Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel), Volume 5

“The third possibility is that the person wanted to destroy all the murals, but they couldn’t finish in time. We came in just as they were about to deal with the last one, which means they’re hiding here, in the grand hall…right now.”

“I’m suffocating… Is anyone there…?”

“I can’t move, can’t move!”

The voices were tiny, but clear and full of pain. They were like ants vigorously crawling into his ears. Xie Lian was just about to reach

“San Lang, wait!”

Hua Cheng stopped and looked back.

Xie Lian chewed on his words before he finally, arduously squeezed out a quiet request. “You…you too. If there’s something dangerous, I won’t touch it, but you don’t touch it either. Neither of us will touch it. All right?”

Mud poured in the moment he opened his mouth, and he miserably spat it out. As for that hand, it grabbed him and pulled him into a pair of arms. A familiar voice came from above.

“Gege, it’s me!”

At the sound of that voice, Xie Lian completely relaxed and hugged Hua Cheng tightly. “Thank goodness…the red string didn’t break. I really found you!” he blurted.

Hua Cheng embraced him firmly back and said with conviction, “It didn’t break! I found you too.”

The black-clad young man also felt extremely awkward, and he waved off the apology. “Don’t worry, it’s nothing, I’m already used to it…”

“…”
However, a moment later, the black-clad young man said, “I’m sorry, Your Highness, but this…this is just how I look,” the young man replied.
“…”
Hua Cheng walked over and cleared his throat lightly. “Gege, this really isn’t Black Water.”
“…”
Pardon?!
“This is his real appearance,” Hua Cheng said.
So this was a true, natural-born pedestrian face!
Xie Lian slapped his forehead with his palm, then quickly pressed his hands together in prayer and bowed an apology.
“…I’m sorry.”

Xie Lian felt a little embarrassed at the others’ objections. “Oh, this mountain certainly is strange!” he mumbled, trying to slip away. Hua Cheng had slid an arm around him unnoticed, however, which stopped him from doing so.

But as soon as he said that, the ghost fire in Ling Wen’s hands suddenly erupted to ten times its original size—into two giant pillars of flame, blazing to the skies!
Xie Lian was speechless.
Pei Ming was also speechless.

“Ol’ Pei, I have no way to stop him. He heard Jing Wen say you’re my lover and has steeled his mind to kill you. Your Highness, lend me a hand!”

Pei Ming felt around for his pill bottle. “Some raggedy story from hundreds of years ago—what’s the point of talking about it now? Let’s find a way to beat him first!”