The villains are redeemed, and the heroines cry and beg for forgiveness.

But in the next moment, he suddenly felt an immense terror engulf him.

A sense of crisis instantly filled his heart.

With a loud "bang," Du Shang had no time to dodge and was punched into the building next to him.

After sending Du Shang flying, Gu Ran also sent the two followers who were attacking him flying.

This time, however, he seemed to use a bit more force, and the two attendants' bodies deformed, and they immediately collapsed to the ground, vomiting blood and dying.

"I didn't control my strength properly for a moment." Gu Ran walked over to Du Shang. "But it doesn't matter, we're enemies anyway."

Gu Ran walked up to Du Shang and saw him stand up again. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Not bad, it seems your physical strength is indeed very good."

Feeling the displacement of internal organs, Du Shang looked at Gu Ran with a surprised and suspicious expression.

"How is this possible? Why are you so strong? Your body clearly doesn't show any spiritual energy fluctuations—no, that wasn't just your physical strength?!"

Du Shang's eyes widened suddenly, filled with disbelief.

“That’s right, you’re also good at physical combat, right? Well then—” Gu Ran punched Du Shang in the face again, “show your full strength, or you might not have another chance.”

"Kid, don't underestimate me!" Du Shang roared, his veins bulging all over his body, his blood boiling like magma in his veins.

A massive surge of spiritual energy swept over and was absorbed into Du Shang's body. It was then transmitted throughout his body via the supernatural energy crystal core, strengthening his physical abilities.

At this moment, he could crush even a steel plate like tofu.

A faint phantom of a blue dragon hovered over Du Shang's body.

"I am the Azure Dragon!"

Du Shang's size suddenly doubled, his muscles became like dragons, and his body was covered with scales.

"Azure Dragon? Does it really think it's a god?" Gu Ran was about to give this self-important old guy another punch to make him realize reality.

But the next moment, an unexpected change occurred.

A triangular crystal cone suddenly flew out of Gu Ran's pocket.

The triangular crystal pyramid did not increase in size; it remained very small and floated in the air.

Du Shang's bloodthirsty aura suddenly froze, and the three-clawed azure dragon that was faintly flying on his body seemed to let out a whimper before disappearing completely.

Suddenly, Gu Ran felt a strong desire emanating from the triangular crystal cone.

It wants the supernatural power core on Du Shang?!

Gu Ran clearly understood the meaning of the triangular crystal cone, which surprised him greatly.

Although he had been able to perceive some of the intelligence of the triangular crystal pyramid in the past, he had never felt the same kind of desire as the person with the triangular crystal pyramid today.

"Last time you absorbed something from the Dragon Blood River, this time you're going to absorb the crystal core of an S-class ability user. What exactly are you trying to become?"

Gu Ran murmured to himself, and at the same time, his original intention to "spar" with Du Shang faded.

His own "child" was already hungry, and he couldn't just cruelly turn a blind eye to it.

Then, in the next moment, Du Shang was horrified to find that Gu Ran's hand had pierced through his chest and grasped the supernatural crystal core that was connected to his heart.

With a firm squeeze, the heart shattered, leaving only the crystal core.

A look of horror froze on Du Shang's face. He couldn't understand why his powerful body had been so easily penetrated by the opponent.

Gu Ran placed the superpower crystal core next to the triangular crystal cone, and the triangular crystal cone immediately emitted light, as if it were extremely hungry, and the light immediately devoured the superpower crystal core.

Gu Ran could feel the supernatural crystal core in his hand slowly becoming lighter.

"It really can be absorbed?" Gu Ran said with some surprise.

Meanwhile, Ye Ding on the other side was dumbfounded.

How is this going?

What about such a powerful central government leader?

And that thing next to Gu Ran is actually absorbing the superpower crystal core?

Ye Ding looked at Gu Ran with a look of awe.

Such a powerful person disguised himself as so ordinary; it's truly despicable.

“The other elders should have already discovered you. We need to act quickly,” Ye Ding said immediately after seeing Gu Ran put away the mysterious device.

At the same time, his gaze swept over Gu Ran several times and he noticed that the superpower crystal core had indeed completely disappeared, which made his eyelids twitch.

Feeling the triangular crystal cone as if it had eaten and drunk its fill, Gu Ran nodded.

