Chapter 27: Lv Cheng Is Not Sincere

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"Brother Lv Cheng, are you alright?"

Mo Fan left happily after his successful apology, while Lv Cheng, watching the reaction of this fool, felt somewhat unsettled in his heart.

"It's nothing, I just feel a bit sorry for you all," Lv Cheng said.

Everything he showed on the surface was almost entirely fake.

He had always said, how others treat me is how I will treat them.

But in fact, whether it was Mo Fan, Mu Ningxue, Ye Xinxia, or even Tang Yue from not long ago, they were all sincere with him, while he had been playing mind games the whole time.

Lv Cheng, he is not sincere.

"Sorry?" Ye Xinxia's expression turned strange.

"Brother Lv Cheng, are you flirting with little girls again?"

A new scent!

It wasn't Tang Yue, nor was it Mu Ningxue; it was a very mature scent of jasmine!

"Not a little girl, a rich woman." Lv Cheng opened the transaction notification on his phone and handed it to Ye Xinxia.

"A rich woman?" Ye Xinxia glanced at the text message on the phone with suspicion.

"??!"

So many zeros!

"Brother Lv Cheng, did you sell yourself?" Ye Xinxia looked bewildered.

Ten million!

Wouldn't that mean throwing away the rest of his life!

"Not selling myself, I almost threw my life away," Lv Cheng sighed.

Ye Chang was a lunatic, but he had to face this lunatic, and he even had to take the initiative to get close to her.

He didn't know what Ye Chang was thinking, nor did he know what she would do, just like today's events—inexplicable and completely illogical!

There were loopholes everywhere!

He wasn't afraid of schemes, but this kind of inexplicable, illogical situation really made him panic!

What exactly did Ye Chang want to do?

Pull him into the Black Vatican?

But he was only an Initial Stage Mage; there was no need to go through so much trouble to threaten him into joining the Black Vatican...

"Brother Lv Cheng, are you doing something dangerous?" Ye Xinxia sat closer, feeling nervous.

"Like... the Black Vatican or something..."

"If I really got involved with the Black Vatican, what would you do?" Lv Cheng asked.

To normal people, the Black Vatican was a lunatic organization, an anti-human dark cult that incited disasters all over the world; from the Pope to the followers, they worshipped evil gods, treated human life like grass, and committed every evil deed.

It was no exaggeration to say that everyone should kill them on sight!

"I..." Ye Xinxia lowered her head, not knowing what to say.

By not denying it, it meant this matter was likely true.

"Brother Lv Cheng, why?" Ye Xinxia bit her lip, her eyes turning red.

"You know that's nothing good, the Black Vatican is very dangerous..."

"The lives of a group of strangers versus your life and mine, how do you think I should choose?" Lv Cheng asked.

"When the power of choice falls into the hands of strangers, do you think they would choose themselves, or would they choose you and me?"

Mu He was a member of the Black Vatican, and Mu Yuang was also a member of the Black Vatican; he knew, he had known since he was a child, but he hadn't said a word.

Even now, the Black Vatican was about to trigger a disaster in Bo City; he knew, but what could he do?

Use his foresight to tell the Mu Family, to tell the Military to be on alert early?

Not to mention whether anyone would believe him, how was he supposed to explain this?

Once the event came true, the Magic Association, the Military, and even the Black Vatican would target him!

The Magic Association and the Military were not absolutely righteous organizations either; since they were organizations of people, they must have a dark side, and he dared not gamble on whether that darkness would descend upon him—he was no hero who sacrificed himself for others.

As for the Black Vatican, even if Ye Chang didn't move against him, what about the others?

This was a lunatic organization!

Just like tonight, the emotions he felt from Ye Chang—she indeed hadn't arranged for the Black Beast to attack, but that thing had truly and surely almost chopped his head off!

He wasn't immortal, and the Dog Talisman wasn't an absolute life-saving charm; this world was full of danger, and good people couldn't survive.

As for the so-called Demon Contract?

Don't be ridiculous, everything has risks; the Eight Immortals sealed the demons in the Demon Hell, but these demons had escaped more than once.

Right now, those demons were only under his control on the surface; in reality, they were all harboring evil intentions, and who knew when they might backstab him.

A grand finale? Good triumphs over evil?

That's for cartoons.

