r18novel Chapter 189 Laughing at the Mortal World: I was in a complete panic at the time.
Chapter 189 Laughing at the Mortal World: I was in a complete panic at the time.
Chapter 189 Laughing at the Mortal World: I was in a complete panic at the time
After a few seconds of silence, Ye Nanxiao smiled and said, "I choose the third one."
"Where did this third one come from? Are you kidding me?" Xiao Hongchen laughed and scolded.
"The third option is not to choose the first two!" Ye Nanxiao smiled and picked up the wine glass in front of him.
Xiao Hongchen looked at Ye Nanxiao speechlessly. Although he and Ye Nanxiao had been enemies before, Xiao Hongchen admired Ye Nanxiao and did not truly hate him. This was Xiao Hongchen's mutual respect for fellow geniuses.
As for Huo Yuhao, the two just don't see eye to eye; it's already a miracle if they don't exchange insults when they meet.
Meng Hongchen clapped his hands and said, "Great! Great! The third one is to fight me."
Ye Nanxiao and Xiao Hongchen immediately looked at Meng Hongchen. Xiao Hongchen wanted to speak, but was silenced by a glare from Meng Hongchen and drank his sake in frustration.
Why is he being yelled at by his sister, the older brother?
Ye Nanxiao frowned, then smiled and glanced at Xiao Hongchen, who was drinking silently.
"Can't you be a little tougher? You're the one who's supposed to be Onii-chan!"
"If you're so good, then you do it." Xiao Hongchen glared back without any politeness.
Seeing Meng Hongchen take another big step closer to him with a beaming smile, Ye Nanxiao pulled his chair back a little further.
"Well, since you've come from afar, how can I not fight?" Ye Nanxiao still wanted to struggle a bit, adhering to the principle of avoiding trouble whenever possible.
"Sure, then come shopping with me. Anyway, the competitions in the three major black markets are all held at night," Meng Hongchen said with a sweet smile.
"Where should we fight?" Ye Nanxiao made a decision instantly. He was joking; he didn't want to go back and get burned.
Meng Hongchen's pupils subtly turned red, and she suddenly grasped Ye Nanxiao's wrist with her left hand, smiling mysteriously as she said, "It begins right here."
Ye Nanxiao's expression changed slightly as he felt an extremely strange and viscous power mixed with icy coldness enter his body.
The moment the ice poison belonging to Meng Hongchen entered Ye Nanxiao's body, it transformed into a giant ice toad, which quickly found its target and spat out a ferocious net to pounce on Xue Di.
"This is... the original ice poison of the Zhu Qing Ice Toad?" The Snow Emperor, who was sitting cross-legged in Ye Nanxiao's spiritual sea, immediately became alert.
"Woo!" A deep roar came from the depths of Ye Nanxiao's spiritual sea, and the big fox suddenly opened its eyes, its beastly pupils radiating a dangerous light.
The ice poison, transformed into an ice toad, trembled and cowered in place as if it had encountered its natural enemy.
The Snow Emperor waved his hand, and a few snowflakes enveloped the ice poison before vanishing without a trace.
The thick layer of meth before her eyes quickly reminded Xue Di of the extremely cunning creature in the far north, and she murmured, "It's the Crimson Ice Toad."
The events that occurred in Ye Nanxiao's spiritual sea lasted only a minute. Meng Hongchen discovered that she had lost contact with the ice poison that had entered Ye Nanxiao's body. She slowly released her grip on Ye Nanxiao's hand, a hint of joy flashing in her red eyes. She thought to herself, "As expected, the ice poison in my body is useless against Nanxiao."
Xiao Hongchen, who had been watching Ye Nanxiao and Meng Hongchen closely, asked in surprise, "Is it over already?"
I haven't finished my drink yet.
No, wait, what did Ye Nanxiao do to his dear sister?!
Xiao Hongchen's eyes widened instantly, and he was about to speak when...
Meng Hongchen turned and glared at him, who immediately shrank back and fell silent.
Ye Nanxiao was not annoyed by Meng Hongchen's actions and asked with a smile, "Can you take me to the black market now?"
"It's still early. The competition starts tonight, and registration is also tonight." Xiao Hongchen drank his wine in silence. His younger sister hadn't scolded him in a long time, and he felt very wronged.
"I see. Could you tell me about the three giants of the black market?" Ye Nanxiao wasn't sure which faction Ye Guyi belonged to, or if she had even joined any of them yet.
