Chapter 40: Lou Yunxiao in Danger
The python’s words made Ning Ke silent.
Because he discovered that the plot points he had ignored when reading the novel before were gradually becoming clear at this moment.
In the novel written by his sister, Ning Ke could actually only be called Lou Yunxiao’s enemy, the driving force that motivated the other party to seek revenge and thus constantly grow.
But in this world, the biggest villain was actually the Demon.
It was just that when they were in the dungeon, it was the last scene. At that time, the Demon hadn’t emerged for long, and the Great Demons hadn’t been completely unsealed.
His sister didn’t write anymore after that.
Now, he really had to consider how to deal with the Demon in the future.
[Host, new side quest.] Xiao Yuan’s voice interrupted Ning Ke’s thoughts: [Find the ruins of the stone stele sealing the Great Demon in the Qianyuan Secret Realm and investigate.]
Ning Ke paused slightly: Your mission keeps up with the times quite well.
[Yes indeed. As the environment the Host is in changes, we receive corresponding plot completion missions.]
Ning Ke nodded and asked the python: “Snake-Snake, do you know the direction of the Great Demon’s seal?”
The huge python, as thick as Ning Ke’s whole body, stiffened.
His small eyes were full of excitement.
Snake-Snake!
The Lord called him Snake-Snake!
What a cute nickname!
He liked it so much!
“I know, my great-grandfather pointed it out to me before.”
The python thought carefully and said, “Great-grandfather also said that the Great Demon previously possessed a Human Race almighty cultivator and occupied the almighty’s palace. After the Heavenly Dao sealed him, the palace was also buried underground by wind and sand over time. The stone stele sealing him should be near the palace.”
Ning Ke pondered.
This matched up with the plot.
The A-Ke he played indeed died in a palace.
The python said, “Lord, if you must go, please let me lead the way for you.”
“I can also accompany the Lord!” The small sparrow hopped twice, was glared at by the python, almost scared to poop again, and quickly shrank its head, staying silent.
The python’s cultivation was close to the Nascent Soul stage, so it should have self-preservation ability against the Demon.
The small sparrow wouldn’t do.
So, Ning Ke smoothed the small sparrow’s feathers and said.
“Little Sparrow shouldn’t go. Snake-Snake, come with me.”
After Ning Ke finished speaking, he jumped off the tree branch and landed firmly.
The python also slithered down the thick trunk.
Coiled on the ground, its height was over two meters…
Inexplicably reminding Ning Ke of those horror movies describing pythons…
“Snake-Snake ah, let’s discuss something. Can you become a bit smaller?”
“Can do.” The python wagged its tail, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Ning Ke squatted down and saw Snake-Snake, now the size of a palm, curled up on a dry leaf. Clearly having a magnetic, deep voice, he shouted at him with this appearance: “Lord, Lord! Is this small enough?”
Ning Ke was crying from the cuteness.
He extended his wrist, and Little Snake-Snake crawled up his palm onto his wrist, coiling into a bracelet shape, hundreds of times more realistic than the top jewelry of a certain modern luxury brand.
“Enough, enough, let’s go.”
Here, Lou Yunxiao and Ning Xiaoxiao rested at night and traveled by day in the desert. Led by the little sand rat, they had been walking in the desert for five days.
Still, they couldn’t see the edge.
Because flying on swords in the desert would only make them get lost faster, and if they encountered a sandstorm, there wouldn’t even be a place to hide, so the two hadn’t flown on swords, relying only on walking on two legs.
Ning Xiaoxiao walked until her mouth was dry, and her small face was sunburnt red.
Reaching out to shade her eyes, gazing into the distance, she sighed: “Why is this desert so big?”
She glanced at Lou Yunxiao beside her and found that the other party was still cold and aloof. Probably because he possessed the Ice Spirit Root, he had a built-in cooling effect. Even under such sun exposure, his skin showed no sign of turning red.
Making Ning Xiaoxiao, a girl, extremely envious.
Sensing something, Lou Yunxiao asked, “Junior Sister, are you very hot?”
Ning Xiaoxiao’s voice was hoarse: “Hot, hot to death.”
Lou Yunxiao paused slightly.
In the next moment, an ice umbrella appeared out of thin air in his palm.
He leaned over, and the umbrella blocked the sunlight for Ning Xiaoxiao. The cold air emitted by the ice surface instantly dispelled the scorching heat.
His other hand held an ice cup to Ning Xiaoxiao, filled with ice water.
“Junior Sister, drink this.”
Ning Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded!
“Eldest Senior Brother, you are too! Too awesome!” The little girl hugged the cup and gulped it down, even asking Lou Yunxiao for another cup.
The little sand rat also benefited, lying contentedly on the sand with an ice cube on his belly, saying, “Human boy, you are the cultivator with the most useful Spirit Root I’ve ever seen!”
Lou Yunxiao smiled faintly without speaking.
He was fulfilling his responsibility to take care of Ning Xiaoxiao.
Because he knew doing so would make Junior Brother happy.
These days, he was always thinking about the relationship between Sister and demons.
But in the end, he couldn’t analyze a reason, so he planned to put it aside.
He decided to ask Sister personally when there was a chance in the future.
Currently, the key was finding Junior Brother.
“There’s sound.” Lou Yunxiao suddenly drew the Cangyin Sword from his back. Ning Xiaoxiao also reacted extremely fast.
Quickly dropping the ice cup, she pasted an explosion talisman on the sand surface.
“Senior Brother, fly!”
Bang—
The sand exploded. Red willow branches glowing with blood light, finger-wide with tips like thick, long needles, stabbed toward the two!
