Chapter 719: Third Day of the Winter Month, Sunny

On the third day of the winter month, Yunhai Cliff was shrouded in thick fog.

Inside the small courtyard of Yunhai Residence, a floor mirror opened quietly, and a team filed out.

"Home..."

Lu Ran took a deep breath, his whole body and mind relaxed. Over the past week, the Forbidden City had been tested by forces from all sides.

And this ancient city, with the concerted efforts of the Ran Sect soldiers, still stood firmly in the center of the Holy Lingshan continent!

Nearly thirty Wu Seng disciples had all joined Lu Ran's sect; dropping a realm was inevitable, but fortunately, they regained the Wu Seng sect's divine techniques.

The most sigh-inducing among them was Master Jiu Rou.

This great Wu Seng at the peak of the Sea Realm dropped from the 5th stage directly to the 2nd stage, which was quite sigh-inducing.

However, Master Jiu Rou's mentality was excellent.

He touched his big belly with a smile, thanking Lu Ran again and again for bestowing the foundation of his survival—divine techniques.

Having been a disciple of the first-class God Wu Seng for a lifetime, how could he look down on techniques from other sects?

It was a bit like "it is easy to go from luxury to frugality, but hard to go from frugality to luxury."

When Master Jiu Rou took out the Divine Technique: Ancient Bronze Staff again, he showed an incomparably comfortable smile, his chubby face trembling...

As for paying respects to He Qi Feng, paying respects to Lu Ran, etc., it didn't matter at all!

Master Jiu Rou was very willing to follow these two Da Xia geniuses.

Anyway, it didn't delay him from eating meat and drinking wine...

Including the 28 people from the Dafeng Hall, the Forbidden City had a total of 346 people, which was indeed a bit small. You have to know, the Forbidden City in its heyday had developed to nearly a thousand people!

It was just that on the day Peak Master Tu attacked, too many people fled for their lives.

Regarding this, He Qi Feng saw it clearly; she said that as long as the Forbidden City always stood here, the refugees would always return.

For those citizens who abandoned the city and fled, He Qi Feng had relatively complex emotions.

But in the end, she still told Lu Ran that she didn't blame them.

For the common people, Peak Master Tu was impossible to defeat and was a destructive existence.

You cannot ask a tiny ant to resist the towering Heaven Realm.

He Qi Feng had promised them a stable life, and it was she who failed to do so.

But for those who stayed and lived and died with the Forbidden City, He Qi Feng visited almost every household.

As if she wanted to deeply imprint every face in her mind.

Heavenly Emperor Feng also carefully selected more than 70 people from these more than 300 weak god disciples and begged Lu Ran to help them change their fate against the heavens and change jobs to become Wu Seng disciples.

With this, the Forbidden City side had another hundred Wu Seng believers.

These people who changed jobs later generally had low strength and realms, poor martial arts standards, and very poor understanding of the Wu Seng sect's divine techniques, but Heavenly Emperor Feng said she would try her best to train them to be qualified.

Hm... try to be qualified.

Not just anyone could be a first-class God believer; the Wu Seng divine techniques that fought heaven and earth were even harder for just anyone to master.

Lu Ran also saw her determination.

It was truly painstaking training, day and night!

Originally, other Forbidden City citizens were particularly envious of the 70-plus lucky ones selected, but after seeing the training intensity, most of them secretly rejoiced.

Does this need an external enemy to attack?

According to Heavenly Emperor Feng's requirements, this group of people would be trained to death sooner or later...

The remaining Forbidden City citizens, excluding nearly 50 functional disciples, were divided into two batches and joined the Master Yu Fu and Lietian sects.

It is worth mentioning that the 18th genius of Da Xia, Hou Yun, was also taken into the sect by Lu Ran, paying respects to the Luo God General (Pseudo-God Asha).

Originally at the peak of the River Estuary Realm, she was instead "benefited," dropping only to the 4th stage of the River Estuary Realm.

Lu Ran was very sure that Hou Yun could cultivate back up again! As for whether she could eventually step into the Sea Realm... the problem still existed.

Her Dao heart needed to be polished alone.

