Chapter 191: Cause and Effect, Demon and Sheep (Bonus Chapter for Qing Baobao's Baby Alliance Leader)

That day, Kou Kou Yingquan recalled the terror of being dominated by a little lamb cub.

The same tearful pleas for mercy, the same vicious gaze!

The difference was that last time, Lu Ran was "crying wuwu on his face while swinging the stool with all his might."

But this time, what Lu Ran held in his hand was the real deal—the Zhan Ye Dao!

"Don't look! Don't look at his eyes!!"

Below the stage, Wu Wu Shanshan hurriedly shouted, warning Kou Kou Yingquan.

However, it was already too late!

Just how fast was Lu Ran's speed?

Kou Kou Yingquan, filled with dread, couldn't even hear the shouts from below; he retreated in panic, instinctively waving his hand.

"Whoosh~"

The hem of his great red robe fluttered, sweeping forward fiercely.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, the rapidly charging Lu Ran actually hit the emergency brakes!

He even, for the sake of the audience below, stomped his feet repeatedly, pretending to brake with all his might.

In reality, within the thick mist, Lu Ran had already cushioned his feet with a layer of wind waves.

He could have completely halted his figure in an instant!

But Lu Ran did not; his control over distance was exquisitely precise, and thus he braked while stopping right in front of Kou Kou Yingquan.

"Ah!!" Kou Kou Yingquan screamed in terror, his body trembling.

Because, in the split second the hem of the great red robe swept past, Lu Ran's figure was revealed.

It was still that pair of sinister, horizontally-slitted pupils!

Kou Kou Yingquan felt as if he were in a graveyard filled with chilling winds, as though he had arrived in a hell bristling with white bones.

"Holy crap!"

"Ah!!"

"Th-this, this is damn..." Those on the stage felt their guts and gallbladders shatter, while those below likewise trembled in spirit.

Some students who had already been awed by Lu Ran found their inner fear magnified.

In an instant, the crowd of spectators on the right side of the main stage descended into chaos.

"No, don't, don't..."

Kou Kou Yingquan's face was filled with terror, his voice trembling as he hastily leaped backward.

The great red robe moved without wind, as if intending to carry its master away from this place of trouble.

The River-Grade Blood Fiend Robe could grant its wearer the ability to fly.

At this moment, Kou Kou Yingquan, stared at by a pair of dead sheep eyes until his heart pounded and flesh jumped, reacted instinctively by retreating and fleeing, wanting to be as far from Lu Ran as possible!

"Hiss—"

Immortal hooves arose again beneath Lu Ran's feet as he suddenly darted forward.

"Careful!"

"His legs! His legs are going to be chopped off?"

Watching Lu Ran close in infinitely on Kou Kou Yingquan, everyone believed that black obsidian blade would surely chop down toward Kou Kou Yingquan's legs.

Yet Lu Ran's choice once again surpassed everyone's expectations.

Their ears caught a crisp "Snap!"

Lu Ran's hand tightly gripped Kou Kou Yingquan's ankle.

Kou Kou Yingquan, who was flying backward and upward, was instantly captured.

Just as everyone thought the two were about to engage in a struggle of strength, Immortal hooves arose again beneath Lu Ran's feet!

"Hiss—"

Like someone flying a kite, Lu Ran grabbed Kou Kou Yingquan mid-air and violently darted to one side.

In the blink of an eye, both parties had surged forward more than twenty meters!

"Run?"

Borrowing the tremendous momentum, Lu Ran suddenly exerted force with his hand, swinging Kou Kou Yingquan down to smash into the ground below.

"Boom-rumble-rumble!"

The specially reinforced main stage actually shattered into pieces, with Kou Kou Yingquan forcibly embedded within it!

"Plane crash?"

"Truly an eye-opener; what kind of combat style is this?"

"Maybe it's the Express Delivery style..."

"No way! That Kou Kou Yingquan is at least 1.9 meters tall, broad-shouldered and round-waisted, yet he's just being swung around for fun by thin-cough, by Lu Ran?"

"Stop!!"

