Chapter 210
Li Yubai's heart was filled with murderous intent. He stepped from the boat to the shore, threw Jiaojiao in his arms to Tao Youyu, and rushed towards the two people opposite without stopping.
Xie Shuyu and Shang Que moved their feet at the same time, and in the blink of an eye they collided violently with Li Yubai.
"boom!"
There was a loud bang, and the mountains shook and the earth trembled in all directions. The terrifying air waves rushed to the surroundings. The monks who were watching the excitement and saw that something was wrong flew away in an instant. In a blink of an eye, all the surrounding shops collapsed, and the roads built of blue bricks on the ground cracked.
Tao Youyu gritted his teeth and climbed up, holding Jiaojiao and walking to the side. He was shocked by the sudden change and slipped and fell to the ground.
This sudden fall caused him, who was already seriously injured, to vomit blood again.
"Cough cough cough."
He coughed twice, not even wiping the blood from his mouth before he hunched over, hiding Jiaojiao in his arms. The flying rocks smashed into his back, the sharp horns scraping it bloody. Pain etched on his face, he hugged Jiaojiao tightly, his back hunched and head lowered, protecting her from the flying rocks. Not a single hair was visible.
With the cultivation level of Li Yubai and his companions, every fight was earth-shattering. Although they had restrained themselves, Jiutian City still could not withstand the attack of three people.
Jiaojiao's ears were buzzing. He stretched out his little hands to cover his ears, and stretched his head out to look out curiously, but was pressed back by a finger on his head.
Sure enough, a fight broke out!
However, considering how much they care about the child, the fight probably won't last long. If they want to take action, this is the only time they can succeed.
The person hiding aside narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Tao Youyu who was curled up on the ground. His old eyes were full of turbidity.
During this period of time, they have been secretly watching the child named Jiaojiao and have tried several times to find an opportunity to abduct her. As long as the child is in their hands, their plan will be half successful.
Unfortunately, the child was being watched too closely, with the spiritual consciousness of the Tianyi clan's lords and others covering him at all times. For cultivators of their level, wherever the spiritual consciousness could reach, they could reach it in an instant. Anyone who dared to make a move would be dead before they could even get close to the child. In this situation, they had no chance to take advantage of.
Fortunately, there is an opportunity now.
The Demon Lord started fighting with the Lords of the Ghost Realm and Xizhou. The child named Jiaojiao was now in the arms of a Foundation Establishment cultivator who had no power to fight back. The Immortal Master Jiwang, the Lord of the Tianyi Clan, and the Master of the Lingque Pavilion were still in the deep ravine. Even if their spiritual senses sensed any movement, the things in the deep ravine would probably be able to hold them back for a moment. This moment was enough for them to grab the child, and the rest would be easy to deal with.
Thinking of this, the old man no longer hesitated, turned around and rushed towards Tao Youyu. Following his movement, hundreds of figures rushed out from all directions at the same time, and their cultivation level was at the lowest level of the out-of-body stage.
Almost at the moment they moved, the attacks from Li Yubai, Xie Shuyu and Shang Que had already strangled them.
Bright blood splashed out in the moonlight and dripped onto his face in an instant. Tao Youyu was thrown out and knocked down several walls in a row. The veins on his neck were bulging with pain, and the blood that kept coming out of his mouth was mixed with fragments of internal organs.
The blood falling from the sky poured onto him, turning him almost into a bloody man. He couldn't tell whether there was more blood on his body, his own or those people's.
Tao Youyu grabbed the ground with his index finger so hard that the nail broke. After struggling several times and failing to get up, he looked down and found that his thigh was covered in blood and flesh. The broken bone covered in blood and flesh was piercing the skin and flesh, and dark red blood was gushing out like crazy. He was in so much pain that his whole body was cramping, but he didn't care about it. He gritted his teeth and struggled to get up.
Blood and dust blurred his eyes. He ignored the pain and opened them wide to look forward. Among the rubble and ruins, there was no one else except Li Yubai and his two companions and hundreds of corpses.
"Li Yubai!" He forced himself to stand up, his eyes filled with a black magic. His voice was hoarse and hysterical, and every word he said was filled with tears and blood: "Li Yubai, Jiaojiao... Jiaojiao is gone! Jiaojiao has been taken away!"
Li Yubai glanced over, his robe fluttering in the wind without any wind, becoming violent in the whistling sound.
After shouting this, Tao Youyu seemed to have exhausted all his strength. His eyes went dark and he fell down. But before he completely lost consciousness, he seemed to see a little head popping out from Li Yubai's arms.
He was about to close his eyes, but he forced himself to take a breath and open them.
