Hearing this, the young soldier's back suddenly froze, and he slowly turned around, but he didn't dare to come over. The situation was urgent, and seeing him hesitate, Xie Lian felt anxious, and he suppressed his restlessness and said, "Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you. Come over here!"

Finally, the young man took a step forward. He ran to two feet in front of Xie Lian, then suddenly stopped. Xie Lian took a silent breath, stretched out a hand to him, and said, "...Help me up, take me away."

The young soldier carefully grasped the hand. As if a dying man had finally found support, Xie Lian instantly relaxed and fell towards the young man.

As he was immersed in the land of tenderness, his body temperature rose and his whole body was burning. However, the palms of this young man were as hot as his and were still trembling slightly.

Xie Lian leaned on it for a while, gathering some strength, and then he took a deep breath and managed to stand up straight. He didn't want to let someone shorter than him support him, so he took a few steps slowly with the help of others. Unexpectedly, he heard the flower demons say, "No, Your Highness, please don't leave. He is waiting for you on the road. If you leave here, you will meet him."

"he"?

Xie Lian asked, “Who is ‘he’?”

When this person was mentioned, the gentle people seemed to be slightly frightened and froze for a moment. After a moment, they muttered, "'He' is 'he'."

The flowers nodded to each other and said, "'He' is 'he'. He is the one who brought us here."

Although they dared not reveal the man's name or identity, Xie Lian immediately saw the half-crying, half-smiling mask in his mind. He said, "You mean that if I go back now, the man you dug here will kill me on the way; and if I stay here, he won't come looking for me, right?"

The flower fairies were very satisfied and nodded their heads in a chattering voice. Xie Lian was immediately furious.

He was not killed, but trapped here, in such an unspeakable situation. Was he deliberately teasing him or what?! It would be better for him to just come out and fight to the death!

After calming down a bit, he suppressed his annoyance. It seemed that the other party had no intention of defeating him head-on, but just wanted him to lose his magic power, drop his realm, and lose his followers.

What these flower demons said might not be true, but even if it was not true, think about it carefully, even if the boy supported or carried him all the way, they might not be able to return safely. If the other party deliberately dropped a few women on the way, the situation would be even worse and more embarrassing.

After weighing the options for a moment, Xie Lian exhaled a hot breath, closed his eyes, and said, “Take me to the cave over there.”

The young soldier followed his instructions and helped him through the pile of corpses and arrived in front of the cave. Xie Lian whispered, “Stop.”

The soldier stopped. Xie Lian's hands trembled as he raised them, and he asked, "Where's your sword?"

The young man supported him with his left hand, freeing his right hand to raise his sword. Xie Lian stretched out one hand, rolled up his sleeves, and revealed a small part of his arm. Under the bright white moonlight, it was like cold jade. The young man's breathing stagnated, but Xie Lian didn't notice, and whispered: "Stab me with a sword."

The hand holding the broken sword immediately dropped. Xie Lian said, “Don’t be afraid. Just keep stabbing. Stab deeper. I need to set up a formation. I don’t have any other magic weapons at hand right now. I must see blood.”

The young soldier said, "Your Highness, please use my blood!" He raised his arm and cut it with his sword, not holding back any strength. Xie Lian said, "No need! Your blood..." But he didn't catch up. A deep gash appeared on the young man's arm, and blood immediately flowed. Xie Lian sighed, "Alas... you... that's all."

His blood was a priceless treasure that could be consecrated. How could the blood of a mortal compare to it? Seeing the sincerity of the soldier, Xie Lian could not bear to say that his work was in vain. He only said, "Thank you very much. However, you still need a little of my blood as an initiator." Then, he took the sword, his hands trembling, and cut several times before he aimed and stabbed the center of the forearm. The deep red divine blood flowed down the white arm, dripping in two arcs in front of the cave, like two barriers. It was a waste of natural resources. Xie Lian even mixed some of the boy's blood. After the painting was completed, he became more and more dizzy and said, "...Go in."

