"Oh, so that was it!" Xiao Hua nodded slightly. "This Xiao first fought against Tongzhu Kingdom, then went into seclusion to cultivate, and this matter slipped to the back of my mind. I thought they would know when to stop, but who would have thought they would push their luck and even dare bully our children? That makes things easy! Go, call Qin Xiaoyao, Xiao Jian, and Changling. This Xiao will vent your anger!"
"Yes, Master, thank you, Master!!" The Black Bear Spirit scrambled up from the ground and hurried out. Yet just as he reached the entrance to the cave dwelling, he stopped again and turned back in puzzlement. "Master, it's not like we're going to gang up on them. Why bring so many people? Master alone will be enough..."
"If I tell you to call them, then call them. Why are you being so long-winded?" Xiao Hua snorted. The Black Bear Spirit did not dare ask further and hurried away. Xiao Hua rose from his jade chair and slowly walked out of the cave dwelling, muttering to himself, "Black Cloud Ridge now bears the surname Xiao. How can another be allowed to snore beside one's bed? Gaza Kingdom has calculated wrongly!"
When Xiao Hua emerged from the cave dwelling, it was a fine noon. Brilliant sunlight shone before the cave dwelling and across all of Black Wind Ridge. In that sunlight, flowers and grasses flourished upon the mountains, streams babbled, and the faint fragrance of earth lingered in the nose. How could this still be the barren mountains and treacherous waters that Black Wind Ridge had once been?
"Good..." Xiao Hua narrowed his eyes and released his divine sense, sweeping over all of Black Cloud Ridge. He was quite satisfied, thinking to himself, "Leng Qingge originally laid down