Mountain and sea lantern

Chapter 681 Demonic Dew
Previously, even Mulan Jin thought it was an inescapable situation, which led him to ask his daughter to avoid it in advance. However, Shi Chun managed to escape this calamity, which greatly exceeded Mulan Jin's expectations. Therefore, even though he always looked at Shi Chun with a different perspective, he couldn't help but feel a heartfelt admiration for her at this moment.

The current situation has also made Mulan Jin hesitate. Should she let Han Bao take her daughter to meet Shi Chun, or what should she do?
After thinking it over, he decided to wait and see how things went. Even he couldn't understand that guy's methods, so he was a little unsure of himself.

As for the words that Man Xi angrily shouted, "His intentions are despicable," Mulan Jin gave an appropriate response: "Perhaps he did indeed exploit the loopholes in your words, but regardless of his true intentions, he did indeed obey orders completely and did not disobey in any way."

Some things are better left unsaid.

Manxi glanced at him twice and naturally understood what the other party meant. He was speaking up for Shi Chun, and speaking up for him was the same as protecting Shi Chun.

Furthermore, since Shi Chun did not outwardly disobey orders, and Mu Lan had entered as a supervisor of this battle, he was quite pleased and could not say anything more, otherwise he would have killed Shi Chun to vent his anger.

This is often the case with many ambiguous situations; the outcome is drastically different depending on whether someone speaks up for you or no one does.

At this moment, seeing that all the pursuing men had gone after Lu Yin, anyone in the Mingshan Sect group who wasn't stupid could see that throwing out the token was a way to divert trouble.

The problem is that most people don't know the underlying reasons. Feng Chi asked worriedly, "Doesn't this seem to be against the rules?"

She felt that even with Mulan Jin as her backer, they shouldn't act so openly and recklessly.

At least she knew that Mulan Jin was her backer, but what about Chai Wenwu? Forget about Mulan Jin, he didn't even know the true identities of the group. He was even more panicked, suspecting that he had encountered a stupid captain, and hurriedly echoed, "Boss, abandoning the token like this is considered aiding the enemy according to the rules, and it's a capital offense."

Seeing that everyone was worried, Wu Jinliang chuckled, but then he also had some other worries. "Boss, although we are just following orders, Manxi is not stupid. Trying to take advantage of this loophole may invite retaliation."

Shi Chun scoffed, "If you dare to do it, you're not afraid of his retaliation. If he wants to retaliate, he'll have to find out where we are. If he wants to contact us, he'll have to go through that token master. He has the guts to treat that token master like a fool. If all else fails, he can always snatch the token back and return it to us."

Oh dear, he doesn't even put Manxi in his eyes. Although Fengchi was completely confused, he smiled and liked the boss's domineering manner.

Wu Jinliang chuckled as he listened, "That makes sense, Boss is brilliant."

Shi Chun then glanced at the somewhat confused crowd and reassured them, "Don't worry, losing one token is no big deal. As long as we can find more tokens, I guarantee the commander won't be that petty."

This principle is much simpler to understand, and the Mingshan Sect group thought about it and agreed.

Old Man Chai listened with trepidation. More tokens were not so easy to find. He also had to remind him, "Chief, you must not abandon your armor and weapons without a reason, unless they are destroyed in a major battle. Is it appropriate for us to do this?"

This time, not only Shi Chun, but even the Mingshan Sect group didn't take it seriously.

Chen Wuji waved his hand and said, "This rule is completely meaningless. The standard armor is all the same. There will definitely be many people who take advantage of the rules to find loopholes. Our armor was damaged by someone. Who saw that?"

No sooner had the words been spoken than a faint rumbling sound came from afar, and the people floating in the air turned around to look.

Chen Wuji turned to Shi Chun and said with a wry smile, "Boss, I'm afraid there really is someone digging up the armor we left on the ground."

