Kou Zhong glowered hatefully at Xiang Yushan; he said, “Did Xiang Gongzi already guess that we knew you were hiding inside the building?”

Xiang Yushan replied in distress, “You harm me like this, and you still make cynical remarks.”

But when Xiang Yushan’s eyes met Xu Ziling’s, he immediately shivered and hung his head low. He had never seen this kind of expression in Xu Ziling’s eyes; it did not have the least bit of happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy [the four types of human emotions]. Instead, it was icy-cold and dark, which made people’s heart palpitating and terrified.

The snow was falling faster and denser, everybody was covered in thick snowflakes.

Zhao Deyan impatiently said, “Let’s talk less idle words, Shao Shuai, please get the Sheng Sheli out, we’ll immediately hand over the person to you.”

Kou Zhong was still unable to see through this major demonic man; he cast a glance toward Xu Ziling, asking for help.

Xu Ziling casually threw the copper jar in front of the two boys, between their legs, without even splashing a drop of mercury. He spoke indifferently, “Use the saber to pick the Sheli out.”

Kou Zhong mused that this was a comparatively safe way in the midst of no way at all. The Demonic Emperor Relics was a bizarre, unfathomable object. Nobody knew after being buried underground for many years, would it undergo any change or not?

Sticking the Moon in the Well inside the jar, he reached deep inside the mercury.

In the courtyard, the crow and peacock made no sound, including Xiang Yushan. Everybody was waiting with bated breath.

The feeling of something was not right in Xu Ziling’s heart was getting stronger.

Since Xiang Yushan was powerless to defend himself, why would he still be this expectant and attach particular importance to the ‘unearthing’ of the Relics? Logically, he should not have the ‘leisure’ to care about it.

Zhao Deyan was as unfathomable as usual; he did not reveal the slightest bit of emotion in his heart.

This major demonic figure’s knowledge of the Relics ought to come from You Niaojuan. But surely he did not know about You Niaojuan’s secret method of detecting the Demonic Emperor Relics; otherwise, he would have asked them to hand over the Relics and the copper jar together.

Yellow light suddenly appeared, enveloping Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling in bizarre, dark yellow glow.

On the tip of the Moon in the Well, there was a yellow crystal, about the size of a human fist, which had just left the mercury liquid in the jar.

The crystal appeared to be solid, yet it appeared to be soft at the same time; translucent, showing the faint blood-red thread-like lines, which was moving slowly inside the crystal, like a cloud or red clouds [yun and xia (sunset clouds)], emitting a faint yellow glow.

Following the Moon in the Well, the Demonic Emperor Relics rose slowly out of the mouth of the jar.

Zhao Deyan’s eyes shot violent and hot severe light, he stared at the Relics without blinking.

Suddenly Kou Zhong’s tiger-body shook severely, as if someone sealed his acupoint so that he froze on the spot.

Xiang Yushan suddenly straightened up; laughing aloud, he said, “You fall into the trap!”

Zhao Deyan was the first to strike. The ‘Hundred Changes Water Caltrop Spear’ shot out of his sleeves, one going up the other going down, he separately aimed for the vital points on Kou Zhong’s face and lower abdomen. As soon as the word was out, the attack arrived; there was no fore-warning at all, it was malicious and ruthless to the extreme point.

But Kou Zhong appeared to be totally oblivious; it was as if he was bewitched. He had his eyes fixed at the Demonic Emperor Relics, the strange treasure of the demonic school – resting on the tip of the saber, but his expression was blank.

Xu Ziling made prompt decision; before he was being sucked into the chaotic battle, his body flashed, he stood in front of Kou Zhong, acting as a shield. His left foot picked the copper jar, like a silver pillar the mercury inside the jar shot up to meet Zhao Deyan’s attack head-on. His right hand slapped heavily backward toward the Relics; he wanted to smash this demonic school’s inauspicious object into pieces, to end this calamity. In this critical moment when a thousand pounds hung by a thread, he rescued Kou Zhong.

For the second time Zhao Deyan retracted the Water Caltrop Spear, and shifted side