Ruji stroked her beautiful long hair with one hand and looked coldly at Lu Xuening: "You're being taken advantage of, aren't you? You're really shameless. If your grandmaster uncle really cared about you, he would have come looking for you long ago."
There are only two reasons why she didn't come looking for him: either she didn't care, or her grandmaster was in serious trouble. Ruji told her directly that the reason was the former.
“Tell me everything your grandmaster told you, or I’ll skin you alive right now,” Ruji said coldly.
Lu Xuening shivered. She crawled to Ruji's feet like a dog and said timidly, "Yes, Your Majesty."
The other maids looked at Lu Xuening's miserable state with a hint of schadenfreude.
Although they were all maids captured by Ruji and tortured by her, Lu Xuening often dragged them into the blame for no reason. So they hated Ruji and Lu Xuening just as much. They had just seen Lu Xuening acting arrogantly, but in less than half a day, she had turned into a dog again. It was really ridiculous.
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In the underworld, above a mountain range, a small boat flew across the sky, carrying three figures: a boy in white, a girl in purple, and a man in white robes.
A man in a white robe stood at the stern of the ship, his long, black hair fluttering in the wind. He held a scroll in his hand and was reading. Neither the girl nor the boy noticed his presence; they were playing with a spirit pet.
"Want some more? Want more?" Ayao teased the Light Thunder Beast with some snacks.
More! More! Give it to the baby quickly! Hurry! Hurry!!
The Lightning Beast leaped up to snatch the snack from A Yao's hand, but A Yao dodged, and the Lightning Beast missed its target. The little guy even smashed through the deck of the small boat, its head sinking in and only its butt sticking out. Feng Chu burst out laughing at the sight.
"Hahahahaha..." Feng Chu laughed, clutching his stomach.
Xie Chen heard Feng Chu's laughter and looked up at him. He already knew that Feng Chu wasn't very old, though he was over a thousand years old. For an ordinary human, that age would be enough for several reincarnations. He looked like a young boy, but after living for a thousand years, his mind should be mature, right? However, Xie Chen observed that Feng Chu's thinking was just like his appearance—only about thirteen years old.
He's completely a child who hasn't grown up.
Feng Chu pulled the Light Thunder Beast off the deck as easily as pulling a radish.
The Light Thunder Beast plopped down on the ground, looking at A Yao with a pitiful expression, its big eyes brimming with tears. A Yao, seeing its pathetic little face, was amused. She placed a plate of snacks in front of the Light Thunder Beast, and the little guy finally beamed. Then, the Light Thunder Beast devoured the snacks.
Xie Chen looked at Feng Chu's spirit pet, an ordinary wild beast with weak strength, only at the Mahayana stage. It was completely useless in battle. Could he really be raising it as a pet?
Looking at Feng Chu's innocent face, Xie Chen felt that it was indeed possible.
Suddenly, he sensed something, his gaze fell on a certain spot, but he quickly looked away and continued reading his book.
Xie Chen had noticed that someone was watching Feng Chu and A Yao, but he didn't intend to get involved. Feng Chu and A Yao, on the other hand, were completely unaware of the impending crisis. They were playing with the Light Thunder Beast while discussing which route to take to the Crimson Flame Mountains.
“We’ll go through the Fuxi Mountains, then cross the waters here, and after another tens of thousands of miles there will be a large city with a teleportation array that can take us directly to the Crimson Flame Mountains. That way we won’t have to go to the territory occupied by the demons.”
A map floated in front of A Yao and Feng Chu, and A Yao's finger moved across the coordinates displayed on the map.
Feng Chu was completely unfamiliar with the underworld; in fact, this was his first time there, so he did whatever A Yao said.
Just then, Ayao felt a sensation that made her heart pound.
It's dangerous.
She sensed danger.
Suddenly, a strange phenomenon appeared in the sky. After the entire sky shook violently, clusters of ink-black clouds surged in from all directions. These clouds moved incredibly fast, arriving in an instant. Upon closer inspection, it became clear that these were not black clouds at all, but bats—bats with wings and eyes that gleamed with an eerie green light.
The bats emitted a sharp screech that seemed capable of tearing through space.
Ayao and Feng Chu's expressions changed drastically. Feng Chu grabbed the Light Thunder Beast and threw the little creature into his storage space. Ayao saw many black runes suddenly appear in the void and thought: This is bad!
The moment she had this thought, a storm struck. This storm was incredibly terrifying. Wherever it passed, towering mountains collapsed, and countless sand and stones were swept into the storm. Seeing the storm coming, A Yao and Feng Chu immediately abandoned the ship. Just then, those terrifyingly numerous bats sprayed beams of green light at the two of them.
Feng Chu and A Yao both activated their protective shields. The golden shield enveloped Feng Chu, while the white shield protected A Yao, blocking the green beams of light.
Feng Chu, always a hot-tempered individual, blocked the first wave of attacks and roared. Golden flames erupted from the black-haired, golden-eyed youth, and he unleashed a punch with his left hand, the force of which transformed into golden light that swept across the entire sky.
The bats screamed and vanished into thin air amidst the golden light filling the sky.
However, the world around them had changed. Ayao and Feng Chu found themselves trapped in a strange place. Everywhere there were mountains of white bones, piled up thousands of feet high. Countless birds, reduced to skeletons, flew in the sky. Many bats flew out of the eye sockets of creatures that had been dead for who knows how long. A strange and eerie laugh echoed from all directions.
"Hehehe..."
"Who is it? Show yourself!" Feng Chu already held a golden longsword in his hand, his divine sense already released, ready for battle. He thought to himself: Are those bastards from the Sword God Palace here again?
His intuition told him it didn't seem like it, because those bastards in the Sword God Palace all used swords, but he couldn't sense any sword intent here.
At this moment, Ayao was also very puzzled. Who could it be?
It couldn't be a disciple of the Sword God Palace. The moment someone from the Sword God Palace appears, you can sense the sword intent. There is only an evil aura here.
Suddenly, a powerful aura of a Celestial King realm expert pressed down on A Yao and Feng Chu like a giant mountain. A Yao and Feng Chu's expressions changed drastically. A Celestial King? The enemy that had come was actually a master of the Celestial King realm.
"hey-hey……"
Countless bats gathered together and transformed into human form.
A hunched old man wearing a tattered gray robe appeared in A Yao and Feng Chu's sight. The robe had a hood attached to it, and his face under the hood was like a skull. His eyeballs had long since disappeared, and two eerie green flames flickered in the empty, black eye sockets.
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