Chapter 60: Life
Li Xuan's sword had already exhausted all his strength when it broke the Buddha pattern petals, and he was unable to dodge in the air. The flying speed of the Sky Snail was too slow to keep up with Li Xuan's rhythm, and it was still gliding at a high altitude. Moreover, the direction it was gliding was not where Li Xuan was now.
Suddenly a fist appeared under Li Xuan's feet and hit the sole of Li Xuan's feet. It was Zhou Wen who flew over.
Li Xuan stepped hard on Zhou Wen's fist, using the force to fly into the air. Zhou Wen also used the force of his step to fall down quickly. The two of them dodged the poisonous water arrows of the poisonous toad at the same time.
Li Xuan took advantage of the momentum to jump onto the lotus platform and slashed the poisonous toad's head with a knife. The knife flashed and Li Xuan flew backward and jumped out of the lotus platform.
Bang!
The poisonous toad exploded like a bomb, and poisonous water splashed in all directions, covering a large area, like thousands of arrows shot at the same time.
Li Xuan was in the air and had no power to dodge, but the sky snail that had been flying happened to fly here and blocked Li Xuan's body, blocking the venom that was sprayed towards Li Xuan.
Zhou Wen also landed on the back of the mutant skeleton ant, jumped up again, and flew back several feet, avoiding the range of the venom spray.
The venom was extremely terrifying. The Sky Snail's body was directly corroded by the venom, like snow touching charcoal. It screamed and fell directly into the pool.
When Zhou Wen fell, the mutant skeleton ants had already stopped at his feet, but Li Xuan had nowhere to gain leverage, and his body fell straight into the pool.
The dragon-scale turtle that was supposed to be there to pick up Li Xuan was still some distance away from Li Xuan due to Xu Miantu's flustered command, and it seemed that it would not be able to catch up.
Zhou Wen had just landed on the back of the mutant skeleton ant. Seeing this scene, it was too late to order the mutant skeleton ant to rush over. He stomped hard on the back of the mutant skeleton ant and flew towards Li Xuan who was falling into the pool. The moment his back touched the water, he pulled him up.
However, the force of Zhou Wen's leap was limited after all, and he soon began to fall.
"Mian Tu, what are you still standing there for? Come and help quickly." Li Xuan, who was being pulled by Zhou Wen, shouted to Xu Miantu who was not far ahead.
Xu Miantu watched as Zhou Wen and Xu Miantu began to fall, and he was only three or four meters away from the two. As long as he ordered the dragon-scale turtle to speed up and rush over, he should be able to pull them up with his hand.
But he just stood there without moving, gritting his teeth and saying nothing, the veins on his forehead throbbing, but in the end he did nothing.
"Xu Miantu, why?" Li Xuan's face was extremely embarrassed. At this point, how could he not see that Xu Miantu was deliberately trying to trick him and Zhou Wen.
From instigating Yang Lie at the beginning to not helping him in the end, everything was done intentionally by Xu Miantu.
The only one who could do all this was Xu Miantu, who was regarded as a close confidant by Li Xuan and knew everything about Li Xuan.
But Li Xuan could do nothing now. He could only stare at Xu Miantu, watching the two of them about to fall into the pool.
There were also exclamations from the shore. After all, those were still students. Even if they disliked Zhou Wen and Li Xuan, they would not want them to die.
"I was forced to do this, don't blame me." Seeing Li Xuan and Zhou Wen about to fall into the pool, Xu Miantu said something with a ferocious look on his face, but he didn't make any sound.
"Am I really such a failure as a person?" Li Xuan, who had been staring at him, understood what he said from his lip movements, and felt a little sad. Jiang Hao and Xu Miantu, who he thought were good friends and brothers, had betrayed him one after another, which really made him feel disheartened.
Just as Zhou Wen and Li Xuan were about to fall into the water, two rays of light, one white and one silver, flashed from the lotus pond.
Silver light flowed behind Zhou Wen, and four transparent silver wings appeared behind him, flapping rapidly, pulling him and Li Xuan up as they were about to fall into the lake, and quickly escaping from danger.
"Impossible... How do you have a flying companion pet?" Xu Miantu was shocked and frightened when he saw Zhou Wen flying in the air, and his face was distorted beyond recognition.
Zhou Wen pulled Li Xuan onto the back of the dragon-scaled turtle and said to Xu Miantu, "I've given you chances time and time again, but it's a shame you still did this."
"Have you always been suspicious of me? So you deliberately concealed the fact that you have a flying companion pet?" Xu Miantu stared at Zhou Wen in shock and anger.
"If not, how can I tell if you truly consider me a friend?" Zhou Wen said calmly, "I'm naturally cold and indifferent. I don't know how to be kind to others. If someone is kind to me, I'll suspect they have ulterior motives. Although I also hope you truly consider me a friend, unfortunately, the facts have proven that this world is as cruel and ruthless as I imagined."
Having said that, Zhou Wen glanced at the lotus pond next to him, and saw a beautiful girl with white wings floating in the air. She was so beautiful and holy that she was the legendary angel companion pet.
This angel companion pet appeared above the lotus pond almost at the same time Zhou Wen summoned the silver-winged flying ants.
"Thank you." Zhou Wen looked at An Jing who was riding on the white horse. Zhou Wen understood An Jing's reminder and hint before, but he pretended not to know just to test Xu Miantu.
In addition, the angel companion pet appeared at that time. Even though Zhou Wen didn't like An Jing very much, he still felt that he should say thank you.
"I was afraid that you wouldn't die, so I wanted to give you another blow. Now it seems there's no chance." An Jing said expressionlessly, stretched out his hand to call back the angel companion pet, and turned around and rode away on the white horse.
"Xu Miantu, give me a reason to let you live." Li Xuan said to Xu Miantu with a cold face.
"Brother Xuan, I'm sorry, I was really forced to do it. It was your second brother who forced me to do this... Please forgive me..." Xu Miantu knelt down with a thud, hugged Li Xuan's legs and begged.
"You risked your life for me before. I could have spared yours, but you just killed not only me but also Zhou Wen. Your life is not worth two lives." Li Xuan kicked Xu Miantu away, turned his back to him and said, "Get out! If you can leave Luoyang alive, I will spare your life."
Xu Miantu's face suddenly turned pale. He was a member of the Li family and was very clear about the power of the Li family. As long as Li Xuan was unwilling to let him go, how could he possibly leave Luoyang alive.
Filled with despair, Xu Miantu's eyes flashed with hatred. He suddenly lunged at Li Xuan, who had his back to him, with all his might, and roared fiercely, "Then let's die together."
Just as Xu Miantu was about to pounce on Li Xuan, Li Xuan, who had his back to him, dodged Xu Miantu's attack in one step as if he had eyes on his back.
Xu Miantu couldn't stop his momentum and rushed directly into the lotus pond.
"Ah!" Xu Miantu screamed and struggled in the water. His flesh and blood were corroded and bubbles appeared on his body. He looked extremely miserable and terrifying.
(End of this chapter)
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