Chapter 67: Lu Qianfan

Nuo Yan instantly turned to stone right where she stood.

Damn it!

Are you kidding me?

You dumped me, and the first thing you do is turn around and confess your feelings to another man?

Could it be that Ren Jie's true preference is...

Hiss~

What a waste of your potential! Such a fine young man, why on earth must you choose to be a cradle-snatcher?

However, looking at the appearances of both Ren Jie and Chen Xi, Nuo Yan's expression quickly turned bizarre.

(˵ಡ‿ಡ˵)

They actually look quite a good match. I ship it, I totally ship it~

And so, Nuo Yan the shipper came online, not forgetting to take out her phone to take pictures as study materials.

The Great Xia Defense Forces were dumbfounded, staring at Ren Jie with terror-stricken eyes. They had truly seen it all today; rejecting such a fine girl only to set his sights on Commander Chen...

Chen Xi could be seen with veins throbbing on his forehead, his face turning completely dark.

My foot am I doing great!

Do I need you to tell me I'm great?

(̿▀̿益▀̿ ̿ꐦ)̄ "Get the hell out of here, right now!"

Ren Jie's eyes lit up brightly, and he quickly saluted:

∠(｀◠´*) "Aye~ You got it~"

Then he scurried back behind Nuo Yan like a puff of smoke to hide, letting out a long breath in his heart as a demonic whisper echoed in his mind:

"The price has been paid..."

Ren Jie never expected that confessing to a man would actually work either?

Does that "other person" not have gender restrictions?

Or was it somehow limited only to men?

Regardless, the price had been successfully paid. Viewed this way, the Snow Demon's price wasn't all that difficult to fulfill after all.

Whenever he was demonized, wouldn't it work as long as he promptly found a man to confess to?

Confessing to a girl carried far too much risk. After all, his charm was boundless; what if she agreed like Nuo Yan did, wouldn't that be a waste of genuine emotion?

Chen Xi gazed up at the night sky, his eyes filled with coldness:

"Those little demon bastards from the Vast Heaven Demon Domain must have grown tired of living, daring to brazenly cross into Great Xia's territory and attack a Spark City? Do they really think Great Xia has no one left?"

"If we don't make you hurt, you damn well won't remember the lesson, will you?"

"For the lives taken in your hands tonight, brothers, we will pay them back a hundred and a thousandfold! The Dragon Horn remembers this blood debt!"

Chen Xi knew very well that without big shots backing them up, those demon bastards wouldn't have had the guts to pull this off.

The battle inside the city was merely child's play; the real battle... was happening above.

At this moment, a massive force of the Great Xia Defense Forces poured into Jin City to secure the scene, while members of the Dragon Horn roamed everywhere in the city, wantonly slaughtering demons and members of the Demon Claw organization...

The Demon-Sinking Legion outside the city had also marched back. Having weathered the initial window of vulnerability, the situation was gradually returning to Great Xia's hands.

High above Jin City, several thousand meters into the night sky.

A dark-cloud demon was suspended in the air, churning incessantly with occasional flashes of lightning weaving through it.

The Demon Lord, one of the Tarot Card Executives, was seated atop that dark cloud, grasping a bottle of vodka and taking swiping gulps from time to time, lowering his head to admire the bursts of gunfire erupting in Jin City.

His entire body was jet-black, powerfully built, standing over three meters tall, with a single pitch-black horn pointing straight up from the top of his head. He possessed four eyes with amber-colored irises and square pupils—looking by no means human...

Beneath him, the dark-cloud demon suddenly spoke up:

"Lord Demon Lord, 1,674 people on the list have already been captured, and 19 have not yet been successfully taken."

"Among these 1,674 people, it has already been confirmed using the Treasure-Stealing Sable and the Demon Snail Eye, and none of them showed any reaction..."

"However, we cannot rule out the possibility that they used special methods to conceal their presence. Just to be safe, we have ordered people to transport the target individuals outside the city for easier re-confirmation afterward..."

The Demon Lord sneered hideously:

"Since we finally obtained a lead on the Demon Inscription Seal, we cannot let it slip away so easily. I'd rather execute a thousand by mistake than let a single one escape."

"This place isn't too far from the former Jin City; the probability of the Third Demon Child being here is still quite high. If we can truly get our hands on that thing..."

At this mention, the Demon Lord's four eyes were filled with fervent yearning.

Yet the dark-cloud demon said: "Great Xia's reinforcements have arrived, Lord Demon Lord, we should leave..."

Instead, the Demon Lord stood up to his full height, casually tossing the liquor bottle down through the high altitude, narrowing his eyes as he said:

"Leave? We haven't found the person yet, how could I possibly leave? Reinforcements? Heh~ They're nothing more than a bunch of paper tigers!"

