The Old Gods

Chapter 948 Non-Sheep
The mud cannons roared past with astonishing force.

Compared to the orderly shells, Lu Ran disliked the mud spraying everywhere even more.

This special mud doesn't have much output effect, but it's extremely sticky and very difficult to clean once it gets on you. It not only obscures your vision but also hinders the target's movement.

It's so annoying!

Lu Ran did not engage with the black pigs. Instead of retreating, he advanced, and the sword energy that had been spreading in a fan-shaped area in front of him disappeared without a trace at that moment.

This scene caused the girl with the red candle halfway up the mountain to frown slightly.

The human youth charged into the most dangerous area of ​​the aerial battlefield, but instead found himself on the safest path.

Simple and efficient.

What his actions reveal is his control over the battlefield situation and his precise calculations of the Qing Tu Shen Fa · Ti Gu Feng Dao!
When others face the gods, they are mostly filled with fear and trepidation, kneeling and worshipping.

The human youth's calm and composed demeanor already revealed his identity!
He must be the legendary special human who hunts gods and demons like crazy!
"Stop!" Red Candle shouted softly.

She flew high into the air, blocking her master's path, holding a huge candle in her hands, from which a drop of scalding candle wax flew.

The sheen of the candle wax was so enormous that it left people speechless.

Lu Ran pursed his lips, glanced past the red candle statue's face, and looked at the paper figure behind him.

But the paper doll stood there, her posture dignified, her hands clasped together on her lower abdomen, a faint smile on her face, watching this scene with a smile.

Lu Ran: "."

Do you enjoy watching a spectacle?
Or perhaps you wish to admire my splendor?
Alright, here's a treat! We can have a heart-to-heart talk later, by candlelight.
"呲-"

A mist surged beneath Lu Ran's feet, propelling him upwards.

Regardless of whether the insignificant human race tries to dodge, all living beings in the area behind him will suffer.

The shrill screams of the mud boars came immediately, then quickly disappeared.

A giant drop of candle tear swept past, along with the mud that filled the sky, and all the giant mud boar minions that followed, sealing them all inside.

The scene was quite peculiar.

A clean and wide road appeared in the murky sky, and the candle tears fell rapidly downwards along the trajectory of the flying object.

I heard a "thud"!
The scalding hot candle wax fell to the ground, cooled rapidly, and turned into a large patch of amber-colored, translucent solidified candle wax.

Most of the mud boars had been scalded to death. A very few remained, clinging to life, unable to move in the solidified wax, their vitality rapidly fading, their cries growing fainter and fainter.
Red Candle Divine Magic: Candle Floss Binding!
Although it is a control technique, it also has a certain amount of damage output due to its special attributes.

"呲-"

Another sound of mist being sprayed came, and high in the sky, the tiny human race rushed downwards.

The paper doll had a smile on her face the whole time, but her eyes changed after Lu Ran used his Immortal Hoof technique once.

There seems to be some resentment in her voice?
The Red Candle Maiden was on high alert! Her stone eyes widened as she stared intently at the rapidly approaching human villain.

She shielded the carved dragon and phoenix candles in front of her, her back to her mistress, using her slender body to block the flickering candlelight.

The flames on the wedding candles flickered.

The Evil Candle Shadow Spell: The Candle Shadow Flickers!
This is an illusion technique; the flickering candlelight can cause mental confusion.

Unfortunately, Lu Ran doesn't eat beef, and he doesn't consume any mental energy.

"Stop, human! Stop!" The red candle girl was extremely anxious. She gripped the thick dragon and phoenix candle with both hands and swung it sharply upwards.

"call!!"

A red dress fluttered in the wind, and long hair danced in the air.

The scalding candle wax, like fine raindrops, poured into the air, but...
The girl, who was full of festive elements and was also a high and mighty deity, now showed a hint of sorrow on her face.

The unfamiliar human youth was terrifyingly powerful.

This is not an illusion, but a real battle situation that is actually taking place.

Furthermore, the deaths of one powerful god or demon after another over the past few months have already demonstrated just how powerful the human youth are.

Red Candle truly didn't believe she could stop the other party.

And indeed, things turned out exactly as expected!
Huge drops of candle tears fell like fine rain, covering the sky and the earth.

The tiny human race, as light as a feather, floated lightly amidst the thousands of wax droplets.

How can such hot wax droplets not stick at all?

He's a bit clueless about romance.
It's hard to say whether this was the young man's own skill, or whether he was a martial arts enthusiast who had activated a movement technique similar to the divine technique "Swallow Feather Flip".

In short, the light and small figure floated up to the red candle girl's eyes.

The whole world seemed to freeze for a moment.

Red Candle stood there, staring blankly at the young man in front of her, dressed in flowing feather robes and ribbons.

Admittedly, she was engulfed in a shield of burning candlelight, but Red Candle did not believe that the young man was afraid of being burned and that was why he dared not make a move.

She also heard his voice: "Go down, I want to talk to her."

Hongzhu suddenly bit her lower lip hard, her chest churning with unspeakable humiliation, and the flame of the dragon and phoenix candle in her hand leaped high!

The flickering candlelight instantly expanded, transforming into a massive, towering pillar of red fire.

This time, even Lu Ran couldn't remain calm.

This guy is so loyal?

So fierce?

This method is the ultimate killing move of the demonic Candle Shadow clan, a terrifying evil technique that achieves a mutual destruction effect through a massive self-destruction:
A silent, fading beauty!

