Chapter 656

Ah~ comfortable~

Lu Ran enjoyed it for a good while before realizing there had been no sound from the other side for a long time.

He felt a bit panicked in his heart and asked weakly: "Lord Xiang Xianyang?"

【Heh.】 Responding to him was a cold sneer.

"Ugh." Lu Ran subconsciously shrank his neck.

Lord Sheep's sneer is still so scary...

Lu Ran opened a pair of Death Realm pupils, watching the soul of the Blood Disaster Dog floating into the night sky, flickering lightly.

After detaining the soul, Lu Ran teleported back to his home, stood in front of the small shrine, and respectfully put his hands together: "Lord Xiang Xianyang, trust you have been well since we last met!"

【You are only at the early stage of the Sea Realm, how did you come back?】 A low voice imprinted itself in his mind.

Only the Sea Realm?

Lu Ran curled his lip.

Sea Realm, Second Stage is already very powerful, okay? I can walk sideways in the human world!

【Hmm?】 A slightly raised nasal sound, carrying a questioning meaning.

The familiar sense of oppression is back!

Tsk tsk~

Regardless of whether it's River or Sea, in front of Lord Xiang Xianyang, it really is no different from a small fry, right?

Lu Ran sighed in his heart and said: "Disciple took in a subordinate, he is a Heaven Realm: Dust Shadow believer.

I... I missed you a bit, so I let my subordinate send me back."

【Hehe.】 Xiang Xianyang suddenly laughed.

I don't know if it was because he was speechless or if he was angered into laughing.

Lu Ran immediately said: "It's true, disciple really missed Lord Xiang Xianyang!"

Xiang Xianyang: "..."

This time, Lu Ran didn't make a sound either, standing stubbornly in front of the shrine.

After a long time, the god dropped another telepathic message: 【Hmph, you certainly know how to take advantage of opportunities.】

Making Lu Ran want to roll his eyes.

How can this person be so... ugh, this sheep is simply impervious to reason!

Hmm, tomorrow I'm going to eat lamb skewers.

Sprinkle some salt, the kind that sizzles with oil.

【Is the God Ruins, which you yearn for, interesting?】 The telepathic message came again, with a hint of playfulness in the tone.

Lu Ran fell silent.

Interesting?

It's simply a purgatory!

Not to mention those lowly, surviving weak god disciples, even when Lu Ran first entered the mountain, he was plotted against time and time again.

【Have you seen the essence of this world clearly?】

"I have realized some things." Lu Ran finally spoke, looking out the window, "People think they are resisting the demon invasion, but in reality, gods and demons are in the same boat.

After the demons cause chaos, people will become even more devout to the God Society, worshipping day and night.

The human race is just livestock raised by the joint efforts of gods and demons."

"Roar!!"

The roaring sound came from afar; another demon had appeared in the residential area.

Lu Ran instead withdrew his gaze, ignoring the outside of the window.

【You have grown a lot.】 Rarely, Lord Xiang Xianyang gave a positive evaluation.

Lu Ran smiled, but the smile was a bit bitter.

He didn't know that a burning black-fire sheep head had already appeared in the God-Demon Sculpture Park.

Lord Xiang Xianyang's positive evaluation just now wasn't referring to Lu Ran's cognition, but to this sculpture park.

【Your sculptures are cultivated quite well; have you killed many people?】

Lu Ran pursed his lips, and after a good while, whispered: "I only killed the wicked."

The god let out a sneer, not caring about who was good or bad: 【Your growth speed in Holy Lingshan is faster; if you want to achieve something soon, you shouldn't linger in the human world.】

Lu Ran: "..."

Too strict, right?

You know what disciple experienced in Holy Lingshan!

I went through all kinds of hardships, and it wasn't easy to crawl back from that sea of blood and mountain of corpses...

I haven't even said two sentences, and you're already chasing me away?

【What, dissatisfied?】

"Don't dare, don't dare." Lu Ran hurriedly shook his head, his thoughts turning rapidly, "Disciple... disciple has many puzzles and urgently needs to ask Lord Xiang Xianyang for advice, which is why I came back."