Amidst a chorus of startled cries, Lu Ran's movements were incredibly fluid as he thrust the blade downward.

Kou Kou Yingquan had no time to react, his eyes widening abruptly!

An extremely dangerous aura made Kou Kou Yingquan's face ashen; in a trance, he seemed to have entered a near-death state, and the entire world slowed down...

Am I about to die?

"Hiss!"

The sharp blade grazed past Kou Kou Yingquan's ear and plunged deeply into the platform surface.

While thrusting the blade downward, Lu Ran smoothly dropped to one knee.

To be precise, he used his knee to viciously slam into Kou Kou Yingquan's chest.

A crisp "Snap!" rang out!

Lu Ran suddenly lunged forward, one hand viciously pressing down on Kou Kou Yingquan's face.

Through the gaps between his fingers, Lu Ran's pair of sinister, horizontally-slitted pupils pierced straight into Kou Kou Yingquan's terrified eyes like sharp blades.

"Don't kill me," Lu Ran whispered, leaning down with his head bowed.

Though clearly words of surrender, they sounded like the murmurs of a demon.

Lu Ran seemed to be helping Kou Kou Yingquan recall something.

And the gaps between Lu Ran's fingers also helped Kou Kou Yingquan's eyes focus, locking solely onto Lu Ran's chilling, dead-sheep gaze.

Under extreme terror, Kou Kou Yingquan had already lost the ability to think.

He seemed to have forgotten he still possessed the strength to fight, even forgetting he possessed a Divine Law.

"D-don't kill me," Kou Kou Yingquan stammered, his voice trembling; pinned firmly by Lu Ran's hand on his face, he could barely shake his head.

A person's spiritual will can be compared to a great dam.

At this moment, cracks covered Kou Kou Yingquan's dam until a surging torrent smashed through it all at once, beyond any hope of repair!

"I was wrong," Lu Ran said in a low voice.

"I was wrong, I was wro—mh—I was wrong, please, please don't—" Kou Kou Yingquan's face turned deathly pale as he begged incessantly.

That voice was utterly piercing, filled with sobs, leaving everyone present dumbfounded.

The Blood-Fiend Robe on Kou Kou Yingquan's body quietly vanished, while his Water-Flow Armor rapidly dissipated.

This was not done voluntarily; rather, amidst his terror, he had completely lost the ability to maintain his Divine Law.

"Whistle—"

The whistle sound suddenly rang out; the instructor called a halt to the match.

Lu Ran drew the Silent Night Blade from the podium and slowly rose to his feet.

Beneath his feet, Kou Kou Yingquan scrambled backward in a panic, looking utterly wretched.

Only one thought remained in his mind: get away from that terrifying demon.

"First match, Lu Ran wins!"

The male instructor announced loudly, looking at Lu Ran with a complex expression.

This duel, from start to finish, had not seen a single drop of blood.

Even Kou Kou Yingquan's double-layered defense had not been broken.

But Lu Ran had seized his opponent's weakness, completely crushing the enemy on both a spiritual and psychological level.

The Divine Law of the Xianyangyi Sect was indeed overwhelmingly powerful!

When believers of Xiang Xiang Xianyang were no longer weak and cowardly, no longer fleeing or avoiding battle, such believers were truly terrifying.

"Hoo~~"

Suddenly, a surge of energy churned, and endless water droplets spread outward.

Under the sunlight, the tiny water droplets sparkled with crystal clarity, suspended in mid-air.

Quite strangely, additional streams of water gathered to form a shape; though the outline was somewhat blurry, it was clearly the form of a "dragon."

A Sha Shen Fa · Azure Dragon Sea Domain!

This technique was a remarkably rare domain-type Divine Law!

Within the range where the Azure Dragon swam, all abnormal statuses would be purified, and the caster could further collect and perceive all information within the domain.

"Boo-hoo... ah..." Not far away, Kou Kou Yingquan streamed with tears and snot, scrambling backward in panic.

A slender Azure Dragon swiftly swam over and coiled around his body.

