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Chapter 1341: Imperial Battle!

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Luo Lang curled his fingers to knock the metal chains into each other. Suddenly, a flash of red gleam past his eyes.

Hearing the piercing sound, Li Lanfeng turned back to glance at Luo Lang, and saw Luo Lang raising his right hand before pointing at three people with three of his metal chains.

Luo Lang was telling him that he would take care of those three people.

Li Lanfeng frowned slightly. However, he still nodded and agreed.

Ji Ming, Yu Shangfei, and the other guardians were infuriated when he saw Luo Lang and Li Lanfeng distributing them so casually. The three people who got chosen by Luo Lang, including Ji Ming, rushed towards Luo Lang in unplanned unison. On the other side, Yu Shangfei and another guardian attacked Li Lanfeng.

Two fights were on the verge of erupting. But, no matter how violent or frightening their fights were, they didn't affect Ling Lan and Lord Gen who were standing at the front.

There was an invisible barrier behind Ling Lan which blocked all the domain concept energy.

Ling Lan slowly raised her head and said in an even tone, "It's our turn."

Lord Gen slowly stood up from his throne and replied coldly, "Talk while you can. You might not have a chance later."

Ling Lan smiled gently. "Sure. I'll also give you some time to say what you want later when I smack you down."

Lord Gen's expression turned grim. "You're looking for death!"

After this shout, everything around Lord Gen, including the rainbow palace, turned into the five poisonous insects. They crawled towards Ling Lan from all directions.

"Ice Blockade!" Extreme coldness dawned upon them. In a blink of an eye, the rainbow palace and all the poisonous insects turned into ice statues. The dull and sinister-looking rainbow palace became a crystal-clear ice palace.

Lord Gen was flabbergasted. "Ice element? Isn't your element space?"

Ling Lan raised her eyebrows and answered, "Who told you that?"

"…" Lord Gen's eyes narrowed. He still remembered clearly what had happened on the 7th Bugle Call. He really did feel the suction force from the black hole. It wasn't a mistake.

Ling Lan stretched out her right hand and clenched her fist. A crystal-clear ice sword slowly congregated in her hand. "My best element has always been the ice element."

1Lord Gen suddenly laughed when he heard this. "I don't understand why you would expose that. If you tried to cover it up, I might still be wary of your space domain concept. But, the ice element… do you really think it can suppress my domain concept?"

1Lord Gen clasped his hands together and shouted, "Break!"

The ice statues began exploding simultaneously. The insects that were trapped inside revealed their poisonous fangs as they attempted to bite Ling Lan.

Ling Lan frowned at the sight. She quickly disappeared from her spot suddenly in a second, and appeared behind Lord Gen in the next. She stabbed the ice sword in her hand at Lord Gen without any hesitation.

The ice sword pierced through Lord Gen's body.

Boom! Lord Gen's body exploded unexpectedly.

Before the explosion could reach her, Ling Lan leaped back more than ten metres away from Lord Gen.

However, the poisonous insects that created the illusion of Lord Gen's body still managed to come close to her body.

Just as the insects were about to come close to her body, Ling Lan pushed her left hand out and a huge ice wall appeared, blocking the poisonous insects.

However, she wasn't safe yet as Ling Lan's gaze turned somber. It was because she could see those poisonous insects poking into the ice wall and then slowly crawling through it before reaching her side.

They were not afraid of the cold. As expected, her opponent was an imperial realm formidable warrior.

Ling Lan had already guessed that the 13 Lords of the Lawless Lands were all imperial realm formidable warriors. Imagine this, the locals in the Lawless Lands were all very talented in terms of their physical skills and their mecha piloting. If it wasn't because of the restriction in their age, which prevented the Lawless Lands from grooming more formidable warriors and mecha operators, this world might be entirely different.

It would be a joke if the 13 Lords, who were the most powerful people in the Lawless Lands, hadn't reached the imperial stage. From the information Ling Lan had gathered in the past and during this period of time, she felt that someone among the 13 Lords might have entered god-realm, or was half a step into god-realm.

1Now, there was evidence to back up her hypothesis. She had released her titled domain concept but the ice wall she congregated had a tinge of imperial stage domain concept in it. It wasn't purely formed with her titled domain concept. Only imperial realm formidable warriors were able to break through her ice wall.

Because of this finding, Ling Lan decided to end this fight as soon as possible. She must take care of one lord before all of them reach a consensus to suppress her. After taking him down, she would take over his territory so that the other lords would have to accept her as the successor in order to maintain the balance in the Lawless Lands.

This was Ling Lan's first step in her overall plan. She must quickly find a position in the Lawless Lands before she could make any other moves. Once the 13 Lords decided to work together to chase her away, she wouldn't be able to withstand the pressure of all the 13 Lords no matter how powerful she was. If that happened, she would either have to leave dejectedly or die under their pressure. Anyway, she couldn't accept either of these results.

That was why she decided to take the risk to come to Lord Gen's territory to find him.

Although an imperial stage battle wasn't as earth-shattering as a god-realm battle, it would still affect the fluctuations of the domain concept energies in the surroundings. Anyone who reached the domain realm would be able to detect this fluctuation within a certain distance. The people who reached the imperial stage would be able to detect it almost instantly. They would only need a little more effort to find out where this fluctuation came from.

Ling Lan calculated the distance of all the 13 Lords' territory. Based on this, the person who would arrive the fastest was Lord Zhen. He would need at least 20 minutes. Hence, there wasn't much time left for her. She must kill Lord Gen within 20 minutes. Once Lord Zhen arrived, she would be surrounded. She might not even be able to escape unscathed with Li Lanfeng and Luo Lang by her side.

"There's no path of retreat. I can only fight with my life." A determined expression appeared on her face. "Unseal!"

A snowflake symbol appeared on top of Ling Lan's forehead and her short black hair grew exponentially longer. The colour of her hair slowly turned into silver as it danced in the air.

Lord Gen exclaimed in surprise, "That is impossible!"

But, he managed to calm down in the next second. He quickly unsealed his imperial stage domain concept and clapped his hands together. A colorful tattoo poisonous scorpion appeared on the back of his palm. In the next second, a huge scorpion appeared behind him. This scorpion was slightly different as it had seven tails instead of one

Chapter 1342: Divine Destruction!

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

"Imperial stage. Who are you?" Lord Gen stared intently at the young man whose expression was so frosty that he didn't seem human.

Based on what he knew, the three kings of the mercenary world were at most imperial realm formidable warriors just like him. It was only because of their limited strength that they never dared to come to the Lawless Lands openly, and could resort to using devious means to involve themselves here

There could never be two imperial realm formidable warriors in a mercenary team. If there were, the team would either be split into two, forming the 4th king's mercenary team, or the two imperial realm formidable warriors would fight over the position of king which would ultimately end when one of the parties was dead.

Yet, Lord Gen was unable to link Lan Xiao with the White Monarch from the Rainbow Raiders, the Casanova from the Flirtatious Raiders, or King Border from Taichi Yingyang. Based on the information he had, the domain concept and age of this young man didn't align with any of the three kings of the mercenary world.

Seeing the stunned Lord Gen, Ling Lan raised her right hand above her head, and snowing started falling heavily in the rainbow palace. Within a few seconds, a thick layer of snow densely covered the luminous tiles of the palace, hiding their glimmer.

However, even when a snowstorm was going on, Lord Gen wasn't the least bit affected. In the area where the giant scorpion and he stood, the snow seemed to be wary of the giant scorpion's seven tails.

"You're not from the Rainbow Raiders." This was the only possible explanation for the events that occured before him.

As someone who was able to climb up a mountain of bones and corpses to become a lord of the Lawless Lands, Lord Gen wasn't a dumb person who would ignore the clues of the truth right before him. In the past, he was indeed fooled by Lan Xiao's perfect disguise. However, once he noticed the facts didn't line up right, he quickly deduced the truth.

Ling Lan didn't reply to him. However, the smile on her face told Lord Gen that his deduction was right.

"Who are you?" Who had the guts to use the Rainbow Raiders' name to intrude the Lawless Lands? This was the first time Lord Gen felt a sense of apprehension ever since he reached the imperial stage. This was why he insisted on finding out Lan Xiao's true identity.

"Let's fight." Ling Lan clenched her right fist and the snowflakes falling from the air congregated into sharp ice blades. They flew straight towards Lord Gen with deadly precision. To Ling Lan, she had to win or die trying. If she won, there was no point in telling her opponent her real identity. if she lost, then it was even more unnecessary to say it.

