"Charge! Kill Yun Huang and Take His Place!" Thus Spoke the Heavenly Dao (Two Chapters in One)

(Yesterday's second update has been added to the end of the previous chapter. Don't forget to read it, darlings~ This chapter is still two chapters in one.)

"Rest."

Yun Qing chuckled and gently patted the tip of Ye Hui's tail with his fingertips.

At those two words, Ye Hui truly stopped moving. He remained coiled where he was, his deep-purple slit pupils fixed unblinkingly on Yun Qing's back, silently keeping watch.

Yun Qing lifted his foot and stepped slowly forward, smoothly shielding the docile Little Snake Ye behind him.

He raised his eyes toward the void opposite him.

A bewitchingly beautiful woman slowly emerged, her entire body shrouded in black-and-red demonic qi. She extended her tongue and licked the bloody mark on her cheek, like a beast whose taste of blood had only sharpened its hunger, ready to devour anyone within reach.

Black-and-red demonic qi surged around her like a tide. The oppressive might of the Twelve Dutian Demons blanketed everything; an ordinary Immortal Lord's divine soul would tremble merely from facing that aura.

This was Yun Qing's first real encounter with Gu Princess. She did indeed bear some resemblance to an old acquaintance.

Yun Qing watched her quietly, neither shock nor fear in his double pupils.

He sighed softly, his tone still remarkably gentle.

"Come, Niu Niu."

"Shopkeeper Yun has a temper too. I can't keep letting you run wild like this."

There was even a trace of lazy amusement in Yun Qing's voice, as though he were calling over a child he had watched grow up. Yet the sharp edge of the emperor Lingxiao Dao had already begun to gleam silently in his eyes.

Gu Princess stood before the shattered "table," the corner of her eye twitching. The name "Niu Niu" was like a fine needle piercing the