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At the same time, the tremors in the mystical realm’s cave eased a little.
Mu Yao steadied herself and pointed at the man indignantly. “You! B*stard!”
Before the man could react to what was happening to his lower body, he got up, only to see his…
In an instant, the man was petrified! When had he ever suffered such humiliation? He had repeatedly embarrassed himself in front of a woman!
He coughed and immediately stood up. With his back facing the woman, he said coldly, “What’s wrong with that?! Maybe it’s just a physiological reaction after not having sex for a long time.
It’s impossible for me to be interested in you. Besides, even if there is, it’d be your honor. Do you understand?”
Mu Yao coldly snorted and indifferently said, “My honor? I think you’ll have to beg me to practice that Hehuan Swordsmanship with you!
I think your clan is too thirsty for women. To think that you guys even created such despicable sword techniques! ”
The man’s lower body was now relaxed. When he heard this, he flew into a rage. “Woman, do you know what you’re saying?! Do you believe that I’ll…”
At the same time, the Blood Pupil’s clone behind the “Summer” door was waiting for them to enter and die. Who would have thought that they would be so slow in doing so?
Before the man could finish his sentence, the black shadow door of “Summer” started to pull him in.
Mu Yao and the man were then sucked in by a powerful force!
Mu Yao was so light that she was immediately sucked to the door. She quickly grabbed the edge of the door.
“What’s going on?” she screamed.
On the other hand, the man relied on his heavy body to nimbly squat down and grab onto the soil on the ground. As a result, blue veins popped out on his hands, and a long scratch mark appeared on the soil.
“I-I don’t know either. I’ve been here for so long, but I’ve never seen a door apart from the ‘Spring’ door making a loud noise. Today is the first time this has happened!” The man immediately let go of his anger and said.
Suddenly, the attraction from the door became even more intense, causing the temperature to rise way higher than normal. Mu Yao felt like she had been surrounded by hot air. Even though she was indeed trying to find the exit, she was being now forced into a corner and she didn’t want to go in!
“What should we do now? I think we have to go in now!” Mu Yao had run out of energy. She was going to collapse any second now!
“Woman, do you still want to rely on me now? Am I still a pervert?” The man snorted coldly.
Mu Yao’s face darkened. “Yes, you are!”
“You! You’re really the most ungrateful woman I’ve ever met!” the man retorted.
Mu Yao glared at the man, then let go of her hands without hesitation.
A complicated expression flashed across the man’s deep eyes when he saw the woman being sucked into the shadow door. He then sighed and let go of his grip too.
One after another, the pair landed on the ground.
At the same time, a certain blood eye was watching this scene from a certain spot. It let out peals of laughter. “Hahaha, Netherworld Demon Lord, just destroy yourself here!”
After some time, Mu Yao woke up from the scorching heat.
A man shouted from nearby, “Woman! Wake up! If you die, I’ll beat you to death!”
When she opened her eyes again, she discovered that the scene behind the “Summer” shadow door was as terrifying as the legendary hell!
The pair was now standing on a cliff made of lava that had accumulated over hundreds of millions of years.
She was standing alone on one side of the cliff. She had come to this conclusion because the man was standing on the cliff opposite her. Between the two of them, there was a magma river that was surging and flowing with sparks. It looked as though it was about to flow over and reach the shore from time to time!
The passage connecting the two banks wasn’t made up of chains or bridges. Instead, there were wooden blocks about 20 meters long. The size of the wooden blocks was only the size of a footprint.
The strange thing was that these wooden blocks were not burned by the boiling lava.
Not only that, but there was also not a single exit in this entire space. The only door was that same old black shadow door.
However, this time, the shadow door wasn’t following Mu Yao. Instead, it was faintly discernible next to the man opposite Mu Yao.
Mu Yao looked up and saw that there was still an endless cliff wall above her head. Worse still, it was entirely blood-red.
However, there was a huge and familiar Guan Yin Bodhisattva statue carved on the cliff, its face as disgusting as the one in the cave.
Mu Yao observed her surroundings and panted as she looked at the man opposite her and said disdainfully, “I’m alive. I won’t die.”
The distance between them was too great. Even if Mu Yao wanted to go back, she would have to step on the wooden blocks and cross the magma river to reach the other side before she could return to the cave.
The man snorted and looked at the scene before him. “It’s not too late for you to regret now. It’s just a few pieces of wood. I think you can do it.”
Of course, the man wouldn’t let Mu Yao cross the river just like this.
There was magma below! If the woman accidentally fell, then the Hehuan Swordsmanship would be useless. If that happened, he wouldn’t have the chance to recover his spiritual power and leave this hell!
Of course, Mu Yao wasn’t stupid enough to go there directly. Instead, she turned around and walked toward a stone tablet behind her.
To be honest, she was worried about the man entering the black shadow door without her. Yet, there was nothing she could do about that.
However, she was confident that the man would not leave her alone. She was still useful to him after all.
While observing her surroundings, Mu Yao discovered something amiss.
She squatted down and turned around to look at the stone tablet. There were indeed some strange words written on it, but Mu Yao was able to understand them with her memories from before she reincarnated.
The first line was written in red cinnabar. The font was also the largest. There were six words written on it: “Tomb of the Warriors of Tianlong”.
There was a line below in a smaller font, basically telling the story of how the warriors fought bravely and sacrificed themselves for the country.
But then, Mu Yao’s pupils contracted! Her story had been written on the tombstone too!
However, there was only one line: “The war between the Tianlong and Shuiguo was lost because the jinx was still alive! Fear not for this woman has been eliminated! May the soldiers of Tianlong rest in peace!”
