The Flying Jade Snake could speak human language but throughout the trip, he doesn't dare to speak a word because of the leaked of aura coming from Tian Xuan is fearsome.
In split second, they reached the Mt. Guan base.
Tian Xuan makes sure to calm the aura to turn it into tranquil condition. Then, he closed his eyes as he is trying to sense the boy's presence.
He tapped on the snake's body and pointed toward the top of the mountain. "There."
The snake slither in the mid-air quickly and as soon as they arrived on the top of the mountain, Tian Xuan makes sure his aura doesn't leak anymore and took out his Arc of Platinum sword.
He jumped down off the snake and landed on the ground. Wu Xian followed behind him with the Celestial White broadsword in his hand.
At the same time, both of them walked in a strange manner to enter sneakily into the cave. They are using the shadow cloak movement.
As long as one is not wary of their presence, no one can detect them.
Tian Xuan saw a stair leading down the cave. He doesn't hesitate and walked down.
When they reached the bottom ground, they saw many people wearing dark brown hooded clothes while wearing devil mask surround a boy that is sitting on top of a spell circle.
"We serve thee the lord of death. The Lord oh, the epitome of the seven sins, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, sloth, wrath, pride. We serve thee the lord of death. Oh lord, beseech thee to grant this sacrifice the power of sin."
Tian Xuan immediately rushed out of his hiding when he heard what the people chanted.
"Twelve Heaven Crashing Eighth art, Dyes of the earth!" He extended his sword and swirled it with his right hand before piercing it deep into the ground.
Grrrruururrr…
"Who's there?!" The devil cultivator yelled as he prepared to fight.
However before the devil cultivator could even show a move, the ground shook frantically and the next second, exactly eight sharp pillars bulged out.
Ssuk! Sssuk!
Each of them stabbed each of the devil cultivators.
Tian Xuan doesn't give them the chance to retaliate even a millisecond.
"Seventh art, Eternal Prison!" He slashed the air and blue lines appeared.
The lines rushed toward the devil cultivator and chained them up.
"Fifth art, Rendering Immobilizes!" Tian Xuan crossed his hands and pulled them downward. The blue lines pushed the devil cultivator down and they fell to the ground. They tried to move but an invisible force is pressuring them from moving an inch.
"How dare you touch him… " Tian Xuan voice is deep and low as he spoke. He walked toward the cultivators slowly and Wu Xian pulled out their masks to reveal their faces.
Devil cultivator sacrificed everything for the sake of power. Their family, their wife, their benefactor and even their own face for the sake of power. Therefore, the devil cultivators are looking as ugly as something could possibly be.
The skin of their face was sliced thin to reveal the inner meat. As they cultivate, the wound closed up but it only makes them appear to be horrifyingly ugly. Their eyes are bulging out. The skin is red and their jaws are sliced to make their mouth larger than the other humans so that they could eat the human.
The devil cultivators refused to admit defeat. They tried their best to fend off the invisible force however despite they doing their best, it only worsened their dreadful feeling that crawling up to their brain.
From the very beginning, they have no intention to let Yi Zhao return normally to Yi Ling. They might even use Yi Zhao to kill Yi Ling as part of the devil ritual.
Tian Xuan eyes are no longer bright. They are as cold as the darkest night giving people a chill when they saw the darkened cyan eyes.
"He is my people, how dare you touch him?!" Tian Xuan stabbed directly into the devil cultivator body.
Wu Xian held the thin boy in his arm and checked on him. While watching Tian Xuan recklessly stab the devil cultivator, he also felt angered after realizing that the group is trying to make Yi Zhao into one of them. As he thought of the possibilities that going to happen to the boy, he felt like smashing their faces into pulp.
Suddenly a white ball appeared in front of Tian Xuan and calmed the silver-haired boy.
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Tian Xuan eyes changed back to bright cyan eyes and he looked at the bloody mess under him then to his hand that is soaked in blood.
"Tian Qiu… I… I…" Tian Xuan felt the loss as a result of him finally realized that he almost fell into the devil cultivator trap. If he let his emotion loose, he will surely lose all rationality and perhaps, he will even kill Wu Xian and Yi Zhao.
Thinking up to there, Tian Xuan face is as dark as coal.
The white ball cooed on Tian Xuan's head and comforted the boy.
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"En. Take them." Tian Xuan nodded his head and turned to walk toward the boy that is lying weakly in Wu Xian's arm.
Tian Xuan waved his zhenqi toward Wu Xian's face and the man also returned to his usual composure before he realized what's going on. His face darkened but he admitted that the devil cultivator is definitely harder to deal with than demonic beasts.
Compare to Wu Xian, Tian Xuan's mind is tougher but his weakness would be the people around him. If he just encountered the devil on his own, he would never fell into the trap but because he is already in rage that someone dares to harm his people, his mind is in disorder so the devil could easily befuddle him and Wu Xian.
He could have spare their life but the devil cultivator are ruthless to themselves. They trapped him to be unable to think rationally so that when they die, he will kill the people around him without cares whether they're foes or friends.
He doesn't bother to think so much anymore as the deed has been done.
Tian Xuan called the Flying Jade snake back into the small world. He rewarded the pitiful scared flying snake a tier 4 Demonic Beast's Elunium Whetstone for the snake to hone its teeth.
[Elunium right here is not a typo. It is the name of precious ore.]
As Tian Qiu done cleans up everything even the bloody mess in the devil cultivator hideout, he also leaves no traces of Tian Xuan and the other ever been to the Mt. Guan.
Then, Tian Xuan crushed a red crystal and red circle appears around him and Wu Xian.
Both of them disappeared immediately from the cave as if they were never there, to begin with.
The three of them simultaneously appeared in an exquisite room. He saw no one in the room except for them. He told Wu Xian to put Yi Zhao on the bed before he checked outside of the room.
Tian Xuan smiled as he called out to the two people that are pacing back and forth outside of the corridor.
"Is it fun to pace back and forth like that? Am I allowed to join?"
Yi Ling and Li Yiyuan dodged their head up and turned to look at the room they rented.
"Lord Tian!!!" Li Yiyuan shouted and rushed to hug the silver head shota.
Tian Xuan avoided him narrowly and Li Yiyuan fell flat on his face.
On the other hand, Yi Ling immediately rushed into the room. She cried as she held her brother tightly before bowing toward Tian Xuan and Wu Xian.
"Thank you… Thank you for saving him…"
"He is one of us. I rather kill myself if I cannot save him." As Tian Xuan said it, he will truly do such thing if no one stops him.
He doesn't have a family before but he has that family that he always dreamed of having now. If he fails to protect what he has, he will kill the people that harm his family before killing himself afterward.
Wu Xian and Li Yiyuan just stare at the silver-haired boy quietly while vowing deep in their heart to prevent the lord from doing things recklessly.