Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

Durandal could not refute the facts of the past millennia, and she decided not to.

Therefore, she decided to challenge Cheng Ling Shuang.

—Even if fate is sinful, at least at this moment, I, Durandal, am fighting for Pandora's own will.

—At least for this moment, I am protecting this boy.

Cheng Ling Shuang saw the change in Youlandai's eyes, turning into a resolute gaze. She knew then that a confrontation with her seemed inevitable. She shook her head and looked at Shen Liang: "You really won't come with me?"

"How about I hand over the Key of God to you?" Shen Liang considered a way to avoid offending either side, and smiled awkwardly, "Consider it a gift from me, a citizen of China, to my motherland?"

“I’m not comfortable leaving you here, forget it,” Cheng Ling Shuang said coldly. “You’re hopeless.”

Shen Liang thought she had finally given up and was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when she saw Cheng Ling Shuang's black sleeves fluttering without wind. Her beautiful face was full of coldness as she rose into the air, hovering above everyone. "Then I won't teach you anymore. I'll tie you up and take you back to Yanjing, starve you for a few days, and you'll have to acknowledge me as your master whether you want to or not. Don't worry, my good disciple, you'll have a senior sister named Li Sushang to keep you company. You won't be bored."

This has already unilaterally established the master-disciple relationship!

As expected of someone with a pure and unfettered sword heart, this guy doesn't care about other people's feelings once he's made up his mind. No wonder he's so carefree!

Shen Liang immediately began to consider whether to hide in Teyvat, but he felt it was not a good idea to reveal his teleportation barrier power to the whole world. Besides, this was not Teyvat, but Earth. He could run away, but he couldn't hide.

He decisively hid behind Rita.

"You... If the little immortal were to unleash his power, even Rita wouldn't be able to protect you." Rita looked helplessly at the trembling boy. "Why don't you just give in to the little immortal? Rita thinks even Lady Durandal might not be a match for him... What if the little immortal hurts you?"

"Do you really care that your Lady Durandal doesn't care about me?"

"Being taken as a disciple by the little immortal is the dream of many Valkyries, and you won't lose out."

"I'm living a fulfilling life, I have no desire to learn cultivation! Do I look like the material for that? She's over five hundred years old and still a virgin!"

……

Durandal ignored the whispers of the two bad seeds behind her; she was always focused when she entered battle mode.

Forging Soul Steel into a massive lance is Durandal's preferred weapon. Although she is a woman, she never favors delicate and agile objects, but instead loves lances. This heavy cold weapon, which should originally require horsepower to wield, is perfect for Durandal, allowing her to both attack and defend. Her unparalleled strength allows her to wield the lance as if it were a dagger, displaying its versatility.

In reality, she also possesses a knight-like stubbornness, or perhaps a bit of a fool. For example, if she believes Pandora needs help, she will act without hesitation because Pandora saved Rita, even though her destiny instructs her to avoid escalating the conflict.

“I have heard that the Taixu Sword Qi is the pinnacle of martial arts in the Divine Continent,” Durandal tried to perform a very stiff fist salute, probably learned from some Divine Continent TV series, and then she said, word by word, “Today, Bianca has come to learn from you!”

She drew her lance, her figure flashing like lightning, instantly igniting the air. Faster than the Valkyrie's sight, she appeared before Cheng Ling Shuang, her lance stirring up a thunderous storm!

"Get in the way!" Cheng Ling Shuang's beautiful eyes flashed with anger. She stepped on the spear, repelling Youlandai's lance. In an instant, hundreds of colorless and formless longswords, each ten feet tall, rose from behind her. "Sword Transformation! Swift!"

Even without a sword, there is a sword; the sword is formed by divine power, and its sword energy is naturally formed, which cannot be questioned by form.

Swords flew like a storm and swallows in flight!

The lances made of Soul Steel were all shattered by Hao Ran's Honkai energy!

Durandal gritted her teeth, enveloping herself in Honkai energy, blasting away all the Void Swords. Just as she was about to continue the battle, she suddenly noticed that Cheng Ling Shuang was no longer in the same spot.

Cheng Ling Shuang had no intention of getting entangled with him. She hadn't come to fight but to take people away. After shaking Yulandel, she teleported directly in front of Shen Liang and knocked Rita, who was coming at her, back dozens of meters with a palm strike.

"Shameless!" Durandal exclaimed angrily.

But she is the unfettered Cheng Ling Shuang. Unfettered freedom means doing whatever she wants, and she doesn't care what these people think of her!

Just as she was trying to snatch Shen Liang away like an eagle grabbing a chick, a propeller blade spun like a knife and shot towards her! It was practically going to cut her in two!

