Chapter 138: Our Friendship Will Last Forever
Chapter 138: Our Friendship Will Last Forever
In one instant, it covered eight hundred miles.
In two instants, it covered sixteen hundred miles.
Less than two seconds had passed, and the Big Fly was about to reach Greyrock City. It was completely changed now—once an ordinary fly, it had become one as large as an eagle. Its huge wings cut through the sky, stirring up greenish air currents, like a demon god descending.
Killing was unavoidable.
Only when a Soul-Searching Curse erupted from the ground, instantly covering an area of a hundred miles, did the Big Fly spot another Li Si appearing below.
In that moment, its shock was indescribable. It didn’t believe Li Si could fall from the sky, nor did it believe its luck could be this good.
Should it kill him?
The Big Fly hesitated a bit. It hadn’t forgotten its original goal: it wanted a peaceful transition of power, to take this world without shedding blood. But that required the approval of the Fortune of Heaven and Earth, and possession of a Land Deed Seal.
For thousands of years, however, those remaining cultivators had guarded the Land Deed Seals more preciously than their own parents, never giving it a chance to get one. In fact, it couldn’t even find them.
Then this naive Kaoshan Patriarch showed up…
Kill him?
No way—possession was so much better.
Of course, the first step was to make sure this wasn’t a fake!
The Big Fly made a leap, and the so-called soul-searching field shattered like a spiderweb.
It flew right in front of Li Si. Time seemed to freeze. Li Si was about to summon the Yunhua Law Seal but was immobilized instantly. At this level, he was even more fragile than a green caterpillar.
“Nascent Soul Realm cultivation—this kid’s strength has grown fast. That increases the likelihood he’s the real one.”
“He can summon the Land Deed Seal. That increases the likelihood he’s the real deal.”
“He was hiding here, probably trying to ambush me, thinking I would come out from that trap. Hehehe, the logic fits.”
“But I’d better run a divination.”
The Big Fly felt conflicted, like seeing a delicious piece of braised pork that might turn into poop if it wasn’t careful. Even though… it wasn’t a happy thought.
Divination!
It had to do it!
Swish—hundreds of cuts appeared on Li Si’s face. With his essence blood, the chance of a successful divination would be higher.
But it definitely couldn’t kill him. Killing him would cause the Land Deed Seal to self-destruct—this world’s rejection ability was downright abnormal.
Come on, come on, my little darling.
The Big Fly ran three divinations in a row. Every one came back with a 100% certainty—this was the real Kaoshan Patriarch, the real Li Si.
Genuine, no substitutes.
The Big Fly suppressed its restless excitement and flew gently toward Li Si’s brow. Anyone watching might think Li Si was a pile of dung.
But for the Big Fly, this was truly a highlight of its fly life—success was so close.
It entered Li Si’s brow and began the possession. This was a highly difficult task because it wasn’t a native creature of this world, so rejection reactions were everywhere.
It had to expend an enormous amount of effort to suppress all those reactions to perfectly possess the body.
That’s why, even though it was so powerful, each time it sneaked in, it only had three chances for possession. In contrast, native Evil Entities and Evil Spirits could possess local beings as easily as eating a daily meal.
It had to succeed.
A few seconds later, the Big Fly’s form flew out, barely visible now because it had already used two of its possession chances. But if it could succeed, it would all be worth it.
However, just two seconds after that, Li Si—who had appeared normal—suddenly convulsed all over. Like a balloon, he made a squeaking sound and deflated. His entire body shriveled like old tree bark, crumpling up. Then a strong, lobster-like insect crawled out—after all, this Substitute Wooden Figurine of Li Si still held plenty of Fate and Magic Power.
But was that the point?
The real point was—damn it, why was it fake?
Why did it fail?
The Big Fly was thrown into chaos. It didn’t even care about that chattering lobster anymore. Aaaah, it was furious! It wanted to unleash slaughter, kill every single Human Race in sight! Even if another Li Si showed up, it would tear him to pieces!
The Big Fly burned with killing intent. Its remaining power was enough for it to rampage a hundred times. Huh? What was that?
About a hundred miles ahead, another Li Si emerged. This time he successfully summoned the Land Deed Seal. Damn it, he’s going to kill himself!
The Big Fly shuddered. There was no mistake this time—this had to be the real one.
Forty days ago, it had hesitated just a moment, and the real Li Si had instantly killed himself, making it miss its chance.
“Absolutely not!”
“I won’t give you another chance to kill yourself.”
“No way! No way!”
The Big Fly was beyond furious. It crossed the hundred miles in an instant, its huge wings lifting to block the Yunhua Law Seal. Then, without any hesitation, it dove into Li Si’s brow—this time it couldn’t be wrong.
—
Whoosh.
The Yunhua Law Seal flew back and hovered once more over the spot where Mi Zhou’er was.
The three trap coordinates hidden on Mi Zhou’er’s body had all been triggered and were now suppressed by the Yunhua Law Seal. From that moment on, she was truly normal again and could even continue her cultivation.
At the same time, Li Si’s spirit returned to his own body. He stayed still, seeming to ponder life.
Actually, he was reading notifications.
“An Unknown Deity/Demon’s avatar desecrated your substitute. Your substitute exploded.”
“The Unknown Deity/Demon’s avatar died. You obtained 1000 Golden Qi Luck Firewood.”