"Go!" Lord Gen waved his hand, and numerous poisonous insects crawled out from the ground. They went head on with the ice blades.

A battle between imperial realm formidable warriors was frightening, whether it was the ice blades that could pierce through anything or the savage poisonous bugs that rose from the ground. They were both using area-of-effect techniques and their domain concept energy supplementing those techniques were both very powerful. The final winner would be determined by the pureness of their domain concept energy.

1At this aspect, Lord Gen was confident in himself. With him being at the imperial stage for so many years, his understanding of his domain concept was solid as a rock. He was sure that he wouldn't lose to a young man like Lan Xiao. Moreover, Lan Xiao was on a time limit while he was not. Hence, there was no way he would lose to Lan Xiao.

Physical appearance could be maintained using many various techniques but aura on the other hand, would change according to his age. When someone reached the imperial stage, they would be able to detect said aura, and the aura of Lan Xiao was too youthful. He was definitely younger than 30 years old.

No matter how talented he was, he could only enter the domain realm between 10 years old to 20 years old. Fine, for the sake of the argument, let's say that he advanced to the domain stage when he was 10 years old. That meant that he would have less than 20 years of experience in the imperial stage, right? How could he be compared with old men like them who had spent more than 50 years in the imperial stage? Lord Gen believed that if they continued battling with their domain concept, he would win.

As the two energies continued trying to devour one another, blood water and ice crystals dropped from the sky. The thick layer of snow on the ground quickly got stained with blood.

Finally, the ice blades were all destroyed and there weren't many poisonous insects left. Lord Gen snorted as he waved his hands again. Countless more poisonous insects emerged from the ground again.

"Haha, come. Let's see how long you can last." Lord Gen laughed arrogantly. The reason for his arrogance was for the fact that he was in his palace. In his palace, he was able to recover his lost domain energy quicker.

The base of the 13 Lords all had this unique feature. This was why they were invincible in their territory. Even if other lords came to fight them head on, they would never beat the owner of the land.

In response to his arrogance, Ling Lan simply smiled brightly at him. Then, her fingers started moving in a unique rhythm and soon a few rays of light appeared on her empty, fair, and smooth hand.

Lord Gen's expression hardened when he looked at the beaming light. He could faintly see ten crystal-clear threads that extended from Lan Xiao's hands to the air in front of him.

'Not good.' This was Lord Gen's first reaction. As Lan Xiao started twirling around his fingers, many semi-transparent lines started to glimmer in the shining line in the empty space in front of him. They filled up the air densely, enclosing him in a giant dome. They were like spiderwebs that were winded around him.

Now, Lord Gen finally understood that while Lan Xiao was directing the blades at him, he was also lining the threads around them, forming his Ultimate Blockade.

He felt that this technique sounded a little familiar. Suddenly, he remembered that Ji Ming told him that Luo Tianhua used a similar technique when he was fighting him.

"Hmph, do you think you can trap me with just this? You're dreaming," Lord Gen scolded. He waved his right hand and all the poisonous insects on the ground rushed towards the threads and started biting, spitting venom, scratching, and damaging Ling Lan's Ultimate Blockade.

Lord Gen wanted to attack Ling Lan directly but before he could do that, he must destroy this web. His poisonous bugs wouldn't be able to reach Ling Lan if the web was there.

It could be said that from the start, Lord Gen miscalculated. He allowed Ling Lan to carry out her plan successfully. Lord Gen was like a prey in her web, and breaking the web was his only option.

Ling Lan remained calm and unconcerned when the swarming bugs came towards her. Her hands moved again. Her movements were extremely elegant. If she wasn't fighting, people would have thought that she was dancing.

As Ling Lan's arms danced around, the semi-transparent threads in the air started dancing too. The slacken threads in the air moved along with Ling Lan's finger. The bugs that attempted to bite it failed due to its rapid movement. The threads also managed to dodge the spitted venom. Even if it accidentally touched the venom, a new thread would take over its position and merge with the broken thread.

At this moment, Ling Lan looked like a fairy from heaven dancing elegantly in the air. Her long silver hair floated in the wind. If she still had contact with the learning space, Number Four would have warm tears in her eyes as she finally saw the chance for her to come out.

1"Divine destruction!" Following this sound, the dancing threads went taut. Layers and layers of it moved towards the domain formed by Lord Gen's giant scorpion. The threads cut into the domain from all angles.

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1343 Little White Unleashed Its Power!

Lord Gen could feel that his domain was getting sliced open by the invisible thread. It was on the edge of falling apart. With no choice, he forced out a determined expression on his face as he started to wave his arms at a three second interval. Poisonous bugs immediately poked out of the ground and crawled out in massive waves, while the gigantic scorpion that was holding his domain together, began to crazily flail around its seven stingers. It cut through the layers of threads that were wrapping around its body.

The two of them were in a fierce tussle once again. One was trying to destroy while the other was quickly repairing..

Just like that, the two of them fought for more than 10 minutes. Lord Gen saw that the threads that covered his domain were getting lesser and lesser. Moreover, he still had a good amount of energy left to sustain him for a much longer fight.

Right as Lord Gen believed he was going to win this battle, the large scorpion that was originally moving around its seven tails with great force, seemed to turn somewhat tired. The speed at which it was moving its tails decreased.

"Come on, put in more effort just one more time. When I take care of him, I will give him to you as your dinner and let you have a good meal." Lord Gen encouraged the somewhat tired scorpion. The body of an imperial realm formidable warrior was definitely a wondrous elixir for a poisonous bug to grow quickly. If it was lucky, his imperial stage gigantic scorpion would be able to advance to the god-realm. If that happened, the time for him to advance into the god-realm wouldn't be too far either.

He thought his words of encouragement would fire up the scorpion to work harder. However, the large scorpion seemed to be too tired or maybe had indigestion. It actually wasn't even one bit excited. The speed at which it was flailing not only didn't become quicker, it actually gone even slower.

Lord Gen created another wave of poisonous bugs to clear out the threads that were getting too close. After doing that, he finally had the time to look at his large scorpion.

After looking at it, Lord Gen was completely surprised. It was because he noticed the large scorpion's own domain concept energy was actually quickly disappearing, causing it to become weaker. However, this situation didn't make any sense to him.

The rainbow palace was not only replenishing his domain concept energy, but also doing that for the large scorpion. However, even while being replenished by the rainbow palace, it was still not enough to compensate for the speed of the depletion. What was happening?

Lord Gen knew there was something amiss. He looked closely and immediately discovered the reason.

Although he and his scorpion were breaking the overwhelming threads Ling Lan had put out, many of the broken threads were still hanging off the scorpion's legs and stingers. These threads were originally transparent, but now, there was actually a dark shine coming from them. The aura those threads gave off had a familiar yet unfamiliar domain concept energy attached to them. It was as though he had encountered it or seen it before.

It was that mysterious domain concept energy that was devouring their energies. The more energy they used, the more that dark light devoured.

A thought came to mind and Lord Gen audibly gasped. "Space concept."

He was right. This domain concept energy was the space domain concept Lan Xiao used in the battle on the 7th Bugle Call. He didn't expect his opponent to actually manage to successfully combine the space concept and ice element concept together… These two concepts were completely different. How could they be combined together? According to Lord Qian's theory, it was possible if two concepts came from the same root. However, no one has ever been able to successfully combine two completely unrelated concepts. Forcing them to combine would create backlash that would devastate or implode the body.

"Too late." Ling Lan looked at Lord Gen coldly when she noticed him realizing the threads were sucking his scorpion's energy.

"Double Limit Release!" After those words were spoken, the white snowflake mark on Ling Lan's forehead began to expand. The color instantly turned black while covering her entire forehead. The pattern slowly morphed into an image of a bloodied flower, making Ling Lan seem very demonic and evil.

At the same time, the now pitch black threads on the scorpion cracked up like tears in a fabric. It was as though there were countless large mouths ready to devour the scorpion whole.

"Get away!" Lord Gen roared out loud, exploding his domain concept energy outwards. He wanted to close the dimensional tears that were being opened.

Lord Gen knew clearly that once those tears combined into a line, the large scorpion in the middle would definitely be sucked in. If it was just a normal scorpion, he wouldn't care if he lost it. But, as luck would have it, this large scorpion was the bug he was born with. Once he lost it, it wouldn't put his life in peril, but his strength would drop immensely. He might not even be able to maintain the strength of a titled domain realm master, not to mention still being an imperial realm formidable warrior.

