Chapter 326: 328. Chapter 323: Divine Skill Dream Butterfly Says Goodbye to Great Xixi, Who Do You Ask When You Seek Me? [Xie Allianc

328. Chapter 323: Divine Skill Dream Butterfly Says Goodbye to Great Xixi, Who Do You Ask When You Seek Me? 【Xie Alliance Leader Hidden Secular Person】

Qian Yuan Divine Sect.

Golden Light Peak.

Across the entire great flat, as the heat wave of the Prison Lotus fire receded, the cold returned, and the chill surged like a tide, rolling over everything.

Snow drifting down from the sky continuously fell to the world.

Yet the atmosphere over the great flat was intensely fervent; even the newly raging cold front could not quench the enthusiasm.

The voice of Sect Master Great Deity Lu Taibai's words rang through the entire Divine Sect like a massive bell.

The sect disciples, already drawn by the anomaly atop Golden Light Peak, each showed an unparalleled look of astonishment in their eyes, followed by surprise and emotion.

Six years old… breaking through the Divine Form!

Moreover, the Divine Form it has condensed is a Sanqing‑rank Divine Form; the higher the rank of the cultivated Divine Technique, the greater the difficulty, and the demands on Divine accumulation and innate talent reach a terrifying level.

Why the Sanqing and Four Sovereigns‑rank Divine Form methods generally require elders to teach personally? Because disciples lacking sufficient talent who forcefully practice such methods will only doom their future cultivation path, unable to reach higher realms.

They cannot develop their innate talent to its utmost.

Sanqing and Four Sovereigns‑level Divine Techniques are prepared for prodigies with ten‑thousand‑foot purple aura or sky‑piercing purple aura!

Without a diamond, don't try to handle porcelain work.

If, because of the high rank of the Divine Technique, one wastes precious foundational time on elusive methods, squandering life and cutting off the future, that is absolutely forbidden by the sect.

The sect has spent resources to nurture you, not to let you waste your efforts on a Divine Technique that cannot be successfully cultivated.

Countless disciples felt deeply humbled, only perceiving the gap between each other.

Even Chi Kuang, ranked first in the True Transmission Record, with a towering physique and flowing purple hair, could not help but show a hint of awe.

Even his talent, at six years old, still has some distance to break through the Divine Form.

Among the inner sect's true transmissions, Wei He, who was ranked eighth for having guided and sheltered the people of Golden Light Mansion into Qian Yuan Dao City, is mentioned.

Now his eyes hold only endless complexity.

He is a bit dazed; the death of Ji Heshan has left him, a disciple, momentarily without a pillar.

He recalls the tender little girl who first entered Qian Yuan Dao City; he had represented Ji Heshan, hoping to make Xixi his junior sister. In hindsight, he thinks he was really foolish.

What on earth was he doing, such a foolish act.

"Congratulations! Congratulations to the Young Sect Master!"

Wei He stood amid the heavy snow, clenched his fist and shouted loudly.

Roars of celebration, like mountains overturning seas, rang out from all corners of the Qian Yuan Divine Sect.

"Congratulations!"

"Congratulations to the Young Sect Master!"

The cheers, like thunder, shattered the swirling snow.

The entire sect boiled with excitement.

Above the great flat.

Xixi blinked, and upon hearing everyone's cheers for her, she instantly placed both hands on her hips, puffing out her little belly with joy.

The cheers, like a mountain‑shouting tsunami, made Xixi's small face flush with excitement.

This is the visage of Xixi the Great Emperor!

Xixi really loves the sect; everyone here speaks so pleasant!

Lu Taibai patted Xixi's head.

"These past few days, I have been secluding on Golden Light Peak, striving to draw the Divine feedback of the Divine Form, strengthening and purifying the mortal body, and the refining is complete."

"In a few more days we will head to Shendu; if you can break through to the Grand Master realm before the Peach Banquet, you'll have a chance at the banquet, because at the Young Dragon Banquet your opponents may not be six years old, and their cultivation will be beyond the Divine Form."

Lu Taibai said with a smile.

Xixi heard this and felt as if struck by a sudden thunderbolt on a clear day.

"Ah?! Xixi still can't take a holiday?"

Xixi felt her strength being drained.

Lu Taibai looked at Xixi and smiled gently.

"Xixi, aren't you shouting that you want to earn a longevity‑granting peach for your mother at the Peach Banquet? You wouldn't want that peach to fall into another prodigy's hands, would you?"

Lu Taibai began delivering his professionally stimulating words again.

