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When Shuo Feng and Hua Qian Gu reappeared, they were on the cliffs of Tian Shan.

Hua Qian Gu could not confirm where the Sect Leader Shang Hong Yuan’s exact location was. After hypnotising a few people and asking, they still could not find his location. They could only search carefully.

When they reached the study, Hua Qian Gu suddenly felt someone grab her neck and pull her into a corner. She ws about to retaliate when she looked up to see that it was the tall green robed lady who had saved her previously.

“Jie Jie? Why are you here?”

“Sh…” The lady lady looked around them and whispered: “Ge Zhu was worried. So he sent me here to receive you. Did you managed to get the Dong Huang Clock?”

“En. We did not meet any obstacles.”

“That is good. Even though Shang Hong Yuan is the Tian Shan Sect Leader. Now he basically does not manage any sect affairs. He went to sight see two days ago. Ge Zhu was afraid you would not succeed, so he got me to sneak into the city to find out about the instrument’s exact location. The sect is now separately managed by the eldest disciple and fourth desiple of Shang Yuan Hong and has now split into the northern and southern sect. The Kong Tong seal should be hidden in to high security and trap laden Jiu Xiao Pagoda which is in the northern sect’s territory. Other than the Sect Leader, nobody is allowed to enter. Furthermore, there is a time restriction. Hence I only obtained the map for the first level. Memories it and then use the Kun Lun mirror to go in.:”

Hua Qian Gu looked at her gratefully. She had originally intended to pretended to be Shang Shang Piao’s granddaughter to get close to Shang Hong Yuan. Looks like they could do this the hard way.

Hua Qian Gu looked at the map in detail and prepared to move.

“I will go with you guys.” The lady spoke.

“But……” "

“There are nine levels on the pagoda. Every level is filled with traps. Just the two of you and Tang Bao will not be able to deal with it. If anything happens to you, i cannot account to Ge Zhu.”

Hua Qian Gu was very touched. “Jie Jie, what’s your name?”

“I am called Lu Xiao.”

Hua Qian Gu nodded and the three of them disappeared.

They reappeared in the pagoda in an instant.

Before they could stand properly, the round ice walls around them started shooting out millions of poison coated needles from all directions. Hua Qian Gu quickly used her internal energy to form a light barrier around them. She did not expect that after half an hour, the needles showed no sigh of abating. No matter how to attacked the wall, it was of no use.。

When she saw that the needles quickly melted on dropping to the floor, Hua Qian Gu realised that these were not silver needles but ice needles frozen from poisoned water. As long as there was human presence, it would continually shoot out. Even if it did not hurt one, it would trap one here, until one’s energy was spent.

“Let’s split up and slowly move up to the second floor.”

Shuo Feng and Lu Xiao walked out of her barrier and protected themselves. However, the strength of the silver needles was very great, making flying very difficult.

“Where is the stairs?” Shuo Feng looked around. However other than a mass of ice needles, he could not see anything else.

“there are no stairs. The entrance is on your right. But it has been sealed by the ice.” Hua Qian Gu recalled the drawing.

Shuo Feng turned around and took a close look. there was indeed sometthing slightly different. He hit out at it with both hands. The wind from his palm strike instantly shattered all the surrounding ice needles. The three quickly flew into the opening and went to the second floor before the second wave of ice needles came.

They had already expected to meet with another wave of attack. However there was nothing. The luminous night pearl on the ice walls glowed with a eerie green glow. The surroundings was extremely quiet. There was something creepy about this floor.

The three of them did not dare to stop and flew to the third floor. However there was nothing again.

“What’s going on?”

Shuo Feng checked the the floor.

“The traps have all been disabled. Someone has arrived here before us.”

Hua Qian Gu and Lu Xiao turned pale and quickly used to the ninth floor.

“The jiu Xiao Pagoda is laden with traps. If one enters form outside, it is impossible to avoid detection. Who would be able to come here before us and disable all the traps?”  Lu Xiao’s brows were locked tightly.

“But why wasnt the trap on the first level disabled?” Tang Bao couldn’t resist asking.

Lu Xiao thought out loud: ” The first level trap was left untouched probably to give the false impression that nobody has entered it. Given Shang Hong Yuan’s careless nature, even if he occasionally came to the pagoda to check. Once he saw tat the first level was untouched, he would surely think that the instrument was intact and not bother to go up to check.”

“What you mean is that the instrument may have already been stolen?” Hua Qian Gu gasped.

Lu Xiao lightly nodded. The three quickly rushed to the top floor and indeed found a few frozen corpses.

Shuo Feng surveyed their surrounding. “The instrument has not been stolen. It is still here.”

“Really?” Hua Qian Gu was so happy she looked around. However she could not see any where to hide the instrument.

