Chapter 604: Another Divine Skill Added!

Giving up resistance would make me an idiot.

Upholding this principle, after activating the Greedy Wolf and Thousand-Bone Divine Sculptures, Lu Ran lay on the bed with vacant eyes, completely emptying his mind.

The time consumed for the Divine Sculptures to advance was not much different from what Lu Ran had expected.

The Thousand-Bone Divine Sculpture vibrated for only a day and a half, stopping at the first stage of the Reach Sea Realm.

The Greedy Wolf Divine Sculpture, however, surged wildly until the morning of the third day, when its realm reached the third stage of the Reach Sea Realm, only then ceasing.

As expected of the Greedy Wolf brothers who had occupied the Shanzhai for over a decade; the amount of Saint Spirit Qi they collected was truly immense!

"Mm," Lu Ran emitted a low nasal sound, blinking his eyes hard.

In a daze, he realized he was not lying flat on the bed.

Instead, he was sitting at the head of the bed, leaning against a soft embrace.

At the back of his head and his temples, fingers were gently massaging.

Lu Ran hesitated for a moment, then closed his eyes again, his body soft and limp as he comfortably nestled in his fiancée's arms.

"Heh." Jiangjiang Ruyi couldn't help but smile, pressing down with her fingers in a punitive manner, "You're awake, yet still pretending to be confused?"

How thick-skinned was this dog named Ran?

Even though he felt slightly embarrassed, he still lounged in Jiangjiang Xianzi's embrace, pretending he hadn't heard.

"Hmm?" The woman lowered her head, looking at Lu Ran's profile with a smile, emitting a slightly rising nasal sound.

"Ah?" Lu Ran could no longer keep up the act; with a confused expression, he opened his eyes.

Yet in the next moment, he was no longer confused.

Because Jiangjiang Xianzi moved her fingers down, pinched his cheek, and pulled it with slight force.

"Eh? Don't, don't, don't—"

"Hmph." Jiangjiang Ruyi snorted, releasing that thick face, "Have the stone sculptures stabilized?"

"Stabilized." Lu Ran sat up straight, then muttered an additional remark, "Stingy ghost."

Jiangjiang Ruyi leaned against the head of the bed, looking at Lu Ran with amusement.

Suddenly, Lu Ran made a huge head turn!

What is a "huge head turn"?

One hundred and eighty degrees!

In other words, while Lu Ran's back still faced Jiangjiang Ruyi, his face was now directly facing her.

If an ordinary person did this, their neck would have been snapped!

But for disciples of the Thousand-Bone sect, this was no big deal at all.

Thousand-Bone Divine Art · Thousand-Bone Body!

Jiangjiang Ruyi: "..."

Lu Ran blinked his eyes: "Once we return to the mortal world, we'll go scare people for fun~"

Jiangjiang Ruyi tilted her head slightly, as if a question mark appeared above her head.

Lu Ran chuckled: "Just imagine! I'm strolling through the dark alleys of Rain Alley City, walking along, when suddenly—I make a huge head turn!"

Randomly scare a passerby behind me to death!

"Hehe~" Jiangjiang Ruyi burst into silent laughter.

She reached out to touch his cheek, tugging it again: "You are already at the Reach Sea Realm; you don't need to turn your head. People beside you will instinctively feel fear and tremble."

"I'm so gentle; I should be able to hide this pressure well," Lu Ran said verbally, though inwardly he wasn't entirely sure.

While speaking, Lu Ran turned his head again.

It wasn't turning back along the original path; instead, based on the previous position, he rotated another three hundred and sixty degrees, once again facing forward.

The sight made one's teeth ache and flesh hurt just looking at it!

Ever since Lu Ran acquired the Divine Art · Thousand-Bone Body, the skeleton within him was no longer bone as people understood it.

The bones could be assembled and rotated at will.

Based on this special skeleton, everything of this flesh-and-blood body—skin, flesh, tendons, meridians, including internal organs and so on—received a certain degree of protection.

This constitution,

was simply too suitable for being tortured!

To be honest, on the fifteenth night in the mortal world when evil spirits invade, if the human troops truly encounter unbeatable fiends, such as Thread-Puppet Shadows or Rouge Paper Dolls,

just issue them a Thousand-Bone believer and let them play with it first~

After all, the requirement of such fiends is to torture people, slowly torturing them to death to consume all of humanity's negative emotions, rather than killing them outright.

