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Chapter 34 : The Heart Of Nether

Liu Xiao called. Wu Qingge from the front turned back to him, raising his eyebrows and waiting for what Liu Xiao will say.

Liu Xiao asked with a tilted head and puzzled expression.

Wu Qingge replied.

Liu Xiao gasped. Woah! As expected of the protagonist who is the disciple of the Former Mount Hua Peak and the current demon king! The protagonist halo is really amazing! ヽ（'∀｀）ノ

Oh, so in other words, as long as he pour blood in those ancient letter carvings, he will have full control of one underworld gate.

Liu Xiao confusingly asked.

Wu Qingge simply answered.

Liu Xiao frowned at him. Forcing a gate to open inside the underworld is suicide! What the fuck is Wu Qingge thinking?! It would've been fine if he waited for the underworld gate inside to open by itself or make the demons acknow him as the new Demon King and take full control of them! Why would he force it to open!

Liu Xiao asked angrily at him. Wu Qingge turned his head to look at him, his eyes lingered on the jewel on his forehead before answering,

Liu Xiao halted his steps as well as Wu Qingge. They both stood in silence while staring at each other. Between a moment of silence, Liu Xiao remembered what he did and said to Wu Qingge when he was about to enter the underworld realm. He even cried as if there was no cultivators behind watching them and hearing what he said. He even saw them k-k-k-k-k....THEY SAW ME BEING KISSED! (;'༎ຶД༎ຶ')

Liu Xiao slammed his head on the nearby wall and cleared his throat after. He gkanced at Wu Qingge who was frowning while looking at his forehead and spoke, What the fuck how can he escaped when i put a Soul Binding Technique on him! Be normal, Liu Xiao!

Wu Qingge sighed and went to approach him. Liu Xiao immediately sweat and back off in instinct. When his back lightly bumoed in the sturdy wall of the cave behind him, he tightly closed his eyes and covered his mouth while waiting for Wu Qingge to come at him.

Suddenly, a warm feeling of palm was pressed on his forehead. It slightly stings that made Liu Xiao flinch a little and later on, the stinging pain stopped. Liu Xiao opened his eyes, looking at Wu Qingge who withdrew his hand that had a faint black and purple wisp of qi and looked at him with his usual gentle smile.

Liu Xiao ah-ed and raised his hand to stroke his forehead. His forehead must've swelled earlier from the pain of being slammed in the wall. His fingers went sideward to stroke the jewel on his middle forehead, it twinkled slightly and made a low clinging sound. Liu Xiao awkwardly smiled at Wu Qingge and they both walked out of the pathway after.

loud shouts of Wen Yong were heard on the exit of the pathway. Liu Xiao rushed to exit and grabbed the hem Wu Qingge's sleeve and pulled him to exit the pathway in a hurry.

They saw Wen Yong sitting on roof on top of the small tea house while the giant green snakes that he spawned earlier were eating and munching the dead ants. As soon as Wen Yong saw the two of them, he raised his eyebrows and jumped down. he yelled, pointing at the small round table inside the small tea house.

Liu Xiao confusingly said. Looking at the board in the middle of the black round small table with two black small chairs. The board was already fixed and the black circles already made a move.

( Chinese Go or Weiqi, Weiqi is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day. )

Liu Xiao asked Wu Qingge. Wu Qingge only shrugged and went to sit on the table facing the white groups of circles of the board.

As soon as Wu Qingge made a move, the black circles suddenly moved on their own, like someone was playing infront of Wu Qingge. Liu Xiao put his hand on his chin and watched Wu Qingge made a smart move on the side. Even though Chinese Go and Chess are the same, Chinese go is more simple but you need to have a high IQ when you play. Chinese Go is like a war, it occupies empty domains and you can also steal the other's domains by eliminating them. It's a game of strategy, tactics, observation and division.

Liu Xiao unconsciously blurted while watching Wu Qingge play with his hand rested on his chin.

Wu Qingge replied.