Mu Yao suddenly felt her heart ache. Had she really died because of this battle? Was she really a jinx who had brought disaster upon the country?
If that was the case, why had Tianlong been so prosperous for the past ten years? Why did they let her die in front of her family just because of a defeat?!
‘How ridiculous! Tianlong, what have I done wrong for you to treat me like this? Father, did you do this to me because of this absurdity?!’
At the same time, in the Imperial Preceptor’s residence.
The ceremony continued and everyone knelt before the mourning hall.
At this moment, a horse’s cry was heard outside the Imperial Preceptor’s residence.
“Imperial Preceptor, please come out and receive the imperial decree!” A priest, who was wearing a cultivator’s robe and had his hair combed into a bun, called out as he dismounted from his horse.
Xia Guoyong walked out of the mourning hall with a worried expression. When he heard the sound of horse hooves, the worry on his face disappeared. He smiled and looked at the servant beside him.
The servants understood what the Imperial Preceptor meant. They quickly headed to the entrance to welcome the disciples of the Tianlong Temple. “Sir, please come in!”
“Alright.” The priest held the imperial edict and headed into the Imperial Preceptor’s residence.
Following that, the priest arrived at the mourning hall and saw everyone dressed in white with white headscarves on their heads as they paid their respects.
“How has your family been doing, Imperial Preceptor? What is that?” the priest asked after seeing the white cloth hanging on the gate of the courtyard, and the scene in the memorial hall.
The Imperial Preceptor then made a gesture of worshiping Buddha. “Amitabha. Sir, the emperor has just passed away not long ago. I was worried, so I specially performed some ritual rites in the residence so that the Emperor can reincarnate in the netherworld. Furthermore, with the death of that demoness, I also wish to perform a ritual in the residence to remove some bad luck.”
The priest immediately smiled and nodded. “You’re indeed the former Emperor’s loyal subject, and a great loyal subject of Tianlong. Your heart’s always for the country. This imperial edict was written by me and the great sorcerer together on behalf of the former Emperor. If you accept this imperial edict, Tianlong will be yours. Will you accept the decree, Imperial Preceptor?”
The Imperial Preceptor let out a bright smile and put down his hands. He knelt down in front of his wife and child, and the priests before extending both his arms, crying out,
“Your humble servant accepts the decree!”
Everyone in the Imperial Preceptor’s residence beamed with joy.
“Mother, is Father going to be the Emperor?!” The third son of the Imperial Preceptor turned around and tugged at his mother’s skirt as he asked in disbelief.
The smile on Second Madam’s face could not be described with words. She had been married to the Imperial Preceptor’s since she was young. She was already fortunate enough to give birth to a son for the Imperial Preceptor.
Although this child didn’t have any spiritual roots and could not cultivate in the Tianlong Temple, she was still very content. Who would have thought that she could be part of the imperial family again?
In this case, her child might even become the future Crown Prince!
She turned to her son and said in a serious tone, “Yes, son. But first, lower your voice. You must act with the dignity of a son of the royal family.”
“I understand,” the fourteen-year-old Xia Ming said obediently.
Qin Yu, the Imperial Preceptor’s first wife, was upset when she saw this. She had two daughters whom she doted on. One had eventually died after Xia Guoyong reported her to the rest of the country, while the other had become the disciple of the pries from Tianlong Temple.
However, she had been suppressed by the Second Madam all these years because the doctor had said that she could not have a son.
Thankfully, her daughter had spiritual roots and not long ago, her daughter had managed to draw aura into her body and entered the Aura Refining stage. Only then had her life improved slightly.
She knew very well that Xia Guoyong thought of children as nothing more than commodities. Although he looked sanctimonious on the surface, he had been marrying concubines one after another after marrying her and had even lectured her for not being able to give birth to a boy.
Apart from his second wife’s family, some of the children who had spiritual roots but were not gifted had been directly sent to be sacrificed by the sorcerer. Only those without spiritual roots were kept alive.
She was worried about the safety of her daughter, Xia He. Now that her other daughter was gone, she only had Xia He. What would happen to her after she became part of the royal family?
The Imperial Preceptor received the imperial decree and was immediately invited back to the Imperial Palace by the priest to accept the throne.
At the same time, in the secret realm behind the “Summer” door.
Standing on the other side of the cliff behind Mu Yao, the man shouted, “Woman, what are you looking at? Why are you staring at me?”
Then, black shadows suddenly emerged from the boiling lava in front of him.
The man immediately sensed something amiss and shouted,
“Woman, stop looking at me. Look behind you!”
There was danger lurking behind Mu Yao!
Mu Yao looked at the words on the stone tablet and didn’t know what to do. Then, the man’s shout pulled her out of her thoughts. She turned around and saw black shadows everywhere!
One after another, black shadows emerged from the magma and began to scatter in all directions.
Mu Yao had just come out of her daze and had forgotten to draw her sword.
The man instantly shouted, “Damn it! This woman is always stupid at the most critical moments!”
Subconsciously, he picked up a rock at the side and prepared to fight it out even if it meant risking his life.
Although he had lost his spiritual power, he still remembered some of his martial arts skills.
These black shadows didn’t immediately attack either side, as if they were trying to figure out who was attacking them.
Mu Yao gradually came to her senses. Suddenly, she pulled out her sword. A silver light flashed and ripples spread toward the black shadows.
At the same time, the black shadows were pushed back a few meters by the power of the silver light.
To both Mu Yao and the man’s surprise, the shadows arranged themselves into a neat line, like a troop of soldiers!