Once he lost the strength of an imperial realm formidable warrior, his position as Lord Gen would definitely be taken away by the other lords. Without the designation of being 'Lord Gen' and no imperial stage strength, the people and factions he had offended in the past would definitely take that chance to take him out, even his own subordinates might find opportunities to make a move on his life.

Lord Gen's methods had always been cruel and brutal. He knew that out of the guardians working under him, some of them deeply hated him. As long as they were given the chance, they would definitely kill him.

Right as Lord Gen was holding back the dimension tear from opening, Ling Lan suddenly shouted, "Little White!"

A little ball suddenly jumped out of a pile of snow closest to Lord Gen.

That little ball was too small and fast. Moreover, it easily broke through Lord Gen's domain territory. When Lord Gen realized it, that little ball had already arrived in front of him.

"Die!" Lord Gen flung his left arm ruthlessly. Right as the arm was about to touch Little White, Lord Gen suddenly felt everything go black.

In the next second, he was pulled into a large black hole. At the same time, his seven-stinger scorpion was also pulled in with him.

Little White closed its large mouth and burped in satisfaction. That large scorpion was too big so Little White felt a little bloated. Luckily, its stomach was very big. In the stomach, the scorpion was tossed aside to the ends of its stomach. Little White would one day find time to slowly devour it in the future.

"Little White! You're squishing me to death." Ling Lan was currently pinned to the wall by Little White. Hearing that demonic voice, Little White quickly turned around to look for Ling Lan but while doing so, Ling Lan was rolled under Little White's butt. She had only one free hand that was trying its best to push aside Little White's butt in order to save herself from flattening into a pancake.

"Rawr!" Little White put its tentacles over its head in fear. 'Oh my god, I sat on my master? I'm definitely going to die. Wah wah wah, who's going to save me? I don't want to get fried, boiled and eaten by my master…

Little White, who was in shock, turned back into its smaller body right after realizing what it had done. It held its head on the floor and trembled in fear. It was waiting for its master to punish it.

"It seems I'm not the only one." Ling Lan looked around the place and instantly laughed.

"Little White, can you tell us before turning into your real form next time?" Luo Lang held his head that was smashed by Little White's body. He sat on the floor and looked at Little White, who was now shaking and looking pitiful.

Little White's butt squished him quite hard. He even thought he was going to become a pancake.

1344 Token Of Love!

Li Lanfeng touched his forehead with an agonized expression as he struggled to stand up from the ground. When Little White suddenly turned big, he was fighting with the two guardians with his back facing it, so he didn't have time to react before he got squashed. His face was slammed so hard into the marble that he could still see stars spinning around him. He felt dizzy. When he finally managed to stand up, his head spun and he staggered before falling down on the ground again.

He stood up again but he could feel that he was going to slam onto the ground again. He prepared himself to face the incoming pain. However, the pain never came; instead he fell into a pair of warm arms.

Ling Lan hugged Li Lanfeng lightly and asked in concern, "Are you injured?"

Ling Lan didn't forget that Li Lanfeng and Luo Lang were fighting with more than one opponent, so the pressure they were under was greater than her. Thus, they might be injured. But, still, they were quite lucky that everyone managed to pull through.

Li Lanfeng raised his head and looked at Ling Lan. He wanted to reply that he was alright but when he saw Ling Lan's cold and demonic appearance, which he never saw before, it struck his heart like a sharp arrow. One look was enough for him to remember for his entire life.

Badump! Badump! Badump! Badump! He felt his heart palpitating furiously. It felt as though it was going to jump out of his chest soon. A hot sensation seeped out of his chest. He really wanted to hide Ling Lan in his pocket and look at him every day.

"What happened?" Ling Lan asked curiously when she saw Li Lanfeng staring at her absent-mindedly. She didn't know that her demonic appearance had such a huge impact on Li Lanfeng because he already had feelings for her. Thus, he couldn't gather his thoughts to reply to her.

Ling Lan was worried when she couldn't get a reply from Li Lanfeng. She lifted her hand and caressed Li Lanfeng's forehead. She used her concept energy to inspect Li Lanfeng's condition. Immediately, she noticed his heart which was beating extremely fast. She got a shock. His heart condition hadn't recovered fully?

Ling Lan was very worried. They only brought a batch of powerful agents created by Li Shiyu as well as the second generation of the life-saving Nuwa agent for this mission. They didn't have a professional military doctor with them. If the medical agent didn't work, they were helpless.

"Have some medicine." Ling Lan took out the second general Nuwa agent she brought along with her and passed it to Li Lanfeng.

After touching the bottle of the agent, Li Lanfeng finally regained his senses. He saw the worry in Ling Lan's eyes and her decisive actions when she took out the Nuwa agent. Li Lanfeng felt warm in his heart. He knew that they didn't bring many bottles of Nuwa agents with them. There were only 50 of them, and each one of them was precious. Their journey to the Lawless Lands was just starting. As a life-saving agent, the Nuwa agent was extremely important to their goal of rooting themselves here. They wouldn't bear to use it until they were on the very edge of dying.

But, in Ling Lan's eyes, this precious agent was not as important as him. She gave it to him so easily because she was worried about him.

Li Lanfeng knew that if Luo Lang was injured, Ling Lan would do the same thing. Ling Lan treated them equally. However, at this moment, he wanted to deceive himself and believe that Ling Lan would only treat him like this.

If he thought this way, he would feel like he was the most important person to Ling Lan. Li Lanfeng never expected that he would use this method to fool himself one day, dreaming about something that would never happen.

Li Lanfeng stretched his hand and took the bottle of agent from Ling Lan's hand. Ling Lan's body temperature could still be felt on the bottle. He longed for the warmth as he clutched the bottle tightly. He couldn't bear to let it go.

"Why aren't you drinking it?" Ling Lan asked curiously when she saw Li Lanfeng looking at the agent without drinking it.

Li Lanfeng smiled as he said, "Let me try to bear with it. The agent is too precious after all. We should not use it if it isn't necessary."

Ling Lan frowned. The agent was precious but Li Lanfeng's heart was beating abnormally. The heart wasn't like the other organs. Once something happened to it, the person would die instantly.

"I know my limit." Li Lanfeng consoled Ling Lan. He understood Ling Lan like he understood himself. He could tell what Ling Lan was thinking with just a slight change in her expression.

Ling Lan wanted to say something but she suddenly looked up and noticed that the unconscious guardians were showing signs of waking up.

"I'm fine." Li Lanfeng reassured Ling Lan.

Hearing that, Ling Lan finally released Li Lanfeng's body and slowly walked to the five guardians who were still lying on the ground but struggling to stand up. She lifted her right hand slowly and stretched her hand out. Five threads appeared from thin air. Ling Lan shook her fingers. The empty hall suddenly became a world full of threads.

When Li Lanfeng noticed that Ling Lan's attention was on the five guardians, he let go of himself and indulged in her looks. He looked at her as if he was in a trance.

He felt the bottle in his hand and gave a dreamy smile.

This bottle was a token of love that Ling Lan gave him, right?

As someone who went crazy because of love, he could only use these ways to fool himself. Maybe one day, he would be dissatisfied and do crazier things to get even more. But, now, Li Lanfeng didn't have the courage to face Ling Lan's look of disdain. He could only forcefully control the devil in his heart that was dying to get out so that these beautiful days could last longer.

'Ling Lan, Ling Lan, I can't control my greed anymore. Only you can save me in this world. If that day comes, please don't hate me.' Li Lanfeng placed the bottle beside his lips and kissed it. He felt like he was kissing Ling Lan. Then, he placed the bottle of agent carefully in his pocket. He would never use this agent even if he died.

When Ji Ming opened his eyes, he saw a sky full of threads and snowflakes. It was like a dreamland. He felt that they were not in a fight. Instead, they were admiring the view from the mountain hillside.

At this moment, a cold and beautiful person who looked like a cross between a devil and an angel entered his eyes. The person looked at them without any emotion, as though he was looking at a dead person. The gaze sent a chill down Ji Ming's spine and he regained his senses instantly.

Ji Ming looked around him instantly. He realized that their invincible Lord Gen was nowhere in sight. He was stunned. Did their Lord Gen run away because he was defeated?

