
The breezy wind blew swaying the leaves of trees in the sunny summer. A waiter walked with a letter to the girl who was relaxing wearing a mask she had made all night and cucumbers in her eyes.
As soon as the maid arrived, she was stunned to see the strange-looking girl. The cucumber in his eyes and face became very white like a ghost. Fortunately, he was not surprised to the point of screaming ghosts.
"Give it." Xie Ran stuck out his hand asking for a scrap of the letter. After the servant handed the letter and left, Xie Ran took off the cucumber in the eyes, starting to read.
The sender's name is Mayor Di. Xie Ran smiled cynically in his heart and opened the contents of the letter. He read it in his heart, having no other expression because the mask he was wearing did not want to crack. In his heart, he wanted to laugh and read the message.
Long Ying appeared in the form of a small dragon on her shoulder, coming along to read. Then he let out a laugh, just like what Xie Ran wanted to do. Afterwards, Long Huo and Long Yun came out and read the letter.
"Is this Di Yushi getting water? He should have known of your whereabouts and Lord God, but he still dared to invite you to the banquet. How great is the guts." Long Ying sneered.
"It looks like it's a trap," Long Huo said.
"Master, what's coming? Most likely Di Yushi has prepared everything carefully, just invited you to come to his lair," Long Yun said.
Xie Ran remained calm, placed the letter on the table and went back to relaxing. "I want to see what he can do."
The three dragons were speechless at how relaxed Xie Ran was. Don't say ... Xie Ran had anticipated it(?)
"Master, did you guess from the beginning?" Long Huo asked.
"No, I just deliberately stood out and made him invite me. Yesterday's game was the first step. I'm sure that Lin clan has already recommended me to be blacklisted. Find out my name and background, then look for my weaknesses. Di Yushi will make a promise with the Lin clan that he will get rid of me and help get Qu Xuanzi. But, he did not know that Di Yushi only wanted to capture me using his hands."
"Master, how did you think about this? What if I guess wrong?" Long Ying was stunned.
"I'm not guessing. Things like this have been in my life before, I just play my part. I've been thinking about it since the Lin clan came. On his body had a demonic aura, having had contact with demons before. The demon leader in this place was Di Yushi, while the position of the Lin clan could not possibly only be in contact with Di Yushi's subordinates. Although he only came into contact with Di Yushi's subordinates, it was impossible for his family to have no relationship with Di Yushi. So, I provoked him to create a commotion and attack me. With this, my name would be imprinted in his mind and reach Di Yushi's ears," Xie Ran explained silently for a moment and touched his ghostly white face. "My tasker's cracked from talking too much, you guys just discuss it yourself."
The three dragons were just silently obedient. Hearing Xie Ran's explanation and analysis, their minds were enlightened and amazed. Their master is the best!
Xie Ran who was busy with his cracked mask did not notice how much the spirit of the three dragons caused trouble later on. Only then did he remember the little Xiao Caihong who had become human and was unwilling to become a snake again. The boy should have played with the sacred animals that were punished.
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The night had arrived, Xie Ran prepared to pay a visit to the mayor's residence to receive the 'invitation' implemented tonight. Qu Xuanzi also joined—because he also invited—and wore a half-face mask while the saint beasts were released from temporary punishment, lurking from afar. Xiao Caihong also came along after a long whine.
Actually the reason Qu Xuanzi took the initiative was not because of being invited, but rather to guard Xie Ran from the hungry wild wolves. Plus, maybe he can help Xie Ran face Di Yushi, even though he knows Xie Ran does not need his help to face Di Yushi. Although Di Yushi was slightly stronger than Bao Jun, in general the strength of Xie Ran and Di Yushi was a draw. Xie Ran lost against Bao Jun due to fatigue facing the Sea Dragons.
