Lady Blackfang hovered higher as more black mist coiled around her curvy figure.
Her earlier confidence had cracked.
No one could sense it but she was rattled.
A Core Formation ant.
A re Core Formation ant made her bleed.
She narrowed her eyes until her pupils contracted into needle-thin slits.
This was her divine sense!
It poured out like black ink and swept over Li Qingmu’s body from head to toe.
And then she froze.
Her divine sense recoiled as though scalded.
Two... golden cores?
No—not just two.
Each one pulsed with the faint, terrifying resonance of Heaven Dao laws.
One carried the tyrannical pressure of an ancient emperor crushing all underfoot.
And the other thrumd with gluttonous, devouring hunger that seed to want to claim everything and swallow the very heavens themselves.
This is the presence of a tyrant!
Her heart lurched violently.
『Impossible... a dual-core physique... and both cores are Dao-touched!? In the Mortal Realm!?』
She shot backward instinctively even though she was already dozens of ters in the air.
Li Qingmu noticed.
The corner of his mouth lifted into a tiny smile.
『Good. She’s afraid.』
He thought lazily.
With an exaggerated swish of his sleeves, tyrant qi surged into his right palm.
The blood-red energy condensed, sharpened and elongated until a three-foot-long sword of pure carnage hovered above his fingers.
He pointed the blade lazily at Lady Blackfang.
"Today..."
He kept his voice theatrically calm.
"I will send a ssage to Official Xu."
Thwack!
A slap landed on the back of Li Qingmu’s head.
The sound echoed louder than it had any right to.
He hissed as a hand flew up to rub the stinging spot.
"Ow—!"
He whipped around.
Chen Yuxuan stood there, beautiful baby-face scrunched into the most ferocious frown she could muster while still looking like an angry stead bun.
She was not happy.
And it wasn’t just because black blood still trickled from the corner of her lips.
"What are you still doing here?!"
Her voice had the fury and worry of a mother.
If you listened closer one could tell it was trembling.
"You should leave at once!"
Li Qingmu rubbed harder with a scowl.
"What did you hit for, woman!? You hit exactly like Mother used to—ahh how much strength is hiding in those soft-looking hands!?"
Chen Yuxuan ignored the complaint completely.
She stepped forward, grabbed both his hands in hers in her small, delicate, ones and looked up at him with eyes that shimred beautifully.
"I might as well be your mother!"
She said fiercely.
"You’ve done so much for ... for us. This ti you must let protect you. Sit this one out. Don’t forget I’m a Nascent Soul expert. I’ll handle her myself!"
She could still feel the pain from the seal.
Still, she pushed through.
"Please... just listen to this once!"
She affectionately squeezed his hands tighter.
Li Qingmu stared down at her for a second.
Then he snorted.
"No."
"Yes, you will!"
Chen Yuxuan shot back imdiately.
"I’m your senior! An elder! You have to obey !"
He turned his face away and picked at his nose lazily with one finger then muttered.
"Like that matters. Don’t give that crap. You weren’t pulling the ’senior’ and ’sect elder’ card when we were rolling around in bed, were you?"
Chen Yuxuan’s face turned red-hot.
She smacked his shoulder hard.
Li Qingmu winced dramatically.
"Crazy woman! Are you trying to dislocate it!?"
She folded her arms under her full chest and huffed.
"Hmph! Can you not talk about that in public!?"
He sighed long-sufferingly.
"Then can you stop hitting like I’m a child?"
"I’m your senior..."
She declared loftily as she lifted her chin.
"I can do whatever I want."
But then her gaze softened as they slid sideways in a very shy side-eye.
"...It didn’t hurt, right?"
Li Qingmu’s face cald into a small smile.
He shook his head.
Gao Yue and Chen Yuling simply gaped.
They’ve never seen this side of Madam Chen.
Only a real man can make a strong and independent woman like her look so soft.
"Is madam... flirting with him here...?"
"Mother is truly... shaless."
Their faces were an identical combo of pure shock and second-hand embarrassnt.
But the person most irritated?
Lady Blackfang.
She wanted to lose her mind in anger.
But after giving the young man a slow, evaluating look from head to toe.
She took a deep breath and smirked.
『Powerful yang... and not bad-looking either. Not as refined as the young masters of the Lower Heavens, but with that monstrous talent... he could be molded.』
Her inner thighs pressed together.
『A fine pet indeed.』
She bit her lower lip and let a giggle slip free.
