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Chapter 125: The Trade

The Beauty Scroll is rolled up. Su Lijiang's sword pierces into the scroll, leaving a hole through three beauties, one of them being Xi Guang. She has gained some consciousness earlier due to jealousy, but after a scream, she falls silent once again.

If anger is the source of Bai Lu's power, then jealousy, especially the jealousy of women, is the source of Xi Guang's.

On the scroll, Bai Lu is undamaged, but she has suffered a lot of injuries from protecting Zhang Zhizi. Now that the woman has disappeared, Bai Lu has no intention of seeking revenge. She believes that as long as there are green mountains, there will always be firewood to burn. She tightly rolls up the scroll again, concealing the hole that's been exposed, and then flies away.

Su Lijiang can't let her escape; he continues to pursue her. Big Bai tightly wraps around its Granny. Its body is covered in a faint mist of water vapor due to worry. It has always thought of itself as powerful, without reason. In the Sealed Heaven Border, no other creature was as strong as Big Bai, and it could control whether they live or die. Big Bai thought that it will go out and protect Granny, follow her everywhere to see the world. But as it happened, as soon as it came out, it kept running into a series of setbacks. Despite its increased cultivation, having successfully entered Tribulation Transcendent, Big Bai is still so useless.

Big Bai doesn't go after the scroll. It’s not strong enough, it will be a waste of effort. It doesn't wait for Su Lijiang either. Instead, it shrinks itself and returns to the vicinity of the Kunlun Divine Tree. Seeing that the Divine Tree Heart is showing no signs of inviting it inside, it bites onto one of the branches hanging down from the Divine Tree. Although Big Bai can't bite it off, it holds the branch tight.

The branches sway back and forth, but they can't shake off Big Bai. Before long, the Divine Tree Heart invites Big Bai inside. The two begin to have an exchange.

At first, the negotiations aren't going smoothly. Big Bai appears grayish, pressing its body on the Divine Tree Heart.

Du Xizhi is just speechless. It seems that the two of them are arguing again, and aren't liking each other. But a while later, Big Bai spits out some items from inside it-- things like rattles, iron balls, and flower wreaths. With a displeased look, it moves away and flicks those items in front of the Divine Tree Heart, demonstrating how they should be played with.

The branches of the Divine Tree Heart make a snapping sound as it spins some of the iron balls, just like spinning tops.

Not long after that, the Divine Tree Heart gives Big Bai a large number of branches—almost a hundred of them. Some are over ten zhang long, and it even breaks off a branch that's as thick as a cup and gives it to Big Bai. After reaching an agreement, both sides are extremely satisfied.

Du Xizhi is completely floored. The hanging roots that the Heart gave earlier, those soft branches like human hair, losing a few hundred of them wouldn't matter. But the last branch that it gave, it's equivalent to cutting off a chunk of flesh from one's body. The Divine Tree Heart has torn it off and traded it with Big Bai. Moreover, the Divine Tree Heart looks like it has taken advantage of the situation, while on the other hand, Big Bai has turned completely black, water droplets condensing on its surface, as if it has suffered a great loss.

Du Xizhi feels like he's received a tremendous blow. He has the urge to burst out of here and find a master blacksmith, then he'd confidently throw down a low-grade spirit stone and shout, "Give me a thousand of your iron balls!"

Big Bai starts gnawing on the branches as soon as it receives them. It wants to get stronger; it doesn't want to remain weak.

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Outside the Kunlun Divine Tree, Li Xinmei meets up with several cultivators from the Qiankun Array Hall. She wants to find her Granny, but she can't see her anywhere. It's chaos out here, with fights breaking out all over the place, as people fight for mystical treasures. Her brother, Ning Yuan, is severely injured. His face is pale and covered in blood. She can't even feel his pulse. There's no time to waste.

Li Xinmei doesn't dare to dawdle for long. She can only reassure herself that her Granny is powerful, and so she must be safe.

When she came down from the Immortal Palace, for some reason, many colorful stones came flying towards her. At this moment, her Qiankun Bag contains at least thousands of those colorful stones.

"Let's go back first. When things settle down in a few days, I'll go visit the Obliteration Sword Tower," Li Xinmei says.

She doesn't know where her Granny is right now, but she's a cultivator of the Obliteration Sword Tower, and she will surely return there.

Ning Yuan weakly leans against Li Xinmei, and she reaches out to support him.

Fang Dingyuan's eyes go blank, feeling restless in his heart. He can't hide his thoughts, so he immediately says, "Daoist friend, your injuries are great, but I have a pill here." He first offers the pill, then continues, "Let me help. Xiao Mei, you look pale. I'll do it, I have a lot of energy."

Ning Yuan struggles to lift his eyelids and gives him a cold glance.

Fang Dingyuan doesn't care. He summons his flying device, intending to support Ning Yuan, his actions aren't gentle. But then he hears Li Xinmei say, "This is my brother."

Fang Dingyuan's knees go weak. During that decade, he and Li Xinmei had talked about everything, so he naturally knows about her long-lost older brother. Oh my, he's the older brother-in-law! He immediately smiles as brightly as a flower, his movements turning overly gentle, afraid of displeasing his elder brother-in-law.

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The people of the Qiankun Array Hall take advantage of the chaos to return home. The Kunlun Divine Tree Heart happily plays along, even providing some cover with its branches, ensuring their smooth return to the Wuliang Mountains. If Su Tingyun would later ask about it, it will just be explained this way: the Heart wants to 'scam' some novel objects next time they come over. Since its birth, it's always been lonely, it has only ever played with its whips. Its master has only focused on cultivation, barely paying attention to it. It grew up lonely.