The Spirit World

Chapter 453 Lan Luo and Xu Jiaqing [Luo]

"There are no guest rooms in the entire Zhongqing City. There are too many people. If you don't mind, we still have a few side rooms for you to stay in." A fat middle-aged man with big ears put a pen on his ear, looked at Chang Yufeng with interest, and then winked at Ju Junyi who was doing the accounting. He seemed to be helpless and said: "This is the first time I have seen such a strong and sturdy young lady... If you really want to stay, I can renovate the side room and make sure that the young lady lives comfortably."

"He's a man..." Ju Junyi held back his laughter, carefully checked the account, and signed Ning Chun's name.

"Hey, this young lady is so well-behaved... She follows you motionlessly. If she were a man, how could he let a woman show her face in public?" The shop owner glanced at Chang Yufeng. Chang Yufeng looked at him strangely, but her face was covered with a veil, and she lowered her head as if shyly.

"Ning Feng! Say something..." Ju Junyi pushed Chang Yufeng with his elbow. Chang Yufeng helplessly straightened his head and slowly raised his voice through the veil: "Boss, I'm a man, not a girl. Where in the world can you find a woman with such a figure? That would be a joke..."

“It’s just a joke, brother. I’ve seen girls with your figure who are several times stronger than you. But it’s a bit uncomfortable for a grown man to carry this kind of thing… There are some lady warriors who also cover their faces living here, so don’t bump into them…” The shop owner collected the bill and put it in the cabinet, then propped up his hands and looked at the people coming and going in the shop.

"Oh? Who are they?" Jun'ichi Tachibana looked at the shop owner with interest. He was round and chubby and quite cute.

"They are said to be female disciples of the Qing'e Sect of Tianbao Mountain... They have sect rules that prohibit strangers from seeing their faces, otherwise they will have to marry the man." The shop owner smiled happily, as if he was infatuated with them. You can imagine that their figures were also charming, which made the shop owner infatuated.

"Really? It's 2021 in the Empire, and there are still such rules? Aren't there going to be severe crackdowns?" Tachibana Junyi didn't leave, but leaned over the counter and looked at the store owner. She looked surprised and suspicious, and also seemed to be disgusted.

She really seemed like the one in charge. Chang Yufeng stood by and let her do whatever she wanted.

"That's right. Even the women of Qing'e Sect are strong-willed and few people dare to marry them... Besides... they are afraid that if the veil is lifted, they will reveal an ugly thing. No one can stand it..." The shopkeeper also seemed to have lost the idea and shook his head.

"Heh..." Jun'ichi Tachibana said nothing and was about to leave. Chang Yufeng had just started to walk over when Jun'ichi Tachibana returned to the counter and asked, "Anyone staying here needs to be aware of anything else?"

"If you are talking about disciples from some strange sects, there are some... It seems that there are two disciples from Douya Mountain. They brought two big dogs. You should try not to go to the backyard to avoid being bitten. As for the others, there are none. I don't see anything strange... I am just a shop owner and I can't control them. As for your disciples from Bailing Mountain, I remember that some of them live in Shanglong Street... They are specially invited..." The shopkeeper scratched his head: "Master Xu would not invite only them and not yours..."

"We came here on our own..." Junyi Tachibana looked at the shop owner a little embarrassedly and said, "Look, we are just second-rate people, how can we compare with them..."

"That's right. I heard that Bailing Mountain didn't send any Tianzi-level masters... They were two Dizi-level guys, but they were almost the same. Bailing Mountain is well-known... The disciples there are much more disciplined than those from other sects."

"Do you know what they are called?"

"Zhang Tong, an Earth-class exorcist, and Wang Yu, an Earth-class fairy. But they seem to only have the strength of the Star-class, but they are already very powerful... Most of the people here are small fry... Only a few are powerful... Even the top few in the Imperial Celebrity List have not come..."

The shop owner looked at Junichi Tachibana and waved his hands, saying, "I didn't say you were trash... I meant that this banquet for all heroes was a bit of a failure. You said that the Tower of Babel is such an important thing, and only a bunch of demons and monsters gathered together to defeat the devil. It's not good at all."

The shop owner acted casually, and as he became more pessimistic, he said more: "You should at least ask [Li Zizai, the First Sword Saint of the Chinese Clan] to come, and [Feng Qingzheng, the First Qigong Master of the Chinese Clan] to help, right? At worst, you should ask [Tian Chan Feng Quan Le Zheng Fa] to pretend... It's a pity that no matter how rich Xu Jiaqing is, he can't invite a real master to come here... People don't believe in this kind of thing at all."

Chang Yufeng laughed. The names mentioned by the shopkeeper were all well-known and famous figures who were ranked at the top of the Imperial Celebrity List.