"Jiaojiao wasn't taken away." Li Yubai stepped forward and looked down at him: "The one who was taken away is fake."
How could he really entrust Jiaojiao's safety to a Foundation Establishment cultivator like him?
From the very beginning, the Jiaojiao in Tao Youyu's arms was fake. The real Jiaojiao had always been hidden in his arms. He just used a trick to make people unable to see Jiaojiao's figure.
Tao Youyu, who had understood, was furious. He raised his middle finger tremblingly and spat out two words through gritted teeth in anger: "Sixth Brother!"
He must be holding a grudge against her for secretly guessing that he had taken fertility pills to conceive, so he deliberately took revenge on her. Thinking of this, Tao Youyu couldn't bear it anymore and fainted with her eyes rolled back.
"Brother Young Fish!"
Jiaojiao, who was in her father's arms, fluttered her hands anxiously to get down.
"It's okay." Li Yubai fed Tao Youyu a pill and stroked her little head, saying, "You won't die."
For cultivators, as long as their spiritual roots and souls are not damaged, no matter how serious the injury is, it is not a big deal. After taking a pill and resting for half a month, any serious injury can be healed.
Hearing daddy say that everything was fine, Jiaojiao stopped being anxious immediately. Holding her little hands, she turned her head curiously to look at Xie Shuyu and the others.
Xie Shuyu and the others were also staring at Jiaojiao.
Previously, Jiaojiao's head had been held in Li Yubai's arms, so she hadn't seen clearly who the two people fighting with her father were. Now that she saw clearly, her cat-like eyes widened in surprise, her eyebrows curved, and she happily flapped her hands forward, "Daddy!"
Xie Shuyu and Shang Que were lured here. They had no intention of participating in the Immortal Alliance Competition, but someone traveled thousands of miles and spent a huge price to lure them here, and the method used was the most intolerable to them.
The two of them traveled thousands of miles to come here. Besides being furious at having their scales touched, they also wanted to see what these rats hiding in the sewers were trying to do by going to such great lengths to lure them here.
only……
But after arriving here, I didn't expect to see Jiaojiao, nor did I expect to understand Li Yubai's intention in a flash and do such a scene together.
Shang Que stepped forward and tentatively poked Jiaojiao's face with his hand. A gentle, soft touch came from his fingertips. Jiaojiao raised her hand and held his fingers, looking up at him with a big smile: "Daddy."
Shang Que's heart shrank slightly, and unspeakable emotions sprouted from his heart. He reached out to hug Jiaojiao from Li Yubai's arms, but Li Yubai did not let go.
He raised his eyes to look at Li Yubai, who looked at him with a slightly cold look.
To them, brightness is like treasure to a dragon, and no dragon is willing to share its treasure with others.
In a blink of an eye, the sky was bright and Tao Youyu woke up from a nightmare shouting the word "Jiaojiao". He was covered in cold sweat when he woke up.
Seeing him wake up, Gu Yufei helped him up, poured him a glass of water and handed it to him: "Drink some water."
Tao Youyu took the water: "Where's Jiaojiao?"
"Jiaojiao is fine."
"I'm glad you're okay." Tao Youyu repeated with lingering fear, then remembered what Li Yubai had done last night, and immediately covered her heart tremblingly.
It was intentional, it had to be intentional. Wasn't he just privately discussing who was superior between him and the Supreme Immortal? Was there any need for such revenge?!
It seems that the Demon Lord must be in a lower position, otherwise he would not be so angry and retaliate against him!
Tao Youyu thought viciously.
Holding a string of candied haws, Jiaojiao poked her head in from the doorway and her eyes fell on Tao Youyu who was sitting on the bed. When she saw that he was awake, she ran in with her short legs: "Brother Youyu, you're awake."
Jiaojiao came once in the morning, but Tao Youyu was still unconscious when she came.
"Yeah." Tao Youyu responded and took a sip of water to suppress the anger in his heart.
Jiaojiao climbed onto the bed holding the candied haws, but failed due to height restrictions. He lowered his head to look at his legs, then turned to Gu Yufei who was standing beside him and reached out for him. Gu Yufei understood, bent down, and held him and sat him down on the edge of the bed.
Jiaojiao, who was sitting by the bed, handed the candied haws to Tao Youyu: "Brother Youyu, this is for you."
"For me?" Tao Youyu took the candied haws in surprise.
"Well, Brother Youyu is injured and in pain. Candied haws are sweet and I use them to comfort him."
Only Jiaojiao would honestly say that she was coaxing others every time, which made the person being coaxed feel a little embarrassed, but it was undeniable that she was happy and joyful in her heart.
Tao Youyu couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth. He opened his mouth and took a bite of a candied haws. He didn't know where Jiaojiao bought it from, but it was especially sweet.
