"From now on, you'll cultivate here!" Huo Lian said.
"This isn't much different from being in the dry well. If there's any real difference, it's that we're trapped here and can't get out. Why go to all this trouble? We might as well have stayed in the dry well," Demon Phoenix grumbled a little.
Huang Xiao did not think that way. The Patriarch surely had his reasons.
Huo Lian ignored Demon Phoenix and said to Huang Xiao, "I told you, you won't have any easy days ahead."
"Yes. Whatever comes, I will face it," Huang Xiao said.
Demon Phoenix stared intently at Huo Lian, wondering what the old demon was planning now.
"The area covered by this formation is quite large. You two aren't the only ones here," Huo Lian said.
"Huh?" Demon Phoenix exclaimed upon hearing this. "There are others? Who? Wang Jiu and the other two just went to the Evil Water Region. They shouldn't still be here, should they?"
Huang Xiao's heart tightened. A possibility suddenly surfaced in his mind.
"Everyone other than you two is an opponent," Huo Lian said.
"I see. You found some people to serve as Huang Xiao's sparring partners?" Demon Phoenix said in realization.
But Huang Xiao was not so optimistic. It certainly would not be as simple as sparring. Mere sparring was not his Patriarch's way of doing things.
"Kill anyone you encounter without mercy," Huo Lian said calmly.
Demon Phoenix paused briefly at those words, then grew excited. "I like that. Killing people-not bad."
"They will kill you too," Huo Lian told Huang Xiao. "This old man has already told them that as long as they kill you, this old man will let them leave."
Now that's the old demon! Demon Phoenix thought.
Demon Phoenix understood Huo Lian's intent. This