Start from the God of Death and break through the world.

Chapter 1153 I was obviously the one who came first

Therefore, the current situation on the continent of gods and demons has become a difficult mess to handle. The End Space is very difficult to deal with, while Paradise is doing its own thing and has no intention of caring about the behavior of the natives in this world.

After all, Paradise operates by letting the world roam free and only collecting resources. As long as the Heavenly Demons provide tribute to Paradise, Paradise will not interfere with anything else.

However, if someone from another dimension invades the God and Demon Continent, the Paradise will send people to stop them, which is somewhat like collecting protection money.

What? You, End Space, are saying you just want to bring your own supporters back?

Please, your supporters are mining on my turf, and you want to go back?

What? You said that when the End Space sent people here, this continent was still unclaimed?

Please, you're taken now, okay?

In short, Paradise is clearly a domineering deadbeat. Since Chuchu can benefit Paradise by mining here, how could they easily let her go?

Especially after the ninth-tier peak of the End Space suffered a defeat, the Paradise became even more rampant.

It's hard to say about the nine spaces, but the Paradise is truly a place where the strong rule. If you don't subdue the Paradise, it's impossible to get them to release you.

Chu Chu and Xia Ren are currently only being held captive. Paradise is counting on those two to generate value, so they won't harm their lives. The End Space can't handle it, so they can only helplessly put the matter aside for the time being.

Chu Chu and Xia Ren were unaware of the deeper reasons behind what had happened outside; they only felt abandoned by the End Space.

"Stop talking such discouraging things. Dead people don't come back to life."

Chu Chu's pickaxe clanged against the minerals, but she wasn't actually using any mining skills; she was just venting her frustration by smashing the minerals.

"But... I really don't want to believe he's dead... Boss Lu was so strong, and such a good person..."

"Shrimp said in a low voice."

"Sigh, what's the use of saying anything now? Will the avatars in my friend list light up?"

As Chu Chu spoke, she glanced at her friends list again, almost as if possessed.

It would have been better if she hadn't scanned it at all; once she did, her beautiful eyes widened in surprise.

Shrimp, shrimp meat!?

Chu Chu screamed, startling Xia Ren as well, because Xia Ren had never seen Chu Chu so distraught, as if a mortal had seen a ghost.

Startled, Xia Ren looked around nervously, thinking some danger was about to strike. He instinctively moved closer to Chu Chu, grabbed her arm, and asked anxiously, "W-what's wrong?"

Chu Chu felt the huge, soft touch on her arm, and her pretty face twitched. "Why are you hugging me? I wanted to show you your friends list. Am I hallucinating from exhaustion?"

"Why are you looking at my friends list...?"

As Xia Ren was speaking, he also listened to Chu Chu and opened the friends menu. After seeing this, he couldn't continue speaking. His mouth was so wide open that it could fit an egg.

"Lu...Lu...Lu...Boss Lu...he's alive!?"

Xia Ren was so excited she could barely speak; she hugged Chu Chu's arm and jumped around.

Chu Chu was also a little dazed, feeling overwhelmed by the huge surprise. But she wanted to appear calm in front of Xia Ren, so she cleared her throat and said, "Don't be so happy yet. I've never heard of people from our area being able to come back to life. I hope it's not a system error and all your happiness is for nothing."

"No, no, it can't be! Boss Lu must be alive! No, he was never dead to begin with!"

The shrimp was very happy and completely ignored what Chu Chu was saying.

Seeing Xia Ren laughing so happily, Chu Chu didn't say anything more. She just snorted, "Hmph, I was right. Evil lives on. He won't die so easily."

"So I'm the scourge after all."

Just then, a voice came from behind them, making Chu Chu shudder and her hair stand on end.

Before the two could react and turn around, the voice came again, "That troublemaker should leave."

Hearing the familiar yet unfamiliar voice, the two slowly turned around and saw a familiar face.

For a moment, they all felt it was still somewhat unreal, and Xia Ren even murmured as if in a dream, "Boss Lu?"

"it's me."

Lu Li nodded, then looked around the mine, before fixing his gaze on Chu Chu and smiling, "Your outfit is quite novel."

