Li Changzhou reached out, easily pinching the green longsword between his fingers.

Feeling determined, Xiaoqing ignored Bai Suzhen's scolding, channeled her mana, and a burst of green sword light shot from the blade.

She was about to twist her wrist to rotate the sword, intending to break Li Changzhou's fingers.

"Don't move," Turquoise Pool said with a smile.

"..." Xiaoqing was as if under an immobilization spell, unable to move, enveloped by twinkling golden light—the Divine Will of Turquoise Pool.

Bai Suzhen urgently stepped forward, "Everyone, my sister did not mean any offense..."

Li Changzhou slightly exerted force with the two fingers pinching the sword, and Xiaoqing, along with the sword, was pulled in front of him.

"Xiaoqing!" Bai Suzhen's hand flashed with white light as the White Snake Sword was drawn from its sheath.

"Take one more step forward," Li Changzhou said, holding the Green Snake Sword casually resting on Xiaoqing's shoulder.

Bai Suzhen stopped in her tracks, anxious yet helpless, "If Xiaoqing has offended, Bai Suzhen apologizes on her behalf; she is young and acts impulsively..."

"Young?" Yang Qinglan's voice carried a hint of doubt.

Li Qianxia had thought that such a big reaction was unnecessary, but when Yang Qinglan spoke, she knew this couple was going to manipulate others again, so she kept silent.

Bai Suzhen said, "Xiaoqing has only recently cultivated her human form, merely 500 years old."

"The oldest among us here is her," Yang Qinglan pointed at Turquoise Pool, "24 years old."

Turquoise Pool glanced at Yang Qinglan.

"Sister, stop wasting words with them, kill them! Don't let them expose your whereabouts!" Xiaoqing struggled against her restraints.

"Shut up!" Bai Suzhen scolded.

"Hiss—" The boat slightly dipped as the King Cobra emerged from West Lake, climbing onto the boat.

Black scale armor, golden vertical pupils, neither speaking nor smiling, its slow movements exuded an unruffled nobility, a composure befitting the king of snakes.

As it raised its head, Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing trembled all over, feeling an indescribable fear in their hearts.

"I specialize in eating snakes," the King Cobra swam to Li Changzhou's feet, then towards Xiaoqing.

"Eat snakes? Aren't you afraid of biting your tongue in strong winds?" Xiaoqing's legs went weak; she turned pale but still spoke defiantly.

Hiss—

The King Cobra tore its mouth open, biting sharply into Xiaoqing's calf.

"Ah!" Xiaoqing was almost petrified with fright.

"Xiaoqing!" Bai Suzhen could not control herself, and her sword flashed like a burst silver vase, splashing towards the King Cobra like water.

Li Changzhou pointed the Green Snake Sword into the white light.

Clang!

Like the green snake biting the white snake, the Green Snake Sword locked the White Snake Sword in place. In that moment, the King Cobra had already released Xiaoqing and vanished without a trace.

Bai Suzhen struck again, this time with all her force, but Li Changzhou did not hinder her.

"Xiaoqing!" Bai Suzhen embraced Xiaoqing.

Xiaoqing's chest heaved up and down, still in shock, the King Cobra's dominance over snakes was beyond imagination.

"She is now afflicted with 36,453 kinds of poison, each causing agony once daily, and without an antidote within a month, she will begin to rot and fester from the tail inch by inch," Li Changzhou said.

"Then I'll just chop off my tail ahead of time!" Xiaoqing struggled to say.

Li Changzhou laughed heartily, turning the Green Snake Sword into a stream of light and tossing it to her.

"Miss Xiaoqing is so much older than us, yet her mind is still like that of a child," he said.

Bai Suzhen took a deep breath, "May I ask what you want us sisters to do?"

"Were you directed by Guanyin to come to West Lake to repay a favor?" Yang Qinglan asked.

"It was the Bodhisattva Guanyin who enlightened Suzhen to come to West Lake to face the Human Tribulation. Xiaoqing acted only because she was worried about my whereabouts being revealed, leading to complications in the Human Tribulation," Bai Suzhen explained.

The Human Tribulation... Xiaoqing's love for her sister, her sword strike, perhaps was already a part of the Human Tribulation.

"Where is Guanyin?" Yang Qinglan asked.

Bai Suzhen's expression changed.

Yang Qinglan, wielding the Fairy's Ruyi, gently struck the air, and two booklets flew out from the White Snake and the Green Snake, landing on the dining table inside the cabin.

"You can go back and think it over. If the poison becomes unbearable, come find us again," she said.

Bai Suzhen, taking Xiaoqing with her, turned and left, plunging directly into West Lake without even taking the black-canopied boat.

"...If people knew how you treated the Lady White and Xiaoqing, you would definitely be cyberbullied to death," Li Qianxia regretted the failed encounter with her idol.

No one paid attention to her.

"How did you suddenly think to extort them?" Turquoise Pool curiously asked Li Changzhou and Yang Qinglan.

"Seeing them," Yang Qinglan said, "it occurred to me that Guanyin is in the South Sea, but where exactly in the South Sea, we do not know."

"Guanyin ah," Turquoise Pool smiled.

Li Changzhou asked her, "What is your task?"

"Also Guanyin," she replied.

Li Changzhou frowned; he, Li Qianxia, and Turquoise Pool all had tasks involving the Bodhisattva Guanyin. It was clear the game intended for the three to collaborate.

In other words, the difficulty of this task was such that it could only be accomplished with the combined efforts of three people, narrowly surviving each time.

"There's no time limit on this task, right?" Li Qianxia said, "Why don't you break through first, become an Earth Immortal, then we'll talk?"

Li Changzhou shook his head, "In this instance, I can't sense 'Honey Pot World,' to become an Earth Immortal, I must achieve 'Constant Sand.'"

Li Qianxia sighed, "I wonder, if you had become an Earth Immortal before entering the instance, what kind of task would you be assigned? They wouldn't make you kill Buddha, would they?"

"No matter how exaggerated, it wouldn't be like that," Li Changzhou found it amusing, "I guess at most they'd let me kill two or three Bodhisattvas. I don't mind, but you would have to risk yourselves two or three times."

"When you put it like that, our situation now actually seems better," Turquoise Pool took a sip of wine, "Although facing a Bodhisattva, there's only one, and with four of us working together, there's still hope."

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