Chapter 467: An Ambition

Si Xianxian had dropped a rank.

This shattered Lu Ran's fantasy.

He had originally thought that with Yu Changsheng helping to regulate her body, as long as Si Xianxian could stabilize her state of mind, she could maintain her River Estuary Realm: First Stage strength.

However, reality was cruel.

Si Xianxian had ultimately dropped to Jiang Jing: Fifth Stage.

As slaves to the gods, the backlash received by humans when voluntarily tearing up a contract was simply too great.

Lu Ran's heart hung in the air once again.

You have to know, dropping a rank wasn't the most terrifying thing.

What was truly terrifying was for a human to be so deeply struck that they became dispirited and could never climb back up.

So, during these days, Lu Ran had been staying by Si Xianxian's side.

On one hand, it was to take care of her body.

Lu Ran's healing techniques were of River Grade; whether it was Cage Fire (Bath) or Returning Life Carp, the healing effects were quite good.

On the other hand, Lu Ran needed to clarify the path ahead for Si Xianxian and strengthen her convictions!

Stabilizing the state of mind was the top priority!

Si Xianxian's performance made Lu Ran feel at ease time and time again.

She did not become dispirited.

On the contrary, after tearing up the contract, Si Xianxian seemed to have shed a thousand-pound burden.

That sense of relief, that joy from the bottom of her heart, even made Lu Ran envious!

Lu Ran had also seamlessly connected, leading the Pseudo-God Lie Tian Statue under his command to sign a succession contract with Si Xianxian.

Thus, the Mad Immortal was born!

Carrying the mission of smashing Lie Tian and usurping the god's position, she followed Lu Ran onto a path to overturn the world.

Several days passed in a flash.

In the blink of an eye, it was early June.

This morning, Deng Yuxiang sought out Lu Ran.

At that time, Lu Ran was sitting at the edge of the sea cliff, his lower legs dangling over the edge, swinging them from time to time.

Si Xianxian was squatting beside him.

The sea breeze blew gently, messing up her shoulder-length hair and revealing her sweet face.

It was just that for such a woman who was both regal and sweet, her actions were somewhat childish; she was, um, squatting and playing with dirt?

She extended a finger, her fingertip constantly poking the ground, crushing small pebbles.

Lu Ran's voice was very gentle, constantly murmuring something.

Si Xianxian would occasionally curl her lips and respond in a low voice.

This scene was very beautiful.

In Deng Yuxiang's eyes, it was like Lu Ran was meticulously caring for a delicate flower.

Suddenly, Deng Yuxiang's gaze became somewhat complex.

She realized one thing: the Si Xianxian before her was her former self.

And also her current self.

Lu Ran had also accompanied her with such patience and meticulous care when she was in the abyss...

Until the flower bloomed again.

"Morning!" Lu Ran's voice came from afar.

Someone was approaching, and of course, he had sensed it.

Deng Yuxiang came back to her senses and walked up quickly: "Society Master."

Si Xianxian, squatting on the ground, raised her pretty face to look at this First Protector of the Lu Ran Society.

Si Xianxian was the Fourth Protector; although she was at the very bottom, she had at least managed to get into the sequence of Protectors.

When other Protectors and Divine Generals chose their codenames, Lu Ran would fully respect their personal wishes, but when it came to Si Xianxian, he directly slapped the title "Mad Immortal" on her.

Regarding this codename, Si Xianxian grumbled in her heart, but she didn't say anything out loud.

Ever since she withdrew from the Lie Tian faction, if she went crazy or acted wild, there was no one left to take the blame for her.

Just as Lu Ran said: "It's purely because you have a foul temper!"

Now it's fine, everyone heard it, okay!

It was the Society Master who told me to go crazy...

"This subordinate has encountered a cultivation bottleneck." Deng Yuxiang reported in a disciplined manner.

It was very much like teaching by example, telling Si Xianxian how to get along with the Society Master.

"That's a good thing!" Lu Ran immediately showed joy.

After a full four months of cultivation, she was finally going to break through? This cultivation speed was already very gratifying!

River Estuary Realm: Fifth Stage...

Once she stepped into the peak stage, humans would no longer need any cultivation.

She would only need one realization to roar and charge out of the river and into the sea!

