
The initial plan has changed. Ann Rou and Dou Dou who originally wanted to hold Xie Chen back, became obstructed when the attacking demons forced the two of them to get busy.
Long Ying, Long Yun, and Long Huo finished their work quickly and helped to get rid of the demonic assemblage whose strength exceeded that of humans. If it was calculated based on the level of human cultivation, at least each of them were in advanced professionals!
Xiao Caihong also helped. Although his strength was not yet perfect and as strong as a seven-colored phyton should be, at least his strength was already on par with a high-level ferocious beast that could slightly trouble one of the three dragons.
While the demons were fighting against the six of them, Xie Chen grabbed Xie Ran with a high-speed dark force. His strength had increased so drastically that it was stronger than before, even Xie Ran was a bit of a difficulty.
Every time Xie Ran tried to attack, Xie Chen never dodged but fought him. But Xie Ran's attack only made Xie Chen slightly retreat without hurting him.
This time, Xie Chen was arguably stronger than Mo Shenxi so as to make things difficult for Xie Ran. Without the dragon aura, Xie Ran would need time to defeat him. While the dragon aura only wanted him to use to fight Huai Mao. If he could defeat someone without the aura of a dragon, he would not need to use his trump card that one.
Xie Ran's sword resonating with the wind swept across many demons as his attack missed. When Xie Chen suddenly appeared behind him, Xie Ran immediately teleported far away while confining Xie Chen in an enchantment magic illusion.
Xie Chen was silent for a while, seemingly puzzled by his changing vision. The world seemed to turn around and move horribly with a supportive red radiance.
Xie Ran made the illusion world to its fullest, trying to mess with Xie Chen's mind and kill him. Since Xie Chen's mental strength was extremely strong, he had to try to maintain magic in order to continue to hold it within the illusionary world. That takes a lot of energy.
With the modified enchantment magic, Xie Chen was completely puzzled by the change in his vision. Obviously he knew it was all an illusion, but he didn't know what to do because everything confused him.
The buildings crammed as if approaching it while the sky seemed to be collapsing. The ground floated in the air without gravity which made Xie Chen feel like he was going crazy right then and there.
When Xie Chen tried to strengthen his mental strength and attack originally, his strength was quickly drained. A red ray suddenly appeared attacking, whereas Xie Chen lost his direction due to the messy vision so he could only dodge without knowing the direction and was hit by another red ray that attacked from the other side.
He could see Xie Ran behind the red light, but not at the same time. His body was blown away by the attack, he tried to defend himself and attacked the red light. Only by destroying the owner of the illusory world could he get out of this cursed place.
Outside of the illusionary world, Xie Ran and Xie Chen seemed to be fighting normally. It was just that Xie Chen looked different with a different red iris than he should be accompanied by a dwindling strength. The red iris was the same as Xie Ran, which was not a typical demonic red iris at all. No one noticed the change other than Huai Mao who was still silent next to Xie Nu.
Seeing that Xie Chen seemed to be trapped in the illusion of Xie Ran and was about to lose, Huai Mao could not help but watch his puppet being destroyed. He goes into battle to attack Xie Ran who is focusing in an illusionary world.
Just as his attack was about to grab Xie Ran, a silvery ray appeared hitting the dark energy so his attack came to a halt right then and there. Dou Dou had stopped the attack, while Ann Rou quickly darted towards Huai Mao.
"Huai Mao, you can't cheat." Ann Rou sneered.
Huai Mao narrowed his eyes. This bad cat always looks for trouble with her. Unfortunately, the mischievous cat seemed to be weaker than he had ever injured in the past. "You're not my opponent."
Ann Rou snorted. "Don't piety, I don't intend to fight you alone."
Although Ann Rou was reluctant to admit it, she admitted that Huai Mao was much stronger than Huai Mao in the past. The last time they met when the three tailed Ann Rou broke off and went into a long coma until skipping the war, not knowing how much Huai Mao developed under the protection of the Demon King and became his accomplice.
"Black cat, are you really going to kill Miss Xie? Isn't that treason for the Demon Emperor?" Dou Dou sneered. The Celestial Emperor and the Demon Emperor were basically one, although their traits were opposite, they always had a lot in common. Moreover, he had heard that the Demon Emperor forbade his subordinates from touching Xie Ran. If Huai Mao dared to hurt him, then Huai Mao would be just as a traitor.
Huai Mao chuckled. "The Demon Emperor will be happy with me, if I take him to the Underworld. If I can get her pure energy, then I'll be safe too."
The expressions of Ann Rou and Dou Dou became extremely complicated. Clearly Huai Mao did not know very well how the Demon Emperor was. After all, when Qu Xuanzi was still known as Asura, his nature was not much different from a Demon Emperor or rather a combination between an iceberg-cold Celestial Emperor and a bloodthirsty Demon Emperor. The saint beasts knew him well even though sometimes they could not guess what their superiors were thinking.
"Huai Mao, you're so stupid." Ann Rou put on a disgusted face and directly attacked her. He doesn't want to hear anything anymore.
Dou Dou helped Ann Rou fight Huai Mao. The strength of the two of them could at least suppress one Demon King if combined so it was not a problem just to hold Huai Mao back.
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"Where is Xie Ran? Why didn't he come?" Xie Wang said firmly after a long wait. They had been in the inn for two days with the brats, but Xie Ran had not appeared to make him anxious.
The five young men looked at each other doubtfully, gesturing to throw each other the task of answering. If only there was Pei Xi here they would have definitely thrown the task at him. Unfortunately, Pei Xi suddenly disappeared this morning.
In the end, Zhou Kui took the responsibility of answering Xie Wang's question. "He'll be here in a few days. As the Miss of the Clan, there will be a lot of business to be done."
"What is the function of the Clan Chief? Why should Xie Ran take care of it?" Su Liu'er asked with a suspicious tone. He had felt strange from the beginning, but continued to lie to himself that Xie Ran was coming. But according to his logic, why would Xie Ran have to bother coming here whereas he could wait for them to arrive at the Xie Clan?
"Because Xie Ran is the successor of the Clan. So the task is also a lot and does not have a lot of free time. He asked us to take care of his grandmother and grandfather while Xie Ran prepared the Clan well for the welcome." Zhou Kui spoke fluently as if not engineered. He was not completely lying, Xie Ran was indeed cleaning up the Clan and just waiting for news from him.
"Welcome?" Xie Wang pulled next to an eyebrow, before finally laughing extremely big. "That child .. is really very intentional."
They believe? The five young men were shocked. Actually, it's not just today. Since yesterday, when they mentioned about Xie Ran, the old man would instantly believe it for granted. It's a really weird hobby.
But when they saw Su Liu'er who seemed to still be suspicious, they immediately broke out in cold sweat. At the very least, this one mistress would be extremely difficult to approach.
While white tigers are in the size of tigers in general only lick their feet without caring about the surrounding problems, as if there is no connection with it. He did not care whether to meet Xie Ran or not, he only knew the little girl was a nightmare and a tyrant who dropped his pride.
"You can probably lie to him, but not to me. What happened to Xie Ran?" Su Liu'er seemed to have caught something. During this time, he had not only stayed in the inn, but went to various places without being noticed so much information was obtained. Although dubious, it would all make sense if the incident was the same as he experienced.
"Liu'er, what are you saying? Did something happen to Ranran?" Xie Wang looked at his wife in surprise. Although he knew Su Liu'er often went out for walks, Su Liu'er never said anything. While Xie Wang's subordinates in the shadows also did not say anything. So, he doesn't know at all.
"I heard rumors, the position of Clan Leader fell into the hands of Ranran, but since Xie Ran was still a child had to be replaced by his stepmother named Tang Zhi. What the hell is going on?" The news of the bird that Su Liu'er heard was incomplete as if all the news was disguised. He himself was confused as to what was happening exactly, how Xie Yun could go down that fast and hand it over to Xie Ran, but was replaced with his concubine. Then where is Wen Xi?
"Why did you just say it?" Xie Wang was surprised. If he guessed, he was afraid that his guess would make everything mess up so as to completely suppress all conjectures.
Su Liu'er looked at her husband restlessly. "I don't believe in rumors that easily, so I'm not saying. Why could Xie Yun be so stupid? But to this day, rumors continue to rise. I recently heard, there were some dragons messing around in the Xie Clan this morning. Moreover, a few days ago Ranran and his half-sister were fighting. Reportedly Tang Zhi was looking for Ranran since the news of our visit was conveyed. Then today there was chaos. What the hell is going on?"
Su Liu'er looked at the five youngsters with a chaotic feeling. If recalled, he increasingly felt that something had happened to the Xie Clan during their time in seclusion. If all the rumors were combined based on the order of time and their knowledge of the chaotic Xie Clan, then everything would be logical.
"Say it clearly!" Xie Wang looked at the five of them sharply. No matter if they were really Xie Ran's acquaintances, he only felt uneasy after hearing Su Liu'er's explanation and was extremely worried for his son, son-in-law, and granddaughter.
Zhou Kui and the others looked at each other uneasily. Trying to tell or not, they were completely confused. If they let Xie Wang and Su Liu'er into the Xie Clan, then Huai Mao's plan would succeed and Xie Ran had a hard time.
"Well, then I'll find him myself." Xie Wang hurried away with Su Liu'er and Bai He.
Seeing those who were getting further and were about to disappear, Zhong Xiaorong immediately shot before them to stop them.
"Wait a minute, if you come, then the plan will fail." Zhong Xiaorong could not take it anymore. He understood how worried they were, but he couldn't let Xie Ran's plan go awry.
"Are you going to stop us from saving our own children and grandchildren?" Xie Wang looked at Zhong Xiaorong sharply, no matter what status Zhong Xiaorong held.
"It's not like that. This plan, Xie Ran made it. He doesn't want to harm you and make us keep you here. Trust me, Xie Ran will be fine."
"What's really going on there? Why dangerous? With my strength, even if the Xie Clan really changes, I can destroy the Xie Clan at once!" Xie Wang was already angry.
Zhong Xiaorong was not surprised by such arrogance, all as Xie Ran expected. But it was possible that they were the strongest among humans and would win if their opponent was a human, but their opponent was a demon! Even if the seven heavenly magic forms a magic fusion, it still cannot fight against thousands of demons without assistance like the one that happened in the academy.
"Son, you better explain what happened." Su Liu'er tried to calm down from earlier and holding onto Zhong Xiaorong's shoulder forced her to explain.
Zhong Xiaorong felt like crying. He saw his friends trying to ask for help, they immediately approached him with a serious look.
This time, they could not quibble anymore. If not to say it clearly, they could not hold Xie Wang and Su Liu'er back any longer.
In the end, they decided to say everything as they knew from Xie Ran.
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The Xie Clan grew increasingly chaotic over time. Buildings were burned and destroyed leaving rubble in ruins. The thousands of demons were still standing tall against the three and and the scarred Xiao Caihong. While Ann Rou and Dou Dou were still stuck with the increasingly powerful Huai Mao.
Until finally Ann Rou lost a lot of energy, while Dou Dou was retreated because of Huai Mao and attacked by other demons. Their condition was unstable so things were completely chaotic on Xie Ran's side.
Xie Ran was still in an illusionary world, surviving the attacks of Xie Chen who was still trying to find a way out. The longer Xie Chen's strength decreases, giving Xie Ran a chance to attack.
However, it was sudden that Xie Ran's illusory world collapsed after a dark purple mist emanated giving the darkness in his vision. Xie Ran returned to the real world and saw that Xie Chen had been freed from illusions. When he turned to the origin of the purple mist, he saw Huai Mao smiling at him full of malice.
Xie Ran had just wanted to divert the attack on Huai Mao, but Xie Chen again held him back and attacked him brutally. Since Xie Chen had been freed from the illusion, his strength returned and became faster due to Huai Mao's control which greatly inconvenienced Xie Ran.
The three dragons were already injured due to the attacks of thousands of demons. The number of demons decreased greatly, but their number remained in the thousands so that the condition was like an elephant shrouded in ants.
Xiao Caihong floated in the air with Long Huo dodging the long-range attacks from the demons. Their strength was already drained and should not enter into close combat. Yet Xiao Caihong's combat power was a melee force that allowed him to only dodge attacks in the sky.
While Long Huo continued to spout fire. His flapped wings let out sharp thorns that pierced through the bodies of the demons. His terrain made the atmosphere around him extremely hot, he continued to let out flames while weakening the demons using his lava-like terrain.
