CHAPTER 1032: CHAPTER 1029: AMBUSHED!

Ximen Qingxue noticed the surprised expressions of Li Chen and Lian Hongshang, then smiled softly and explained, "The Azure Dragon Tribe’s totem has some connections with our Dragon Ascending Valley’s Ice Dragon."

"But, I don’t know the specifics. It’s all something my father told me!"

At the mention of "father," the scene of her father slapping her on the ice field and saying he would sever ties with her as his daughter immediately surfaced in Ximen Qingxue’s mind.

This made her eyes involuntarily start to turn red.

"Hey, Qingxue, why are you crying?"

Lian Hongshang, unaware of the situation, saw Ximen Qingxue’s eyes turning red and stepped forward to ask with concern.

Ximen Qingxue quickly rubbed her eyes, blushing, and said, "No, no, nothing, it was just the wind blowing into my eyes!"

After speaking, she looked at Li Chen with a gaze full of resentment, pouting, looking aggrieved to the point of tears.

Li Chen looked at Ximen Qingxue and said, "Since that’s the case, let’s drop by Dragon Ascending Valley!"

Upon hearing Li Chen’s words, Ximen Qingxue was first delighted.

But soon, worry appeared in her clear eyes.

"My father has already disowned me as his daughter, will he allow us to return?"

"Ah, what’s going on?"

Lian Hongshang was startled by Ximen Qingxue’s words and hurriedly asked for details.

Seeing that she couldn’t hide it anymore, Ximen Qingxue simply recounted the whole process of how Li Chen "abducted" her.

After listening to Ximen Qingxue’s account, even the usually generous Lian Hongshang couldn’t help but roll her eyes at Li Chen.

Li Chen, on the other hand, was filled with awkwardness!

He really couldn’t imagine what terrifying things would happen if he put Ye Chuxue, Lian Hongshang, Ximen Qingxue, Zhao Yuqing, and these girls all together.

Thinking of this, Li Chen couldn’t help but shiver and sighed inwardly:

Even the end of the world might not be as bad!

Li Chen, Lian Hongshang, Ximen Qingxue, along with Jiao Long and the Lightning Weasel, the three people and two beasts spent the night at Sword Emperor Ridge.

The next morning, they headed straight towards Dragon Plateau.

Past Dragon Plateau, a journey of a thousand eight hundred miles leads to the Northern Dominator’s territory, Dragon Ascending Valley.

However, just as they entered Dragon Plateau, they were met with a pungent smell of blood.

Even the river winding through the mountain had turned crimson red.

Lian Hongshang furrowed her brows slightly and said, "It seems there has been a massacre here recently!"

"Splash!"

At this moment, several corpses floated downstream rapidly, colliding with rocks protruding in the middle of the riverbed, causing waves to splash.

Those nameless corpses were thus washed ashore, lying in a disarray.

Seeing this, Li Chen, Lian Hongshang, and Ximen Qingxue immediately went forward to investigate.

The corpses were all naked, regardless of gender; all their clothes had been stripped off. Their faces were slashed, their features twisted together, making them extraordinarily hideous, unbearable to look at.

"Ugh!"

Seeing this scene, both Lian Hongshang and Ximen Qingxue felt their stomachs churning, almost wanting to vomit.

At this moment, Li Chen noticed a male corpse with his fist clenched tightly, seemingly holding something inside.

Li Chen flicked his finger and extracted the item from the palm of the male corpse.

It was a Jade Token, but it had shattered, making it difficult to identify.

"This, this is the token of our Dragon Ascending Valley!"

Suddenly, Ximen Qingxue shouted in shock, as if she had seen a ghost in daylight, her face turning pale.

Lian Hongshang saw her trembling as if she might collapse at any moment and quickly stepped forward to support her.

"Qingxue, are you sure?"

With tears in her eyes, Ximen Qingxue nodded vigorously and responded, "Yes, I can’t be wrong. This is the token of our Dragon Ascending Valley. I have one too!"

As she spoke, she took out her own Jade Token.

Lian Hongshang took it to have a look and then passed the Jade Token to Li Chen.

Li Chen carefully compared it and gently nodded.

Lian Hongshang furrowed her brows slightly and muttered to herself.

"Strange, why would people from Dragon Ascending Valley appear in Dragon Plateau?"