A common person mentioned their names just for fun. It felt as if he had experienced the hardships of life and death and became famous overnight, just like those famous masters.

This itself is nothing funny, but the store owner ranked those characters in his mind. Unfortunately, the use of this word made Chang Yufeng laugh.

Those who ranked at the top of the Imperial Celebrities List were not only righteous, but also hard to find. It was almost impossible for them to compete with each other. Moreover, the spiritual power rank was just an artificially converted concept of spiritual power. If they really fought, a kitchen knife could seriously injure a master who was caught off guard.

“Brother, don’t laugh. Really… I feel like it’s hard for such a large group of people to defeat that big devil…” When the shop owner saw a customer coming into the shop, he waved his hand to call the waiter over.

"By the way, boss, we also heard about the Banquet of Heroes, but... we don't seem to have seen the big devil... there doesn't seem to be any other abnormal aura here..." Ju Junyi frowned, staring at Chang Yufeng. Chang Yufeng stopped laughing and coughed.

"Yes... but it's been suppressed... Do you know about the infection of demonic energy? There is a crematorium three miles outside the city, which burns the corpses infected by demonic energy. You feel at peace now because the Justice Department is involved... In fact, it's quite serious..."

"Oh oh oh...what about the big devil? Where is she?" Jun'ichi Tachibana looked at the shop owner expectantly, but the shop owner seemed a little embarrassed.

"I'm not sure... I only heard it's here! Here!" The boss pointed at the ceiling and looked up. There were two rows of houses lined up on the beams of the inn, and there were people walking around, but no big devil was in sight.

"Here? In the sky?" Ju Junyi followed suit and looked at it seriously. Chang Yufeng also looked up. All they could see were the beams of the house. But if Lan Luo was really in the sky, she would be waiting calmly for the people underground to kill her...

He had seen the Tower of Babel, which was invisible to the naked eye. Logically, the Tower of Babel was a sacred object, so it was normal that it was invisible. It was very strange. He thought that everyone was interested in this big devil, the Tower of Babel, and the like, but after listening to it, it seemed that this was not the case...

Not many famous people paid attention to it...but some people with shallower spiritual power came in droves.

[Feast of Heroes], as the name suggests, is a banquet for the heroes of the world... Now that I see it, it's not the case...

Of course, he didn't think that those below the Golden Rank were out to die, he just felt that there was something vaguely weird about this sort of thing.

Of course, we haven't had much contact with them yet. Maybe Xu Jiaqing has other plans. Such a smart person would never turn such heroes into trash...

There must be some big shot...it's just that the news hasn't been released.

"I have a question... Boss, do you know why the big devil came here? Where did this news come from?" Chang Yufeng finally spoke. He was thinking something was not right.

"It didn't come from anywhere... We all saw it... The big devil named Day One... was hanging in the air... and then he had a conversation with Xu Jiaqing!" The shop owner was inexplicably frightened.

"Is there such a thing?" Junichi Tachibana slammed the table.

Chang Yufeng looked at the two of them through the veil.

"Please tell me about it."

"Oh... I can't tell you... I only saw part of it... When I got there, it was almost finished..."

The shop owner didn't refuse, but he felt a little embarrassed because his nose and eyes were squeezed together, which was quite awkward.

"It's okay... Tell me about it..." Jun'ichi Tachibana was tired of holding his hands, so he changed into a comfortable position as if he was listening to a story.

"That night... I went to Shanglong Street..."

I met a woman like this...

She was all ice blue... I thought she was wearing a blue dress, but who knew she was that color all over. Her graceful figure was enough to fascinate me... I saw her from far away because she was flying in the sky. That night, everyone on Shanglong Street saw her.

You know, even though it’s October now, snow is still very rare... just like the snowstorm that woman brought... not big... but very cold, so cold that I was shivering.

Even a fat man like me feels cold, so those little girls who go to Long Street without clothes must be shivering with cold...

far away...

I wanted to watch the fun, but to be honest, at that time I just wanted to find a quilt to crawl into...

"God! You are so kind to visit us! How dare we neglect you in this tiny place? Please give us a way out..."

If I hadn't told you, you would never have guessed that this was what Xu Jiaqing said... He has suffered a lot, and his family is big and powerful. The entire Shanglong Street is almost his. I guess he is really in trouble for begging that woman like this...

I've only heard that he was so aggrieved, no, so respectful in front of the emperor. The woman in the crystal form must be of considerable background, so I became interested... I walked around Shanglong Street with people who were cold but wanted to join in the fun, watching and listening in a room.

[Human, the Tower of Babel is about to open, and the wrath of the gods will descend upon this place! Get away from it quickly!]

