I raised stunning young ladies, but they all wanted to possess me.

Shen Youyao gripped Gu Yan's hand tightly, her knuckles turning white.

She could feel another consciousness within her violently assaulting the seal.

Shen Youwei was desperately calling out to her, demanding that she hand over her body, saying that Gu Yan would die if she didn't.

But Shen Youyao bit her lip tightly, suppressing that voice deep within her consciousness.

She couldn't let her sister out here; last time her sister almost destroyed a street.

She turned to look at Gu Yan beside her; his profile was as pale as paper under the black aura of the evil spirits.

But the seven colors in his pupils were slowly rotating, like a mirror that would never break.

Gu Yan gripped the Demon-Suppressing Blade, and all the patterns on the blade had lit up.

He could sense how strong the mental fluctuations emanating from this lamp demon were.

This thing is no ordinary A-level calamity; its mental attack is close to S-level.

His Mirror Flower Seal can restrain mental attacks, but it may not be able to completely suppress them.

He must find the weakness of this bronze lamp.

"Three requests, make a wish."

The Lamp Demon's voice was hoarse and deep, like sandpaper grinding against a stone.

Each word carried a chilling power that made one's eardrums ache.

Its large mouth slowly split open, revealing a terrifying arc that looked like a smile.

"Give me your lifespan in exchange. How many years do you have left to give me?"

Lin Yan stood in front of the Lamp Demon, still holding the scorching hot bronze lamp in his hand.

He looked up at the terrifying figure that was three meters tall.

His eyes were red, his lips were trembling, but his voice was surprisingly firm.

"Cecilia back to me, I want her back to me."

The Lamp Demon lowered his head and looked at Lin Yan, a smile-like or crack-like arc appearing on his face covered in cracks.

Its voice was squeezed out from deep in its throat, hoarse as if scratching a rusty iron plate with fingernails.

"Your wish is granted, my master."

After speaking, it slowly turned its head, and its red-glowing eyes pierced through the flying dust, accurately fixing their gaze on Gu Yan, who was standing in front of the stone wall.

A red light flickered in its eye sockets, like a beast locking onto its prey.

Lin Yan sensed something was wrong; a chill ran from the soles of his feet all the way to the top of his head.

He called out to the Lamp Demon, his voice already trembling.

"What are you going to do? Why are you looking at him?"

The Lamp Demon didn't turn around, still staring at Gu Yan, and responded hoarsely, his voice echoing among the collapsed building ruins.

"I sensed that to fulfill my master's wish, I must first kill this person."

"His presence is standing between you and her. Unless you get rid of him, she will never come back to you."

Lin Yan panicked. His eyes trembled violently, and his voice became sharp and shrill, as if he were being choked.

"Are you crazy? I don't want to kill him, I just want you to bring Cecilia back to me."

"I didn't tell you to kill anyone, do you understand?"

He shouted these words so loudly that the whole street could hear them, but every word seemed to float.

Large beads of cold sweat rolled down his forehead and dripped down his cheeks onto his collar.

He didn't intend to kill anyone; he never really thought about killing anyone.

He knew what Gu Yan meant to the Great Xia Dynasty.

The Imperial Wall, a name reported worldwide, is the banner displayed by the Great Xia Superpower Association.

If Gu Yan is killed, he will have no place to stand in the entire Great Xia Dynasty, or even the entire world.

He was now sweating profusely, regretting his impulsiveness and why he had pulled out that damned brass lamp in the street.

The Lamp Demon grinned, revealing a dense array of sharp teeth, his expression a mixture of laughter and a smug satisfaction of his fear.

"Without killing him, the first wish cannot be fulfilled."

"Master, you can use the second wish to cancel the first wish."

"You know the rules: you decide which of the three wishes you have."

Lin Yan squatted down, clutching his head, his fingers gripping his hair tightly, his eyes already somewhat unfocused.

His voice became a muttered monologue, as if his mind had been stretched to its limit.

"No, I don't want to... I'll die."

"You know I can't make a second promise..."

Every time a wish is used, it comes at the cost of one's lifespan; this is a rule clearly written in that ancient book.

Once was his limit; when he made his first wish, he felt something being drawn out of his body.

How could he possibly endure it twice? He didn't want to die; he just wanted Cecilia to come back.

The genie ignored him; it had lost patience and could no longer wait.

It suddenly turned around, its massive body moving as fast as a black lightning bolt, rushing straight towards Gu Yan.

Its enormous black claws drew four arcs in the air, carrying a stench of decay, and the air itself was torn apart by the sharp, whistling sound of the claws.

The seven-colored light in Gu Yan's pupils suddenly surged, and the seven colors swirled wildly in the depths of his eyes.

With his Emotional Eyes and Mirror Flower Seal activated to their limits, his perception covered the entire battlefield.

Just before the claws were about to touch his body, his figure suddenly became blurry, like a reflection on the water being gently stirred.

The Lamp Demon's claws passed through his afterimage and slammed into the ground, creating a large crater more than two meters in diameter in the bluestone pavement. Gravel and dust scattered like cannonballs.

The ground trembled several times, and the exterior wall of a shop on the street that was already on the verge of collapse suddenly collapsed.

The Lamp Demon slowly turned its head, and for the first time, an expression that could be described as "surprise" appeared on its face, which had no features.

The red light in its eye sockets flickered several times, as if it were re-examining the human in front of it.

"Interesting, it has awakened such a strong sequence."

"A mere human being can distort my senses."

"Do you know how many years ago it was the last time a human could do something like this in front of me?"

The onlookers were stunned. They hid behind buildings that hadn't been completely destroyed in the distance, craning their necks to watch the scene.

A middle-aged man was carrying groceries he had just bought, his mouth agape, wide enough to fit a fist.

"He dodged it! Master Gu dodged it! Am I seeing things? That monster was so fast!"

A young girl next to her grabbed her companion's arm, her fingernails digging into the companion's sleeve.

"What did that monster just say? What is a sequence? It sounds really powerful."

The enforcement captain leaned against a fallen utility pole, clutching a wound on his chest, his mouth agape, wide enough to fit an egg.

His uniform was torn in several places by gravel, and his face was covered in dust and blood.

"My God, that was a full-force attack from an A-level calamity! My detector went off the charts."

"What methods did Master Gu use?"

The young law enforcement officer next to him was trembling. He had just picked up his hat, which had been knocked off, from the ground. The brim of the hat was deformed from the impact.

"Just what kind of monster is Master Gu? He can even dodge attacks from an A-level calamity."

"I used to criticize him on TV for getting ahead by his looks, and now I want to slap myself."