A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 399 A Gift? It's a Dragon Bone Cross (slurp)
The description of this place as a desolate wilderness is inaccurate. It used to be a suburb, but thanks to the Zhou family's substantial investment, it now houses two Coca-Cola factories, three potato chip factories, and a large number of supporting facilities.

It gradually integrated with the urban-rural fringe areas of the original city and became increasingly prosperous.

What puzzled the workers was that the factory offered high welfare benefits, so why were the cola chips they produced constantly being transported to the suburbs?

They occasionally see that after the goods are packed, one after another, handsome men and beautiful women, whose looks are comparable to those of celebrities, drive off-road heavy trucks to transport goods to more remote and desolate suburbs, instead of turning around and driving into the urban-rural fringe.

The workers were increasingly confused, wondering who the owners of these factories were and how they were so powerful that they could hire so many handsome men and beautiful women, even more attractive than celebrities, to be truck drivers.

There are all sorts of opinions about this. Some say it's a publicity stunt by modern bosses, while others say it's just a trick by the bosses. Nobody knows that after these handsome men and beautiful women drive the truck to the outskirts, they will encounter an incredibly huge dragon.

The handsome men and beautiful women's tasks are not limited to driving; sometimes they also need to feed the dragons and bathe them. Fortunately, during this period, due to another dragon, their workload has been greatly reduced, making things half easier.

Because… little Xia Mi stood with her hands on her hips in front of the huge Fenrir, constantly scolding him: “Why can’t you be a little tougher? Why did you get corrupted by me so quickly?”

Fenrir felt extremely wronged and had no idea what Xia Mi wanted to do: "Sister, I'm being very obedient."

"I just want you to disobey me!" Xia Mi irritably raised her hand to scratch her head, turning her hair into a mess, with a hint of resentment in her eyes.

Damn it, why isn't Xu Lie back yet!

Xia Mi gritted her teeth. Ever since she was promoted to Sequence 6 Corrupted Baron, her digestion speed had slowed down again. With Xu Lie not around, she could only come back to Fenrir, hoping that her brother could help her digest the potion.

Xu Lie had previously told her that the meaning of "corruption" in the name of the potion, "Corrupted Baron," did not refer to the decay and rotting of all things, but rather to the degeneration of thought and the depravity of life.

When explaining, Xu Lie gave an extra suggestion: if Xia Mi intended to quickly digest the corrupting baron's potion, she should actively corrupt others within the rules, deliberately causing their thoughts to slip or their lives to degenerate.

They appear to be following the rules, but in reality, they are distorting them.

Corruption? Xia Mi immediately unleashed her extraordinary wisdom. How to make someone's mind slip away? Xia Mi wasn't quite sure. From ancient times to the present, dragon kings had never bothered to think about such a question.

But Xia Mi was an expert at making people's lives decadent, so she immediately went to Fenrir, took over the job of the Zhou family's zookeeper, and personally fed Fenrir potato chips.

And they're feeding him truckload after truckload! It's more violent than feeding pigs! If Fenrir used to eat only ten truckloads of potato chips a day, Xia Mi is now feeding him twenty or thirty truckloads a day!
Fenrir was initially quite happy and enjoyed eating potato chips, but after being fed twice, he could no longer provide Xia Mi with any digestive support.

So Xia Mi took over the other half of the Zhou family's keeper's job and volunteered to clean Fenrir's dragon scales. This time she went even further, after cleaning them once, Fenrir stopped providing any progress updates on digestion.

Xia Mi is almost driven to depression, so why is Fenrir so obedient? Xia Mi doesn't need to do anything at all; Fenrir's normal state is exactly the same as his corrupted state!
This greatly displeased Xia Mi, who began to complain about why Fenrir was so obedient. Couldn't he be a little more assertive and corrupt her a bit more?

Fenrir was on the verge of tears. Hadn't he gotten by like this all these years? Asking him not to listen to Xia Mi was truly putting him in a difficult position.

"Why are you trying to digest the potion by targeting those around you?" Xu Lie had just teleported here when he happened to witness Xia Mi coercing Fenrir.

