Chapter 11 Annie Is Scared

Outside the secret chamber, a deafening explosion shattered their tender moment.

Zou Yongzhi cursed inwardly, “Which idiot dares to cause trouble outside my secret chamber? See if I don’t destroy you!”

Tang Anni took a light step, a little disappointed as she released his embrace, a cunning glint flashing in her eyes.

“Third Senior Brother, Grandpa was right. Jialan Academy really hasn’t been peaceful lately…”

Zou Yongzhi looked out the door, bewildered. He saw the huge Violet Gold Cymbals smashed into the entrance of the secret chamber, branded onto the door frame.

He walked over for a look. Weren’t these Violet Gold Cymbals the treasure he had found in a secret realm?

As his most loyal lackey, besides his slightly above-average alchemy skills, Muyang’s combat power was undeniably pathetic.

His seemingly ninth-level Body Tempering strength was not much stronger than a normal seventh-level Body Tempering student in the academy.

For this reason, Zou Yongzhi had lent him that treasure to prevent this loyal dog from dying unexpectedly.

Now that the Violet Gold Cymbals had appeared here, a sense of foreboding instantly welled up in Zou Yongzhi’s heart.

“Muyang! What the hell are you doing here in the middle of the night!”

Zou Yongzhi opened the Violet Gold Cymbals. Muyang was curled up in a ball, his body a miserable sight with patches of charred flesh.

Tang Anni smelled the odor and couldn’t help but take a few steps back, covering her mouth and feigning a delicate complaint.

“Third Senior Brother… there’s a ghost, Anni is scared…”

Zou Yongzhi awkwardly closed the Violet Gold Cymbals again.

In front of his beloved, he had to coax her first before questioning Muyang about what had happened.

“Anni, don’t be afraid. It’s just a small accident.”

Tang Anni’s tone immediately turned cold, and she strode towards the door.

“Since Senior Brother has matters to attend to, Anni will come find you later!”

Zou Yongzhi watched her leave, a pang of pain in his heart. His precious time alone with his goddess had been interrupted.

A furious fire instantly ignited in his eyes. His face turned ashen, the veins on his forehead bulged, and he kicked fiercely at the Violet Gold Cymbals.

“Ow, ow… it hurts…”

Zou Yongzhi pulled his foot back, opened the Violet Gold Cymbals, and slapped Muyang across the face.

Smack!

Muyang woke up from the intense pain, mumbling incoherently.

“Senior Brother Zou, there’s a ghost, a ghost…”

Zou Yongzhi glared at him and berated, “A ghost? I think you look like a ghost right now!”

Muyang’s ears were already deaf. He shouted again in terror.

“There’s a ghost… a ghost… a ghost…”

Impatiently, Zou Yongzhi slapped him again, knocking him out cold.

“Shut up! Where are there ghosts in this world! If you talk nonsense again, I’ll roast you into a ghost!”

…

After washing herself clean in the pond, Xu Lingqing changed into a brand-new set of clothes.

The clothes were made mainly of silk, with a fiery phoenix embroidered in gold thread in the center. Its wings and long tail trailed on the ground, and as the light flowed, it seemed ready to command the world.

Chen Anping finally finished reading the day’s event introductions, his gaze fixed on the fairy-like Xu Lingqing.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, if you didn’t say this modeling was a game, I’d think she was my real girlfriend!”

Just as he was about to indulge in his fantasies for a while, a piece of paper flew out of his pocket.

It was the cancer diagnosis from two days ago. The attending physician had given him a death sentence, with only ten days left to live.

Now, two days had passed. Chen Anping only had eight days left.

In the moment he was lost in thought, Xu Lingqing, holding the ten low-grade spirit stones Chen Anping had fed her, constructed a simple spirit-gathering array on the spot.

After sitting cross-legged in the array to adjust her condition to its peak, her cultivation also grew slightly.

Slowly, an imperceptible stream of air flowed through the phone screen and into Chen Anping’s body.

She opened her beautiful eyes slightly, looking around in a daze.

[Please choose where Xu Lingqing goes. 1 (Return to the depths of Stillness Ridge, with a high probability of being pursued by the Heavenly Demon Wolf King) 2 (Return to Jialan Academy, certain death, not even bones will remain) 3 (Go to Anjin City, lay low and develop for a while.)]

Looking at the three choices above, Chen Anping fell into a brief moment of contemplation and depression.

Do I even have a choice?

“Go to Anjin City first!”

To be on the safe side, Chen Anping specially spent six yuan to buy six Raging Fire Talismans for Xu Lingqing.

Why not just use the Immortal Fire Talisman?

He had thought about it. If such a destructive method were used in a city, it would surely cause massive casualties.

Chen Anping himself was a peace-loving person. Even when playing games, he couldn’t bear too much killing.

Of course, those who bullied his e-girlfriend were not human, so they were an exception!

A faint voice suddenly sounded in Xu Lingqing’s mind, as if guiding her forward.

“Senior, are you telling me to go to Anjin City?”

Xu Lingqing started walking south. About ten li south of the outskirts of Stillness Ridge was Anjin City.

More than half a shichen later.

A dilapidated city appeared before Xu Lingqing’s eyes.

The city looked unremarkable. The city walls were covered in countless cracks, and even the sign with the three characters for ‘Anjin City’ was crooked.

Full of doubt, Xu Lingqing walked into the city. She carefully sensed the surrounding aura, her heart filled with surprise.

The entire city street was empty. Besides a deathly silence, there was no other scent.

The Firo Continent was currently lacking in spiritual energy, so dead cities were not uncommon, but a situation like Anjin City, completely devoid of people, was almost unheard of.

Suddenly, a cuju ball made of bamboo was kicked out and landed in front of Xu Lingqing.

She bent down to pick it up and caught sight of a three-year-old child running out of an alley.

“Hehehe…”

He looked at Xu Lingqing with an innocent smile and walked towards her, seemingly to get the cuju ball back.

Xu Lingqing handed the cuju ball over and asked, puzzled, “Little one, where are your parents?”

As soon as she finished speaking, an aggressive-looking old woman suddenly appeared in the alley. She covered the child’s mouth with her hand and slapped his bottom hard.

“I’ll teach you to run around again! I’ll teach you!”

The child cried out from the beating. Xu Lingqing was slightly taken aback.

“Old madam, may I ask where the people of Anjin City are?”

The old woman just glanced at her, her eyes full of vigilance.

She didn’t answer Xu Lingqing’s question, just hugged the child tightly and hurried into the depths of the alley.

Xu Lingqing quickly followed, but the alley was far more complex than she had imagined.

The entire large alley was like a huge maze. The patterns on every wall were almost identical, carved with the same designs and pasted with the same talismans.

She squinted her eyes and locked onto the direction the old woman had gone. After a few turns, she found their tracks.

The old woman and the child had stopped in front of a house in the alley.

The courtyard wall of that house was slightly different from the others. The colors of the carved patterns were more vivid, and the talisman had floated to the ground.

Just as Xu Lingqing stopped to ask about the situation, the old woman turned and saw her.

Suddenly, she knelt directly in front of Xu Lingqing, crying out in an agitated tone.

“I beg you, don’t follow us anymore! We don’t want to die!”

[End of Chapter]