Heroes Return

"Then let's go this way." Shangguan Shuai said, leading the way towards an open space, and the bespectacled man followed.

"Huh?" Dong Xiaoye, who had been suddenly thrown aside, froze in place again.

"It seems this is the only way to decide Xiao Ye's fate," Shangguan Shuai said, as an arc of electricity crackled across his palm.

"It's settled then. The loser has to give up on Xiao Ye." The guy with glasses also took out a few pairs of glasses.

"My lord, leave this to me." The voice of the mage with glasses entered the bespectacled man's mind.

“Then let’s begin now,” Shangguan said.

"Let's begin."

As soon as the bespectacled man finished speaking, Shangguan Shuai took out a coin, and a powerful electric current instantly coated it. A powerful electromagnetic cannon shot towards the bespectacled man.

From the moment he flicked the coin, the bespectacled man instinctively sensed something was wrong. The next instant, he activated his ability, switching places with a pair of glasses he had previously thrown in another direction.

The powerful electromagnetic cannon pierced through the glasses.

"Holy crap..." the bespectacled guy said, watching the attack from another spot, "You know you're copying a certain Misaka Mikoto (Railgun)?"

"Oh? Who are you talking about?" Shangguan Shuai said, taking out a handful of coins from his pocket and tossing them into the air.

The next moment, the Gatling gun-style electromagnetic cannon swept towards the bespectacled guy.

When the bespectacled guy saw him pull out a handful of coins, he immediately teleported in another direction. He still couldn't understand why a rich and handsome young man from a powerful family would carry so much loose change! And the amount of change he shot out in an instant was enough for the bespectacled guy to enjoy a good day...

"This guy is much more ruthless than the girl when he gets going..." Glasses Bro, who barely dodged two rounds of attacks, couldn't help but think that the few pairs of glasses he had set up nearby were basically wiped out by Shangguan Shuai's barrage.

When the teleportation happened again, Glasses Bro had no way to dodge. Just as he was getting anxious, the mage's voice entered Glasses Bro's ears once more.

'My king, please activate my power quickly! With my power, we can still fight him.'

"That's the only way." The bespectacled man stopped dodging as he spoke, and two shimmering silver magic circles appeared in the lenses of his glasses.

"Stop dodging?" Shangguan Shuai said with a smile as he watched the bespectacled man's movements. Then, a large amount of electricity shot out from his hand, and a huge dragon formed by electricity flew out from his hand.

The electric dragon flew straight towards the guy with glasses.

At this moment, the glasses of the man with glasses also shone with a dazzling silver light, and two thick silver light waves shot out from the man's eyes toward Shangguan Shuai, colliding with the electric dragon.

The battle between 'Glasses Death Ray Cannon' and 'Thunder Dragon' officially began at this moment.

However, just as their powers were about to collide, several massive ice walls appeared between them.

"Stop it, all of you!" Dong Xiaoye roared.

Upon hearing the roar, the two stopped simultaneously and ran towards Dong Xiaoye.

Then Dong Xiaoye kicked the bespectacled man hard in the stomach.

"Xiao Ye! As expected..." Shangguan Shuai said happily to Dong Xiao Ye upon seeing this scene.

But before he could finish speaking, Dong Xiaoye delivered a powerful uppercut to his chin.

"What do you two take me for?" Dong Xiaoye said to the two men who had been knocked to the ground, "This is someone else's manor! Fighting here will cause a lot of trouble, you know?"

"I'm sorry," Shangguan Shuai said, "I was too impulsive."

"I don't belong to either of you!!" Dong Xiaoye said, "It's not like whoever finds me is entitled to own me."

“But Xiao Ye…” Shangguan Shuai said to Dong Xiao Ye, “Given the situation, you should at least give me a choice.”

"I'm not choosing either of you!" Dong Xiaoye said, "You two idiots!"

"Is that so?" Shangguan Shuai said somewhat dejectedly after hearing his words.