"Xu Lie!" It wasn't Xia Mi who called out, but Fenrir. Seeing Xu Lie finally appear, the child was so excited that warm tears welled up in her eyes. Her savior had arrived! If Xu Lie hadn't come, Fenrir felt that she was about to be scolded to death by her sister.

Xia Mi was overjoyed to see Xu Lie return, her lips curving upwards and her eyebrows lightly raised, when suddenly Fenrir's roar exploded in her ears.

Xia Mi's raised eyebrows furrowed tightly, her eardrums throbbing with pain. She reached out her hand in dissatisfaction, but just as she was about to slap him, Fenrir darted out with unimaginable speed, heading straight for Xu Lie.

Although Fenrir was a bit silly, his subconscious told him that as long as he ran to Xu Lie's side, he would be safe, and as long as he ran to Xu Lie's side, his sister would stop nagging him!
However, after three days of observation, Xia Mi is no longer the Xia Mi who only knew how to use stress. With the Corrupted Baron's distortion, Fenrir's direction and target are remotely distorted.

Then Xu Lie saw Fenrir, with his golden eyes moist, crash headfirst into a distant hill while running at full speed!

The moment Fenrir made contact with the hill, the surface soil rippled like water, followed by a deafening roar. The hill began to crumble from the point of impact, the century-old oak trees on top were uprooted and shattered into dust in the air, and the rocks did not roll down but instead turned into a rain of sprayed stones.

The dust exploded in a ring, more than 300 meters in diameter. Inside the ring of dust, the mountain structure was collapsing. A crack cleaved vertically from the top of the mountain, rapidly splitting into a spider web. The entire hill was shrinking at a visible speed.

Fenrir raised its head, its long neck even taller than the smoke and dust, allowing Xu Liexia to see that the obsidian scales covering its neck shimmered with light, without even the slightest scratch, demonstrating the incredible hardness of Fenrir's body.

Xu Lie waved his hand, stealing away the dust, and saw Fenrir unharmed, as well as a sloping hillside with a large cavity in the center, the surface of which was exposed with fresh yellowish-white rock layers, like a wound bleeding white blood.

This fully explains why Fenrir is called the King of the Earth and the Mountains.

Xia Mi skipped and hopped her way to Xu Lie's side: "Don't worry, silly brother has the hardest head, he's definitely not hurt."

That's true. Fenrir shook its head, flinging the pebbles stuck to its scales into a new shower of stones, and then obediently ran back, acting like nothing had happened: "Xu Lie, do you want some potato chips?"

What could Xu Lie say? He could only admire her stubbornness. He grabbed a few bags of potato chips, starting by taking one for Fenrir and one for himself, but then, under Xia Mi's playful, baring threat, he changed it to one for Fenrir, three for Xia Mi, and one for himself. Fenrir was easy to coax; before he'd even finished a bag of chips, he'd already forgotten everything from before, happily telling Xu Lie how comfortable life was here, able to drink cola and eat potato chips anytime, anywhere.

Xia Mi then inquired about Xu Lie's whereabouts during this time. Xu Lie briefly recounted the Tokyo incident, which delighted Xia Mi: "You killed the White King and Odin?"

"Well done!" Xia Mi slapped her left palm against her right palm, making a crisp and loud applause. Xia Mi didn't care what the White King did to her, but in the ancient times, her brother Odin had bullied her quite a bit.

Odin was killed, and Xia Mi couldn't wait to get some firecrackers to set them off.

The Dragon King is like this: apart from his other half on the throne, there is no brotherly or sisterly affection between them. They all wish the other dead so that they can devour each other's dragon bone cross.

"I also brought you gifts."

Upon hearing this, Xia Mi's heart immediately pounded, her spirits soared, her eyes widened like copper bells, and she quickly offered her face, almost pressing it against Xu Lie's.

No wonder Xia Mi was so enthusiastic. She had just finished talking about the deaths of the White King and Odin, and then she mentioned the gift. Xia Mi immediately became excited: "What is it?! Is it a dragon bone cross?"

