Chapter 68

After passing through the Water Door, Yue Yang realized that he had entered into a strange dimension. It wasn't very big, maybe as big as the lake, but it was completely different from the bottom of the lake. There was no water in this place. However, if he looked at the four walls of water surrounding the area, he could see fishes swimming around. There were also different kinds of plants and adorable little animals growing in this place, such as the slow-crawling tortoise and the fast-scampering little crab. This area was a separate dimension from the lake bottom, but it had the ability to observe every single thing that happened in the lake and above the lake.

Inside this dimension, the interior design was similar to a human's dwelling.

The masked Grandma Chi invited Yue Yang and Wu Xia to sit. They thanked her and sat down.

Yue Yang asked her many questions about her origin but she only smiled and changed the topic. Yue Yang also asked her questions about herbs and pills. Grandma Chi happily answered these questions.

Xue Wu Xia, who was listening from the side, was surprised to hear their conversation. She was only thinking one thing 'Is this person was the same person who was engaged with her.' Even if she never saw him but she had heard many things about him.

But now he looked like a completely different person. He was not like what she heard in rumors.

After talking for some time, Yue Yang asked Grandma Chi's permission to leave as he had other things to do. Before he leaves, Grandma Chi gave him Medicinal Encyclopedia and Springwater which was also an ingredient of the pills. He thanked her again before leaving her place.

As they were walking, Wu Xia was constantly glancing at him as she wanted to ask something but didn't know how to.

Yue Yang smiled at her and said, "If you want to ask something just ask directly."

Wu Xia looked at him deeply before asking, "Who are you really?"

Yue Yang didn't know if he should laugh or cry after hearing her question. He turned towards her and said, "Do you have forgotten your fiance so quickly? You're hurting my feelings you know."

Wu Xia looked at him as her crime had been exposed. She asked, "You know who I'm?"

Yue Yang smiled bitterly and said, "I already identified you at the border. But you don't want to greet us so that's why I don't try to invite you back then. But you're constantly following me so I invited you. It'll be much easier for you to observe me. And..."

He then looked into her eyes and said, "It'll be easy for me to protect you." She turned her eyes from him, avoiding eye contact.

Yue Yang didn't say anything. They soon reached the entrance of the Ant Hole.

Yue Yang smiled after watching the scene outside whereas Xue Wu Xia was completely stunned.

Countless mercenaries were hacking and slashing their blades blindly, tangled and bundled in a crowd. Some mercenaries were slaughtering others while some were merely defending themselves. They had also summoned their beasts who had started to bite and tear at each other. Every single person had gone stark, raving mad, wanting to kill all the enemies in front of them and carve a way out to survive for themselves.

The scene made Wu Xia feel like puking.

Yue Yang looked at her. He grabbed her from her waist and vanished. Before Wu Xia could say anything, they were standing on a cliff.

He looked around before spotting Xiu'er, Yue Bing, and others. They were also attacked by mercenaries but they were defending themselves. Hui Tai Lang was alone fighting with many mercenaries and beasts. He hadn't released his true power because he hadn't Yue Yang's permission. He had suffered many wounds but still fighting them to protect Yue Bing.

When Wu Xia saw this, she wanted to go down and help them but Yue Yang hadn't released her. He was still holding her from her waist.

Yue Yang looked at Hui Tai Lang and shouted, "Hui Tai Lang!!"

When Yue Bing and others heard his voice, they looked in his direction and were overjoyed to see him and Wu Xia. Xiu'er looked at him holding Wu Xia like that and a light flashed into her eyes that made a chill ran down Yue Yang's spine.

Hui Tai Lang looked at him and raised his head. He howled loudly and released his true power. His body grew in size and the demonic fire was started burning on his body.

Feeling the pressure, the entire valley became silent. All the beasts were so afraid that they immediately abandoned their masters and ran away. All the people present there were terrified of his pressure.

Xue Wu Xia was looking at this with her widened eyes. She never thought that the uncontracted Bronze-ranked wolf who was following Yue Yang was in fact a terrifying Gold-ranked Two-Headed Demonic Wolf.

She first looked at Hui Tai Lang and then turned her eyes towards Yue Yang who winked at her.

Hui Tai was staring coldly at the mercenaries.

Yue Yang turned towards the crowd and shouted, "Do you idiots really think that if you bring two Level 6 [Elders] and eight Level 5 [Grandmasters], you can be arrogant. You even dare to attack my family, it looks like you guys don't want to live anymore."

Yue Yang vanished and appeared beside Hui Tai Lang. He released Wu Xia and told her to stand back. She nodded before going back to Yue Bing.

Yue Yang unsheathed his crescent blades and looked coldly towards his targets. He and Hui Tai Lang moved at the same time.

Yue Yang didn't give them time to summon their beasts. Before they could realize what happened, their heads were rolling on the ground and he quickly collected their bodies.

He also collected some eggs of the Fire Red Ants and let Li brothers contracted with two beasts.

All of their grimoires leveled up by a grade.

Yue Bing's grimoire leveled up to Silver-ranked advanced. Yue Yang's grimoire became a Gold-ranked intermediate. Fatty's grimoire also went up to Silver rank. Even Wu Xia's grimoire leveled up to Gold-ranked advanced.

The Ancient Code had also gifted Fatty Hai a young Female Hippopotamus beast.

As Li brothers completed their contract, a faint golden-colored carapace appeared like armor that was draped over their bodies, covering almost half of their entire body surface.

Ye Kong raised his fist and punched Li Qie as hard as he could. Li Qie's body wobbled slightly, but his feet did not move a single inch.

If he had been punched by Ye Kong full force before this, he would at least be thrown tens of meters away. His ribs might have been fractured too.