Their commission was suspicious.

Kiana's move wasn't cowardice; it was a strategic retreat.

Cecilia and Durandal both taught Kiana this.

Even though we outnumber you and might not be able to beat you, it doesn't matter, as long as we can run fast.

"I'm sorry, that won't work," Chen Luo suddenly said.

"Huh? Why?" Kiana was taken aback.

"After all, I don't want my bar to be harassed by people from Anti-Entropy," Chen Luo said, pointing to the invincible Grandpa Xing in front of him.

"Is this the time to talk about these things?" Kiana was shocked. What kind of strange way of thinking was Chen Luo?

While Chen Luo and Kiana were talking, the countless tactical mechs that had been standing behind Xing were slowly moving in other directions, forming an encirclement.

Himeko and the others were quite confident about escaping, so they didn't care. However, Chen Luo's sudden change of heart caught everyone present completely off guard.

"Now you Valkyries are really surrounded. None of you trash can escape now. And it looks like there are one or two familiar faces among them. Did you accidentally kill Bronya this time too? Ugh, and this bastard too!" Xing looked at Chen Luo with considerable displeasure.

Xing knew Chen Luo all too well. That bastard Chen Luo had taken her hostage twice. The first time, he used her as a hostage to plunder most of the stuff in the Anti-Entropy branch in Changkong City.

The second time, the hostage successfully escaped from Walter's hands. Although it was said that she was exchanged for some kind of evolution fruit, Anzu still remembered this humiliation.

Although Chen Luo's close combat ability is indeed quite outstanding, the question is, who would engage in close combat when they have a numerical advantage?

And with so many tactical mechs behind me, and the flying dragons charging right at my face, tell me how I can lose!

"Um... Invincible Grandma Xing, I'm not a Valkyrie, so can you please not hit me?" Chen Luo asked, raising his hand.

"What do you think? Don't worry, I'll kill the other Valkyries without hesitation, but I won't kill you."

"Really?"

"Yes, I'll show you what true humiliation is! I'll make you lick my feet 100 times!"

"...I slept with her!"

Chen Luo ultimately decided not to surrender.

"How are we supposed to fight this? So many tactical mechs. I should have known better than to throw away that water; that way, we'd at least have a fighting chance. Didn't you say you used up most of your thread reserves to create those crystals?" Kiana said.

Kiana had absolute faith in Chen Luo's strength, but Chen Luo himself said that his thread reserves were almost gone and that he was currently "weak".

This made Kiana somewhat worried about Chen Luo's performance.

"Don't worry, Aro will definitely have a solution, otherwise he wouldn't be wasting his time here with them," Mei comforted him.

Regardless of how strong Chen Luo is, he is quite smart. If he really can't win, he will definitely try to run away from the bar immediately.

Moreover, Chen Luo is an all-powerful traveler.

"Solution? With so many tactical mechs here, what do you have to fight me with?" Xing stood arrogantly amidst the protection of the mechs.

Xing didn't mind taking one last look at that desperate struggle.

"Do you need me to take care of this...?" Bronya asked after a moment's thought.

If we're talking purely about intelligence, Bronya could absolutely crush Xing.

"No need, it's not a big problem. By the way, have you heard of the Crimson Kite Immortal?" Chen Luo asked.

"The Crimson Iris Immortal, isn't that...?"

"Alright, that's good. Kiana, put on this glove." Chen Luo solemnly handed a glove to Kiana.

"Huh? Oh. And then?" Kiana asked, seemingly not at all nervous.

Although the opposing team had many tactical mechs, Kiana always felt that the advantage was on her side.

"The glove in your hand is blessed by the Crimson Kite Immortal. It is engraved with mysterious runes. As long as you loudly recite the blessing incantation and snap your fingers, something magical will happen," Chen Luo said.

"Really? What's that incantation?"

“I did not lie, Immortal Red Iris.”

"I know you're not lying, so tell me."

"I already told you, Immortal Red Iris, I didn't lie."

