Following the footsteps of Mo Qingqin, they passed through dense forests, streams, and canyons. What left Bexia speechless was the fact that flying was impossible here. Everything had to be done on foot, not because Mo Qingqin was narrow-minded, but because of the rules set by the master of this place, Mo Zi, which had formed a prohibition here.
"Anyone who enters this place must not use any extraordinary power!"
So they had to laboriously climb up halfway the mountainside, finally catching sight of a cave amidst the flowing mountain stream. There were two men around thirty years old playing chess on the rocks by the stream, completely unaware of the group approaching.
"Brothers, this game of chess seems to have gone on for quite a while!" Mo Qingqin walked up to the two men, glanced at the board, picked up a chess piece and placed it, startling the two men.
"Oh! It's our Junior Sister back!"
"Junior Sister's chess skill has truly inherited the master's teachings. We are no match!"
"Naturally, Junior Sister has exceptional comprehension, even able to understand the rules of dreams. Truly, making us brothers ashamed!"
"Enough with the flattery! I've brought some guests, you two better take good care of them. I'm going to see my father!" Mo Qingqin shot her two senior brothers a look, making them awkwardly smile.
"Leave it to us, Junior Sister!"
"Oh! The eldest brother is back too!" The two men snickered.
"You two, get lost!" Luo Chen said coldly.
"Haha! Eldest Brother, you take care! Running off and not coming back to see the master after so many years, you're in for a beating!"
"Uncle Wen! Uncle Hua!"
"It's been so many years, Ah Ling and Xian have grown so much!"
"Come on, let Uncle Wen have a hug!"
"Get out of the way! Let me go first!"
"They actually called for me, so I should go first!"
"Do you know what 'the early bird catches the worm' means? It should be me first!"
"You're being unfair!"
"You're being unreasonable!"
"You..."
"You..."
"We'll go first, Bexia, you follow them! We'll come find you later!" Mo Qingqin, feeling a headache, looked at her two senior brothers, decisively chose to ignore them, and led her family into the cave, leaving Bexia and the others at a loss.
"Are these two people out of their minds?" Christine whispered to Bexia.
"Well..." Bexia didn't know how to respond, feeling that these two people were both unreliable!
"Be cautious, Lord. They are very powerful, possibly on the level of Creator Gods, but somehow not quite, my perception doesn't work on them!" Lucifer whispered quietly.
"Um... could you two stop arguing? Ah Ling and Xian have left..." Finally, Bexia couldn't bear it anymore and reminded the two.
"Ah!" The two men then realized, and what made Bexia lose hope was that they started arguing again.
"It's all your fault, if you hadn't competed with me, Ah Ling and Xian wouldn't have left!"
"It was clearly you who insisted on competing with me..."
"I say, you two..." Before Bexia could finish his sentence, the two shouted at him in unison, "Shut up!"
Then there was an endless argument, until Mo Qingqin walked out of the cave, curiously giving her two senior brothers a kick each, pushing them all into the stream, causing Luo Cailing and Luo Ningxian to chuckle uncontrollably.
"Don't blame it on them not being able to graduate, take some time to cool off down there!" Mo Qingqin said without turning her head and walked towards Bexia.
"Don't mind them, that's just how they are. Let me take you to meet my father, the old man!"
"Alright!" Bexia nodded. It's only natural to pay a courtesy visit when entering someone else's territory.
Following Mo Qingqin into the cave, it was not as spacious as Bexia had imagined, just a normal cave with traces of artificial excavation around it.
Walking deeper into the cave, they soon saw Luo Chen kneeling with his head down, being lectured by an old man dressed like an ordinary farmer.
"Hmph! Reflect on your own actions, Clear Qing's plea won't save you!" Mo Di lectured Luo Chen sternly, making him nod repeatedly in apology.
"Lessons learned from the teacher, Luo Chen knows his mistakes!"
"Be gone!"
"Yes!" Luo Chen immediately ran off at the fastest speed in his life.
"Father! Don't blame Luo Chen, it was my idea back then. Blame me if you must!" Mo Qingqin said.
"You won't get away either, see how I will punish you!" Mo Di said with a scowl.
"Hehe! Your daughter is waiting for father's punishment!" Mo Qingqin said playfully.
"Hmph!" With a snort, Mo Di said nothing more. Bexia could tell that he had no real intentions, after all, she was his daughter. Would a father really punish his own daughter?
"Senior Mo!" Bexia felt Mo Di's gaze and immediately spoke respectfully.
"You must be Bexia that Qingqin mentioned?"
"That's me!"
"Oh! And there's a great angel here, you're covered in darkness, you must be Lucifer?"
"Huh?! Another messenger from the old Hell!"
"A purely spiritual being..."
"Your true form is actually a battleship, the first I've seen..."