"The underworld of Mingdu is far more complex than you imagine. The most powerful is the Xishui Alliance, followed by the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and the Pingfan Alliance," Meng Hongchen said, holding up three jade fingers.
"The Ordinary Alliance controls the sex industry, the Aodu Chamber of Commerce controls assassin guilds, thief guilds and some criminal gangs, and the Xishui Alliance controls the sale of medicines and arms, and also traffics people."
"The sex industry?" Ye Nanxiao was somewhat flustered upon hearing this.
"What? Are you tempted?" This was the first time Xiao Hongchen had seen panic in Ye Nanxiao's eyes.
Meng Hongchen glared at Xiao Hongchen again, and the latter had no choice but to pour himself another cup of wine and drink it in silence.
Half an hour later, three people arrived on the streets of Mingdu.
A pair of good-looking siblings and a handsome, almost otherworldly young man attracted the attention of almost everyone on the street.
"If you want to participate, you must first choose your faction," Xiao Hongchen said.
The three walked to a high-end hotel in the city center.
"Youthful Hotel." Ye Nanxiao looked at the hotel with its very distinctive name and couldn't help but admire the hotel owner for being so direct.
"It's only two kilometers from the Sun and Moon Palace. Be careful, you've probably been targeted by the people from the Sun and Moon Palace for a while now." Xiao Hongchen looked at Ye Nanxiao's handsome, almost demonic face and nodded.
Ye Nanxiao smiled calmly upon hearing this, knowing that he had brought a bodyguard with him when he went out.
"Don't think about it anymore, your bodyguard has already left," Xue Di said calmly.
"Gone?" Ye Nanxiao was a little puzzled. Elder Xuan hadn't said goodbye when he left. But then Ye Nanxiao thought about it again, and it made sense that Elder Xuan had returned to Shrek Academy.
"What's wrong, Nanxiao?" Meng Hongchen asked when she saw Ye Nanxiao frowning.
Ye Nanxiao shook his head, and Xiao Hongchen pointed to the Qingse Hotel and said, "It doesn't start until tonight. By the way, you have your own level four soul tool, right?"
Ye Nanxiao raised an eyebrow, then used his mental energy to scan his storage ring, selected one item from among the many weapons, and nodded to Xiao Hongchen.
"It's still early, why don't you fight me instead?" Xiao Hongchen said.
Ye Nanxiao looked up at the sky; the sun had not yet reached the center of the sky.
"Or we could go shopping," Meng Hongchen suggested.
Ye Nanxiao immediately put his arm around Xiao Hongchen and walked forward, asking as they went, "Where is the dueling arena?"
Just as Xiao Hongchen was about to speak, he felt two piercing gazes on him. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and pulled Ye Nanxiao along, saying enthusiastically, "Ye Nanxiao, although we are on different sides, I, Xiao Hongchen, admire you very much. This is your first time in Mingdu, so I'll treat you. Come on, Mingdu has several streets of shops with a wide variety of goods."
Ye Nanxiao looked at Xiao Hongchen in surprise, a question mark slowly appearing above his head.
Turning his head and seeing Meng Hongchen's bright smile, Ye Nanxiao panicked.
Night fell quietly as the three of them strolled through Mingdu. Ye Nanxiao and Xiao Hongchen, exhausted, walked to the front of the Qingse Hotel.
"Why, why did I have to meet you today? If it weren't for you, I should be comfortably making soul tools today," Xiao Hongchen complained.
Ye Nanxiao glanced at Xiao Hongchen and said, "Alright, let's not talk about it. If you hadn't chickened out and insisted on dragging me along, we wouldn't have developed a phobia of shopping."
At the hotel's main entrance, four burly men, each over two meters tall, stared expressionlessly at Ye Nanxiao and his companion. As for Meng Hongchen, it's worth noting that the two had "escaped" from Meng Hongchen's clutches.
Just as a burly man in black was about to step forward, his companion quickly pulled him back, while simultaneously pressing a sensor in his pocket with his left hand.
Ye Nanxiao and Xiao Hongchen swaggered into the Qingse Hotel. After entering the hotel, Ye Nanxiao began to look around at the interior structure. The decoration was very simple, and it was only five stories high.
Soon, a middle-aged man dressed in a black robe greeted Ye Nanxiao and his companion with a smile, saying, "Young Master Xiao Hongchen, and your guests, please come this way."
Ye Nanxiao raised an eyebrow and said to Xiao Hongchen, "I didn't expect you to be the young master here. You're quite well-off."