"I'm not the Crimson Kite Immortal, what's the point of telling me I'm not lying?"

With a dark expression, Chen Luo took out another glove from his storage space that was exactly the same as the one Kiana was holding, and handed it to Mei.

Kiana's account is now useless.

"Mei, come here. You should understand what I mean, right?" Chen Luo asked.

"Understood." Mei nodded.

"But do you really want to shout it out loud?"

"Of course."

"I didn't lie, Immortal Red Kite!"

"Snapped!"

As the snap of his fingers rang out, Chen Luo turned to look at Kiana.

"You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Chen Luo's face darkened even more as he looked at Kiana, who had just uttered the "spell".

"Huh? What did you say? I don't understand. And why isn't anything magical happening?" Kiana looked around in confusion.

"If you're not sincere, nothing will work. Immortal Chiyuan has rejected you," Chen Luo said irritably.

Because Kiana's snap came so suddenly, Chen Luo didn't even have time to control the group of Titans behind Grandpa Xing.

"What should I do?"

"Hey, are you guys done playing? If you're done, then obediently lie down on the ground, stick your butts out, and surrender. I'll spare your lives since your comedy performance was quite entertaining." Anzu, who had somehow ended up sitting on the tactical mech, yawned and said.

Because she had absolute confidence, Xing wasn't afraid of making a mistake.

Although it sounds arrogant, but...

You think you can beat me with 17 cards? If you can, I'll eat this tactical mech!

"Let's change the incantation. Say: 'Red Iris Immortal, the Herrscher of Knowledge is the cutest person in the world!'" Chen Luo said after thinking for a moment.

"Uh... are spells really that casual?"

"Hurry up!" Chen Luo yelled at Kiana.

"Oh." Kiana pouted and then snapped her fingers.

"Red-flower Sage, the Herrscher of Recognition is the cutest person in the world!"

As Kiana finished speaking, the mechs that had been surrounding the crowd suddenly emitted a red light from their eyes. The Titan mech that was sitting on the bottom of the bored An suddenly grabbed An, who was sitting on its shoulder, and threw her to the ground, stepping on her body.

However, the Titan mech's power was controlled, and it did not cause much damage to the opponent.

But the psychological trauma suffered by the other party at this moment is undoubtedly greater.

"What happened?"

"Ah, the Crimson Kite Immortal has appeared! He has cast a divine spell and taken control of all the tactical mechs. Kiana, you can control these mechs now," Chen Luo said without any enthusiasm.

Chen Luo's own passion had been extinguished by Kiana.

"But I just called for the Herald of Knowledge, so why did the Crimson Kite Immortal appear?"

"Shut up. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll make them rebel again. Do you believe me?" Chen Luo said, pointing at the mechs.

"Oh." Kiana shrank back timidly.

As expected, the incantation was a complete joke. Chen Luo must have controlled these mechs through some unknown means.

"Mei, Kiana bullied me." Chen Luo stretched out his arms and asked Mei for a hug.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry anymore. It's all Kiana's fault," Mei said, giving Chen Luo a gentle hug.

"???" Kiana felt like she had been stabbed in the back.

It's clearly the other person who's been bullying me, so what do you mean I'm the one bullying them?

After giving Kiana a smug look, Chen Luo released Mei and slowly walked over to An, who was being beaten up by the Titan mech.

"Wow, invincible Grandpa Xing, what happened to you? You look so disheveled this time?" Chen Luo poked the other's face and asked curiously.

"Chen Luo, you bastard, what did you do to my tactical mech?" Xing opened her mouth to bite Chen Luo's finger that was poking her face, but Chen Luo seemed to have already seen through her thoughts and quickly withdrew his hand.

"No, it's my tactical mech now," Chen Luo corrected.

"Speaking of which, this scene feels strangely familiar." Looking down at Xing, Chen Luo had a peculiar sense of déjà vu.

