The green poisonous mist transformed into a grotesquely huge venomous spider and came crashing down from above. Yet Black Robe and Qiu Bo seemed not to have seen the toxic mist Xielisi had breathed out at all. Savage light flickered in their eyes; all their attention was fixed on Donkey. Anyone who could identify the origins of the Imperial Gnomes at a glance, and casually recount how humanity had issued a kill-on-sight decree and wiped out the Imperial Gnomes—such a person had to die!
But what astonished Black Robe and Qiu Bo was that standing above that mass of green poisonous mist was... a donkey? An inconspicuous donkey? An utterly ordinary-looking donkey, barely two sizes larger than a dog? And he was deliberately widening his watery eyes, peeling back his lips to reveal two rows of ghastly white teeth as he bared them in a grin at them?
A piercing shriek pressed down like the sky collapsing. Xielisi wielded her long whip, and with a flick of her wrist, lashed out tens of thousands of times at Black Robe and Qiu Bo. Seeing Spire's nest wrecked beyond recognition had filled Xielisi with shared hatred, and her strikes were vicious beyond measure. Countless densely packed black venomous spikes emerged from her whip, each one carrying poison potent enough to kill a giant dragon.
The black whip shadows came smashing down like countless hideous centipedes. Only then did Black Robe and Qiu Bo snap back to their senses. When the whip shadows were less than a foot from their bodies, Qiu Bo raised his right hand, once again unleashing his race's innate divine ability. A succession of piercing, brittle chimes rang out, and Xielisi's whip suddenly exploded into countless black metal grains that scattered in every direction.
"My treasure!" Xielisi cried out