I don't know if, after the Forbidden City experienced such a storm and her fate had such a change, Hou Yun could have different insights into life and the path ahead.

The Zhenyue Hall and Baizhan Hall of the Liyuan Sect were still stationed in the Forbidden City and had not withdrawn.

Now, the Liyuan Sect and Tiangang City were both developing in an orderly manner, and the Forbidden City undoubtedly needed more defensive power.

If it weren't for Fish Changsheng opening the advancement mode, Lu Ran and others would continue to stay in the Forbidden City.

At this time, Lu Ran, who returned to Yunhai Cliff, sighed "Home," and looked around at the thick white fog permeating the cliff, feeling very gratified.

Mr. Conglong was finally about to advance to the peak of the Sea Realm!

"Everyone go back." Lu Ran spoke again, "Cultivate well."

"Yes!"

"Yes." Everyone took their orders and left.

In the thick fog, Lu Ran also noticed Jiang Xianzi Jiang leaving quietly.

He immediately took two quick steps, stopped the Jiang Xianzi Lord in front of the house door, wrapped an arm around her slender waist, and held her in his arms.

"Hm?" Jiang Ruyi turned her head slightly.

Although the cliff was shrouded in fog, the two were close at hand and could still see each other.

"It's been several days, are you still angry?" Lu Ran whispered.

"No." Jiang Ruyi shook her head gently, "I have to seize the time to go into seclusion and make good use of this opportunity."

She was currently at the 2nd stage of the Sea Realm, having successfully advanced on June 8th; now it was early November, and she was about to touch the bottleneck of cultivation.

Lu Ran carefully leaned forward and printed a light kiss on her lips: "You have been cold to me for the past few days, you almost froze me to death."

Jiang Ruyi smiled and looked at Lu Ran's eyes quietly.

At first, she was indeed very angry.

More of it was lingering fear.

He Qi Feng's Dao heart was the Forbidden City, while Jiang Ruyi's Dao heart was Lu Ran himself.

A Forbidden City could make He Qi Feng "change her temperament" and lose her sense of proportion.

How much better could Jiang Ruyi be?

It was just that Lu Ran stood steadily in front of her that kept her from losing control. Later, during that week, she adjusted a lot by herself.

Lu Ran's identity was here, and his goals were extremely clear; she couldn't make him make any promises on such matters.

Promises forced out would only become lies.

Hurting others and oneself.

Jiang Ruyi knew very clearly that the next time a Heaven Realm expert wanted to destroy the Forbidden City and trample the citizens in the city to death, Lu Ran would inevitably make the same choice.

The thousands of worries and sorrows in her heart had a solution.

And it was likely the only solution—strength.

"Ruyi?" Seeing that her girlfriend was not speaking and kept staring at him, Lu Ran felt a little nervous.

"Mm, small emotions are hard to control, and I was really glaring at you." Jiang Ruyi finally spoke, "But I'm much better now."

Someone was still alive and standing in front of her, which was better than any comforting words.

"Oh, I thought you were going to put me in the cold palace completely." Lu Ran looked pitiful.

"Hehe~" Jiang Ruyi smiled.

That was a good idea?

She raised her hand, her jade finger lightly tapping Lu Ran's forehead: "Then you stay in the cold palace first, I'm going into seclusion to cultivate."

Lu Ran: "..."

His arms were empty, and the beauty floated away.

Lu Ran said in the direction she left: "Little Chifeng is for you."

In the fog, a cold voice gradually drifted away: "Lend it to Sister Yuxiang first, her cultivation progress is faster than mine."

"Oh." Lu Ran pouted and took out the Chifeng Pattern Gourd from his arms, "Mom doesn't want us anymore!"

"Hum~"

Little Chifeng vibrated gently, as if it was also a bit aggrieved?

"It's okay, Auntie wants you." Lu Ran sent Little Chifeng into the sky, "You go to the Da Da Mengyan Residence, I'll have her wait for you in the courtyard."

Little Chifeng: "..."

Mom was at most a bit strict, but that Auntie was simply terrifying!