Ji Ming never thought of the chance that his master might be dead. His first reaction was that Lord Gen ran away to seek help from the other lords before coming back to take revenge on these bold culprits.

"Your Lord Gen is dead." Ling Lan saw through Ji Ming's thoughts so she told him the truth calmly.

"That's impossible. You're talking nonsense." Ji Ming reacted by refuting her furiously.

Ling Lan clenched her right fist and threads moved closer towards the five guardians. In a blink of an eye, they were wrapped tightly in a cocoon. Ling Lan flicked her hand and threw the five people next to Luo Lang. "Look after them."

"Yes, Boss!" Luo Lang tied the five people up with five metal chains and hung them on a crossbeam in the hall.

1345 Who Are You?

Ling Lan strolled towards Lord Gen's throne. She flicked her finger and the stone throne turned into a pile of dust. The dust then got blown into the air and disappeared. Then, a majestic ice throne formed slowly from the ground up. Ling Lan flicked the back of her windbreaker and turned to sit down on the chair. Simultaneously, the symbol on her forehead diminished rapidly. Her hair turned short and returned back to black colour. In the end, she turned back into the familiar Ling Lan with a cold and dominating aura.

Li Lanfeng disappeared from his spot. When he reappeared again, he was already standing behind Ling Lan. Just like in the past, he silently performed his role as Ling Lan's most trusted aide, the person whom she was willing to give her back to.

Ling Lan leaned back on the chair and looked towards the door of the hall. She said evenly, "Lord Zhen is here."

The moment she finished her sentence, a figure appeared in the hall.

The person looked around him and saw the five guardians hanging on the crossbeam. Then, he saw Ling Lan who was sitting on the ice throne. His gaze turned bleak.

"Where is Lord Gen?" Lord Zhen asked grimly.

The gentle and amiable attitude he had towards his junior in the morning was gone. He was full of vigilance and seriousness now.

"I'm already sitting here. Lord Zhen, what do you think?" Ling Lan placed her hand on her chin and smiled at Lord Zhen.

Lord Zhen's gaze turned sharp. "You killed him?"

He silently sought Lord Gen's aura in the surrounding. There were still remnants of it but they were like duckweeds that lost their root. The rainbow palace that used to be Lord Gen's, his strong domain concept instilled in it was slowly dissipating, and the ice element replaced its position. The concentration of ice elements in the palace was getting higher and higher. There was also a tinge of space concept energy still lingering in the air.

"The winner takes it all. Isn't that the rule of the Lawless Lands?" Ling Lan smiled as she replied.

"Who are you?" Only imperial realm formidable warriors were able to kill Lord Gen. If Lord Zhen still believed that Ling Lan was from the Rainbow Raiders now, he was brainless.

"Is that important?" Ling Lan raised her eyebrows.

"Of course. If you're a stooge sent by the nations in the central region, no matter how powerful the country behind you is, we'll kill you. We won't allow anyone over there to gain control of the Lawless Lands," Lord Zhen said ruthlessly. This was the consensus the 13 Lords had reached. It was the bottomline of all the factions in the Lawless Lands. If this young man was really sent by those nations, they wouldn't bow down to him and let other powers take over this place even if it meant that the Lawless Lands might be locked up entirely and no resources would be sent to them.

The people in the Lawless Lands were extremely talented but they bore grudges. The evil, battles, and chaos of the Lawless Lands were all caused by the nations from the central region. If the nations didn't allow those criminals to leave, would they be able to escape the pursuit of the entire nation and cross through so many planetary sectors to reach the Lawless Lands?

The nations from the central regions were dissatisfied with the amount of resources in the Lawless Lands and the talents of the locals there were restricted by their lifespan so there was little value in it.

However, deep in their hearts, they were afraid of the talented locals too. Once they were able to break through their lifespan restriction, because of their powerful combat skills, they would definitely become a huge threat to the reign of the nations in the central region.

Thus, to limit the Lawless Lands and to prevent it from developing into something that could threaten them, the nations in the central region would send many ruthless and evil criminals every year to turn the Lawless Lands into the source of evil. They wanted the two sides to fight with each other. Sometimes, when there weren't enough criminals, they would disguise people from the secret factions in the military as criminals and send them over to create many murders, hence strengthening the hatred between the locals and the criminals.

Due to this, the Lawless Lands became a place filled with fights and murders. In the past, the locals were stubborn and didn't like each other but the order of the Lawless Lands was still there. It wouldn't become a haven for murderers.

At first, the locals were still clueless about this deep-rooted scheme. The real criminals were really maniac murderers so the combination of this and the scheme of the nations made the locals hate all the criminals that came from the outside world. As time went by, two large factions formed in the Lawless Lands: the locals and the criminals. There were many conflicts between these two factions too but once there was an outside threat that could destroy the balance of the two factions, everyone would put down their internal grudges and unite against their common enemy.

After some time, they found out that the nations in the outside world were behind this chaotic mess. However, the grudges between the two factions had successfully formed. There was no room for reconciliation.

A few hundred years of no reconciliation went by. Due to the ongoing battles and the other nations inhibiting the amount of supplies they could get, besides their combat ability, all other areas of the Lawless Lands were underdeveloped. This carried on until the appearance of the 13 Lords. The 13 Lords worked hard to relieve the tension between the two factions, allowing the Lawless Lands to resume peace for a period of time.

After that, the 13 Lords started working with the mercenary world, and successfully opened a few trade routes to let supplies from the outside world come into the Lawless Lands. From then on, the Lawless Lands went into its development phase.

But, this wasn't what the nations from the central region wanted to see.

In order to break the agreement between the 13 Lords, the nations groomed a faction secretly to try and destroy the stability of the Lawless Lands.

In the past, Lord Gen and Lord Zhen collaborated and annihilated a powerful faction that could become the 14th lord. Although one of their intentions was to prevent people from weakening their stranglehold of power, the most basic reason was that they discovered that this faction came from the nations of the central region. This finding crossed the bottomline of all the lords.

When Ling Lan disguised herself as someone from the Rainbow Raiders to get into the Lawless Lands, it was a great decision in hindsight. Without this identity, she might have been killed by Lord Gen and Lord Zhen together the moment she arrived at the spaceport.

They let Ling Lan go temporarily because they were worried about their deal with the mercenary world. They didn't want to lose this helper. Without them, the Lawless Lands would return back to its poor state.

Thus, when they decided to kill Ling Lan, they planned to do it secretly by using the secret factions they groomed.

However, Lord Zhen now knew that they were fooled. Their worry didn't even exist in the first place. This person wasn't from the Rainbow Raiders. He was at most someone who had a personal relationship with White Monarch. This kind of personal relationship wouldn't affect their collaboration with the mercenary world.

Lord Zhen's killing intent became stronger and a bolt of purple lightning flashed passed his eyes.

"Don't worry. I'm not from those countries." Ling Lan flipped her right hand and a golden orb with a soul drawn on it appeared on her palm.

Astonishment and anger appeared in Lord Zhen's eyes. He stopped his attack instantly.

1346 Give In!

"Soul Society?" Lord Zhen gritted his teeth as he scrutinized the golden orb. "Where are you here? Isn't the Soul Society doing well?"

The colour of the orb in the Soul Society symbolizes their authority in their ranks. Having a golden orb meant that Lan Xiao's status was equal to that of a governor of the 18 big zones.

Outsiders like them wouldn't truly know how Soul Society internally functioned, but with the surface knowledge they had, the next-in-line after the Soul Emperor were the governor of the 18 big zones. All 18 governors had equal authority, so no one was more influential than the other.

Soul Society was a secret organisation with a prolific history. It had approximately more than ten thousand years of legacy behind its rather infamous name. Its roots could be found in all corners of the universe. Soul Society had always been a huge worry for the intergalactic nations, so they would always expend a lot of financial and manual resources to execute those whom they thought were members of the Soul Society. However, those who they could find were usually low-class members of the Soul Society. The upper-class members were rarely discovered. Yet, all the intergalactic nations knew the identities of the 18 governors but they were helpless in doing anything to catch them as they were doing legal businesses within the confines of their law. Moreover, there were all kinds of organizations behind them so they couldn't touch them even if they wanted to.

With such an illustrious name and background, every secret society was jealous of the Soul Society. They were the idol society they all aspire to grow into one day, a society that could do business for anyone and everyone. It was no different for the Lawless Lands, who was being suppressed by the intergalactic nations, who were also full of envy towards the Soul Society. Thus, when Lord Zhen saw the token for the Soul Society, he had mixed feelings.

