Chapter 742

The first day of the Lunar New Year, drizzling rain.

In the bedroom of Cloud Sea Residence, Lu Ran listened to the pattering rain and opened his hazy sleepy eyes.

Beside him was the long and rhythmic breathing of the person on the pillow; it was very light, but it couldn't escape his ears.

It also made Lu Ran feel extremely at ease.

Lu Ran turned his head slightly and looked through the carved wooden window not far away at the fairy jasmine tree swaying in the rain.

The weather wasn't very good; the bonfire party on New Year's Eve was held in the light rain, but it didn't dampen everyone's spirits.

The Ran Sect disciples celebrated in the open space outside the Council Hall, grateful for another peaceful year.

Lu Ran and the others gathered a high bonfire in the backyard of Cloud Sea Residence.

This was the second New Year's Eve he had spent in the Holy Spirit Mountain, and it was even more perfect than the last one.

Because there were old friends by his side, and cute little Yuanxi.

Last night, Lu Ran had the honor of seeing a sword dance by Sister Xuan Shuang, which left him fascinated and left Deng Yutang, Niu Zhengzheng, and others dumbfounded.

I wonder if these two guys will have to kneel on a washboard after going home last night?

Hmm... in all likelihood, they won't.

After all, Bai Manni and Chang Ying were also stunned.

Lu Ran didn't need to kneel either, because Leng Xuanshuang had specifically asked the Sect Master and Mistress for permission, and Jiang Ruyi had nodded and agreed personally.

Not everyone was qualified to see Leng Xuanshuang's sword dance, but she just used the excuse of New Year's Eve to dance specifically for Lu Ran.

It was just a benefit for others...

What surprised Lu Ran quite a bit was that little Yuanxi also presented a song.

"Once I first knew this world, lingering in every way, looking at the sky as if it were before my eyes, I was willing to go through fire and water to walk it once..."

Up to this moment, the sister's singing voice still lingered in his ears.

Each lyric made Lu Ran's mood very complicated.

"Awake?" A gentle voice came from his ear, carrying the laziness unique to just waking up from a big dream.

"Mm." Lu Ran pulled the fairy into his arms and responded softly.

Jiang Ruyi rested on Lu Ran's chest, listening to the powerful heartbeat, and after a long time, whispered:

"Can't stay still?"

Lu Ran lifted her black hair with one hand, letting the three thousand strands of green silk pour down between his fingers.

"Mm?" Jiang Ruyi raised her face, smiling at the person whose heart had already drifted away.

Lu Ran looked down, and little Yuanxi's singing voice appeared in his mind again.

"Now that I have walked through this world, lingering in every way, turning over the different sides of the years, I unexpectedly stumbled into your smiling face..."

"After the New Year, why are you so dazed?" Accompanied by Jiang Ruyi's teasing voice, a slender jade hand gently stroked his cheek.

Lu Ran closed his eyes instead, rubbing his face against her soft palm.

Jiang Ruyi couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly.

Is the Sect Master learning from little Li Hua?

"The Blood Pool is my final battle on the westward journey, I want to go and see it." Lu Ran said in a low voice.

Jiang Ruyi: "..."

I just thought you were as cute as little Li Hua.

Lu Ran held the slender hand on his cheek and squeezed it gently: "I'll go early and come back early."

Jiang Ruyi didn't stop him, but asked: "You are determined to go to a place that others avoid, and you can't wait. Does it have any special meaning to you?"

One sentence actually stumped Lu Ran.

Wanting this westward journey to have a beginning and an end?

Or is it that in my bones, I am a warrior who craves challenges?

Or perhaps...

Lu Ran fell into deep thought; his girlfriend's ordinary question made him dig deep into his own heart.

Gradually, Lu Ran's expression became a bit strange: "I have never thought about it deeply, but now that you ask, it seems...

Deep in my heart, I have always believed that the Evil God, Blood Skull, is the stone sculpture most compatible with me."

"Oh?" Jiang Ruyi was thoughtful.

Mentioning the Blood Skull clan, three words appeared in her mind:

Teleportation, agility, blade.

Don't these three words seem to be describing Lu Ran?

In addition, the Blood Skull clan also had a famous and terrifying label—the leader of the demons!

Leader?

It seems even more compatible with Lu Ran!

Jiang Ruyi thought for a moment and said: "Since becoming a believer, you have only seen a Blood Skull once, on the night of the fifteenth in Rain Alley City?"

Lu Ran confirmed: "Yes, just that once, but it was impressive enough."

Actually, Lu Ran also felt it was very magical at this time; only until now did he recognize his own heart, and he had such an attitude toward the Blood Skull clan.

"Then are you going to activate the Blood Skull Yemo Yemo Xiesu?" Jiang Ruyi slowly sat up.

Lu Ran pondered for a moment and finally shook his head: "I have substitutes for all the evil techniques of the Blood Skull clan."

The evil technique, Burning Blood Blade, for summoning weapons; the evil technique, Weeping Blood Burning, for scattering hot blood; the evil technique, Burning Blood Body, for making all body attributes skyrocket.

The evil technique, Blood Rain and Foul Wind, which has a perception effect and makes enemies' brains swallowed by killing intent and fall into a state of madness.

The technique, Skull Explosion Great Burial, for detonating the Blood Skull necklace around the neck; and the terrifying teleportation technique, Blood Residual Shadow.

The River and Sea ultimate move is even more incredible!

But it seems they all barely count as having substitutes?

The only reasonable reason for Lu Ran to activate this evil sculpture is that a first-class demon possesses a Heaven Realm ultimate move!

Unfortunately, Lu Ran didn't know what the Heaven Realm ultimate move of this clan was.

