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Chapter 1159 You can ask him to solve any problem! ?

After hearing Aizen's words, Lu Li roughly understood what was going on. He didn't believe that someone as meticulous as Aizen would not have checked his friend list after leaving seclusion.

Chu Chu Lu Li was unaware of the details, but he remembered that when Shrimp temporarily joined the party, Aizen had Shrimp as a friend.

He guessed that Aizen probably just assumed it was a regular mission since the profile picture didn't have an "X". Also, Aizen probably didn't care too much about the people in his friend list.

To put it bluntly, he had always known that Aizen was an arrogant person with a cold and indifferent nature. Apart from those he recognized who could stand with him at the top, he wouldn't care too much about anyone else.

If Aizen were to discover that Emu and the others still had grayed-out icons thousands of years after leaving the pass, he might make a special trip to find them out of consideration for their past relationship, or because of Chuchu's forging value and Emu's culinary skills.

However, the fact that the avatar has turned gray for a few years is not a particularly unusual situation in the ninth-order realm, and Aizen would not pay special attention to it.

However, Lu Li saw through these things but didn't need to point them out. After all, Aizen had no obligation to save people. He was probably in a state of paranoia during that time.

Judging from the way he fought with the Soul Singer, you can tell that Aizen didn't just fight for a short while after finding the other party; they might have been fighting for several years already.

Ultimately, Lu Li felt that the blame still lay with him, so he couldn't possibly blame Aizen for this.

"Brother Lu, I need to go back and settle the previous mission, and I also have something to discuss with Manjusaka."

Aizen seemed to suddenly remember something, and after saying this, he gave Lu Li a look that said "good luck" before leaving the scene.

"what?"

Lu Li opened his mouth, wanting to say to Sōyōsuke, "You disloyal bastard!"

Sure enough, after Aizen left, the atmosphere between them became strange again.

"Chuchu, are you really not coming with me?"

In the awkward atmosphere, Lu Xueqing spoke first.

"No, I've been in the End Space for far longer than I've lived through my childhood. This is my home now. Could you tell my grandfather that I'll come back to visit him when I have some free time?"

Chu Chu shook her head and said, "Are you kidding? What would she do going back now?"
It's true that she ran away from home, but she did come back home at some point, so it wasn't a serious matter.

Moreover, if she goes back with Sister Xueqing now, wouldn't that be the opportunity for... you know?
"Is that so... I hope Grandpa Chu won't be angry when he hears this."

Lu Xueqing's eyes were filled with complicated emotions. She then looked at Xia Ren and asked, "Little Xia, do you want to go home and visit your family?"

"No... I don't want to either..."

Shrimp said timidly, "Anyway, I have Sister Chuchu looking after me here, which is fine."

Lu Xueqing was speechless for a moment. She had come with the excuse of bringing people with her, but no one was willing to go back with her.

But she couldn't force them to leave with her. After all, Chu Chu was different from Xia Ren. Their method of crossing spaces involved using special tools to actually move through space, and they were now people from the End Space.

"Alright then, take care, you two. If you encounter any problems, you can ask this guy for help."

Lu Xueqing pointed at Lu Li, her words surprising Chu Chu.

However, Chu Chu quickly realized what Lu Xueqing meant. Her words implied that Lu Li was being treated as one of her own, which naturally put them at a disadvantage.

Thinking about this, Chu Chu felt a little annoyed and frustrated.

"Are you leaving now?"

Lu Li asked from the side.

"how?"

Lu Xueqing glanced at Lu Li sideways, "Can't wait for me to leave? What do you plan to do after I'm gone?"

"No! What are you talking about?"

Lu Li quickly shook his head, "I was just thinking that your trip back and forth was a bit too rushed?"

Lu Xueqing paused for a second, "...I have a strange sense of urgency. If I don't hurry up and improve my strength, I'm afraid I won't be able to stand on the front line in the future."

She had one more thing she didn't say: If I can't stand at the top, how can I fight alongside you and protect your back?

Lu Li seemed to understand Lu Xueqing's thoughts, and his expression became serious, "Xueqing..."

For a moment, a thousand words flashed through his mind, but in the end, he grinned and said, "See you next time, I will be stronger."

Lu Xueqing sighed inwardly. She also longed to cultivate with Lu Li, but she knew that if she stayed by Lu Li's side, her martial arts would only become weaker. Moreover, they no longer had the ability to exchange their origins, and the difference in their cultivation levels was enormous.