It was pitch black in the cave. The young man took out a tinder from his pocket, lit it, and the fire illuminated the surroundings extremely brightly.

The young soldier's face was covered tightly by the bandage, but Xie Lian's miserable state was exposed. He was sweating profusely, his hair was slightly messy, and his lips were stained with blood and slightly swollen. That was the wound left by biting his lip when he consecrated the sword. The flames stung Xie Lian's eyes and the heat waves made him extremely uncomfortable. Xie Lian immediately said, "Don't light the fire. Put it out."

The young man immediately threw away the fire stick and stamped it out, and the surroundings fell into darkness again. Xie Lian was helped into the cave by him. He sat on the ground for a moment in a meditative posture and said slowly: "Now I have a task for you. Can you complete it?"

"..." The young man half-knelt on the ground and said to him, "I will die!"

Xie Lian held back his rapid breath and said calmly, “I set up two barriers in front of this cave. One on the outside to prevent things from outside from coming in, and one on the inside to prevent people from leaving.”

After taking a few silent breaths, he continued, "There is room for one person between the two barriers. You stay there and guard the entrance. No matter what noise you hear outside, don't go out. Similarly, no matter what you hear happening inside, don't come in."

The young man was slightly stunned: "Your Highness, are you alone in there?"

Xie Lian said, “Yes. I don’t know what I will do… Anyway, no matter what, you can’t come in.”

In this situation, he couldn't go back. And waiting for reinforcements, Qi Rong is probably still stumbling on the road. It will take a long time just to run back to the imperial city. By the time he gets reinforcements, who knows when it will be. He can only lock a place first, hold his position, and find a way to dispel the gentle fragrance. He said in a deep voice: "The flower demon has borne fruit, and the charm is very strong. They will probably be ripe soon..."

At this moment, the fragrance in the air suddenly surged, interrupting his words. The warmth and ambiguity were overwhelming, and the flower fairies laughed happily, saying one after another: "My root! My root is hard!"

"The fruit is ripe!"

Smelling that extremely rich aroma, Xie Lian felt his heartbeat quicken and blood rush to his head. He gritted his teeth and said, “Get out now! Don’t inhale the aroma. If they get close, don’t be afraid. Nothing can get past the blood line, but as long as you’re still inside the formation, you can draw your sword and kill them.”

The young soldier looked outside, nodded vigorously, ran out with the sword, and got stuck between the two blood lines at the cave entrance. Outside the cave, among the corpses, the clusters of flowers looked more and more beautiful. And the whole flower bush was trembling faintly, as if the roots underneath were about to break out of the ground. Soon, something really broke out of the ground - it was a woman's head!

The "woman's" head emerged from the soil, and she breathed in the fresh air on the surface of the soil, seeming to be extremely happy and intoxicated, with her eyes narrowed into slits. Then, half of the round shoulder emerged from the soil, and an arm also crawled out.

The gentle and fragrant fruits grow under the roots, and when they mature, they grow into various female shapes.

The time has come, and countless naked girls have emerged from the ground. They raised their hands to pluck off the bright red flowers on their heads, bathed in the moonlight, and stretched their limbs to their heart's content. Originally, it was the small flowers that gave off the fragrance, but now it was these charming girls who gave off the fragrance. They patted the dirt on their plump bodies, combed their long hair, and walked towards the cave entrance, smiling charmingly, "Your Highness, we are here!"

The cave was also filled with a strong aroma that was suffocating. Xie Lian closed his eyes and sat in the cave, reciting the Tao Te Ching in his heart. However, it didn't work. The flower demons spoke without shame. Countless chirping sounds were whispering outside the cave, saying things like "darling" and "brother and younger brother". He was upset, so he changed his silent recitation to reciting it loudly: "Five colors make people blind, five sounds make people deaf, galloping and hunting make people crazy, and rare goods make people hinder their actions... Quietness is better than restlessness, coldness is better than heat, and tranquility is the right thing for the world... Those who are good, I will be good to them, and those who are not good, I will also be good to them..." He didn't notice that the scriptures that he could recite fluently on weekdays were now recited upside down. The female demons outside the cave clapped their hands and laughed, "Good prince, good darling, my good prince, you are not a monk, what scriptures are you reciting... Ouch!"

