Volume 1: Red Lotus Temple Chapter 36: Su Mei

  Bai Qi saw his father enter the Qin Wang Mausoleum, Bai Jian's back figure had already blurred into a green dragon.

  "Ignorant little brat, destroying my Taoist instrument!" Bai Qi only heard a loud thunder by his ear, and Chu Jiang Wang emerged from the water, his body suddenly growing to over three zhang tall. A huge hand reached out towards Xiao Yu.

  On the large hand of Chu Jiang Wang, scales had already presented a pure silver color, sharp fingernails, and small rain stirred up the green cloud shoes under his feet. Wanting to escape this grasp, he found that all over his body, there was not one place where he could control himself.

  Bai Qi Zhan's distant gaze could only watch as Chu Jiang Wang's massive claws drew closer and closer to Xiao Yu.

  At this moment, everything slowed down, and Bai Qi's face turned pale. Xiao Yu was not an ordinary maid, but the daughter of a wet nurse who had grown up with him since childhood. He never thought that anything would happen to Xiao Yu, whose abilities had always surpassed his in many ways. Bai Qi even felt a sense of dependence on Xiao Yu, as she could take care of all his trivial matters with meticulous attention to detail.

  Xiaoyu had already become a part of his life, and Bai Qi saw that Chu Jiang Wang's giant claws were getting closer and closer to Xiaoyu, and he felt a sense of despair in his heart. That inverted scale spear was motionless.

  Xiaoyu's face was also ashen, she had never thought that her life would end like this, and hadn't even prepared to start yet...

  Chu Jiang Wang's ferocious face suddenly turned into shock, in the sky, a sharp and majestic sword aura descended, directly destroying his giant claw. The sword aura stirred up, and the shattered giant claw was reduced to particles thousands of times smaller than dust, as if it had evaporated.

  His giant claws were just above Xiao Yu's head, and when the sword energy shattered the giant claws, Xiao Yu didn't even lift a single hair. A white figure walked down from thin air, without even looking at Chu Jiang Wang, reached out to grab Xiao Yu's wrist, and flew up into the sky.

  "Let go!" Xiaoyu had already seen clearly that the person who saved her was a young woman wearing a moon-white Taoist robe, with a slender figure. Her black long hair was casually tied up on her head, with a thin and long emerald jade hairpin inserted.

  The woman in white Taoist robes turned her head and smiled, with infinite tenderness in her phoenix eyes.

  "You can't bear to part with that little guy, right? I'll help you kill his enemies." As she spoke, she released a fierce sword aura again. The sword aura was invisible and formless, but it enveloped Chu Jiang Wang's body in an instant, turning him into a heap of blood. Amidst the bloody mud, a red shadow burst out and shot up into the sky, only to be caught by the woman's outstretched hand and casually pocketed away.

  In the blink of an eye, she felt her body being enveloped in a crimson cloud, and her speed suddenly increased. Before she knew it, she had already left the battlefield. She was unable to struggle, feeling warm all over, without any strength, but the injuries from the battle that had lasted for half a day were miraculously healed.

  Little Rain saw that outside the crimson aura, the light was changing colors and in the blink of an eye, she had been brought to a terrifying vortex. The vortex was visible to the naked eye, violently colliding, rolling, and tearing in mid-air. In the center of the vortex, a woman wearing a colorful skirt stood steadily.

  The woman in the colored skirt looked at Xiaoyu with a cold expression and said, "I am Su Mei, a Kunlun Qi Refining Master. I want to take you as my disciple, are you willing?"

  "Unwilling!" Xiaoyu refused without hesitation.

  "Is it for that little guy down there?" The woman in the colorful clothes, called Su Miao, pointed downwards. Xia Yu lowered her head to look and saw, a hundred miles away, Bai Qi was anxiously gazing up at the sky, his face filled with worry.

  Xiao Yu gritted her teeth and didn't respond, fearing that the woman's eccentric personality would lead to her being killed by a single sword if she mentioned this reason.