"I applaud your guts, little Core Formation. Kneel. Lick my feet clean. Do that, and I’ll consider sparing your life and even allow you to follow back to the upper realms as my personal attendant."
Chen Yuxuan’s shoulders slumped slightly.
Her voice ca out small.
"...If you want to accept it... it’s fine."
Li Qingmu whipped around so fast his hair snapped.
"What is wrong with you, old woman!? When did I ever say I’d accept?!"
Chen Yuxuan looked away and pursed her lips
"Well..."
She twiddled her thumbs like a guilty maiden.
She didn’t know what to say.
An old lady like her doesn’t like getting shouted at.
Li Qingmu cleared his throat loudly.
"I would never lick a woman’s feet."
Chen Yuxuan coughed delicately into her sleeve.
"...I thought you liked that sort of thing."
Li Qingmu’s eye twitched.
"Since when!?"
Lady Blackfang’s patience finally snapped.
"You would dare flirt in my presence!?"
She gathered black qi around her fingers to inflict more pain on the two sealed won.
Li Qingmu flicked his sleeve.
Six blood-red tyrant swords scread through the air like blood beams.
Blackfang twisted gracefully out of their path.
"Child’s play!"
She grinned viciously at him.
Li Qingmu remained expressionless.
"No thank you. I don’t accept rubbish offers."
Blackfang moaned softly, delighted.
"I love a defiant man... so much fun to break."
She lifted one pale palm.
"Hellish Black Dog!"
Darkness vomited from her hand.
A colossal, two-headed demonic hound erged.
Each fang longer than Li Qingmu was tall.
Its eyes burned with abyssal fla as it hurtled downward like a falling star.
The spiritual pressure around it was imnse.
This beast can crush a True Core expert!
Blackfang threw her head back and cackled.
"It seems I don’t even need to lift a finger! My lovely pet will tear you all—"
BOOM!!!
The beast never finished its descent.
A heavenly golden palm descended from nowhere and smashed it sideways like swatting a fly.
The Hellish Black Dog crashed into the courtyard wall with a miserable yelp, tried to rise—
And then the Tyrant King’s Subjugation Palm crushed downward a second ti.
SPLAT.
Nothing remained but a puddle of black blood.
Blackfang stared.
Li Qingmu simply stood there with a tired face and one hand extended casually.
Chen Yuling’s eyes wavered.
『How strong... is he really...?』
She still couldn’t move from the pains of the seal.
Gao Yue muttered under her breath.
"I heard he was talented... but this..."
Yuxuan took several unconscious steps backward then squeezed her own cheeks.
"No wonder that blood scorpion Song Yan wants him back so badly... Hmph. If we survive this, I absolutely won’t let her have him!"
Lady Blackfang forced her trembling body still.
"You... you swallow your pride, boy!"
She ford more darkness in her palms.
"Defeating one summon ans nothing. My true power is on an entirely—"
Li Qingmu sighed exhaustedly.
"Can you shut up and fight?"
Blackfang’s face twisted with rage.
She thrust both arms forward.
Darkness surged and ford into a massive ancient lantern suspended in the air before her.
Inside the lantern burned a devilish red fla that seed to scream without sound.
Chen Yuxuan’s expression changed drastically.
She staggered forward to grab Li Qingmu’s sleeve.
"We have to leave—now! That’s the Soul-Devouring Ghost Lantern! We can’t take this lady for granted! If she activates it fully, it can drown the souls of everyone on this entire peak in perpetual darkness!"
More black blood sprayed from her lips.
"HUURRGHH!"
Yuxuan fell to her knees and held her stomach.
"My body is..."
She vomited a pool of black blood.
Blackfang’s laughter turned hysterical.
"I’ll use every soul on Fragrant Flower Peak as tribute to my poor dead dog! And when I’m finished... I’ll make sure the immortal Xu family washes this pathetic sect off the face of the continent!"
The lantern flared brighter.
The temperature plumted.
Even the stars above seed to dim.
Li Qingmu stared at the growing crimson fla.
『...It can’t be that strong, right?』
Cold sweat beaded along his hairline despite himself.
Ding!
[Host’s chance of survival is minimal!]
Li Qingmu’s eyes bulged.
"MI-, MINIMAL—!?"
He almost choked on his own words.
[Even if Map of the Nine Mountains is used at maximum power, protection is not guaranteed for all individuals on Fragrant Flower Peak.]
Li Qingmu’s lazy smile finally disappeared.
『...I’m in trouble...』
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