Liu Xiao implied while nodding.

Wu Qingge placed the last white piece, making the black side go into a hopeless string and the other black pieces ended up as prisoners, in other words, Wu Qingge won.

Liu Xiao is in the middle of staring at Wu Qingge in awe when the board made a loud clank sound and the table and chair fell into a whole, a black cylinder jade table appeared with a black and red heart that was made of glass was placed in the middle, it was beating as if it was alive. Liu Xiao was about to approach it when Wen Yong suddenly shouted.

Liu Xiao frowned. Is this another item that the original novel didn't mention? Or maybe it's mentioned in the continuation book. Instead of going to approach the beating heart that was made of glass placed in the cylinder black jade table, Liu Xiao went to approach Wen Yong and asked,

with such three words coming out of Liu Xiao's mouth, Wen Yong couldn't resist and answered in the end.

The floating palace master is planning of things like this?! But why would he collect the underworld gates and combine it into one pieces and to get a hold of this important thi-

Shit.

This is bad. I better report this to master or everything will in the cultivation world will be destroyed into pieces.

That old floating palace master wants to let all the demons loose by combining the gates into one so all different parts of the underworld will open! Be it beasts, half-human half-demon, demon witches, demon with wings, worms, insects-every demon in the underworld will be released! This world will go into waste and destruction! I can't let that happen!

Wu Qingge said, his hand reached out to pick up the beating heart, making it glowed red as if a firefly was inside and glowing and it's beating became faster.

The heart of nether that was made of glass started beating faster and faster until it explode into pieces. The red glow twinkled a few times before it gradually dies along the exploded heart that was made of glass. The glass particles made a small cuts on Wu Qingge's palms and it healed as if it was nothing, Wu Qingge turned at Liu Xiao and spoke,

It's fake?! Then the real Heart of Nether is in the handa of-before Liu Xiao could think about it, the cave started quaking and a some small rocks fell over and the glowing red flower all died one by one, making the cave dark.

Liu Xiao immediately infused spiritual qi on his dimension ring and sucked up Wen Yong's body. He grabbed Wu Qingge's hands and ran out of the cave.

They dodge all of the falling stone boulders and the collapsing holes that the demon ants dug up. When they were already above the abyss looking space that were no longer lit up and Liu Xiao can't see anything, he grope Wu Qingge's body to see if he's really infront of him.

Because Liu Xiao can't see anything, he continued to grope Wu Qingge's body to know if he's okay and intact. Before he could continue groping, a warm big hands grabbed his wrist that was groping non-stop and a deep voice in the middle of the silence spoke,

The voice seemed to be breathing heavily and mad. Liu Xiao immediately withdrew his hand and laughed. does my excuse make sense?

The other party didn't respond so Liu Xiao became nervous again and started to grope something he can at least touch in the middle of the dark cave but a soft deep voice spoke, Wu Qingge held his hand and it radiated a comforting warmth, making Liu Xiao's anxiety calm down.

Liu Xiao asked.

Wu Qingge simply answered.

The atmosphere became silent again. Liu Xiao just catched his breath and didn't know how to reply to him so he just pondered and thought of a plan. His both hands blindly held one of Wu Qingge's body part and spoke,

Wu Qingge in the dark replied.

Liu Xiao asked.

Wu Wingge teasingly replied.

Wu Qingge didn't replied then the atmosphere became silent and awlward again so Liu Xiao laughed and spoke, Liu Xiao released his orange spiritual qi on his index finger, the released inner energy was comoressed to each other and it made an orange bright fire, enough to let them see each other and a bit around them.

Liu Xiao was stunned seeing a pair of red eyes staring at him, his hazel eyes stared back. It was as if they were both drowned on each other and no one dared to open their mouth to speak or dared to move and look away. Wu Qingge raised his hand to softly stroke the jewel on Liu Xiao's forehead and lean his face closer him, their nose were gently brushing on each other-

( 👁👄👁 granpa why r u ruining the mood? )