But what could I calculate without talisman paper?
As I hesitated, Xia Zhong and Xia Mi had already caught up. Xia Qingping intercepted them, and when I saw that things were going wrong, I hurriedly sprinted away and leaped more than two hundred meters!
Xia Cangyun immediately raced toward me. I gave him no chance at all. I felt for the Yin-Yang Token and went straight down to the underworld.
After a curl of blue smoke, I dropped into the underworld. For someone as familiar with water as I was, changing clothes was no trouble. I put on the water-repelling garment Grandma Sun had given me, summoned the Dragon Shark, and swam toward the shore.
Even someone in the Dao Comprehension stage would have trouble breaking through the boundary, so by the time I was nearing the shore, none of the Xia family members above had come down. Perhaps they knew I moved through the underworld like a fish in water and did not want to chase me in.
Once I reached the shore, I put away the Dragon Shark. Seeing that the City God was nearby, I had no intention of going to him. Instead, I gripped the Yin-Yang Token and returned to the mortal world.
I appeared in a stretch of woods. Since I could not fly, I could only estimate my position. I was probably still in the rear mountains north of the Xia family estate.
I was still some distance from the Xia family, and I breathed a sigh of relief. But although I was safe now, Xia Yunxuan and Xia Qingping had no idea what had happened. That was why I had turned back—I was afraid something might really go wrong.
Although the odds of a battle breaking out were low with me absent, this