"Recently, the nations from the central region are trying to cull the Soul Society with all their might," Ling Lan replied nonchalantly. "So, the Emperor wants to give a path of retreat for the Soul Society here."

"Haha, don't you already have many of those?" Lord Zhen scoffed.

"The emperor doesn't mind having more," Ling Lan replied with a mysterious smile.

"So you laid your eyes on the Lawless Lands?" Lord Zhen mocked, "Do we have to thank your emperor for his recognition?"

"Actually, what's so bad about it? We just want a path of retreat, and with our success, you will get another trade route for your necessities. Don't tell me that you want to play in the palms of the mercenary world forever." Ling Lan's words hit Lord Zhen's weak spot.

As the Lords of the Lawless Lands, they never like to place their fate in the hands of an outsider like the mercenary world. Even if it looked like a win-win situation on the surface for both parties, one of the parties was clearly extorting the other party for its lack of options.

"You could have sent your people to discuss the terms with us. There was no need to murder." Lord Zhen squinted. Ling Lan and her team acted quickly and ruthlessly the moment they arrived. This inconsistency made him suspicious of the Soul Society's true motive.

"You won't want a 14th lord to appear as it would throw off the balance of the Lawless Lands, I understand that. But, the emperor would never accept anything less than the position of a lord. However, none of you will willingly let go of your spot. Hence, we decided to make the proactive decision to take a spot for ourselves," Ling Lan replied. Her attitude was exceptionally good but her words were domineering.

"Is the Soul Society always this domineering?" Lord Zhen narrowed his eyes and asked in a grave tone.

"Hmm, how about this? Lets just say I did this to make it easier for you to decide to give me the position of lord." Ling Lan smiled as she played with the golden orb in her hand. She continued calmly, "Now, there is one less lord. We can take over his position while the rest of you continue holding on to your status. The status quo won't change. Isn't that great? Moreover, you will even have access to another trade route. Of course, you are always welcome to go to war with us to avenge the dead Lord Gen."

"Actually, you are not the only partner the Soul Society has in mind. For instance, the mercenary world…" As she spoke, Ling Lan stretched out her left hand and opened it, revealing the colourful rainbow crystal in it. Lord Zhen knew that in her hand was White Monarch's token which represented his promise. The same token that caused them to misunderstand Ling Lan and took her as a member of the Rainbow Raiders. They had worried about their cooperation with the mercenary world so they allowed Lan Xiao to enter the Lawless Lands while adopting a wait-and-see attitude. And now, one wrong step and everything was gone. They allowed Lan Xiao to kill Lord Gen successfully while they were still twiddling their thumbs thinking about the relationship between them and the mercenary world if they killed Lan Xiao.

Since Lan Xiao had White Monarch's token, it meant that the Soul Society had already formed an agreement with the mercenary world. Even if it wasn't the entire mercenary world, they still made an agreement with White Monarch from the Rainbow Raiders. Whichever it was, it wasn't a good sign to the Lawless Lands.

"After the war, who knows how many lords will be able to survive? If we lose, the Soul Society can just leave the Lawless Lands. We have many options. But, for you, the still full strength mercenary world would come and take you over." Ling Lan smiled deviously. Her smile was so glaring that it made Lord Zhen uncomfortable. However, he had to admit that Lan Xiao made a lot of sense. If they went into war with the Soul Society, the mercenary world would be extremely happy as the spectator. They might involve themselves to make even more mess in the situation. Who knows?

"I thought that you have already formed an agreement with the mercenary world," Lord Zhen said. Ling Lan's speech just now betrayed the mercenary world entirely.

"Soul Society isn't something you can anyhow make use of." Ling Lan raised her eyebrow. She explained why she betrayed the mercenary world.

"Working with the Soul Society is like asking the tiger for its skin." Lord Zhen gritted his teeth.

"If you're strong enough, you might be able to get the skin." Ling Lan smiled knowingly.

Lord Zhen and Ling Lan exchanged glances with each other. They wanted to see weakness in the other party's eyes. Ling Lan's gaze remained calm and indifferent, even after a few minutes. With no clues to go by off, Lord Zhen had no choice but to give up.

"I can't make the decision alone. I have to seek the opinions of the other lords." Lord Zhen finally gave in.

"Sure. I'll be waiting here." Ling Lan smiled. "Also, tell them that Lord Gen's territory is officially taken over by the Soul Society now. If any of your subordinates try to profit in times of trouble and raise any kind of disputes, don't look for me when they suddenly disappear. I'm very busy recently."

Lord Zhen's expression darkened when he heard the blatant threat. Then, Ling Lan raised her eyebrows and used her right finger to tap on the temple of her head, reminding Lord Zhen to think carefully before doing something stupid.

"Hmph!" Seeing Lan Xiao mocking him, Lord Zhen flicked his sleeve angrily and disappeared from the hall the next second.

Ling Lan just smiled at his departure. After she made sure Lord Zhen had really left, she turned and looked at the five people hanging on the crossbeam. She asked simply, "Have you finished considering?"

Ji Ming was the first to shout, "I'm willing to recognise you as the new Lord Gen!"

The smart Ji Ming noticed that Ling Lan only tied them up but didn't kill them. After careful deliberation, he understood why Ling Lan let go of their lives. He wanted them to do his bidding.

If Ling Lan decided to act alone, Ji Ming would choose to keep quiet. He would rather become a prisoner than to bow down to this young man. He knew what was the consequence of betraying the 13 Lords. That torture was worse than dying.

He could only think of a way to save himself and keep himself alive. After that, he would think about revenge. However, the background Ling Lan revealed was too powerful. One mercenary world was enough to let the 13 Lords hesitate. Now, there was another more powerful and mysterious organization, the Soul Society. The combination of these two organizations gave Ling Lan enough power to hold a status in the Lawless Lands. The 13 Lords had to give in to him.

As an old and experienced person, Ji Ming knew which decision was better for him. People like him liked to play up to powerful people. Ling Lan had the ability (he killed Lord Gen) and the background (Soul Society and the mercenary world). He was even stronger than his previous master, Lord Gen. Since the prospects were better, why wouldn't he accept it?

1347 Rainbow Palace?

Compared to Ji Ming, Yu Shangfei hesitated. The other three guardians looked at each other and followed Ji Ming in accepting their new master.

Seeing the four of them willingly surrender, Yu Shangfei could only sigh softly and speak in a sad tone, "I also willingly accept."

It was hopeless anyways. Seeing that Lord Zhen had left to meet with the other lords, Lan Xiao's proposal probably had a high chance of being accepted. The reason he was hesitating to surrender was because he was betting on that slim chance of Lan Xiao's proposal getting rejected. However, with most of his colleagues turning sides, he relented and just followed what everyone else was doing.

Ling Lan waved her hand and the five of them fell to the floor.

Ling Lan then pointed towards the five of them. Li Lanfeng smiled and appeared in front of them in the next second. Then, he handed out five vials of medicinal agents.

Seeing the suspicious vials, Ji Ming and the others gave a questioning gaze. They all looked up towards Ling Lan, who was sitting on the throne made out of ice.

Ling Lan was holding her chin and looking at them with a half-smile on her face.

"What's wrong? You don't want to?" asked Li Lanfeng.

Despite Li Lanfeng's words being very kind and mild-mannered, Ji Ming, Yu Shangfei and the other three still felt as though ice water was poured over their heads. They immediately shuddered and didn't dare to hesitate, taking one vial each.

"Drink up!" Li Lanfeng smiled sweetly as he spoke.

Ji Ming and Yu Shangfei looked at each other at apprehension. They simultaneously gritted their teeth and drank down a vial of medicinal agent in one gulp.

Among the guardians who served Lord Gen, Ji Ming and Yu Shangfei had much more influence than the other three guardians. Seeing the two of them give in, the other three also didn't dare to hesitate and drink the medicinal agent. They were now like lambs to slaughter, how could they even resist against this?

After drinking the medicinal agent, they felt a feeling that they couldn't describe rushing deep into their bones. The immense pain they felt was as though someone was ripping them apart from the inside. The five of them had cold sweat come out from their foreheads as they screamed in agony on the floor. If it was just simple pain, they wouldn't have a hard time going through it. They had fought through many types of dangerous situations and had been injured countless of times. All of those torturous times they managed to survive the pain. However, this unbearable pain had a constant numb and itchy feeling that they couldn't get rid of. Moreover, it was also spreading all over their body.

