Chapter 169

"Our manpower is insufficient, we split up to search for Straw Demons."

Seeing Lu Ran land steadily, the woman responded.

Lu Ran nodded silently; no wonder the Divine People Bureau found him.

The Moon-Gazers had actually even split up their squads; they were really risking their lives.

It seemed the threat of the Straw Demon clan to the city was far greater than he had imagined.

"Careful." Lu Ran said in a deep voice, mist spraying under his feet, and he rushed forward along the street.

The woman looked at Lu Ran's rapidly departing back and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

She had finally seen this legendary Immortal Sheep believer.

Sure enough, fame is not without merit!

He was indeed not afraid of battle, even daring to walk alone on this night of the fifteenth.

"Whoosh"

Lu Ran went from east to west, arrived at the intersection, and turned sharply to move toward the north side.

Just on the side of the street, in front of Wang's Big Bone Restaurant, three Straw Demons were scattered.

Lu Ran lit up his blades and killed straight toward them.

Further down the street, two Moon-Gazers who had killed their way over couldn't help but look stunned: "Who is that?"

"Swish~"

The Rosy Dawn Blade flashed with blade light, and a Straw Demon was cut in half at the waist!

Lu Ran collapsed under his feet, his direction changed, and he suddenly pushed forward a full 7 meters to the right front.

"Sizzle!"

The Night Silence Blade drove straight in, gutting a Straw Demon, and then swept upward fiercely, tearing open the demon's head.

Lu Ran didn't stop at all, his movements flowing like water, suddenly charging and killing more than ten meters to the left front!

"Crack!"

The Rosy Dawn Blade was extremely sharp, cutting through the straw shield and the Straw Demon's head together.

In just two or three seconds, three Straw Demons had been connected by a path of immortal mist and all met their end.

Suddenly, the two Moon-Gazers stopped their steps.

They looked at the path of mist that "connected points into a line" and looked at the twin-blade youth who had stopped abruptly.

Lu Ran nodded to the two, but suddenly tilted his head, as if he had heard something.

"Sizzle—"

In an instant, Lu Ran rushed to the right, killed into the small alley beside the restaurant, and his figure vanished without a trace.

"Who is this child?"

"Should be Lu Ran, right? That student from Yuxiang No. 1 Middle School!"

"Oh, right! Lu Ran, it must be him..."

At the same time, Lu Ran followed the small alley beside the restaurant and plunged directly into the backyard.

Behind the restaurant was a row of old residential buildings, and in front of the buildings was a row of garages.

And between the buildings and the garages, several vicious dogs were gathering.

"Heh." Lu Ran suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

The barking of vicious dogs and Blood Disaster Dogs was the same, which inevitably made Lu Ran misunderstand.

Don't blame him for being so fearful; after all, whether there were Straw Demons or not, Blood Disaster Dogs were an extremely threatening existence.

And this type of demon was especially common on the night of the fifteenth!

In the past few hours, Lu Ran had killed more than a dozen Blood Disaster Dogs just on the playground of the Fifth Primary School.

"Woof!"

"Woof!!" Seeing the human attack, the four vicious dogs opened their bloody mouths.

The evil technique "Evil Teeth" was thrown out cleanly and neatly.

"Shut your mouth!"

Lu Ran said coldly, his figure rushing over rapidly.

He didn't use his blade to hack, but stomped toward the dog's head.

"Bang!!"

The lead vicious dog's head was crushed by Lu Ran's stomp, flesh and blood splashing.

That scene was a bit too bloody...

And the surrounding vicious dogs were directly blown away by the violently surging air waves.

Soul-Splitting Demon's evil technique: Soul-Splitting Demon Hooves!

Lu Ran decisively chose "War Stomp," and the effect was excellent.

Three vicious dogs howled, their bodies suffering the impact of energy, and in pain, they couldn't even use their evil teeth.

Once again, the twin-blade youth shuttled over!

The vicious dogs flying in the left, right, and front directions were all turned into "points," connected by a path of white mist.

The human figure flashed, hands moving, blades falling.

Lu Ran breathed a sigh of relief, holding the Night Silence Blade in his right hand, and shook off the blood beads on the blade.