Cheng Ling Shuang had no choice but to transform her sword and cleave the propeller in two, also to protect Shen Liang. Then she looked up and saw a helicopter tumbling and crashing in the sky. Jumping out of the helicopter, a frail woman with long white hair and wearing a nun's gown trimmed with gold stood about twenty meters above the ground, her face exquisitely beautiful and her smile somewhat weary.

Although she looked sickly, Cheng Ling Shuang still frowned because she was standing in the air. There are many Valkyries who can stand in the air, but to stand in the air by manipulating Honkai energy without relying on any abilities is something even A-rank Valkyries find difficult to do.

And she wasn't just one person; her Honkai energy was released to form a spatial platform that even carried two identical white-haired beauties. The two slightly younger girls looked exactly alike, clearly sisters.

White hair…

With two beautiful sisters...

Cheng Ling Shuang guessed who the visitor was. She remained calm, at most her face would turn ugly with occasional anger, and she even spat on the ground in frustration.

"I've finally made it. Um... who are you?" the sickly woman said apologetically. "Could you release little Pandora? I'm so sorry, but... he's from my Shaniat family."

Chapter 171 Regret it! Regret! Regret it!

A tremendous roar descended from the sky—it was a crashing armed helicopter. Above the blinding flames, a figure stood suspended in mid-air; a white nun's coat billowed in the storm, and a frail, beautiful woman led two girls, also dressed in nun's gowns.

Seeing this, the Valkyries, who represented the four permanent members of the UN Security Council, were all numb.

They couldn't help but feel numb. They felt like they had no sense of participation at all, and from beginning to end, they were experiencing a cycle of beating the young and then the old. Big shots emerged one after another on both sides of the Divine Continent, so it was all about who had the deepest foundation.

They are all top-tier Valkyries in the world, ranking among the top twenty on the Destiny Ranking. They are usually quite proud, if not arrogant, but today their self-esteem has been thoroughly humiliated.

The top twenty on the leaderboard probably wouldn't be a match for Durandal even if they were all combined. Yet Durandal, who was ranked number one, was still getting brutally beaten by some random Chinese guy. Just when we were about to sit back and watch the fight, this guy showed up to support Durandal. If this keeps going, won't the next one to come out be the Archbishop of Destiny?

"Phew..." Durandal stopped when she caught a glimpse of the group of people out of the corner of her eye. She finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly flashed back to Shen Liang's side. "I knew the Shaniat family wouldn't just sit by and watch you get taken away. We've finally got what we've been waiting for. Pandora, you're safe now."

Cheng Ling Shuang did not stop Youlandai from protecting Shen Liang. The sword energy behind her also dissipated, as if she had lost her fighting spirit in an instant. She just stared fiercely at the sickly white-haired beauty and cursed.

The Shaniat family...

Shen Liang quickly thought it over; he recognized the perpetrator's identity at a glance.

The two obedient girls beside the sickly woman were Kiana on the left, who had been living in her house for a year without paying rent, and her older sister Sirin on the right, who looked exactly like Kiana.

Although the two sisters look almost identical, they are easily distinguishable. Kiana is slightly shorter than Celine by two or three centimeters because she was born two years later. Then there's their hairstyle: Kiana likes to wear two thick braids in her ponytail, which sways cutely as she walks; Celine, on the other hand, has long, straight hair that reaches her ankles, giving her a commanding presence.

Even the lively and cheerful Kiana, and the fiercely arrogant Sirin, remained obediently behind the frail woman who looked as if she could be blown away by the wind. When Kiana saw him, her eyes were filled with joy, as if she had many things to say, but she held back and followed the frail woman obediently.

Shen Liang didn't know the woman's identity, but he knew that she was so powerful that even Cheng Ling Shuang was wary of her!

What just stopped Cheng Ling Shuang was the helicopter's sickle-shaped rotor! It was a resin plastic blade nearly ten meters in diameter, and when it rotated, it was the world's largest and sharpest blade!

And this knife is the weapon of that seemingly sickly woman. After she arrived here by helicopter and saw Cheng Ling Shuang, she directly ripped the rotor blade off the high-speed propeller and threw it at her!

What incredible power that was!

"Why did the Shaniat family come?" Shen Liang turned to ask Anna.

Before Anna could answer, Durandal looked at him strangely, "Isn't it obvious? You've already obtained the Divine Key, how could they not come to rescue you? Rather, they're too slow. I thought they would come to take you away before we did."

Shen Liang was speechless for a moment. He and Anna exchanged a glance, both knowing what was going on.

