Chapter 93

Chapter 93: Crazy Woman Qiao Qing Yan

Yi Nian stepped forward and lowered his head slightly to the newcomer.

The newcomer wore a thin, black fitted outfit, long hair tied high. Yet in his hand was a long halberd that didn’t belong in this world at all.

The halberd’s blade gleamed even brighter and colder in the fog.

“Your master is trying to destroy Huai Ming Mountain,” he said, voice low, each word weighed down by time. “Is that true?”

Yi Nian didn’t dare hide anything. “Young Lord forced the power to activate early.”

The frost-faced man frowned faintly. Then he swung his halberd and strode onto the altar.

“You all, leave at once.”

That icy voice echoed around the altar. In the next instant, several beams of light shot into the sky from the altar.

“Hiss… so strong… this power feels so familiar…”

Before the white-robed man could think it through, Yi Nian grabbed him and pulled him away.

After everyone retreated dozens of meters, the altar suddenly vanished before their eyes, sinking underground as if the mountain swallowed it whole.

“Let’s go back first,” Yi Nian said, voice tight. “With Seventh Young Master here, Young Lord will be fine.”

The disturbance at Huai Ming Mountain quickly alarmed the old monsters living in hiding across the corners of the world. One by one, they looked in that direction, thoughts unreadable.

*

Within clouds and mist, fog drifted everywhere.

A deep bamboo forest swayed, leaves hissing, shadows mottled across the path.

At the end of the bamboo forest sat an old, simple courtyard. Outside, pink walls protected it, green willows drooped around it, and an aged, heavy gate was tightly shut.

No one stood atop the high wall, yet a sharp, oppressive aura rushed straight at her.

“Who goes there? This is forbidden land. Leave at once!” The cold voice sounded as if it came from the empty air.

Qiao Qing Yan clicked her tongue and flicked the dried grass she had casually plucked from the ground.

“Xiao Hua Hua,” she said lazily, “what kind of place did you bring me to?”

Little Tabby Cat trembled and didn’t dare show itself. It hid back in its system space.

[Master, the Child of Fortune is inside.]

Outside the forest, it had already rained for a full day and night, and there was still no sign of it easing. And at this moment, Qiao Qing Yan had very little desire to bother with anything.

She tilted her head, raised her eyes slightly, and looked toward the empty air above the high wall.

The corner of her mouth lifted into an unusual, faint smile. “Xiao Hua Hua, if it rains for a few days, it won’t drown this world.”

“This place…” She paused, eyes narrowing. “We probably can’t get in.”

Just as Qiao Qing Yan turned to leave, the voice appeared again.

“If you don’t leave… then…”

“Die!”

That final word struck through the entire mountain forest, and for a moment, the whole bamboo sea trembled.

Qiao Qing Yan lowered her gaze slightly. Silver-white light gathered at her fingertips, slow and bright.

[Master…] Little Tabby Cat sensed something wrong and tried to come out, but Qiao Qing Yan waved it back into the space and locked it in the little black room.

“Die…”

“I, Qiao Qing Yan, don’t want to die,” she said softly. “And nobody dares make me die.”

Her lips curved upward, peach-blossom eyes clear and ethereal.

“Then let me see just how capable you really are.”

*

“Seventh Young Master, something happened. A crazy woman came…”

“That crazy woman is about to beat the mountain-guarding beast to death.”

The man in black pinched the bridge of his nose as he came up from the basement, exhaustion heavy in the shadows beneath his eyes. He ran straight into an estate servant who had rushed over in a panic.

“Crazy woman?” His gaze sharpened.

Boom—

The entire mountain shook again, even stronger than before.

Yi Nian lost his balance and fell out from the shadows.

A thin line of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth…