Xie Lian said, “San Lang, are you really okay? Let me down.”

But Sanlang said, "Don't come down."

Xie Lian was startled, thinking: "What's going on? Is there something on the ground?"

The hands still held him tightly, with no intention of loosening. Xie Lian wanted to raise his hand and gently push San Lang's chest. However, as soon as he put his hand on it, he remembered that when he fell and was caught, he had groped around and touched the hard bulge in the boy's throat, so he secretly retracted his hand. He didn't know what was going on. Xie Lian had been here for hundreds of years and didn't know how to write the word "embarrassment". At this time, a voice in his heart kept warning him that it was best not to move his hands and be honest.

At this moment, there was a roar filled with anger and grief, and a shrill roar came from the other side of the pit: "What happened to you!?"

The voice was Ban Yueyu, and judging from the sound, it was General Ke Mo who was pulled down by Xie Lian. He was dead in the beginning, so he didn’t die from the fall, but the fall was so violent that it probably created a human-shaped pit and he was embedded in it. When he got up, he started to yell, “What’s going on? Brothers, what’s wrong with you?!”

He had just shouted down from the top of the high wall, and there were clearly hundreds of voices responding to him, as if the bottom of the pit was filled with surging evil spirits crying for food. However, at this moment, all Xie Lian could hear was dead silence, except for the furious roars. He couldn't even hear the breathing and heartbeat of Sanlang, who was so close to him.

Yes, he was clearly clinging tightly to Saburo, but he could not hear the boy's breathing or heartbeat at all!

Ke Mo shouted: "Who killed you, who killed you!!!"

When Ah Zhao fell down, he could hear the horrifying sound of something eating away at living people coming from below. But after Sanlang jumped down, there was no more sound from below. Who else could it be?

Ke Mo must have reacted immediately and said, "Zhongyuan people, you deserve to die! I want you to die!"

Although he couldn't see, Xie Lian could still sense that danger was coming towards him. He moved his body and said, "Sanlang, be careful!"

Sanlang said, "Don't worry about him." Still holding him, he took a slight step and seemed to turn around.

In the darkness, Xie Lian heard a series of extremely fine "ding-ding" sounds, crisp, pleasant, intense, and fleeting. When Ke Mo tried to catch it again, his pounce was in vain, and when he attacked again, San Lang spun around and dodged. Xie Lian's arms involuntarily climbed up again, hugging San Lang tightly, unconsciously grabbing the clothes on his shoulders.

However, the hands held him very firmly, dodging and moving, and still holding him firmly. However, Xie Lian felt something cold and hard on the hands from time to time, and couldn't help but be startled. In the boundless darkness, a silver light flashed, and the sound of sharp blades cutting and the sound of grinding came from all directions. General Ban Yue seemed to be seriously injured, but he was very brave and still did not retreat. He attacked again with a gust of angry wind. Xie Lian felt that he couldn't sit here like this any longer, and said: "Ruo Xie!"

The white silk flew out with a "snap" sound, and it seemed to whip Ke Mo into a somersault in the air and he fell to the ground. The fall made Ke Mo roar: "You! Two people! Two against one! Despicable!"

Xie Lian thought, "You are going to kill us, why do you care about two against a few, two against one, or whether it is despicable or not? Saving your life is the most important thing, kill us first and talk later." San Lang snorted without any smile, and said, "You have no chance of winning in a one-on-one. Don't make a move." The latter sentence was said to Xie Lian, and his voice was a little deeper, and the sarcasm in the previous sentence disappeared. Xie Lian said, "Okay." After that, he reminded him again, "San Lang, why don't you put me down first. This way I will be in your way."

Sanlang said, "It's okay. Don't come down."

Xie Lian couldn't help but ask, "Why can't you come down?" It couldn't be that this boy liked to fight with people in his arms, right?

Sanlang's answer was just one word: "Dirty."

“…”

Xie Lian had never expected that he would give such a reason, and he said it so seriously. It was a little funny, but also a little strange and indescribable. He felt his chest getting slightly hot for no reason, and said, “You can’t keep holding me like this.”

Sanlang said, "That's possible."

Xie Lian's words were just a joke, but Sanlang's words were not a joke at all. He didn't know what to say next. In between his words, Ke Mo once again launched an unyielding attack in the darkness. Sanlang clearly held him with both hands, but he didn't know what method he used to beat Ke Mo and he retreated, shouting, "That bitch let you..."

Before he could finish his shout, there was a loud thump, and a huge body fell to the ground. It was beaten to the ground and couldn’t get up. Xie Lian heard the sound and said hurriedly, “Sanlang, don’t kill him yet. If we want to leave here, I’m afraid we have to ask him some questions.”

As expected, San Lang did not attack again. He stood still and said, "I didn't intend to kill him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be here until now."

At the bottom of the Sinners' Pit, there was dead silence again.

After a moment of silence, Xie Lian asked, “Sanlang, did you do these?”

Even though it was impossible to see anything in the darkness, the overwhelming smell of blood and murderous aura, as well as Ke Mo's grief and anger, clearly outlined what was happening below. After a moment of silence, Xie Lian finally heard San Lang's answer.

