Xie Zhengxing rolled her eyes speechlessly. “Enough with the nonsense. Hurry up and kill the demons.”
If she had to listen to him any longer, she felt like she was going to have a stroke from sheer frustration.
Ignoring Xie Zhengxing entirely, Chu Moyun turned toward Luo Jingxin.
“Junior Sister Luo, take her back into the city.”
Luo Jingxin raised her reddened eyes and stared at Chu Moyun for a long moment. Only after taking a deep breath did she slowly reply,
“…Very well.”
With a sweep of her sleeve, she pulled Xie Zhengxing onto her flying sword.
Standing atop the flying sword and watching the city grow closer and closer, Xie Zhengxing found herself completely bewildered.
The livestream chat was equally bewildered.
【Sister Loves Me: I can imagine how devastated Luo Jingxin must feel right now. One moment she was kissing the man she loved like there was no tomorrow, and the next she had to personally protect her romantic rival. Just imagining it is suffocating.】
【Funny: The stream really lives up to its tag. This world absolutely has the flavor of one of those melodramatic romance novels.】
【Wishing for a Smooth New Year: But I feel even worse for Streamer. She worked so hard rushing out of the city to help, only to get forcibly dragged back. What kind of treatment is that?】
【Riding Grandma Across the Galaxy: So our Streamer’s effort was completely wasted?】
【Read Novels With Your Brain: The male and female leads are way too self-centered. Their entire brains revolve around romance. Has it ever occurred to them that Streamer really came here to kill demons?】
Exactly.
Could they please stop making up imaginary scenes for her in their heads?
She had truly, genuinely, unquestionably come here to kill demons.
Forget it.
As long as the male and female leads split up, there probably wouldn’t be another absurd scene like before—where even if the entire world fell into ruin, it only existed to serve as the backdrop for their romance.
Looking down at her wrist, Xie Zhengxing spoke softly.
“Senior Sister Luo, could you loosen your grip…”
“Silence.”
Still unwilling to give up, Xie Zhengxing continued,
“Senior Sister Luo.”
Luo Jingxin turned back with an icy expression.
“I know you want me to let go so you can stubbornly run back to Senior Brother Chu. I refuse. You already knew Elder Sun was targeting you, yet instead of protecting yourself, you recklessly ran out here just to cause more trouble for Senior Brother Chu and me.”
“No.” Xie Zhengxing sighed helplessly and shook the wrist Luo Jingxin was gripping. “I meant that you’re squeezing too hard. It hurts. Just loosen your grip a little. I won’t run away.”
Luo Jingxin’s cold, aloof face instantly flushed bright red.
She immediately let go.
“…Sorry.”
By then, however, they had already returned inside the city.
Being forced to escort Xie Zhengxing back had already made Luo Jingxin feel miserable enough. She had no desire to remain in the same place as her any longer.
As for whether Xie Zhengxing got hurt inside the city…
What did it have to do with her?
After setting Xie Zhengxing down, Luo Jingxin immediately turned and left to hunt the demons within the city.
Watching Luo Jingxin’s departing figure, filled with obvious disgust, Xie Zhengxing sighed.
“I have no idea what’s going on inside her head, but I really don’t want to become part of their relationship drama…”
Just then, from the corner of her eye, she spotted Du Xinbao running frantically in the distance.
“Xinbao!”
Du Xinbao looked up. Upon seeing Xie Zhengxing, he immediately rushed toward her.
“Xingxing…”
His face was deathly pale. His spiritual energy fluctuated violently, sweat poured from his entire body, and he looked completely exhausted, as though he had pushed himself far beyond his limits.
Xie Zhengxing frowned.
“What’s wrong? You don’t look well.”
Du Xinbao panted heavily.
“Xingxing… you were right. There really is an earth dragon tunneling beneath the western city wall. It’s leading a horde of demons into the city. Wanwan and the other senior brothers and sisters are still holding them back. They sent me to bring reinforcements.”
Xie Zhengxing’s expression immediately turned serious.
“Let’s go. I’ll come with you.”
Du Xinbao anxiously protested,
“Xingxing, the earth dragon leading the attack is at least at the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Realm. Without a Golden Core cultivator, we can’t deal with it. We should go find Senior Brother Chu or Senior Sister Luo.”
“Stop wasting time. The two of them aren’t as reliable as I am. Let’s go!”
Before she even finished speaking, Xie Zhengxing sprinted toward the western side of the city.
Although Du Xinbao knew rationally that without Chu Moyun or Luo Jingxin, there was no way they could defeat the earth dragon…
Looking at Xie Zhengxing’s rapidly disappearing back, an inexplicable feeling of trust welled up inside him.
I’m betting on it!
I trust Xingxing!
He wiped his face and hurried after her.
At the foot of the western city wall, a gigantic pit over thirty meters in diameter had already formed.
From within it rose a massive flesh-colored worm that looked neither entirely like a snake nor entirely like a dragon, lifting half of its enormous body upright.
Around it, demons surged endlessly from the pit like water erupting from a fountain.
The earth dragon and the demon horde all wore ferocious expressions as they relentlessly attacked Liu Wan and seven other elite disciples of the Shanghui Sect, who stood desperately blocking their path into the city.
“The pink giant’s back!”
Noticing Du Xinbao’s return, the seven disciples immediately landed beside the two of them.
“Weren’t you told to bring Senior Brother Chu or Senior Sister Luo? Where are they?”
“You only brought her? She’s just a burden at the early Qi Refinement stage! What good is bringing her here?!”
“Once we get back, withdraw from the inner sect yourself! All you ever do is make trouble for everyone!”
Liu Wan wiped the blood from her face, looking at Xie Zhengxing worriedly.
“Xingxing, why did you come? It’s very dangerous here.”
“I know.” Xie Zhengxing lifted her eyelids slightly. “The two of you fall back. Leave this place to me.”
With that, she stepped forward.
“Wait! What are you doing?! Going up there to die?!”
The elite disciples shouted and rushed forward to stop the young woman.
To their astonishment, they couldn’t even touch the corner of her sleeve.
There seemed to be something strange hidden within her footwork…
All they could do was watch helplessly as the young woman whom Elder Sun had called “a rotten apple spoiling the barrel” floated swiftly toward the massive pit.
She threw a punch, sending one demon flying.
Stopping three meters away from the pit, she suddenly raised her slender, fair hand and waved it forward.
Her wide sleeves billowed dramatically in the wind—
In the blink of an eye, the demons filling the enormous pit began to disintegrate.
Then they vanished.
Within only a few breaths, every densely packed demon inside the pit had disappeared.
Only the badly mutilated earth dragon remained standing.
Looking down at its body, now rotting away beyond recognition, the earth dragon froze in utter confusion.
“Strike while it’s sick—finish it off!!!”
Xie Zhengxing roared.
“Xinbao! Wanwan! Get over here and beat it to death!!!”
“Roger!”
Du Xinbao charged in immediately without a moment’s hesitation, swinging his pair of enormous iron hammers as he rushed forward.
Liu Wan was stunned for only an instant before she also joined the attack.
One wielded a sword.
The other wielded twin hammers.
Together, they brutally finished off the earth dragon, which had been reduced to barely ten percent of its remaining vitality.
When the enormous Golden Core earth dragon finally collapsed to the ground…
The seven or eight elite disciples of the Shanghui Sect present finally snapped out of their daze, as though waking from a dream.
They stared at Xie Zhengxing, Du Xinbao, and Liu Wan standing beside the pit.
Their expressions were filled with both bewilderment…
…and utter shock.