It was such a familiar message—it had accompanied him through wind and rain all these years, never forgotten…
“Jiu Gan Tang Mai Wu…”
Li Si hummed a little tune and recalled the Yunhua Law Seal. He left the unconscious Mi Zhou’er behind, and on his way, he crushed a sneaky lobster-like creature, which surprisingly dropped 500 White Fate Firewood.
Sigh—time to make money again. The losses this time were heavy. He just didn’t know if the Big Fly would come again in forty days. He kind of missed it.
What was that saying? Let our friendship last forever!
Huh?
Li Si’s steps halted as he felt a sudden heart-palpitation, but it disappeared almost immediately. A second later, more notifications appeared.
“You have received the unprecedented, unparalleled friendship of an Unknown Deity/Demon.”
“Your friend, Mist Demon King, received your gift.”
“Your friend, Mist Demon King, rejected your gift.”
“Rejection invalid. Your gift holds the highest priority.”
“Your friend, Mist Demon King, died.”
“You lost the friendship of Mist Demon King.”
—
Boom! Rumble!
Just after Li Si finished reading these messages, the sky and earth shook violently, as if the whole world had turned into a pan of stirred sugar-roasted chestnuts.
What was happening?
No way, no way—I just lost one friend. Is that really enough to cause cosmic grief and earth-shaking? Did he sign up for a premium funeral service?
Li Si was shocked, then noticed his Yunhua Law Seal was becoming unstable, with the area it governed rapidly shrinking.
Although he didn’t know what was going on, he understood that the Yunhua Law Seal was his lifeblood now.
Without another word, he directly infused one hundred portions of Azure Fortune into it. The situation improved quickly, but within minutes, the area was shrinking again, and a very malevolent force was fiercely invading.
Damn it, is this okay?
Without hesitation, Li Si threw in another hundred portions of Azure Fortune!
And then another hundred.
Still not satisfied—another hundred. Anyway, he could withdraw them later.
In the blink of an eye, he had thrown in a total of five hundred portions of Azure Fortune, and the situation finally stabilized.
As for the Kaoshan Law Seal and the Greyrock Law Seal, they were like chicks under the protection of the mother hen—as long as the Yunhua Law Seal held, those two areas wouldn’t even make a ripple.
“Strange, what happened?”
By now, Li Si could care less about anything else. He began teleporting around with the Yunhua Law Seal as fast as he could. The governed area spanned three thousand miles in radius around the Yunhua Sect headquarters—a huge circle.
Whoosh—six thousand miles from east to west.
Whoosh—six thousand miles from south to north.
It felt pretty comfortable.
Then Li Si found the problem area: about fifteen hundred miles south of the Yunhua Sect headquarters, there was a huge sinkhole, over a hundred miles across and bottomlessly deep. Countless streams of Dark Mist were pouring out of it.
But wait—something felt off?
After teleporting there, Li Si immediately felt the palpitations again, as if some great terror was hiding in the sinkhole. It scared him so much he quickly teleported a hundred miles away.
In terms of the level of dread, it was only slightly less than what the Big Fly inspired.
“Could it be that’s the Mist Demon King’s lair? The earlier earthquake was caused by the Mist Demon King being killed by the Big Fly’s curse?”
Li Si couldn’t help but think so. It was obvious that the Mist Demon King had the ability to almost redirect the misdirection from the Fate Forge—that put it way above the level of the Peach Blossom Evil Immortal.
Too bad the Fate Forge had the highest priority.
“I feel like this place will become a major disaster sooner or later. In fact, if it hadn’t been killed off early, the disaster might have arrived before long. Just how many monsters and demons are hiding in this world anyway?”
Li Si felt tired at heart.
Next, as usual, he cast numerous Track-Finding and Trace-Erasing Curses to erase all traces.
Then, as if nothing had happened, he returned to Kaoshan City. But the moment he entered his Quiet Room, his Fairy Leader Zhao Qingxie grabbed him directly with a telekinetic spell.
“What just happened?”
Li Si was surprised—Zhao Qingxie didn’t seem to be blaming him, just asking wearily. She looked like she hadn’t had an easy time lately.
“There was an earthquake. It seemed related to the Mist Demon King—a friend of mine told me.”
“Your friend?”
“Yes, his name is Xu Changsheng. He’s from the Yunhua Sect. But he’s eccentric and hard to deal with. Earlier, when I went to pick up Jiuxuan, we encountered a Nascent Soul Demon Man, and he helped me drive it away. He also suggested placing the Jiuxuan Sect’s headquarters in Greyrock City—apparently he knows someone called Old Ancestor Mingyue there.”
Li Si spun the tale smoothly.
“Yunhua Sect? Xu Changsheng?”
Zhao Qingxie’s eyes lit up briefly, but then she shook her head and sighed. “I called you here to tell you something. Muan has most likely successfully devoured the Seven Emotions Great Medicine Devil Mushroom. In the past few days, countless Evil Entities and Evil Spirits have appeared from the void, and even Evil Immortals keep showing up. Muan… it’s already launching its attack on us.”
“So, the defense line between the Illusory Realm and the Mortal Realm might not hold. If that happens, the consequences are unpredictable. I—I can’t save any of you, and I can’t even save myself. You probably have some secrets. I don’t mind. I just want to say, if that day truly comes, don’t worry about others. Just escape on your own.”