Below the podium, Wu Wu Shanshan raised one hand, continuing to cast her spell, while turning her head to look at Lu Ran.

Her face filled with resentment; after all this time, she was looking directly at Lu Ran for the first time, and she said with hatred:

"You've gone too far!"

"For everything, there must be a cause before there is an effect," Lu Ran said softly.

Wu Wu Shanshan's face flushed with anger, her large eyes staring intently at Lu Ran.

As a believer of the Second-Rank God, Divine Divine Asha, she indeed had the capital to be proud.

A slender Azure Dragon coiled around Wu Wu Shanshan's body; she feared Lu Ran's pair of sinister, horizontally-slitted pupils not at all.

Lu Ran: "So now you pop up, wanting to act as the judge?"

Wu Wu Shanshan said sharply: "Is the grudge really that big?"

Lu Ran nodded gently: "My father died in battle while protecting Rain Alley; he was a warrior who sacrificed himself gloriously.

Yet Kou Kou Yingquan said in class that a rat's son knows how to dig holes.

He said that since I could summon evil spirits, my father's death might not have been what it seemed."

Wu Wu Shanshan opened her mouth, but for a moment, she could find no words to say.

Lu Ran: "Why did all this happen?

It was merely to satisfy his sense of superiority, to casually bully and insult a believer of Xiang Xiang Xianyang to demonstrate his own power.

You don't know, but Kou Kou Yingquan was acting very mighty!

He is a powerful believer of the Prisoner of Demons; when he rushed to kill me, back in the classroom, apart from Jiangjiang Ruyi, no one dared to stop him.

So now you jump out, wanting to stop me?"

Wu Wu Shanshan's face stiffened, her fists clenched tightly.

"Enough!" the male instructor said in a deep voice, "Lu Ran, return to formation immediately!"

Lu Ran glanced at Wu Wu Shanshan, then turned and jumped down from the podium, walking toward his squad's position.

Along the way, the students one after another made way, clearing a path.

On the podium, Kou Kou Yingquan still sat in his original spot, his face covered in tears and snot, his expression vacant.

Even with the Azure Dragon protecting his body, he had not yet completely escaped the nightmare composed of those dead-fish eyes.

Perhaps, in the future, every time he saw Lu Ran, such a heavy psychological shadow would rise within him.

"Lu Ran." Homeroom teacher Li Li Yanzhu came to Lu Ran's side, placing one hand on his shoulder.

"Hmm? Teacher?"

"As you know, Kou Kou Yingquan was suspended from classes for a long time back then; I also contacted his parents and severely criticized and warned them.

His family repeatedly guaranteed to the school that nothing similar would happen again.

After comprehensive consideration, the school has kept him under probationary observation."

"Mm-hmm." Lu Ran nodded.

Speaking lightly, this matter was a student brawl; speaking seriously, it was an insult to heroic martyrs.

Yet Deng Yuxiang City was so small, with so few students; a Tier-Three God Believer was very precious and capable of fulfilling enrollment targets.

How could the school easily discard him?

Li Li Yanzhu sighed softly, then patted Lu Ran's shoulder again: "No matter what, you have suffered a grievance."

"Not at all." Lu Ran chuckled, "Didn't I shove a chair leg into his mouth!

The teacher saw everything clearly and only punished me with standing, allowing me to join the team formation in time."

Li Li Yanzhu patted Lu Ran's shoulder, then turned and left.

Lu Ran silently raised his head, looked toward the podium, watched as Kou Kou Yingquan was helped away by others, and observed his utterly dejected appearance.

"Brother Lu." Deng Yutang walked over and slung an arm around Lu Ran's shoulder.

"Hmm?"

"Blame me for not helping you back then," Deng Yutang said apologetically.

"Didn't you catch me? Otherwise, I would have smashed onto the table." Lu Ran shook his head, "Besides, we weren't close back then anyway."

Hearing this, Deng Yutang nodded with considerable agreement: "That is true.

You were spending every day being all lovey-dovey with Class Monitor Jiang, leaving no time to get familiar with the male classmates in the class."

Lu Ran: "."

Another update at 22:00.

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