The three arrived at the mayor's residence so that it became the center of attention. With Qu Xuanzi around, the men did not dare to glance at Xie Ran for feeling threatened. While the women remained glued to Qu Xuanzi who was still charismatic despite wearing a mask. It seemed that the mask was not covering her handsome face but rather decorating her.
Xie Ran did not pay attention to people's reactions, instead focusing on the plan in his brain and scanning everyone using the system. He found some demons and many people who were in the final professional stage, it was not a problem. The problem was that some of the demons seemed to be as powerful as when the battle at Tianshang. They disguised themselves as humans and blurred the aura. But still caught by Xie Ran. Qu Xuanzi also seemed to have known about it even though he had not said anything.
"He was intent on." Xie Ran smiled faintly when he saw Li Ningzhi and the accompanying servants walking towards them.
Li Ningzhi's presence stole the attention of her beauty and fame. Although Xie Ran was prettier, Li Ningzhi was more popular in Shuiyang so many admired her like a goddess.
The girl smiled gently and slightly bent her knees at the two of them in particular Qu Xuanzi. "Mr and Madam, welcome to the banquet."
Xie Ran frowned. "Why did he call me Madam?" He asked Long Long through thought. He realized that people were calling him Madam.
"Everyone knows that you're married and have children with Lord God. Besides, Lord God also calls you his wife. Just walk the groove."
"Who's his wife?" Xie Ran did not want to admit and instead put on a sour face.
Li Ningzhi timidly looked at Qu Xuanzi until her face turned red. "You ... enjoy the meal. The City Lord will be here soon. Please sit down."
The two did not notice the girl's blushing face except for Xiao Caihong and immediately looked at her sharply from below. Xie Ran, Qu Xuanzi, and Xiao Caihong immediately walked to the place provided among the invited guests.
As they went to the table, Xiao Caihong turned his head towards Li Ningzhi and clenched his tongue. Li Ningzhi was annoyed to have been ridiculed, but he only smiled gently, fixed on his role. If he managed to obtain Qu Xuanzi, he would teach the little boy a lesson.
A little while later, Di Yushi came to greet the guests. He did not dare to act much in front of Qu Xuanzi and cursed Li Ningzhi who had deliberately invited Qu Xuanzi. Di Yushi did not linger welcoming guests and instantly dodged from the cold aura aimed at him.
Xie Ran remained calm. Although he felt an unpleasant aura around him as if he was the most delicious meal, he did not care. Those demons would not dare while there was Qu Xuanzi.
Upon seeing Di Yushi's departure, he experienced something that bothered him so much that he had to part with Qu Xuanzi temporarily.
"I'll be back." Xie Ran bid farewell to Qu Xuanzi for a while whereas Qu Xuanzi did not hold back, only nodding after seeing him.
"Mother, I'm coming." Xiao Caihong tugged at Xie Ran's arm that was about to leave.
"You stay here. Keep your father out of bullies."
Xiao Caihong glanced at Qu Xuanzi then switched to the pepper Li Ningzhi was still sitting quietly. He clearly knew what Xie Ran meant and nodded in agreement. He sat down next to Qu Xuanzi.
Xie Ran smiled before finally leaving. He no longer cared about Li Ningzhi taking the opportunity to walk towards Qu Xuanzi to 'sweep him'. Unfortunately Xiao Caihong 'accidentally' threw the food out to make it look embarrassing.
In addition, Xie Ran walked around the shady trees while trying to set up his system. Sarah loads the update after a long time and Xie Ran is setting it up in such a way that the next battle can be helped better.
"Progres complete. System reactivated in 5 minutes."
Xie Ran finally solved his problem. He cannot set the system in front of many people or there will be many questions. Instead of not wanting to tell, he was just lazy to explain things they did not understand. He will be hunted again.
"You did this intentionally?" Long Long Long's voice suddenly sounded.
"What intentional?"
"You reset the system and distanced yourself from the public, luring the enemy closer to you while it weakened. What the hell are you thinking? If anything happens, aren't you afraid Lord God is angry again?"