"I'm sorry, Shangguan Shuai," Dong Xiaoye said earnestly. "We've been together since we were little. To me, you're more like family or a sister. I really can't imagine what it would be like for us to get married. I still hope our relationship can stay the way it is now."

"Is that so?" Shangguan Shuai smiled and looked at Dong Xiaoye, saying, "Alright, but you can come to me anytime if you change your mind."

After saying that, Shangguan Shuai walked towards the banquet hall: "Please allow me to leave for a moment."

"Sigh! He's actually a good person," Dong Xiaoye sighed. "Why did it have to turn out like this?"

"I'm sorry," the bespectacled man said, standing up at this moment, "but..."

"Alright, are you satisfied now?" Dong Xiaoye said.

Upon hearing his words, the bespectacled man was secretly delighted: "So, what you said to Commander Shangguan just now was to put my mind at ease?"

"No way!" Dong Xiaoye immediately became unhappy upon hearing the glasses-wearing man's words.

The bespectacled man then put on deceptive glasses: "So, in the end, you decided to choose me after all."

"I would never choose you!!" Dong Xiaoye said, like a cat with its fur standing on end, "I said I wouldn't choose either of you!!"

As she said this, the content that the deceitful glasses presented to the glasses-wearing man was exactly the opposite.

"You were lying after all," the bespectacled man said.

"I wasn't lying!" Dong Xiaoye said, dissatisfied. "I wouldn't choose someone like you!"

"Ah, that's a lie too," the bespectacled guy said happily. "Glasses that can see through lies are really amazing."

The next moment, he was punched hard in the face, and his deception glasses were knocked to the ground.

"I already told you, I won't choose you," Dong Xiaoye said softly, blushing. "But I can test you out first."

As he spoke, he looked at the man with glasses, and then the veins on his head bulged out.

Because the guy with glasses wasn't listening to him anymore, but was kneeling on the ground, looking sadly at the deceitful guy with glasses.

"You have to hang in there..." the bespectacled guy said to the fraudulent glasses.

'My king, I can't take it anymore... Please remember this from now on, don't delve too deeply into women's psychology...'

"I understand, you have to hold on, Fraud Glasses..."

"Finally... help me with the glasses shop..." Before the fraudster could finish his sentence, his words were crushed by a high heel...

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"What a deceitful sight!!!" Glasses Guy looked sadly at his glasses, which had been crushed by Dong Xiaoye's foot.

"Alright, stop crying here. Who else came besides you?" Dong Xiaoye asked the bespectacled man, "Do you know how much trouble this is?"

“And Lin Jie and Xiao Zhan,” the bespectacled man said.

"Isn't Thirteen here?" Dong Xiaoye asked.

"He was injured by that Ouyang Zihao and is in the hospital now," the bespectacled man said.

"That's good." Hearing what the bespectacled man said, Dong Xiaoye breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's drive to Sister Xue'er's place. It might be dangerous if we're late."

"Yes." The man with glasses nodded.

Just as the two were about to go find Lin Jie and Xiao Zhan, a rapid alarm sounded throughout the manor.

"Oh no, Lin Jie and the others may have been discovered," Dong Xiaoye said anxiously to the bespectacled man.

"Let's go take a look." With that, Dong Xiaoye and the bespectacled man ran towards the banquet hall. Because he was with Dong Xiaoye, the bespectacled man was not bothered.

When the two arrived in the hall, they saw Lin Jie, Xiao Zhan, and Dong Xue'er standing in the middle of the crowd.

Then they heard Ouyang Zihao, who was sitting opposite them, say to the many guests present: "Ladies and gentlemen, in order to add some entertainment to the banquet, I will be having a match with this red-faced gentleman."

As he spoke, Ouyang Zihao pointed at Lin Jie: "Of course, a competition without a prize is meaningless. So I hope everyone here will be a witness. If I, Ouyang Zihao, lose, I will cancel my engagement with Miss Dong Xue'er and let them leave."

The room erupted in uproar after hearing Ouyang Zihao's words. No one had expected him to do this on their engagement day.

