Chapter 533: Day Thirteen - The Seal Open

"Are you worried about your two cousins?" Tang Xiao asked Xuanyuan Yueyao, who was standing alone.

Xuanyuan Yueyao shook her head. "After I informed them about the situation, Elder Yushen and Elder Wanqing immediately took them both back to the first area by force."

Tang Xiao always monitored everyone’s movements through the system map, so he knew their exact location. Xuanyuan Yushen and Xuanyuan Wanqing were much faster than other cultivators, and the two princes were helpless before them.

"They should arrive at the first area in two days."

"Thank you." Xuanyuan Yueyao looked at him. "If you don’t enter this space rift, we will never know about the danger, and we will definitely die in this place."

"Even though I learned about the enemies early on, I lacked the ability to fight them, so I sent the others away for the sake of their safety." Tang Xiao gazed into the distance. "Time is ticking, and the seal will soon be opened. Once I know their strength, we will decide our next move. If they are too strong, we will immediately return to the first area."

Xuanyuan Yueyao nodded in agreement. "My only regret is that we’ve had to waste our time in this place, but running away is far better than dying at the hands of our enemies."

"Haha," Tang Xiao laughed. "For living beings like us, survival is the top priority, and running away is not an act of cowardice. Some cultivators are too arrogant and too ignorant to recognize the disparity between themselves and their enemies. As long as we are still alive, we can work hard to achieve the best results, and we can retaliate against the enemies who suppress us in the future."

Xuanyuan Yueyao said nothing, but she silently agreed with him. In her opinion, he was much more mature than many cultivators, and his mindset did not surprise her. She had heard some of his past experiences, including the time he almost died. "Did you also run away from your enemies in the past?"

"Too many times." Tang Xiao told her a bit about his past experiences. "Since my strength wasn’t enough to fight against them, I brought everyone to this realm."

"Who are they?"

"My biggest enemies are Long Yin and Wang Fuxi, and they are the strongest cultivators in my realm." Tang Xiao clenched his fists. "When I reach their level, I will return to my realm and settle accounts with them."

Xuanyuan Yueyao raised an eyebrow; she could see deep-seated hatred in his eyes. "Why do you hate them so much?"

"They are hypocrites, and they are the masterminds behind the death of my parents."

"Please tell me the story of their deaths."

"Why?"

"I want to get to know you better."

Tang Xiao didn’t tell her right away; instead, he stared into her eyes with a deep gaze. In the end, he decided to tell her the truth about his parents’ death, but he didn’t mention Earth.

Xuanyuan Yueyao took a deep breath; she had never imagined that he had witnessed the deaths of both his parents with his own eyes. Moreover, their murderers did heinous things to his mother, and they did it in front of a five-year-old child, so it was not surprising that he harbored a deep hatred for Long Yin and Wang Fuxi.

As powerful cultivators, Long Yin and Wang Fuxi could have prevented the deaths of Tang Xiao’s parents. However, they chose to let it happen, and they even stopped his family from saving them.

Xuanyuan Yueyao exhaled softly. "Long Yin and Wang Fuxi are cowards, and their decisions are truly condemnable, especially the former. I understand that he owes his life to the family of one of those killers, but he should never have allowed them to do such a thing to your parents. Even if he didn’t want to save your parents himself, he had no right to stop your grandfather from saving them. If I were in your position, I would kill them with my hands."

"I will definitely kill them in the future." A glint of cruelty flashed in Tang Xiao’s eyes. "Before I kill them, I will force them to witness the death of their families."

Xuanyuan Yueyao frowned. "Are you really going to kill their families? Their families shouldn’t know about their actions, right?"

"I don’t care." Tang Xiao shook his head. "The families of my enemies are my enemies, and I will not spare anyone. If they want to blame someone else, they should blame Long Yin and Wang Fuxi. If they hadn’t stopped my grandfather and master back then, my family would still be alive, and Yin’er would never have had to go through all of that."

Xuanyuan Yueyao fell silent for several minutes. "So, Tang Yin awakened the darkness element because of that incident?"

"Not really." Tang Xiao told Xuanyuan Yueyao about the incident that befell Tang Yin in the past, which left her in a coma for seven years. "After I woke her up from her coma, I taught her to become a cultivator, and she awakened the darkness element."

