Chapter 155: North Wind Divine Ruins

Three days later, North Wind City.

The streets and alleys were decorated with lanterns, and the city was overcrowded.

The thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, it was January 1st of the solar calendar, New Year's Day.

On this day, the world officially entered 2019.

On this day, North Wind believers from all over Great Xia rushed here for a pilgrimage, and North Wind City was bustling with activity.

Lu Ran stood on the martial arts arena, able to see from afar that in the inner city, thick incense was rising, diffusing from the feet of the god statue.

It was indeed a spectacle!

In comparison, the martial arts arena seemed very empty.

In the snow forest, Lu Ran stood alone in the snow, as if he had booked the place.

Most people had gone to the inner city to worship, not wanting to miss such a grand ceremony.

Lu Ran didn't go.

He wanted to go, very much wanted to see the world, but...

He didn't want to kneel.

At the gates of North Wind City, you could admire the style of the god without necessarily having to kneel and worship.

After all, you were a believer of another god, which could be justified.

But entering the inner city?

This was something you walked into yourself, something you actively came to the front of the god, North Wind, for; you still don't worship?

In a crowd of people kneeling and praying, offering incense piously, you just stand there?

What does that mean?

Everyone is drunk and you are the only one awake?

You can be the only one awake, no one cares about you, but you cannot provoke!

Lu Ran was afraid that if he went in, he would never come out again...

Si Xianxian was implicated by Lu Ran; she also couldn't attend this grand worship ceremony.

At this moment, Si Xianxian was sitting under a large tree by the side of the martial arts arena.

She still held a candied haw in her hand, and there was only 1 hawthorn left on the wooden stick; she seemed reluctant to eat it anymore.

Si Xianxian just sat there, staring at the remaining hawthorn, her tongue licking her lips from time to time, looking greedy.

Hmm... quite cute?

"Eat it, I'll buy you more." On the field, Lu Ran's voice came.

"As if I don't have money to buy it!" Si Xianxian rolled her eyes, still reluctant to eat it.

The martial arts arena was very far from the commercial street, and if she wanted to continue the candied haws, she would have to walk a very long way...

"Eat it, you're bothering me." Lu Ran's voice drifted over again.

Si Xianxian said angrily: "I'm sitting here without making a sound, and I can still bother you?"

Lu Ran held his twin blades, standing alone in the snow: "Your face is full of inner thoughts.

Your heart is bothering me."

Si Xianxian:?

Lu Ran ordered: "Eat."

"You're just overbearing." Si Xianxian muttered dissatisfiedly, opening her little mouth to bite down.

"Click~ Crack~"

Between her lips and teeth, the sugar coating kept shattering, making an enticing, crispy sound.

It sounded delicious.

"You've been standing there stupidly for a long time." Si Xianxian said vaguely. "What are you thinking about?"

Having just been dissatisfied, she was now full of sweetness, and her mood improved significantly.

Even her voice was three parts sweeter.

Lu Ran held his twin blades: "Don't bother me, I'm comprehending the Dao."

Si Xianxian held the bamboo stick in her hand, suddenly wanting to stab Lu Ran to death...

These two days, Yan Shuangzi had fulfilled her promise to Deng Yuxiang and took good care of Lu Ran.

And what Lu Ran didn't expect was that the first lesson Yan Shuangzi gave him had nothing to do with blade technique skills, but threw out a concept.

She said that the realm of a blade guest is divided into three types.

One is Body and Blade as One.

Two is Heart and Blade as One.

Three is Person and Blade as One.

She said that the vast majority of blade guests in the world are in the first realm.

The so-called Body and Blade as One is being able to skillfully use the blade in one's hand.

This is the shallowest application.

In your shallow cognition, the blade is just a tool.

A sharp weapon that helps you win and kill enemies.

Little did you know, for a true blade guest, the blade in hand is a display of the blade guest's personal spirit.

This is the second realm: Heart and Blade as One.

In this level,

The blade can be firm, can be overbearing, and can even be compassionate.

From this, the blade in your hand is no longer a cold object.

