Chapter 285: Fighting Crickets

"Satisfying~"

Lu Ran flicked his sleeves, feeling deeply satisfied in his heart.

Recalling the battle last month while defending the city, his fight with the Ghost General could be considered evenly matched.

But look at this battle now!

It is simply a one-sided crushing!

With such combat power, I should be able to gain My Lord Xiang Xiang Xianyang's approval, right?

During this pilgrimage, I must definitely go to another realm and broaden my horizons!

Lu Ran thought silently, slowly raising his palm.

Within the Spirit World's Divine-Demon Sculpture Garden, Lu Ran was intimately connected with Ye Mei Yemo Xiesu.

"Hoo~"

Surges of energy billowed out from Lu Ran's palm.

"Energy shapes the body, the primordial essence builds the soul," Lu Ran murmured, casting the spell together with the main body of Yemo Yemo Xiesu.

Under his palm, a figure slowly took form.

A mysterious black gauze hat, a voluptuous body with proud curves.

Demon Race·Night Charm!

And furthermore, a River Realm·Fifth Stage Night Charm.

In Lu Ran's Sculpture Garden, Ye Mei Yemo Xiesu is at the Jiang Jing realm, so she can only create Night Charm minions at the River Realm level or below.

Last time at home, Lu Ran created a lowest-grade Mist Realm·Night Charm to practice his skills and handle household chores.

Now that he is in the Demon Lair, Lu Ran can naturally let loose.

Within the scope of his abilities, he pinched out the most powerful servant possible.

Love it or hate it, this Night Charm's figure...

This damn thing is too hot!

Aren't you just testing the cadres?

"Creating sin."

Lu Ran shook his head, casting aside these messy thoughts.

A tiny demon, how dare you disturb my Dao heart!

As the saying goes, adding the eyes brings the dragon to life.

He summoned the primordial essence of Ye Mei Yemo Xiesu to add the most crucial stroke to this fiery body before him.

"Hiss—"

The Night Charm was endowed with life, fully awakening, and emitted a low throat sound.

"Shut up!" Lu Ran extended two fingers and slapped the brim of the conical hat.

Making this kind of noise?

Don't you know how tempting you are?

"Hiss!" The Night Charm immediately drew her Night Charm Blade, her legs slightly bent.

Lu Ran was startled!

Is this an attempt to rebel?

The Night Charm race is fierce and cruel; their demonic nature naturally cannot be changed.

However, the scene of a servant killing her master did not occur.

"Wu?" The Night Charm suddenly realized that the one standing beside her was her master.

Her killing intent vanished; facing Lu Ran, she respectfully knelt down.

Lu Ran: "."

The Night Charm had probably just awakened and, having been struck, reacted instinctively to kill.

Lu Ran looked left, then right, sizing up the docile and obedient Night Charm, before finally nodding in satisfaction:

"Now this looks more like it."

Since the two parties did not share a common language, over the next few minutes, Lu Ran taught the Night Charm some simple commands.

The Night Charm race inherently possesses high intelligence, so understanding came quite smoothly.

Lu Ran became even more satisfied, raised his hand, and tapped the conical hat again:

"Let's go, we're going to fight crickets~"

The Night Charm clearly could not understand what "fighting crickets" meant, but she could comprehend the instruction to follow Lu Ran forward.

Master and servant advanced deeper into the forest.

Soon, Lu Ran encountered another mound of earth.

He raised his hand and pointed, issuing a simple and direct command: "Kill."

The Night Charm likewise raised her hand, and a string of Night Charm Blades stabbed straight into the mound.

"Aaaah!" A miserable scream immediately rang out from within the grave mound.

The next moment, thick black mist drifted out from the grave.

The Night Charm, already leaning forward with her slender hand, surged with energy within it, releasing a wave of fierce wind.

"Whoosh!!"

A mad wind arose, scattering the smoke and dispersing the mist!

Poor Ghost General, dying so suffocatingly.

Lu Ran: "."

What happened to the cricket fighting we agreed on?

The Night Charm clan seems to heavily suppress the Ghost General clan, doesn't it?

Sensing her master's gaze, Night Charm turned to face Lu Ran, slightly bowing her head, once again appearing gentle and obedient.

