"Retreat!"
Xue Pingyuan gritted his teeth, slashed a venomous insect out of the air, and issued the order to his subordinates.
The soldiers raced down the mountain for their lives.
A single bite from any of those venomous insects would leave them paralyzed, if it did not kill them outright. The moment they heard the order to retreat, the soldiers practically wished they could roll down the mountain.
Halfway down, Xue Pingyuan realized his idiot younger brother was still standing there in a daze. A vein throbbed at his temple, and he shouted, "Xue Qian, what are you doing? Run already!"
At his older brother's furious roar, Xue Qian turned around, but still refused to run. Frowning, he said, "Lord Shen is still here. I have to wait and leave with him."
Shen Yangge would surely be weak after turning back into a human. If he abandoned him now, he might really die here.
He swung his sword and wiped out a large swath of the insects crawling toward him, but there were too many. They seemed to pour out endlessly. With no other choice, he could only stubbornly defend the tiny patch of ground beneath his feet.
Seeing several centipedes crawling up his brother's feet, Xue Pingyuan knitted his brows tightly. He flew over using his lightness skill, swept the centipedes off Xue Qian's legs with his sword, then slapped him across the face and snapped:
"Are you an idiot? He'll be fine! If you don't leave now, you'll really die here. How am I supposed to explain that to our parents?"
Stunned by the slap, Xue Qian froze for a moment before his eyes widened in sudden realization. "Right, he'll be fine. Am I an idiot?!"
"Brother, run!"
Before he even finished speaking, he had become a whirlwind