Chapter 766: A Rat Crossing the Street

Outside Tiangang City, Lu Ran stood quietly on the edge of the cliff.

Accompanied by a hoarse snake hiss, the three-thousand-meter-long White-Scaled Immortal Heaven Python appeared once more, blocking the clouds and moon, making Lu Ran's heart palpitate secretly.

It was truly hard to imagine that a tiny human could manifest such an astonishing giant beast.

"Hoo~~~"

The giant python flicked its red tongue of astonishing length, and with a single breath of immortal energy, all things withered.

The vast Tiangang City dissolved into nothingness.

Lu Ran sighed silently.

It was gone.

Tiangang City, including many sect factions under the Ran Sect, had completely vanished into the river of history of Holy Lingshan this very night.

Now, all that remained was Cloud Sea Cliff.

That place was also empty, and it was said that the stone sculptures in the Flying Immortal Hall had also been destroyed.

There were still two or three dwellings left on the cliff; Lu Ran's Cloud Sea Residence was among them. Since he entered the mountain, that house was the only place he recognized as "home."

The cold Fairy Jiang had shown mercy, leaving Lu Ran a sliver of memory.

After all, they were just a few empty houses left on some sea cliff; what did it matter if they remained?

It didn't matter.

"Only by restoring the order the gods and demons want will you have a chance to breathe." Peak Master Tu raised his hand and patted Lu Ran's shoulder lightly.

Under the moonlight, the young man's eyes were dim, and he did not deliberately hide his emotions.

Everything he had fought for along the way, all his past efforts, had now been wiped away.

And he had even led the people to destroy it himself.

It was indeed somewhat cruel.

"Sad?" A beautiful female voice, carrying a hint of allure, came from the other side.

The giant python had already disappeared, and the human woman stood back by Lu Ran's side.

"No," Lu Ran said stubbornly, his voice muffled.

With just a single thought from the gods and demons, Lu Ran had been forced to give up everything.

Fortunately, they could not take away his strength.

Fortunately, they could not take away the sculpture garden in his mind, those stone sculptures of the River Realm and Heaven Realm!

Not only could they not take them away...

Lu Ran pressed his lips together tightly and looked up at the night sky.

Those cold, dark pupils seemed to want to pierce through the clouds and moon to see the existences in the sky.

A bunch of dogs!

Everything you took away today, I will surely take back in full.

"It's a pity you aren't at the peak of the River Realm," Bai Rao said softly.

"Hmm?"

Bai Rao also looked up at the clouds and moon in the night sky: "With such intense emotional fluctuations, hating to this extent, if you were at the peak of the River Realm, you might be able to break through the bottleneck."

Lu Ran was silent for a moment, then said: "Soon."

"Find a place to cultivate," Bai Rao looked at Lu Ran, raising an eyebrow. "Shall we go home?"

"Home?" Lu Ran was somewhat puzzled.

"Back to the base of the Jade-Faced Snake clan; the divine power there is abundant," Bai Rao said with a smile in her eyes. "It can help Little Sect Master Lu grow faster."

Lu Ran: "..."

"With me by your side, the Jade-Faced Snake clan won't be able to hurt a single finger of yours, Lu Lang."

Lu Ran grinned.

You really have a lot of names for me.

"How about it?" Bai Rao's eyes carried a hint of allure as she leaned closer.

Lu Ran raised his hand slightly, placing it between them.

As expected, he was pushed back half a step.

A towering Heaven Realm entity was clearly not something an ant like Lu Ran could shake.

"Why can you transform into the White-Scaled Immortal Heaven Python?" Lu Ran changed the subject directly.

"Hmm?" Bai Rao was somewhat surprised, not knowing where this question came from.

But she saw energy surging in Lu Ran's hand as he gripped a jade ruyi.

Bai Rao couldn't help but widen her eyes, habitually licking the corner of her lips.

She knew Lu Ran was a follower of the Xiang Xiang Xianyang, and earlier in the main hall, she had witnessed Lu Ran unleash the evil technique of the first-class evil god, the Blood Skull.

And now, he had actually unleashed the evil technique of another first-class evil god, the Jade-Faced Snake?!

"I cannot unleash the River Estuary Realm ultimate move of the Jade-Faced Snake clan, the White-Scaled Immortal Heaven Python; I cannot transform into a giant python," Lu Ran continued.

And since Lu Ran couldn't transform into a python, he couldn't unleash the subsequent Sea Realm ultimate move, the Immortal Python Swallows the Sky.

Just now, when Tiangang City was in crisis, the scene of Bai Rao transforming into a python and swallowing thousands of thunderbirds had truly made Lu Ran envious.

"So it really was you..." Bai Rao murmured, her fingers stroking the jade ruyi lightly, as if confirming its authenticity.

"What?"

"Lord Jade-Faced Snake doesn't have many human disciples, yet there was news that a Jade-Faced Snake follower had appeared in Holy Lingshan." As she spoke, Bai Rao glanced at Peak Master Tu beside them.

Peak Master Tu lowered his head silently, wiping his blade.

"Lu Lang, how do you know so many techniques?" Bai Rao whispered, though she already had a guess in her heart.

Honestly, Lu Ran wished he could just take out the Jade-Faced Snake stone sculpture and bind it to Bai Rao.

On one hand, he could gain an incomparably powerful helper.

On the other hand, once Bai Rao was bound to the Jade-Faced Snake stone sculpture, Lu Ran could hold her life in his hands.

At the very least, he could make her behave!

Lu Ran spoke simply, which made Bai Rao's eyes grow brighter, and also made Lu Ran's heart tremble.