Lu Ran could only pat her shoulder and praise, "Not bad."

He couldn't forcibly criticize his servant just for being too strong!

Lu Ran opened his Death Realm pupils, located the Ghost General's dead soul, and strode forward.

The powerful Night Charm followed Lu Ran closely; of the eight Night Charm Blades previously thrown out, two flew back, landing in Night Charm's left and right hands respectively.

In just a few short minutes, master and servant finally encountered a Ghost General that had "not yet been buried."

"Go," Lu Ran commanded.

"Hiss!" Night Charm strode forward with her long legs, her figure darting ahead at high speed.

The Ghost General stood fearless, immediately raising a large black flag.

In the human world, evil entities are unlikely to kill each other.

After all, everyone is very busy,

busy eating people, busy tormenting people.

But now?

Night Charm was filled with killing intent, clearly here to fight; how could the Ghost General retreat?

"Hiss!" Night Charm gripped her dual blades, the tips dragging out long blade marks!

"Crack!!"

Night Charm brushed past the Ghost General, slashing both the flag and the person to the ground!

Lu Ran: "."

Is it really this hard just to fight some crickets?

"Whoosh~"

Night Charm slid backward at high speed, coming to a steady stop behind and to the side of Lu Ran.

Her mysterious black gauze fluttered gently; behind the veil was a stunningly beautiful face with lowered brows and obedient eyes.

This scene of sliding backward left Lu Ran utterly stunned!

Wait!

Aren't you acting exactly like me?

Hmm... come to think of it, that makes sense; this Night Charm before him was jointly created by Lu Ran and Yemo Yemo Xiesu.

Night Charm indeed inherited the lineage of Yemo Yemo Xiesu, but she also inherited some of Lu Ran's characteristics.

Lu Ran sighed inwardly, looked at the Ghost General severed at the waist, stepped forward quickly, and absorbed the dead soul into his pupils.

Through the dead soul, Lu Ran perceived that this was a Stream Realm Ghost General.

Asking a peak River Realm Night Charm to confront a small fry from the Stream Realm naturally results in one slash per kill.

Thinking about this, Lu Ran's expression became somewhat strange.

It must be known that the Ghost General's Xie Fa technique, Ghost Mist Body, is suited for River Realm Stage Three.

In other words, weak Ghost Generals would be slashed in one blow by Night Charm.

And powerful Ghost Generals would be instantly killed in one move by the wind and waves released by Night Charm.

"Good heavens~" Lu Ran said, shaking his head with a smile.

It seems these crickets cannot be teased after all.

"Let's go." Lu Ran activated the Divine Power Bead, absorbed energy, and then beckoned to Night Charm.

Once Lu Ran stopped obsessing over cricket fighting, his heart grew even more joyful.

He had often imagined himself campaigning north and south, accompanied by powerful evil servant followers.

Now, Night Charm fulfilled all of Lu Ran's fantasies!

Her combat power was immense, and she was utterly loyal.

"Don't idle while traveling," Lu Ran instructed. "Keep absorbing energy."

Night Charm looked at Lu Ran; behind the black gauze was a face full of confusion: "Wu?"

Clearly, she did not understand what Lu Ran was saying.

Taking advantage of the travel time, Lu Ran taught by personal example, guiding her to absorb the energy between heaven and earth.

Night Charm grasped it immediately, making Lu Ran like her even more.

But shortly after, Lu Ran felt somewhat distressed.

After all, once he finished his training and returned to Earth, this Night Charm would have to be disposed of.

The next time he created a Night Charm, Lu Ran would have to teach her all over again.

"Sigh," Lu Ran muttered, somewhat troubled.

If only there were a storage bag or a spatial ring type of magical artifact; he could toss Night Charm inside and take her out directly when needed.

Lu Ran frowned in deep thought; he had no idea how long he walked before he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Night Charm halted immediately, her body tensing as she sensed everything around them.

Sniff~

Lu Ran twitched the tip of his nose; such dense ghost qi?

"This way." Lu Ran layered wind and waves beneath his feet, as if stepping on invisible stairs, walking upward step by step.