Densely packed, numbering at least a hundred!
“It’s the mutated Carnivorous Red Willow!” The little sand rat grabbed the hem of Ning Xiaoxiao’s robe, hiding all the way behind her hair, saying: “They are the Demon’s hunters. Many of my clansmen were taken by them and offered to the Demon!”
Ning Xiaoxiao and Lou Yunxiao looked at each other, then stood back-to-back. Ning Xiaoxiao formed a hand seal; her long sword split into two, two into four, and a sword array formed instantly.
Waving her hand again, dozens of talismans spread out in mid-air.
The little girl laughed once.
Looking exactly like Ning Ke.
“Having eaten so many humans and demons, now let you taste if the explosion talisman smells good.”
Bang bang bang—
Explosion sounds rang incessantly.
For a moment, sand and stones flew, and the Red Willows were blown to pieces.
Lou Yunxiao erected an ice wall to block the dust.
Swinging the Cangyin Sword, wherever it passed, Red Willows were severed.
But when the dust settled, they found that those Red Willows hadn’t decreased. Instead, the shattered parts seemed like seeds reproducing; falling into the sand, new Red Willows grew out in a short while.
So much so that the Red Willows surrounding them went from hundreds to thousands, blocking out the sunlight, forming a giant cage.
“Senior Brother, use fire attack!”
As Ning Xiaoxiao spoke, she took out a Blazing Fire Talisman.
“We rush out!”
But before her voice fell, the howling wind sound came from far to near. Yellow sand instantly covered the sky and sun.
Both their expressions changed!
It was a sandstorm!
Coming not earlier, not later, but exactly at this time!
This way, they absolutely couldn’t fly upwards!
Lou Yunxiao said in a deep voice: “We go underground!”
Ning Xiaoxiao knew there wouldn’t be any good solution at this time, so she nodded. The two split the sand surface with one sword strike and entered underground.
In the darkness, sand willows attacked at every opportunity, all severed by Lou Yunxiao and Ning Xiaoxiao.
Wait until they dived to a certain depth, the two felt their bodies lighten, and their feet actually touched a flat surface.
Ning Xiaoxiao looked up, saw a tall palace, and exclaimed: “This is actually an underground palace?!”
Before she finished speaking, Red Willows had already chased to the front. Lou Yunxiao commanded flames to burn them. Ning Xiaoxiao’s gaze fell on the ground, frowning in contemplation.
Suddenly her eyes lit up.
She pointed at the four-legged beast stone statues in front of the palace gate and said, “Senior Brother, I’ll use spiritual energy to guide you. We attack one stone statue each; that is the root of this Demon Willow!”
If she wasn’t mistaken, the Red Willow’s root was protected by an array. As long as the stone statue array eye was broken, this Red Willow would definitely be done for.
And in fact, she guessed right.
The stone statues were destroyed by her and Lou Yunxiao together, burned clean by a fire.
Those tendrils all fell to the ground, turning into ashes.
“Hmph hmph, let’s see how you eat people now!” Ning Xiaoxiao kicked the Red Willow trunk.
However, the little sand rat on her shoulder suddenly realized where this was, screamed, and said: “Run!! Run fast!!!”
Ning Xiaoxiao and Lou Yunxiao were both startled by his panicked appearance.
Suspecting nothing, they hurriedly turned to leave.
But before they could take a step.
In the next moment, the palace gate opened, and an extremely terrifying pressure poured out.
Lou Yunxiao reacted fast.
He pulled Ning Xiaoxiao behind him to protect her, using all his power to resist the pressure.
Yet he was still pressed until the veins on his forehead bulged, spitting out a mouthful of blood, his face pale and dismal.
Although protected by him, Ning Xiaoxiao also felt a splitting headache, her whole body limp on the ground.
This was their first time being so close to death, and the first time realizing they were so insignificant.
From the corner of her eye, she saw Lou Yunxiao give a low shout, cut his wrist with the Cangyin Sword, sacrificing blood to the divine sword. His strength surged, finally breaking through this shackle. He picked her up and flew desperately toward the surface.
But Ning Xiaoxiao also saw it.
Behind the two, the black shadow that walked out of the palace was smiling.
Roughly humanoid, but only the mouth split open.
Opening and closing, it said:
“You cannot escape.”
In an instant.
Ning Xiaoxiao heard Lou Yunxiao’s muffled groan.
She lowered her eyes, noticing the blade-like black mist piercing through Lou Yunxiao’s abdomen.
Her eyes trembled, “Senior Brother!”
Blood slid down the corner of the young man’s lips. Using all his strength, he split the ground with one sword strike, sending Ning Xiaoxiao out.
“Junior Sister, you must live.”
Lou Yunxiao severed the black mist, turned around, and blocked the black shadow’s other attacks.
“Go find A-Ke, say sorry for me…”
“Tell him, I probably… cannot help him go home.”
Ning Xiaoxiao returned to the surface. The sandstorm was still continuing, blowing her far away.
She desperately grabbed the sandy ground.
Shouting: “Senior Brother—”
Tears were blown away by the sand and dust, evaporating quickly.
Ning Xiaoxiao had already been injured by the pressure just now. At this moment, holding on strongly, she used her arm strength to crawl forward with difficulty.
“Senior Brother…”
“Senior Brother… my brother is still waiting for you…”
“If you die, my brother will absolutely not forgive you!”
Ning Xiaoxiao spoke over and over, crying, but ultimately was buried by the sky-filling wind and sand after exhaustion…
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