Chapter 190: 189 Demons, Monsters

Wang Wu didn't know why he kept running into this kind of situation, but since it had already happened, he could only endure it.

So time quickly slipped by, and I won't go into how long exactly. In short, Ming Zhi witnessed the whole process.

A bit restless, a bit unbearable, and also a bit…

I can only say, um, Ming Zhi doesn't know what to say, but this kind of thing…

Although Ming Zhi is a pure‑hearted female demon—yes, she's of the pure‑hearted type and hasn't had a boyfriend yet.

But such matters aren't particularly surprising to her, to be honest.

Her hometown, Feng Country, and the demon society on Wang Wu's Tianyuan Star aren't that different; in many ways they're similar to the demons of the Tianyuan Realm.

I have no idea what's going on with this universe, but even in another star system tens of thousands of light‑years away, the intelligent life on both sides seems indistinguishable in appearance and certain traits.

Even though 'extraterrestrial demon' has 'extraterrestrial' in its name, Wang Wu would probably adapt quickly if he went straight there.

Just as he quickly adapted to this world before, the people here look no different from those on Earth, and the demons are no different from the humans of his hometown.

As for how he accepted it, Wang Wu was able to embrace his demon identity and lifestyle so quickly; besides the reasons already mentioned, there was another:

He simply treated this world as the kind of manga, movies, novels he used to read…

Which manga, movies, or novels… um. As long as you get the idea, no need to be overly specific.

Even though Ming Zhi is pure‑hearted, pure‑hearted demons are still demons, and demons generally have strong adaptability.

Therefore, although Ming Zhi couldn't fully understand Wang Wu's actions, the scene unfolding before her made her feel a bit uneasy, a bit uncomfortable, a bit…

In short, after the whole bout ended and the monster turned to ash, Ming Zhi was still a little dazed.

"Alright, problem solved." Only when Wang Wu's voice sounded beside her did she slowly nod.

"So, what do we do next…?"

"We'll keep moving forward." Wang Wu looked at the rather stiff‑looking Ming Zhi and said, "Keep moving, then find Ling Luo."

"Mm." Ming Zhi nodded; for the first time her mind was refilled with the actual task, not Wang Wu…

Demons generally prefer other demons over humans. Although interstellar‑civilization human fantasies are somewhat more plausible than the scholar novels of the Tianyuan Realm, fundamentally they're still just wishful thinking.

Even though demons can give humans an excellent experience, humans usually can't provide demons with a good experience. Nothing can be done; different races are just like that.

Demons have a high threshold; perhaps as a transcendental being you have a big advantage over ordinary people, but after all you're still just a human.

If you compare with demons of the same realm, it would definitely still be… um.

Of course, if you can't beat those of the same realm, fighting lower‑realm ones should be no problem in theory.

But the problem lies here; even without citing Xie Yu as an example, a demon even one or two major realms lower isn't something a human cultivator can handle easily.

Perhaps you might get lucky and win the first round, but demons usually last beyond the first round, and if you can't crush them in that round—only achieve a temporary victory—what awaits you is often an endless counter‑attack.

And even if you do crush them, their recovery speed remains extremely fast.

In today's world—well, maybe that's an exaggeration—but at least in Wang Wu's star system, the only one who can utterly crush his own demon kin in the first round is probably just him.

Even for Wang Wu, though he might crush them in the first round, the demon race's resilience is extraordinary; you have to defeat them multiple times to finally rout them.

That's the demon race, that's their combat power.

So demons are still very strong, not to be underestimated.

Ahem.

Following Wang Wu and continuing forward, being led by him to wander around this city, Ming Zhi didn't even know how Wang Wu was navigating; along the way the two demons ran into quite a few troubles, but Wang Wu resolved them quickly.

Of course, the previous situation didn't happen again. Yet that scene still flickered in Ming Zhi's mind from time to time.

Ming Zhi also didn't know what was happening to her, because in the past thousand years—not even counting her time in Feng Country—in her nearly two‑thousand‑year life, she had never encountered a situation like this.

Scenes like this, theoretically, theoretically…

Shouldn't bother her, right?

She can't be called abstinent; demons don't have that label. Even pure‑hearted demons have desires, they just focus them on a single target.

A scene like this is just a scene, so how could it possibly…

But the more she comforts herself, the more Wang Wu's past battle scenes flash in her mind.

"What on earth is going on?"