Then, his gaze was directed at Xie Ran who was fighting with Xie Chen. He felt a bad feeling, then looked at Huai Mao who was watching with a demonic smile.
Xie Ran was the first person Long Huo had seen since his rebirth, so he was automatically more sensitive than Long Yun and Long Ying to Xie Ran so knowing the lurking danger.
Seeing the suspicious Huai Mao with purple mist surrounding his body, he immediately darted to stop Huai Mao who wanted to disturb Xie Ran's fight.
But before that happened, Huai Mao had already thrown a stronger purple mist towards Xie Ran being until Long Huo had to deflect the direction towards Xie Ran.
Xie Ran automatically knew what kind of danger was coming. But Xie Chen did not give him any chance so he could only stay in place holding back the pitch of Xie Chen who continued to suppress him.
Xie Ran quickly ended it. He exerted all of his strength to fight Xie Chen until the man retreated. But just as he was about to dodge the purple mist that was hurtling towards him, Xie Ran felt the time was not right to dodge because when he was detached from Xie Chen, Xie Chen, he felt like the time was not right to dodge, the explosion of purple mist right in front of him caused his body to be thrown several meters away.
The explosion caused Xie Ran to be injured, but the wound was not as bad as he thought. The purple mist did not hit his body, he was only hit by an explosion that came from the impact of the purple mist so that his wound was only limited to the wound from being thrown.
But not with one thing. Xie Ran could see Long Huo sprawled not far from him. It seemed like he was also thrown so that his huge body caused destruction, but the purple mist marks on his body were another matter.
Xie Ran did not have time to react well and directly walked over to Long Huo. The purple fog blackened on his back, even his wings were broken and bleeding. Long Huo's eyes were faint, looking at Xie Ran with a faint wink, trying to maintain consciousness.
"The attack was a soul curse belonging to Huai Mao. If one were to be struck by the curse, his soul would be damaged and could not be saved. Miss ... you ...." Long Long Long did not know how Xie Ran's current mind was, it was completely empty so he did not know what to do.
Xie Ran did not have much of a reaction other than to look at him in silence. Hesitatingly he touched the wound on Long Huo's body, trying to heal him with the pure energy in his radiant hand. Since pure energy had healing abilities, it should be able to heal Long Huo, right?
It should have been possible, or Xie Ran simply had no chance to forgive himself. If not for it, Long Huo would not have needed to block Huai Mao's attack and was severely injured.
"Miss Xie!" Ann Rou shouted trying to tell Xie Ran that Xie Chen was attacking her.
However late, even Xie Ran did not listen or care at all to the battle due to such a chaotic thought that it completely ignored the attacking Xie Chen.
Just when Xie Chen's sword was about to pierce through Xie Ran's body, a black shadow appeared deflecting his sword until Xie Chen was forced to retreat in a sudden attack that blocked him.
Xie Chen narrowed his eyes. Another advanced professional came defending Xie Ran, at first he hesitated. But when he saw the figure blocking his path, he was no longer surprised as if he had anticipated it.
Pei Xi stood his back to Xie Ran who was still sitting quietly. He slightly looked back, but did not say anything and looked at Xie Chen who was indeed stronger than when he was still in the academy.
Not long ago Pei Xi broke through to the advanced professional and directly came here the next morning after realizing that Su Liu'er already knew some of the rumors circulating. He did not say anything to his friends and went straight to the Xie Clan.
But when he arrived, things were really chaotic. He was not surprised to see some dragons because he had seen them while training in the Star Forest (when Xie Ran went to the Glass Pagoda lake for the first time), but he was quite surprised when he saw Xie Ran who suddenly became so passive in front of one of the dragons despite knowing he was being attacked. It was not something Xie Ran could do and he felt it was strange.
But Pei Xi was smart enough not to question him, maybe Xie Ran had his own reasons and he just needed to divert Xie Chen. Although his strength was still below Xie Chen's, it wasn't a problem at all.
Pei Xi was the Young Master of the Night Shadow Sect, possessing many mysterious techniques to fight against someone with higher cultivation, even an ordinary advanced professional could defeat a saint. That was why the Night Shadow Sect became something mysterious and dangerous in Zhongbu Continent.
While Xie Chen was only an advanced professional who was stronger alone. It was no problem to chase him.