Xixi felt as if struck by lightning again!

"No, no, Xixi must work hard to earn a peach for mother!"

Xixi's fighting spirit instantly surged.

Although Xixi wanted to dash into her mother's embrace and snuggle a bit,

she also understood that completing the Divine Form's Divine Technique for the mortal body's purification was still very important.

After all, Xixi is still very young; although her mortal body's development is rapid and her martial path progresses swiftly, growth limitations mean she is still a bit short of breaking through to Grand Master.

Perhaps this time, with the power of the Divine Form, she will have a chance to break through!

Xixi also understood that the Peach Banquet, as the grandest gathering of the Dàjǐng Court, attracts countless prodigies; some families with elders whose lifespan is nearing its end also need peaches to extend life, so they send their youngsters to compete.

The Young Dragon Banquet could actually be the fiercest competition.

After all, being young means the cultivation gap isn't huge, and any disparity can be bridged.

When Xixi thought of other prodigies seizing the peach meant for her mother, she instantly felt a chill of anger.

Absolutely not allowed!

Xixi's fighting spirit rose.

Lu Taibai, however, smiled and took over from Fang Hanshu to start controlling the situation.

Supervisor Hong Shifo swayed his long sleeves, clasped his fists and bowed, "Congratulations to Sect Master Lu Tai Bai on the proud direct transmission, becoming a six‑year‑old Divine Countenance, unprecedented in Lingnan Dao for a thousand years!"

In Shendu, among the prodigious geniuses who have received preferential resources from the ancient families, there are indeed some who can achieve a six‑year‑old consolidated Divine Countenance.

But Xixi is different; Xixi's background is not noble, not from any ancient family, not even a family at all, just a mud‑legged household.

Even a supreme deity like Hong Shifo is moved and surprised by this.

Lu Tai Bai glanced at Hong Shifo, heard that Hong Shifo had just divined a great misfortune omen for Xixi, and felt a slight heaviness in his heart.

The art of divination of the Imperial Observatory is indeed formidable.

It truly was foretold by Hong Shifo.

Although outsiders are unaware of what happened in the Yulian Small Cave Heaven…

Lu Tai Bai knows clearly that Xixi indeed encountered a great disaster scene.

Moreover, the one who saved Xixi was not Lu Tai Bai, but Li Che…

A father willing to give his life for his daughter succeeded in the rescue.

Just as Hong Shifo was about to say something to Lu Tai Bai, daring to ask what had occurred in the fire‑shrouded space of Yulian,

Hong Shifo's expression changed slightly.

Not only Hong Shifo, almost every top‑tier strongman present showed a drastic change in demeanor.

Then, atop a peak of the Qian Yuan Divine Sect,

A massive Buddha light surged skyward, revealing seven relic pearls; over the pearls the Buddha light swirled, warm not a trace, only endless cold.

The five relic pearls transformed into seven Buddhas of varying postures.

The Buddhas were colossal, filling the sky above the Qian Yuan Divine Sect, overlooking the sect.

"This is…"

Hong Shifo's eyes flashed with an unusual hue.

"That Seven Treasure Relic Ruyi Heavenly King Pagoda?!"

Hong Shifo did not expect that the Guiyi Miao, long suppressed by the Qian Yuan Divine Sect, would suddenly shift!

Fang Hanshu, Feng Zhiqi and Yue Huanglong, who had already fled far back to the Dao Master Residence, also showed slight changes in expression.

Lu Tai Bai's gaze remained unchanged, as if he had foreseen it.

Fang Hanshu's brows furrowed; seeing Lu Tai Bai's demeanor, he instantly understood that Xixi's breakthrough of the Divine Countenance, triggering Yulian's power, was likely linked to the Seven Treasure Relic Ruyi Heavenly King Pagoda.

After all, the Qian Yuan Divine Sect's branch in the Golden Light Mansion possesses such a temple treasure pagoda!

"Buddhist sect…"

Lu Tai Bai raised his hand, sword light rippled wildly, silver light dazzling.

However,

he had not yet acted.

At the mountain gate of the Qian Yuan Divine Sect, the Qiankun plaque began to thunderously shake.

The entire plaque burst through the air, radiating an extremely brilliant white light.

In an instant, the seven Buddhas exploded, turning into colorful shattered Buddha light that scattered across the ground.

"Ancestor Master!"

"It is the Qiankun Dao Essence!"

"The Dao Essence power of the Qian Yuan Divine Sect!"

Various strongmen showed differing expressions.