"Hum~"

Suddenly, the Rosy Dawn Blade held in his left hand vibrated slightly.

"Hmm?" Lu Ran reacted, then smiled and shook his head.

Is it jealous?

Not necessarily!

Hmm... that's fine.

The more intense and frequent the Rosy Dawn Blade's reaction, the closer it was to gathering an artifact spirit!

Lu Ran immediately shook the Rosy Dawn Blade, helping it shake off the blood on the blade as well.

During the action, Lu Ran seemed to perceive something and suddenly turned to look at the stairwell on the side.

He frowned slightly, strode forward, stabbed out with his blade, precisely into the crack of the unit building door, and pried it open violently!

"Crack~"

The dilapidated unit building door was directly pried open.

In an instant, Lu Ran and a Straw Demon in the stairwell made eye contact.

"Rustle~"

The Straw Demon reached out a hand, and pieces of straw flew and stabbed over.

"Whoosh!"

Lu Ran, wearing his water flow armor, stepped into the pitch-black stairwell.

He flicked his hand violently, and a Night Charm Blade flew out.

The first floor had no residents, just a stairwell, so Lu Ran dared to be so reckless.

The Night Charm Blade instantly pierced through the Straw Demon's head and, carrying it, nailed it directly into the wall!

Poof~

A moment later, the Straw Demon's figure shattered into mist and vanished without a trace.

Lu Ran waved his hand, and the Night Charm Blade nailed to the wall quietly shattered into wind.

Facts proved that in places without people, Lu Ran was the strongest!

Just now, in front of the garage outside the building, Lu Ran only dared to use the alternative immortal hooves (Soul-Splitting Demon Hooves) to bomb the field, and then defeat the vicious dog clan one by one.

If it were an environment with no one around, Lu Ran would probably have thrown out a handful of Night Charm Blades...

"Thud!"

Lu Ran exited the stairwell, and the unit building door closed heavily.

He reached out his hand and touched the place where the unit building door had been pried open, as if soothing it, and then turned and left.

Lu Ran didn't have time to absorb the dog corpses; he just quickly took the demon crystals of the four vicious dogs and returned to the brightly lit street.

"Crack~"

"Crack!" The vicious dog demon crystals in his palm shattered one after another, and the energy within was absorbed by Lu Ran.

"Mm..." Lu Ran let out a comfortable nasal sound.

He looked left and right, then rushed toward the north again.

In the next 2 hours, with the Fifth Primary School as the center, three streets east, west, south, and north, Lu Ran's figure was left everywhere.

At street corners and alleys, immortal mist often drifted.

Inside and outside residential areas, there was always blade light flashing.

The Moon-Gazers guarding this area, as well as the residents living here, had seen Lu Ran's heroic posture of fighting the enemy more than once.

Whenever immortal mist permeated, it meant that the little lamb had killed his way back!

People's psychological activities also changed again and again.

From the initial "Who the hell is this?", until the end, there was only full gratitude and full admiration.

Lu Ran did not let down the Divine People Bureau, and even less did he let down this city.

On this night of the "Night Procession of All Ghosts," Lu Ran, alone, supported an entire patrol squad!

For a full 2 hours, in these few streets, there was no more fire soaring into the sky.

Of course, this was not Lu Ran's credit alone.

The scattered Moon-Gazers, disregarding life and death, tried their best to expand the scope of control, just so that the demons would not have any opportunity to exploit!

"Hehe..."

Once again, Lu Ran chopped a Straw Demon in front of the East Water Bay residential area gate.

He panted heavily, and as the Straw Demon shattered into mist, he absorbed energy rapidly.

This was also the first time Lu Ran felt that his energy was not enough!

Thanks to this morning, Lu Ran had obtained another River Artifact divine power bead, and the energy in it was full.

Otherwise, he really wouldn't have been able to hold on.

"Why hasn't it ended yet?" Lu Ran muttered in his heart.

The continuous high-intensity work made him physically and mentally exhausted.

The duration of the Night Procession of All Ghosts was indeed not fixed; it could last for any length of time.