"Moreover, although there are bite marks from Demon Beast, the fatal injuries were all caused by weapons. Dragon Ascending Valley is the Northern Dominator, who would be so bold to attack their disciples?"

Li Chen pondered for a moment, glanced towards the upstream direction, and said, "There’s still sounds of fighting up there, let’s take a look!"

...

Upstream, among the mountain ridges:

Nearly a hundred experts from the Demon Sect had tightly surrounded a dozen disciples from Dragon Ascending Valley, who were dressed in white.

These Demon Sect experts were the direct lineage personally brought out by Heng Mountain Ancestor, each one a first-rate fighter.

Heng Mountain Ancestor and Sha Moke had gone together to Netherworld Crossing to search for Soul Summoning Grass. Worried that taking so many people would easily expose their location and cause unnecessary trouble while crossing a large part of the Demon Domain.

Thus, he left these Demon Sect experts to lie in wait here, in the jumbled Dragon Plateau, to serve as a backup, waiting in place.

But during their waiting, twenty to thirty Dragon Ascending Valley disciples arrived Sword Control.

They assumed that their location had been exposed and decided to carry out an ambush to cover their tracks and kill to silence.

Actually, they were sent by Bai Xueqin to inquire about Ximen Qingxue and not aiming for them.

Ximen Qingxue followed Li Chen into Demon Domain and had vanished without a trace.

Ximen Longting, although publicly severed father-daughter ties with Ximen Qingxue and did not care about her life or death.

But that was just for appearances, so when the True Immortal Alliance held him accountable, he would have an explanation.

Privately, he was very worried about this daughter of his and even deeply regretted slapping her.

If not, Ximen Qingxue would not have been so determined to follow that brat Li Chen to take risks in Demon Domain.

Especially when he heard about the internal chaos in the Demon Clan, he was even more anxious.

But due to status and reputation, he personally could not go to search for her.

Bai Xueqin knew about her senior brother’s worries, so she dispatched elite disciples under the guise of training, disguised to enter the Demon Domain to search for Ximen Qingxue’s whereabouts.

But these disciples had just arrived at Dragon Plateau when they were ambushed by Demon Sect experts, suffering heavy casualties.

"You remnants of the Demon Sect dare to ambush our Dragon Ascending Valley disciples, aren’t you afraid of our Valley Master’s Thunderous Fury?"

A Dragon Ascending Valley disciple, covered in blood, glared in rage and shouted fiercely.

His name was Mu Changying, a direct disciple of Ximen Longting, and thus Ximen Qingxue’s senior brother, leading the Dragon Ascending Valley disciples.

Zhu Ganglie, one of the Demon Sect’s seven great experts, laughed disdainfully upon hearing Mu Changying’s words.

Then he stretched out his crimson tongue, licking the blood on his blade and grinned maliciously, "Hehehe, against our Ancestor, that Old Thief Ximen is nothing!"

A Demon Sect lieutenant stepped forward and said, "Commander Zhu, why waste words with them? Just chop up their bodies and throw them in the wilderness to feed the dogs!"

"The men can certainly be chopped up to feed dogs, but those female disciples, each one a beauty; killing them would be a waste of heavenly resources. Better let the brothers enjoy them first and see what these so-called reputable sects’ female disciples really taste like."

Another lascivious person stepped forward, swallowing hard twice, and laughed lewdly.

His filthy words immediately prompted a chorus of agreement among the Demon Sect disciples.

The male disciples of Dragon Ascending Valley showed expressions of absolute desperation one by one.

The female disciples, facing this horde worse than beasts, were filled with terror, their hands holding swords already trembling.

Despair spread among them like an epidemic.

Mu Changying saw things were about to go wrong and immediately raised his voice, shouting to encourage his fellow junior brothers and sisters.

"Everyone, don’t be afraid! Since ancient times, evil never triumphs over good, and Junior Brother Du has already dashed out to seek help from the Valley. If we hold on for a little longer, we’ll surely avenge our fallen comrades by taking out these remnants of the Demon Sect!"

Zhu Ganglie again stretched out his crimson tongue, licked the blood on the blade, and grinned sinisterly, "Junior Brother Du? Are you referring to that little fatty? He’s already been chopped up by me and thrown into the river to feed the fish. Hahaha, hahaha..."

"Hahaha, hahaha..."

With Zhu Ganglie’s loud laughter, the Demon Sect disciples also burst into laughter.