The second effect of the Chifeng Pattern Gourd was forced out under the strict requirements, and even the deterrence and pressure, of the Great Da Da Mengyan.

"Be good, go." Lu Ran patted the treasure gourd.

"Hum~" Little Chifeng circled Lu Ran once before flying away reluctantly.

Lu Ran stood in front of the house door, standing still quietly.

The beauty had gone far away, but the faint jasmine fragrance remained; the front and back yards of Yunhai Residence were planted with beautiful fairy jasmine trees.

【Master.】 A phantom appeared quietly beside Lu Ran.

"Hm?"

"Pendant." Yan Shuangzi handed over the Tear Star Fall.

"Good." Lu Ran took the blue diamond pendant shaped like a water drop and walked into the house.

Passing through the hall and coming to the backyard, illusory ink carps scattered in all directions.

Xiao Xiao Mo Li Evil Technique: Xiao Xiao Mo Li Filling the Sky.

Within a radius of 100 meters, everything touched by the illusory ink carps was connected to Lu Ran's perception.

With the help of the ink carps, Lu Ran found the young girl meditating under the tree.

Two of them.

The two were actually quite easy to distinguish.

Tian Tian was truly petite, while Little Yuanxi, who was 1.68 meters tall, was petite in Lu Ran's illusion.

Lu Ran walked toward the house on the west side and stood still under the fairy jasmine tree: "Yuanxi?"

"Brother! You're back~" A delicate voice came, full of energy.

Lu Ran took a step forward and knelt on one knee beside his sister: "You are so diligent."

Unexpectedly, Qiao Yuanxi suddenly blurted out:

"Almost, almost."

Lu Ran:?

"Pfft... hehe~" Qiao Yuanxi couldn't help but giggle, "It's really almost! The cultivation environment of the Holy Lingshan is good enough, and here at Yunhai Cliff, the cultivation resources are even more outrageous!

From time to time, experts advance, tsk tsk~

Brother, give me another month, I will definitely reach the peak and then jump directly into the Sea Realm!"

"Good." Lu Ran nodded with a smile.

"What have you been doing for the past twenty days? By the way, where is Sister Ruyi?"

"Nothing much, took down Jingxian Island, and went to help out on the Forbidden City side." Lu Ran avoided the important and focused on the trivial, changing the subject, "I prepared a gift for you."

"A gift?" Qiao Yuanxi was successfully attracted.

She knelt up, her face leaning closer, trying to see her brother's face clearly.

"Here." Lu Ran didn't keep her in suspense, raising his hand with a diamond pendant in his palm.

"Wow, so beautiful?" Qiao Yuanxi's eyes were shining.

Lu Ran said: "If you can subdue it, it will be even more beautiful."

At this time, the Tear Star Fall's luster was dim, and the artifact spirit had locked itself, refusing to interact with the outside world.

Qiao Yuanxi reached out her finger and poked the diamond pendant: "What is its name?"

"That needs you to tell me."

"Then what functions does it have?"

"I don't know the specific effects, perhaps it can teleport you to my side."

"Ah?" Qiao Yuanxi raised her eyelids and looked at Lu Ran, who was close at hand.

"Perhaps." Lu Ran nodded gently.

Qiao Yuanxi was pleasantly surprised, a happy smile appearing on her face: "Thank you, Brother, you are the best!"

"Mm, I know."

"Eh?" Qiao Yuanxi tilted her little head.

Lu Ran also smiled and changed to transmission: 【Its function is too strong; when you try to wake it up and subdue it, you must be careful.

I left Shadow One and Shadow Two for you; they are both Evil Dog disciples, can teleport, and both have divine weapon daggers. If an accident happens and the pendant runs away, have them help you search.】

【Mm, mm! My Evil Technique: Smoke Fire Cage also has a perception radius of 50 meters!】 Qiao Yuanxi picked up the tiny diamond pendant and examined it carefully.

Her love for it was overflowing.

That cute little look also made Lu Ran's mood better and better, as if the whole sky had cleared up.

Suddenly, Qiao Yuanxi looked up at Lu Ran: "Brother, quick! Help me put it on~"

"Good."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 720 =====