Supervisor Hong Shifo's eyes kept flashing, almost unable to resist raising his hand to start calculating with his fingers.

He wanted to calculate this Ancestor Master of the Qian Yuan Divine Sect…

Whether he truly fell into the depths of the mysterious abyss.

Yet Lu Tai Bai's sharp gaze, as if about to burst with keen sword light, made Hong Shifo awkwardly lower his calculating finger and instead scratch his head.

But Hong Shifo looked up at the floating Qiankun plaque and slowly exhaled.

"An Ancestor Master of the Kai Shen Sect…"

"Is he really dead?"

……

……

The drifting snow falling from the heavens was evaporated before it could be stained, disappearing into nothingness.

It seemed as if multicolored light, like glass reflecting dreamlike colors under sunlight, continuously flickered around Li Che, who was seated in the courtyard.

Golden light flowed before his eyes, turning into hint text that shifted dreamily.

【Dao Fruit: Dream Celestial Master (lv3, 0%)】

【Dao Fruit lv3, metamorphosis, gains nascent divine skill "Dream Celestial Master·Dream Butterfly"】

Li Che breathed in and out, extremely calmly.

He did not return directly to the Golden Light Peak, because he knew that after Yulian Small Cave Heaven opened, Xixi back on the Golden Light Peak would face no real danger.

Not to mention Lu Tai Bai, even Elder Fang Hanshu alone possesses strength that Li Che cannot fathom.

Thus Li Che safely returned to the independent workshop courtyard.

Mainly because this time in Yulian Small Cave Heaven, Li Che's gains were indeed substantial.

Moreover, the Dream Celestial Master Dao Fruit, while devouring the dream trial set by the Third Prince, seemed to absorb dream power, causing its maturity to surge dramatically.

It directly rose to level 3!

One should know that a level‑3 Dao Fruit undergoes a metamorphosis, spawning a nascent divine skill!

Regarding this newly obtained Dao Fruit.

Li Che was rather surprised; he hadn't expected the speed of his advancement to be so fast.

This can be said to be, among all the Dao fruits Li Che has obtained so far, the fastest in terms of breakthrough and transformation!

Yet, because it is the external cultivation that rose, Li Che is not surprised.

Prototype of a divine ability…

Dream Master·Dream Butterfly!

Dream Butterfly?

Li Che was slightly stunned, and as he looked at the prompt, a hint of doubt flickered in his eyes.

After having endured the Temple God Heavenly King Tower's scheme against the Third Prince and almost being persecuted to Xixi...

Li Che is somewhat sensitive about whatever Xixi obtained in the Divine Gate of the Golden Temple.

For example…

A butterfly.

In the Divine Gate of the Golden Temple, Xixi actually obtained a real butterfly!

Previously, when Nan Li Huo and others identified it, they said it was a kind of sentient divine beast.

But now it seems this butterfly might be part of the Temple God's layout in the Heavenly King Tower!

Yet that possibility does not seem very great.

Li Che narrowed his eyes slightly, and his heart began to stir.

Could this butterfly be related to the Dream Butterfly?

However, soon Li Che relaxed; that butterfly… what relation could it have to the divine‑ability prototype derived from his Dao fruit?

Could it be that he himself came from a future timeline and simply dropped a butterfly beside Xixi?

Li Che smiled and shook his head, feeling a bit superstitious.

A slight movement in his heart.

Within his chest, the Dream Master Dao Fruit thumped, each beat like a butterfly flapping its wings!

Divine Ability Prototype (Dream Master·Dream Butterfly): When the great dream awakens, the butterfly flaps, the Dao fruit sheds, and it roams the time‑space.

A line of golden‑like description slowly unfolded before Li Che's eyes.

Basically, each divine‑ability prototype comes with an introduction, and from the introduction one can glimpse its power.

But this time, Li Che read it in a very confused state, utterly unable to comprehend.

In fact, a divine‑ability prototype is derived from a Dao fruit and is linked to the fruit itself.

Yet the basic ability of the Dream Master is to construct dreams, to connect with other Dao fruits, and even to use the Dream Master Dao Fruit's power as a bridge to send it out.

However, this time the prototype's hint left Li Che completely at a loss.

Dao fruit sheds, roams time‑space?

Does one need the Dao fruit to undergo another shedding to trigger this prototype?

Li Che felt something odd…

If the Dao fruit sheds again, wouldn't the divine ability awaken?

That would be contradictory, wouldn't it?

Li Che frowned.

Yet.

The next moment, every hair on Li Che's body involuntarily bristled.