Along this journey, too many things had happened to Deng Yuxiang; now, her heart was incomparably firm, and she harbored even greater ambitions!

Was the Sea Realm really far away?

Lu Ran immediately ordered: "Go to Cloud Sea Residence, take Little Chifeng with you, and then go to the seclusion room to prepare for the breakthrough."

Deng Yuxiang bowed her head: "Yes!"

Lu Ran looked at Si Xianxian, who was squatting and playing with dirt: "Don't just sit idle either; when the Great Da Da Mengyan breaks through, it is also a good time for others to cultivate!

You go to the seclusion room too, see if you can climb back up quickly and return to the River Estuary Realm."

"Yes." Si Xianxian imitated Deng Yuxiang's manner and nodded in response.

The Mad Immortal Protector, who had started a brand-new life, was incomparably thirsty for strength.

After all, if she wanted to settle scores with Lie Tian and smash that old thing to pieces, she naturally had to possess absolute strength!

Another point: Si Xianxian didn't really like eating fish.

As a Jiang Jing, she needed to eat to sustain her life.

In just a few days, Si Xianxian had already grown tired of grilled fish and smoked dried fish.

Due to the scarcity of ingredients, it was hard to make anything delicious on Holy Lingshan.

Two days ago, Lu Ran had specifically created a Mist Realm: Evil Dog, slaughtered it, and improved Si Xianxian's diet, letting her have a meal of dog meat.

But Si Xianxian always felt that the taste of the evil dog meat was strange...

If she could return to the River Estuary Realm sooner, she wouldn't have to worry about food.

Lu Ran waved his hand: "Alright, go."

The two Protectors took their orders and left. Lu Ran also stood up, transmitting his voice in his mind: 【Evil Shadow.】

【Present.】

【Except for the two who just left, gather everyone on the cliff; we'll have a meeting in the deliberation hall in five minutes.】

【Yes.】

Lu Ran was very uninhibited, looking up at the sea of clouds in the sky, and stretched fiercely: "Ugh, ah~~~"

My Lu Ran Society is about to have its fourth Sea Realm powerhouse!

Tian Tu Mountain, your good days are coming to an end too!

Yes, Lu Ran didn't think for a second that Deng Yuxiang would stop at River Estuary Realm: Fifth Stage.

What the hell is the death of five!

My Da Da Mengyan is just passing through; she is a woman who will overturn the Night Charm and mince the North Wind!

She is the Great Da Da Mengyan who will accompany me to slaughter the gods and demons in the sky!

How could she stop for long?

Carrying an ambition to overturn the world, we'll just charge toward the Sea Realm!

Thinking that he was about to personally cultivate a "vast sea," Lu Ran couldn't help but feel excited and happy.

"Waiting for the flowers, spring comes and goes, the heartless years laugh at my obsession..."

Lu Ran rarely had the mood to sing, humming a little tune that fit the scene, leaning his upper body back, and his figure flickered and disappeared.

When he appeared again, he was already in the deliberation hall.

That body leaning back sat steadily in the main seat at the long table.

On the third day of early June, a strange phenomenon descended from the heavens!

The mist surging toward Cloud Sea Cliff told everyone that the Lu Ran Society's First Protector had broken through the bottleneck and successfully entered the breakthrough mode.

Lu Ran knew even better that his own Little Chifeng had made a great contribution, pouring power into Deng Yuxiang...

Worthy of being a magical artifact, truly awesome!

Deng Yuxiang had prepared many divine power beads, but she hadn't absorbed many; Little Chifeng had single-handedly sent her straight to the mountain peak!

Having had the experience of the previous few times, the members of the Lu Ran Society were even more adept at executing the guard mission this time.

Weapons circled the mountain body, searching for potential enemies.

The evil troops performed their duties, and there was even a squad of Evil Mirror Demons distributed around Cloud Sea Cliff, frantically refreshing the Evil Technique: Connection Mirror.

Evil Mirror Demons couldn't be stationed inside the cliff.

After all, any person or object with divine power fluctuations could be presented on the Connection Mirror.

Not to mention anything else, just the divine power beads of the Lu Ran Society members numbered in the hundreds!

Then you just keep brushing against the bronze mirror!

When you brush against a string of divine power beads, you can brush for half a day, and the image in the mirror won't change at all...