"The human race... has no soldiers worthy of battle!"

"They still can't stop me, the Demon Lord!"

At this moment, the Demon Lord directly raised his hand to draw out an octagonal black staff.

"Give me the locations of the remaining few, I'll take action myself."

The dark-cloud demon was about to speak, but a ferocious grin spread across the Demon Lord's face as he gazed up into the pitch-black night sky.

"Heh~ Has he come?"

In that instant, a figure abruptly materialized within the previously pitch-black night sky.

This person looked quite young, roughly in his early thirties, wearing jeans and a white hoodie, with a neat short haircut.

He possessed star-like eyes, sword-like eyebrows, a high-bridged nose, thin lips, and a physique that even appeared somewhat slender, with a faint scar near his temple.

With both hands casually thrust into his pockets, he stood suspended in the void, gazing apathetically at the Demon Lord.

"Who gave you the guts? Daring to step foot into Great Xia's territory? Tired of living, are you?"

The moment he saw that face, the Demon Lord turned pale as paper. How could it be him?

"Lu Qianfan? Your injuries have healed?"

Lu Qianfan narrowed his eyes: "That's not something you should be worrying about. What you should be worrying about even more is your own miserable life!"

The Demon Lord sneered hideously: "I don't believe it! I don't believe your injuries have healed! Lu Qianfan, you've got a tough life!"

"You didn't die from such heavy wounds, and after lying low for so long, just how much of your strength is left?"

"Do you really think two or three words can scare me away? Today! I am taking Jin City for sure. I want to see for myself if you can actually stop me!"

With a resounding boom, boundless pitch-black demonic energy surged out from within the Demon Lord, swallowing up the entire sky above Jin City.

Dark clouds weighing down on the city threatening to crush it was nothing compared to this.

Atop the Demon Lord, the aura of the tenth-rank realm suddenly burst forth, its formidable pressure even distorting the spatial fabric.

Not a single person in the city could help but stare up at the night sky with horror, their hearts trembling. That was a terrifying aura belonging exclusively to the peak.

The demonic clouds churned, transforming into a giant demonic head that opened its pitch-black maw directly at Lu Qianfan.

"Demon Advent • Heaven-Repelling Cannon!"

Boundless black energy converged before the demonic maw, then suddenly erupted.

An extremely thick pillar of black energy roared straight toward Lu Qianfan with overwhelming momentum.

Lu Qianfan said coldly:

"Hmph~ A dying struggle!"

He then slightly raised a hand.

With a loud crash, the Heaven-Repelling Cannon was blocked by a single hand of Lu Qianfan. Boundless black energy deflected outward through the gaps in his fingers, crashing into the mountains outside the city and triggering violent explosions.

Mountains collapsed, and the earth wailed in agony!

The black light dissipated completely, yet Lu Qianfan still stood in his original spot, safe and sound, with only wisps of white smoke rising from his palm.

He took a single step forward, golden light bursting beneath his feet as a vastly huge Taiji Bagua diagram bloomed downward from him, enveloping the entire sky above Jin City.

That golden Bagua diagram spun continuously, illuminating the night sky of Jin City as bright as day...

His eyes looked toward the Demon Lord, filled with absolute chillness as every word rang out with the force of metal:

"Every inch of Great Xia's ten-thousand-li rivers and mountains is soaked in blood! You may come, but leave your life behind!"

"Qian One • Heaven-Rending!"

At this moment, the spinning Bagua diagram beneath Lu Qianfan's feet suddenly locked into place, and boundless golden Qi converged within his hand, transforming into a sword of golden light.

It slashed fiercely toward that pitch-black demonic head.

An intensely searing stream of golden sword light cleaved out in an instant, cutting across heaven and earth.

At that moment, the dazzling sword light seemed to become the only thing in the night sky.

The demonic head was split right down the middle on the spot, and the Demon Lord's body was struck by the sword light, plummeting toward the ground like a shooting star and smashing into a mountain outside the city to blast out a gigantic crater.

This single sword strike! Even split the drifting clouds in the night sky in two, as if truly tearing the firmament apart.

The Demon Lord lay in the crater vomiting blood profusely, his face full of shock.

Yet it was not over yet; the Bagua diagram beneath Lu Qianfan's feet spun once more.

"Zhen Four • Dragon-Suppressing Nail!"

An ultra-giant cyan heavenly pillar took shape, its base sharp and pointed just like a giant cyan nail.

It slammed down fiercely right at the huge crater where the Demon Lord was located.

"Boom-boom-boom!"

Several surrounding mountains were flattened directly into level ground, and half of the massive Dragon-Suppressing Nail's shaft drove deep into the earth.

The Demon Lord's eyes split wide open as he spewed another mouthful of blood:

"He's not injured! He's not injured at all! Hermit, save me!"