With his current Saint‑of‑Warrior physique, forged by the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao Fruit to an extremely powerful flesh, he suddenly felt an uncontainable bone‑chilling cold!

It was as if an invisible deity, through time‑space, cast a pair of boundless icy eyes upon him.

It was a…

…extremely cold gaze, devoid of emotion, ice‑cold to the extreme, freezing his heart!

Li Che only felt his soul at that moment seemed completely solidified.

Suddenly.

Li Che saw multicolored light flickering; under the sensing of the Heaven‑and‑Earth chessboard, he saw…

Sitting cross‑legged atop the courtyard's ceiling, a multicolored butterfly slowly descended, gently flapping its wings.

With each flap, multicolored dust fell like rain.

Li Che felt everything before his eyes becoming hazy.

He seemed…

…to have fallen asleep.

One breath after another, even and balanced.

As the butterfly flapped its wings, the opposite side of time‑space rippled, reflecting an unseen life.

Ripples dotted and swept over the breathing, sleeping Li Che.

……

……

The cloud dome was torn open, the lingering smoke slowly parting. The butterfly beat its wings vigorously, the airflow it generated surged beneath its twin wings, lifting its tiny body up and down.

Yet, although the butterfly kept beating and its body rose and fell, when the vision cleared, the scene showed no up‑and‑down shaking.

Li Che was astonished to discover that he had turned into a fluttering butterfly.

His body was light, but he could not control it, only observing through his sight.

The butterfly flew over the vast sea, crossed the star river, scattering multicolored dust as if melting time‑space.

As the butterfly continued to race onward.

Li Che finally saw the distant scene clearly.

He saw a golden ancient pagoda shooting up from the ground, the pagoda spanning heaven and earth, so huge it seemed to pierce heaven and earth, countless Buddha light shining out, like one blazing sun after another rising up!

And within that endless, brilliant golden Buddha light.

Yet there was a trace of ultimate darkness, that darkness too conspicuous in the brilliant golden light.

Li Che, now in the form of a butterfly, flapped his wings, continually approaching.

The closer he got, the clearer that speck of darkness became.

It was a graceful figure, her ink-black hair extremely long, lustrous black hair flowing down like a waterfall to the base of her thighs, like a cloak, slightly undulating.

A black long dress fluttered in the wind, like a black lotus blooming in the netherworld, with specks of burning flame scorching and twisting the surrounding void, void cracks spreading like a net, devouring the Buddha light, making the surroundings pitch black.

The woman raised her hand, extremely cold and pale, her bloodless white skin faintly glowing, in her hand she gripped a jet-black sword.

"Witch!!!"

It was like a thunderclap of spring, as if myriad ancient Buddhas were chanting their names simultaneously, like the sound of the heavens shattering.

Upon that pagoda, it seemed as if thousands upon thousands of Buddha niches were carved, each niche holding a Buddha seated in a different posture.

They all glared angrily, staring at the darkness forcibly opened within the endless Buddha light.

But Li Che, viewing through the butterfly's eyes, felt these Buddhas, a sternness mixed with weakness in their eyes, as if a hint of fear spread like ink.

The woman slowly lifted her head, her eyes like dark dates, deep and black, devoid of any emotion.

She surveyed the heavenly Buddhas, her cold face expressionless, merely slowly raising the sword in her hand.

Her long legs stepped forward, the pitch-black void, as if moving with her steps, began to drift within the endless Buddha light.

The Buddha light could not suppress her in the slightest.

She stepped onto the pagoda's first stair, and the pagoda began to bleed, that blood flowing down from the Buddhas, staining the ground red.

The butterfly that Li Che had become flapped its wings, following her all the way.

The woman was overbearing, slaughtering her way up to the pagoda's summit, as if strolling leisurely, as if taking a walk.

Countless Buddhas came forward one after another to attack, there were golden dragons soaring, Buddha palms sweeping, Buddha sounds unceasing……

Yet, before the woman, it was all just a single sword.

Blood water stained the pagoda's golden steps; each Buddha in the niches could not escape, being swept up by the sword light and having their lives cut.

Li Che, from the butterfly's perspective, saw the downfall of a Buddhist holy land.

At the end of the slaughter, the Buddhas began to flee in terror, no longer daring to fight, they abandoned resistance and let the witch ravage their holy land.

Her ink-black, long hair swayed slightly in the wind and waves, like a black cloak.

The woman walked to the pagoda's summit.

