I have seen dragons

Chapter 36 This isn't too much to ask, is it?
"You want to wear a mask during the live stream?"

When Yue Wen heard Zhao Xing'er's idea, his first reaction was that it was a bit of a pity, since her appearance should be very attractive.

But since she had said that she had run away from home and was worried about being discovered by her family, Yue Wen didn't say anything more. He just said, "Then you should communicate with the people at the media company. If there are no problems with signing the contract, then you can continue to participate in the project."

"Yes." Zhao Xing'er nodded. "This is the only way."

Yue Wen tentatively asked, "Excuse me for asking, what exactly happened between you and your family? Why is things so tense? If it's not something serious, wouldn't it be better to talk it over properly? After all, you're all family."

“Boss, you have no family, you don’t understand.” Zhao Xing’er shook her head solemnly.

"I don't need to care about you." Yue Wen rolled his eyes, thinking to himself, why are you still chasing after me?

“My relationship with my father is completely irreconcilable,” Zhao Xing’er said. “How should I put it, it’s almost like a blood feud.”

"What's wrong?" Yue Wen asked, "Did your dad make you so angry that you wanted to commit suicide?"

"Huh?" Zhao Xing'er blinked. "How did you know?"

Yue Wen shook his head. "If I were your father, I'd probably have that thought several times a day too."

“You have no idea how outrageous he is.” Zhao Xing’er said, her expression turning indignant as she brought it up.

"I was on a graduation trip with some close friends, happily boating on a lake, when suddenly a snake demon emerged from the water, startling them. I grabbed the snake demon with my bare hands and pulled out its tendons. That's not too much to ask, is it?"

"Hmm..." Yue Wen cautiously assessed, "Although the scene sounds a bit bloody, killing evil spirits doesn't seem wrong..."

"Later we found out that the snake demon was released by some cultivators on the next boat. They were from a few minor clans in the area, and they deliberately released the demon to scare us and then come over to chat with us. I killed the snake demon, but they still came over and wouldn't let us go unless I compensated them." Zhao Xing'er continued, "I broke eight legs of three of them, that's not too much to ask, is it?"

Yue Wen counted on his fingers, a hint of fear in his eyes, and said, "Although the methods are a bit cruel, they can be considered as punishing evil and promoting good."

“Their family came to my house, and my dad actually told me to go and apologize. I refused, and he even scolded me!” Zhao Xing’er’s eyebrows shot up. “In a fit of anger, I smashed the bed. Was that too much to ask?”

"Haha." Yue Wen laughed, "Based on what you did before, smashing a bed is nothing, even smashing the whole bedroom wouldn't be excessive."

“That’s not the bed in my bedroom,” Zhao Xing’er said. “It’s the bed in the hospital ward for those people.”

"?" Yue Wen paused for a moment, then slowly asked, "You didn't smash the person and the bed together, did you?"

"What a coincidence," Zhao Xing'er shrugged.

"How unusual! A person with completely broken legs is lying in a hospital bed. What a coincidence!" Yue Wen rubbed his forehead. "Even gangsters wouldn't easily chase someone to a hospital to kill them, would they?"

"For such a small thing, my dad actually wants to put me in solitary confinement!" Zhao Xing'er said angrily.

“This is really going too far,” Yue Wen said. “The Super Management Bureau isn’t without prisons.”

Zhao Xing'er said, "I had no choice but to create a little chaos in order to escape."

"They probably detonated a demon-slaying talisman bomb from my family's armory, which only collapsed half a mountain... Then, taking advantage of the chaos, they managed to steal a few weapons; they also blew up the barrier in the monster park, making them focus their main attention on catching monsters; then they set fires in various parts of the residential area, hid a few of the younger children in the cellar and told them to come out at night, leaving a kidnapping note to divert their attention... They also got my third uncle drunk with spirit wine, and used his phone to call his mistresses and my third aunt over for a meeting... They switched the boy's urine that my uncle brought to refine medicine with my fourth grandfather's ginseng wine... When I got back, they kicked my third uncle in the face... They chewed on a few of the spirit plants that my second aunt was growing... When I got back, they slapped my third uncle a few times..."

"Wait a minute." Yue Wen raised his hand. "Are you doing everything else just to create chaos, and you're just harboring pure hatred for Uncle Three?"

Zhao Xing'er recalled what she had done before leaving, talking for almost half an hour before she finished: "It seems like that's all. After I finished, the whole house was in chaos. It was probably a few days later that someone noticed I had run away from home."

Finally, she looked up at Yue Wen and asked, "Is this too much to ask?"

“That’s not too much,” Yue Wen nodded. “You’re right. We can never go home in this lifetime. Even if your family goes on TV crying and looking for you, they’ll definitely trick you into going back and be executed by slow slicing.”

Good guy.

Just two days ago, Yue Wen was wondering what the demon race was really like, but now it feels a bit more concrete. Even if the Demon King were to descend to earth, he wouldn't be much different.

However, during what Zhao Xing'er was saying, he remembered something: he had seen on the cultivation forum that the Zhao family patriarch apologized to his runaway daughter and hoped she would come home soon.