With that time, the people of Wangyue can resolve the other battles and then come back to rescue the Thousand-Bone disciples.

"Gala gala~"

Accompanied by crisp bone sounds, Lu Ran turned his head back and tilted his neck left and right.

Absolutely nothing wrong!

Lu Ran clicked his tongue in admiration, turning his head to look behind him once more.

Jiangjiang Ruyi leaned lazily against the head of the bed, raising her eyebrows slightly, wondering what new trick he wanted to play.

She actually quite enjoyed this scene.

She only felt that Lu Ran was like a child who had received a new toy, extremely happy.

In Jiangjiang Ruyi's line of sight, Lu Ran turned his head one hundred and eighty degrees, followed immediately by his upper body turning one hundred and eighty degrees.

Then came his waist and legs...

Jiangjiang Ruyi timely reminded: "The Thousand-Bone Body needs to be actively activated; don't forget."

Lu Ran was utterly speechless.

Am I a fool?

Lu Ran thought of something else and said, "Even if I forget to activate it, as long as I don't die immediately after being snapped in half, I can instantly activate the Thousand-Bone Body, and it will be fine."

Jiangjiang Ruyi nodded gently: "That is exactly what I meant.

Many Thousand-Bone believers died miserably precisely because they were overconfident and lost the proper sense of awe."

"Understood, my lord Scholar." Lu Ran looked obedient, nodding repeatedly.

Jiangjiang Ruyi shot Lu Ran a playful glare: "The White Bone Prison and the Yin Bone Curse are both quite good; use them more often in the future."

The White Bone Prison could not only imprison people; Lu Ran could also manipulate the thick bone walls to contract, crushing the prisoners within to death.

It was an excellent method for capturing people.

The Yin Bone Curse was even more insidiously wicked beyond measure!

It directly cursed people, causing their bones to rot, their movements to slow, until they were completely immobilized.

Thinking about it carefully, this way of dying was truly quite despair-inducing.

If the Divine Art · Thousand-Bone Body could bless the flesh and blood within one's own body using special bones,

then the Divine Art · Yin Bone Curse similarly used cursed bones to radiate and affect the flesh and blood of enemies!

Enemies who were clearly believers in their twenties or thirties, strong and robust, had their bones polluted by Lu Ran's curse, accelerating their decay!

Gradually turning into an aged body of seventy or eighty years old, on the verge of death.

Who wouldn't collapse under that?

Fortunately, this method took effect slowly!

If the enemy left the battlefield or killed the Thousand-Bone believer, the curse could be successfully dispelled.

If only this method took effect a little faster, the Deity · Thousand-Bone would probably be able to force its way into the ranks of the First-Rank Deities!

Jiangjiang Ruyi asked again: "What levels are these two Divine Statues?"

"Thousand-Bone is Sea Realm Stage One, and Greedy Wolf is Sea Realm Stage Three."

As Lu Ran spoke, his figure abruptly vanished.

Jiangjiang Ruyi had been watching Lu Ran, but now her gaze passed directly through where he had been, revealing an exquisite eight-foot-tall screen in the distance.

The screen had a redwood frame, simple yet elegant, carved with landscapes, flowers, and birds that looked lifelike.

This had been captured from the Wolf Flower Stockade.

Henceforth, the bedroom would no longer be fully visible at a glance; after entering the door, the classical screen would shield the interior of the bedroom and the bed area.

Jiangjiang Ruyi tried to focus on the air before her eyes but saw no trace of any living creature.

Lu Ran had disappeared thoroughly; it was not merely invisibility!

His scent, the energy fluctuations within his body, and even the terrifying pressure unique to the Vast Sea all vanished without a trace.

Greedy Wolf Divine Art · Wolf Concealment!

The Greedy Wolf sect was a rare sect among the Third-Rank Deity sects that possessed no Jiang Jing ultimate move.

Without an ultimate move, Lord Greedy Wolf could still rank in the third tier, which was enough to show just how powerful his "Minor Techniques" were!

"Hmm?" Jiangjiang Ruyi suddenly lowered her eyelids, looking toward the bed beside her legs.

Lu Ran was merely invisible, not incorporeal.

He had a physical form!

Jiangjiang Ruyi, leaning against the headboard, saw the bedding beside her legs pressed down into a depression, and with her own eyes witnessed the bedding by her waist also sink slightly.