"Okay, let's go."

They seemed to be discussing countermeasures together; all the senior officials in the ruling center were gathered together.

When Gu Ran stepped into that hall, she surprisingly encountered no further obstacles.

"Everyone's here! That's great, it saves me from having to make an extra trip."

Gu Ran was surprised that none of the special operations scenarios he had imagined would be used, and they ended up directly attacking the door.

However, after two battles with Elder Shu, Gu Ran had a rough assessment of their combat strength.

If Elder Shu is as strong as the previous two, this mission won't be too difficult, and there's a good chance of completing it.

However, the moment Gu Ran stepped into the hall, all the lights went out and the room suddenly became dark.

As it darkened, a sense of desolation immediately enveloped Gu Ran.

The shadows seemed to transform into countless tentacles, constantly pulling him into the depths of darkness.

"Something interesting."

This was not an attack using psychic abilities, but rather some kind of visual illusion.

If it were a mental ability, he would be completely immune to it, but if it were a visual illusion, he would indeed fall into this trap.

After being deprived of sight and disturbed of touch, a murderous aura suddenly appeared.

It was a short sword that pierced through from below and behind Gu.

If it were an ordinary martial arts master or an S-class superhuman, then this sneak attack would likely have succeeded.

Unfortunately, he ambushed a "psychic".

Gu Ran had already blended into her surroundings, perceiving everything around her.

Although his vision was deprived and his sense of touch was disturbed, his perception remained clear.

The short sword that was about to pierce his heart suddenly stopped, because a hand grabbed the hilt.

"Martial artists from the Far East City?" Gu Ran asked tentatively. When the other party remained silent, he continued, "I've always heard that martial artists from the Far East City like to use this kind of sneak attack tactic and consider it part of their martial arts."

"Because their own strength is very low, the martial arts techniques they stole back then were incomplete, and they only practiced a very rudimentary version. Now that I think about it, the content they practiced may have been wrong. No wonder their strength is generally lower than that of martial artists of the same level."

"However, the martial artists of the Far East City are quite shameless, actually claiming that their cultivation methods are special and must be combined with such despicable and underhanded methods."

Gu Ran's words were a sore spot for every martial artist in the Far East City; ordinary people might not care.

However, for the martial artists of Far East City, the fact that they were practicing stolen techniques, and even those techniques were incomplete, was undoubtedly a very laughable thing.

Although so many years have passed, and with the embellishment and improvements made by their predecessors, it has indeed become more and more in line with the claim that this is their unique path.

However, that sense of shame and taboo remained in their hearts, but now Gu Ran had revealed it, which was tantamount to pointing fingers and cursing them.

The short sword was suddenly released by its owner and left in Gu Ran's hand.

Then the owner of the short sword immediately disappeared from the spot.

Gu Ran's mental power instantly sensed that the sword would explode and that it contained a large amount of star stone powder.

"Trying to escape?" After sensing the other party's escape route, Gu Ran immediately threw the short sword in his hand hard.

boom!

The short sword, unsurprisingly, pierced the enemy's body.

However, there was no explosion; the opponent only let out a muffled groan and its speed remained unchanged.

"So it was controllable after all." Gu Ran understood somewhat.

It must be said that although the martial artists of Far East City follow the same path as those of Azure Dragon City and Vermilion Bird City, they have indeed come up with some new tricks.

After the warrior from the Far East City fled, the darkness and the sensation of being dragged by tentacles vanished instantly.

"It really is that warrior from the Far East City."

Gu Ran thought to himself as he watched the scene gradually become clearer before him.

"Hmph, I told you that guy from Far East City was completely unreliable. Look, he ran away." A fat, middle-aged man said in the hall.

"Actually, that guy from Far East City held back. He should have shown more strength instead of running away like this."

Another woman, who looked quite old, said calmly.

"But Xue Yingsong is really confident. He only sent this one person to kill us, and he did it openly. Although he is indeed very strong and able to kill Du Shang, and the things he has are a bit strange, we are now the five of us working together."

"As long as the five of us join forces, no one in Azure Dragon City can be our match."

It's not that these elders are arrogant, but that's just the truth; each of them is a top expert in Canglong City.

Given their long-standing rapport, if they were to join forces, their strength would far exceed what they currently possess.