There were screams everywhere. It seemed that the young soldier said nothing, but his hands were ruthless. He chopped with his sword wildly, causing the group of female demons to flee. He said, "Kill the demons!"

Some cursed from afar: "You damned little devil, you ruthless little monster! You don't know how to be gentle with women at all!"

"I'm so scared, so scared, a young boy like him is so cruel! What will happen when he grows up!"

The group of flower demons eagerly squeezed into the cave, but they just couldn't get in. They didn't see the blood formation on the ground for a while, and thought it was because someone was blocking the way to the cave. After discussing for a while, they gathered in a half-distance away and said, "Little brother, why do you have to block us here and not let us pass? We are not going to do anything bad, we just want to have some fun with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"My dear little general, please don't disturb us from doing good things for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"This little brother is quite fierce and powerful, but unfortunately, he is too small and immature. He probably doesn't even know what a 'good thing' is!"

Amid the cackling and mocking laughter of the flower demons, Xie Lian slightly opened his eyes and saw a dark silhouette standing at the entrance of the cave. It was a young man holding a sword in both hands, as if he would not give way even if he died. Suddenly, a female demon said, "Brother, don't stand here like a stick. What are you looking for? Otherwise, why don't you come with me to have some fun over there? What kind of person do you like? How about me?"

The young soldier remained silent, and the witches thought they had to get past him to enter the cave, so they used all their tricks on him and shouted, "What about me?"

"So what? Do you think I look good?"

"Look at me, do you like it?"

However, from the initial teasing, to the later complaints, to the final curses, the young man remained consistent, ignoring those who were far away and slashing those who were close. Xie Lian knew that before the gentle land was unearthed, it could freely shape its own appearance in the soil. He wanted to warn them, but for some reason he dared not speak. After finally enduring the waves of pressing heat, he said, "Don't look at them..."

Just resisting the blood rushing to his head had exhausted him, so the voice was very soft and low, but the young soldier heard it immediately and shouted, "Yes! Your Highness, you...what's wrong with you?"

Xie Lian said, “It’s okay. If it’s hard to bear, seal your eyes, mouth and nose…”

Before the young soldier could answer, a female demon suddenly burst into laughter and said, "I know! Little friend, I guess your favorite must be this, right?"

It looked like a new plant had sprouted out of the ground. Outside the cave, there was a sudden silence. The young soldier seemed to hold his breath.

The next moment, the demon girls’ terrifying laughter almost knocked Xie Lian over.

They clapped their hands and screamed, "Oh! This is really a big deal, really a big deal!"

"Oh my god! How did you come up with that? That's amazing, hahahahahahahahahaha... look! This kid is completely stunned. I think this is probably the case!"

"That's right! I thought this damn kid was a piece of stone, but I was wrong. He's so brave at such a young age!"

"I admit defeat, I admit defeat! What do you think, little friend? With such a beautiful and fragrant scene, why don't you come over and enjoy yourself?"

"If you miss this opportunity, you'll miss it forever. If you don't come now, you won't be able to eat it even if you want it for eight hundred years! Or, do you want us to help you? Right now... hehehe..."

The young soldier was completely enraged, and his voice became cold: "...You. Are. Looking. For. Death!"

At the same time, Xie Lian in the cave was almost reaching his limit.

He felt a chaos in his eyes and ears, and could no longer sit still. His body fell forward, but fortunately his hands managed to hold on to the ground. However, when he fell, his teeth were not clenched tightly, and in a trance, a groan of unbearable pain escaped from his lips.