But a concrete manifestation of your spiritual will!

Yan Shuangzi gave Lu Ran a very high evaluation.

She said that when Lu Ran was fighting Bu Qingfeng, she vaguely saw the prototype of "blade intent."

Lu Ran's blade indeed could speak.

At least it was babbling.

However, Lu Ran was not a North Wind believer, and he didn't need to understand the blade so deeply.

He didn't even need to dabble in it!

After all, everyone's energy is limited; believers of other sects dabbling deeper in this path wouldn't help themselves much.

Only North Wind believers must comprehend it; this is the sect's hard requirement!

If you want to learn and cast the Jiang Jing divine technique of the North Wind Sect, believers must reach the third realm—Person and Blade as One.

In this realm: Person is Blade, Blade is Person.

When Yan Shuangzi expressed this concept, Lu Ran woke up with a start!

Before, when Lu Ran first looked at Yan Shuangzi carefully, he had such a psychological activity:

"She is like a great blade standing in the ice and snow.

Cold and sharp, aggressive!"

This was Lu Ran's intuitive feeling about Yan Shuangzi, what he thought in his heart, never said to anyone.

And when Lu Ran understood the concept of "Person and Blade as One," he realized how strong Yan Shuangzi was!

Lu Ran was very glad that he could come into contact with these concepts.

Indeed, he was not a North Wind believer, but he was the Master of the Evil Sect!

It wouldn't be long before Lu Ran would activate the Night Charm Yemo Xiesu.

Lu Ran could naturally cast those evil techniques of the Night Charm below the Jiang Jing at will.

But when the Night Charm Yemo Xiesu reached the Jiang Jing, Lu Ran wanted to cast the extremely powerful Jiang Jing Night Charm evil technique; would he also need to reach the realm of "Person and Blade as One"?

After all, the North Wind clan and the Night Charm clan were too similar.

"Lu Ran?" A voice woke Lu Ran from his contemplation.

"What's up?" Lu Ran turned his head to look.

Si Xianxian shook the bamboo stick: "I'm going to buy candied haws, I'll be back in a while."

"No, there are too many people in the market now, you can't go." Lu Ran refused immediately.

"So what if there are many people."

"I'm afraid someone will squeeze you, and you'll slap them." Lu Ran snorted. "Both of us will have to go to jail."

"You guy!" Si Xianxian stood up with a flutter, clearly having endured Lu Ran for a long time.

It didn't matter the previous few times, but now, he was blocking her from eating candied haws, how could that work?

"Don't be angry." Lu Ran advised immediately.

"Ugh." Si Xianxian's figure swayed slightly, and she held her forehead with one hand.

A few seconds later, Si Xianxian, who had come to her senses, looked at Lu Ran with a trend of fire in her eyes.

"Fine, fine, I'll go with you." Lu Ran was quite helpless, stepping toward the side of the field.

"Hmph, that's more like it!" Si Xianxian didn't wait for Lu Ran, striding toward the depths of the snow forest.

Half an hour later, in the crowded commercial street.

Si Xianxian held a hot roasted sugar cake in one hand and a strawberry candied haw in the other, her eyes shining with greed.

Where was the angry appearance from just now?

"Click~"

With one bite, the sugar coating was crispy, full of sweetness.

"Hmm." Si Xianxian closed her eyes, full of happiness.

Lu Ran reached out his finger and poked her spine: "Walk."

Si Xianxian followed his pace, clearly in a great mood, her steps very light.

Maybe the strawberry was too sweet, she was shaking her head happily, muttering:

"I am a little wild horse, I gallop, gallop, gallop~"

Lu Ran:???

Good guy~

As expected of a patient, what kind of mental state is this?

Is she really eating happily?!

Thinking about it, Aunt Si wouldn't dare to take her daughter to such a bustling market, right?

Her previous life was naturally very boring and oppressive.

"Eh?" Si Xianxian was still happy when she was suddenly bumped by a running child.

Suddenly, the strawberry candied haw in her hand fell.

As a martial artist, she subconsciously lifted her foot and kicked the candied haw back up, grabbing it back into her hand.

