308 What Welcomed Ning Que Back to the World Was... (2/2)

Mo Shanshan sighed weakly and smiled, ”So are you done arguing with him?”

Ye Hongyu nodded and said, ” I did make a mistake before.”

Ning Que felt quite satisfied, thinking that no one in this world, apart from Sangsang, could beat him in an argument.

Ye Hongyu immediately continued, ”Since I've said I'll kill him after going out, why do I have to keep contending with him?”

Ning Que bitterly said: ”I was just joking. Don't take it seriously.”

Tang Xiaotang, who was walking in front of them, suddenly said in surprise, ”Yes, it's true.”

Ning Que was stunned, and asked, ”What's true?”

Tang Xiaotang looked back and pointed at the faint fog in front of the passage with her childish eyes filling with a happy expression. She then said, ”That really is the exit. We are finally out of here.”

...

...

Looking at the faint light amidst the fog at the end of the passage, they could vaguely guess that it was an exit. After going through lots of hard work while running low on food, they should have excitedly rushed towards the exit while holding each other's hands and wearing ribbons on their bodies.

However, they stopped and fell into silence. Even Tang Xiaotang was no exception.

Inside this long-winding tunnel, they were isolated from the world, so they could temporarily forget the background of each other's sect, the so-called good and evil, and the centuries of hatred and bloodshed that could not be washed away. However, once they got out of this mountain that was deserted by Haotian, they would be back to the real world, and the thought of those things weighed down heavily upon them.

The four persons looked at each other and kept silent for a long time.

Ye Hongyu suddenly said indifferently, ”I'm not used to pretending to be sentimental. After I go out, I need to spend some time curing myself. Therefore, to kill you and the evil girl from the Devil's Doctrine should be a matter done in the far future.”

Tang Xiaotang looked proudly at her and said, ”You're still injured now, so I'll beat you when you recover.”

Mo Shanshan gently trimmed her cotton skirt and said with a smile, ”Anyhow, it has nothing to do with me.”

Ye Hongyu sneered and said,”If I try to kill Ning Que, does it really have nothing to do with you?”

Ning Que waved his hand to stop these meaningless conversations, and he then said, ”Let's go out and talk about it later. Xiaotang, you go first.”

Tang Xiaotang stared at his eyes and seriously said, ”I know what you mean. You worry there is something strange outside the fog, so you let me lead the way. Yet I'm the disciple of the Enlightenment Doctrine, if the people outside are all from the Central Plains, how can I escape? You're a man, yet you're really like what she said - the shame of the Academy.”

Ning Que seriously said with no change of expression, ”How did you suddenly become smart?”

Tang Xiaotang replied, ”I'm kind, but I'm not stupid.”

Hearing these words, Ning Que naturally thought of Sangsang, who was just a bit stupid, but not an absolute idiot. He suddenly had a strong desire to return to Chang'an City.

He looked at the exit in the fog and said, ”All right, I'll go first. The most powerful disciples of the younger generation of the Taoist, Devil and talisman sects are all here, together with me, a World Wayfarer of the Academy. Let's not even talk about people who dare to ambush us, I totally think that anyone who sees us of this super crew would be scared to kneel down and kowtow to us!”

These words were obviously used for emboldening himself, just as that he had constantly bickered with the Tao Addict these days. He just wanted to relax the mood that was as dense as the stonewalls that surrounded them.

No one knew that Ning Que, the core disciple of the Headmaster of Academy, had joined the Devil. Even Ye Hongyu just faintly guessed that he had inherited his Youngest Uncle's mantle. He did not know how the real and ruthless world outside the valley would welcome him if the truth of his joining the Devil was discovered after returning to the human world.

Ning Que walked into the fog after a moment of silence. He reached his right hand to his back and slowly held the handle of the big black umbrella.

The big black umbrella was his greatest ally in this world, which is the warmest and quietest existence like the dark houses of wild cats. When facing Lotus in the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine, he had not enough time to take it out, which almost cost him his life. At this time when he was about to get back to the human world from the isolated mountain, the strangeness and vigilance caused in this situation always made him ready to take out the big black umbrella.

There was no hostile crowd waiting for them in the world outside the fog.

Nor was there a sneak attack.

What met Ning Que was a fist.

A fist that was even bigger than the cheap clay bowl bought by Sangsang.

The fist was frank and righteous, full of hardness and strength.

It came at him like the whirlwind, devoid of any evil intentions.

It was not a sneak attack.

But a blow meant to kill.