Ex-Wife is a Big Villainess

The three of them rode through the sea of sand and arrived at the territory of the Ten Thousand Mountains by dusk.

Under the guidance of Liu Xunhua, the trio continued southeast for about twenty miles and reached two red mountain passes shaped like fangs.

"This is Jade Gorge."

Liu Xunhua said, "Sect Master Qu was once ambushed by the court and some Jianghu figures here. That assassination severely injured her, and it took over half a year in seclusion to recover."

Jiang Shouzhong remained silent.

The world believed Hong'er spent those six months healing in seclusion, unaware she had appeared with amnesia in Anhe Village.

In retrospect, those six months were the most wonderful time of his life in this world.

"I smell blood."

Ran Qingchen slightly sniffed and suddenly said.

Blood scent?

Jiang Shouzhong tugged the reins and urged his horse forward.

Turning past a massive boulder, Jiang Shouzhong was astonished to see a hundred or so corpses scattered messily at the bottom of a wide valley, their deaths horrific.

A closer look revealed that among the corpses were soldiers clad in Mysterious Iron Armor and beasts with tattered pelts, and half a Snake Demon body was nailed to a few withered trees nearby.

"These are the Xuanjia Guards under the Third Prince."

Ran Qingchen dismounted, approached a corpse, brushed a finger over the inner pattern of the armor, and said blandly, "It seems the Third Prince has already led his army into the Ten Thousand Mountains. But why would they clash with the Demon Clan here?"

Liu Xunhua pointed to a cliff in the distance and said, "That place is called Heartbroken Cliff, part of the Blood Spirit Cave's territory."

Blood Spirit Cave...

At those words, Jiang Shouzhong felt a stir in his heart.

Jiang Que trained at Blood Spirit Cave, and he wondered if the little girl was at the Sect.

"Let's visit Blood Spirit Cave."

Having reached the vicinity of Blood Spirit Cave, Jiang Shouzhong immediately decided to check on Jiang Que.

The three of them swiftly moved along the cliffside path and, after crossing a foggy ridge, arrived at Heartbroken Cliff. However, at this moment, Heartbroken Cliff was shrouded in thick black mist.

Vague, twisting vines could be seen writhing like living creatures within the mist.

Fine bone fragments floated in the air.

Evidently, Blood Spirit Cave was under foreign attack.

"Strange, how come I've never seen such Demons before?" Liu Xunhua swallowed, looking somewhat nervous.

Jiang Shouzhong released a flying sword towards the black mist.

The Sword Qi dissipated instantly upon contact with the mist.

Ran Qingchen pinched a spell with her jade fingers, and a mark appeared on her forehead. As the mark slowly spread, the floating black mist gradually dispersed, revealing the true form of the Demon.

The writhing vines turned out to be a giant centipede, as thick as a barrel and exceedingly long, coiling around the cliffside construction, its head and tail out of sight.

"Is this a Demon from the Thousand Beasts Forest?"

Jiang Shouzhong had never seen such a terrifying Demon before and felt a chill down his spine, inexplicably unsettled.

However, wouldn't soaking this thing in alcohol be quite healthful?

Liu Xunhua shook his head quickly, his voice trembling slightly, "I've been in the Thousand Beasts Forest for so long and never seen such a Demon."

As they spoke, the giant centipede monster seemed to sense the intruders. Its massive, snake-like body began to move slowly until a huge centipede head rose from the rear hill.

Perched atop the centipede head was a little boy who appeared to be about five or six years old.

The boy's lips were red, and his teeth were white, with a round face, quite exquisite and adorable, like a doll stepping out of a painting.

The boy looked at Jiang Shouzhong and the others, his gaze resting on Ran Qingchen, and sneered, "Where did these three little brats come from, daring to cause trouble on my turf."

Turf?

Has this guy rejuvenated?

Jiang Shouzhong glanced at some remains in the distance that seemed to have been gnawed upon, apparently Blood Spirit Cave disciples, and asked, "Where is the cave master of Blood Spirit Cave, Lou Wanmo?"

The boy squinted his eyes, "What Lou Wanmo, never heard of him, but if you're asking about other Blood Spirit Cave people, I'm happy to take you to them. They... are in my belly."

No sooner had he spoken than the giant centipede suddenly reared half its body, and its abdomen slowly split open to form a massive, bloody maw. Inside, teeth were densely packed, each tooth as thick as an arm.

In the next moment, a whirlpool-like suction burst forth from the split abdomen of the centipede demon.

Sand and stones cracked under Jiang Shouzhong's feet, and his clothes flapped as if about to be swept off the ground.

Liu Xunhua was already drawn toward the bloody maw like a kite with a broken string.

"Hmph, reckless!"

Ran Qingchen's pupils shone with an obsidian chill, her hair surged in the Gang Wind like a cascade of ink.

As her jade fingers pinched a spell, countless profound black Sword Qi materialized from the void, accompanied by a chilling death intent, attacking the centipede demon like a storm, piercing its demonic body directly.

The demon's armor, hard as Mysterious Iron, shattered like thin paper under the Sword Qi. The turquoise venomous blood vaporized into a bloody mist before sprinkling down.

"This... this is impossible!"

The little boy on the centipede's head turned pale with fright.

In desperation, the boy rapidly changed the spell in his hand.

The remaining three sections of the centipede's severed body suddenly exploded, raining down a storm of poisonous needles.

Ran Qingchen brushed her skirt sleeve lightly, causing the poison needles to stop three feet away in mid-air.

With a flick of her finger, thousands of poison needles reversed, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

The little boy tumbled awkwardly to the ground, his exquisite, cherubic face smeared with venomous blood.

"Don't come any closer!"

He looked in terror at Ran Qingchen, who was slowly approaching, and suddenly spat out a half-red mysterious Black Pill: "Stop, or I'll take you all down with me..."

The words "with me" barely escaped his lips when spiderweb-like cracks rapidly covered the Black Pill's surface, and under the child's horrified gaze, it instantly turned into a cloud of dust.