Chapter 71: Try Again

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"I cannot stay in this world for too long, and I cannot interfere too much with this world," Lv Cheng said.

"Otherwise, I will be rejected by this world and thrown out."

"So..."

"You want me to help you get the Cup of Life?" Daolong said.

"More than that." Lv Cheng stood up.

"I still have many things that require your help."

Daolong's greatest value is his brain!

As an evil force capable of filling the vacancy left by Shendu, Daolong's ability is beyond doubt.

After all, the strength of this world does not depend on destructive power at all; it is all about restraint relationships. No matter how powerful a Demon is, it cannot defeat a small Magic Spell.

Rules are the most powerful force in this world.

With Daolong's help, the Demons will be even safer for him.

After all, one still has to be on guard, and if his Saint Warrior side were to run out in the future, Daolong might come in handy.

Daolong looked thoughtful, "Does Hell really lead to another world?"

"Of course." Lv Cheng condensed a Fire Element Star River in his hand.

"This is the Magic of another world; aren't you interested?"

The Wizards of this world are not very strong; they only rely on various special Magic Spells that exploit bugs to fight against Demons, unlike the Full-Time Mage World, where it is all about who has the stronger firepower.

Looking at the marvelous Magic Star River before him, Daolong looked surprised, "What do I need to pay?"

"Not much." Lv Cheng smiled.

"Your everything will suffice."

"..." Daolong.

Do you want to hear what you are saying?

"I am not discussing this with you." Lv Cheng pressed down on Daolong's shoulder.

"Black Qi Wizard, I could completely invade your soul and turn you into an obedient puppet, but I think such methods are quite low-level."

"But if you are not sensible and force me to use such low-level means..."

"I agree!" Daolong hurriedly interrupted.

His Black Qi could not withstand the invasion of this Demon Qi!

This guy could really turn him into a puppet!

"Very good." Lv Cheng smiled and helped Daolong straighten his Wizard Robe.

"Keep it up! You are now the Chief Black Qi Wizard under my command; your future is limitless!"

The Psychic Magic that devours human minds requires a complete Demon form to be activated; he cannot use it in his current hybrid state.

Moreover, Daolong is not an ordinary person; scaring him is fine, but if this guy were to be disobedient, he really would have no way to deal with him.

"I hope so..." Daolong looked speechless.

He is indeed a reasonable Demon, but he only follows his own logic!

……

Under the night sky, above Jinlin Desolate City, in the high altitude unreachable by the naked eye, Lv Cheng and Daolong were sitting on a huge floating rock.

After confirming the authenticity of the Cup of Life, Daolong's trust in Lv Cheng went a step further; he voluntarily accepted the Summoning Contract and was pulled to this world by Lv Cheng through the Dimension Gate.

In a sense, Daolong is now Lv Cheng's Summoned Beast.

And after arriving here, Daolong also successfully awakened the Shadow Element with Lv Cheng's help.

Subsequently, under Shendu's operation, Daolong absorbed a large amount of Dark Energy, filling his Star Dust into a Star River all the way!

"How does it feel?" Lv Cheng asked.

"The Magic of this world... is simply too simple!" Daolong's mood was extremely complicated.

One only needs to control those few star seeds in the spiritual world to unleash such powerful force; then what about his hundreds of years of desperate, day-and-night hard cultivation for power...

"Don't feel too bad; if it weren't for those hundreds of years of experience, you wouldn't be able to cultivate so quickly after coming into contact with the Magic of this world," Lv Cheng said.

As the most powerful Black Qi Wizard in a thousand years, Daolong's talent and strength are beyond doubt.

If the high-level Magicians of this world are one in ten thousand, then Daolong belongs to the one in a million among those ten thousand!

A high-level player starting from scratch to experience a beginner's quest in a game-like world naturally feels it is incomparably simple.

"... That is true." Daolong nodded.

If not for the experience of learning those difficult Magic spells, starting from zero to come into contact with the star seed Magic of this world, while not necessarily being stumped, would not have been as easy as it is now.

"I have studied the runes on the Cup of Life, but I have no leads for now," Daolong said.

"Don't worry about that thing; it doesn't matter if you can't figure it out," Lv Cheng said.

No matter what, it is a magical artifact from the ancient era, a collectible that even the Divine Capital did not have; if Daolong had figured it out so easily, he would have attained eternal life long ago.

Besides, for something like the Cup of Life, one is enough.

"That's true." Daolong also roughly guessed Lv Cheng's thoughts.

For something like the Cup of Life, one is indeed enough.

"Then where is the new Magic you want me to study?" Daolong asked.

"We are almost there." Lv Cheng looked down at the dilapidated Jinlin Desolate City.

Mu Ningxue and Mu Nujiao had not encountered danger, so his Shadow Soldiers had not taken action, and the atmosphere between Bai Tingting and Mo Fan was quite good right now; with Mo Fan's protection, Bai Tingting was also uninjured, but the other students were not so lucky.

