"Oh, so that was it!" Xiao Hua nodded slightly. "This Xiao fought Tongzhu Kingdom before, then went into seclusion to cultivate and put this matter out of mind. I thought they would know when to stop after gaining an advantage, but I never expected them to push their luck inch by inch and even dare bully our children. That makes things easy! Go, call Qin Xiaoyao, Xiao Jian, and Changling. This Xiao will vent your anger for you!"
"Yes, Master, thank you, Master!!" The Black Bear Spirit scrambled up from the ground and hurried out. Yet just as he reached the entrance of the cave abode, he stopped again and turned back in puzzlement. "Master, it's not like we're going for a group beating. Why are you taking so many people? Master alone will be enough..."
"If I tell you to call them, then call them. Why all the nonsense?" Xiao Hua snorted. The Black Bear Spirit did not dare ask further and hurried away. Xiao Hua rose from the jade chair and slowly walked out of the cave abode, muttering to himself, "Black Cloud Ridge now bears the surname Xiao. How can one allow another to snore beside one's couch? Gaza Kingdom has miscalculated this time!"
When Xiao Hua stepped out of the cave abode, it was a splendid noon. Brilliant sunlight shone before the cave abode and over the entirety of Black Wind Ridge. Beneath that sunlight, flowers and grasses blanketed the mountain, streams gurgled softly, and the faint fragrance of earth lingered in the nose. Where was the desolate mountain and treacherous waters that Black Wind Ridge had once been?
"Good..." Xiao Hua narrowed his eyes and spread out his divine sense, surveying the entirety of Black Cloud Ridge with great satisfaction. He thought to himself, Leng