The two had never been so close. Xiao Hua tilted his head slightly, doing his utmost to avoid Xin Xin's face, and hurriedly asked, "Xin Xin, what... what is going on?"
"Little monk~" Xin Xin's tone was icy. She too cocked her head, seeming thoroughly disgusted by Xiao Hua. "Can't you see for yourself? How would I know what happened?"
As she spoke, Xin Xin looked herself over from head to toe.
"Hiss..." Once he clearly saw their surroundings, Xiao Hua could not help sucking in a cold breath.
This was a void-like space, seemingly boundless and endless. Two colors filled it. One was the area where Xiao Hua and Xin Xin stood, entirely pitch-black. Boundless black qi, mixed with black flames, surged and roiled like a raging sea. The other was pure blue, directly above Xiao Hua's head. This pure blue was not the sky-blue outside the space, but a crystalline, translucent water-blue! Moreover, unlike the black qi, this water-blue took the form of Yingluo ornaments, flowing like fountains throughout the upper reaches of the space. It not only blanketed the skies above the black qi, but even the boundless distance was tinged with water-blue.
Xiao Hua and Xin Xin stood precisely at the boundary between the water-blue and the black. After surveying the surroundings, Xiao Hua hastily lowered his head. Black qi bound his entire body in strip after strip, interwoven with pitch-black flames. Was that not the devil qi he knew so well?
"Damn it, how... how could there be devil qi?" Xiao Hua was utterly bewildered. "What place is this? Hadn't you already left with the flying sword your father became? Why did you suddenly appear here again? Ah, no, that's not right. You called me Little Monk??"
All at once, Xiao Hua recognized the problem