117: The enemy is coming!

In an instant, the "assassins" under that post all went into hiding!

One by one, their profile pictures turned black in rapid succession.

Lu Chen was currently in the academy's faculty apartments.

His mouth curled boredly.

At the same time, the top leaders of various countries...

...also mobilized their respective national military forces.

All because of Lu Chen.

The next day, global military news began to report one after another:

[Global Military Movements]

The United States has reactivated the "Immortal Slayer" satellite matrix from Area 51, researched from ancient Chinese manuals, with its orbital cannon aimed toward China's East Sea.

Britain moved the Sword in the Lake from the museum to an underground sanctuary, activating the Twelve Round Table Barrier.

The Onmyo Agency of Japan, in collaboration with the Yasukuni Shrine, has deployed a massive array of one hundred thousand Talismanic Incantations on Mount Fuji.

The China Cultivation Association announced: Starting today, Penglai Secret Realm tour groups will enjoy a 20% discount.

(China: Money is truly sweet!)

(The Audience: No, man, is this even a military movement? Hachi-Hua, you guy!)

The world was in an uproar, and everything was incredibly bustling.

However, for Lu Chen, life was still peaceful and quiet.

Cultivate and devour.

Recently, he had been crashing quite a few classes.

Devouring magic crystal stones in Alchemy class.

Getting free spiritual energy Medicinal Pills in the Pill Refinement class.

It was truly comfortable!

Lu Chen was comfortable.

He also planned to head out for a stroll.

And so, today he planned to take the girls to see this future city he had never seen before.

Early this morning, the bronze gates of Kunlun Academy slowly opened in the morning mist. Ning Xiwei tucked her nether moon pendant into the collar of her hoodie. Standing at the school gate, she fell into deep thought as she looked at the seven-seater business shuttle parked in front of her.

The car window rolled down, revealing Lu Chen's profile as he wore sunglasses, his well-defined fingers scrolling through a gourmet food guide on the car's tablet.

"What are you standing there for?" Ignis poked her head out from the passenger seat, lava tattoos flowing beneath her off-the-shoulder T-shirt. "Today, we're going to max out the Chu Clan Merchant Guild's black card!"

Shelley's cool voice drifted from the back seat, "Lower the passenger seat temperature by two degrees; my iced milk tea is going to melt."

She was tapping the navigation screen with her ice crystal nails, "Go to 87 Xuanwu Avenue first. That high-end boutique just got some new Arctic Snow Silkworm Silk."

Morning Dew squeezed into the car clutching a canvas bag filled with Holy Light Talismanic Incantations, saying weakly, "Um... can I go to the Holy Light Department Store to pick out some new robes?"

Because of her nervousness, her Holy Light wings flapped restlessly behind her back, blowing Sun Feifei's spicy strip wrapper onto Lu Chen's head.

"We'll go to all of them!" Sun Feifei chewed on shredded squid with her legs propped up on the center console. "But the first stop must be Old Sun Family's sugar-glazed fruits—hey, hey, Little Skeleton, don't glare at me, I know you can't taste anything!"

Lu Chen suddenly felt that coming out today might have been a mistake.

Because he seemed to have forgotten...

...that these were all women!

As the shuttle skimmed over a suspended overpass, a neon holographic advertisement was pushing the latest headline: [Rank 8 Undead Creature spotted in the city center! Multiple insurance companies urgently pull accident insurance policies].

Lu Chen's bone fingers tapped a chime-like rhythm on the steering wheel, and the car's body suddenly transformed into an inconspicuous Wuling Hongguang.

"The Xuanwu Barrier is up ahead." Lu Chen jerked the steering wheel to avoid the aerial traffic police. "Hold on tight, the Chu Clan's spies are more annoying than the paparazzi."

When Lu Chen set out, he already sensed many people watching him from the shadows.

There were even people from the Chu Imperial Dynasty.

The business cabin instantly turned into a roller coaster. Ignis took the opportunity to dive into Lu Chen's arms to adjust her seatbelt, her lava tattoos intentionally brushing against his forearm. "Hehe, I'm scared~!"