  "If there's no reason, then we'll just leave." The woman in the colored clothes said, making a gesture as if to leave.

  "I just can't figure it out!"

  "Can't figure it out?" The colorful-clothed woman found this interesting, she had taken a liking to Xiao Yu's innate talent and wanted to take her on as an apprentice. Such an opportunity would make any Qi-refining practitioner in the Central State ecstatic. But when Xiao Yu heard her own name, she just thought of herself as a passerby.

  Under the Kunlun Gate, there are countless strong people, but those who really walk outside are limited. Su Miao is one of them. Moreover, she is an outer gate law enforcement officer, with a noble identity, and the people she kills are all great demons and evil spirits, her reputation is actually earned through real killings.

  "I'm a demon, with limited achievements. My young master has even higher innate talent than me, why did you choose me!" Xiaoyu said this to pave the way for Baiqi, she didn't really want to refuse Su Mou.

  "Are you a demon? Hahaha!" Su Mu laughed loudly, saying: "You are human, that young master is the demon, but he was transformed to remove his horizontal bones at birth, ordinary people can't see it. He has a human body, and it's indeed convenient for him to cultivate a hundred times more easily, but unfortunately, he turned around and cultivated demonic techniques again, already having a demonic space, what do I want with such trash?"

  Light rain was like a thunderclap, and there he just stood in a daze. Su Mu didn't continue to explain anything either, and with a flick of his sleeve, he tossed down a jade slip, indicating for his disciple to take Xiaoyu away.

  Xiaoyu's heart was in a state of turmoil, the young master was a demon, and she was human? How could that be! In her heart, she vaguely guessed the truth, but didn't dare to believe it.

  Bai Qi looked up at the sky, couldn't see anything, suddenly a jade slip flew over and hovered in the air, Bai Qi reached out to grab it, and a piece of information was forcefully poured into his mind.

  "Little one, I've taken that girl as my apprentice and from now on we'll be separated by heaven and earth. You take care of yourself. Chu Jiang Wang was killed by the Living Sword, his equipment is all yours."

  This sound echoed in Bai Qi's mind, followed by a scene where the white-robed woman killed Chu Jiang Wang and took Xiaoyu away, flashing through the Nine Heavens' aura like a shooting star, disappearing without a trace.

  "Little Gongzi!" The loud shout from the nearby Yu Lin caused Bai Qi to come back to his senses, looking at the jade tablet in his hand.

  Chu Jiang Wang is dead, but those millions of demonic soldiers are still there. Bai Qi opened his mouth and swallowed the jade tablet into his abdomen, forcing himself to say: "We will clean up the demonic soldiers!"

  Xiao Yu was taken away by the two women, he wanted to chase after them but it was impossible, there were still things that needed to be done at the moment. It seemed like he could only ask the wet nurse what to do next. Bai Qi remembered that the woman had said that Chu Jiang Wang's equipment was still there, so he walked over to where Chu Jiang Wang was killed and searched around for a bit before spotting the imperial edict given by Yan Gongzi to Chu Jiang Wang.

  Upon seeing the imperial edict, Bai Qi's Inverse Scale Spear in the mysterious space finally reacted and opened its scales again. Bai Qi felt stifled, when he was in trouble, it didn't come out to help him, so he simply put the edict away into his storage ring, ignoring the spear's discontented trembling.

  Chu Jiang Wang left behind a decree and many command flags, the most striking of which was a large seal. The large seal was carved from black jade, with six coiled dragons as its handle, and the inscription read: "Heavenly Born Spiritual Saint Chu Jiang's Seal of the Fourteenth River". This large seal was tied with a red cord, weighing over 100 catties, and felt icy cold in one's hand.

  Bai Qi put all these fragments into his Nasal Ring and then raised his gun to fight again.

  When Chu Jiang Wang died, the vast waters in the sky disappeared, and the white mist that protected the demon soldiers also gradually dispersed. Many of these demon soldiers were aquatic creatures, and many did not have the ability to leave the water. When the white mist dispersed, the demon soldiers began to scatter and flee in all directions.