Even the top student, Jiang Ruyi, didn't know, because in a low-martial world like the Great Xia of the human world, there was no such thing as "Heaven Realm".

There was no relevant knowledge in books or on the internet.

Lu Ran told his fiancée all his thoughts, and in return, he got a sentence that made him a bit stunned.

"Since you think Blood Skull is the Evil God most compatible with you, why don't you activate it?" Jiang Ruyi's voice was very gentle.

"I have substitutes for all the evil techniques." Lu Ran responded.

A smile appeared on Jiang Ruyi's face: "You can open the Asha Yemo Yemo Xiesu, the Western Wilderness Yemo Yemo Xiesu, and the Nüying Yemo Yemo Xiesu for your comrades-in-arms, why don't you open the one you like yourself?"

Lu Ran opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Jiang Ruyi sighed: "Do you know why I agreed to Xuanshuang's dance?"

"Why?"

"You are too good to her; Xuanshuang has a heavy heart, and if she doesn't do something for you, she will be suffocated."

Lu Ran: "..."

Is that so?

I really haven't paid much attention to it.

Lu Ran whispered: "Then in the future, should I be a muddled ruler more often, often take her to Thousand Flower Ridge, and let her dance for me?"

"Go." Jiang Ruyi spat lightly with a smile and added, "Be better to yourself."

How could Jiang Ruyi not know the preciousness of the stone sculpture quota?

But today was the first time in Lu Ran's long struggle that he clearly expressed his unique feelings for a certain stone sculpture.

He should naturally get what he wanted.

He deserves it.

And it's worth it.

"Okay!" Lu Ran pursed his lips; then I'll be willful once, anyway, after being promoted to the Heaven Realm, there will be many more activation quotas.

What if Blood Skull is really my natal Evil God?

Maybe I'll find those terrifying evil techniques even handier to use?

Lu Ran suppressed the excitement in his heart and sat up: "Then... I'll go now?"

Jiang Ruyi took off the artifact, the Ice Heart Bracelet, took his hand, and put it on for him.

"My ambition is full, from head to toe it's all spirit defense... uh." Before he finished speaking, Lu Ran stopped.

Because Jiang Xianzi Jiang looked over with her beautiful eyes: "Put it on."

Lu Ran: "..."

Is she that overbearing?

Tsk~ That's fine!

Even without wearing the phoenix robe, she still has the bearing of an empress.

It cannot be denied that the effect of the Ice Heart Bracelet is more comprehensive than the spirit defense technique.

It not only builds a mental defense system for Lu Ran, but the strands of cool energy pouring into his brain also help him stay calm.

Lu Ran put on the crystal-clear Ice Heart Bracelet and heard Jiang Ruyi say: "Go visit Senior Lu Yuan in a while, put him in the gourd, and let him accompany you on the trip."

Lu Ran: "..."

Jiang Ruyi looked at Lu Ran gently, her thin lips opening slightly: "Be obedient."

"As you command, Empress." Lu Ran said jokingly, flashed to the wardrobe, changed clothes quickly, and turned back into a mysterious wandering hero.

Little Ruyi is indeed very cautious.

If nothing happens, Elder Lu will stay in the gourd, which won't affect Lu Ran. If something happens, as long as little Chifeng reminds him, Senior Lu can help.

I just don't know if Elder Lu will curse in secret?

Clearly telling the Sect Master repeatedly that the Blood Pool is a restricted area! But the Sect Master insists on taking the old man into it...

The name Lu Yuan was chosen quite correctly.

It really is quite unjust.

Lu Ran put on his clothes and returned to the bedside, took the Empress's hand, and gently imprinted it on the back of her fair hand:

"Then I'm leaving?"

"Come back safely." Jiang Ruyi smiled and nodded.

Lu Ran teleported into the study, and divine weapons flew over automatically; he took the opportunity to say: "Evil Shadow, you stay at home."

Yan Shuangzi: "..."

She also knew clearly that when the Mistress gave the Ice Heart Bracelet to Lu Ran, it indicated that this trip had nothing to do with her.

More than ten minutes later, beside the Nine Heavens Cliff, Milky Way Waterfall, a slender figure walked out of the full-length mirror.

Lu Ran pinched the brim of his bamboo hat with two fingers, lifted it up, and looked up at the dark, cloud-covered sky.

It wasn't raining here, but the sky was terrifyingly gloomy, making people feel very oppressed.

Lu Ran looked to the west, and his figure flashed and disappeared.

For the mere hundred kilometers of road, Lu Ran was very cautious; he hid his figure, fearing that a Blood Skull would jump out from somewhere and stab him hard.

Along the way, let alone the figures of humans or demons, even the flowers, plants, and trees gradually disappeared.

A desolate and pitch-black mountain area made Lu Ran feel as if he had come to another world.

"My god..."

Lu Ran's figure stopped abruptly, and he froze on a high cliff.

He had grown up so big, but he had never seen such a strange scene!

Between the folds of the mountains, pools of blood were scattered like broken mirrors.

The blood-red lake surface reflected the gray and hazy sky; gusts of wind blew, sending over a pungent bloody smell, but not a single ripple could be seen on the lake surface.

The viscous blood looked as if it had solidified, and also as if it were a scabbed wound on the earth.

It made people's hair stand on end just looking at it.

"Gulp." Lu Ran's Adam's apple rolled.

No vitality.

No grass or trees could be seen, and no demon figures could be seen.

Except for the wind passing by occasionally, Lu Ran couldn't even hear half a sound.

Between heaven and earth, it was dead silent.

Suddenly, Lu Ran narrowed his eyes, only to see a blood-red skull quietly emerging from a large blood pool...

Today is the last day for double monthly tickets, brothers, don't hide if you have monthly tickets~

(End of chapter)