Chapter 1312: Xian Gate

“Perhaps not now, but who can say what will happen in the future?”

Ye Qing encouraged her smilingly, “I’m sure you can do it, big sis.”

“Haha... thank you.”

Murong Xianxian smiled and dragged several items out of the space in front of her. Then, she tossed it in Ye Qing’s direction and said, “These are the items he left behind. They’re yours now.”

“Thank you! I’ll happily accept your gift!”

Ye Qing did not play coy with Murong Xianxian. He took them all.

Suddenly, Murong Xianxian let out a sigh. “It’s a shame. I wanted to let him live since it looks like he would make an excellent servant. Unfortunately, he insisted on committing suicide.”

“What can you do? You can’t help stupid.” Ye Qing chuckled before pointing a finger at the Boss of Westwind Inn. The man was still fighting against Tao Youran. “Besides, there’s one more guy. Perhaps this one will be smarter.”

“You’re right.”

Murong Xianxian nodded before shifting her gaze to Tao Youran. “That fisherman isn’t half-bad either.”

“Ahem...”

Ye Qing hurriedly coughed and said, “Tao Youran is one of the helpers I invited, so please don’t bother him...”

“I’m just teasing you.”

Murong Xianxian smiled, and the world faded as if they were ashamed to be in her presence.

Meanwhile, the Boss of Westwind Inn suddenly lost his composure and control for some unknown reason.

Tao Youran wasn’t going to let go of such an excellent opportunity, of course. He cut yin and yang apart with his fishing rod before landing a solid strike on the Boss.

The strike pushed him back fifty kilometers and drained some of the blood on his face.

The Boss was smiling though. It looked exceptionally mocking and cold on his pale face.

The next moment, a bloody maw appeared behind the Boss. At the center of the bloody maw was a massive, mysterious-looking stone gate.

“He’s running away!”

Both Tao Youran and Murong Xianxian rushed forward to stop him.

Tao Youran swung his fishing rod in a way that caused his silver fishing hook to perform a half-rotation in the air. Then, it soared toward the Boss of Westwind Inn like a meteor.

As for Murong Xianxian, she flew into the sky like a celestial and threw a white ribbon that sped toward the Boss like a dragon.

When the fishing hook and the white ribbon were ten meters away from the Boss, the bloody maw suddenly spat out a thick, sticky river of blood.

The fishing hook and the white ribbon made sizzling noises when they clashed against the river of blood.

Tao Youran’s fishing hook could fish celestial bodies and any god, demon, celestial or Buddha, and yet it was slowly being eroded by the river of blood.

It was the same for the white ribbon.

Seeing this, Tao Youran grabbed his fishing rod with both hands and performed a downward swing.

His massive strength bent the fishing rod into a half-circle and triggered a burst of rainbow-colored light. It spanned the sky like an actual rainbow.

Murong Xianxian let go of her white ribbon and pushed sideways with one hand. The entire sky began rippling like it was the ocean.

However, neither the rainbow light of the fishing rod nor the rippling sky managed to elicit more than a few ripples from the river of blood before being consumed. They could not even reach the Boss of Westwind Inn.

Not only that, their attacks triggered a titanic wave of malice from the bloody maw. The next moment, the river of blood stirred like they would consume the two Sages whole.

“Big sister, senior Tao, stop!”

Seeing this, Ye Qing hurriedly stopped them. “That is the Xian Gate! You must not attack it any further than this!”

“The Xian Gate?” Both Tao Youran and Murong Xianxian halted their attacks and looked in Ye Qing’s direction.

“Yeah.” Ye Qing explained, “In the Stranger Subjugating Record, it is stated that there exists an ancient Stranger that is shaped like a bloody maw carrying a stone gate. They call it the Xian Gate.”

“The Xian Gate is normally hidden from the world until someone summons it through a flesh-and-blood sacrifice. If the summoner divulges their birthday and origin to the Xian Gate, then the Xian Gate will manifest before them instantly. Its emergence cannot be stopped by distance or even death.”

“Once the ritual has taken place, no one but the summoner can disrupt it. Otherwise, they will suffer terrible consequences.”

“In other words, that bastard is baiting us to attack the Xian Gate. Do not fall for his trick!”

To put it simply, the Xian Gate was a powerful, anomalous Stranger that could be summoned through a flesh-and-blood ritual. Once summoned, the summoner simply needed to give it their name, age, birthday, origin and so on to bring the Xian Gate to them in an instant. Not even distance and death could prevent the Xian Gate from manifesting.

Besides that, only the summoner possessed the right to half or interrupt the ritual. Attacking the Xian Gate in particular was strictly prohibited. Otherwise, the Xian Gate would be provoked into launching an indiscriminate attack. It would turn everything within a five hundred-kilometer radius into an ocean of dirty blood.

Clearly, the Xian Gate was a trump card the Boss of Westwind Inn had prepared just in case things went awry. It allowed him to escape and screw over his attackers at the same time.

“You are far more knowledgeable than your age suggests, Mad Lord.”

The Boss’ eyes flashed with undisguised malice and hatred when he heard this. So far, their plan had ended in abject failure. Not only did they fail to take revenge, one of them had died in the process.

In fact, if he didn’t have a backup plan, he could have died here as well. It wouldn’t just be an abject failure at that point. It would be total defeat and annihilation.

Worse, the culprit behind all that would be this puny ant; this so-called Mad Lord.

How could he not hate? How could he not resent?

Originally, he was hoping to screw over Tao Youran and Murong Xianxian before he made his escape. The Xian Gate was unimaginably powerful even for Sages. As strong as his foes were, not even they could survive it without shedding a shell or two.

He might not be able to collect the principal, but goddamn he would collect at least some interest.

However, Ye Qing had seen through and denied him even this tiny bit of payback. How could he not be angry? How could he not be infuriated?

“You flatter me, senior.”

Ye Qing replied smilingly, “I did not think you would be so well-prepared either; to go so far as to prepare an escape plan against a small fry like me.”

“It is never a bad thing to prepare for the worst case scenario, is it?”

The Boss of Westwind Inn said, “And this outcome is a perfect testament of my wisdom.”

“Besides, isn’t this the lesson you’ve been drilling into me this entire time? You taught me to not lower my guard no matter how weak and pathetic my opponents seem to be.”

“I will remember this, just as I will forever remember your favor. I promise to repay it a hundred fold in the future.”

The Boss’ voice was calm, but the unbridled madness and bloodthirst in his eyes told the true story.

Meanwhile, the stone gate in the Xian Gate’s mouth was slowly opening.

“Well then, I’ll see you all in the future.”

To the Boss’ surprise, Ye Qing crossed his arms and smirked. “Hehe... will we? I don’t think so. After all, you don’t have a future anymore.”

“Oh? What do you mean by that? Are you saying that you can stop me?” The Boss of Westwind Inn looked down on Ye Qing with scornful eyes.

Even Tao Youran and Murong Xianxian were looking at Ye Qing with puzzlement.

“I can’t...”

Ye Qing stared at the opening gate and smiled wider. “But someone else can!”