"Does your brother's injury still hurt?"
Jiaojiao said this as he lowered his head and puffed out his cheeks to blow on the bandaged area on Tao Youyu's hand. A tiny breeze blew out of his mouth and landed on the back of his hand, making Tao Youyu so itchy that she couldn't help but curl up her fingers. She mumbled two words through her mouth, holding a candied haws, "It doesn't hurt."
"It's good that it doesn't hurt." Jiaojiao reached out and gently poked the wound on Tao Youyu's hand. After retracting his hand, he thought of something and said, "Brother Youyu, when you get better, practice sword fighting with Jiaojiao!"
"Why?" Tao Youyu's face was full of question marks.
"Practice with Jiaojiao, you will become stronger and avoid getting hurt in the future." Jiaojiao pulled Tao Youyu's index finger, her soft little voice full of seriousness.
"Can't I practice on my own?"
Jiaojiao wrinkled her nose: "Brother Youyu is lazy."
"Pfft." Jin Bingwen, who came in from outside, couldn't help laughing when he heard this. He waved his fan and said, "Some people are so lazy that they can't even bear to watch a three-year-old child."
Tao Youyu was speechless. He casually brushed off Jiaojiao with a candied haws in his mouth, and forcibly changed the subject, bringing up why the Demon Lord had put on such a show last night.
With this change of subject, Tao Youyu inevitably thought of the two people who chased him last night, and then asked Jiaojiao what happened to those two people later?
"Who are those two?" Jiaojiao tilted her fair and tender face up and looked at him puzzledly.
"Those two."
After Tao Youyu described it to Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao suddenly understood and said, "Brother said that it was Father Xie Shuyu and Father Shang Que. Shang Que and Father Li Yubai went to catch the bad guys, and Father Xie Shuyu was reading a book."
"Xie Shuyu...Father and Shang Que Father?!"
Tao Youyu was stunned. After coming to his senses, he couldn't help but complain: "Two more dads, you're not really going to gather seven to summon dragons, are you?"
Jiaojiao, who didn't understand, tilted her head in confusion. Tao Youyu was about to say something else when she was interrupted by Xie Shuyu who walked in from outside.
The man was dressed in a dark blue robe with strange patterns embroidered on it with silver thread. His black hair was tied up with a green jade crown. His face was white, with prominent eyebrows and features. His dark eyes were lazy and indifferent. He exuded a sense of tranquility and calmness, but for some reason, people could smell an extreme sense of danger from him.
Tao Youyu swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth, and his face subconsciously tightened. After all, he almost died at the hands of this man several times last night.
Jiaojiao, who was sitting by the bed, saw him and happily stretched out her hand: "Daddy."
Xie Shuyu's eyebrows softened slightly. He leaned over and picked up Jiaojiao. He gave a warm smile to the few people before turning around and leaving.
Jiaojiao, who was in her father's arms, waved to them: "See you later."
After the two left, the three people in the room looked at each other. Jin Bingwen waved his hand and set up a soundproofing array. This array could not stop Xie Shuyu and the others. The reason for setting up such an array was just to convey to them that they were whispering. With their personalities, they would not bother to eavesdrop on their conversations.
Jin Bingwen: "It's not simple, these two fathers behind Jiaojiao."
Tao Youyu's eyes were full of gossip: "What do you mean?"
"Did you see the pattern on that person's clothes? It's a flower unique to the ghost realm. The flower is transparent, but silver threads flow through the petals. From a distance, it looks like a flowing silver river. This flower has seventy-two petals and is an excellent medicinal herb for healing the soul. It blooms year-round, whether it's summer or winter."
"Look at the jade crown on that person's head. It has... Now his identity is clear."
Tao Youyu, who was confused by what he heard, was extremely curious: "Who is it?"
"Lord of the Ghost Realm, Xie Shuyu!"
Tao Youyu sucked in a breath of cold air. The Demon Lord, the Lord of the Tianyi Clan, the Immortal Master Jiwang, the Master of the Lingque Pavilion, and now there was a Ghost Realm Lord and a person whose identity was not yet known. It was unknown how Jiaojiao managed to maneuver through all of this. Anyway, if it were him, he probably wouldn't survive for half a day.
Sitting under a tree in the courtyard, Xie Shuyu looked at Jiaojiao, who was pursing her lips and waving the sword seriously, and his thoughts drifted away as he recalled what happened last night.
The moment he saw Jiaojiao being held in Li Yubai's arms last night, he instantly understood the purpose of those people leading him and the Lord of Xizhou here.