Night Charm imitated him perfectly, similarly activating the Xie Fa technique Night Dance, a city-toppling beauty, following Lu Ran as they ascended step by step toward the heavens.

Master and servant crossed the cliff, and Lu Ran gazed into the distance.

In the lush mountain forest, there was a patch of land where no vegetation grew.

"A graveyard?" Lu Ran's eyes lit up.

Along the way, he had mostly seen solitary grave mounds, but over there, mounds were piled together.

A rough count revealed nearly 30 earthen mounds!

Hadn't he just hit the jackpot?

He had found the Ghost General clan's communal dormitory!

"Go, kill!" Lu Ran exclaimed excitedly, pointing toward the graveyard.

Finally, he could watch some cricket fighting!

"Hiss!" The Night Demons immediately rushed forward to kill.

Eight Night Demon blades cleared the path, stabbing into one earthen mound after another.

"Ah!!"

"He-ah!" From within the mounds, one massive hand after another emerged.

One Ghost General after another crawled out, creating a rather horrifying scene.

Other Ghost Generals transformed into black mist, drifting out from the soil.

Under normal circumstances, these powerful Ghost Generals would make a stunning entrance!

Unfortunately, they had encountered the Night Demon clan, who played with wind.

The Night Demons had barely entered the fray before blowing apart a full three powerful Ghost Generals.

"Tsk tsk~"

Lu Ran moved behind a large tree, revealing half his face as he gazed at the battlefield not far away.

What did it mean to slaughter recklessly?

The River Realm fifth-stage Night Demons were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, dragging long blade marks as they lorded over the crowd of Ghost Generals.

"Truly fierce." In Lu Ran's naturally hanging right hand, a tiny paper effigy appeared.

His gaze locked onto a Ghost General, the paper doll in his hand intimately connected to it.

Yet in the next moment, that connection snapped!

As everyone knew, the Lady Lady Yanzhi Xie Fa involving paper effigies touched upon the spiritual level.

The higher the caster's spiritual strength, the tighter the binding between the paper effigy and the target.

However, the Ghost General clan possessed techniques for spiritual defense!

Lu Ran and his paper effigy could not bind to the Ghost Generals!

"Tch~" Lu Ran pursed his lips, but without becoming discouraged, he quickly shifted targets.

There were so many Ghost Generals here!

Even if this clan's intelligence was not poor, as long as the numbers were high enough, surely a few poor students would slip through, right?

After several attempts, Lu Ran finally found one!

"Hmm?" The Ghost General, holding a Green Dragon Crescent Blade, suddenly felt his body become somewhat heavy.

His Face Grim, he attempted to withdraw from the battle, but suddenly felt a tremendous force crushing his body.

"General, your skills are lacking, aren't they?" The corners of Lu Ran's mouth lifted slightly.

Behind the large tree, Lu Ran revealed half his face, holding a paper effigy in his hand.

His hand slowly clenched, squeezing little by little.

"Ah! Ah ah!"

On the battlefield, the Ghost General screamed in terror.

As if by fate, it seemed a giant hand had grasped his body and tightened its grip.

Supporting his heavy body, the Ghost General desperately swung his great blade, attempting to sever the invisible giant hand.

"Die."

A single word escaped Lu Ran's mouth, his voice so cold.

The paper effigy in his hand was continuously crumpled into a ball.

The Ghost General on the field could no longer swing his great blade.

"Ah! Ah ah ah!" The Ghost General let out a mournful, piercing scream.

His arms twisted continuously, his legs bent inch by inch, his waist on the verge of being snapped.

With a "Thump"!

The Ghost General collapsed heavily to the ground.

The "Crack crack" sound of bones breaking made one's teeth ache and flesh hurt!

His limbs continued to twist, and that tall, burly body was finally kneaded into a ball.

Blood flowed out from his mouth, and those scarlet eyes quietly extinguished.

Behind the large tree, Lu Ran opened his palm.

The former paper effigy had become a wrinkled, Xun Baba little paper ball.

Lu Ran muttered to himself: "Lady Lady Yanzhi, oh Lady Lady Yanzhi, what cruel methods you possess."

Tell me,

can those stone sculptures be crushed?

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