Thirty-Three, Kunlun Border (Thirteen)

  As a result, only Xiao Yao had not expressed her opinion, and in an instant, all three of them looked at her. She was also weighing the pros and cons in her heart, whether she should go together or not. After a moment's thought, she made up her mind and nodded in agreement. Since it was Zi Dong Bu's plan, whether leaving alone or following together might be a trap. In that case, rather than being plotted against from behind, it would be better to follow him closely, observe his words and deeds, and have some confidence in her heart, making it easier to prevent disasters.

  After reaching a consensus, the group followed Zidong to what he called the exit. Along the way, Liu Qianbi twisted her hem and shyly chatted with Xiao Yao: "I still don't know your name or title, how should I address you?"

  Xiao Yao replied: "As a fellow practitioner of the Heavy Softness Path, Liu Daoyou can simply call me Chong Rou."

  As they spoke, she secretly sized up Liu Qianbi, seeing that she was completely calm and showed no signs of the distress she had displayed earlier when insisting that she stay behind. Even now, she still couldn't understand why this woman would grab onto her and shout for help.

  "It turns out that fellow Daoist Hong Rou is so gentle, and we've been together for so long without realizing it. It's truly embarrassing to say," Purple Dong's ears were extremely sharp, and after hearing the conversation from behind, he didn't forget to turn around and introduce himself: "I am Purple Dong Dao Ren."

  "Are you Zidong? Is it true or false?" exclaimed Liu Qianbi, after all, the name of Zidong Dao Ren was too loud.

  Zi Dong smiled, revealing two rows of white teeth, "A journey doesn't change one's name, a seat doesn't change one's surname, it's naturally true."

  The other party was too open and honest, Liu Qianbi couldn't judge what was true or false for a moment. However, in her heart, she had already become vigilant. From the previous few sentences, she saw that this person was not simple and was also a master of hiding his true intentions. Now it seemed that this intuition was even stronger. No matter whether he was true or false, if there was no need, she absolutely could not provoke this person! Moreover, she was more interested in Rou Rou, who was also a female cultivator, so she didn't speak again and continued to say to Xiao Yao: "As I said just now, seeing fellow Taoists makes me feel close, that's why I took the liberty of inviting you to travel together. I hope to make friends with fellow Taoists."

  At this moment, Liu Qianbi's face was smiling extremely sincerely, and there was a bit of shyness. It is said that one should not hit a smiling face, so Xiao Yao could only smile and perfunctorily say: "Within the four seas, all are friends, Liu fellow, you're being polite."

  Although she knew the other party was just perfunctory, Liu Qianbi didn't mind, and carefully examined the woman in front of her. Seeing that she smiled warmly and softly, with a gentle outline that easily made people feel close, she involuntarily let out a sincere sigh: "Your appearance is really good, it's born to be beautiful."

  As soon as she finished speaking, the eyes of all six explorers suddenly focused on her. She felt a bit embarrassed and unconsciously lowered her head to fiddle with her clothes, asking: "What's wrong, why are you all staring at me?" And in her heart, she reviewed what she had just said, wondering which sentence was wrong.

  Zi Dong smiled but didn't smile, and didn't say a word. On the other hand, Luo Jian Ying slightly furrowed her brow, and tossed out a sentence: "So your eyesight is not good, no wonder you couldn't even recognize him after half a day."

  Xiao Yao's smile remained unchanged as she replied politely, "You're overpraising me, fellow Daoist."

  As for in her heart, she felt very embarrassed. She thought that this face of hers was barely considered a small beauty among ordinary people, but when placed in the immortal cultivation world, it didn't even count as good-looking, just an ordinary face, unremarkable. Having lived for tens of thousands of years, this was still the first time someone had praised her for being born well, and this person was even a stunning beauty who could charm the country and the city.