He said, "Yes."

It was an expected answer. After a while, Xie Lian sighed and said, "How should I put it..."

He thought for a while, and finally said earnestly: "Sanlang, next time you see a pit like this, don't jump into it again. I can't stop you, I really don't know what to do."

As if he hadn't expected him to say this, Sanlang seemed to choke. When he spoke again, his tone was a little strange, and he said, "Why don't you ask more questions?"

Xie Lian asked, “What else do you want me to ask?”

Sanlang said: "For example, am I a human being?"

Xie Lian rubbed his brows and said, “Well, I don’t think there’s any need to ask.”

San Lang said, "Hmm? Is it not necessary?"

Xie Lian said, “Yes. Is it necessary? It doesn’t matter if he is human or not.”

Sanlang said, "Oh?"

Xie Lian crossed his arms and said, “When making friends, we look at whether we are compatible or not, and whether we are compatible with each other, not our status. If I like you, I will like you even if you are a beggar; if I hate you, I will hate you even if you are an emperor. Shouldn’t it be like this? This is a very simple truth, so there is no need to ask.”

Sanlang laughed and said, "Well, what you said really makes a lot of sense."

Xie Lian asked, “Isn’t that right?” He also laughed twice. As he laughed, he felt something was wrong, and suddenly, he finally realized it.

He was actually held by Sanlang like this all the time, and the scariest thing was that he had gotten used to this position without realizing it!

This is really going to kill me. Xie Lian coughed lightly and said, "Well, Sanlang, we can talk about this kind of trivial matter later. Can you put me down first?"

Sanlang seemed to smile and said, "Wait a moment."

He held Xie Lian in his arms and seemed to walk down for a distance before he gently put him down. Xie Lian landed on a piece of solid ground and said, "Thank you very much."

Sanlang didn’t say anything, so Xie Lian thanked him and raised his head to look upwards.

There is a bright moon hanging in the deep blue sky, which is extremely beautiful, but it is framed in a square piece of sky, which reminds people of the frog sitting in the well and looking at the sky.

He tried to drive Ruo Xie again and leap upwards, but as expected, Ruo Xie was blocked by something invisible in the air and bounced back, unable to go up. San Lang said, "There is a formation around this sinner pit."

Xie Lian said, “I know. I’m just trying. I won’t give up until I try. I wonder what’s happening to the others up there. Will that girl in black sweep them down as well?”

He told Sanlang about the sudden attack by the girl hanging on the pole, sweeping down a group of soldiers. After a few words, he tried to take a few steps forward, but he stepped on something that looked like an arm. Xie Lian almost tripped, but he quickly stood firm. Sanlang still helped him up and said, "Be careful."

He added casually: "I told you, the ground is dirty."

Xie Lian also understood what that “dirty” meant, and said, “It’s okay. I want to raise a palm flame to see what’s going on down there before making any plans.”

San Lang did not speak. At this time, in the distance, a cold voice sounded again: "You work for that bitch, and the millions of wronged souls in our country will curse you, curse you!"

Xie Lian turned around and said in Banyue language, “General Ke Mo, who is that person you are talking about?”

Ke Mo said in a hateful voice: "Why bother asking? That evil Taoist!"

Xie Lian asked, “Is it the nun wandering around the city?”

Ke Mo spat fiercely. It seemed so. Xie Lian asked, “Aren’t you loyal to Ban Yue Imperial Master?”

Ke Mo was enraged by this statement and cursed: "I, Ke Mo, will never be loyal to her again! I will not forgive this bitch!!!"

Then came a long string of mumbling curses. Ke Mo was so excited that he spoke very quickly, so fast that Xie Lian was completely confused and could not understand anything. He could only whisper, “San Lang, San Lang.”

Sanlang said, "He was cursing. He said that woman betrayed their country, opened the city gates to let the Central Plains army massacre the city, killed the people of Banyue Kingdom with her own hands, and pushed his brothers into this hellhole. He wants to hang her a thousand times, ten thousand times."

Hearing this, Xie Lian suddenly felt that something seemed to be wrong.

The “female priestess wandering in the city” he just mentioned was originally referring to the woman in white. But now, Ke Mo kept calling the Ban Yue Imperial Preceptor a “bitch” and said that the Imperial Preceptor pushed his brothers into this hellhole. When the black-clad girl swept the soldiers down the high wall, Ke Mo also cursed “It’s that b*tch again” and the last sentence “Hang her a thousand times” - Xie Lian suddenly realized that they were talking about something completely different.

Xie Lian interrupted Ke Mo’s curse and asked, “General, is the Ban Yue Imperial Preceptor you are talking about the girl in black hanging from the pole in the Sinner’s Pit?”

Ke Mo said: "Who else could it be if not her?!"

“…”

The thin girl in black who was hanging on the long pole like a corpse was actually the real Half Moon Imperial Master!

But if that is the case, then who are the white-clad woman who is strolling leisurely in Half Moon City and saying she wants to kill them all, and the black-clad woman who is traveling with her?

The black-clad girl had strange and unpredictable movements. She could sweep dozens of fierce and brave Half Moon soldiers off the high wall in an instant. So why was she hung above the sinner pit?