But just like everywhere else within the Great Liang Kingdom, all the vegetation in this area had been burned to ash, leaving only one bare mountain after another.
"Who goes there? Come down at once, or do not blame us for showing no mercy with our swords!"
Just as Xu Taiping and Huang Que were about to land, a fierce shout suddenly rang out from the valley entrance ahead.
Immediately afterward, streaks of sword light flew out of the valley, forming neat ranks in front of Xu Taiping and Huang Que.
Xu Taiping believed that if they advanced, those flying swords would stab toward them.
"Eldest Senior Sister, Seventh Senior Sister, it's Taiping!"
Xu Taiping immediately shouted toward the valley entrance.
Boom!
As he spoke, Xu Taiping also circulated his Qi and Blood Power, condensing it into the Bull Demon Phantom unique to the Great Sage Fist.
Half an incense stick later.
Inside Sunset Glow Valley.
"Taiping, how did you and Brother Huang Que find this place?"
Zhao Linglong held Xu Taiping's arm, her face alight with joy, and asked curiously as she led the way.
"I... I met Junior Brother Li Muyang."
Xu Taiping hesitated as he said this.
"Junior Brother Muyang directed you to Sunset Glow Valley?"
Zhao Linglong looked at Xu Taiping in delighted surprise.
"Yes." Xu Taiping nodded.
"Taiping, you have no idea how much Junior Brother Muyang liked you. Whenever he met me, he would ask about this and that, even what wine you usually liked drinking and what dishes you liked eating..."
As her cheerful account reached this point, Zhao Linglong's voice abruptly stopped.
"Taiping, Junior Brother Muyang... didn't he come with you?"
Zhao Linglong looked at Xu Taiping with a trace of panic in her eyes.
Xu Taiping met Zhao Linglong's gaze,