This feeling was cutting up their pride. It was so unbearable that they were willing to die rather than endure such torment.

Perhaps this was a test. One guardian suddenly raised his head, trying to smash into the marble flooring. He wanted to make himself faint or perhaps even dying was fine as well.

Shoo! A chain suddenly wrapped around his head, locking his head in place and stopping him from smashing his head on the floor. Luo Lang looked at the disheveled individuals on the floor coldly. He quickly wrapped his chains around her head to stop anyone from trying to even think of escaping.

"It's not that easy if you want to become my subordinates. Let's wait until you get past this stage before talking to me." In the end, they heard their new Lord Gen speaking down to them coldly. After hearing those words, they all fell unconscious.

Seeing the five of them black out from the pain, Luo Lang took back his chains in disgust as he murmured, "Just one vial and they already blacked out. Useless."

Ling Lan looked towards the five and said, "Not only do their bodies have innate flaws, they also have many problems from their training. It's their first time using the second generation gene agent. The more problems their bodies have, the stronger the effect of the medicine. It would have been odd if they hadn't fainted."

"Can they even be trusted?" Luo Lang was a bit worried. During these times, he really missed his friends in Lingtian. If Boss wanted to take over the Lawless Lands, they would need more people to do it so they had to compromise with these distrustful locals.

"It's fine even if they can't be trusted. As long as I am the Lord Gen that the lords acknowledge, they wouldn't dare to create huge problems for us," Ling Lan said calmly.

"They will be annoying though," added Li Lanfeng with a smile on his face.

"Wouldn't that make it hard for us?" Luo Lang was definitely still a newbie when it came to psychological warfare.

"It won't be hard for us. As long as the 13 Lords don't make a move, no matter how many things they try to do, it would be useless," explained Li Lanfeng.

"We can't let our guard down just yet. Even I'm just 50% sure that they would accept my proposal. If they believe it then it will be fine. If they don't…" Ling Lan sighed. The plan she used against Lord Zhen was dancing at the tip of a blade. If something had gone wrong, they would have been forced into a dead end. Luckily, she managed to fool him.

In reality, Ling Lan went into battle with an empty bag of nothing. Other than the token of White Monarch and the orb from the Soul Society, she had nothing else. It was just like she was performing a show by using the name of someone stronger than her to scare off her opponents. If the 13 Lords still wouldn't allow her to stay in the end, she would take Li Lanfeng, Luo Lang and everyone on the 7th Bugle Call to run away from this place.

That was right. Ling Lan was using the White Monarch's name. She also accidentally took in a subordinate from the Soul Society when she did her assignments. Her subordinate was also a prodigy. He took the opportunity and cooperated with Ling Lan, who replaced the Frost Monarch, and acquired the power to dispose of people in the Chaotic Lands. Afterwards, he slowly climbed the ranks within the Soul Society and was now the governor of the 18th District. That golden orb was the item he gave Ling Lan as a token of trust. It represented his loyalty to Ling Lan.

"What are we going to do now? Are we going to continue to wait here?" Luo Lang looked around them. When they first entered this place, they had made all of the servants here faint. Now, other than the three of them, there were unconscious people everywhere.

"Going by the strength of the medicinal agent, they probably would wake up after 2 hours," Li Lanfeng knew the specifications of the agent well.

"I'm very interested in the rainbow palace." Ling Lan raised her head and looked towards the roof of the main hall. Every pillar and pole were set in a clever way. It was as though it used the theory of body armor. Plus, when she was fighting with Lord Gen, she felt the rainbow palace was replenishing Lord Gen's domain energy almost infinitely. This was someone a normal palace couldn't do.

"I also sensed it," nodded Li Lanfeng.

"Boss, what are you guys saying? What did you sense?" Luo Lang was very confused. He hated when Boss and that sly fox Li Lanfeng spoke in code. It made him feel like he was being left out.

"You can go to your calm personality for help you know," said Li Lanfeng.

Now that the situation had turned for the better, Li Lanfeng was able to make jokes.

"Hmph!" Luo Lang snorted coldly in dissatisfaction. Then, he obediently went to go find his calm personality.

Ling Lan shook her head helplessly. Luo Lang would always be easily ordered around by Li Lanfeng. As luck would have it, Luo Lang never learned. Luo Lang was lucky that Li Lanfeng didn't have any evil intentions, otherwise, Luo Lang wouldn't even know how he managed to die. Especially when the calm personality couldn't constantly stay by Luo Lang's side.

Not long after, Luo Lang received the answer and thought about it deeply. Then, he realized something and said, "I see. Boss's ice element concept was weakening, but the original Lord Gen's insect concept energy was increasing."

"The rainbow palace is trying to recover the insect concept and at the same time flush out other concepts that aren't of the insect element." Ling Lan flicked her right hand and a simple military knife made from ice slowly formed in her palm. Her activation of the ice element stopped the ice element concept in the palace from weakening. It also temporarily stopped the rainbow palace from recovering the insect element concept.

1348 I Don"t Want to Lose Anyone

"This rainbow palace definitely has some sort of secret," Luo Lang's eyes shined brightly. This was the first time his eyes had brightened up since Xie Yi's death.

Ling Lan looked at the palace with a smile, "Do you fancy going in and looking through it with me?"

Luo Lang nodded his head furiously. He had never seen anything like it and was definitely interested in it.

"Then let's go." Ling Lan had already sensed the point of origin of the rainbow palace's insect domain concept. They had time so they might as well go in and take a look. After all, she was going to make this her first headquarters. The rainbow palace, of course, couldn't be left out and become a problem in the future.

Once Ling Lan moved, Li Lanfeng followed behind her without being told to. Luo Lang also excitedly followed them.

Seeing Luo Lang become fully focused on the secret of the rainbow palace, the calm personality breathed a sigh of relief. He then slowly returned to the mindscape.

Right after he returned to the mindscape, he felt something lock onto his arm.

A Tangdao appeared in the calm personality's hand as he slashed behind his back without hesitation.

"Hiss! You're so cruel." A slow and lazy voice echoed in the air. The calm personality then saw the evil personality clad in black move far away from him as he looked at him with a teasing smile.

The calm personality wore a full body of white clothes. It complemented him as it gave out a calming vibe to anyone around him. If he had to mention the personality that he hated most out of all the personalities, none of them was more annoying than this evil personality in front of him, who was his complete opposite.

"Why are you here?" said the calm personality coldly.

The evil personality raised his eyebrows and said, "What? Did you forget my terms?"

"Serving the primary personality is the natural order of things," said the calm personality nonchalantly.

"Heh, that's you people and not me." The evil personality disappeared and then reappeared near the calm personality. He twirled a lock of hair on the calm personality's head and said softly, "You know. Only you can make me lend a helping hand."

Then there was white flash. The slash of the Tangdao was very decisive and ruthless. The evil personality smiled softly and evaded away again, "You always bring out weapons. Can't you just talk to me like a normal person?"

"If you didn't touch me, I wouldn't try to cut you." The calm personality twisted his wrist, drawing a flower with the blade and then sheathed it.

The calm personality didn't know why such a dumb and sweet Luo Lang had such an annoying personality within his body. Not only did this personality want to talk about the 'terms' every time he's called upon, he would also come to annoy him whenever he was resting. The calm personality had already tightened all of his defenses, but the evil personality still managed to successfully get past them every time. All of his failures made him quite frustrated and annoyed. He honestly had the thought of cutting him to death just to get back his peace and quiet.

The calm personality knew that this feeling shouldn't appear in his personality, but every time he encountered this evil personality, his calmness would be on the brink of collapse. And as luck would have it, he couldn't do anything to the evil personality and was helpless in those situations. After fighting against him, the calm personality discovered that the evil personality might be stronger than him, even though he was deemed the strongest personality and was the leader of all of the personalities.

"Also, I'm tired. I need to rest." The calm personality had been keeping the primary personality together recently. Xie Yi's sacrifice and death had heavily impacted the primary personality, causing him to have signs of psychological collapse. The reason Luo Lang could recover so quickly was definitely credited to the calm personality's help. However, this also tired out the calm personality.

The evil personality appeared in front of the calm personality once again. He put out his right hand and slowly touched the calm personality's jade-like face. His eyes filled with heartache that couldn't be easily seen, but he still smiled and said, "Oh my, my, my, with our relationship? Calm, as long as you ask, I will help you protect that idiot."