"You really are a little wild horse!" Lu Ran couldn't help laughing out loud.

Si Xianxian's face turned black: "Shut up!"

Lu Ran still couldn't help laughing: "That candied haw is so wronged!

Not only eaten by you, but it also had to be kicked before being eaten?"

Si Xianxian glared at Lu Ran fiercely, then looked for the running child.

"No!" Lu Ran blocked her immediately. "Children absolutely cannot be slapped, it's easy for you to slap them to death."

"Hmph." Si Xianxian turned to look at the candied haw, looking for dust that might have stained the sugar coating.

Hmm... not a big problem.

If it's not clean, eating it won't make you sick!

She blew on it symbolically and took another bite.

"Wow!"

"Really imposing..." In the crowd, exclamations suddenly came.

Lu Ran looked up and saw a group of North Wind believers flying past in the sky, flying toward the inner city.

A full three or four hundred people, it was truly overwhelming!

Every North Wind believer was full of spirit, making people envious.

They should all be here for a pilgrimage?

Lu Ran stood still and watched for a while, fantasizing about what he would look like flying freely in the high sky one day in the future.

Of course, what he would use then naturally wouldn't be Divine Technique, Clear Wind Dance, but should be Evil Technique, Night Dance of the Fallen City!

"Let's go, let's go back to the inn first." Lu Ran came back to his senses, taking Si Xianxian and walking forward.

"Shop a little longer!" Si Xianxian was somewhat reluctant.

"You go back to the room to eat, I've also practiced all morning, I want to rest."

"Alright..." The two said as they walked, passing half a street, and turned into an inn.

This was the place where the two stayed in North Wind City, and the room fee was paid by Yan Shuangzi.

It was hard to imagine how expensive a room would be during this special period.

"Don't go running around!" Lu Ran said, arriving on the second floor and giving one last worried instruction before pushing the door open to enter the room.

"Got it, got it." Si Xianxian entered the room with the good food, closing the door casually.

Lu Ran sighed and pushed the door to enter his room.

The inns in the city were all very retro, and the decoration in

Lu Ran walked to the window, picked up the phone on the table, and scrolled through it.

It had been a long time since he'd received a message from someone; she must be very busy.

Busy training, busy gaining experience.

For Jiang Ruyi's sake, Lu Ran had rejected Si Xianxian's proposal and did not go with her to visit the Ice and Snow World.

However, this North Wind City was just as bustling and lively, and Lu Ran found everything novel.

More than once, he had thought that it would be great if he could swap the little wild horse for Jiang Ruyi.

"Happy New Year," Lu Ran typed out the four characters and sent them.

Lu Ran waited for a moment, and as expected, there was no response from the other side.

He then sent messages to his family, and just at that moment, a strange phenomenon suddenly occurred!

"Hum—!!"

The entire North Wind City seemed to tremble.

Lu Ran felt a jolt in his heart, abruptly raised his head, and looked out the window.

"What the!" Lu Ran's mouth hung wide open; what was he seeing?

A mirage?

In the sky far to the north, beside the divine sculpture, a phantom image had appeared.

It was a magnificent Chinese-style palace!

It looked like an image projected from ancient times, imposing and majestic!

"A Divine Ruin," Lu Ran murmured.

He had seen Evil Nests before; they were a powerful method of the true Demon Stone Sculptures, capable of spawning countless evil minions within a specific area.

And this grand, illusory building before his eyes was a special method of the gods.

Of course, it would not bring disaster to the world; on the contrary, this was another form of blessing from the gods.

It seemed Lord Bei Feng was in a good mood and wanted to reward his disciples?

Creating a Divine Ruin, just like demons creating an Evil Nest, was extremely energy-consuming!

Lu Ran strained his eyes and saw over a dozen Bei Feng believers flying high up, arriving before the palace gates.

These dozen or so people were truly high-spirited and radiant!

No joke, were these really just a dozen people?

In Lu Ran's eyes, these were a dozen blades.

And one of the great blades among them was Yan Shuangzi!

(End of chapter)