Lu Xiao checked the bodies. “These are all demons. They died in a strange manner. I can’t tell or the moment. But this one looks like Kuang Ye Xing…”

Hua Qian Gu felt the name sounded a bit familiar: “Kuang Ye Xing? Who is that?”

“Kuang Ye Tian’s younger brother.” Lu Xiao took out a oddly shaped knife  and cut off a few tongues from the dead bodies na placed them in a bamboo holder. "

Hua Qian Gu did not dare to look. To think that Kuang Ye Tian would also be tricked.

“How did his brother die here?”

Lu Xiao waited for the frozen tongue to softena nd shook the bamboo container a few times, chanting something as though she was asking the tongue questions. Then she put the bamboo container beside her ear to listen.

After as while she knitted her eyebrows together and said: “They have died for more than a year. It seems that before Tai Bai, Kuang Ye Tian and Kuang Ye Xing came to the pagoda using the Kun Lun Mirror to steal the Kong Tong Seal on Chun Qiu Bu Bai’s order. During the critical moment, Kuang Ye Tian left his brother and the other behind and escaped using the Kun Lun Mirror on his own.”

“Did he say what kind of danger? Kuang Ye Tian is quite formidable. What could they possible lose to. Furthermore, it was so formidable that they gave up and went to attack Tai Bai Mountain instead?”

“He says there is a…. monster…. in the pagoda….”

Hua Qian Gu shuddered and Tang Bao crawled into her ear.

“But they are demons. How can they be afraid of monsters?”

Shuo Feng looked around them and felt something was wrong but could not explain.

“Kong Tong Seal’s seal. Why is it broken?” He muttered strangely.

“What are you talking about? It’s been broken?” Hua Qian Gu swallowed her saliva in disbelief. “Unless, Unless, the Kong Tong Seal is used to suppress the monster in this pagoda? That is why Shang Hong Yuan did not carry it around with him?”

Lu Xiao nodded. “This is a reasonable explanation. The question now is where the monster is? And where is the Kong Tong seal?”

Shuo Feng knitted his eyebrows together and slowly walked to the wall not he southern side. He slowly reached out his hand and it passed through the wall.

“Here….” Hua Qian Gu looked at Shuo Feng in surprised. She suddenly felt that his voice had become very foreign.

They followed him through the ice wall and were cast into absolutely darkness. This kind of darkness was also a form of vacuum. No matter how they focused, they could not see anything. Perhaps it was because there was nothing at all. There wasn’t even any ground. Yet they walked very naturally as though they were walking on a flat surface.

Shuo Feng lit two fireballs in one hand. They followed the light of the fire, but could see nothing but pitch blackness. Even though the flame was strong, the light was swallowed in the darkness. They could not se the sky nor the ground nor the surroundings. It was as though they are stuck in a endless cave.

There was a slight gust of warm air blowing from the top. Tis large cave was like a giant mouth, gently breathing. Hua Qian Gu nervously looked up and suddenly felt very intimately.

Shuo Feng suddenly took out his sword and cut himself. His forcefully hit the blood, forcing it to scatter into a bloody fog that fell all the way to the borrow.

Suddenly, chains started to appear below them. The tightly wound chains sealed this giant cave layer by layer. Each link in the chain was as thick as a few people. The chains were ancient and rusty, and covered in red string and amulets.

Hua Qian Gu was so scared that goosebumps appeared all over her body. One could tell what a scary monster was being sealed down there.

“Do you see the Kong Tong Seal? It’s there–” Shuo Feng pointed to the thing that was emitted a yellow glow in between the crossing of various chains.

“Kuang Ye Xing and the others may have been attacked by the monster when they removed the Kong Tong Seal, weakening the force suppressing the monster. In an instant, all their powers and internal energy were drained. Kuang Ye Tian may have escaped using the Kun Lun Mirror in the confusion.”

“Gu Tou Ma Ma, I am scared. Let’s go back!” Tang Bao cried as she hugged Hua Qian Gu and shivered.

Hua Qian Gu looked hesistantly at Lu Xiao: “If we remove the Kong Tong seal, won’t that monster escape and cause trouble? A demon God has alreadymde everyone so scared. If another monster appears……”

“It’s alright. Just use something else to seal it?”

“Something else?”

“Your blood.” Lu Xiao nodded.

“My blood?” Why is it her blood again. Her blood was almost becoming multipurpose potion. It could kill enemies, cure poison, hea and seal. It’s uses were endless.

"”Why? Other than having special eight characters and a harder fate, I am no different from others. Why can my blood do so many things?”

“You… Ge Zhu did not tell you?”

Hua Qian Gu was very anxious. What else was Dong Fang hiding from her!

“Tell me what? He did not say anything!”

“Do you think everyone’s blood can hatch a Ling Chong of such standard from the Tian Shui Droplet?”

“What…. What is going on?”

Lu Xiao shook her head: “Since he does not want to tell you. He has his reasons and I will not say anything. Anyway, rest assured. Your blood can seal this monster.”

