336: Siege of Evil Spirits

Xuanwu City.

After Ye Beixuan finished handling the city's affairs, he felt as if all the strength in his body had been drained, leaving him with no energy to Cultivate.

He couldn't help but think of that Genius named Xu Le, who had reached the Blazing Sun Realm Peak or even higher at such a young age.

More importantly, he was carefree, with no desire for power at all. He didn't even pay much attention to his own younger sister and confidante.

"Sigh, perhaps only with this kind of Heart-Nature can one reach the absolute top of the world!"

"I am ultimately just a commoner. Perhaps when I can leave Xuanwu City without a single distracting thought, that will be the time I break through to a higher Realm."

"It's just that I'm afraid that day will never come."

People who have never held power will never know the thrill of turning clouds into rain with a flip of a hand—it completely surpasses pleasures like mating.

Ye Beixuan sighed, then his body suddenly stiffened. He saw a person sitting on the sofa in the living room, flipping through the only novel he read for leisure—"Stealing Ghosts Makes Me Stronger: The Path of the Invincible Silly Goose".

"Who are you?"

Xu Le withdrew his hand into the Contract Space: "This book isn't bad. Let's make a deal."

"What deal?"

Ye Beixuan's heart pounded. He tried to sense the person many times, but even though the person was sitting right in front of him, he couldn't perceive anything, as if what he saw was an illusion.

Not noticing before could be called carelessness, but still being unable to sense him now only meant the other party's strength was immense.

Should he try to make a move?

As soon as the thought arose, every cell in his body trembled. This was his Soul warning him: If you act, you will die!

To think it was this terrifying just by considering it—exactly how powerful was the other party?

Ye Beixuan wanted to look up, but fear made him not even dare to raise his head.

Xu Le said: "Use all the power of Xuanwu City to help me collect evil spirits. No limit on level. In one month, I want a million of them."

"And the reward?" Ye Beixuan suppressed the fear in his heart, using all his strength to squeeze out those words.

"Your life!"

Xu Le's voice was calm, like an evil spirit that disregarded life. If the other party didn't agree, the next second would be a thunderous kill.

"My life..." Ye Beixuan uttered three words, having exhausted his strength. After resting for a long time, he squeezed out the last three: "...isn't worth much!"

"Oh? What if I add Xuanwu City to the deal?"

!!!

Ye Beixuan looked up, facing Xu Le directly for the first time. His whole body was trembling, and his Soul was close to collapsing, but he still held on.

Xu Le withdrew his Aura and added: "You wouldn't want Xuanwu City to end up like White Tiger City, would you?"

"Ah?"

Ye Beixuan was stunned.

Wasn't the tragedy of White Tiger City caused by a Little Yellow Chicken?

Xu Le leisurely took out a lantern, and his appearance transformed into that of the Lantern-Carrying Monk.

Of course, he didn't dare to synchronize the Karma.

If the Heavenly Dao detected it, there would be at least a Lightning Tribulation, and not even a speck of dust would remain of Xuanwu City.

"It's you!"

Ye Beixuan finally remembered the video he and the other city lords had discussed countless times recently. This monk was also one of their recognized culprits.

"You... why?"

"Because I like it!" Xu Le grabbed an apple from the coffee table and took a bite. "Don't worry. Even if you can't do it, at most I'll kill you and the influential families in the city, then persuade everyone to leave Xuanwu City."

Ye Beixuan was completely convinced!

That was exactly how White Tiger City had been lost.

A giant city that once dominated a region was easily handed over and torn to pieces by evil spirits.

"Fine!"

After reluctantly agreeing, Ye Beixuan actually felt relieved.

Suddenly feeling something was wrong, he looked at the sofa again, but the figure on it had vanished. If not for the missing apple, he would have thought it was all a nightmare.

The city lords of the three giant cities—Azure Dragon City, Vermilion Bird City, and Qilin City—were all exceptionally "easy to talk to." After "friendly" consultations, they all agreed to deliver a million evil spirits to Xu Le in one month.

Walking on the streets of Qilin City, Xu Le suddenly thought of someone.

That man he had seen once a year before he turned eighteen.

Back when he was in White Tiger City, Xu Junfeng was out on a mission. Now, he happened to be resting in Qilin City.

Following the faint thread of Karma, Xu Le walked into an amusement park.

A pretty woman was holding Xu Junfeng's arm, and the two were smiling intimately.

Within the Karma thread, the two had started ten years ago, and they even had a six-year-old son in the real world.

"It's quite good!"

Xu Le turned and left... Twenty days later.

Dense crowds of evil spirits gathered outside Xuanwu City.

Ye Beixuan rushed to the city wall. At a glance, there were no fewer than 20 evil spirits at the Blazing Sun Realm Peak alone.

And this was just the East Gate!

Among the swarm of evil spirits, there were many familiar faces, including no fewer than seven or eight who were friendly towards humans.

Ye Beixuan shouted loudly: "Granny Mountain Wind, Dream Spirit Rabbit, Playful Child Spirit, didn't you sign a non-aggression treaty with my Xuanwu City? Why are you leading an attack on my city?"

Granny Mountain Wind was the oldest but had the most fiery temper: "Shameless brat Beixuan, you keep saying your Spirit Tamers advocate peace and only gather here to protect the Human Race. Then why are you capturing the Spirit Race everywhere?"

Hong Ji flicked her handkerchief and giggled behind her hand: "Oh my, you don't think what you've done is a secret, do you? From what I know, at least three hundred thousand of our Spirit Race have been taken by you."

Hearing this terrifying number, the spirits felt endangered and began to curse one after another:

"Shameless humans, release our kin, or we will destroy this wretched city!"

"Release them! Or we'll leave you without a whole corpse!"

"Release them!!!"

"Why waste words with them? Let's just charge in and leave no one alive!"

"..."

Ye Beixuan's head throbbed.

Releasing them was impossible.

If he released them now, setting aside the threat of the Lantern-Carrying Monk, the over eight hundred thousand evil spirits rushing out would immediately attack the city.

He wouldn't be able to hold them back!

But if he didn't release them, the hundred or so Blazing Sun Realm evil spirits below the wall alone would be hard to deal with, let alone the millions of evil spirits behind them.

A dead end, no solution!

The Dream Spirit Rabbit extended its claws, its Blazing Sun Realm Aura spreading out, making all the evil spirits shut their mouths.

"Ye Beixuan, we need a reason why you are capturing my Spirit Race on such a large scale. Right now, it's just us, but if you delay for another two hours and experts like Flying Tiger and Xiangliu arrive, your Xuanwu City will be breached today."

"I..." Ye Beixuan's mouth was full of bitterness.

He knew the other party meant well, but he really couldn't explain.

Originally, he had planned to secretly leak the news that the Lantern-Carrying Monk was capturing the Spirit Race on a large scale. He hadn't expected that the monk wouldn't be exposed, but Xuanwu City would be instead.

Li Yuan, oh Li Yuan, what kind of terrible idea did you come up with, and how did you execute it?

Ye Beixuan turned back to look for his chief of staff, only to find that he had long since disappeared. Upon reflection, he hadn't seen him since the day before yesterday afternoon.

His thoughts began to wander. Could this be a trap set by the Lantern-Carrying Monk and Li Yuan to take down another human city?

But why?

Xu Le suddenly appeared behind Ye Beixuan and smiled: "For today, of course."