  If this woman was just mocking and making sarcastic remarks, she would be easy to understand, and could simply laugh it off. But the other party was extremely sincere, especially with the envy revealed in her eyes, not a bit fake, which made herself feel uneasy and even a little embarrassed.

  Fortunately, the topic did not continue, and the four of them fell silent again until Zidong led the three to the entrance of a cave and pointed: "Here is the exit."

  Xiao Yao almost vomited blood, and the other two people's faces didn't look good either. Because what Zi Dong said was indeed an "exit", the two big characters on the wall that read "exit" in golden light were enough to dazzle everyone's eyes.

  No wonder he was so fearless and confident just now, speaking with such conviction and authority.

  Entering what was called the exit, they flew for a very long time, during which they encountered many monsters, all of whom were killed by Lu Jianying alone. His fiery red long sword had immense power, and killing the monsters was as easy as cutting vegetables, without any effort at all.

  There are people who are willing to take on the task of killing the demonic beasts, and naturally there are also those who are willing to slack off. After all, they didn't encounter any particularly powerful demons. Xiao Yao was secretly assessing Rong Jianying's strength from behind. She also discovered that these low-level demonic beasts attacking them had eyes that were bright red, their bodies emitting a strong aura of evil energy, and would launch attacks on people as soon as they encountered them, abnormally ferocious.

  She took another glance at Zidong, who was calm and composed, with a faint smile on his face that seemed to be there but not quite. There was nothing unusual about him, nor did he make any small movements along the way. She couldn't guess what his intention was in gathering all these cultivators here.

  After winding through the cave for more than half a time, with Luojian Ying leading the way, the four of them arrived at a very spacious cavern without any danger. This cavern was similar to the one they first entered, as wide as a grand temple hall, with a height that reached the top of the mountain, and could accommodate over a thousand people. In the center was a huge stone platform shaped like a lotus flower, and looking down from above, all around was a deep fiery abyss that seemed to have no end, only visible were the rolling molten lava rocks that illuminated the entire cavern with a scorching brightness.

  A crowd of about ten people gathered on the stone platform, all of whom were cultivators from the White Jade Pavilion. There were flying ascension cultivators and also native Eastern Extremity cultivators. Yu Feng and his group, who had parted ways with Xiao Yao earlier, were also present. They all looked serious, their faces tense as they gazed upwards at the two figures locked in a fierce battle above.

  Xiao Yao also followed the gaze of the crowd and looked over, stunned: Wang Fu and Cao Tao? How did these two start fighting?!

  Looking at the two methods, they are evenly matched in strength, and it's hard to distinguish between victory and defeat for a while. As for the onlookers, there were also four or five flying ascension masters among them, but when their own people started fighting, no one came forward to mediate.

  Xiao Yao saw that one of the five flying cultivators was the man she had just met after being transported to this place. She thought for a moment, then stepped forward and asked, "Fellow Daoist, what's going on here?"

  The man corrected his gaze upwards, suddenly disturbed by someone, and showed a hint of impatience on his face. When he saw that it was Xiao Yao, he relaxed his expression: "It's you, fellow Taoist. I'm not very clear about this matter either. Earlier when we came in, the two were already fighting. Our side wanted to go forward to mediate, but was stopped by Wang Fu. He said that the one who brought everyone here is Cao Taotao, and also said that there are traitors within our group, specifically these two colluding to deceive us. But Cao Taotao denied it, saying that Wang Fu is the real traitor, and was discovered by her after framing others. For a while, we didn't know who to believe, so we've been at an impasse until now. Now we can only wait for them to determine victory or defeat before making a decision."

  Xiao Yao listened and became even more puzzled in her heart. Could it be that the one who had brought them to this place was not Zi Dong?!

  Author's note: There will be an update tomorrow after becoming a VIP. Don't look at this chapter, it seems long, but actually merging to 3000 words per chapter and writing up to now is less than ten chapters. Mainly because this week was really a bit overwhelming, so I'll continue to stockpile the draft.

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