Code Red! Code Red!

Elder Zhao was very frustrated. There were several reasons he wanted to have a talk with this Young Master Feng, one of them was to find Feng Zhi Yan's true strength. He heard the First Young Master of the Feng Clan was at Dream Earth Realm, but his performance at the tests suggest that it might be even higher. Obviously, Feng Zhi Yan was using some kind of tool or technique to hide his cultivation.

With that in mind, Elder Zhao purposely make with his quick feet work, seemingly asking him to follow along. When Elder Zhao travel using the speed of Iron Mortal Realm, Young Master Feng won't follow. If he could follow along, it means that Feng Zhi Yan have truly reached Iron Mortal Realm, but he couldn't. So, he slowed his speed to Dream Mortal Realm and still won't follow. After he slowed his speed down to that of Fifth Stage of Power Soul Realm, only then Young Master Feng would move.

[Such a cunning bastard! Do you really have to hide your strength to that extent?!] thought Elder Zhao.

Finally, Elder Zhao brought Young Master Feng to a secluded place where they can talk alone.

"What do you want? Make it quick, I'm very busy!" Feng Ao Xiu no longer maintained his politeness, and expressed himself very bluntly to Elder Zhao. This was a decision he made after knowing he was in a disadvantageous position. But, by bluffing and make himself look tough, he was hoping that Elder Zhao would let him go.

"Hah, finally showing your true face!" said Elder Zhao, looking unfazed as if he knew this might happen. "Let's get to the main business! How did you destroy the door?"

"I did not destroy the door! Why don't you ask Liu Sheng?" Feng Ao Xiu replied, still pretending he didn't know anything.

"Stop pretending! You may fool the others, but don't even think for a second you can fool me! Need I to remind you, that without my approval, you can't pass the last test!"

Feng Ao Xiu bit his lower lip, he knew he would be threatened with something. But, to think that Elder Zhou would be this despicable. He sighed for a bit, before looking back straight to Elder Zhou's eyes and said, "All right, I tell you, but you need to let me and my friends pass!"

"It's a deal!" said Elder Zhao without even thinking about it. "As long as you tell me how the door get destroyed, I promise that I will give you my approval on the last test."

"My friends too?"

"Yes, your friends as well." Elder Zhao nodded.

Feng Ao Xiu became silence. It was certainly a good deal that Su Mei can pass the last test by only revealing some information. But, Elder Zhao's response that he agreed on the spot without negotiating was kind of worrying. Could there be some underlying tactics on it? However, without any kind of clue, Feng Ao Xiu could only accept the deal. "Elder, do you know what a Qi Protector is?"

Elder Zhao shook his head. These words were new to him.

Feng Ao Xiu sighed, looks like there's no knowledge about the Qi Protector in the Lower Realm at all. Then he said, "Let me tell you a story about the Qi Protectors."

***

"Qi Protector... Qi Protector... We are the Qi Protector! Our job is protecting the door! Qi Protector..." lots of Qi Protectors sing together while defending the door.

"Aiya... I'm so hungry, I can't even sing anymore." said the Private Qi Protector.

"Get up, Private!" said the Captain Qi Protector. "We are tasked to protect this door from foreign Qi. Don't you know how many times our door has been breached?!"

"Captain, it's useless. Without food and supplies, how is our army going to protect this door?" said the Sergeant Qi Protector.

"Tch... Useless! When's food coming?" the Captain, angrily stomping feet on the ground. "These humans are useless, they want us to protect the door, but never gave us enough food!"

"Look! Food has arrived!" said the Lieutenant Qi Protector, pointing at the Qi coming towards them.

"Yaayy! Food!" the Qi Protectors cheered loudly.

"These Qi food tastes excellent, it makes me energised again!" said the Private.

"Hahaa! With all these foods, no foreign Qi can pass us!" said the Captain with a smug laugh.

"Look!" said the Lieutenant, "There's a human girl with a very weak Qi!"

"We should go there and protect those Qi, it is our code as the Qi protectors!" said the Private.

