Big Trouble
Jiang Yong cupped his fists, his eyes brimming with sincerity. Ye Zichen chuckled.
"Brother Jiang, you're exaggerating. If it weren't for Queen Murong pouring divine power into you, it would have been too late by the time I thought of a solution."
"Murong?"
Jiang Yong couldn't help but look behind him. Murong Xue blushed inexplicably, then snorted coldly.
"Don't think too much about it. I'm just worried that if you die, your family will go to my house and condemn me."
"No way, no way! How could that be?" Jiang Yong laughed uproariously. "Not only will I not condemn you, once I get back to the academy, I'll immediately notify my clansmen to go to your house and get married. I'll take that cloth you gave me as a token of love. "
"Scram!"
A fireball appeared in Murong Xue's hands, and she hurled it at Jiang Yong.
Jiang Yong leapt into the air. The fireball …..
"Roar ….."
Li Hu, who was lying flat on the ground, leaped up from the ground. With this leap, he jumped more than ten meters high. The flames of the fireball burned fiercely on his body.
Li Hu howled and ran around the altar. Murong Xue covered her mouth in shock. She never would have guessed that a fireball would land on him.
"Water, water, water!"
Everyone hurried to extinguish the flames. Ye Zichen sighed helplessly, then waved his hand, condensed a cannon of water, and blasted it at Li Hu.
The fire went out.
Li Hu froze in place, soaked like a drowned rat. However, the fire had already burned away his few remaining hairs, and his clothes were almost all gone.
When he got closer, he could even smell the faint scent of roasted meat.
"Who the hell did this!?"
After a brief moment of silence, Li Hu was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He exploded.
"It was me."
Murong Xue walked out calmly. When he saw that it was Queen Murong, Li Hu's aura instantly shriveled.
"So it was you! Don't worry, it was a good fire, a good fire!
The sharp contrast left the onlookers dumbfounded. They couldn't help but think, This guy really has no limits.
Murong Xue covered her mouth and giggled. She looked at Li Hu's pitiful expression and bowed.
"I'm sorry, I accidentally burned you. I sincerely apologize to you."
"Hey, it's just a small matter." Li Hu laughed dryly and scratched his head. Murong Xue glanced at his private parts in confusion and said, "Since it's just a small matter, how long are you going to play hoodlum for? Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're rich. Don't you see that even the little golden flower of our association doesn't dare to look at you?"
Only then did Li Hu realize that he was naked down there. No wonder he felt a gust of wind when he was talking just now.
Blushing, he covered his crotch and ran off to the side to change his clothes. Murong Xue glanced at Jiang Yong again.
"What are you looking at? I'm much richer than him."
"Oh."
Murong Xue responded coolly with an "oh," then ignored him. Jiang Yong felt utterly humiliated.
"Sooner or later, I'll show you just how powerful I am," Jiang Yong gritted his teeth.
Ye Zichen borrowed a new set of clothes from Luo Zi and changed into them, then gathered at the center of the altar once more.
"Pan Sheng, remove the spiritual formation," said Ye Zichen.
Pan Sheng revealed a look of confusion. Ye Zichen pointed at the fog outside, which had already turned black.
"The deathly aura and mist will eventually converge here. We've set up the spirit formation here to block the altar from absorbing the deathly aura and mist, but it can't stop the deathly aura and mist from converging here. Look at the situation outside the formation. Because so much energy has gathered, the mist and death energy have become even denser. If this continues, we won't be able to leave. "
"But isn't the mist poisonous?"
"Didn't Xue Mo just give you an antidote? With that pill's protection, there won't be any problems."
Pan Sheng glanced at Jiang Yong. When he saw his society head nod, he spoke up.
"Hold your breath."
Everyone held their breath. At that moment, Pan Sheng removed the formation.
Without the obstruction of the spirit formation, the deathly aura and mist that had piled up outside the altar frantically gathered into the few stone pillars on the altar. Perhaps because there was too much of it, a few whirlpools appeared around the stone pillars.
"Given our current strength, it'll be difficult to destroy this altar. What should we do? Do we continue investigating, or do we return to the academy?"
Jiang Yong looked solemnly at the whirlpools overhead and frowned.
"It's not that I want to retreat, but I really don't think we can continue investigating this place."
"In truth, we've already investigated this thoroughly," said Ye Zichen with a chuckle.
Everyone else looked towards him in confusion. Ye Zichen also squinted his eyes, which shone with a faint light.
"If my deductions are correct, the deaths here have something to do with the demons."
"Why do you say that?" asked Xue Mo.
"I don't know about you, but I've dealt with the demons many times. Everything I know about them is engraved in my bones."
Ye Zichen's eyes flashed with cold light as he pointed at the purple mist overhead.
"When I first got here, I sensed something familiar about this purple mist. Now, I can confirm that this fog is actually miasma, a poisonous gas that only the Abyssals of the Demon Race would release. "
"Also, why did Jiang Yong and Li Hu fall unconscious while the others didn't?"
"The only thing they had in common was that they both had vast amounts of Subterranean Beast blood on them. The pills I gave you, Jiang Yong, and the others all helped expel the miasma."
When they thought back to the situation, it was just as Ye Zichen had said. Only the two of them, who'd wielded the axes, were covered in blood.
"But what does that have to do with anything? Subterranean Beasts are yao," said Li Hu.
Ye Zichen pursed his lips and chuckled. Suddenly, Murong Xue, Jiang Yong, Xue Mo, and Chen Guangfa's eyes flashed with indescribable solemnity. The two golden flowers of the Appearance Association and Luo Zi knit their brows. Only Li Hu stared dumbly at the others.
"Why aren't you saying anything?" asked Li Hu uneasily.
"Brother Ye, are you confident in your conjecture?" asked Jiang Yong.
Murong Xue said, "I don't really believe it."
Xue Mo said, "That doesn't seem very likely!"
The rest of the team seemed to have abandoned Li Hu. Li Hu stared at them with wide eyes in confusion.
"I'm at least eighty percent sure," said Ye Zichen coolly.
Jiang Yong slammed his fist into the altar's stone pillar, his eyes flashing with fierce light.
"If that's really the case, then we're in trouble."
"It is indeed." Murong Xue nodded. "More importantly, the yao and demons joined forces to invade the God Realm without our knowledge!"
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