Hu Xiaotian smiled. "There are no absolutely evil people in this world, nor any absolutely good ones. Why not do a good deed for once, old sir, and store up a little virtue? Perhaps you'll even find that child you've never met."
The smile vanished from Li Yuncong's face. His lone eye fixed coldly on Hu Xiaotian. "Not only will I spare you, I'll even help you. So long as you behave, I can guarantee you a lifetime of peace and safety. But if you don't, your dantian will burst and you'll die." He tossed Unenlightened's body at his feet, then reached out and pressed his palm against Hu Xiaotian's back, directly behind his heart.
Hu Xiaotian silently cursed his luck. He had barely escaped Unenlightened's clutches, only to encounter Li Yuncong, who was even more treacherous and difficult to deal with. Neither of these brothers was any good. "It seems you have no intention of learning the Imperial Mausoleum's secret," Hu Xiaotian said.
Li Yuncong smiled. "Rather than cooperate with you, I'd prefer to keep you firmly in my grasp. Playing with the world-renowned Hu Xiaotian in the palm of my hand would be quite a pleasure."
"How heartless you are, Eunuch Li," Hu Xiaotian said. "You've forgotten every scrap of our old friendship." Li Yuncong did not immediately draw out his internal power. Instead, he first sent his own internal power into Hu Xiaotian's body. It rose and fell like waves, alternately strong and weak, to prevent Hu Xiaotian's Void Art from seizing control of it. Li Yuncong understood the Void Art far better than Hu Xiaotian did.
All Hu Xiaotian could do now was practice Guarding the One and protect his dantian, keeping Li Yuncong from breaching his dantian sea of qi. Monk Unenlightened had only managed