【Not because you missed home and missed your family?】

Lu Ran's expression was a bit awkward: "That is one of the reasons... but disciple really has serious business."

【Speak.】 A lonely word, sounding cold.

Truly cold and heartless!

Fine, I'll eat lamb skewers the day after tomorrow too.

Lu Ran muttered in his heart, picked up the Chifeng Pattern Gourd, and reached out to the side.

"Whoosh~" Figures appeared.

Even though the protectors and shadow guards all had graceful figures, Lu Ran's room was too small, inevitably appearing a bit crowded.

The few of them certainly wouldn't care about this; they quickly looked around, the furniture and decor of modern society making them feel a bit dazed.

The human world!

It really is the human world...

Shadow One and Shadow Two suppressed the excitement in their hearts, looked out the window, and saw the small residential area streetlights in the drizzling night rain.

"Lord Xiang Xianyang." Jiang Ruyi spoke softly, kneeling properly in front of the shrine.

With the Lady of the Ran Gate doing so, the others knelt down to pay their respects.

The high and mighty god naturally couldn't manifest.

The human race knelt respectfully, and what they got in return was only silence.

Until Lu Ran spoke, the few of them got up and left, carefully closing the door.

Lu Ran still had his hands together, standing in front of the shrine: "Lord Xiang Xianyang, disciple created a force in Holy Lingshan..."

Lu Ran briefly described the situation of the Ran Gate.

And indicated that he had already let some people sign inheritance contracts with fake god stone sculptures, turning them into successors.

Lu Ran said a lot, but Xiang Xianyang only replied faintly:

【The path is one you walk yourself.】

Regarding the Ran Gate created by Lu Ran, including the many River and Sea experts recruited by the Ran Gate, Lord Xiang Xianyang didn't seem to care much.

Since the two sides met, the only positive evaluation the domineering Lord Sheep gave Lu Ran was after it visited the God-Demon Sculpture Park and saw the many vigorously growing stone sculptures.

"It is one I walk myself." Lu Ran nodded heavily.

Since signing the contract on the God-Worshipping Platform, Lord Xiang Xianyang only gave Lu Ran two or three suggestions in the early stages of his growth.

For example, activating the Yemo Yemo Xiesu: Vicious Dog.

It was precisely this evil sculpture that greatly improved Lu Ran's survival probability.

And in the following days of growth, Lord Xiang Xianyang would always instill a concept in Lu Ran:

Walk your own path!

"The people disciple chose have all been vetted and are confirmed to be trustworthy; they are loyal to the Ran Gate, and we have common goals."

Lu Ran paused and added: "There is currently a problem: some Sea Realm middle-to-high stage, and even Sea Realm peak disciples, if they forcibly tear up the contract, will suffer very serious backlash.

Disciple wants to ask for advice on how to tear up the contract without injury?"

Xiang Xianyang let out a cold snort: 【Since you know you are weak, you still delusionally want to retreat unscathed in front of the gods as a lowly servant?】

Lu Ran pouted.

It had been too long since they communicated, and he had almost forgotten how cold the domineering Lord Sheep was.

【Now, you know what to do.】

"Ah?" Lu Ran was a bit confused.

Know what?

After not hearing Lord Xiang Xianyang speak for a long time, Lu Ran tentatively asked: "Could I trouble Lord Xiang Xianyang to take action, from the height of a god, to cut the contract threads for the Ran Gate soldiers?"

Although he said it this way, Lu Ran held a pessimistic attitude toward this method.

Senior Lu Yuan had already proven with practical actions that "smuggling" back to the human world would lead to disaster!

Unless Lord Xiang Xianyang had other divine powers to hide this group of people and avoid the eyes and ears of the gods?

【I take back what I said before.】

Lu Ran blinked: "What?"

【You have grown a lot.】

Lu Ran: "..."

Fine, fine, fine, three meals!

Lamb skewers!