The woman's voice was so cold... I was trembling when I heard it, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Even if she was such a big shot, she didn't destroy this place. Maybe she was a good person, who came to destroy this place and gave me a special reminder...

"Lan Luo... is showing pity to the world?" Chang Yufeng was a little surprised. He looked at the shopkeeper in disbelief, and the shopkeeper nodded with certainty.

"Why, it's not allowed? It doesn't say that the big devil must kill people and burn things..."

Jun'ichi Tachibana thought it was normal and knocked on the table.

"Xu Jiaqing said that he has run his business here for half his life... there is no way he will leave no matter what... he said a lot of things, I didn't hear it clearly... he just said he didn't want to leave... and then the big devil gave him a deadline." The shopkeeper shortened his speech and tightened his clothes.

"Oh...what are these...can't you tell me more details..." Jun'ichi Tachibana became familiar with the shop owner and gave him a look of disdain.

"I didn't want to do that... Who can remember it so clearly... If you ask me... I guess everyone present was stunned by the silence. Only Xu Jiaqing was pretty cool. He just stood there and talked to them." The shop owner didn't care and was still in high spirits.

"So... it was the Great Demon King who came here on his own initiative on the first day... and said that he would open the Tower of Babel here? Does Xu Jiaqing want to gather all the heroes in the world to help him capture the city and conquer the land?" Chang Yufeng's eyes became even brighter through the veil.

"You can say that……"

"It's too... ridiculous... The big devil is like a kid, he even has to say hello to others when he takes up a piece of land... No way... Too polite... eh... Too ridiculous... eh..." Jun'ichi Tachibana almost dropped his jaw to the ground.

“I don’t know… Maybe the Great Demon King on the First Day is not mentally normal and has been stupid in the Demon Sealing Well… Or maybe the Great Demon King on the First Day has seven personalities… It’s normal to be a little weird…” The shopkeeper pulled out a pipe from his sleeve and blew into it with his mouth.

It seems that things are not as complicated as I thought...

But it suddenly became complicated...

Chang Yufeng felt quite emotional and sighed.

Because he couldn't reconstruct the scene at that time, how many people were there at that time... and how many people were hiding in the dark?
Or how many people know about this matter, whether it is karma, or cause and effect...

"When does the Banquet of Heroes start? Can we attend?"

"Of course you can... It's still early... There are still ten days or half a month... You can play here for a while... But my suggestion... Just run away... Why join in the fun... If I didn't have the property here, I would have run away a long time ago... How scary... You are lucky, at least you can protect yourselves, but those of us who don't have spiritual power will probably be wiped out with a wave of the hand."

The shopkeeper touched his stomach, feeling a little hungry, and put his pipe down again.

"Yeah, my life is more important..." Jun'ichi Tachibana touched his chin.

“Hey… To be honest, the thinking circuits of those who have reached that level are definitely different from ours… It’s okay, I can understand it…” The shopkeeper found a candy and put it in the building to chew.

"According to what you said, Master Xu wants someone to help him get rid of Lan Luo, right?" Chang Yufeng confirmed with his eyes again.

This made the shop owner a little confused.

"That's not true... It's the first day that the Great Demon King came out of the Demon Sealing Well, so we have to take it seriously... The Justice Department has already assembled here, and if the army can be mobilized, it will probably follow too..."

"Oh? Army?" Junichi Tachibana heard another word that made her excited.

"Well... all we need is an excuse to go to war, Miss... Most of the imperial troops have been sent to the imperial border... I just don't know if Wutong Si is here... They come and go without a trace..." The shop owner also gave Junyi Tachibana a candy, which was wrapped in white thin paper.

Junyi Ju took the candy, gently put it into his mouth, and said with a satisfied smile: "It's not that serious... No, why do I feel... there is a taste of conspiracy... Lanluo seems to be taking advantage of the fire... Although the army is not Xu's..."

"Shh! Shh! Shh!" After hearing what Jun'ichi Tachibana said, the shop owner hurriedly covered Jun'ichi Tachibana's mouth in shock.

"Oh my god... you can actually say such a thing... you are really awesome..."

"Let's go... Let's stop talking..." Chang Yufeng sighed and said, "Let's go buy weapons..."

Jun'ichi Tachibana opened his eyes wide and nodded.

"Mmmmmmm!"

"Brother, take care of your little ancestor... otherwise..." The shopkeeper stretched out his hand and waved it horizontally towards his neck: "Your life will be in danger..."

"Well, I'll pay attention..."

“I feel like what I said is nothing…”

"Go quickly, go quickly... Remember to come back early. There will be a big show tonight on Shanglong Street. I can take you to see it."

(End of this chapter)