Atop it, she saw a lotus pond; within the pond, countless golden flames leapt incessantly, like shackles coiling around a black lotus.

The woman reached out and plucked the black lotus from the pond.

Incidentally… she also pulled up several dark black lotus roots from the pond.

She patted the lotus roots, one hand gripping the sword, the other clutching the black lotus roots and the flaming black lotus.

The woman finally turned her body atop the fallen pagoda's summit.

The Buddha's voice resounded vast; above the golden firmament, a great Buddha slowly emerged.

Beneath the pagoda, countless beings knelt in dense crowds—these were ordinary folk: the rich in fine garments, beggars in rags, pregnant women, elderly trembling with age……

The masses knelt densely, without countless black ants, devoutly bowing, performing three kowtows and nine bows, begging the woman to set down the black lotus and black lotus roots in her hands.

The enormous golden Buddha, as if gazing down from beyond heaven and earth, slowly opened its narrow eyes.

And the woman standing atop the fallen pagoda, her expressionless face, finally showed a hint of expression.

Her gaze swept over the countless kneeling folk, the corner of her lips curling into a sneer.

The butterfly flapped its wings and landed on the shoulder of the woman whose black dress fluttered.

Then Li Che saw the woman who had shown a sneer slowly extend the sword in her hand.

Everything shattered.

The golden Buddha beyond the heavens shattered, torn apart by the sword into fragments.

Like a golden firework exploding in midair.

The rings of kneeling people outside the pagoda, stretching to the unseen horizon, were all swept by the sword light and exploded; blood-colored blossoms bloomed gaudily in the golden world, like bloody fireworks, blood flooding the ground.

The whole world was a ruin of wounds and silence, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, deathly energy rising to the heavens.

The woman stood atop the pagoda, the aura of bloody wind and blood rain manifesting, the wind lifting her black skirt, like a black lotus from hell blooming in this golden world.

The woman pinched the black lotus and black lotus roots, whispering softly.

The butterfly perched on the woman's shoulder seemed to hear the whisper.

"Do you pray to the Buddha, or to me?"

"You pray to me……"

"And who do I pray to?"

She didn't even glance at the sea of corpses and blood covering the ground.

She put away the black lotus and black lotus roots, the woman rubbed her belly.

"I'm hungry."

……

……

Buzz——!!!

A buzzing hum resonated.

"Whoosh——!!!"

Li Che suddenly opened his eyes; in his pupils there was actually a feeling of chaos.

His whole body was covered in thick snow, which instantly rustled and shook off.

He was actually buried in the thick snow, as if he had been piled up into a snowman.

As his consciousness returned, a movement of his body caused countless snow to burst outward; Li Che rose from the ground, his black robe fluttering, his dark, vigorous hair whipping through the air like black lightning.

"That is..."

Li Che's eyes held a hint of confusion.

Recalling the scene just now, he involuntarily exhaled another breath.

"Is it Xixi?"

Wasn't the woman with her silky black hair falling to the base of her thighs exactly the one who, in the boss's dream, came to eat a bowl of noodles with two extra poached eggs?

That was... grown-up Xixi?!

Li Che's mood involuntarily grew a little heavy.

Expressionless, cold and indifferent, his whole body exuded an aloof, forbidding aura, as if he wrapped himself tightly in that coldness to protect himself.

Only those unintentionally tender words would reveal a hint of softness in his inner heart.

This formed a stark contrast with the now happy and cheerful Xixi.

Perhaps, the only thing that never changes...

... is liking to set off fireworks.

"Dream Butterfly, wings fluttering, wandering through dreams across time and space... can one see the Xixi of another world?"

"Is it truly the Xixi of another world?"

"Or perhaps... that is the future Xixi?"

Li Che furrowed his brow; that feeling of bloodline connection allowed him to be certain that the woman was Xixi...

But if it truly is the future...

Then where did he, Li Che, go?

What happened to Xixi that she would wrap herself up so tightly, resisting everything in the world, indifferent to all?

A trace of anxiety and longing surfaced in Li Che's eyes.

He wanted to continue wandering through dreams across time and space, to flap his wings again and look at that daughter in that spacetime.

But Li Che gradually calmed down.

One shedding of the Dao fruit, wandering through dreams across time and space...

The gradually calmed Li Che walked through the courtyard and sat under the eaves.

The north wind whistled, snow falling abundantly.

Li Che sat under the eaves, his eyes gradually focusing.

"A bunch of bald donkeys, dare to bully my daughter... even in a dream, not allowed!"

