Shadow Step!
In an instant, Ling Xiao’s body vanished mid-air. The gigantic scorpion stabbed at nothing.
“Petty tricks, and you dare show them off in front of me? Ridiculous! Get down here!”
Even against Ling Xiao who had used Shadow Step, Xieli did not stop attacking. The enormous scorpion tail abruptly changed direction in mid-air.
Damn it!
Ling Xiao hurriedly swung his sword to block.
The scorpion tail lashed fiercely onto the Golden Crow Sword. The terrifying force made Ling Xiao feel as if his body would shatter in an instant. He plummeted uncontrollably towards the ground.
Boom!
A sand pit several metres deep was smashed into the earth. Ling Xiao was nearly buried alive by the sand.
Seeing this, Xieli covered her mouth with an orchid-shaped finger and giggled. Her figure suddenly appeared beside the pit. “Little thing, now you know the price of a foul mouth. Whether you like it or not, you are coming back with me today!”
“Back to your sister!”
A figure suddenly exploded out of the pit. The Golden Crow Sword in his hand condensed a black-and-white intertwined light-shadow divine cone, like a cannon shell from the Holy Dynasty’s red-clothed artillery, blasting towards Xieli who was only ten metres away.
Falling from the sky was embarrassing for Ling Xiao, but with his sturdy body, he was not actually injured.
“You cursed again. But I cannot bear to kill you!”
Facing Ling Xiao’s attack, Xieli simply ignored it and gently clapped her palm.
The ferocious light-shadow divine cone burst like a water droplet, easily crushed.
Not only that, her palm wind swept the ground. The sand actually condensed into the shape of a giant scorpion. This time it solidly whipped its tail onto Ling Xiao’s body, battering him senseless. He nearly collapsed on the spot.
Yet Ling Xiao, lying on the ground, revealed a sly smile of success.
Void Shadow Croc!
Let us see you dodge this!
Xieli had indeed underestimated Ling Xiao too much.
Only when the Void Shadow Croc opened its massive jaws did she suddenly sense danger. She urgently dodged, but still failed to avoid it completely. The tail behind her was bitten off by the Void Shadow Croc. Orchid-blue fluid splashed everywhere.
“I will kill you!”
Rage!
Xieli was truly enraged!
A Heaven-Human realm warrior had actually injured her, a tenth Cave Heaven expert. This was utterly unforgivable.
“What a pity. It did not bite you to death!”
Ling Xiao sighed helplessly. The stronger the warrior, the sharper their sense of danger.
Having used Void Shadow Croc once, it would be much harder to succeed again.
Next, unless Die Nu fought, facing Xieli meant only death for him.
Yet Xieli, in her fury, suddenly calmed down. Instead, she revealed a smile as charming as peach blossoms.
Only this smile felt rather chilling.
“Good! Truly excellent! You little fellow are making big sister like you more and more. I will definitely take you back and torment you properly until you die!”
Xieli smiled. It was not that she did not hate Ling Xiao, but killing him so easily would be letting him off too lightly.
She wanted to use her methods to torture him ruthlessly, making him suffer so much he could neither live nor die.
“Old hag, I am afraid you do not have the ability.”
Ling Xiao suddenly stood up and laughed. “Perhaps soon, you might not even be able to protect yourself, let alone deal with me.”
“Little fellow, stop these pointless struggles. Your words mean nothing to me. In this Venomous Desert, no one can touch me.”
Xieli appeared extremely confident.
“Oh, is that so? What if that person is Temur Mutu?”
Ling Xiao asked with a grin.
“What!”
Hearing this name, Xieli clearly showed some fear.
Temur Mutu, Grand Preceptor of the Black Crow Empire. His strength was said to rival the Scorpion King. Even ten Xielis would not be his match.
“What? Scared?”
Ling Xiao asked.
“Hmph, Temur Mutu is indeed terrifying, but the Black Crow Empire has always minded its own business with our scorpion-people tribe. Why would he come here?”
Xieli snorted coldly.
“Do you not know? They say the little prince of the Black Crow Empire, Jiumo Zhiyan, has gone missing. Mutu is searching frantically. Normally, the Black Crow Empire does respect your scorpion-people tribe, but if they learned you captured their little prince, what do you think would happen?”
Ling Xiao said with a smile.
“Hehe, little fellow, instead of wasting time scaring big sister, you should think about how to escape.”
Just as she said this, Xieli’s expression suddenly changed. She looked towards the distant sky, her face becoming extremely tense.
Seizing this chance, Ling Xiao hid himself.
Escaping now was definitely impossible. The chance of being discovered by that old fellow Mutu was too high. But if he hid and completely severed his aura, even Mutu could not find him.
Moments later, two figures rapidly appeared in the sky.
One was indeed Temur Mutu.
The other was the half-step Yin-Yang realm expert who had always protected Jiumo Zhiyan.
Either one of them was far stronger than Xieli.
“You are Xieli, are you not? I remember you are one of the three great commanders under the Scorpion King. Now I will give you a chance to live. Tell me, where is the little prince Jiumo Zhiyan?”
Mutu looked at Xieli indifferently, as if he would strike her down at any disagreement.
Temur Mutu was an iron-blooded warrior. In the Black Crow Empire, he advocated exterminating the scorpion-people tribe.
It was only because that muddle-headed queen insisted on peaceful coexistence with them.
But today, for the sake of little prince Jiumo Zhiyan, he did not care if he slaughtered the entire scorpion-people tribe.
“Temur Mutu! Though you are incredibly powerful, you trespass on our scorpion-people tribe’s territory and question me. Are you not afraid of angering our King and starting a war with your Black Crow Empire?”
Although Xieli feared Mutu, scorpion people had always been proud and stubborn. One could say they feared no death.
Facing an intruder on their territory, she would never kneel and surrender.
“War? Hahahaha!”
Temur Mutu laughed disdainfully. “You truly overestimate yourselves. If not for that foolish queen insisting on peaceful coexistence, I would have eradicated you long ago. Scorpion-people tribe territory? This is the land of my Black Crow Empire. You had better remember that clearly!”
Mutu did not take Xieli seriously at all. If not for searching for Jiumo Zhiyan, he would not even bother talking. He would have killed her already.
“You bully us too much!”
Xieli gnashed her teeth.
“So what if I bully you? I will give you one last chance. Where exactly is the little prince? Do not say you do not know. I already sensed the little prince’s aura just now!”
Temur Mutu said coldly.
Xieli suddenly thought of Ling Xiao.
“Could it be that boy captured Jiumo Zhiyan?”