In the rearview mirror, Ning Xiwei's death stare almost burned through the seat.

—This slutty Flame Demon!

—Is this even a Flame Demon?

—She's clearly a slutty Succubus!

...They arrived at Xuanwu Avenue.

Under the glazed dome of Xuanwu Avenue, Shelley stood before a smart fitting room, frowning.

A holographic projection was overlaying the 37th dress onto her body.

Just then, her ice crystal earrings suddenly sounded an alarm:

—"Prying spell detected, luxury store at three o'clock."

Lu Chen, with a sugar-glazed fruit Sun Feifei had force-fed him in his mouth, drew a reversed Buddhist mantra on the glass curtain wall with his bone fingertips.

Screams immediately erupted from the Chu Clan Jewelry Store as three Cultivators disguised as shop assistants clutched their eyes and tumbled into the jade display cases.

"The latest model of eavesdropping Talisman," he said, taking the black card handed over by a guide robot. "Stuck behind the fitting room mirror—is this all Chu Jian is capable of?"

Ignis poked her head out of the adjacent fitting room with her flaming red lips, "Little Skeleton~ help me see if this tube top will fall off?"

The molten bikini she wore sparked under the reinforcement of a defensive array, burning through three hidden cameras.

Ignis seemed carefree, but her mind was more delicate than anyone's.

After all, as a descendant of the Flame Demons, she had been accustomed to being cautious since childhood.

None of these people's petty tricks succeeded.

When it was time for lunch, Lu Chen chose a viewing restaurant on the 300th floor.

As soon as everyone sat down, they heard cynical mockery from the neighboring table.

"Since when can any random riffraff enter the Sky Garden?" Murong Bai swaggered in with a group of playboys from the Cultivation Department. "Waiter, light some incense for that table of undead creatures."

Lu Chen smiled when he saw this second-generation brat.

How could he run into this idiot everywhere?

Lu Chen slowly unfolded his napkin.

He said with a sharp tongue, "When your ancestor Murong Fu was licking plates here back then, he was just as foul-mouthed."

Shelley's ice crystal ring flashed with a faint light, and the 1982 Lafite in the playboys' glasses instantly froze into blocks of ice.

Her personality was cold, and this was how she usually took revenge.

Just as she was about to continue her outburst, the giant phantom of a Sea-Quelling Stone Ox appeared outside the building's floor-to-ceiling windows—identical to the one at the East Sea Guixu!

"The latest product placement?" Sun Feifei leaned in with her livestreaming phone, only to find the ox's eyes staring dead at Lu Chen. "Wait... is this thing crying asphalt tears?"

Lu Chen's golden compass floated out from his collar, its needle spinning wildly and pointing toward the underground garage.

He grabbed a table knife and carved a teleportation array into the tablecloth: "An old friend has sent a big gift. Let's go sign for it."

"Hey! Lu Chen!"

Sun Feifei shouted.

But Lu Chen had already vanished from the spot.

The girls quickly followed.

Before leaving, Shelley took the expensive feast Murong Bai and the others had ordered...

...and froze it all into ice!

...In the underground garage, the air was filled with a pungent smell of sulfur, and thirty-six bronze figurines were assembling an altar.

The Chu Clan family crest bobbed in the central asphalt pit, and Ning Xiwei's nether moon pendant suddenly began to burn.

"It's Soul-Devouring Incense! They're summoning something."

"Shh—" Lu Chen covered her mouth, his bone palm glowing with Seal runes from a hundred thousand years ago. "You guys retreat behind the support pillars and leave a good angle for Feifei's livestream."

Ignis had already torn off her cumbersome short skirt, lava armor flowing over her lovely body. "Let your lady-aunt teach them what it means to play with fire and get burned!"

The fire whip she flicked out wrapped around a figurine's neck, but she was shocked to find Holy Light energy flowing within these Puppets.

"Careful!" Morning Dew's Divine Staff burst with a purification beam, illuminating the throbbing crucifix cores inside the figurines' chests. "This is the Holy See's Saint Skeletal technology!"