He felt as if the other party would transform into a white-scaled giant python in the next second, open her snake mouth, and eat him clean...

"So, why can Senior Bai transform into a white python?" Lu Ran asked again.

"When I was in the Sea Realm, I couldn't transform either," Bai Rao finally cleared up the confusion for Lu Ran. "After ascending to the Heaven Realm, my body underwent some changes."

Lu Ran's heart stirred: "Transformed into an energy body?"

Bai Rao nodded slightly: "Not completely, but it is indeed no longer the human body I had before."

Lu Ran pondered for a moment, and then he suddenly realized.

Had he been getting the order wrong all this time?

It wasn't that humans transformed into pure energy bodies after ascending to the Heaven Realm and merging with the stone sculptures.

It was that after humans ascended to the Heaven Realm, their bodies gradually changed, which gave them the qualification to merge with the stone sculptures?

That was it; the path of human cultivation, climbing step by step to the heavens, was itself the process of becoming a god.

No wonder Lord Xiang Xiang Xianyang said before that to merge with and replace the stone sculptures, one had to reach a very, very high level...

"Lu Lang~" Bai Rao gently took Lu Ran's arm, her noble face showing a pitiful expression. "That Jade-Faced Snake stone sculpture, gift it to me, okay?"

Lu Ran took the opportunity to say: "That depends on Senior Bai's performance."

Bai Rao said faintly: "I fought to the death to protect Tiangang City, didn't hesitate to defy the evil god, and followed Lu Lang loyally; what more do you want me to do..."

Lu Ran: "I already have a family, Senior. Please mind your words and actions."

"Hehe~" Bai Rao's face changed as quickly as it could, and she smiled. "Then, Little Sect Master Lu, how many wives do you have?"

"One."

"One?" Bai Rao's expression was stunned.

Lu Ran said in a deep voice: "Yes, please don't do this anymore, Senior."

"Sect Master Lu," Bai Rao also straightened her expression and stepped back. "At my level, I am already stained with the habits of the Jade-Faced Snake."

Lu Ran probed: "So?"

Bai Rao extended her bright red tongue and licked her red lips.

Lu Ran immediately understood what she meant.

He still preferred the noble, god-like image Bai Rao had when she first arrived in Tiangang City.

Looking at it this way, was it all an act?

Bai Rao smiled: "Little Sect Master Lu is the person I want to follow, after all. Hmm... I will try my best to restrain my nature."

So she wasn't acting.

All living things were ants beneath her feet, and naturally, the one she recognized as her master was different.

Lu Ran was silent for a moment and said: "Later, when Senior Bai joins my sect, it should be much better. You will form your own faction, become your own god, and no longer be influenced by other creatures."

Bai Rao was overjoyed and keenly caught a word, asking: "Later?"

Lu Ran nodded: "You and Senior Tu are currently key targets of attention. As you just said, the evil god Jade-Faced Snake didn't have many demon disciples.

If you tear up the contract now, you will inevitably attract the other party's attention.

That would likely bring even greater disaster to Holy Lingshan and to me personally."

"That's true," Bai Rao pondered for a moment, then turned to say, "In that case, Little Sect Master Lu, come back with me quickly~

Achieve the Great Dao early, and escape this predicament early."

If before, Bai Rao chose to defy the evil god and follow Lu Ran out of a controlled life, out of long-held grievances and anger, or out of the human righteousness hidden deep in her heart, then at this moment, the interests of both sides were firmly bound together.

"I have a pseudo-god, the Ink Carp, currently advancing in Misty Rain Lake; the energy there is more concentrated." Lu Ran raised his hand to cast a spell, summoning an ancient bronze mirror.

The floor mirror quickly took shape.

Lu Ran invited: "I must trouble the two seniors to escort our companion."

The members of the Thousand Boat Alliance had, after all, gone to the overseas great island under He Yingcai's leadership.

Regarding this sudden change and Alliance Leader He's tough order, some of the alliance members had some complaints in their hearts.

This couldn't help but make Lu Ran think of many things.

The gods and demons high above the heavens only needed a single thought to change everything in the mountains.

And what about Lu Ran?

He also gave an order, and the Thousand Boat Alliance members had to move away from the land they had lived on for over ten years to go to the incomparably dangerous far-ocean region.

The difference between Lu Ran and the gods and demons was that he was forced by circumstances.

He wanted to give his own growth a chance, and he didn't want these human compatriots to die tragically by the Misty Rain Lake.

Regardless, Lu Ran could no longer stay in the Holy Lingshan area.

He was indeed cultivating against the clock.

But the problem was, what after ascending to the Heaven Realm?

Could Lu Ran even survive in the so-called Heaven Realm?

After settling in Misty Rain Lake, Lu Ran asked Peak Master Tu and Bai Rao many things about the Heaven Realm.

It was said that that world was incomparably chaotic, but Lu Ran could survive in the cracks...

Regardless, let's cultivate and grow first.

In the process of ascending to the Heaven Realm, Lu Ran should be able to communicate with Lord Xiang Xiang Xianyang.

No!

Once Lu Ran ascended to the Heaven Realm, he could unleash the Heaven-grade Mirror Flower Moon and travel freely between the human world and the mountain world!

Although the Mirror Demon evil sculpture in the garden was currently only at the fourth stage of the River Realm, cultivating stone sculptures had never been a problem.

Thinking of this, Lu Ran's heart felt a little more at ease.

In the mountain world, he had become a rat crossing the street, being frantically hunted by Heaven Realm executioners.

But in the human world...

There, he had his greatest backing!

There was Lord Xiang Xiang Xianyang who could protect him and point him in the right direction.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 767 =====