"I had a friendly exchange with Senior Devouring Demon Willow, and we fully exchanged views and reached a consensus on solutions in all aspects..."
In the living room of the small wooden house, after Qin Ran activated the isolation array, he briefly told a few people about the things between him and Devouring Demon Willow.
...As for whether Devouring Demon Willow is still alive, it was inferred by them, and had nothing to do with Qin Ran. Qin Ran did not violate the Divine Soul Blood Pact.
"So..." Tushan Youyou hugged her chest and leaned against the window, asking Qin Ran, "Are you in cahoots with Devouring Demon Willow?"
"What collusion? You make it sound so unpleasant!" Qin Ran sat in the long wooden chair in the living room, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, and said, "We have reached a peace agreement and engaged in friendly cooperation, paving the way for his and Dan Peak's future development."
"How dare you cooperate with someone like Devouring Demon Willow?" Tushan Youyou sneered when she heard this and said, "Aren't you afraid of death?"
"Senior is a ninth-rank demonic beast. It is my greatest honor to be able to cooperate with him. Why not?" Qin Ran replied.
Long Qiqi sat cross-legged on the floor, leaning on the coffee table. She looked at Qin Ran and always felt that Qin Ran was a little strange today. His tone of speech was false and vague, and he didn't say anything of substance no matter how much he talked.
She suspected that Qin Ran had already been possessed or controlled by Devouring Demon Willow. After all, Devouring Demon Willow was a demonic beast and could not speak human language.
She quickly signaled to Tushan Youyou by the window with her eyes, "This may not be Qin Ran".
Tushan Youyou received Long Qiqi's signal and asked, "Are you Qin Ran?"
"Ah!" Long Qiqi patted her head helplessly. Why did she ask it directly? She shouldn't have confidence in demonic beasts when it comes to intrigue, even if it was a fox spirit.
"Of course it's me." Qin Ran said.
"How to prove it?"
"Chasing the Wind can prove it."
Tushan Youyou looked at Chasing the Wind. Chasing the Wind nodded and said, "It's indeed Dad."
In fact, Tushan Youyou also felt that there was something wrong with Qin Ran. She looked at Qin Ran a few more times, thought about it, and asked, "So what deal did you guys make?"
"Can't say." Qin Ran shook his head.
Tushan Youyou thought to herself that she probably shouldn't ask about the affairs of a rank 9 demonic beast.
But Long Qiqi's eyes condensed. She noticed something wrong. Can't say, it means being forced not to say. She no longer believed in Tushan Youyou, and asked by herself, "How much strength does Devouring Demon Willow have left now?"
"Unknown."
Long Qiqi guessed Qin Ran and Devouring Demon Willow's situation based on her own sinister thoughts, and got some clues. She asked again, "If Sister Youyou wanted to challenge Devouring Demon Willow, what are the odds of winning?"
Qin Ran looked approvingly at Long Qiqi, knowing that the little girl had grasped the way to break the situation.
He answered, "YouYou's strength is indeed strong, but for Senior Devouring Demon Willow, she still does not pose a threat to life."
Long Qiqi immediately understood. Can win, but can't kill. She asked again, "What about Chasing the Wind?"
"Can't say." Qin Ran shook his head again and again.
...Chasing the Wind has the ability to threaten Devouring Demon Willow's life.
Long Qiqi asked Qin Ran some trivial details in a roundabout way. Qin Ran also answered Long Qiqi as much as possible without triggering the Divine Soul Blood Pact.
The two said a bunch of incomprehensible words, leaving the other three people looking at each other, not knowing what they were talking about.
After a while, Qin Ran got up and went out, saying, "I'll go see how Senior Devouring Demon Willow is doing."
The four people in the living room sat down. Li Shiyin looked at Long Qiqi and hurriedly asked, "Qiqi, what exactly is going on?"
"Qin Ran made some deals with Devouring Demon Willow and reached some agreements. In these agreements, at least one is that he cannot reveal Devouring Demon Willow's true situation. If he does, Qin Ran may suffer some kind of harm."
Long Qiqi shared her analysis with them and continued, "But I got some useful information from the exchange just now."
"Agreement..." Tushan Youyou said, "It should be a Divine Soul Blood Pact."
"Divine Soul Blood Pact?" Long Qiqi had never heard of such a thing due to her cultivation level and knowledge.
So Tushan Youyou explained to her what a Divine Soul Blood Pact was, and finally added, "With Devouring Demon Willow's strength, isn't it very unfair for Qin Ran to sign a Divine Soul Blood Pact with him?"
She still didn't know that Devouring Demon Willow was stronger at splitting spirits, otherwise she would be more worried.
"With Qin Ran's personality, he won't suffer such a loss." Long Qiqi shook her head. She didn't know if she was praising Qin Ran or not.
"From the exchange just now, I got some information," she continued.
"First, Qin Ran is not in danger for the time being, but it may not be so in the future; Second, Qin Ran cannot take action against Devouring Demon Willow, but he did not say we could not take action. According to my analysis, Qin Ran is implying that we should take action to eliminate Devouring Demon Willow."
"With just that little willow branch..." Li Shiyin wondered, "Chasing the Wind can slap it to death with one paw. What's so amazing about it?"
"That's a rank 9 demonic beast, equivalent to a united path cultivator! How terrifying is a united path cultivator?" Long Qiqi looked at Li Shiyin and scolded, "There may be countless backups, how can it be easily killed? Lingnan Immortal Sect has been plotting for many years, and has not completely eliminated it."
"We still have to plan this matter carefully!"
Qin Ran went out alone and came to Devouring Demon Willow's side. He took out his Dao fruit and spread it in front of Devouring Demon Willow, and jokingly asked, "Senior Willow, the Dao fruit is here, how do you want to take it?"
The branches of the slender willow in front of him swayed, the willow tip bent, and lightly tapped the Dao fruit. Then the Dao fruit turned into a liquid and flew up with the willow branch, eventually merging into the willow branch.
This Dao fruit originally belonged to Devouring Demon Willow anyway, so absorbing it was a natural thing.
After absorbing the Dao fruit, visibly, the slender willow by the lake grew taller and bigger, and in the blink of an eye it grew from waist-high of Qin Ran to even taller than Qin Ran. Its trunk also thickened to the size of a baby's fist, and the yellow buds on the branches grew into tender yellow leaves.
"Congratulations, Senior!" Qin Ran said.
The willow tree swayed its branches and leaves, also appearing cheerful.
That night, the study lights were on. Qin Ran transcribed the first layer of the Nine Extremes Primordial Spirit Demon Devouring Skill onto paper, and studied every word carefully on the paper.
He made detailed lists on paper of the various meanings of each word, multiple interpretations, different origins, and so on. He was treating this demonic skill as a classics to do academic research.
Contrary to Liu Daoji's expectation of eager anticipation, Qin Ran was in no hurry to cultivate this primordial spirit skill. Instead, he calmly started researching it, and even had no intention of cultivating this skill at all.
How careful and cautious was Qin Ran? Where would he casually cultivate other people's skills? It is known that after killing someone, he didn't even dare to lick the package, for fear of learning the other's skills and being found out.
He had no intention of cultivating this skill, only the intention to research this skill...
And for him, an experienced skill scavenger for many years, researching skills was a proper professional job!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
