Righteous Virtue, Sinister Sovereign

"Holy crap, what's going on? Old Zhou, how did you die??"

Zhong Yi was still quite a distance away from Zhou Yue, currently located in the East Building.

It all happened so fast. Zhong Yi only heard a burst of fierce and rapid gunfire, and then Zhou Yue was gone.

"I... I don't know either! That was too fierce!!"

At this time, Zhou Yue had turned into a soul state, attached to the small bottle at Zhong Yi's waist, instantly synchronizing with Zhong Yi's perspective.

In the background setting of "Operation Xianyuan Continent", Lu Ze's design was that everyone carried two Soul Return Bottles.

When a teammate died, they wouldn't really die, but would return to the Soul Return Bottle in a soul state.

In this state, they could spectate their teammates continuing the game, which actually fit the circumstances of a cultivation world quite well.

"No way? My brother got one-shot? This... this Evil Lord Yide is way too overpowered!!!"

Zhou Qiaoling was panicking hard right now.

Her backpack was stuffed with all kinds of supplies, carrying a value of over a million!

Zhou Yue's skills were just like his luck, so steady that it made people feel at ease.

Since even Zhou Yue was instantly killed by Evil Lord Yide, she naturally didn't think she was a match for him.

Out of her instinct for survival and wealth, Zhou Qiaoling had already minimized her movements as much as possible.

Just walking silently wasn't enough; she was now lying flat on the ground, inching forward bit by bit.

Just as she decided to embody a maggot and squirm her way out of the Administration Palace, a dark green weapon crate ahead suddenly caught her eye.

Zhou Qiaoling couldn't help but lick her lips.

"Looting just one thing shouldn't hurt, right?"

Zhou Qiaoling reached out and opened the weapon crate.

"Creak."

The sound of opening the container was exceptionally piercing in this quiet Administration Palace.

The nearby Asara rogue cultivator immediately went on high alert: "A sound?"

Upstairs, Said, who had just finished killing Zhou Yue and exited combat status, suddenly changed his slow footsteps into highly aggressive ones.

"Looks like someone stepped into my trap!"

Said let out an evil laugh, running straight toward Zhou Qiaoling's position as if the wind was carrying his feet.

In just a few breaths, this god of death in a black cloak and red mask had already arrived in front of Zhou Qiaoling.

"N-no! Listen to me explain, big bro!"

Zhou Qiaoling panicked and hurriedly hid behind the weapon crate to dodge Said's spirit bullets.

"Feel my wrath!"

Said pulled out a crimson hand crossbow from his waist, and a flaming arrow struck the ground beside Zhou Qiaoling.

Zhou Qiaoling was instantly engulfed in flames.

[Evil Lord Yide (Boss) killed Smart Little Zhou]

"Ahhhhh!! My little purples and little golds!!!"

Zhou Qiaoling let out a heart-wrenching wail and, together with Zhou Yue, attached herself to the Soul Return Bottle at Zhong Yi's waist.

"That's what you get for being greedy..."

Seeing Zhou Qiaoling, who had been looting the entire match, now turned into a soul, Zhou Yue felt a burst of secret satisfaction.

"Boohoo, Senior Brother Zhong, you have to find a way to avenge us!!"

Zhou Qiaoling's heart was bleeding.

Her Reincarnation Seal only had 2 slots of space, and it was full after putting in one gold bar.

Several little golds were left outside, completely unrecoverable!

"Forget it, don't make things difficult for Old Zhong... let him retreat."

Zhou Yue shook his head.

He was the most clear about Evil Lord Yide's strength.

He died before he could even see the opponent's draw motion; the guy was simply a monster among monsters.

And what about Zhong Yi?

In the time it took this guy to draw his gun, Zhou Yue could finish firing a whole magazine and start reloading spirit bullets...

When it came to mechanics, Zhong Yi's reputation was as consistently steady as Zhou Yue's luck.

Right at this moment, Said, having finished off Zhou Qiaoling, slowly headed back to the second floor.

The leisurely footsteps fell into the ears of Zhong Yi and the other two, yet they were full of murderous intent.

As the footsteps drew closer, Zhong Yi's mind was in utter chaos.

Run?

That would be too disloyal.

Then...

Fight?

Zhong Yi gulped, watching a shadow on the ground grow longer and closer.

Eh?

Are you kidding me...

Am I supposed to fight Evil Lord Yide!?

"Senior Brother Zhong, you definitely wouldn't abandon your fellow disciples to survive alone, right?"

"Sister, what kind of nonsense are you spouting..."

"If you run away now, it will definitely become a heart demon in the future! You might face a tribulation when breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm!"

"...You just can't bear to part with the little golds in your backpack, right?"

"This has nothing to do with the little golds! I think Senior Brother Zhong should believe in himself. What is a mere Evil Lord Yide? He's just an inconspicuous pebble on the path of cultivation!!!"

"You just can't part with the little golds!!"

"How about you go downstairs and revive me, Senior Brother Zhong, and we can run together?"

"???"

...

The bickering between Zhou Yue and Zhou Qiaoling in his ears made Zhong Yi's brain even more chaotic.

Just as he was at a loss for what to do, Evil Lord Yide's footsteps grew closer, and that signature black cloak and red mask were already half-exposed through the corner of the corridor.

Evil Lord Yide slowly walked out of the corridor, his steps carrying incomparable pressure.

Behind him, a purplish-black evil aura flickered.

A terrifying sense of oppression, accompanied by that eerie music, rushed over.

Even Zhou Yue and Zhou Qiaoling, who were in their soul states, couldn't help but shut their mouths.

"It's over... It's too late to run..."

Zhou Yue sighed, feeling a sense of loss that everything was finished.

Zhou Qiaoling also stayed silent.

Although she had just cheered Zhong Yi on, she didn't actually think Zhong Yi could face Evil Lord Yide head-on.

That weapon with its extremely fast firing rate, those spirit bullets with purple flames, those practically unsolvable flaming arrows...

There was absolutely no chance of winning.

"Crap... we're screwed!"

Zhong Yi's breath hitched, and he frantically started to draw his gun.

He had just been thinking about countermeasures against Evil Lord Yide, but he never expected the opponent to have already reached such a close position!

You have to know, once a minion's alert mechanism is triggered, they will hunt you to the ends of the earth...

Right now, Evil Lord Yide was close at hand!

He was dead for sure!

A wave of despair spread through Zhong Yi's heart.

Especially at the moment when Said turned his head and locked eyes with him.

Just a moment ago, the tiny sound of Zhou Qiaoling opening the weapon crate made Said hunt her down relentlessly;

Now that he was making eye contact with him, wouldn't he die without an intact corpse?

"Come on! Even if I die, I'll die with some dignity!"

Zhong Yi took a deep breath and raised his Mingju - Type 15, his expression incredibly heroic.

"There are no cowards among the disciples of Lingxiao Sect!"

"Whether you want to kill or torture me, I, Zhong Yi, am absolutely not afraid!"

However, to his surprise,

The Evil Lord Yide, wearing the black cloak and red mask, froze for a moment, then suddenly turned his head away and slowly changed direction.

As if he hadn't seen him at all.

He even seemed to start humming a leisurely little tune.