The discussion of martial arts between the two could no longer be considered a friendly exchange; it would simply be Lu Li giving guidance unilaterally. In that case, her path would become closer to Lu Li's, which would not be good for either of them.

After all, if you want to improve at your peak, it's best to have a different kind of opponent.

Lu Xueqing is domineering and proud at heart. She hopes that Lu Li's strongest opponent is her, that she is the one who can fight alongside Lu Li, and that the person Lu Li longs for is also her.

Thoughts flashed through her mind, and she finally smiled, a rare occurrence. "As long as you don't go to the Hehuan Academy to become stronger, that's fine."

Lu Li was speechless for a moment, but seeing that Lu Xueqing had already walked away and then the teleportation beam descended, he smiled with relief, "The more you say that, the more I want to go and see..."

"Don't go!"

Two voices suddenly rang out beside him, startling Lu Li.

He scratched his head. "What's wrong? You also know the secrets of that academy? As cultivators, what place can't we go?"

Chu Chu and Xia Ren exchanged a glance, both seeing the embarrassment on each other's faces. Finally, Chu Chu said, "In short, that's not a good place, you're not allowed to go!"

Lu Li nodded, but did not reply.

That's how people are; the more something is forbidden, the more they want to see what's going on.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Lu Xueqing has returned to the Origin Space and is probably going to deal with those threads to improve her strength. She won't be wandering around outside for a while. Lu Li felt sorry for Bie Li, but he wasn't too sentimental. He knew that she would eventually have to go into seclusion to treat her injuries, and there would be plenty of time in the future.

Now that he's back in the End Space, it's time to get down to business.

"By the way, Chuchu, can you repair these pieces of equipment?"

Lu Li took out the broken equipment from the storage space; it was the equipment that Chu Chu had made before.

"Hmph, no way!"

Chu Chu was very unhappy. She felt that Lu Li was too shameless. He had just been showing affection to another woman in front of her and said that he was going to go to Hehuan Academy to play around. Now he wanted her to help him make equipment.

"Please, these things are really important to me, and only you, Chuchu, could do this."

Lu Li is no longer the young man he once was, and he knows that Chu Chu isn't really unable to do it, but is just angry.

As for the reason for his anger, he probably knew, but for Lu Li, this matter was really difficult to handle.

On one hand, he had considered the other person a good friend in his early years and didn't want to sever ties, but on the other hand, he couldn't betray Xueqing, who had shared life and death with him. In short, he was in a difficult situation. He couldn't very well do what he had read in the derivative works and shout, "You are all my wings," could he? He felt that he would really be killed by a woodcutter's axe if he did that.

Therefore, he couldn't think of a good solution right away, so he could only stabilize the situation first and then think it over again.

"Can't do it!"

Chu Chu said angrily.

Just then, Xia Ren grabbed Chu Chu's arm and shook it, "Chu Chu, I know you can do it, you're the best, please help Boss Lu~"

Chu Chu was so angry she was speechless. She glared at Xia Ren and thought to herself, "Even now, you're still defending him. Little sister, you're really going to be bullied to death."

"I……"

Chu Chu opened her mouth, feeling somewhat caught in a dilemma.

At this moment, Xia Ren said again, "Chu Chu, look, if we have better equipment, Boss Lu will be even stronger, right?"

Chu Chu nodded subconsciously.

Shrimp continued, "Look again, if Boss Lu is strong enough, he won't die easily, right?"

Chu Chu looked at the shrimp as if she had seen a ghost and nodded.

"If Boss Lu had been alive all along, would we have avoided what happened before?"

Shrimp said earnestly.

"Damn it, Shrimp, when did you become so eloquent? What kind of logic is that?"

Chu Chu sighed and said, "Fine, I give up."

As she spoke, she looked at Lu Li again, "This isn't for you, it's for our own safety. Sister Xueqing also said that we can come to you to solve any problems, so you have to be strong enough to survive."

Lu Li understood Chu Chu's personality all too well; if he didn't take advantage of the situation now, when would he?

He immediately stood at attention and said, "Yes, sir! I will serve you both well!"

"Chuchu...did Sister Xueqing just say that we can ask Boss Lu to solve any problems?"

At this moment, Xia Ren gently tugged at Chu Chu's sleeve and asked softly, her pretty face still flushed.