"Candle."

Suddenly, a soft yet authoritative voice came from the distant mountain peak behind.

Hongzhu trembled instantly.

"Go down." The command came again.

The towering pillar of fire gradually dissipated.

Hongzhu looked at Lu Ran with wary eyes, but dared not disobey the head of the family's orders. She could only turn around, bow her head, and say, "Yes, Madam."

"You go and hold the line too," the paper doll said once more. Qing Tu, who had already reached the mountain peak, remained silent throughout, not even uttering a battle cry during the previous fight.

He appears to be a taciturn deity.

Upon hearing the patriarch's order, he glared fiercely at Lu Ran, but obeyed the command and quickly leaped down the sacred mountain.

The servants and maids left.

Lu Ran can finally face the goddess statue on the mountaintop directly.

But at this point, he didn't know what to say.

The woman in the paper robe, however, was poised and said softly, "You are more dazzling than I thought."

In just a few short years, he reached the pinnacle of the Three Realms.

Lu Ran silently flew forward.

When he was about a hundred meters from the mountain peak, the divine weapons and magical artifacts around him told him that the exquisite phoenix crown worn by the paper doll was a top-tier magical artifact.

The paper doll sighed softly, "That's why it won't give you to me."

Who?
Lord Immortal Sheep?
Lu Ran pondered for a moment and asked, "What do you see in me? Why are you so fond of me? What do you want to do?"

"Hehe." The paper doll suddenly laughed.

A gentle gaze enveloped the tiny creatures.

"Can you still not find the answer even if you stand here?" The paper doll slowly raised one of its hands, which had been folded in front of its lower abdomen, and stretched it out towards Lu Ran.

Lu Ran hesitated for a moment, then flew down into her palm.

"Because I have extraordinary talent? You want me to join the Yanzhi faction, become your disciple, and fight for you on the Heavenly Battlefield?" Lu Ran frowned, his deduction was so convincing that even he couldn't accept it.

The paper-man lowered her eyelids, looking at the human youth bound by his thoughts, and said calmly, "Become my other side."

"Huh?" Lu Ran looked surprised.

“Share the divine position with me,” the paper figure said softly, smiling with lowered eyes. “But it seems that you don’t need to share it with me now.”

You have the power to devour my soul and take everything from me, don't you?"

Lu Ran took a long time to react before shaking his head: "If I wanted to devour your soul, I wouldn't have revealed myself like this; I would have launched a sneak attack directly."

The paper doll wasn't surprised and asked softly, "Why?"

Lu Ran did not respond, but instead asked, "What merit do I, a lowly ant, possess? Why should I share a divine position with you?"

Back then, in the eyes of the gods, Lu Ran wasn't even considered an ant.

"In my hands, you will no longer be a lowly ant." The paper doll looked at Lu Ran gently and murmured, "I will take you away from human suffering and I will personally nurture you."

Ultimately, you will inherit half of my divine position, merge with me, and live longer alongside me.

"Live longer?"

"Of the energy I draw from heaven and earth, very little can be used for my own purposes." For some reason, the paper figure spoke these words without any attempt to conceal them.

From what she said, this situation could be improved if "fresh blood" were introduced?

Lu Ran also understood his role.

A tool!
Child! Raised! Husband!
That frail boy was indeed a blank sheet of paper, which she could paint on at will, shaping him into whatever she wanted.

If I had really signed a contract with the paper doll on the altar, she wouldn't have let me stay in the human world; she would have taken me away directly.
"Humans come one generation after another, why must it be me?"

Lu Ran considered himself to have some talent, but there were plenty of talented people in the world.

"Why belittle yourself?" the paper doll said softly. "Aren't there many ants who are qualified to be my other side, and qualified to be my other half?"

Lu Ran: "."

In the end, I am still just an ant.

No matter how large the human population is, generation after generation, the simple word "ants" can filter them all out.

The deeper reason behind this is identity.

It is an insurmountable class.

Lu Ran seemed to have figured it out and said, "Because my mother is Qiao Wanjun?"

Among the human race, Qiao Wanjun is the only one who is taken seriously by gods and demons, and even feared by them.

He is the only ant in human society in more than forty years to have forcefully transcended class.

So, does the paper-paper man have ulterior motives?

"Unfortunately, it molded you into what it wanted you to be," the paper doll murmured, no longer responding to Lu Ran's question.

"What it wants...you..." Lu Ran's mind was a bit confused, so he simply asked directly, "What is your relationship with Lord Immortal Sheep?"

"We were old acquaintances."

"Was?"

The paper doll still smiled elegantly, but there was an unusual meaning in it: "Now, it's not like that anymore."

"why?"

"Because of you," the paper doll whispered, "the immortal sheep I know couldn't cultivate a disciple who could devour divine souls and replace gods and demons."

Lu Ran stared blankly up at that stunningly beautiful face.

"All the gods and demons I know can kill each other, but none of them have the power to take the place of the other." The paper figure looked at the bewildered human youth in its palm. "Do you understand?"

Lu Ran understood, of course.

Suddenly, the paper doll raised her hand, closed her eyes, slowly lowered her face, and gently pressed her lips to her palm.

Soft whispers enveloped the tiny human beings between their lips:

"The god you have been worshipping all this time is not the divine sheep at all."

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(End of this chapter)