Do You Know Demonic Arts?

Xie Cheng'en was genuinely crying. He had always been most afraid of Old Master Xie, and the worst part was that Grandpa Xie was actually capable of doing something like this.

He knelt on the ground, weeping bitterly, and said, "Grandpa, I'm your only grandson! Isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

Old Master Xie calmly said, "Don't you know? Your father has had another child. You are no longer the only grandson of the Xie Family."

Xie Cheng'en completely broke down. "My father had another one? With whom?"

"Damn it! They're already on their way to the border."

With the Xie Family either dead or gone, only Xie Family Xie Cheng'en remains as the sole heir.

Xie Cheng'en never expected that his mother would conceive a child despite being an older woman!

Xie Cheng'en knelt before Zhou Wanwan and said:

"Master, I was wrong. I will never talk nonsense again."

Whatever you say goes, I'll follow your lead from now on.

Actually, Xie Cheng'en is quite good at business.

Zhou Wanwan smiled faintly and said, "Get up! Your grandfather was just joking with you."

Xie Cheng'en breathed a sigh of relief, wiped away his tears, and said, "Thank you, Master, for sparing my life."

He's genuinely scared now.

He didn't sleep a wink last night, going over everything in his mind, and his whole back felt cold.

Looking back now, Zhou Wanwan really didn't hold it against him. If she had, he would have been tormented long ago.

Zhou Wanwan looked downstairs and said, "500,000 elite troops, that's quite impressive."

Xie Cheng'en looked at her and said, "You... you'd better run quickly! It'll be too late if you wait any longer. How can we possibly be a match for them?"

Zhou Wanwan touched her belly and said:

"Why run? What will happen to Yanmen Pass if I run away?"

What will happen to the people of Yanmen Pass? They've only had a few good days, and now they're going to give Yanmen Pass?

The people of Yanmen Pass are now extremely anxious. "500,000 cavalry are coming! What should we do now?"

"The city lord hasn't left, what are you all afraid of?"

"We're not afraid; we're just thinking about how to defend the city."

There are no cowards at Yanmen Pass.

"Yes, there are no cowards at Yanmen Pass."

The people came out of their homes and said, "Lord, we are willing to defend the city with you and swear to protect Yanmen Pass to the death."

"Lord, whatever you need us to do, we will do it without hesitation."

Looking at these people, Zhou Wanwan was filled with emotion. "Yes, not bad, you are all good. Shouldn't you be working in the fields right now?"

Sometimes a lot of weeds grow in the fields, and these people are clearing them away today.

The people said, "Our Yanmen Pass is about to fall, how can we have the energy to worry about those weeds?"

"Yes! We were just thinking about defending the city."

Zhou Wanwan sighed and said, "It's okay, don't worry, you can go about your business."

The people looked at each other in confusion. Shen Chaoge looked at them and said, "Listen to the city lord, we won't be attacked here anytime soon. Just go about your business."

Only then did these people leave, turning back every few steps.

After the civilians left, Xie Cheng'en said from behind, "Master, we should at least leave some civilians behind! Otherwise, are we supposed to go and fight?"

Qin Yuan roared from below:

"Zhou Wanwan, you ignorant child, have you ever thought about the lives of ordinary people?"

Did you understand everything I said?

Zhou Wanwan sat on the city wall, looking down at him and said:

"Qin Yuan, I've thought about it. I believe the common people are innocent, and your subordinates are quite innocent too."

So I've decided to give you a good talking-to: why don't you surrender? It'll be better for everyone that way.

Qin Yuan pointed at Zhou Wanwan and said:

"You little beast! A six-year-old child, and you actually made your old man surrender? Are you out of your mind?"

"Guards, shoot her down!"

The archers beside Qin Yuan were quickly positioned.

The archers immediately fired their arrows at Zhou Wanwan.

Xie Cheng'en was startled and rushed over, grabbing Zhou Wanwan and trying to drag her inside.

Are you crazy? What are you doing sitting on the wall?

Come down right now! If you don't come down, who am I supposed to lean on?

Zhou Wanwan kicked Xie Cheng'en away and said, "You almost pushed me down, thank you! Stay away from me."

All the arrows turned back and shot towards Qin Yuan.

Qin Yuan rolled on the ground several times, his face ashen as he glared at Zhou Wanwan and said, "How did you do that? Why did these arrows come back? Do you possess some kind of sorcery?"

All the soldiers were looking at Zhou Wanwan.

Zhou Wanwan looked at them and said, "There's no magic involved! These arrows have to go back on their own; there's nothing I can do about it, and I can't control them."

Qin Yuan snorted coldly and said, "So what if you have demonic magic? Today we have 500,000 elite troops! Charge! Kill!"

At Qin Yuan's command, all the soldiers charged toward Yanmen Pass.

The sound was deafening, echoing through the sky.

Those people kept climbing towards Yanmen Pass; there were hundreds of thousands of them, densely packed together.

But as soon as we got to the city wall, there were far fewer people on top.

Qin Yuan rubbed his eyes and said, "Huh! I clearly saw them climb halfway up, how come they're still at the bottom?"

"I just saw them climb halfway up! How come so many people are missing?"

The Old Ancestor and the Old Scholar Tree, along with several thousand other trees, stood inside the city wall.

As the Old Scholar Tree ate, he said, "Crunchy, I love this kind of food, and with each one, it's a little better."

The Old Ancestor said while gnawing on the food, "I also feel like I'm getting more and more powerful. Do you remember that thing from the Great Qi Imperial Palace last time?"

"I remember, I remember, we almost got burned to death."

The Old Ancestor said:

"I think I know what it is; I've searched for it in the book."

Finally, a passage was found in the "Records of Mountains and Seas": "The Profound Fire Nether Serpent that spews black netherfire; it is extremely powerful and rare."

The Old Scholar Tree said, "Snakes can breathe fire?"

The Old Ancestor nodded and said, "This kind of snake is extremely terrifying. Even experts on the Earth Ranking are no match for it, so we can only be sending ourselves to our deaths."

"What should we do then? What if one day that Profound Fire Nether Serpent escapes? Won't we all die?"

The Old Ancestor looked at him and said:

"There's no other way. If we want to fight him, the two of us have to keep evolving."

We don't know how it will evolve yet, but with Wanwan, we are definitely much more powerful than normal trees.

But that's not enough; we need to continue improving.

The Old Ancestor simply swept dozens of soldiers over.

The Old Scholar Tree, not to be outdone, pulled together more than 100 soldiers.

"Ha! What the hell? Those people were almost on top of the wall, how did they suddenly disappear?"

"Am I seeing things? I have a feeling we're missing a lot of soldiers."

Where's Liu Chenghu, who's in front of me?

"Wang Fugui, who was behind me, has also disappeared. What happened?"