“Of course, if I win,” Ouyang Zihao paused and said to everyone present, “my engagement ceremony with Miss Dong Xue’er will continue, and this gentleman will also present the Fire Spirit Sword as a gift for our engagement.”

The moment the words "Fire Spirit Sword" were uttered, the expressions of many present changed. Those who didn't know what the Fire Spirit Sword was began asking their friends who did, and upon understanding its value, they were all deeply moved.

The Dong family's current power stemmed from acquiring one of the Five Elemental Swords. The large number of ice-type ability users within the Dong family is also inextricably linked to the Water Elemental Sword. None of the guests present expected that the Ouyang family would actually find the whereabouts of the Fire Elemental Sword.

“That’s right,” Lin Jie said. “If he beats me, I will give him the Fire Spirit Sword. If he loses, he will have to break off his engagement with Dong Xue’er.”

“That’s it. I ask you all to be my witnesses.” With that, Ouyang Zihao led the way out of the banquet hall: “Please follow me to the training ground.”

"Why do you men all like doing this?" Dong Xiaoye said to the man with glasses in the crowd.

And so, everyone in the banquet hall followed Ouyang Zihao to the training ground.

After the two people stood still in the training field, an invisible force field enveloped the training field.

"I didn't expect you'd already started using this kind of force field," the Dong family head said to the Ouyang family head beside him. "I heard this thing can neutralize a full-force S-rank attack."

"This was specially installed for that brat Zihao," the Ouyang family head said proudly. "After all, ordinary training grounds can't handle his training these days."

"Oh? It seems you have a lot of confidence in that kid Zihao," said the head of the Dong family.

“Zihao is a rare genius in our Ouyang family,” said the Ouyang family head. “This is a good opportunity to show everyone Hao’s strength.”

……

On the stage, Lin Jie and Ouyang Zihao stood still.

"Aren't you going to use the Fire Spirit Sword?" Ouyang Zihao asked.

"This will suffice." Lin Jie said, raising the Green Dragon Crescent Blade in his hand: "By the way, are you really okay without a weapon? This blade is quite dangerous."

"This is enough for me." Ouyang Zihao smiled faintly and held up one finger: "One finger is enough to deal with you."

"Oh." Lin Jie didn't react much to Ouyang Zihao's words, only responding with a faint "Then let's begin."

"Okay." As soon as Ouyang Zihao finished speaking, he raised his finger towards Lin Jie. An invisible stream of air shot towards Lin Jie.

Ouyang Zihao struck suddenly and with incredible speed. Most importantly, the sword energy he unleashed from his fingers was colorless and soundless. Any ordinary enemy, even an S-rank figure, would have their body pierced by this single finger strike if caught off guard by Ouyang Zihao's sudden attack.

However, he encountered Lin Jie today.

"Oh?" Lin Jie clearly caught the movement of Ouyang Zihao's energy flow. He gently raised the Green Dragon Crescent Blade in his hand and blocked the invisible energy flow. The energy flow hit the protective shield behind Lin Jie and emitted ripples.

"Is this how you injured Thirteen?" Lin Jie looked at Ouyang Zihao and said, "Quite an interesting move."

"Can you sense my sword energy?" Ouyang Zihao asked Lin Jie. "But that makes it even more interesting."

As he spoke, Ouyang Zihao charged towards Lin Jie at an extremely fast speed. His speed surpassed that of Ouyang Rui back then, and he was almost on par with an S-rank speed user.

In less than a second of his sprint, Ouyang Zihao was still thinking about how Lin Jie had shot out four sword energies in succession, each shooting towards one of the four directions around him.

Immediately afterward, Ouyang Zihao appeared in front of Lin Jie and pointed a finger at him. Lin Jie remained unchanged, and just as Ouyang Zihao thought this one finger would finish him off, the back of Lin Jie's Green Dragon Crescent Blade slammed towards him.

Ouyang Zihao naturally saw Lin Jie swing his sword. He ducked to avoid the back of Lin Jie's blade, but at the same time, Lin Jie's blade slashed back in the opposite direction from where it had been swung.