【After returning to Holy Lingshan, think carefully about what I just said. Now, bring your people to Lady Luo Xian Mountain.】 The telepathic message fell, the tone brooking no rebuttal.

Lu Ran's heart tightened!

Is Lord Xiang Xianyang trying to send him back?

【What, unwilling? Still want to see this Rainy Alley City?】

Lu Ran immediately said: "Disciple indeed has other matters upon returning to the human world this time. Disciple intends to take the partners left in the human world to Holy Lingshan as well.

Rather than letting them be thrown into the mountains by the gods and left to rot in the wilderness, I might as well take them away myself!"

【Hmm.】 Xiang Xianyang responded faintly.

It seemed he approved of Lu Ran's clear understanding.

Lu Ran put his hands together and bowed: "I implore Lord Xiang Xianyang to give disciple some time."

This time, the god didn't respond again.

It should be tacit approval.

Lu Ran waited patiently for a moment before saying: "Actually, disciple has many questions upon returning this time, for example, the Heaven Realm..."

【That Heaven Realm: Dust Shadow disciple didn't tell you the situation above the sea of clouds.】 It should have been a question, but Xiang Xianyang's tone was relatively certain.

It seemed that God: Xiang Xianyang had already judged from the previous conversation that Lu Ran knew nothing about the situation in the Heaven Realm?

"No." Lu Ran shook his head, "He was afraid of displeasing you and didn't dare tell disciple."

【Since that's the case, why do you still ask?】

Lu Ran: "..."

Xiang Xianyang spoke in a low voice, rarely saying a long paragraph: 【The path is one you walk yourself! You must personally ascend to that sea of clouds to investigate the essence of this world.

Use your own vision to perceive this world.

From your own perspective, consider how to treat this world.

Instead of listening to outsiders tell you what clouds are and what the sea is.】

Lu Ran opened his mouth slightly.

Lord Xiang Xianyang is indeed domineering and indeed cold.

But rarely gets angry.

Including at this moment, Lord Xiang Xianyang shouldn't have been angry, but those exceptionally serious words made Lu Ran feel a secret palpitation.

So all along, his cognition of this world was still somewhat biased?

This...?

【Go, do what you should do.】 Xiang Xianyang's tone softened slightly, carrying a hint of faint mockery, 【Sea Realm, Second Stage... heh.】

Lu Ran: "..."

In the pitch-black room, a long silence fell.

"Disciple... understands." After a long time, Lu Ran bowed properly and turned to leave.

When he walked out of the small room, he found that several people were cleaning up.

Borrowing the light from the window, Jiang Ruyi saw Lu Ran's grim face and felt his heavy heart.

Jiang Ruyi immediately walked over and asked with concern: "Did Lord Xiang Xianyang reprimand you?"

Lu Ran nodded and shook his head.

It was more of a spur, an expectation.

Jiang Ruyi naturally didn't know the conversation in the room; she just hadn't seen Lu Ran like this for a long time.

She reached out with a fair hand, gently took Lu Ran's palm, and comforted him silently.

Lu Ran sighed deeply, quickly sorted out his thoughts, and brought up the serious business: "By the way, I just asked how to tear up the contract without injury.

Lord Xiang Xianyang seemed to give me the answer, but I didn't grasp it."

"What did Lord Xiang Xianyang say?" Jiang Ruyi immediately asked.

"Roughly that the weak, lowly servants cannot retreat unscathed in front of the gods." Lu Ran frowned, "But bringing people back directly and asking Lord Xiang Xianyang for help shouldn't work."

Jiang Ruyi pondered: "Then make the servants no longer lowly."

"Hmm?" Lu Ran had a flash of inspiration, "Let the human race sign a contract with the evil sculptures in the sculpture park and become a successor?"

In this way, wouldn't the status of the human race change?

【A child who can be taught.】

Four short words made Lu Ran shiver.

He turned his head to look in the direction of the small room, almost moved to tears.

My domineering Lord Sheep, you finally praised me!

Good fellow~

This training of mine almost made me lose consciousness...

(End of chapter)