Xie Ran smiled and rolled up her hair strands. "You're right, but unfortunately the updated system wasn't part of the plan, Qu Xuanzi wouldn't be mad because he might have guessed my plan."
"You want to get rid of which one you used to be?" Long Long Long asked. It was at that moment that several pairs of red eyes lit up in the darkness.
Xie Ran turned his gaze towards the darkness while putting on a thinking face. "If everything is possible, why choose the first one?"
At that moment the enemy attacked. Demons appeared out of the darkness, using their power to surround Xie Ran from all sides to form a circle.
No one answered, but instead directly attacked like a crazy demon. Xie Ran did not need much effort to kill low-level demons like them. He raised his hand, a red light shot out from his body making waves of air that swept across all the demons that surrounded him.
In a split second, those dozens of demons crashed pitifully. Their bodies seemed to be frozen and empty, whereas Xie Ran only looked at them with a flat gaze.
"Pull your hearts!" Xie Ran spoke coldly.
Not until 5 seconds, all the heart is out of place. Black blood soaked the ground and splashed into the shady trees. Demon hearts were scattered everywhere along with bodies full of black blood.
"You're great! Hypnotize them and order them to kill themselves, you don't have to dirty your hands." Long Long Long praised. "Why don't you just use it as a weapon to attack other demons? That'll shorten the time."
"My strength is still low, I can't sustain hypnosis for too long let alone they are demons." Xie Ran smiled bitterly. He's still too weak.
"If you're low then what other people? You don't keep on going low."
"As long as I haven't been able to defeat Qu Xuanzi, I'm still weak."
Long Long did not know what to say. Qu Xuanzi was the strongest god and the God Emperor, how could Xie Ran compensate him?! It might have been possible for Xie Ran to surpass Qu Xuanzi one day, but it took him thousands of years as a god.
Xie Ran did not want to argue with Long Long anymore and went back to the banquet. However, his steps stopped realizing that Qu Xuanzi and Xiao Caihong were no longer at the banquet. I don't know where they went.
Another thing that made Xie Ran surprised, he felt a strong killing intent at the banquet. Looks like something happened.
He immediately ran towards the banquet and saw the sea of blood and the cries that the demons were making. Many demons made a riot and messed up the banquet. They kidnapped and killed both children and adults, men and women. Many people ran and shouted.
It's just .. he didn't see Li Ningzhi's presence. Probably dead or kidnapped, he doesn't care anymore. The important thing is to finish off these demons and save the remaining innocent people.
It moves fast. Using his knife slashed the demons who were rioting one by one in one blink of an eye. Low-level demons instantly died, but some high-level demons fought Xie Ran.
After exterminating all the demons at the banquet and evacuating the citizens to a place believed to be safe, he exited the banquet area. Again he saw worse things than before.
The ground became filled with the smell of blood. The sounds of screaming and gunfire echoed and houses were on fire. The previously peaceful unique city had been replaced by a city of hell full of suffering in just an instant.
"They seemed to be acting after Lord God and Xiao Caihong left." Long Long Long assumed so because from the start no one dared to look for trouble while Qu Xuanzi was around.
"Where is he?"
"I don't feel his presence. If the city has become like this, Lord God means it is far from the scene of the commotion."
"Already expected, they were looking for an opportunity in narrowness, separating me with Qu Xuanzi and making a fuss ...." Xie Ran sighed and pinched his throbbing head. "Long Ying, Long Yun, control the chaos. Long Huo will come with me."
The three dragons instantly came out in quite a large form. They roared over the sign preparing to take orders. Long Ying and Long Yun simultaneously flew away getting rid of the demons while Xie Ran sat on Long Huo's back going the other way. He had to shorten his time this way.
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Qu Xuanzi and Xiao Caihong were out of the mess. Earlier they left because suddenly someone panicked to see the group of demons at the city gate. Li Ningzhi persuaded Qu Xuanzi to take a look with her various remarks until Xiao Caihong was upset.