Ming Zhi's cheeks flushed as she looked toward Wang Wu ahead, her eyes filled with swirling mist as well as confusion and bewilderment.

In this thousand‑year span in Tianlu, Ming Zhi hadn't never seen such a scene. Yet she stubbornly endured it, over a thousand years without breaking any precepts, and she couldn't break them.

After all, she only intends to do this with the person she loves most, not with her other demon kin.

Of course, she's different from those bird demons back home.

She doesn't mind if her beloved has multiple… as long as he loves her, nothing becomes a problem.

Of course, that's irrelevant.

What matters is that Ming Zhi is now a bit puzzled.

From the first time she saw Wang Wu until now, even though they haven't really interacted, for some reason Ming Zhi naturally feels a… how to put it?

A sense of trust? A sense of closeness?

That feeling confuses her.

"Damn it, why is this place so huge?" Wang Wu sped forward following the location Ling Luo sent via his phone, even though a female oddity had briefly blocked him earlier, it didn't take him long.

Oddities aren't demons; this thing was completely dealt with in under half an hour. After a fierce onslaught, the bizarre creature vanished without a trace.

As for why this thing appeared, he hadn't paid attention before, but while walking he considered a possibility.

The True Realm is closely tied to human desire; it is a reflection of the material world, a manifestation of countless wishes and emotions in the hearts of sentient beings.

It weaves between the spiritual and material worlds, a twisted, malformed place.

The first time he entered the True Realm, that alien—no, it should be called the alien that had become an oddity—gave himself that description.

That description isn't entirely wrong, because the True Realm does indeed contain such elements.

It is the embodiment of human desire, the mirror of the material world.

Whenever Wang Wu appears here, the "desire projections" that match Wang Wu the monster also appear together.

Monsters can, of course, also crash into the True Realm and be transformed by it, becoming one of the anomalies.

And a monster's anomalous transformation often means turning into these bizarre, twisted monsters.

Of course, for the Yao clan, the greatest problem they must face is still demonic transformation.

Demonic transformation is the topmost challenge the Yao clan must confront, even for a super monster empire like Feng Guo.

This time and the last, those anomalies that Wang Wu eliminated should be Wang Wu's Yao clan comrades who got lost in the True Realm.

Turning into a demonic beast is the most terrifying nightmare for monsters. But becoming an anomaly… um, okay, that's also quite tormenting.

But at least Wang Wu can give the comrades he sees a release.

This, of course, isn't some perk; Wang Wu didn't do anything special, he was simply doing a good deed, rescuing his comrades.

Anyway, that's how it is.

Speeding through the city, with Chai Zhi, Wang Wu soon found Ling Luo. They passed street after street, and crossed one invisible spatial gate after another.

Finally, in a place whose environment was completely different from where the two monsters first appeared, yet the location was exactly the same, Wang Wu found Ling Luo waiting there.

When Ling Luo saw Wang Wu, her face instantly lit up with excitement, and she lunged at him.

Then they embraced tightly, crying with joy, and she looked at Wang Wu with tear‑filled eyes, standing on tiptoe.

After that…

The Yao clan comrades' combat power didn't drop after the anomalous transformation; it actually increased.

It's just that Wang Wu's power is too restrained against Yao Mo Gui Gui, while they are both monster and anomaly, which caused these already mutated comrades to not be able to endure a round.

Of course, they are definitely stronger than Ling Luo.

They just stood there dumbfounded, and Chai Zhi didn't know what to say.

She could only watch; faced with this situation, what could she do? Of course, she could only watch and wait quietly.

But this time the waiting wasn't a simple half‑hour or less; it lasted a full two hours.

Until…

How to describe it? Comic‑book level?

The less you look, the more you want to; the less you listen, the louder it gets. In the end, after a long struggle, Chai Zhi chose to go with the flow.

Afterwards, they had to change clothes; this outfit could no longer be worn.

Although Wang Wu doesn't intend to develop a deeper relationship with Ling Luo, as friends Wang Wu naturally won't short‑change his good friend.

As for Chai Zhi? He isn't familiar with Chai Zhi, so of course there won't be any development.

The reason for being unabashed, besides the Yao clan's own shamelessness, is also to show it to Chai Zhi, the "pure‑love faction".

It means I'm not the type you like, you can give up on me.

She is a pure‑love faction woman, still waiting for her destined husband. So after hearing that, Wang Wu instantly put distance between them and was glad about his earlier accidental encounter.

