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Chapter 69 I'm here, I won't die
She seemed to have touched something, but it was only the tip of the iceberg.

The corner was so small that she couldn't even feel the cold air.

Shang Xingjian gently shook the wine bottle in his hand. The dragon tendon seemed to have a spirit, as it could hover in the wine, but it had not yet awakened.

"What did Shen Luo say to you?"

Shen Luo had told her a lot, but Cheng Mai didn't know what he was talking about.

After reviewing everything Shen Luo had said, Cheng Mai quickly grasped the key information.

"The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was depleted, leaving only humans to survive. However, the spiritual energy suddenly revived hundreds of years ago because you, boss, returned to the human world." That's not exactly what they said, but that's roughly the idea.

“With the revival of spiritual energy, living beings are beginning to have opportunities again, but how could the human world, which has been hegemonic for thousands of years, tolerate these living beings coexisting with them?”

Cheng Mai looked at the wine bottle in the merchant's brief description, "Shen Luo also said that you once massacred all the Taoist temples in the world in one night, severely injuring countless temples."

Is it to give these lives a chance to survive?
"Jupiter once prophesied that when heaven and earth collapse and all things perish, the balance of gain and loss will eventually return to nothingness." Shang Xingjian kept looking at Cheng Mai as he said this.

Jupiter?

Is it a person or a star?

“Everything in the world has its destiny. All living beings are the masters of nature. If one is too powerful, it will eventually return to emptiness. But some people just don’t understand this.” Shang Xingjian said, looking at the gardener who was setting up the array. “They are trying to tame gods, demons, evil spirits, and all non-human beings in the world to drive them. This is greed.”

Cheng Mai lowered his eyes. "Historically, have these creatures also slaughtered humans?"

"So for a very long time, they were extinct," Shang Xingjian smiled. "Guess why, since I have already vanished, I have reappeared here?"

How could it be a coincidence that a deity who had already perished would return to the mortal realm a thousand years later?

Cheng Mai felt a heaviness, a heaviness that pressed down on her as if it had been pressing down on her for thousands of years.

"Who is Jupiter?" Cheng Mai suddenly asked.

"The God of Wisdom".

Cheng Mai suddenly had a realization: because she inherited the consciousness of Jupiter, she was able to feel this weight.

"Can I handle these things?"

"Of course not. You only inherited her mind, not her power. What are you daydreaming about?" Shang Xingjian bluntly exposed.

Cheng Mai couldn't help but kick Shang Xingjian's leg. "Not only my mind, but I also inherited her desire to strangle you all the time."

"Hahahaha..." Shang Xingjian burst out laughing, opened the bottle with one hand, and took a big gulp.

Cheng Mai: "!!!" The other person's dragon tendons were still soaking in it, and he actually drank it like wine?

"The Qilin weeps blood, the Heavenly Dragon returns to its place." Shang Xingjian placed the wine bottle in the air, flipped his fingertips to draw a talisman in the air and pushed it into the wine, burning it with the blood of the Qilin.

Thunder suddenly roared in the sky, dark clouds pressed down on the city, and a deafening roar came from within the black dragon.

The barrier was suddenly breached by a rain of blood. Cheng Mai, standing inside the barrier, was unaffected but could see the magnificent scene outside.

A golden dragon burst forth from the clouds, casting a brilliant light upon the dark sky. The dragon coiled around, crackling with lightning, and the great formation on the ground was uprooted and burned to ashes by the blood of the Qilin.

Merchant Jian had somehow moved away from the dragon head, and his voice pierced the air.

"I am here, you all accept your punishment."

As soon as he finished speaking, thunder and lightning struck.

Cheng Mai remained inside the barrier. Because the great formation had been uprooted, she could clearly see the evil spirits and malevolent beings outside the barrier trying to break in.

Densely packed, thousands upon thousands.

They acted without thought, like puppets, solely focused on achieving their objective. One wave of lightning strikes followed by another.

A continuous stream, an endless flow.

All Cheng Mai could see were these things. Did Old Cheng really keep so many filthy things at home?
As the war drums sounded, it seemed as if a thousand troops were rushing in.

General Meng An, his spear planted firmly on the ground, declared, "Anyone who harms my son shall die!"

General Meng An brought his ghostly soldiers to fight against these evil spirits and demons.

Cheng Mai looked at the golden light in the distance. He couldn't tell what was fighting with Shang Xingjian. All Cheng Mai could see was a wisp of black smoke.

She couldn't see clearly because of the distance.

Suddenly, the barrier shattered, and Shang Xingjian appeared, grabbing Cheng Mai's wrist. "Let's go."

His palms were cold, as if he had been injured in the recent battle.

Cheng Mai didn't move. Shang Xingjian turned to look at Cheng Mai, "The matter is resolved. General Meng An will come out, and we..."

"Shang Jianxing." Cheng Mai interrupted his supposedly excellent acting, showing no fear whatsoever.

Shang Jianxing paused noticeably, seemingly surprised that he had been exposed so quickly. He suddenly smiled, but it was a very unnatural smile. "What, you don't even recognize me anymore?"

"Don't follow his example, it's disgusting," Cheng Mai said with disgust.

Shang Jianxing seemed to be provoked by these words. He narrowed his eyes and stared at Cheng Mai, "Haha, after all these years, you haven't changed at all, you're still so young..."

A bolt of lightning struck at his feet, forcing him to take a step back.

Cheng Mai seized the opportunity to run away. Fighting ghosts and evil spirits could be seen everywhere on the rooftop. After all, Cheng Mai was still a human.

She nimbly tried to get closer to Meng An.

"Father!" Cheng Mai cried out as the evil spirit grabbed her legs. Meng An's spear descended from the sky, shattering the evil spirit's spirit.

Cheng Mai broke free and ran forward again, but Shang Jianxing was faster than her. "You're just a mere mortal now, where can you run to?"

Cheng Mai subconsciously stepped back a little and looked in the direction of Shang Xingjian.

Over there, sparks still flew and the giant dragon lingered.

"Wait for him to come and save you? I'm afraid it'll be too late." Shang Jianxing said, reaching out to grab Cheng Mai.

Cheng Mai bit her lip slightly, and suddenly disappeared from the spot just as Shang Jianxing was about to catch her.

Cheng Mai tumbled into Shang Xingjian's storage bag with a thud, landing heavily on the ground. She cried out in pain and realized she had landed in the courtyard of the thatched hut.

Rubbing her bottom as she got up, she secretly decided that she must get some blankets and mattresses from this storage bag in the future, otherwise she would be crippled every time she fell in like this.

"Not stupid."

It was the voice of the merchant, and outside there were sounds of fighting.

Cheng Mai, having eased the embarrassment of his sore buttocks, couldn't help but complain, "Aren't you the best in the world? Why did it take so long?"

"It's just a game of cat and mouse."

"I almost died!" Cheng Mai shouted angrily, but he also knew that if Shang Xingjian always made things sound so simple, then they were definitely not simple at all.

At least the thing that came to deal with the business today is not a simple thing.

"I'm here, I won't die."

The exact same words were the second time that Jian from the business had made that promise to her.