Heavenfall Demon Cavern

In a quiet courtyard lush with greenery, Lu Qing'an and Xu Yunyi stopped beneath a stone pavilion.

Looking at Xu Yunyi, his former sister-in-law, Lu Qing'an had a rough idea of what she wanted to say.

Sure enough, the next moment, Xu Yunyi, standing before him, suddenly bent ninety degrees at the waist and bowed in apology.

"Brother-in-law, I'm sorry for what my sister did!"

Lu Qing'an sighed. "Get up. It's not as if you did anything wrong."

Xu Yunyi was very kind. Since getting to know her, the words he heard most often from her were apologies.

And she wasn't apologizing for herself, but for others.

Especially for Xu Xuanyu.

Whenever his younger brother-in-law Xu Xuanyu criticized him, Xu Yunyi would apologize with a bitter smile.

"Brother-in-law, you know my sister's personality very well. She raised me from childhood, so I know even better how much she longs for strength. But I never thought things would come to this, or that she could give up everything she had..."

Seeing Xu Yunyi remain in the same position, Lu Qing'an couldn't help stepping forward and grabbing her shoulders, forcing her upright.

"Don't say any more. Now that things have come to this, there's no going back. Besides, your apology won't help. This has nothing to do with you. You're a good girl, but sometimes you're just too good."

Looking at Xu Yunyi, Lu Qing'an didn't know what else to say to her.

It wasn't an apology he needed. Now that things had reached this point, he wouldn't look back.

His two children were still with him, so his family hadn't completely fallen apart.

Xu Yunyi lowered her head, feeling that her whole family had wronged Lu Qing'an.

"All right, was that what you wanted to tell me? If there's nothing else, let's go back," Lu Qing'an said.

Xu Yunyi smiled bitterly. "Brother-in-law, I also want to apologize for Zhengran and my younger brother..."

Lu Qing'an: "..."

This girl...

Were you born with an apology sacred physique?

"All right, you want to apologize, do you? Then you should at least show some sincerity or do something to make up for it, shouldn't you?"

He was amused.

Xu Yunyi nodded seriously. "Tell me, what can I do to make you accept my apology?"

She really is single-minded.

Lu Qing'an said, "Then stay here from now on and don't go back! Can you do that?"

He was just trying to scare Xu Yunyi.

But when Xu Yunyi heard him, her face instantly filled with conflict. In the end, she gritted her teeth. "Can I go back and properly say goodbye first?"

Lu Qing'an put a hand to his forehead. "All right, I'll stop teasing you. I'll accept your apology, okay? Don't say any more. Honestly, girl, I don't know what to say to you."

Lu Qing'an headed back inside.

Xu Yunyi watched his retreating figure, her delicate brows furrowed, then trotted after him.

When they returned to the room, they found that the atmosphere was a little strange.

He Hong was holding Lu Miaomiao, dressed in a little suit of pink armor, in one arm and the divine weapon Lu Qing'an had given Lu Zixuan in the other hand. His eyes were wide as he gazed at it as though looking at the woman of his dreams, clicking his tongue and praising it nonstop.

"Incredible! Truly incredible!!!"

When He Hong saw Lu Qing'an return, he hurried over to him.

"Qing'an! These are all your treasures?!"

Lu Qing'an nodded calmly.

"You actually possess such peerless divine weapons! Where on earth did you get them?! Such artifact-refining skill! Tsk, tsk! I've never seen anything like it! It's simply too powerful!!"

"These two treasures weren't just made possible because the artifact refiner who made them utterly surpassed me in skill. There's also the materials used to make them. Could the Cangyun Continent really have such things?! I've never seen this kind of metal before!!!"

He Hong looked like a crazed fanatic, his eyes glowing red.

Lu Qing'an said, "Honestly, the guy who made these two treasures really is a lot better at artifact refining than you. If you're interested, I'll introduce you to him later, and you can ask him for some pointers. Or I can just have him teach you."

He had already thought it through. He had given both treasures to his daughters and didn't have a weapon that suited him now. He would be building an artifact-refining room for He Hong before long, so he would have that old fellow build it himself and, while he was at it, help refine a weapon for him.

Hearing this, He Hong was overjoyed.

"Really?! A master artifact refiner like that would really let me learn at his side?!"

Lu Qing'an said calmly, "If he won't agree, I'll just beat him until he does. It's a small matter."

"Uh... beat him until he agrees? Th-that wouldn't be right, would it? Besides, if I'm not mistaken, someone who can refine treasures like these must be formidable himself! At least at the Peak Great Emperor Realm! Are you sure you can beat him?"

It wasn't that He Hong looked down on Lu Qing'an. He simply knew very well that artifact refiners weren't weak either.

Every artifact refiner was a burly man. In battle, they used their specialized weapon, a great hammer, and no matter how strong their enemies were, they would pound them like iron.

Xiao Qingyi smiled. "Fellow Daoist He, you still don't know how strong this friend of yours is, do you? Just take his word for it. In the entire Demon Domain, no one dares disobey him. Otherwise, they'd all get a beating."

As soon as Xiao Qingyi said that, the whole room abruptly fell silent.

No one in the entire Demon Domain dared disobey Lu Qing'an?

Otherwise, they'd all get a beating?!

This...

He Hong and Xu Yunyi were both stunned by those words.

After thinking it over, they felt that Xiao Qingyi was exaggerating.

Lu Qing'an was a Peak Great Emperor Realm expert and indeed very strong. But what Xiao Qingyi probably meant was that Lu Qing'an and this top artifact refiner from the Demon Domain were very close, like brothers who usually tussled and joked around.

That was why he had used such words to describe Lu Qing'an's relationship with the top artifact refiner.

"Haha, wonderful! Then I'll be sure to learn from this expert with an open mind!"

He Hong really could discern artifact-refining techniques he had never mastered in these two treasures.

Coming to the Demon Domain this time had been the right choice!

"All right, in that case, I'll take the opportunity to visit the Heavenfall Demon Cavern and bring back some good materials. Oh, right, those of you who haven't reached the Great Emperor Realm should come with me. There's a place there that can cleanse your physiques and make it a little easier for you to cultivate to the Great Emperor Realm later."

The materials for Lu Qing'an's two treasures had come from the Heavenfall Demon Cavern. Back when he had obtained that batch of materials, it could be said that he had nearly lost his life there.

Now, with his current strength, obtaining materials there would no longer be difficult.

If it really came down to it, he could draw some more cultivation out of his sea of consciousness to use.

And there really was a place there that would be immensely beneficial to his two daughters.

Xu Yunyi hadn't broken through to the Great Emperor Realm, so she could go along too.

When Xiao Qingyi and Xue Tianfei heard the words "Heavenfall Demon Cavern," they couldn't help swallowing.

They had both suffered plenty of setbacks there back then!

They had even nearly lost their lives!

The depths of the Heavenfall Demon Cavern had left them with a bit of psychological trauma.

They wouldn't join in the excitement.