The so-called "Pandora Shaniat" was just a false identity given to him by Sirin, to make it easier for him to continue to hide his identity after this operation, and to give him a powerful backing so that he would have fewer worries when he acted.

This was a deal between him and Sirin, but in reality, the situation has now gone beyond the scope of their agreement. He is now embroiled in the conflict between Destiny and the United Nations, and at this point, he has become a burden to the Shaniat family.

The Shaniat family should sever all ties with him as soon as possible... Sirin probably never expected him to make such a big fuss. She probably thought that his rescue of his sister was just a small matter, but now the entire Shaniat family is being misunderstood as plotting against the Key of God, and the reputation of the dignified Saintess lineage is in jeopardy.

In other words, the Schariacs' family's presence here was to explain the misunderstanding?

Shen Liang glanced at Anna, who also realized this and looked somewhat reluctant. Shen Liang shook her head and smiled bitterly, comforting her: "It's alright. I've committed murder and arson, and I've also ruined the Destiny Plan. Your Shaniat family has already done more than enough by using my connections. There's nothing more to say. Thank you, Sister Anna, and um, Sister Xilin too."

Now I'm truly at my wit's end, and this feeling of being powerless... is really unpleasant.

Just as Shen Liang was thinking this, he heard Cheng Ling Shuang coldly say, "Are you going to stand up for him?"

“How could I possibly speak out?” The sickly woman smiled apologetically but firmly. “Little Pandora is a member of my Shaniat family. It’s only natural for me to protect my family. No matter what trouble Little Pandora and Destiny cause, it’s Destiny and the Shaniat family’s problem. We don’t need Shenzhou to send anyone to protect us.”

Shen Liang, who was still thinking about how to resolve the situation, suddenly froze.

He almost thought he had misheard.

"He has Chinese blood and Chinese citizenship," Cheng Ling Shuang said coldly. "He is a Chinese!"

“Bloodline, nationality, and family don’t conflict,” the sickly woman said with a smile, as if deliberately being argumentative. “We have people in our Shaniat family who have married boys from China, so it’s normal to have a few Chinese people in our clan. What’s wrong? Are you a pure bloodline believer? If you have foreign blood, you’re not considered Chinese? That’s not good.”

"Family...?" Cheng Ling Shuang lowered her gaze, and after a long while, she looked at Shen Liang, "What about you? What do you think?"

Shen Liang was in a state of utter confusion. He didn't even know what he was thinking, let alone how to answer.

He had considered a thousand ways the Shaniat family could handle the situation, but he never expected them to come here... and actually cover up his lie.

This family traveled all this way, and they actually... intend to protect him?

why?

Why?

"Can't answer?" Cheng Ling Shuang sighed, then stared at the frail woman. "What if I insist on taking him away? Are you going to make a move? With your current condition?"

"Why not?" the sickly woman smiled. "They say the older people get, the weirder their temper becomes. I'm a dying woman myself, so it won't make much difference. So today, I'm going to protect little Pandora... Anyway, if I don't do what I want now, I won't have the chance later."

They showed Cheng Ling Shuang absolutely no respect!

But Cheng Ling Shuang only let out a breath, and after a long while she said, "You want to protect him? In the face of fate?"

“The Shaniat family can be protected.” The frail woman smiled faintly. “I can protect them.”

Cheng Ling Shuang remained silent for a long time before turning around angrily with a flick of her sleeve: "Withdraw! Go! Do we need to fawn over other people's family matters? Do I, Cheng Ling Shuang, need a disciple? I don't! I don't! You're the one who should regret it! Let me tell you, my disciple Li Sushang, with her youthful face and enormous breasts, is a beauty of unparalleled grace. I was even thinking of pairing her with you, but you gave up on that yourself! Now forget about it! Regret it! Regret it! Regret it!"

She walked away muttering curses. After apologizing to everyone, Cheng Lixue hurriedly chased after the ancestor and disappeared into the distance. Even long afterward, Cheng Lingshuang's cursing could still be heard, showing how angry she really was.

Chapter 172 Either call me sister or call me...

Finally, Shen Liang watched as his biggest backer, who was also his biggest threat, left. He felt a mix of emotions. He knew very well that Cheng Ling Shuang was truly worried and wanted to take him away from the perilous situation, which was why she was being so aggressive.

She didn't even glance at the Divine Key when she left, which shows that she was completely selfless and genuinely came to protect him.

Unfortunately, he still didn't appreciate what was good for him.

—Well, I'll find an opportunity to visit Cheng Ling Shuang another day, reconnect with her, and bring her two bottles of Moutai.