Directly letting the other know his prowess and shamelessness will naturally make this female monster back off.

"Sorry." After comforting his friend, Wang Wu went to Chai Zhi's side, "Sorry for keeping you waiting…"

He didn't finish the sentence, because seeing Chai Zhi's gaze made Wang Wu's pupils instantly contract.

In an instant, he darted back a dozen steps, his face wary, and asked them:

"You… okay?"

At the same time, Ling Luo, leaning against the wall to rest, also noticed Wang Wu's expression as if facing a great enemy and immediately grew tense.

She hurriedly forced herself to stand, stepping with legs still shaking, moving behind Wang Wu, her face also showing solemnity.

Although Ling Luo's main family house at the North Light District's first base might be dealt with, Ling Luo feels nothing about it, and might even cheer for it.

Not to mention she has no affection for the main house; even the branch she grew up in, she dislikes.

She isn't the typical rich girl type, and if she were, Wang Wu wouldn't treat her this way.

Unlike her own clan, Ling Luo respects Chai Zhi a lot.

Not only her, more precisely, most people in this city hold great respect for Chai Zhi.

Now, seeing Wang Wu's gaze toward Chai Zhi, a trace of worry rose in her mind.

"Wang Wu, wh‑what's wrong?" Ling Luo took a few steps forward and asked.

"Nothing." Wang Wu shook his head, "It's not a big deal, there's no danger, you don't need to panic; it's just some personal issue."

Saying that, he turned his head to glance at Ling Luo, scanned the ground at her feet, then withdrew his gaze.

Noticing Wang Wu's look, Ling Luo also lowered her head to glance at her own feet,

After all, she is human, educated in human ways, and had only briefly lost reason because of Wang Wu.

But now, after regaining composure, she looked down at herself and the ground, and instantly felt a heat spreading across her face.

Especially, still…

In front of her own idol?

Anyway, let's get dressed first.

Brutal, cold, ruthless—that's Wang Wu. And Wang Wu's combat is naturally completely different from that of ordinary humans in this world.

Yet alongside all that, he can also be extremely gentle and elegant.

And this Wang Wu inevitably reminds Chai Zhi of his own comrades.

When his thoughts reached this layer, looking at the wary, enemy‑facing Wang Wu before her, a thought suddenly sprang to her mind:

"He…"

"Could he be, could he really be…"

Otherwise there'd be no way to explain that inexplicable trust she has in him, and…

It can't possibly be love at first sight for him, can it???

"I, I'm fine." Shaking off the unrealistic thoughts in his mind, Chi Zhi shook his head.

"We can, can we leave now?"

"Of course." Wang Wu took a few more steps back, looking at Chi Zhi.

Then, he summoned a motorcycle, switched it to three-wheeled mode, and beckoned the two women to board.

Because it was three-wheeled, Ling Luo could sit beside him.

Turning the handlebars, Wang Wu kept moving forward. The destination was the direction indicated by the compass.

He wasn't panicked, even in such a bizarre environment.

Because as long as he had the wondrous tool from his master's hometown, everything would get better.

During the journey, Chi Zhi, seated in the rear basket, watched Wang Wu and Ling Luo ahead; his facial expression grew increasingly numb, but his lower garment was…

In short, we just need to go back and swap it.

As for Ling Luo, she originally didn't want to clash with Wang Wu, after all her idol was watching from behind.

But there was no choice; this guy was being far too deceitful, and she couldn't endure such humiliation.

Moreover, since things were already like this, it was a case of breaking the pot and letting it fall.

The three-wheeled motorcycle sped through the city; because only Wang Wu knew the time, Chi Zhi had no idea how long had actually passed.

One hour? Five hours? Maybe a day, ten days?

Chi Zhi didn't know, and was too lazy to find out.

Chi Zhi could only keep thinking about work and outside matters, to divert attention.

"We've arrived."

The continuous sound in his ears persisted, but besides that, there was also Wang Wu's clear, calm voice.

"Wuwu?"

"Yeah, almost there." Wang Wu patted Ling Luo's head and said.

A moment later.

Amid the dense fog spreading over the whole city, a motorcycle slowly drove out.

He jumped off the motorcycle, retracted it, and, looking at the city shrouded in fog, Wang Wu turned his head toward Chi Zhi:

"We've returned."

"Back, have we returned?" Chi Zhi shook his head vigorously and looked around.

Although enveloped by the thick fog, it was at least still fairly normal.

(End of chapter)