Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 433 - 292: Between the Abysses_3

Chapter 433: Chapter 292: Between the Abysses_3

Xu Yuan raised his eyes to Li Qingyan, frowning as he spoke,

"You said that only the meridians were damaged, didn’t you?"

Li Qingyan met his concerned gaze with a smile, answering,

"The Mo Snake’s energy was tremendous. In order to delay its pursuit, I had to withstand its attacks head-on. Only broke a few times, minor injuries."

Xu Yuan’s eyes sharpened at her words, gripping her wrist with slight force, "Broke a few times? You call that a minor injury? I have here..."

"No need."

Li Qingyan pulled her hand back, seemingly unconcerned as she said,

"I entered the path of martial arts. Although I am not as peculiar as those demons, my body has an exceptionally strong recovery ability. This sort of external wound and the pain it brings will not affect my combat ability. If anything, it makes me more alert."

Xu Yuan heard this, his gaze on her turning rather odd.

Alert? It’s more like arousal.

With a playful smile, Xu Yuan dropped the topic, foreseeing the future would reveal all, and turned to ask,

"What about the Mo Snake’s Demon Crystal?"

Li Qingyan did not mind his ambiguous gaze and looked back into the darkness of the tunnel,

"I haven’t had the chance to retrieve it yet."

"Let’s go immediately."

Without a second thought, Xu Yuan opened his arms wide to Li Qingyan, "With all the commotion we’ve caused here, the nearby demons might have been attracted. We must hurry and retrieve it before making our escape."

"You let me hold you with no resistance."

Li Qingyan glanced at him and naturally bent down to pick up Xu Yuan in a princess carry, "I see none of the manly pride that you should have."

"A true man knows when to bend and when to stand tall."

Xu Yuan, catching hold of her soft shoulder, retorted with a smirk, "Wait until I cultivate to the Primordial level. By then, Your Highness, you’ll understand what true manhood is."

"All talk."

As the words fell, Li Qingyan stomped her foot, Bai Muxi followed, and the three disappeared from their spot in an instant.

A few breaths after their departure, a strange, blood-red mist rapidly spread from deep within the Blood Nest. In the blink of an eye, it swallowed up the spot where they had just stood...

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Standing at the exit of the tunnel,

Xu Yuan gazed at the massive artificial cavern formed in front of him, clicking his tongue.

Money, indeed, is a wonderful thing.

The cavern created by Source Crystal Bombs had an extremely even cut, and had it not been for the shockwave that shattered the massive stones on the inner walls during its ignition, this cavern would have been a nearly perfect sphere.

Soon, all three set their sights on the bottom of the spherical cavern.

There, a charred, elongated shape lay silently.

The demonic Mo Snake.

At that moment, it had lost the ferocity it previously possessed, lying motionless on the ground, its tough body emitting a "sizzling" charred odor.

Despite directly facing such a large explosion from the Source Crystal Bomb, it still was not dead.

Its charred flesh was desperately growing new sprouts.

But unfortunately, the surrounding Black Death Mycelial Mat had already been vaporized in the explosion, and without supply from the mat, it simply didn’t have enough life force to recover its flesh.

However, as if summoned by the transcendental demon, the Black Death Mycelial Mat began to slowly creep toward the cavern.

But the speed was excruciatingly slow, barely faster than an ant.

The three leaped down,

With both women guarded in front, Xu Yuan made his way towards the Mo Snake.

Sensing the approach of the living, the charred mass emitted a faint hiss as a warning.

Seeing that it still could make noise, Xu Yuan gestured for the two women to stop, allowing Li Qingyan to finish it off with a dao-infused, fiery red blade qi.

One can never be too careful.

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!"

Streaks of fiery red dao light brightened the pitch-black cavern, as dozens of blade lights swept over the Mo Snake’s frail flesh.

The Mo Snake then fell silent.

Despite that, the three did not approach.

Li Qingyan raised her hand toward the Mo Snake, with fiery red Origin Qi gushing out, creating a giant hand, which lifted the body of the snake from a hundred meters away.

Then,

With a squeeze of her hands,

"Puchi!"

Flesh splattered, the Mo Snake’s body turned completely into pulp, and a jet-black crystal shimmering with dark light floated in mid-air.

Li Qingyan, holding out her hand, looked back and asked softly,

"Changtian, is this the Demon Crystal?"

Xu Yuan’s eyes flickered,

"That seems to be it."

Upon hearing this,

Li Qingyan did not hesitate further. With a pull of her hand, the Demon Crystal was drawn into her palm by the Origin Qi.

Warm to the touch, with a slight sense one could detect the eerie concentration of life force within it.

Exhaling deeply, Li Qingyan pursed her lips with a smile,

"Let’s leave..."

"My lord..."

Before she could finish,

Bai Muxi, who had been standing silently beside them, interrupted Li Qingyan with a voice laced with disbelief, "The interstitial vessel... of the demon."

Li Qingyan slightly furrowed her brows.

Xu Yuan instinctively turned around, and his blood-colored pupils suddenly contracted.

Without realizing when,

the surrounding darkness had vanished,

replaced by a dense, blood-red mist that hung heavy in the air...