“Heh.”

Miss Chai shook her head and shouted, “At the peak of demons, standing supreme in the world, where I, Wu Yao, am, there is heaven.

Do you really think you can kill me?

Then try taking another step forward!”

Her palm held aloft the paper Frostmourne, and behind her, a multi-colored, magnificent glow inexplicably lit up.

“This sword embodies the sad yet noble dreams of all the soldiers who have vanished on the battlefields of the past, present, and future, in their final moments.

Such will deserves praise, such faith must be carried out.

The King of Victory loudly calls out the true name of the miracle in his hand—this is—Excalibur!”

The multi-colored glow behind her reached its peak, and a pure white beam of light extended from the tip of the sword, spanning the entire underground palace, and slashed towards Li Ang.

Boom!

The already dilapidated ground of the underground palace instantly cracked open, splitting into two.

The entire palace shook violently, and rubble and ice shards were thrown high into the air. The giant rocks supporting the dome crashed down directly.

Li Yushan, Yu Qingqiu, and the others who were still alive witnessed this earth-shattering scene, utterly terrified.

They wanted to escape, but the tunnel leading out had been completely submerged by rolling sand and mud, leaving them with no way out.

After a long while, the sword light that spanned the underground palace finally weakened and disappeared.

To everyone's surprise,

Li Ang was still standing there motionless, with only a thumb-thick stone pillar standing alone beneath his feet, conspicuously in the deep crevice,

as if amidst the resolute sword light that cut through and destroyed everything,

he could still protect himself, and even the square inch of land beneath his feet.

"Hoo..."

Li Ang slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, his hands behind his back, his eyes closed, his expression calm, and not even a speck of dust on his black cloak.

He raised his arm, turning his palm into a blade, and said leisurely, "The highest realm of swordsmanship is when there is no sword in hand, and no sword in the heart, so one embraces everything with a broad mind,

that is non-killing, that is peace..."

After saying the last word, Li Ang opened his eyes and slowly waved his hand like a blade.

There was no deafening sound, nor any dazzling light effects.

Yu Qingqiu and the others only saw that the middle part of the remaining pillars in the underground palace suddenly melted away on their own,

collapsing one after another towards the pyramid like dominoes.

Crack—

The steel armor at the top of the pyramid seemed to have been drained of all its strength, and knelt down on the ground dejectedly,

muttering amidst the falling rocks, "What a powerful...sword technique...

My sect...has successors..."

Li Ang stepped on the edge of the falling rocks and lightly landed on top of the pyramid. With a slightly pained expression, he gently brushed away the steel armor's ghostly blue eyes,

stood up, and looked at the Wude Guard and the others huddled in the corner,

striking the stone door next to them with a palm, shattering the stone door in mid-air, revealing the dark tunnel behind that had not yet collapsed.

"You may escape for your lives. This poor Daoist still has things to do,"

Li Ang said indifferently, "As for this auspicious creature, this poor Daoist will take it away first.

If the West Depot Wude Guard wants to reclaim the auspicious creature, you are welcome to come and find this poor Daoist. I am willing to accompany you."

The entire underground palace was nearing complete collapse.

Having witnessed the scene of immortals fighting, how could those strange and unusual people dare to have any objections?

After bowing to Li Ang from afar, they hurriedly entered the door and fled the underground palace.

The remaining Wude Guard secret agents also followed Li Yushan into the tunnel.

Yu Qingqiu looked at the auspicious creature hanging high up, and then at the leisurely Ximenzi Daoist. Although he was filled with unwillingness, he could only grit his teeth, lower his head, and follow the team into the tunnel.

Li Ang stood calmly in the center of the soon-to-collapse underground palace,

relying on the biological weapons hidden in every corner of the underground tunnel system,

confirming that all outsiders were escaping upwards along the constantly collapsing tunnel.

Only then did he snap his fingers, ordering the special effects worms in the stone walls to stop shaking the underground palace, and stretching lazily as if no one was around.

After going to so much trouble to perform this great show, he finally achieved the desired effect.

Before long, the Ximenzi Daoist who killed the White Lotus Young Master and snatched the auspicious creature would become famous.

"Are they all gone?"

Miss Chai's head popped out of the steel armor, and she looked around,

confirming that no one was there before jumping out of the armor with a "heishou," putting her hands on her hips, and sticking out her chest triumphantly, "How was my acting just now? Can I get an Oscar?"

"I don't think it was very good."

Li Ang shook his head and said, "Although the lines were emotionally full, the acting seemed a bit too forced. You need to practice more."

"Pfft~~"

Miss Chai stuck out her tongue to protest.

"Alright, it's time to get down to business."

Li Ang stroked Miss Chai's hair, took her back into his body, and then took out the [Automated Pet Feeder], activating the divine mark on the back of his hand.

He ordered the worms throughout the underground tunnel system to come to the underground palace and crawl back into the box.

After putting away the worms, Li Ang leisurely picked up the unconscious orangutan,

walked towards a certain stone door, pushed it open, and returned to the surface through the secret passage.

And the underground palace and all the tunnels also collapsed as planned, burying all the secrets beneath the ground of Luzhou.

————

In a room at a post station outside Luzhou City, Xing Hechou leaned against the window, squinting his eyes, looking at the burning Luzhou City in the far distance.

Liu Wudai sat in the corner, silently maintaining his bow and arrows.

Wanli Fengdao sat at the table, looking at the comic book in his hand, his feet shaking nervously.

"Why isn't he back yet?"

Wanli Fengdao put down the comic book and couldn't help but say, "Should we go take a look?"

Xing Hechou ran his fingers over the dust accumulating on the window sill, hesitated for a moment, and said without turning his head, "Let's wait a little longer."

Li Ang only said that he had a complete plan and told them to prepare for the rendezvous at the post station outside the city, but he didn't say the specific time to meet.

(Actually, he did say it. Li Ang had previously given Xing Hechou a brocade pouch, telling him to open it in the middle of the night.

When he opened it, he found a piece of paper inside,

on which was written: I'll be there in five minutes. If I'm not there, repeat this sentence.)

"Buzz—"

The scout bee, crouching on the ceiling of the room, slowly landed on the table,

dipped its antennae in the tea in the teacup, and wrote a few words on the table, "Look outside the window."

The moment the last stroke was finished, Li Ang's head also appeared outside the window.

Li Ang supported himself on the windowsill with his palm, lightly jumped in, raised the auspicious creature he was holding in his hand to his companions, and smiled, "It's been resolved."

"You're finally here."

Wanli Fengdao breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the animal in Li Ang's hand, and asked curiously, "This is the auspicious creature? Why does it look a bit like an orangutan..."

"This is no ordinary orangutan,"

Li Ang said solemnly, "but the second-ranked of the legendary Four Spiritual Monkeys, Lao Er Ci Yuan,

who starts every sentence with 'Ah nuo~do washite? Nana, is there any problem with talking like this? Souka, so you guys don't like talking like this anymore. Gomen nasai, I'm sorry to have shown you something unpleasant. I'll disappear on my own. Mina-san, please be happy forever desu!'"