Qu Xuanzi was not interested in anyone's persuasion and was still waiting for Xie Ran, yet he suddenly sensed something familiar out there. He knew what the demons were going to wait for, so he had already calculated everything and held on until Xie Ran was coming.
After enough time, he left with Xiao Caihong as if accepting Li Ningzhi's invitation. He could not leave this careless Xiao Caihong behind, so he had to take her.
As expected, there was chaos after coming out of the city. Di Yushi was still nowhere to be seen and he was sure the demon asked Li Ningzhi to distract him from being separated from Xie Ran. Di Yushi targets Xie Ran, while he has his own taget.
"Master, there's no one here. Did the guy cheat?" Li Ningzhi with her innocent face circulated a glance. "Master?" He looked back, but the person he called absent left a snot child staring at him coldly.
Xiao Caihong did not say anything, only staring at the disappointed Li Ningzhi. He did not understand why Li Ningzhi liked his father who was clearly so heartless.
A few meters east of the city gate, the 300-meter-high tower stood firmly beyond the shady trees filling the forest. Dark energy wandered around the tower accompanied by dancing torch flames.
In Yushi walked along a hallway filled with torches. His wide steps turned towards another, larger room like a hall. The room was empty, the walls and floors were dark with the smell of blood. There was a formation pattern in the middle of the floor. The picture is complicated and means dark.
Di Yushi placed the item his partner had given him in the middle of the pattern as the formation core. A stone that was unattractive, yet emitted a powerful dark energy. The stone let out a black fog that danced around the formation. The formation underwent energy fluctuations as well as forming a portal that stood like a mirror pond. Behind the portal was only darkness.
The figure of a black robe as well as a long spear came out from there. His feet stepped out of the portal. His posture was tall and he was a grown man. His aura spread causing several demonic bats to fly in submission including Di Yushi.
"'That man' is here, Your Majesty. It could be seen, his strength was still not perfect, the seal was still stuck to him."
The cloaked man took off the hood that covered his face. Silver hair and a face covered with a half-face mask. It can be seen, he is handsome even though he is wearing a mask. His gaze was filled with threat and sharp as he looked at Di Yushi.
"You didn't call me to face him, did you?"
"Because the seal has still not been destroyed, then the Demon Emperor cannot come out easily either. Right now, the Demon Emperor was in Middle World, unable to contact him. The spies sent are dead, so we need more powerful spies to reach him."
"Qi Jao told you, didn't he? In the Underworld, the demons were being groomed more maturely. The Demon Emperor doesn't need any help, I think he will return to the Underworld soon for a while."
"Son, Your Majesty."
The man looked at Di Yushi sharply and spoke in a deep tone. "Pure energy is in sight, why don't you catch it? I see 'that guy' has gone quite a distance."
"After this, the servant will continue the task of capturing pure energy. Shuiyang City had already been conquered, the girl should have been busy. It's just, afraid 'that guy' will act."
The masked man remained flat and looked at the open window staring at the sky. "It seems he's already aware of my presence."
In Yushi prepared and immediately alert. "Your Majesty, what is there to do?"
The masked man was silent. His face was still flat, but his gaze was no longer directed at the sky especially at Di Yushi. He was not silent about Di Yushi's sentence, but something else that made him feel threatened.
In Yushi did not know, behind him was a tall man with a cold face. His white clothes and hair were blown by the wind from the window which made his aura even more different.
Di Yushi felt his back cool down instantly. He turned around, seeing a certain emperor present exchanging glances with the masked man with a cold aura. He was clearly shocked and immediately took a few steps back until his shoulder was held by the masked man and pushed aside.
"Old not see." Qu Xuanzi 'greet' his old acquaintance who had been thousands of years unseen. His voice was cold as the north pole, although his sentence was somewhat friendly.