Xuanyuan Yueyao never imagined Tang Yin had experienced such an incident. Moreover, the perpetrators were the children of the very people who had murdered their parents.

Xuanyuan Yueyao didn’t understand how cultivators awaken their respective elements. It usually happened randomly when they reached adulthood and started cultivating. As for Tang Yin, she suspected that her darkness element was related to past events.

"She—"

Xuanyuan Yueyao swallowed her words and looked toward the central area. They saw a white beam of light shooting towards the night sky.

Upon seeing the white light, Tian Xiaoqian, Xuanyuan Mengli, and the others immediately moved to their side. "This—"

"The seal has opened!" Tang Xiao frowned. "Get ready! We have to retreat to the first area now!"

"Do you already know the strength of our enemies?"

"Yes!" Tang Xiao nodded. "Their five leaders have cultivation above the Saint Level, and many of their subordinates have cultivation at the Tyrant Level!"

Xuanyuan Yueyao and the others gasped in shock at Tang Xiao’s words. Realizing that their enemies’ strength far surpassed their own, they wasted no time and followed him as they fled the area at high speed.

As for their clan members, they had already moved towards the first area the day before, so they were far ahead of them.

However, Xuanyuan Yueyao and the others still informed members of their clans, ordering them to move faster.

"What about the other cultivators?"

Tang Xiao looked at Xiao Qingning. "If you want to save those people, you should go to their respective locations. I don’t care about them, so I won’t waste my time on them, and their safety is their own responsibility."

Xiao Qingning raised an eyebrow, but Jiang Haoming stopped her from saying anything further. In this regard, he agreed with Tang Xiao; those people were cultivators, so they had to be responsible for their own safety.

Zhu Xuan’er glanced at Xuanyuan Wenxuan, who nodded and signaled for her not to say anything regarding those people.

Jiang Zhiwei, Jiang Sihan, Zhu Rongjun, and Zhu Zhiwei were displeased with Tang Xiao’s decision. Nevertheless, they realized that the situation would not be in their favor if they chose to oppose him. In their eyes, the safety of their young masters and young misses was far more important, so they chose to follow him.

Situ Yang, Taixu Yue, Xuanyuan Mengli, and Luo Feng committed to following Tang Xiao’s orders from the very beginning. Although they didn’t want those people to die, they would rather not sacrifice themselves for them. However, they contacted those people, informing them about the danger.

Tian Qianye and Tian Weiran sighed inwardly, but they chose to follow Tang Xiao’s orders, which aligned with Tian Xiaoxian’s request. Their young miss had never made a mistake in her judgment, and they trusted her completely.

In the central area, Tang Xiao’s clone saw three male demons and two female demons walking out of a cave, followed by dozens of their subordinates.

Tang Xiao’s heart skipped a beat when one of the male demons looked in his direction, and he clenched his fists tightly. However, his worries were unfounded, and the male demon averted his gaze a moment later. "Phew! I thought he could see me before."

[That male demon doesn’t possess the void element, so he won’t be able to find you as long as you hide in the void, Master. By the way, the strongest among them is the red-haired male demon, and the second strongest is the jet-black-haired female demon. Of course, you cannot underestimate the other three, and they can kill you before you can blink.]

"Show me their data." Xiao Ai immediately carried out Tang Xiao’s command. "The red-haired male demon is Gu Tianjue, and the jet-black-haired female demon is Pei Hongyu. The other three are Yin Moli, Ye Ming, and Ji Juechen. Furthermore, all five of them possess strength beyond the Saint Level, which will be quite troublesome."

Gu Tianjue looked at the others. "To avoid wasting time, we should spread out into five different areas. Remember, our main task is to capture all cultivators at the Tyrant and Saint levels, and we will kill the rest."

"Got it!"

After that, Gu Tianjue and the other four dispersed into five different areas, while their subordinates spread out in different directions.

Tang Xiao monitored their movements through the system map; he was relieved that none of them were heading towards his true body’s location, giving him enough time to reach the first area. However, he frowned when he saw Ye Ming moving towards Zhuo Qingci’s location, and Duanmu Jingjing was also heading there.

Without wasting time, Tang Xiao closed the map and headed towards Duanmu Jingjing’s location at full speed. "I won’t let them capture her."