"Wait!" said the Sergeant. "We are tasked to protect the Qi in this door. Do not abandon your mission just because those Qi on the human girl are weaker."

Five minutes later.

"That human girl hasn't moved!" said the Lieutenant.

"That's very weird!" said the Captain, "If she's not moving, that is very not like human. Could it be that she wasn't human?"

"That's right, she wasn't human! She's also a door!" said the Private. "Let's go there and protect the weakest part of the door!"

"I suppose since she's a door and not human, we can explore over there for a bit." said the Sergeant.

"All right, I've decided! We all go and protect the Qi over there!" the Captain said loudly.

"Yeah!!" The Qi Protectors cheered as they move towards the human girl.

"The Qi here are quite weak! This is a prefect place for us!" the Captain declared.

"Aaah... Research showed that these Qi are not Qi of the door, they're Qi of a human!" said the Lieutenant. "She's not a door. She's a real human being!"

"Code Red! Code Red! Quickly retreat back to the door!" said the Sergeant.

"We can't retreat!" said the Private. "The door is already destroyed, there's nothing left to protect!"

"What did you say?!" the Captain became panicked, "Quickly, disperse and search for the door! I refused to believe it's destroyed!"

A few minutes later.

"We can't find the door." said the Sergeant. "Captain, it's time to accept the fact that we failed the mission. It's time to find a new home."

"Why not here?" the Private asked.

"I think this place is a good choice." said the Lieutenant. "This human girl might not be a bad choice!"

"All right, I've decided!" said the Captain. "We will stay here and protect the Qi of this human girl!"

"Yeah!!" The Qi Protectors cheered.

***

"And, that's what happened!" said Feng Ao Xiu.

Elder Zhao, "..."

"Umm... Elder Zhao?"

Elder Zhao pinched his eyebrow before he asked, "Are you saying that the door got easily destroyed because these Qi Protectors left the door to explore the girl?"

"Isn't obvious?" said Feng Ao Xiu rhetorically.

"So, your friend got sick because the Qi Protectors are looking for the door?"

Feng Ao Xiu nodded.

Elder Zhao asked again, "So, the Qi Protectors left the door because it seeks a weaker Qi protect?!"

"They're a bit naive..." said Feng Ao Xiu.

"Are you saying that these Qi Protectors are alive?!" Elder Zhao asked angrily.

"Except for the fact that they can't talk like humans. Yes, they're alive." Feng Ao Xiu said.

Elder Zhao was surprised, "Wha... They're really alive?!"

"Every Qi in the world are actually alive, they have preferences and things they hate. They have missions and every Qi interact with another Qi. Some Qi ate one another, or they protect others, even kill each other." Feng Ao Xiu explained.

Elder Zhao became confused. He sat down and massage his head with both of his hands. He needed time to process all this information.

Finally, Feng Ao Xiu said, "I've fulfilled my part of the deal. Elder, you have to fulfil your promise."

Elder Zhao sighed, then he said, "You don't need to worry about that. You can go back now."

As Feng Ao Xiu started heading back, Elder Zhao stopped him, "Wait! There's something I need to tell you!"

Feng Ao Xiu stopped without looking back, waiting to hear from him.

"To pass the last test, you need to at least earn the approval from three elders. I promised to give you my approval, but with your situation, do you think you can earn the approval of two other elders?" Elder Zhou said with a wicked smile. "You best forget about all of this and go home! There's no one who would risk on getting on the bad side of Feng Ao Xiu!"

Feng Ao Xiu sighed. Of course, there's no easy way. No wonder, Elder Zhao agreed easily to this deal. It turns out that they still try hard to get rid of Feng Zhi Yan from entering the Cloud Moon Palace. At the same time, he wanted to cry, he wanted to say that he's Feng Ao Xiu not Feng Zhi Yan, but no one will believe him if he did.

As Young Master Feng left, Elder Zhao sighed at the disappearing sight of the young man. It's too bad that he's Feng Zhi Yan. His strength and knowledge were actually quite good. Yet, the inevitable fact remain, to get on the bad side of Feng Ao Xiu was too dangerous.