Looking at it now, Zhao Xing'er seems very suspicious.

So he asked, "You wouldn't happen to be the runaway young lady from the Zhao family of Tianfu, would you?"

"Ouch!" Zhao Xing'er suddenly covered her face, stomping her feet as she backed away. "How could you say that? Bullshit! I'm not some Zhao family's young lady!"

Big Fool!
Your accent has changed!

……

Zhao Xing'er fled downstairs as fast as she could. It was quite unexpected that she was actually the eldest daughter of a prominent family.

It's quite amazing that my humble little agency has managed to attract someone who can trend on cultivation forums. Although the Zhao family can only be considered a second-tier power in the entire cultivation world, compared to the immortal sects and families in Jiang City, they are still a behemoth.

However, after hearing her recount those events, Yue Wen felt that her relationship with the Zhao family might not be closer than his own – although he was an insignificant stranger to the Zhao family, she was their mortal enemy.

From this perspective, it's right that she doesn't show her face.

After smiling, Yue Wen turned back, closed the door, and continued to study his newly acquired visualization diagram.

Shadow Talisman Technique.

After sitting cross-legged, he flipped his hand and produced three palm-sized shadow talismans, which were heavy, had cold edges, and flowed with a dangerous luster.

Compared to the visuals in the demonstration, holding it in your hands in reality makes you feel its sharp aura even more. The destructive power of this shadow talisman might be even greater than you imagined.

Yue Wen held the shadow talisman in his hand, and a visualization diagram appeared in his mind, instantly immersing himself in it.

boom--

It was a grand hall composed of dark purple runes, suspended high in the sky. Yue Wen was inside the hall, holding the three shadow runes.

High above the main hall, countless black-armored monsters, dressed in chainmail like ancient soldiers, with wings on their backs and wielding spears, were charging menacingly toward him!
Although he had studied visualization diagrams several times before, this was the first time he had ever witnessed such a scene; everything felt incredibly real. For a fleeting moment, he felt that if this black-armored monster were to pierce him with a spear, his soul would truly perish on the spot!

He wanted to use his sword control technique to fight back, but found that no flying sword could be summoned at all, as if the connection between heaven and earth had been lost.

In a moment of desperation, Yue Wen flipped his hand and sent a shadow talisman flying out in a whirlwind—

The shadow rune was sharp, instantly slicing through the black-armored monster flying overhead. Then, with a bang, the black armor exploded into a cloud of black sand that fell into the air.

But this was only one. At the same time, more than a dozen black-armored monsters attacked from all sides. Yue Wen could only throw out two more shadow talismans to kill the first two. The black-armored monsters swarmed in after him. In the moment of life and death, Yue Wen sensed that three spiritual auras seemed to be echoing his own from afar.

It's those three shadow talismans!

He instantly activated one of them, and his figure flashed, appearing in mid-air in the instant where the shadow talisman was located.

So that's how it works, shifting forms and changing shapes.

However, after he threw the shadow talisman, it fell from the sky and had not yet landed. Yue Wen wanted to take to the air and ride the wind, but found that he couldn't even do the simplest thing like activating his true energy to levitate.

It seems that the Shadow Talisman is the only usable move in this world.

and many more……

He flailed his arms and legs, trying to grab onto something, but unfortunately, all three shadow runes were falling from the sky, and he had no way to save himself.

Bang!
His last conscious thought in this world was a muffled bang in his ear, which sounded like his own bodily fluids exploding.

"Ah." Yue Wen opened his eyes in the room, looked around, and felt a lingering fear.

The feeling of falling to my death from 10,000 meters in the air was so real; I almost thought I was really going to die there.

The visualization diagram for this Shadow Talisman Technique seems somewhat different; it doesn't have as many complex Daoist principles. Instead, it's as if one is constantly undergoing trials to master the use of the Shadow Talisman.

Or……

This supernatural power is based on the mystery of shadow talismans, and is not profound in itself.

Yue Wen stroked the heavy talisman, feeling that the divine essence contained within was like the extreme ice of the North Sea, deep and profound. This method of drawing talismans was completely different from the talismans bought on the market.

The pills and talismans available from Da Long are all like this; their refining methods and effects are vastly different from those of the present era, and they can produce many unexpected results. If you want some ordinary pills and talismans, they won't be available there, otherwise Yue Wen wouldn't have needed to go online to buy Blazing Flame Powder.

Yue Wen sometimes wondered if the dragon's true form was some kind of mysterious shop connected to another world, or some kind of evil-slaying exchange system from a novel... just transformed into this cool form to meet him.

After all, history books say that there are only a few dragon-blooded people who survived the ancient times in the Four Seas Dragon Palace. They are the purest true dragon bloodlines that are still alive today.

There are no living true dragons in the human realm.

If it really does materialize, next time we might try to negotiate and have it transform into a 1.7-meter-tall, curvy, bodycon dress-clad, long-haired mature woman with black stockings.

Isn't this too much?
　Good morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)