At that instant, several people who were fully clothed in masks appeared from various directions, only for a few seconds Fu Xie Lan and Wan Lie were surrounded.

"Hahaha," Elder Huang Bao suddenly burst out laughing. Black smoke with an extremely foul odor surrounded his body, slowly but surely his form turned into the figure of a hunched old woman with one eye covered in cloth. Changes that can be witnessed by the naked eye. ​​

They were deceived. The person they followed was not Elder Huang Bao.

"Who are you?" shouted Wan Lie, starting to wary. Meanwhile, Fu Xie Lan who was standing behind him was quietly watching the masked people.

"Should I answer the question of a man who is going to visit hell soon?" The hunchback woman's sarcasm. Looking at it, it looks like that woman is the leader of the masked people.

"Mom, on the count of three, you run away and get away from here, I will block them," said Wan Lie without turning his head.

"But Wan Lie ..."

"Mom, we are outnumbered, and it looks like that woman is not an ordinary Wizard, it would be better if only I stayed here, believe me, I'll be fine," interrupted Wan Lie begged his mother. He never thought that they would face danger so fast.

"All right, you have to promise," she said, getting ready to receive Wan Lie's cue.

"Such touching words of farewell," the old woman spoke again and then hit the stick in her right hand to the ground.

As the sky was covered in black clouds, a mysterious rune accompanied by a subtle tremor appeared right on the ground with Wan Lie and Fu Xie Lan right in the middle. The rune formed a circle with five lines that split the circle into sections. Each section contains a different and very intricate pattern. Each end of the line crossed the boundary of the circle and stopped right at the foot of the masked men like a pillar.

"Wan Lie, it's too late," said Fu Xie Lan, looking around her. Even though she didn't know what it was, she was sure that they were in danger right now. It seemed that the woman had deliberately led and made her enter the trap that had been prepared for them both.

"Do you have a final request? of course if you give up voluntarily, I might give you a less painful death, "said the woman who was now standing in the air she was very happy, the catch this time was really good, it was not in vain that he agreed with that man.

"Shit," said Wan Lie, who was already wrapped in flames of anger. In contrast to Fu Xie Lan, he had no expression at all.

"Looks like you guys are rejecting my generosity, well let's see what you will do," said the woman chuckled.

Wan Lie then began to create a pitch-black mist as big as a ball on both palms with flashes of lightning contained within them.

"Wow, Demon? Hahahaha good, good hahaha no problem, let's put all your abilities," said the old woman, laughing happily by occasionally moving left and right.

Fu Xie Lan secretly activated the power of her eyes, and what her eyes witnessed were a transparent dome-shaped barrier that bordered her from the old woman and the masked people.

"The more mana I absorb, the better," shouted the witch again.

"Don't be too confident," Wan Lie shouted

Soon Fu Xie Lan touched Wan Lie's shoulder to tell him about the transparent dome, but it was too late.

The several mist balls that had been perfectly formed in the hands of the young man standing in front of her quickly headed towards the magician woman and just as she thought before, the mist balls stopped in the air, bounced, and turned against her.

"Ahh ..." a burning feeling accompanied by a very heavy blow hit her chest.

"Mom!" shouted Wan Lie hysterically at the sight of his attack which turned against his mother.

Now Fu Xie Lan vomited several sips of blood.

"The world is crazy, a young man calls mother to a little girl, hahahhah what a wonderful mother and child drama," the woman sneered.

"There is a barrier," Fu Xie Lan tried her best to tell what she had managed to see, for a moment she had difficulty breathing.

Wan Lie stretched in frustration seeing his mother's condition. He cursed himself a thousand times for injuring his mother.

"How sneaky," muttered Wan Lie, facing him back.

"What do you want?" he shouted back.

"You, which is more precisely Mana in your body," the woman chuckled.

"Okay, but let this woman go," said Wan Lie, who was supporting his mother's body.

Suddenly Fu Xie lan shook her head helplessly, she knew very well that when the Mana in a person's body is absorbed out, there is only one end, that is death. Even though she had made a deal with Wan Lie to protect her, this was not what she wanted, she didn't want to sacrifice anyone's life just to keep her alive.

"N-No," said Fu Xie Lan

"It's okay Mom, as long as you can live then that is enough to make me happy."

Somehow Fu Xie Lan's chest felt tight, her feelings rumbling. She only took advantage of the young man, but the feeling now was very different. She realized that the young man's feelings were very sincere to her and it succeeded in creating clear grains in her eyelids.

"Please, mom, don't ever be sad because of me, okay?" After that, Wan Lie let go of his grip on his hand that was carrying Fu Xie Lan's body very carefully.

While Fu Xie Lan could only surrender, she was too weak to be the opponent of that cunning woman, this was all her fault. If only she had used her eye ability a little faster, they wouldn't have fallen into that rotten woman's trap. The rice had turned into porridge, all she could do was hope a miracle would help them.

"You have to promise me that you will let go of this woman," shouted Wan Lie

"Erm, fine," chuckled the witch.

"You can start," a rough breath escaped his lips, he turned his head one last time to see his mother's face, then slowly closed his eyes.

While on the other hand, the old woman smiled happily, it was this easy to get a very large prey. The five people below her nodded in unison signaling that their preparations were complete. All this while the woman had been just stalling for time waiting for the masked men to finish the spell.

A few seconds later, the drawn runes under Wan Lie and Fu Xie Lan's footing gave off a fishy smell and slowly gave rise to profound burn marks on the ground.

The transparent dome that had been the barrier before opened slowly gave the woman access and then closed again. The smell of scorch again tickled Wan Lie's sense of smell. Feeling familiar with the smell, he opened his eyes and found the witch in front of him.

Reflexively he returned to attack the old woman blindly but to no avail, his body like shackled by something. It lasted a few seconds as several chains of fire began to wrap around his hands, feet, and neck. each chain originating from the end of the line on the foot of the five masked men.