In addition, Jiang Jing: Evil Mirror Demons could only unleash River Grade divine techniques, and the Connection Mirror's detection range was only three hundred meters.

Lu Ran's heart, which wanted to go out to sea, became increasingly irrepressible.

A few days ago, Lu Ran had interrogated the wandering souls in the Rebirth Money one by one, learning a lot of intelligence and confirming that the Evil Mirror Demon clan did indeed appear on the islands.

Lu Ran really needed to cultivate Evil Mirror Demon evil statues!

Likewise, he needed to collect Holy Spirit Qi to cultivate the divine statues in the sculpture garden.

Going out to sea had to be put on the agenda...

Having said that, Deng Yuxiang's breakthrough was a small stage breakthrough within the River Estuary Realm, requiring only 2-3 days.

Everyone had experienced the long breakthrough process of the Sea Realm powerhouse Xun Yifei; looking back at these short two or three days, it felt somewhat like child's play.

Day and night alternated, the sea of clouds flowed.

On the fifth day of early June, the mist between heaven and earth gradually thinned.

Which meant Deng Yuxiang had succeeded!

Ever since the Lu Ran Society moved into Cloud Sea Cliff, this was the first time that no enemy had come to harass them during a breakthrough!

Until the moment the mist dissipated, Lu Ran couldn't quite believe it.

He had been constantly beaten by Holy Lingshan, and now that he had passed this tribulation peacefully, Lu Ran really wasn't used to it...

The pity was that no higher-spec phenomenon had appeared in the sky.

The Mist Tornado didn't come.

In other words, Si Xianxian hadn't been able to return to the River Estuary Realm during this blessing.

It seemed that the backlash brought about by humans tearing up their contracts was even more severe than imagined.

Poor Sister Xian'er.

Don't worry, I will definitely help you stand up...

【Little Lu Ran.】 A voice transmission flooded his mind.

At the sea cliff, a smile appeared on Lu Ran's face; he had been mentally connected to the Night Charm evil statue, all for this moment.

From the voice transmission, it wasn't hard to hear the woman's high spirits.

Lu Ran said directly: 【Congratulations, Great Da Da Mengyan! Peak of River Estuary Realm!】

Deng Yuxiang: 【This time, was there anyone blind enough to come and disturb us?】

【Actually, there wasn't.】 Lu Ran looked at the sky and laughed, 【Heaven finally opened its eyes for once.】

【Hmm, come pick up Little Chifeng, I'm at the tunnel exit.】

【Coming.】 Lu Ran's figure flickered.

When he arrived in the forest behind the Da Da Mengyan Residence, he saw all the members of the Lu Ran Society here, congratulating the Protector on her success.

"Society Master."

"Society Master!" Amidst the voices, Lu Ran nodded repeatedly, stepped forward, and took the Chifeng Pattern Gourd.

He looked at Deng Yuxiang with a smile and said: "You get ready, continue to break through and enter the Sea Realm."

The smile on Deng Yuxiang's face froze, and several question marks seemed to pop up over her head.

Do you want to hear what you're saying?

"Hehe~" Yu Changsheng couldn't help but laugh.

The couple Xun Luo also wore smiles.

Deng Yuxiang suppressed her urge to explode, saving some face for the Society Master in front of everyone.

"What, is it difficult?" Lu Ran thought for a moment and looked at Deng Yuxiang. "Aren't you particularly obedient to orders?"

Deng Yuxiang raised her eyebrows slightly.

Lu Ran spoke in a tone of negotiation: "How about this, I order you to break through now and ascend to the Sea Realm!"

Deng Yuxiang:???

She looked at Lu Ran with annoyance, and in the end, she couldn't help but glare at him.

"Haha!" Seeing this scene, Yu Changsheng's laughter grew even louder.

"Alright, alright, no more joking." Seeing Deng Yuxiang on the verge of exploding, Lu Ran hurriedly said, "You return to the seclusion room and consolidate your strength.

I'll take the opportunity to return the Zen Staff to the Great Wind Hall; when I come back, we'll study the Sea Realm matter properly."

"Yes." Deng Yuxiang nodded, turned, and walked toward the hidden cave entrance in the forest.

Lu Ran was full of ambition, watching the graceful back view gradually move away.

Vast sea.

I must push you up there!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 468 =====