“Alright… Then what should I do?” Hua Qian Gu looked anxiously at the darkness below them that seemed ready to swallow them any moment. She wasn’t in a mood to research why her blood had so many uses.

Lu Xiao took out a stone like item and passed it to her. It was hollow.

“This time, I need a bit more blood.”

Hua Qian Gu nodded and punctured a vein, feeling that object. Lu Xiao wrote something on it. In and instant that stone started emitted a shocking and eerie red light.

“I am going down now to get the Kong Tong seal and change it to this new seal.”

“Will there be danger?”

“No.”

“No. Let’s go down together so we can take care of each other.” Hua Qian Gu shuddered when she thought of Kuang Ye Xing’s body.

Lu Xiao nodded relecutantly, worry appearing on her face. They carefully circumvented the chains and flew into the vicinity of the Kong Tong seal. The air around them seemed to be frozen. The hot air below them was getting heavier and heavier, as though someone was panting.

Hua Qian Gu looked anxiously at Lu Xiao changing the seal, huge droplets of sweat dripping and Shuo Feng held on tight to her hand.

Lu Xiao sucked in a deep breath as she quickly replaced the Kong Tong seal with Hua Qian Gu’s blood.

Hua Qian Gu quickly took the Kong Tong Seal and placed it in her Xu Ding. She felt the surroundings rumble and the chains rattle. A strange and frightening roar sounded from below, tearing through their ear drums.  She quickly tugged Lu Xiao preparing to leave.

She did not expect Lu Xiao to shake her hand free and use all her strength to push them out: “The seal is not complete. There is no time. Quickly leave!”

As she said this, she continued chanting the spell, her two hands formed the hand seal and her entire body flashed with a green light. At this moment countless silver white tentacles that looked like hands reached out from below.

Hua Qian Gu wanted to go back and pull her. However Shuo Feng stopped her. In that instant, that tentacle had already pierced through Lu Xiao’s body. Hua Qian Gu could see that her internal energy was quickly dissipating, but she still tried her best to continue sealing. At the moment when she lost her Nei Dan (core of her internal energy), she finished the seal and fell into the abyss with the tentacle.

“Lu Xiao!” Hua Qian Gu cried out in terror and flew forward to hug her tall body.

“You lied to me! You lied to me! You said there was no danger! You already planned to sacrifice yourself to help me exchange the seal right?” She wanted to cry yet she was unable to.

Lu Xiao weakly fought to open her eyes and smiled at her.

“Why did you do this?” It was not worth it. It was not worth it for her. They had only seen each other a few times. They did not know each other well. Why sacrifice her life for her?

“Don’t be sad. I am only completing my mission.”

“Tell me, ow can I save you! My blood! Can my blood do it? It has infinite number of uses!” Hua Qian Gu fed her blood anxiously.

Lu Xiao coughed, her face becoming paler and paler: “Its no use….”

Hua Qian Gu desperately channeled internal energy into her body: ‘You must hang on. You must hand on! I will be able to save you once i get the Nu Wa Stone.”

Lu Xiao shook her head: “I won’t make it….. Sorry. Every time I meet you, I am either very fierce to you or very cold to you. Because of your fate…… I am always afraid that something would happen to Ge Zhu because of you. Actually I liked you a lot since the first time I saw you. That time, cough…. That time you was still so small, carrying a basket of radishes…..”

“Don’t talk anymore, don’t talk anymore…” Hua Qian Gu lips tremble as she closed her eyes. When she opened her eyes they were already in Yi Xiu Ge.

“Dong Fang! Dong Fang! Come out!” Hua Qian Gu hugged her and turned round and round like a headless fly. "

“Don’t be sad or guilty or feel that you have done me wrong. As I have said, everything is but a transaction. There is nothing in this world that is free. For example, the Kong Tong Seal. You owe Yi Xiu Ge too much and it cannot be repaid that easily. I only bed that you treat our Ge Zhu well. He already has a very hard life. Don’t make him any sadder….”

Lu Xiao’s voice became softer and softer and she finally closed her eyes. Hua Qian Gu’s eyes stopped and stood still in the courtyard, not moving a single inch.

Dong Fang ran in from outside. When he saw her hugging Lu Xiao’s body, he face was ashened without any expression.

Dong Fang Yu Qing’s steps slowed down as he walekd before her. When he looked at Lu Xiao, an unfathomable  grief flashed across his eyes. Then his expression was one of calm. He did not speak and nobody knew what he was thinking.

Hua Qian Gu finally raised her head to look at him. He had previously mentioned what a difficult road she had to walk. She finally knew how difficult it was.

“Dong Fang….” she softly called. Her bewildered and lost expression made Dong Fang’s heart ache.

She had lost too much blood and struck with anger and grief, Hua Qian Gu blacked out.

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