Hearing that, the calm personality raised his head and stared coldly towards the evil personality, "He's not an idiot. He's our primary personality." He definitely wouldn't allow any of the other personalities to speak down towards the primary personality.

The evil personality narrowed his eyes. His right hand clenched with great force as if he was trying to strangle someone. "Calm, don't attempt to anger me… primary personality? How is he even qualified to become the primary personality? We are the ones who are the strongest. If it wasn't for you, I would have devoured him in an instant."

A blade flashed once again, and the Tangdao was now held against the evil personality's forehead. The calm personality held the Tangdao and looked at him coldly, "Evil, don't ever let me hear those types of demeaning words ever again. Otherwise, I will not rest until you die."

The evil personality smiled, "You think you can kill me? If you had spoken to me nicely, I would have let him go. However, you are too stubborn. One of these days, I will snap."

The calm personality laughed coldly. "I may not be stronger than you, but the primary personality has an existence that you can never defeat. Boss Ling Lan, and he already knows of your existence. I don't want to put you in a bad spot but you should take heed for your own sake."

After saying that, he sheathed his Tangdao. He then turned around to leave the mindscape to return to his own resting area.

The evil personality suddenly grabbed his hand.

The calm personality turned around and looked at him. He saw a colorful shimmer in the evil personality's eyes, "You're worried about me, aren't you?"

"I don't want to lose any of personalities." The calm personality said those words and then flung off his hand. He escaped from the evil personality's claws before disappearing from the mindscape in the next second.

"You can't fathom the thought of losing me." The evil personality smiled devilishly, but he couldn't hide the happiness in his eyes. "Alright, my mood is better now. I'll help you look after that dumb primary personality for a few days. Calm, rest up and don't worry."

The evil personality's voice travelled to the calm personality's ears, who had already reached his own resting area. The calm personality was silent for a short while before sighing softly in the end. A look of uncertainty appeared in his eyes. He didn't know whether what he did was right or not. However, that look of uncertainty was only for an instant. In the next second, he returned back to his calm and indifferent nature. He definitely didn't want to lose any one of the personalities.

At that moment, Ling Lan, Li Lanfeng and Luo Lang reached the stone wall at the back of the rainbow palace.

The rainbow palace was actually built against a mountain. The front and side walls were built by the previous Lord Gen and the back wall was actually the wall of the mountain.

"It's all stone." Luo Lang leaned on the mountain wall and knocked, but he couldn't find any hollow areas.

"The wall has no issues. The issue is here." Ling Lan stood 5 meters away from the mountain wall and softly pointed towards the large granite stone with her foot.

Luo Lang arrived near the large granite stone with one jump. He knelt down and began to carefully knock on it. He still heard the sound of real stone and didn't sound like it was hollow.

"There doesn't seem to be any problems here," said Luo Lang confusedly.

Li Lanfeng also walked over and looked at it carefully. Then he said, "This piece of granite doesn't have any problems, but from where it is positioned, it indeed looks somewhat odd and unnatural."

After hearing that, Luo Lang looked at it as well. After carefully studying the floor, he raised his googly eyes and said confusedly, "How come I can't see anything odd and unnatural about it?"

"It's called intuition," Li Lanfeng didn't care about Luo Lang's feelings and mocked him.

"Pfft, you're not Qi Long. How could you have Qi Long's Animal Instinct," rebutted Luo Lang.

1349 You"re So Bad

Li Lanfeng smiled and glanced at Luo Lang. "I have a brain."

Luo Lang almost fainted from anger. "You little…"

Ling Lan helplessly looked at the childish conversation between the two people in front of her. She knew that during this time, Li Lanfeng would always provoke Luo Lang in order to make him not think about Xie Yi's death.

Every time Luo Lang was angry and annoyed, he would be more energetic than when he was quiet. Ling Lan knew that so she didn't do anything about Li Lanfeng and Luo Lang's little argument.

She looked at that piece of granite and then stepped on it with great force.

A force went through her leg and then they heard a soft clicking sound.

Behind them, 20 meters away from the mountain wall, a hole suddenly appeared in the ground.

"Holy sh*t, it actually so far from us. Who would think of looking there?" Luo Lang had already forgotten about quarreling with Li Lanfeng. He jumped over and reached the edge of the hole.

"There's stairs," Luo Lang said joyfully. It seemed that this was indeed a passageway.

"Let's go down," Ling Lan said indifferently.

"Alrighty." Luo Lang instantly jumped in after hearing those words.

Ling Lan shook her head speechlessly once again. When will Luo Lang be able to become more careful and think things over? He didn't even know what the situation was like down below but he still jumped down without a care in the world. He was so fearless. Was he not afraid that it would be filled with traps down there?

"Luo Lang can deal with most of the common difficulties," Lanfeng smiled as he comforted Ling Lan.

"It seems his calm personality can't be by his side all the time," Ling Lan said with a thought in mind.

"It's quite taxing for the main body to activate his domain so many times. His calm personality probably doesn't want Luo Lang to feel any backlash," guessed Li Lanfeng.

"Maybe. I'll find a chance to get to the bottom of it." Ling Lan remembered Luo Lang's odd change during the fight on the 7th Bugle Call against Lord Gen's disciple. She decided when things become more stable, she would go find the calm personality and talk about it.

"I'll go down and take a look." Li Lanfeng chose to go down first. He instantly jumped down just like Luo Lang.

For domain realm masters such as themselves, they could easily negate the impact of a fall. Even if they were to jump down thousands of feet, it wouldn't be a problem.

Ling Lan sighed once again. Couldn't they just walk down and not jump down one by one? They were too rash.

Ling Lan, who felt she needed to keep her word, chose to hold on the railing as she walked down the stairs. After walking for seven or eight steps…

Alright, jumping down seemed to be less tiring. Ling Lan chose to jump down. Since everyone else had jumped down, she shouldn't go against the grain just because of her stubbornness, right?

Ling Lan definitely wouldn't admit that she had just done something dumb.

After floating in the air for more than 30 seconds, Ling Lan finally saw the bottom of the hole.

The bottom of the hole only had a large sealed door. Other than that, there was nothing else there.

Without any light source, it was pitch-black. However, domain realm masters could use their spiritual power to investigate their surroundings without actually seeing with their eyes. This method's effectiveness was much better than the naked eye since it didn't miss any blind spots.

"It's so dark. I would be nice if there was some light." Ling Lan wasn't afraid of the dark, but she still liked lit up places.

Right after she said that, she felt something softly jump onto her shoulder. Then, a dim light appeared. It brightened up this dark place by quite a lot.

"Little White, why are you also here?" asked Luo Lang when he saw a bright ball shining on Ling Lan's shoulder. It should be known that after Little White squished Boss, it had buried itself in the snow and played dead. Luo Lang originally thought it would stay up there and guard the five guardians. He didn't think it actually didn't care about its little life and followed them here.

"Rawr (I'm here to help my master. I'm a little sun that brings light and warmth.)…"

Little White excitedly waved its little tentacles as if being a help to its master was a very proud thing for it to do. Little White had already forgotten it had squished its master under its butt just moments ago.

Well, with Little White's simple mind, it couldn't be helped that it couldn't think about complex situations, especially when it was the cute type where it would smile dumbly after giving just a bit of praise. It had no hope of learning from its faults. The chance of it repeating a mistake was more or less 100% of the time.

Ling Lan flicked her finger to flick Little White away. She then softly dusted her shoulder and calmly spoke as she raised her head, "Let's go in."

Luo Lang watched as Little White got flicked away and bounced around the walls. In the end, the little ball rolled to a corner. Little White's googly eyes showed twirls and its mouth twitched many times. Luo Lang could almost feel its pain. When they accidentally make Boss mad, they would be in the same state as Little White right now. Oh, wait, no, maybe even worse.

After hearing Ling Lan's words, Luo Lang stood up straight, turned around and walked over to the door.

Bang! Luo Lang bumped into the door.

This scene made Li Lanfeng's eyes twitch uncontrollably. Luo Lang being stupid suddenly was definitely something he didn't want to see.

Ling Lan also had a frustrated expression on her face. She rubbed her forehead with a speechless expression… What kind of underling and pet did she bring? One was dumber than the other…

In the end, Ling Lan placed her hope into Li Lanfeng. He hoped that the strategist she trusted wouldn't be infected by the dumbness and have his intelligence drop below zero.