Indeed, someone was digging. Wei Mo still couldn't forget Shi Chun. He located the spot where Shi Chun and the others disappeared, which was also the spot where the armor's light had stopped moving. He assigned people to dig and investigate.

When the unearthed, abandoned armor appeared in the mirror image, Wei Mo's face darkened. That guy dared to do something like this; he knew it would be difficult to find Shi Chun and his gang again.

Meanwhile, Shi Chun, who had just landed with his men, had already taken out a mother-child talisman. The demonic path sent another message, saying that the people they had sent to provide assistance had lost contact and were probably killed in the process. They asked Shi Chun about the situation.

Shi Chun said he was fine, that he had thrown the tokens to someone else, and that the pursuers then shifted their target.

He said whatever he wanted to say, without any restraint, which made Wu Jinliang, who was peeking at him from the side, feel incredibly open and honest, and he grinned from ear to ear.

The demonic path was momentarily stunned into silence by Shi Chun's actions. Then, the mother-child talisman on Feng Chi's body reacted. After Feng Chi took it out and examined it, she discovered that the demonic path was trying to confirm the information with her, asking if Shi Chun had really thrown a bunch of tokens to someone else.

Feng Chi immediately showed the message to Shi Chun, and then naturally replied as Shi Chun had instructed, saying that there was really no other way, that not only was Lu Yin chasing after them, but also a large group of people from all sides were coming to besiege them, and they simply couldn't protect those tokens, so they could only try to shift the blame.

Afterwards, the demonic path sent another message to Shi Chun, reiterating the mission: to seize as many tokens as possible.

Shi Chun readily agreed, but in his heart he wondered what this group of demonic cultivators wanted to do. Since there were demonic cultivators among the five commanders, were they going to help them compete for the position of domain lord?

Feng Chi also received the message, instructing her to urge Shi Chun to grab more tokens. She showed the message to Shi Chun and asked, "What should we do?"

The implication is whether or not to do as they say.

Shi Chun: "Don't worry about the secrecy for now. Let's rest and let the various factions fight and vie for the tokens. We'll consider it again after the tokens are collected."

The main issue is that he hasn't decided whether to officially participate in the war, or whether to join the war or hide in the underworld. He's still hesitant. Ultimately, it depends on which situation better suits his needs. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been constantly running away without fighting back while being hunted down.

The teacher's dream was admirable, but he was no longer a young man and could no longer risk his life for it so easily.

He turned back and shouted to the crowd, took out a map, and led his group to find a suitable place to hide. They could also take the opportunity to see the scenery of the Demon Realm. He could contact Mulan Jin to find out the general situation of the battles on all sides...

At the Xiniu team's central hub, Li Hongjiu's image would occasionally switch in the mirror.

This situation gradually reached the ears of Ming Chaofeng, the central commander of the Nanzhan team, making him feel that Xiniu's behavior was somewhat abnormal. It was understandable that he would pay attention to the experts on his side, and he would do the same, but was he paying attention too frequently? Even when Li Hongjiu was not fighting, knowing that Li Hongjiu was flying, he would often switch the camera to that position, after all, the mirror resources were limited.

Niu Qian's attention and Ming Chaofeng's doubts were all embodied in a standing man in a mountain cave.

The man's name was Du Wulang, the leader of the 77th team of the Xiniu Battle Team. He was a demon cultivator with long, flowing sandalwood hair, three-dimensional features, a pale face, large and bright eyes, and a thin build. His clothes looked loose and empty.

He wasn't wearing armor or carrying a token; the wind outside the cave ruffled his robes and long hair.

A drooping hand with five claws gripped a woman's head. The woman was clearly seriously injured, covered in blood, panting, but her eyes were vacant.

Du Wulang took out the mother-child talisman with his empty hand, examined it, and muttered, "It's finally here."

He closed his eyes tightly for a while, and when he opened them again, his eyes looked frightening; his bright eyes had turned into pale white sclera.