Someone was causing trouble silently, yet their movements were betrayed by the soft bedding.

Jiangjiang Ruyi naturally knew clearly that he was right before her eyes.

Just as she reached out to touch him, she felt a soft sensation on her lips.

"Mm." Jiangjiang Ruyi's eyes widened slightly.

Gradually, dots of shy red spread across her cheeks; she reached out to cup the invisible face before her: "You, you come out, mm."

"Heehee~" After a long while, she was finally released, and a mischievous laugh sounded again by her ear.

Jiangjiang Ruyi felt somewhat shy and annoyed, biting her lower lip.

She really wanted to crush a Frost Talisman, freeze someone's body stiff, and reveal him by smearing frost and snow over him.

Lu Ran finally reappeared, sitting side by side with her against the headboard, muttering: "Now, I can carry out assassinations silently."

Jiangjiang Ruyi slowly exhaled and said indifferently: "Wolf Concealment can hide your aura when you are in your normal state of existence.

Once you employ other techniques, the fluctuations of divine power cannot be hidden."

The shift in tone made Lu Ran feel somewhat stunned.

Looking at Jiangjiang Xianzi's exquisite profile, he asked cautiously: "Are you angry?"

Jiangjiang Ruyi said dissatisfiedly: "Next time, let me see you."

If there hadn't been only the two of them in the bedroom, she would have really exploded with fury.

Lu Ran pondered for a moment, his expression also becoming serious: "I guarantee that in the future, I will not approach you while invisible. If there is truly a mission requirement, I will send you a voice transmission in advance.

If I do not send a voice transmission, and you detect an invisible person approaching, attack immediately, kill without mercy!"

Seeing Lu Ran's serious demeanor, Jiangjiang Ruyi nodded gently: "Good."

"Alright, don't be angry anymore!" Lu Ran leaned his body slightly, gently bumping her shoulder.

"Hmph." Jiangjiang Xianzi got up from the bed, "Your head has been buzzing for several days; rest well, sleep for a while. I will go check on the Flying Immortal Hall."

Lu Ran asked: "How are the disciples? Have they accepted the new environment?"

"Quite well; they are no longer so terrified, and they are all very grateful and well-behaved." Jiangjiang Ruyi elegantly arranged her skirt hem.

She suddenly thought of something and said: "Those thirteen Lantern Festival disciples, do you intend to accept them?"

"Mm." Lu Ran pondered briefly.

Now, the two had a deeper understanding of how the Holy Lingshan operated.

After believers within the mountain died, the deity would most likely choose new believers from the mortal world to fill the vacancies and continue collecting the Holy Spirit Qi.

Previously, after Lu Ran and the others destroyed the Heaven Disciple Mountain, Jiangjiang Ruyi had been brought in to fill a spot.

After the two reunited at the Ten Thousand Blades Mountain, they discussed the matter in detail and found the timing matched perfectly!

Returning to the present, little sister Jiang Qiao Jiang Qiao Yuanxi was a Lantern Disciple!

Lu Ran was unsure of little Jiang Qiao Jiang Qiao Yuanxi's strength or whether she could meet the standards of the Deity, my lord Lantern.

Indeed, the Lantern believers in the mortal world were countless, with many powerful ones, so it was not certain that Jiang Qiao Jiang Qiao Yuanxi would be selected to enter the mountain.

Moreover, the Lantern believers within the Holy Lingshan could die at any time, anywhere.

These were things Lu Ran could not control.

But

as long as Lu Ran did not let the Lantern believers under his command tear up the contract, these thirteen people would firmly occupy thirteen spots!

No, fourteen!

There was also Shangguan Hongfu.

Seeing Lu Ran lost in thought, Jiangjiang Ruyi said softly, "Let them stay. The Lantern faction's defensive divine art is excellent and very suitable for guarding the Cloud Sea Cliff.

During festivals, having them light lanterns and decorate the Cloud Sea Cliff will also make the disciples of the Flame Gate happier."

Lu Ran looked at Jiangjiang Ruyi, smiled, and nodded: "Agreed."

Cold as she was, she would not care about many things.

Lu Ran knew very well that she did not want Jiang Qiao Jiang Qiao Yuanxi to enter the mountain either, nor did she want him to live in constant fear.

Even though, a mere dozen or so Lantern Disciples could only be considered a drop in the bucket.

Six hundred chapters!

Flower petals~

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