  The Youlin Army suffered nearly half of its losses, and the remaining more than 10,000 people also had many injuries. This continuous night battle made people extremely tired. After the demon soldiers dispersed, these soldiers were still in formation, but they were all panting unevenly, those on the periphery struggled to stand, while those inside sat on the ground, taking out dried meat from their bodies and devouring it hastily.

  Bai Qi was also unable to drive these exhausted soldiers, and he knew that such soldiers had no chance of winning against Yuan Gongzi.

  At a time when I didn't know what to do, in the southeast direction, a red sun seemed to appear in the sky, shining together with the newly risen sun and flying towards the Qin Mausoleum.

  Bai Qi thought it was a bad omen and told several officers beside him: "Guard the entrance of the mausoleum, wait for me to come out!"

  "Yes, young master." Those officers didn't suspect him either and took orders casually.

  Bai Qi turned around, jumped over several tombs, and rushed into the Qin King's Mausoleum. Inside the mausoleum, there were many paths, and the zombies had already broken through many sealed graves. To say it, so many zombies appeared, completely because Qin Er Shi wanted to transform into a zombie dragon, and the thick corpse energy emitted by him turned all the corpses buried in the mausoleum into zombies.

  Bai Qi didn't want to venture deeper into the tomb, Qin Er Shi's coffin was strange and there were many Xuan Jia Wei inside. Without the Inverse Scale Spear, he would definitely die. Even if the Inverse Scale Spear could be summoned, thinking about the tens of thousands of Xuan Jia Wei made his scalp tingle.

  Outside Qin Wang's mausoleum, the remaining Yu Lin army burst out with a thunderous cheer - Long live! Long live!

  The emperor has arrived?

  Bai felt something was amiss in his heart, how could the Emperor take such a risk lightly!

  He wasn't a naive and arrogant person. Thinking of his father's attitude recently, Bai Qi didn't hesitate at all and rushed to the deepest part of the mausoleum. What is the emperor doing in such a dangerous place? Having been on the throne for over 30 years, Bai Qi had only heard that the emperor was stubborn, but never heard any evaluation of being muddle-headed.

  A big man's thoughts, Bai Qi didn't want to guess, he wanted to reunite with his father as soon as possible.

  In the cemetery, zombies are very rare. Bai Qi avoided the positions where the terracotta warriors were placed. Those terracotta warriors might also seal the soldiers of the Former Qin dynasty. Their combat power was something that Bai Qi had witnessed before and did not want to try again.

  Bai Qi drove his chariot lightly and took a familiar path, soon approaching the underground palace of Qin Er Shi. Inside Qin Er Shi's palace, the sound of massive weapons clashing was incessant. Bai Qi halted his steps, not rashly drawing near.

  Inside the hall, a faint golden light had emerged on Bai Jian's long spear, which was the most obvious external sign of his impending advancement. Yan Gongzi's jade ruler danced in the air, and he already had an injury on his forehead, with a streak of fresh blood that didn't have time to be wiped away, making him look somewhat ferocious.

  Between Yan Gongzi and Bai Jian, a golden zombie with a height of ten feet, holding a giant bronze sword in his hand, was fighting wildly with the two. The golden zombie was naturally Qin Ershi's transformation, and his coffin had already been opened by Yan Gongzi.

  Yan Gongzi was furious and wasted his Xianyuan, only to open the coffin and be ambushed by the hidden zombie. What's even more hateful is that under the zombie, the dragon pulse had long been severed, and he was injured on the forehead by the zombie, forcing him to exert great force to suppress the golden zombie's corpse poison, causing his strength to plummet again.

  Bai Jian arrived, and Yan Gongzi originally wanted to slip away first. Unexpectedly, the zombie, although also attacking Bai Jian, was relentless in its pursuit of him. How could he have known that Qin Ershi's golden corpse, having been stolen of its dragon vein essence by the Inverse Scale Spear, was now starving unbearably? The sealed Xian Yuan power within his body was precisely what the golden corpse urgently needed.