Chu Chu subconsciously straightened her work clothes. Since she was working here, she naturally couldn't dress in her usual style, nor could she be too refined. Lu Li's words made her feel somewhat embarrassed and annoyed.

But her attention was quickly diverted because she saw another woman next to Lu Li, and she knew this woman very well.

"Xueqing...how could you..."

Chu Chu called out the other person's real name. After all, the two had known each other since childhood, and she felt that spatial titles such as Valkyrie were too cumbersome.

"Grandpa Chu misses you. I've come to take you back."

Lu Xueqing spoke frankly, taking two steps closer to Lu Li as she spoke, because she and Lu Li had actually been there for a minute and had overheard a few words of conversation.

Although there was a coincidence that "speak of the devil and he appears" today, Lu Xueqing didn't think so. She wondered if it was just a coincidence that she and Lu Li had just arrived here and heard the two women talking about Lu Li.
Doesn't this mean that the two women are talking about Lu Li every day, if not all the time?

So, her intuition, a quintessential female trait, warned her that something was amiss.

"No, I meant to say, it's so good that you're still alive..."

Chu Chu said with emotion that when Lu Li died in battle, she knew that Lu Xueqing was also smashed to pieces, so she secretly shed tears, after all, she was a good friend she had known since childhood in the space.

But she was naturally perceptive, with eyesight better than a shrimp. Just by observing Lu Xueqing's subtle movements and the way the two stood and their expressions, she already knew what had happened during the hundred million years that the two had been missing.

For a moment, Chu Chu felt a mix of emotions.

Why is this happening?
My first friend has come back to life, and the person I cherish in my heart is not dead. Two joyful things have come together, and these two joys will bring me even more joy.

I should have enjoyed this dreamlike blissful time.

But why did it turn out like this...? I was the one who met him first...

"It can be said that fortune and misfortune are intertwined."

Lu Xueqing glanced at Lu Li, then slowly said.

Something is wrong!
Something is very wrong!

Lu Li suddenly realized that the atmosphere in the room was completely wrong!

He originally thought he was just there to rescue people, and everyone should be happy to be reunited, but he suddenly realized that he seemed to have made a fatal mistake.

He's not the naive kid he used to be, so how could he not notice the changes in their past relationship?

But he has somehow managed to put himself in such an awkward, in-between situation, which is truly difficult to handle.

"No matter what, it's good that Sister Xueqing is still alive. I wonder what your great-grandmother says?"

Chu Chu's words contained both sincerity and ulterior motives, because she knew about the other person's family situation.

"My great-grandmother examined my injuries and said there was nothing seriously wrong. She also praised Lu Li and gave him some cultivation resources."

Lu Xueqing seemed to be answering a completely different question, but it made Lu Li break out in a cold sweat because she was looking at him. "Right?"

Lu Li could only nod reluctantly, "Grandma Xue is easier to get along with than I imagined; she's a kind elder."

Chu Chu's expression turned strange upon hearing this. She thought to herself, "When did the word 'kind' become associated with that person? I only met him once when I was a child, and I was scared half to death, okay?"
But she still grasped the key point of the words. She could tell that Lu Li had called her "Grandma," so how could she not understand?

For a moment, I felt even more frustrated, wanting to say that I was the one who arrived first.

"Boss Lu, it's so good that you're still alive! Actually, every time I develop a new dish over the years, I've always saved a portion for you!"

Xia Ren didn't seem to think too much about it; she just happily took out special storage containers filled with bento boxes she had prepared.

These new dishes she developed for bento boxes, which she originally thought would never be given away, have simply become a way to commemorate Lu Li.

Lu Li was also touched when he saw this, "I've missed your cooking all these years."

Upon hearing this, Lu Xueqing glanced at Xia Ren again and suddenly felt that the other person looked somewhat familiar. "Wait...you...you could you be, Xia Ren?"

"Don't you recognize me, Sister Lu?"

As Xia Ren spoke, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten to greet her, and he became a little nervous and awkward. "I almost forgot, Sister Lu, you've survived such a disaster, that's wonderful."

Lu Xueqing looked at the shrimp with a strange expression, "You were so thin and small when you were little..."

