WebNovel Chapter 1307 Is Chi Ling the bait?
Chapter 1307 Is Chi Ling the bait?
"..."
Long Jun fell silent once again.
Ning Ruan was still transmitting his voice:
"Hasn't the city lord contacted them?"
"Or is it that they don't want to go either?"
"If that's the case, then you shouldn't have come to me at all."
"If none of them want to go, why would I?"
Long Jun: "..."
He frowned, looking troubled, and sighed helplessly, "Young Fellow Daoist Ning, what you're worried about won't happen."
"That's not necessarily true," Ning Ruan said. "Even if the city lord can refrain from attacking me, what about the other city lords? Can the city lord guarantee that?"
Long Jun: "Of course I..."
Before he could finish speaking, Ning Ruan said, "Even if the city lord dares, it's no use. I'm still not going."
Long Jun: "..."
Having said all that, what else could he say?
Long Jun could only turn around and leave.
The first thing to do upon returning to the city lord's mansion was to contact the other city lords.
His tone was particularly unfriendly, "I knew Ning Ruan wouldn't agree, but you still made me come all this way."
"Doesn't the Shadow Clan have a destiny in the Eternal Domain? Letting him go is the same. Speaking of corpse puppets, the Nether Phoenix Clan loves the Shadow Clan the most."
"Bullshit, why don't you send your Jiao clan?"
Long Jun had barely finished speaking when he was met with a furious rebuke from the city lord of the film city.
"Heh, if my Jiao Clan's prodigy were in the Eternal Domain recently, I would of course let him go." Long Jun said with a sneer, "But things don't go as planned. The one in the Eternal Domain is your Shadow Clan's prodigy. Although it's not destiny, his talent is indeed not bad."
"He is a descendant of the twelfth elder of my Shadow Clan. How dare you send him?" The Shadow Clan city lord was almost laughing in anger. "If anything happens to him, you, Long Jun, will be the first to be held accountable."
"Alright, Ning Ruan disagreed, which was within our expectations."
The city lord of Thunder Turtle City interrupted the two's argument, "The most urgent task is to choose another person as bait, and it would be best to set off tomorrow."
"Besides Ning Ruan, aren't there two other Destiny Stars? With Destiny Stars around, we're not afraid they won't be tempted." The Shadow City Lord sneered.
“Destiny…that’s acceptable.” The city lord of Jiaocheng nodded.
The city lord of Thunder Turtle City said, "Then I'll have to trouble City Lord Dragon to make another trip."
Long Jun was extremely dissatisfied: "It's me again?"
The City Lord of the Film City said, "Who made City Lord Long so generous? Just because of Ning Ruan, he even held the Azure Sea Morning Banquet. Compared to us, you are naturally easier to talk to."
Long Jun: "..."
I should have known all this trouble would happen.
He would never have done it before.
Not right either.
If they really don't do it, then Ning Ruan won't have a chance to discover the problem with that dead fox.
Wouldn't he be sleeping with a corpse that's been dead for who knows how long?
The thought of this made Long Jun feel a chill run down his spine.
……
After breakfast.
Ning Ruan then instructed more than a dozen Wuyin bandits to go to all the well-regarded shops in the ten cities to order food for her.
Each household orders hundreds of servings.
This was a request that none of the Boundless Bandits had ever seen before.
But even they themselves have now become protectors of others... what could be less common than that?
So the dozen or so bandits quickly obeyed and left.
Lei Zhen followed behind, his lips moved, but in the end he said nothing.
He could probably tell too.
It seems Ning Ruan is really preparing to leave...
Early the next morning.
Ning Ruan returned to Yunqi Terrace in Jiaocheng.
I harvested quite a few Lingke fruits from the spirit of the ancient Lingke tree.
"I'm really done for this time, I'm not lying to you."
The little tree spirit was crying and wailing, almost swearing an oath to the heavens.
Of all the demon spirits in the ten cities, the one in Jiao City is the most unruly.
Ning Ruan casually tossed out a few bottles of spirit liquid. "Is that enough?"
The little tree spirit's eyes immediately lit up, and it quickly accepted the bottles of spirit liquid. "Master, these are certainly enough to produce spirit fruits, but if you want to produce more, it's definitely not enough."
Ning Ruan then tossed out a few more bottles, "What now?"
The little tree spirit blinked its eyes, "This time it can bear more fruit, but if Master wants even more..."
Ning Ruan squinted at her and said, "I still have the things, but if the Spirit Fruit you give me isn't enough, then there's no need for the tree to exist. We might as well cut it down."
"At worst, we can just compensate them, what do you say?"
"..."
The little tree spirit trembled and quickly changed its words: "That's enough, that's enough. This is more than enough. Next time I see Master, I'll definitely give you lots of spirit fruits!"
Ning Ruan nodded in satisfaction: "Good girl."
Little Tree Spirit: "..." If I'm naughty, you can cut me down. How can I be naughty?
Lei Zhen returned even later.
Unlike Ning Ruan, he did not come directly from the teleportation array.
Instead, they first observed the area from the outside.
"Indeed, some outstanding talents have left today."
Lei Zhendao.
Ning Ruan, munching on a spirit fruit, looked up curiously: "Who is it? Is it one of the ten major races?"
"..."
Lei Zhen paused for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No."
Yesterday, Ning Ruan's conversation with the city lord of Jiaocheng was mostly conducted via telepathy.
Based on only a few scattered words, he was unable to deduce what the two had discussed.
But at this moment, he could roughly guess what it was.
"It's the Flame Sparrow Clan's Destiny, the one you fought yesterday."
"It was her?" Ning Ruan asked in surprise. "She went there voluntarily?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he added, "If she didn't go willingly, no one could force her to."
"But didn't she have any protectors with her? Did the protectors agree to let her go?"
Lei Zhen nodded: "On the day of the Azure Sea Tide Banquet, she had protectors behind her, but they did not show themselves and must have been hiding in the shadows."
"..." Ning Ruan pondered, "Senior Lei, do you think they can capture those two from the Dark Phoenix Clan this time?"
Lei Zhen thought for a moment and nodded, saying, "It should be possible. The incident happened suddenly before, and the city lords of the ten cities underestimated their opponents, which gave those two an opportunity to take advantage of the situation."
"Now that they dare to chase after us, they must be confident."
"Oh." Ning Ruan stopped thinking about it.
But what she never expected was...
Only three days have passed.
The city lords of the eight cities, who had quietly left at some unknown time, returned to the Eternal Domain in a very disheveled manner in front of everyone.
The one who was most seriously injured was the city lord of Jiaocheng.
Before they even returned to Jiaocheng, they fell straight down from mid-air.
This terrified the cultivators of Jiaocheng.
The ten cities were in uproar.
The Lord's Mansion of Jiaocheng.
The main hall was deathly silent.
The thick, pungent smell of blood filled the air, making it hard to breathe.
The seven city lords were scattered throughout the hall, some sitting, some standing, all with somber expressions.
On the jade bed next to the main seat, Long Jun lay with a deathly pale face. A light-elemental spirit master was carefully channeling spiritual power to repair the deep, bone-revealing wound on his chest.
In this suffocating silence, a lone figure stood in the center of the hall.
He was also seriously injured, his right wing drooping unnaturally behind him, and half of his body was soaked in blood.
But he seemed to feel no pain, only staring intently at the eight city lords in front of him.
His eyes were churning with incredibly intense emotions.
After a long while, his hoarse voice finally broke the suffocating atmosphere.
“Lords of the city…you made your promises.”
"You personally promised that you would guarantee her safety!"