Reality has no ending, and he is not "good."

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The summer vacation ended quickly, and the second year of high school began.

A new semester, a new class.

The top one hundred from the annual assessment formed the elite class, with Xue Musheng serving as the homeroom teacher, and Tang Yue remaining as the practical course teacher.

Additionally, although Lv Cheng had caused a scene during the annual assessment, Mo Fan still ended up making the two-year agreement with Mu Zhuoyun; he still had to fight for his pride.

"Old Lv, what did you do last night?"

Mo Fan looked at Lv Cheng, who was slumped over the table, with a strange expression.

Just now on the road, he had heard quite a few people gossiping that Lv Cheng had come out of Tang Yue's teacher dormitory.

"Exploring the mysteries of Magic with Teacher Tang Yue," Lv Cheng replied in a muffled voice.

The Magic of this world is activated based on the stars in the spiritual world; Shendu is a Fire Demon, so he naturally has absolute control over the fire element.

After previously coming into contact with Tang Yue's Star Nebula, Shendu somehow, inexplicably, conjured a Fire Element Star Dust for him.

However, that was all there was to it.

Operations in the spiritual world are extremely dangerous; one careless move could turn him into an idiot, and Shendu himself didn't even know how he had accidentally brought that Fire Element Star Dust into existence!

And he guessed that it wasn't actually his Star Dust, but Shendu's Star Dust!

The spirit is based on the body yet superior to the body, and when Shendu possessed his body and gained control, his body and Shendu's spirit briefly became one.

Shendu's Demon Qi was extremely powerful, which triggered the birth of the Fire Element Star Dust.

And since Shendu's soul level was far higher than his, when Shendu left his body, the Fire Element Star Dust could not follow, so this thing remained in his spiritual world!

His speculation was not just wishful thinking, because Shendu could manipulate his Fire Element Star Dust and even help him cultivate, but could not interfere with his Summoning Element Star Dust.

Therefore, his guess was likely true, though it would still need to wait until the next Demon came to the human world to be verified.

"No, are you really seeing Teacher Tang Yue?" Mo Fan asked suspiciously.

Didn't Xinxia say there was nothing going on between these two, and at most they could only be considered friends with a slightly better relationship?

That girl's intuition had always been very accurate.

Lv Cheng rested his chin on his hand and looked out the window, "I wish."

Previously, the impulse Tang Yue had toward him was infected by his emotional abilities and the influence of the Fire Demon Qi; after calming down, Tang Yue had already sobered up.

The reason her attitude toward him was still unusual was because Tang Yue felt his Fire Element Talent was special, and she sympathized with his status as a little orphan, out of the care of a big sister.

Additionally, Tang Yue seemed to suspect he had a split personality and had probed him many times through side remarks; he was happy to cooperate, and from time to time he would let Shendu pretend to be his other irritable personality to come out and talk to Tang Yue, completely cementing this point and categorizing his fire abilities under the other personality, making it convenient to find excuses for future actions.

An orphan with a split personality—one irritable, one quiet—what a familiar combination.

Tang Yue's feelings for him were more out of a big sister's care for a pitiful little brother; after his Demon Qi and Psychic abilities became ineffective, the reason Tang Yue still maintained a close relationship with him was simply because she saw his extraordinary talent and wanted to pull him into the Judgment Court.

Just like how Mu Zhuoyun wanted to win over Mo Fan.

Even that kind of awkward enemy relationship could be set aside for the sake of profit.

He and Tang Yue had no enmity.

Building a good relationship with a young person who could awaken Dimensional Magic on their own at the Initial Stage and was suspected of having Fire Element and Psychic talents—this kind of investment was definitely not a loss.

He and Tang Yue could be considered to have their own ulterior motives, only, it was a tacit understanding.

Of course, Tang Yue did indeed have some improper thoughts about him; after all, thanks to his parents, this body of his, if not enough to topple kingdoms, could at least be considered top-tier male beauty.

Women are the same as men, both are lustful; there is no difference.

Having known each other for so long, and with him running to Tang Yue's house from time to time to cultivate overnight—a lone man and a lone woman sharing a room—it was normal for Tang Yue to develop ideas about him as time accumulated.

It is human nature.

Of course, Tang Yue was currently still able to control herself and would not actually make a move on him.

(End of this chapter)