She was wondering if improving one's cooking skills and eating and drinking well could actually affect a person's development.
Is this still the petite girl she remembers? How did she grow into such towering peaks?

At this moment, Lu Li felt as if he were being enveloped by an invisible hand of fate. He felt that fate was playing a huge joke on him and deliberately tormenting him.

What a coincidence! The three girls I'm closest to are all people I've known since childhood!

Lu Li hadn't expected that when Chu Chu said that Xia Ren was her best friend, he thought Chu Chu met Xia Ren in the End Space.

But he forgot that Chu Chu didn't seem to like socializing. How could someone who was just starting out and couldn't even take care of herself suddenly have a best friend appear in her online space?
He didn't ask Xia Ren or Chu Chu later, but it seems that Chu Chu and Xia Ren knew each other a long time ago, and neither of them originally belonged to the End Space.

"Hehe, I grow up too, Sister Lu, come and try it. My cooking is much better than when I was little. It's not like we were playing house anymore."

Shrimp smiled somewhat embarrassedly, and noticing Lu Xueqing's gaze, he tugged at his apron again. The more he pulled it down, the more obvious the shape and size of the fabric became.

Lu Xueqing originally had her own thoughts, but she couldn't be wary of the shrimp at all, and she couldn't bring herself to 'confront' it, otherwise she would feel like she was bullying someone.

Seeing the other person's innocent smile, she was also infected by it. When she saw that Lu Li had already opened a lunchbox, her foodie soul was immediately awakened.

Indeed, the skill of cooking shrimp has reached its peak in the last hundred million years. Even a top expert would be shaken if they ate it. It can now be used as a control skill.

Soon, at Xia Ren's invitation, the group sat down and began to enjoy the food. However, Chu Chu seemed to be sulking and didn't seem to have much of an appetite.

When asked, she said she had just eaten cake and wasn't hungry.

Well, although everyone sat together to enjoy the food, the atmosphere was still unusually strange.

This feeling was so unbearable that Lu Li felt it was even worse than crawling on the ground as a slime. He would rather endure the pain of being torn to pieces by those threads than sit here for another second.

It was truly like having thorns in my back, like sitting on pins and needles.

"You have trespassed into my forbidden area and are even dining here. Isn't that extremely arrogant?"

Just then, a voice rang out, and an immeasurable, terrifying aura rose above the forbidden area, enveloping the entire sky.

Upon hearing the voice, Lu Li immediately stood up, inwardly exclaiming, 'A savior!'

But on the surface, he was quite serious, and even gave a mocking snort, "I was immersed in the joy of reuniting with an old friend, and I was planning to settle things with you later. Since you're courting death, then I'll grant your wish!"

Having said that, he righteously and powerfully shattered the dome of the mine with a single strike, the force of which even created a large hole in the sky.

With just this one move, the demon in the area was subdued, as the sealing energy surrounding it was completely shattered.

But before the Heavenly Demon could even change his attitude and try to negotiate, Lu Li locked onto the Heavenly Demon's aura and forcibly pulled him out of a forbidden area with his soul intent, dragging him towards the sky.

The Heavenly Demon struggled fiercely. He did not want to ascend to heaven at all, but he could not resist the domineering soul intent of Lu Li. In the end, he flew into the sky. In the eyes of outsiders, it looked as if he was ascending into the sky with boundless power, ready to fight Lu Li in the heavens.

"What a demon! Such pure soul intent! No wonder you are the strongest in this realm. I will grant your wish and fight you in the outer heavens!"

Lu Li cheered, and then without saying another word, he stepped into the sky, leaving the hellish battlefield below.

The demon of this realm was completely dumbfounded. He thought to himself, "I didn't intend to fight you from beyond the heavens. I was just about to beg for mercy. How did it turn out like this?"

Wasn't it your domineering power that bound me, rendering me unable to move or speak? What domineering soul intent? That was clearly the power that bound me!
At this moment, a thousand curses ran through Tianmo's mind, but his greatest emotion was fear, because he was already close to the peak of the ninth rank. Even if he encountered a true peak ninth rank expert, he should be able to exchange a few blows.

But now this man in black has actually used his soul power to immobilize him and manipulate him at will. How could he not be terrified?
(End of this chapter)