At this distance, Xu Lie could smell the sweet citrus scent, but Xia Mi's momentary drooling slightly ruined the beauty of the aroma.

Feeling Xu Lie's gaze as if he were looking at a foodie, Xia Mi blushed, regained her senses slightly, and pulled her head back, raising her hand to wipe the corner of her mouth: "No, don't look at me like that, it's normal, okay? I've been eyeing the brothers' Dragon Bone Cross for years."

Xu Lie expressed his doubts: "You've been eyeing your brother's dragon bones for years? I think you've been eyeing them for thousands of years!"

"Crash."

Why is there a waterfall sound? Xu Lie turned his head and saw Fenrir standing there dumbfounded with his mouth agape. Several large bottles of cola that he had just drunk were flowing down from between his dragon teeth, and he was still looking at Xia Mi in disbelief.

"Hey, hey, I wasn't talking about you! I didn't even want your Dragon Bone Cross, brother!" Xia Mi exclaimed anxiously. How could she bear to kill her stupid brother, the Bone Eater?

Fenrir then closed his mouth. Actually, it didn't matter if his sister wanted to eat him; he was willing to be eaten by Xia Mi. He was just a little surprised.

So, my sister doesn't want to eat him... Fenrir reluctantly lowered her head, looking at the Coke scattered on the floor. She lowered her head slightly, not wanting to waste it, but Xu Lie stopped her: "I'll pour you another one, we don't need to."

With his chin propped up by Xu Lie's single hand, Fenrir hadn't yet realized Xu Lie's significantly increased strength. In an almost cat-like tone, he sincerely exclaimed, "Xu Lie, you're so kind."

Xia Mi slapped her forehead, speechless at her brother's antics: "So, what about the Dragon Bone Cross?"

“No.” Xu Lie poured Fenrir a Coke while explaining, “I melted the White King. Odin had prepared a cocoon somewhere beforehand, and he didn’t leave behind the Dragon Bone Cross.”

Xia Mi was greatly disappointed. She thought she would finally get to taste her own brother's flavor. But that makes sense. Odin was the most cunning of the eight brothers and sisters. How could this older brother not have prepared a cocoon?

“If you want, I can take you to find it later.” Seeing Xia Mi’s disappointed look, Xu Lie couldn’t help but laugh: “I left a backup plan in Odin’s soul.”

"It will take some time to slowly force him into the last cocoon, and then you can eat him however you want."

"Let's look at the gifts first."

After pouring out several more large bottles of cola, Xu Lie took out a delicate gold-threaded wrist bell and a large bronze gong: "Using these, you can summon spirit messengers."

"Xia Mi, your golden bracelet can summon a messenger called Malmos. It looks like a large sphere and can hold a lot of things inside. It's about the size of a warehouse. Just shake the bell and it will come whenever you call it and you can use it whenever you want. Just think of it as a space ring from a novel."

“Fenrir, it’s even simpler for you. Just tap this gong and you can summon a hundred-armed ghost. The ghost can then remove the potato chips and cola from inside the plastic and keep them floating so you can eat and drink to your heart’s content.”

Fenrir held the gong in one hand, admiring it, and struck it wherever he could find a spot, communicating amicably with the hundred-armed ghost.

Xia Mi put on the gold-threaded bracelet, admiring the platinum ring and the bracelet. The more she looked at them, the more she liked them. Hmm, she was quite satisfied with Xu Lie's performance. Not bad, he knew to bring a gift. "Can I try it on?" she asked.

"of course."

Xia Mi flicked her wrist, and a large ball appeared from the void, floating quietly in front of her. Xia Mi marveled at it, saying, "The Spirit Realm, the old days, are truly amazing."

After sighing, Xia Mi took out half a bottle of perfume from her pocket. The giant ball Malmos didn't even need Xia Mi to tell it to do anything. It jumped up and down, opened its mouth, and created a large space. Xia Mi put it in and took it out again, having a great time.

"This is great! This is great! From now on, I won't have to worry about what to bring or not to bring when I go out. I can bring everything!"

(End of this chapter)