"What do you mean?"

Chu Chu was a little confused. Seeing Xia Ren blushing, she started to think the wrong thing again, wondering if Xia Ren had such a broad perspective.

I never imagined that shrimp might be implying that physiological issues are also considered problems?

"What I wanted to say was that I've recently hit a bottleneck in developing recipes. Boss Lu just collected a lot of worlds, right? I was wondering if you could... give me some local specialties from each world so I can study them."

Shrimp poked her finger a little embarrassedly, feeling incredibly shameless as she spoke. She had just been saved by Boss Lu, yet she was asking him for ingredients.

"That's all you wanted to say!?"

This time, it was Chu Chu's turn to be a little surprised.

"Otherwise what? What problem do you think I'm trying to solve, Chu Chu?"

Xia Ren looked at Chu Chu in confusion.

Chu Chu's pretty face flushed red, and her mouth became a little clumsy, "No, it's nothing, I... I think so too."

"Oh? Chuchu, do you want some local specialties too?"

The shrimp was a pleasant surprise.

Chu Chu seemed to have found a savior and immediately nodded, "Yes, yes, I also want local specialties. Quickly give me some rare minerals, otherwise it will be difficult for you to repair your equipment!"

Despite his improved emotional intelligence, Lu Li still couldn't quite grasp the mystery. His mind was full of confusion, so he could only nod and say, "No problem. I wasn't planning on managing those worlds anyway. I'll have the space grant you access so you can go in and get them anytime."

Seeing that Lu Li hadn't noticed anything amiss, Chu Chu felt a sense of relief, but the thoughts that had arisen in her mind earlier inexplicably lingered.

To avoid continuing the awkward topic, Chu Chu quickly focused her attention on the equipment. "This is terrible. It feels like I have to redo everything. Only the frame can be preserved."

Lu Li was not surprised to hear this, after all, these equipment were destroyed along with the mark, and it was already a miracle that Grandma Xue was able to use her great magic to retrieve and piece them back together.

"That... my scabbard?"

Lu Li asked nervously.

"This won't do, because this isn't equipment I made, and I can't help you with your Evil God Mask either."

Chu Chu shook her head, then saw the disappointment in Lu Li's eyes. She couldn't stand Lu Li's innocent little eyes, so she added, "But it's not like there's no way."

"any solution?"

Lu Li asked in surprise. Actually, at his current level, he wasn't greedy for the strength of these equipment. The main reason was that he remembered that there was a living spirit in his scabbard. The other party accompanied him in battle, but in the end, it died without a complete corpse, which he really couldn't accept.

"You must have obtained this scabbard through special means. There should be other beings of the same origin as her. Go find other people and take a bit of their true spirit to call upon her. Perhaps you can rekindle her spirituality. Combine that with your magic power and cultivate life together, and you can bring her back to life."

Chu Chu said that she wouldn't be jealous of the sword spirit, since the sword spirit was just a fighting partner.

"Then I know what to do."

Lu Li's eyes lit up. "What about the Evil God Mask?"

"This... I feel like this is a bit tricky. You've already regained your charm, haven't you? Do you really still need this?"

Chu Chu said in surprise, to be honest, she was very worried about Lu Li now.

Before, when Lu Li's charm was so poor and her strength and status were still low, she was still able to flirt with so many women. Now that she has broken free of her constraints, her charm has become positive and not low. If she goes out for a stroll, wouldn't she be able to fly to the heavens? She doesn't want to add any more rivals.

"The damage-boosting mechanism of the Evil God Mask is really great... what a pity."

Lu Li sighed, "Although the Mask of the Evil God is not an independent range, the increased damage can still be multiplied by other independent damage increases."

Under certain conditions, he gains an additional 10% damage increase for every point his Charm decreases. Multiplied by this, this could result in a 100% damage increase rate, making it arguably the most significant damage-boosting equipment he possesses.

Unfortunately, Chu Chu was right. His charm level is quite high now, with over 80 points on the panel. Even if the Mask of Evil God is fixed, he still won't be able to trigger it.

"Actually, it's not entirely impossible, as long as you're willing to give up your current high level of charm."

Chu Chu's tone was enigmatic, as if she were trying to persuade him gently.

"Chuchu, you know me, I've always been a powerhouse when it comes to strength."

Lu Li said seriously, "Please speak."

(End of this chapter)