The woman's empty eyes gradually regained their focus, Du Wulang loosened his grip, and the seriously injured woman staggered to her feet. She then cast a spell and flew out of the cave, wobbling as she soared into the air.

Soon they came face to face with the large group of people flying in from the front.

The leader of the large group was none other than Li Hongjiu, who was carrying a wine jar in his hand, exuding both carefree and lazy charm.

He wasn't wearing armor either, finding it too troublesome; he'd never liked being restricted.

Upon seeing the heavily injured woman staggering towards them, the group immediately brought the aircraft to a standstill in mid-air.

From a cave not far away, Du Wulang, with his white eyes, cried out, "Save me, the token..."

The woman who flew down to the group cried out in the same voice, "Help me! The token! Help me! I have the token..."

After speaking, he swayed and collapsed weakly to the ground.

Upon hearing the token, someone immediately flew down and used magic to catch the person in mid-air. After checking from a distance and confirming that the person was seriously injured, they reached out and supported them.

The group then landed together.

"The injuries are too severe, there's no hope." After examining the woman, someone gave the conclusion, then searched her body, and cursed afterward, "There's a ghost token on her, but nothing on her."

Another person said, "She seemed to be saying that she hid a token. Could it be that she really hid it somewhere?"

Bystanders laughed, "They might just be using a gimmick to scare people into rescuing her."

Everyone chattered away, while Li Hongjiu watched coldly, occasionally picking up the wine jar and taking a sip.

Some people joked that there were no good people here, so whether or not to save people was secondary; the key question was what the seriously injured woman's so-called token was all about.

After everyone reached out to check and said there was no hope, Li Hongjiu finally couldn't hold back and knelt down next to the seriously injured woman to check on her herself.

After confirming that the woman was seriously injured and realizing that he was indeed powerless to save her, he was at his most vulnerable. Just as he was about to stand up, the woman's eyes suddenly widened, and she casually pointed a finger at Li Hongjiu's chest.

Although the sudden burst of speed was fast, it actually had little power. It only lightly touched Li Hongjiu's chest, and the little power it had was blocked by Li Hongjiu's subconscious defense.

However, a dewdrop burst from the woman's fingertip, a crystal-clear dewdrop with a hint of dazzling dreaminess, easily breaking through Li Hongjiu's defenses, yet seemingly merging into them, without wetting her clothes, but instantly disappearing into Li Hongjiu's body.

Li Hongjiu also dodged away as if trying to avoid it, only to feel a little warmth slowly spreading in her chest.

Everyone was shocked. Anyone with eyes could see that the woman was a trap. Someone quickly subdued her, but the woman seemed to have unleashed all her life force in that one finger. After that one finger, she completely went limp and died.

With a thud, the wine jar in Li Hongjiu's hand fell to the ground and shattered. Suddenly, she pointed two fingers in front of her, as if casting a spell to resist something, and her skin gradually turned red at a visible speed.

At the core of the Xiniu team, staring at the mirrored image of the bull, a wry smile appeared on his lips as he watched a drop of dazzling dew fall into Li Hongjiu's chest. He then ordered the mirror image to be removed.

There was no need to pay attention anymore, because he knew what that drop of dew was. It was the 'demon dew' extracted from the essence of countless demon spirits. It was an extremely rare thing. It was a treasure for demons and beneficial to their demonic essence, but it was an incurable poison for humans. Those who were poisoned would either die or be transformed into monsters.

He truly didn't understand what was wrong with Li Hongjiu, that it was worth Lord Daozhen taking out such a precious item and going to such great lengths to deal with it.

Well, he doesn't understand what's going on up there anyway, so I won't ask too many questions. Let's just leave it at that; at least I can get the job done.

The scene seen in the mirror was immediately relayed by the supervisors of Nanzhan to the Nanzhan team's central command, as they all knew that Li Hongjiu was Ming Chaofeng's junior brother.

Upon hearing the news, Ming Chaofeng was greatly alarmed and immediately switched the mirror image to Li Hongjiu.

(End of this chapter)