"When we first met, you seemed to have been defeated by Durandal. The second time we met, you were defeated by me. The third time we met, you were defeated by your own mech... What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again."

Chen Luo felt like he had said something wrong, but at the same time, he felt like there was nothing wrong with it.

"What should we trade with Cocolia this time?" Chen Luo asked as he manipulated the silk threads to wrap around Xing.

"Damn it, just kill me!" Xing said unhappily.

"I'm sorry, no way. I've never seen a money-bringing child like you in my life. How can I kill you so easily?" Chen Luo shook his head.

This invincible Grandpa Xing is truly a very useful tool, extremely useful.

However, precisely because the other party is a useful tool, Chen Luo will not turn it into a real puppet. After all, if it were really turned into a puppet, its acting would seem a bit artificial. The current real defeat is the most natural defeat.

"Chen Luo, something terrible has happened! The Xuanyuan Sword is in trouble!" Chen Luo, who was just thinking about how to legitimately get something from Anti-Entropy, suddenly heard Mei's exclamation.

Chen Luo turned his head and saw that the Xuanyuan Sword, which Mei was holding in her arms, was actually glowing.

"Aro, there's a force pulling this sword!" Mei clutched the Xuanyuan Sword tightly, but the sword's light shone even brighter.

At the height of its glory, a sudden flash of inspiration appeared, and a seemingly ethereal girl slowly floated out of the sword, while she herself held a phantom Xuanyuan Sword in her hand.

"Finally, I've escaped from the long seal..." The girl holding the illusory longsword had a slightly ethereal voice.

"What is this...?" Mei and Kiana stared at the object in astonishment.

“This is one of the three items I want—a ghost,” Chen Luo said, slowly standing up and looking at the other person.

Strictly speaking, the other party is not a ghost.

Ji Lin was a great hero in the early days of this civilization who sealed away the Judgment-level Honkai Beast Chi You, who was ravaging the land. Chi You was successfully sealed away by Ji Lin's own body, the Xuanyuan Sword, and two little gluttons.

For thousands of years, Ji Lin's true form fought alone in endless darkness. In order to persevere, she had to give up the love and hope in her heart, and merged all her loneliness, fear and regret into darkness, thus becoming the girl in front of us—the corrupted Ji Lin.

As for the main body?

If Chen Luo wasn't mistaken, there was still a power within the Xuanyuan Sword, a pure power completely opposite to this dark aura. However, that power seemed exceptionally small, somewhat weak compared to the overwhelming darkness.

Chen Luo sensed hatred emanating from the black-haired girl in front of him.

Hatred is also a negative emotion, and it is even the most powerful negative emotion.

It is also the staple food of inner demons.

The target of their hatred is the person that Ji Lin herself protected back then.

If he persists for ten years, the other party may still think about protecting ordinary people. If the past 100 years have passed, this feeling may have weakened, but given Ji Lin's personality, he will remain steadfast.

But what about the past 1000 years, or 5000 years?

The love and protection that were originally there were instantly reversed, turning into boundless hatred.

Love can turn into hatred.

Love and hate can easily transform into each other.

"Long time no see, Ji Lin." A voice suddenly rang out.

Upon hearing that familiar voice, the corrupted Ji Lin, who had originally planned to leave this place to gather power in Chi You's heart, froze, followed by a surge of anger and hatred.

"Red! Iris!" Amidst that furious voice, everyone turned to look at the gray-haired girl who had suddenly appeared beside Chen Luo.

"Sigh." The Herrscher of Knowledge, sensing the hatred in the voice of the corrupted Ji Lin, couldn't help but sigh.

"I'm sorry. I didn't have time to get back then," Shi Zhilu Zhe apologized with a heavy heart.

The Herald of Knowledge has always considered himself to be Fu Hua, since he has been molded into Fu Hua's shape anyway.

"Further words are useless!" Holding the illusory longsword that was gradually turning pitch black, the corrupted Ji Lin flew down.

Right now, Ji Lin just wants to vent his anger!