Sensing the hope in Ling Lan's eyes, Li Lanfeng instantly felt immense pressure on him. He took a deep breath, walked to the door and began to look for clues to open the door.

Luckily, the books he read in the past were actually useful to let him find the clues he was looking for.

He slowly put his right palm on the circular center of the door. Then, he slowly put forth energy into it according to the path his mind believed to be correct.

As the energy flowed through, the patterns on the door began to react and slowly lit up. In the end, the entire door was covered in dim lights. Then after a few cracking sounds, the door was slowly opened.

Li Lanfeng breathed a sigh of relief before looking expectantly at Ling Lan. He then saw Ling Lan smile at him, It seemed like Ling Lan approved of him or was relieved he could do it. This made Li Lanfeng very happy. He felt that he managed to perform well in front of his crush for once.

At that moment, Li Lanfeng was grateful towards Luo Lang and Little White's dumbness. It was their dumb behaviors that made his intelligence shine in comparison.

In reality, Ling Lan was thinking that it was good Li Lanfeng wasn't infected with Luo Lang and Little White's dumbness. It made her feel that this world was still good to her and didn't let her fight the battles alone.

Other than that, she didn't feel anything else.

Right as Ling Lan was about to walk in, she suddenly thought of something. She then pointed at Little White, who was still on the floor all dizzy, and spoke to Luo Lang, "Take it with us. It can be used to light the way."

Surprisingly, the creature at the top of the food chain on Planet Juhao, Little White, was only good enough to be a lantern while with Ling Lan… Let's pity our Little White for having such a terrible master with a drop of our tears.

1350 Why Is It So Difficult To Be A Pet?

A Tangdao formed in Luo Lang's hand. He lifted the Tangdao and hung Little White, whose tentacles were tied up in a knot, from the blunt edge of the Tangdao.

Although Little White accidentally sat on Ling Lan, she wasn't really angry about it. However, in order to let Little White understand that there was a price to every mistake it made, she didn't mind punishing it with this mild punishment.

Little White's glowing body lit up the passageway quite well. After walking for a few hundred meters, they finally could see the end of it.

The three of them hastened their pace. But, they soon realized that it was a forked path. There were three routes in front of them.

"Where shall we go?" Luo Lang asked.

Ling Lan's gaze turned sharp. She pointed toward the leftmost route and said, "This way."

Her Profound Insight told her that the leftmost route was where she would find her answer.

Luo Lang never suspected Boss's keen judgment. So, he walked towards the leftmost route without any hesitation.

The three of them continued walking for quite some time. Suddenly, Luo Lang stopped in his tracks.

As soon as Luo Lang stopped, space in front of him suddenly distorted and crackled.

"It's dangerous." Luo Lang turned serious as he scanned the distorted space.

He only stopped because someone in his mindscape reminded him of the danger in front of him. He was unfamiliar with this new arrival. It was definitely not the Little Leng he knew and trusted.

Seeing the distorted space, Li Lanfeng closed his eyes and stretched out his right hand to sense the air around him. When he opened his eyes again, he seemed slightly puzzled. "There's a sinister and dark energy near here. However, it doesn't feel like the bug element energy that Lord Gen had."

"We'll know once we go in," Ling Lan replied calmly.

Luo Lang nodded with a sharp gaze as he started to walk forward again but this time, he was more vigilant.

After walking for a few meters, Luo Lang suddenly jumped up. It was because the space around him had suddenly turned into a swamp. As the land was terraforming itself before his eyes, a fifteen meter long snake suddenly emerged from the swampy lake before baring its jaws towards Little White who was still swaying on the tip of Luo Lang's Tangdao.

Just as the snake was about to clamp down its jaws, Luo Lang swung his Tangdao back forcefully, flinging Little White towards his back through the air.

While still spinning in mid-air, Little White quickly covered its mouth with its tentacles, which stopped today's lunch from getting vomited out of its stomach. From the corner of its vision, it finally saw the giant snake who was looking at it like a rare delicacy.

'What the f**k? Someone is now trying to eat me? Hmm, is this what irony is? Hmph, no matter, you want to eat me? I'll eat you instead.'

The enraged Little White suddenly elongated its tentacles and whipped the snake across its face furiously. The snake, which now like a disheveled wife, was forced back into the swamp because of the sudden slap.

"Ice Blockade." Seeing the snake getting slapped back into the swamp, Ling Lan used her technique to freeze the swamp around them. Luo Lang and Li Lanfeng slowly landed back onto the ice surface. They looked grimly at the giant snake that was twisting and turning under the thin sheet of ice.

"I remember that Lord Gen summoned this kind of poisonous animal on the 7th Bugle Call before." The appearance of this giant snake was similar to the giant snake that appeared on the 7th Bugle Call. The only difference was that the snakes on the 7th Bugle Call were smaller. It wasn't like this giant snake which almost filled up the entire swamp with its body.

"There is not only the snake. There is more." Ling Lan frowned slightly as she looked past the rampaging giant snake.

Following Ling Lan's gaze, Li Lanfeng and Luo Lang saw a half-revealed yellowish-brown toad behind the giant snake. It's golden slitted eyes were staring ferociously at them. The toad was similar to the colour of the swamp, in addition to the fact that it didn't move, Li Lanfeng and Luo Lang almost missed it.

"There's even more." When Ling Lan noticed that their attention was on the toad, Ling Lan reminded them again.

Hearing Ling Lan's words, Luo Lang and Li Lanfeng moved their attention away and looked further past the unnerving toad. Near the outer edges of the swamp, they saw two more creatures.

They didn't expect four different poisonous creatures to exist in this swamp simultaneously. These four creatures, which normally couldn't exist together, lived harmoniously in this swamp.

Besides the giant snake and the toad, there was a ten meter long centipede crawling at the shallow edges of the swamp. Near the end of the swamp, there was a humongous spider spinning its web, biding its time for its next prey to arrive.

"If you include the scorpion that Lord Gen summoned, the five poisonous creatures are all present." Ling Lan was deep in thought.

"This might be why there's an endless supply of bug domain concept in the rainbow palace." Li Lanfeng stared at the four poisonous creatures. "Based on the aura these poisonous creatures are exuding, they must be titled domain realm or above."

"That explains everything but I feel that there is more than meets the eye." Ling Lan looked at Little White who was having a staredown against the giant snake in the air. She said calmly, " I'll leave them to you."

"Rawr~" (I understand, master.)

Poof! Little White's huge round body dove straight towards them. The three of them were speechless when they saw it. They immediately retreated a few kilometers back so that they wouldn't be squashed by it.

Little White turned back into his real form without informing them again.

Little White thought that it would spurt the muddy swamp water everywhere after it fell down but instead, it landed on a hard surface. Confused, it looked down and saw the thin layer of ice on the surface of the swamp. The layer of ice looked very thin but it was extremely strong. Even when a giant cannonball like it landed on top of it at high speed, there were no cracks.

Little White squealed in delight when it saw the ice. It thought, 'Master must be really worried about me for her to use her ice domain concept to protect me. Master is the best master in the world. Little White loves master the most.'

The giant snake got excited when it saw its prey falling down from the sky. It opened its mouth and charged towards the surface.

Before it could get near, it saw the soft furs on Little White suddenly exploding and piercing through the ice. Instantly, the furs became huge tentacles that were more than ten meters in length. It attacked him from all directions.

Gasp! 'Oh my god, what kind of monster is this?'

The frightened giant snake dove back deeper into the swamp and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Little White threw its tentacles in the swamp. Muddy water and cracked ice flew everywhere but its efforts were futile. It couldn't find the giant snake that was hidden in the depth of the swamp.

The frustrated Little White wanted to find the other poisonous creatures but it realized that all of them were gone. Only an empty spider web was left.

"Rawr!" 'You bunch of cowards! I finally managed to get the chance to perform in front of my master but all of you are hiding from me. I'm so angry.'

Little White just wanted to perform well and please its master. Why was it so difficult?

"Do you really want to perform?" Ling Lan's voice suddenly entered Little White's ears.

"Rawr…" Yes, Little White wants to be a useful Little White. Master, please don't abandon me.

Little White's eyes were full of tears. It felt that if it didn't perform well this time, its master would really ignore it. Little White didn't forget that every time its master went on a mission, she would forget about it and throw it to her little brothers and little sisters. This was the same as abandoning him. In the end, it still has to rely on itself to find its master. Why is it so difficult to be a pet?