Although Xixi massacred that ancient temple, slaying countless Buddhas.

Even exterminating that entire realm.

But Li Che felt, certainly it was the fault of those Buddhas!

"You beg me, but who do I beg?"

Muttering the words he had heard, Li Che inexplicably felt his heart as if cut by a knife, slowly exhaling a breath.

"My daughter... does not need to beg anyone."

My daughter… does not need to ask anyone.

Li Che clenched his fists.

"I want to become stronger... become even stronger."

"The current me is far from enough."

I am still far from enough.

Suddenly.

Li Che raised his head, looking toward the direction of the mountain gate of the Primordial Divine Sect.

He saw a pagoda spinning round and round.

Seven Treasures Relic Wish-fulfilling Heavenly King Pagoda!

That is the Five Elders Upper Position Guiyi Miao located within the mountain gate of the Primordial Divine Sect.

It is one of the three ruined shrines of the Heavenly King Pagoda!

There is also a temple located in Shendu, which is of the Four Sovereigns level...

"What are you angry about?"

"Are you angry that I blew up that Heavenly King Pagoda of your Golden Light Branch Sect and suppressed it with summoned gods?"

Li Che gazed at that pagoda, its golden light flashing, then being suppressed by the Heaven and Earth Plaque, and murmured.

"Don't be angry, it'll be your turn soon."

Li Che sat under the eaves, speaking lightly.

His heart and mind stirred slightly.

He sank into the Heaven and Earth Chessboard.

Yet he saw, on the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, a pagoda pressed upon the board, its pure heart-mind nature like a shackle, suppressing the pagoda.

"The temple deity of the Six Offices rank..."

Li Che's primordial spirit hovered, his five fingers spread.

Li Che's Primordial Spirit hovered, his five fingers spread wide.

The next moment……

Within the inner scene of the upper dantian.

Like a beating heart, the Divine Origin Golden Core that rose and fell with each breath suddenly appeared in the Heaven-Earth Chessboard.

Inside the golden core, the Heaven-Embracing, Earth-Encompassing Spirit-Mighty True Ape suddenly opened its eyes, pressed itself against the core's wall, and actually projected a true ape's face!

In the roar.

With the aid of Summoning God's power…… it actually slowly pulled and dragged this Six Offices Rank Pagoda, penetrating the wall of the Divine Origin Golden Core.

The pagoda that had been summoned and dragged into the Divine Origin Golden Core was instantly slowly devoured by the Heaven-Embracing, Earth-Encompassing Spirit-Mighty True Ape.

Creak, creak……

A chilling sound.

It began to echo in the utterly tranquil Heaven-Earth Chessboard.

……

……

Lead clouds roiled, flying snow swept across!

Howling nonstop, chaotic wind raged!

Deep within Listen Thunder Alley.

Orange-yellow dim light illuminated a small area, emitting a hazy glow.

The flying snow was as big as a hand, but vanished once it fell within the restaurant's range.

In front of the restaurant, a fat, big black dog lay listlessly.

The boss wore a white outfit, as pure as snow.

He sat in the chair, quite leisurely, slowly wrapping tobacco in paper and rolling it into a thin, long cigarette.

His every move was solemn and serious, just as when he first learned to roll this cigarette.

""Chi chi chi!""

? ￠o

He tapped it on the back of his hand, then held it between his lips and lit it with a match.

He pinched the cigarette between two fingers, not taking a puff, just holding it there.

The smoke curled, like a hazy orange-yellow light.

One person and one dog, seeming out of place in this world.

Suddenly.

The big black dog's nose twitched, its listless eyes suddenly widening, a shudder ran through it, and it sprang straight up from the ground.

The whole earth seemed to tremble.

The big black dog turned its head toward the boss, its nose continually twitching, disbelief seeming to flicker in its dark eyes.

This taste……

This taste!

No mistake, Dog Smash definitely won't smell wrong!

The big black dog was overjoyed, its tail wagging wildly, with a whooshing sound as if it wanted to tear the air apart!

On the boss's expressionless face, the corners of his eyebrows rose slightly, his eyes seeming to brighten a bit as he turned his gaze toward the dark part of Listen Thunder Alley.

Someone stepped on the snow, accompanied by creaking sounds, walking step by step.

In a daze, he seemed to see a black lotus.

But when the boss looked again,

he discovered that, walking out of the darkness……

it was merely Li Che dressed in a black robe.

The boss's hand holding the cigarette trembled slightly, instantly shaking off the burned ash.

Blown by the wind, it scattered everywhere.