Li Changzhou reached out and easily held the cyan longsword between his two fingers.

Xiaoqing hardened her heart, ignoring Bai Suzhen's scolding, and channeled her magic power, unleashing a blue sword light from its blade.

She flipped her wrist, ready to spin the sword and sever Li Changzhou's fingers.

"Don't move!" Yaochi said with a smile.

"..." Xiaoqing was frozen in place, unable to move, enveloped by scattered golden light, the divine will of Yaochi.

Bai Suzhen stepped forward anxiously: "Everyone, my sister didn't mean to offend you..."

Li Changzhou tightened his grip on the sword with his two fingers, pulling Xiaoqing and the sword to his front.

"Xiaoqing!" A flash of white light appeared in Bai Suzhen's hand, and the White Snake Sword was drawn.

"Take one more step forward." Li Changzhou held the Green Serpent Sword, casually resting the blade on Xiaoqing's shoulder.

Bai Suzhen stopped in her tracks, both anxious and helpless: "If Xiaoqing has offended you, Bai Suzhen apologizes to the four of you on her behalf. She is young and acts impulsively..."

"Young?" Yang Qinglan's voice carried a hint of doubt.

Li Qianxia originally wanted to say that there was no need for such a big reaction, but Yang Qinglan spoke up, and she knew that the man and woman were going to work together to deceive people again, so she kept quiet.

Bai Suzhen said, "Xiaoqing has only recently cultivated into human form and is only 500 years old."

“The oldest one here is her,” Yang Qinglan pointed to Yaochi with her jade finger, “24 years old.”

Yaochi glanced at Yang Qinglan.

"Sister, don't waste your breath on them, kill them! Don't let them reveal your whereabouts!" Xiaoqing broke free from her restraints a little.

"Shut up!" Bai Suzhen snapped.

"Hiss~" The boat dipped slightly as a king cobra emerged from the West Lake and swam aboard.

With its black scales, golden serpentine body, silent and unsmiling, its slow movements exude an air of elegance and composure befitting a king among snakes.

When it raised its head, Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing trembled all over, feeling an indescribable panic.

"This thing of mine specializes in eating snakes." The king cobra swam to Li Changzhou's feet, then swam towards Xiaoqing.

"Eat snake? Aren't you afraid of the wind... and you'll bite your tongue?" Xiaoqing's legs went weak and her face turned pale, but she still spoke defiantly.

Hiss~

The king cobra tore open its mouth and bit into Xiao Qing's calf.

"Ah!" Xiaoqing was so frightened that she almost fainted.

"Xiaoqing!" Bai Suzhen couldn't care less about anything else. Her gleaming sword light shattered like a silver bottle, splashing water towards the king cobra.

Li Changzhou pointed his Green Serpent Sword into the white light.

bite!

Just as the green snake bit the white snake, the green snake sword held the white snake sword in place. In that instant, the king cobra released the green snake and disappeared without a trace.

Bai Suzhen made another move, this time using all her strength, but Li Changzhou did not stop her.

"Xiaoqing!" Bai Suzhen hugged Xiaoqing.

Xiao Qing's chest heaved, still in shock; the king cobra's dominance over other snakes was beyond imagination.

“She is currently poisoned by 36,453 kinds of poisons. The poisoning occurs once a day at this time. If there is no antidote within a month, it will start to fester and ooze pus from the snake’s tail,” Li Changzhou said.

"Then I'll cut off the snake's tail beforehand!" Xiaoqing struggled.

Li Changzhou laughed heartily and tossed the Green Serpent Sword to her as a streak of light.

"Young Miss Xiaoqing is so much older than us, but her mind is still like a child's."

Bai Suzhen took a deep breath: "May I ask what the four of you want us sisters to do?"

"Did you come to West Lake to repay a debt of gratitude, guided by Guanyin?" Yang Qinglan asked.

"It was Guanyin who enlightened Suzhen to come to West Lake to undergo the tribulation of humanity. Xiaoqing also attacked the four of you because she was worried that I would reveal my whereabouts and cause many accidents during the tribulation of humanity."

Humanity's calamity... Xiaoqing's love for her sister, her sword strike, may already be part of this calamity.

"Where is Guanyin?" Yang Qinglan asked.

Bai Suzhen's pretty face changed expression.

Fairy Yang Qinglan lightly tapped her Ruyi scepter in mid-air, and two booklets flew out from the white snake and green snake respectively, landing on the dining table in the cabin.

“You can go back and think it over carefully. If you can’t withstand the poison, then come back to us,” she said.

Bai Suzhen turned and left with Xiaoqing, abandoning even the awning boat, and disappeared directly into the West Lake.

"...If people knew how you treated Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing, you would be subjected to online bullying to death." Li Qianxia regretted her failed meeting with her idols.

Nobody paid any attention to her.

"Why did you suddenly think of extorting those two?" Yaochi asked Li Changzhou and Yang Qinglan curiously.

"Seeing them," Yang Qinglan said, "made me realize that Guanyin is in the South China Sea, but we don't know exactly where in the South China Sea she is."

“Guanyin,” Yaochi smiled.

Li Changzhou asked her, "What is your mission?"

"It is also Guanyin."

Li Changzhou frowned. Guanyin Bodhisattva was involved in all three of their missions, including his, Li Qianxia's, and Yaochi's. The game of value must mean that the three of them should work together.

In other words, this task is so difficult that it would require at least three people working together and narrowly escaping death to complete.

"There's no time limit for this mission, right?" Li Qianxia said. "Why don't you break through first and become an Earth Immortal, brother?"

Li Changzhou shook his head: "In the dungeon, I can't sense the Honey Pot World. To become an Earth Immortal, one must cultivate 'Heng Sha'."

Li Qianxia sighed: "I really don't know what kind of task you would be assigned if you had become an Earth Immortal before entering the dungeon. I hope you wouldn't be asked to kill Buddha."

“No matter how exaggerated it is, it shouldn’t be like that,” Li Changzhou found it amusing. “I guess at most I’ll have to kill two or three Bodhisattvas. I don’t care about myself, but you will have to take two or three risks with me.”

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