How many more Straw Demons were going to come?

In Lu Ran's sculpture garden, that demon Straw Demon sculpture could have been activated long ago.

He was even a bit worried that if he kept killing like this, would the Straw Demon's true self realize that the situation was not normal?

"Careful!"

"Kill the dog! Kill the dog first, don't let it..." Suddenly, a series of subtle sounds entered his ears.

Lu Ran turned his head violently and looked into the residential area.

This residential area was not small, and the Moon-Gazers guarding it must have had loud shouts, so Lu Ran could hear them faintly.

Lu Ran didn't say a word and killed straight into the residential area.

There was no need for guidance at all; Lu Ran saw the fire soaring into the sky!

"Damn!" Lu Ran's expression was ugly, and he rarely exploded with a curse.

He and the Moon-Gazers had paid so much, guarding this area together for so long, was it all going to come to nothing?

Such firelight must be a huge straw man being ignited!

The key was that it appeared in this not-so-small residential area!

Once it went crazy, who knew how many burning straws would break through the windows and enter, thereby igniting household after household...

"Sizzle—"

Lu Ran's speed suddenly increased, and as he swept past a building, he saw a quite astonishing scene.

A Straw Demon 10 meters tall had indeed been ignited and had indeed fallen into a state of madness.

But this burning Straw Demon was covered by a red hood!

Red Scarf divine technique: Red Scarf Domain?!

A light red hood with a radius of 20 meters, in the shape of a hemisphere, trapped the huge Straw Demon firmly inside.

Red Scarf believer, a real man!

The man with a red scarf wrapped around his head was naturally also trapped in the hood, suffering the crazy bombardment of the River Realm Straw Demon.

How terrifying is the output of a River Realm demon that is being burned by flames and struggling on the verge of death?

"Crack!"

"Crack! Crack!" Endless burning straw flew and stabbed, and cracks kept crawling on the hood.

It looked like it could shatter at any time!

Lu Ran's eyes narrowed, and he rushed forward straight.

He saw the burning Straw Demon that was constantly shrinking but still three stories high.

Likewise, he also saw an old lady standing in front of the window in a third-floor household, covering her mouth with one hand, staring blankly at this terrifying scene outside the window.

The old lady seemed to have been scared silly, her whole person like a wooden chicken, motionless.

"Leave!"

Lu Ran let out a roar, leaped, and stabbed diagonally toward the side of the third-floor window.

A muffled "thud" sound.

Lu Ran stepped on the wall outside the building, waking up the old lady in the house.

He squatted on the wall, without a moment's delay, and leaped again under his feet.

With a surge of immortal mist, Lu Ran turned back and stabbed straight at the light red hood covered in cracks!

Evil technique: Soul-Splitting Power, open!

Evil technique: Soul-Splitting Demon Hooves, open!

"Crack!!"

Lu Ran didn't even need to stomp the hood to pieces; the Red Scarf Domain had already collapsed.

Lu Ran, covered in water flow armor, plunged alone into the burning flames, his feet stomping heavily toward the burning straw man.

"Bang!!"

Under the Soul-Splitting Demon Hooves, the Straw Demon's fluffy head exploded with a boom!

The burning straw immediately stopped shooting randomly.

Under the violent surge of energy, Lu Ran was blown backward by two meters.

And the Straw Demon's huge corpse smashed heavily toward the flower bed covered in ice and snow, in the opposite direction of the residential building.

"Poof!"

The huge Straw Demon shattered with a boom!

Endless sparks splashed out, like fireflies dancing in the dark night, which was quite beautiful.

Lu Ran stumbled and landed, one hand covering his face.

The sparks covering the sky and earth filled his water flow armor and also sprinkled the Rosy Dawn Blade.

"Hum!!"

Lu Ran's heart trembled slightly, as if sensing something.

He raised his eyelids violently and looked at the Rosy Dawn Blade in his hand.

"Rosy Dawn." Lu Ran called out softly.

He saw that the cold, crystal-clear black ice blade was stained with crimson dots.

In this dim night, it bloomed with an incomparably gorgeous luster...

(End of chapter)