In the past two hundred years, they have been searching for Jiaojiao's traces. During those years, Jiaojiao would appear beside them for half a year every few years. This also led to the fact that although not many people had seen Jiaojiao, there were some who had seen her.
So there were some people who got some information about Jiaojiao from somewhere and tried to pretend to be Jiaojiao to get close to them, waiting for an opportunity to attack them. However, as time passed, they realized that this trick could not fool them, and those people gradually disappeared.
But ever since the news spread some time ago that the child that Jiwang Immortal Venerable, Demon Lord, Lord of the Tianyi Clan, and Lord of the Lingque Pavilion were looking for was actually the same person, those people hiding in the dark somehow thought of Ghost Domain Lord Xie Shuyu and Xizhou Lord Shang Que, who were also looking for a child. So they tried their best to lure them over, and even deliberately led them to hurt Li Yubai and his people.
It was because he realized their intention that Xie Shuyu held back a little when he attacked.
When Xie Shuyu saw Jiaojiao in Li Yubai's arms, he understood the purpose of those people.
Those people were right. Both he and the Demon Lord and others were undoubtedly extremely arrogant and conceited people. They would never allow their treasures to be peeped at by others, and it was undoubted that they had murderous intentions towards the other party.
It is also undeniable that he really did have the intention to kill Li Yubai the moment he saw him.
But he didn't like to be plotted against for no reason, not to mention that these people had turned their attention to Jiaojiao. Compared to his murderous intent towards Li Yubai, he had a stronger murderous intent towards those who dared to pay attention to Jiaojiao!
So he staged a scene with Li Yubai, letting them take away Jiaojiao's fake body, and followed Jiaojiao's fake body straight to their lair to see what shameful motives these rats in the gutter had.
Li Yubai and Shang Que followed the trail yesterday, but they didn't know what would happen.
Xie Shuyu poured a glass of peach juice and motioned Jiaojiao to come over and drink it.
Seeing that there was something to drink, Jiaojiao put away her sword and ran over, sat on the stone bench, took the juice and drank it happily.
Xie Shuyu rubbed his furry head and said helplessly: "You are not allowed to recognize anyone else as your father in the future."
Before coming to Jiutian City to meet Jiaojiao, the intricate and lingering story between the Demon Lord Li Yubai, the Extreme Immortal Lord Hesniemen, the Tianyi Clan Lord Cloverd and the Lingque Pavilion Master Huo Youqi had already spread beyond Jiutian City to the entire Canglan Realm. Xie Shuyu and Shang Que had of course heard about it, but at that time they never thought that one day they would become a part of this story.
I don’t know what kind of weird story will be spread out in the future.
Jiaojiao nodded: "Yeah, I see."
Xie Shuyu held him in his arms, his chin resting lazily on his head.
Jiaojiao passed the peach juice she had just taken two sips of to her head and said with a smile, "Daddy, drink it."
Xie Shuyu smiled and said, "Drink it yourself."
"All right."
Jiaojiao held the teacup in her hand, basking in the sun with her father while drinking peach juice. Occasionally, when she was happy, she would shake her short legs.
The two people felt comfortable and happy in the sunlight, but the happiness did not last long.
“Boom!”
There was a loud bang that resounded throughout the heavens and earth, followed by a violent shock. Jiaojiao was so frightened that she lost her grip on the teacup, and a lot of peach juice spilled out, wetting her clothes.
Xie Shuyu took the teacup from Jiaojiao's hand and looked into the distance with a serious expression.
Inside Jiutian City, those who had managed to keep their balance amidst the violent shaking all looked towards the source of the sound. There, amidst the rising smoke and dust, the towering city gate of Jiutian City, which had stood for a thousand years, collapsed with a loud bang.
The formation covering the Jiutian City was destroyed, and the true scenery of winter came into view. Under the pale sky, fine white snow fell. The snow was soft and light, and scattered everywhere when the wind blew.
The cultivators in Jiutian City looked up and saw tall and green trees under the fine snow, and clusters of bright flowers welcoming the pure white snow. This scene was undoubtedly beautiful and dreamy. A piece of snow fell on the bright eyebrows and turned into cool snow in the blink of an eye.
Looking towards the gate of Jiutian City, the ravine outside the city had expanded hundreds of times at some point. The bottomless ravine was like the gaping mouth of an abyss, making people feel uneasy and ominous for no reason.
Something suddenly emerged from the abyss and covered the sky in an instant. Tao Youyu, who was supported by Gu Yufei, looked up and his eyes were stunned for a moment.
Under the immense, boundless behemoth that made the hairs on the neck stand on end at the mere sight of it, Tao Youyu muttered in a daze, "No way... he really did summon a dragon... But don't they only have six fathers?"
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