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Inside a church that was still relatively well-preserved, the squad that had just experienced an argument was sitting in small groups, each keeping to themselves.

In the woods some distance away from the church.

"Everyone seems a bit off," Mu Ningxue said.

"Do they?" Mo Fan lay on the grass with an indifferent expression.

"I think it's fine. After all, everyone has a dark side. In this tense environment, filled with danger, the pressure is too high, causing these things to just come out."

"What about Bai Tingting?" Mu Ningxue asked.

"She has a crush on me. Back at the gymnasium, I played the hero saving the beauty. Girls, you know, they all fall for that. Now that she's encountered danger, I'm the only one she can trust. Plus, after going through that kind of thing, an emotional outburst is perfectly normal," Mo Fan said.

"People, when their emotions get tense, will make some irrational decisions."

"Just like you, back then, everything was fine, and suddenly you wanted to run away from home."

"Sorry..." Mu Ningxue's expression dimmed for a moment.

That incident back then was a moment of impulse on her part, yet it brought a huge blow to Mo Fan's family.

"Nothing to be sorry about," Mo Fan said, pillowing his head with his hands.

"Even if it happened all over again, I would still make the same choice."

"Why?" Mu Ningxue asked.

"I liked you," Mo Fan said very directly.

"At least at that time, I really liked you. The stirrings of puberty, you were so beautiful, and I'm not some monk with a pure heart. Even knowing you and Lv Cheng were a couple, I still couldn't help myself."

"That night, when you made that decision so suddenly, I thought the one you truly liked was me, and that you were only with him because you were forced by the matchmaking of that snobbish father of yours, so I disregarded everything to take you away."

In the past, everyone was good friends, and Lv Cheng didn't hide anything, so he also knew that Lv Cheng's relationship with the Mu Family was because his long-missing parents, who were High-level Mages, had done a favor for Mu Zhuoyun.

Therefore, that night, he really thought about eloping with Mu Ningxue.

He thought it was true love breaking through shackles, a bird in a cage being brave for love.

Yet he didn't expect that it was just a lovers' spat.

Damn! He had become the clown!

"And now?" Mu Ningxue asked.

"I don't dare," Mo Fan shrugged.

Feelings are the kind of thing he can pick up, and he can also put down.

He certainly still has feelings for Mu Ningxue; there's nothing shameful about that.

Everyone is a childhood sweetheart, everyone grew up together, so why is it that Lv Cheng can do it?

Moreover, it's not that he can't see that the relationship between Mu Ningxue and Lv Cheng is very strange.

To call them a couple, no problem.

To say they aren't a couple, also no problem.

Mu Ningxue's emotions have always been faint; she is the same toward everyone. Even toward Lv Cheng, she only releases her emotions on the very rare occasions when she is emotionally agitated.

Regarding Lv Cheng's philandering, Mu Ningxue has never had the slightest reaction. Perhaps it's guilt over what happened back then, or perhaps, she truly doesn't care.

Lv Cheng's attitude toward Mu Ningxue is also very strange, or rather, that guy has an indifferent attitude toward everyone.

He can't see how much Lv Cheng cares about Mu Ningxue; he couldn't see it before, and he can't see it now.

He even doubts whether Lv Cheng has ever had feelings for Mu Ningxue at all.

All he can see is that Lv Cheng's attitude toward Mu Ningxue is merely a simple and crude possessiveness.

Mu Ningxue must be able to feel it too, but she seems not to care at all.

"To be honest, if I had enough strength, enough strength to beat that monster, I would snatch you away without hesitation," Mo Fan said.

"But the fact is, Lv Cheng is too terrifying. You don't even know what a huge shadow that guy left on me since childhood. Even before he had awakened Magic, he was like a monster."

"Those thugs that I couldn't beat even after trying my best, he could make them kneel and beg for mercy, or even cry bitterly, with just a few casual hits."

"I admire him very much. I admire his martial prowess, and I also admire how he never seems to be afraid, nervous, or have any emotional fluctuations no matter what happens, just like those reclusive masters in the movies."

"But at the same time, I am also very afraid of his martial prowess, even though he has never really used it on me."

"I'm afraid of his coldness. I'm getting more and more afraid, afraid that we friends, afraid that you, his childhood sweetheart girlfriend, are actually worthless in his heart."

"I really want to ask him what we friends actually count for, but I don't dare to ask."

"I am truly afraid of him..."

He is both afraid of that guy's terrifying martial prowess and afraid that the things he worries about are all true.

That Lv Cheng really is what he worries about: the kind of big boss in movies who wears a mask of disguise.

From the very beginning, Lv Cheng has just been treating them as tools.

Therefore, even if it meant doing it all over again, he would still choose to take Mu Ningxue away.

Even if he and Mu Ningxue have no future, he still doesn't want to watch his friend, whom he has known since childhood, fall into an abyss filled with fog...

(End of this chapter)