shriek before flying down to attack Wu Qingge's direction.

Wu Qingge calmly stretched the string of the bow, a glowing purple arrow appeared from it's arrow rest and Wu Qingge released the string, his eyes glowed red and the single purple arrow multiplied into hundreds of them and pierced to the flying ants bodies.

Isn't that too much cheating?! Σ (ﾟДﾟ;)

Liu Xiao thought while looking at Wu Qingge releasing one arrow and suddenly multiplying into a hundreds pieces. A few crawling ants crawled to his direction with insane speed, Liu Xiao immediately made a crouching stance and passed through all of then like a wind, the tip of his sword lightly touched the heads of the ants and in a blink of an eye, the heads of the ants came flying out of their bodies.

Wu Qingge's arrow that was made of his own demonic qi pierced to every last flying ants while Liu Xiao's sword sliced through the heads of every crawling ants. The more they kill, the more ants came out of the shadows. Liu Xiao was feeling impatient and leaped on top of the roof of the small tea house then charged spiritual qi on his dimension ring and pulled out Wen Yong.

Liu Xiao demanded to Wen Yong, pointing at the crawling ants that was shrieking on him from below.

Wen Yong shouted, his green snake body wriggling and hissing.

Liu Xiao yelled back.

When Shi Xuan-Wu Qingge and Wen Yong nearly got a fight inside the large manor, Liu Xiao put a Soul Binding Technique on him. Meaning their souls are now one, if Liu Xiao die, Wen Yong will also die. The Soul Binding Technique was based on the one who put the bind, in short the one who put the bind will be the master and the now who got binded will be the slave.

If the master wants his/her slave to feel the master's emotion, then the master will allow it. If the master wants to connect his/her pain to the master's slave, then he will also allow it. But the Soul Binding Technique also had one rule, it was if the master dies, the slave will also die along with him. But the Soul Binding Technique can be unsealed if the master allows it.

Liu Xiao glanced at Wu Qingge who sealed Wen Yong's mouth. He was glaring at Wen Yong, restraining his bloodlust while the bow was automatically aiming at the flying ants by itself.

Liu Xiao said, Wen Yong who was struggling paused on what he said. Liu Xiao glanced at Wu Qingge and silently mouthed "Unseal it." so Wu Qingge slightly moved his index finger and unsealed Wen Yong's mouth.

Wen Yong asked, Liu Xiao infront of him repeatedly nodded and pointed at the shrieking ants from below. Wen Yong raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips, He asked.

Liu Xiao immediately answered.

Hearing that there were hundreds of Golden Peony Flower planted at the Mount Hua Peak, Wen Yong's purple eyes sparkled like a kid excited for his new flavored candy. For any human snakes, the Golden Peony was the second best besides the Black Lotus Essence. The golden peony contains a large amount of refined spiritual qi but it was not compatible on Liu Xiao's cultivation so he just let it grow on his garden and share it on some of the Mount Hua Peak disciples who were cultivating peony flower.

The Golden Peony Flower was not planted in Shen Hua Mountain because it originated on the Mount Hua Peak so the flower was only seen there. Any human snake won't be able to resist it's refined golden spiritual qi that seed delicious and delicate so he made it as a bargain to get Wen Yong's trust. Though Wen Yong was a heavenly demon and a monster, he was still a kid.

Wen Yong surrendered.

Liu Xiao replied, feeling impatient.

Wen Yong humph-ed and a black and green smoke radiated around him, his small green snake form slowly turned into his human form that looked like fifteen to sixteen years old. He jumped down the crawling ants and tapped his left foot with a huge force. With the tap of Wen Yong's foot, a black green smoke emerged and large numbers of enormous green snakes crawled out of the smokes, eating the crawling ants whole and the other heads of the ants were bitten and chewed by the snakes.

Liu Xiao was disgusted and amazed at the same time. He glanced at Wen Ying who was crossing his arms and looking grumpy while staring the massacred ants. But more of the ants were crawling out of the shadow again and Liu Xiao stood up on the roof, finally realizing what was going on, he tipped his foot to jump and approach Wu Qingge before speaking,

Wu Qingge replied.

Liu Xiao shouted at Wen Yong who was far from them.

Wen Yong frowned and yelled back,

Liu Xiao yelled. Wen Yong didn't reply and only humph-ed, letting them leave.

Wu Qingge lead the way while Liu Xiao was following behind him, efforlessly slicing the heads of the ants who happened to get on their way. The further they walk, the stronger demonic qi radiated all over the cave. Liu Xiao could only realize how big the underworld gate was, maybe bigger than the underworld gate when the first war happened.

At the end of the pathway, they saw a blood red light that was unlikely not from the glow of those red flowers. Wu Qingge and Liu Xiao approached the end of the oathway in a flash and what greeted them is a large underworld gate that was larger than the entrance gate of the Mount Hua Peak.

It was round and the ancient letter carvings around it was glowing red. Instead of the black shadow, a glowing red water was all over the round black gate with ancient letter cravings and a large amount of ants were coming in and out. As soon as the ants saw them, they shrieked loudly and approached to attack, Liu Xiao's guard was down so he didn't know how to counterattack and only backed away.

Wu Qingge blocked him and released his demonic qi on his palm until it formed a condesed round energy crystal. Wu Qingge gripped the round energy crystal and slammed it on the ground, a black and purple domain enveloped around the ants and the whole large cave. The ants slowly backed away and their shriek of hostility was now shriek of fear as they crawled back to the underworld gate. But before the ants could crawl back, their bodies shrunk on the black and purple domain, as if they were slowly sinking in a sticky water.

The ants were now all gone, and Liu Xiao was stunned while watching the cheat power of the protagonist from the front. Liu Xiao was only taken aback when Wu Qingge glanced at him with a gentle smile on his face and spoke, Liu Xiao's mouth was left open but he still slowly nodded and went to walk over to approach the enormous underworld gate.

Liu Xiao stared at the slimy glowing red water portal in the middle of the gate and his eyes then lingered on the ancient letter carved around the round gate. He couldn't understand it but it seemed that it was a message. He was about to touch it when a loud voice rang on his head.

it was his granpa.

Liu Xiao shook his head at the effect of the ringing sound and replied,

Liu Xiao said in shock. Liu Xiao then asked.

Liu Xiao glanced at Wu Qingge who was approaching the underworld gate. The black lotus flower beside him transformed into a dagger and Wu Qingge sliced his palms, letting the drop of his blood flow on the ancient letters. The underworld gate trembled and the ancient letters let out a whisoer of a cry, the red glows on it was slowly disappearing and the slimy glowing red water portal gradually disappeared.

As soon as the underworld gate closed, Liu Xiao approached Wu Qingge and grabbed his palms just to see the cut Wu Qingge made on it slowly healed by itself, and a black purple smoke radiated at the edge of the cut. Liu Xiao sighed in disbelief and thought that he was an idiot the whole time.

How could i forgot about the power of the Black Lotus Cultivation? Of course, it can heal the woujds by itself! No wonder Wu Qingge always came back to him unwounded and his skin was always smooth and doesn't have a scar. *sigh* i'm distracted in many things to the point that i forgot about it.

Wu Qingge glanced at Liu Xiao who was looking sullen while looking at his palms. We leaned in closer to him spoke,

Liu Xiao frowned and pushed his face.

Wu Qingge answered with a smile.

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