Although Xiao Hongchen's face was expressionless, the arrogance in his eyes and the upturned corners of his mouth showed that he was in a good mood.
With a proud expression, Xiao Hongchen slowly said, "I am the future master of Mingde Hall, and the underground soul master world will naturally give me face."
Upon hearing this, Ye Nanxiao thought about it and realized that Xiao Hongchen was right. He took out a rabbit mask from his ring, put it on, and quietly followed behind the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man led the two to the elevator and respectfully asked, "Young Master Xiao Hongchen, are you and your guest participating in the competition together?"
Xiao Hongchen shook his head, pointed at Ye Nanxiao, and said, "Only he is participating in the competition."
The middle-aged man looked at Ye Nanxiao and respectfully asked, "May I ask how you are addressed?"
"Xiao Nanye," Ye Nanxiao said coldly.
Many people in the underground Soul Master community use aliases to get by. Ye Nanxiao couldn't think of any aliases for the time being, nor did he want to use Tang as his surname.
Otherwise, given Ye Nanxiao's skill level with soul tools, it would be easy for some people with ulterior motives to find the Tang Sect.
A glint flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes as he asked, "May I ask if this Mr. Xiao wishes to represent our Xishui Alliance in this competition, or if he is representing himself and cooperating with our Xishui Alliance? The competition is about to begin, and I wonder if you could demonstrate your identity as a Soul Master?"
Ye Nanxiao touched his right hand with his left, and with a flash of light, a handheld rocket launcher appeared in his left hand, its dark cannon barrel aimed at the middle-aged man. Ye Nanxiao held a cannonball in his right hand.
"A fixed-mount soul-guided cannon shell!" The shock on the middle-aged man's face flashed by, and he bowed slightly, his tone becoming even more respectful. "Your identity has been verified."
A chilling aura emanated from the soul tool in Ye Nanxiao's hand, and Xiao Hongchen couldn't help but examine it closely.
Cold sweat streamed down the middle-aged man's forehead. Ye Nanxiao slowly moved the cannon port of the soul tool in his hand away, then put the soul tool away and said in a cold voice, "Since that's the case, time is a little tight. Lead the way."
The middle-aged man straightened up, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, and led Ye Nanxiao and Xiao Hongchen into the soul-guided elevator. He produced a soul-guided communicator in his hand, whispered a few words, and then led Ye Nanxiao and Xiao Hongchen into the elevator.
Xiao Hongchen approached Ye Nanxiao and asked in a low voice, "Does your soul tool have a name?"
Ye Nanxiao smiled slightly beneath his mask and said, "RPG."
"RPG? What's that called? Is this a soul-guided cannon?" Xiao Hongchen pondered the three words "RPG" that Ye Nanxiao had mentioned.
Ye Nanxiao followed the middle-aged man through a large hall and arrived at a large door. The middle-aged man whispered a few words to the two guards in front of the door, and then the guards quickly opened the door.
In a huge circular domed hall, Ye Nanxiao looked with great interest at the circular rooms that seemed to be suspended in mid-air by some unknown force, each room also having a soul-guided escalator.
"What, do you want to know the principle behind it?" Xiao Hongchen wore a white mask that he had taken out at some point. The mask had no pattern and only revealed his eyes.
"I don't want to," Ye Nanxiao said decisively.
In the center of the hall was a circular platform with dozens of metal tables on it. Around the platform were rows of sapphire blue velvet chairs. One by one, people dressed in rich and noble clothes slowly walked to their seats and sat down. They did not talk, but quietly looked at the platform after sitting down.
At this moment, a renowned Soul Master slowly entered the arena. Xiao Hongchen patted Ye Nanxiao on the shoulder and said, "Don't let me down." Then he walked out of the arena hall.
The middle-aged man leading the way respectfully said, "Mr. Xiao, there are a total of 169 Soul Masters participating in this competition. With you, that makes 170 Soul Masters. Today's qualifying round requires you to create a Level 4 Soul Tool within two hours. Well then, I'll take my leave now."
Ye Nanxiao clenched his right wrist and walked towards one of the metal tables, pretending to sized up his opponent, but in reality he was constantly observing his surroundings. Xiao Hongchen was in some floating room, no one knew.
A blue light surged in his eyes, and Ye Nanxiao looked up.
Then Ye Nanxiao saw a luxurious floating room where Xiao Hongchen was being held by the collar by a woman wearing a half-fox mask, the mask on her face was crooked.
Then, the woman wearing the fox mask seemed to sense Ye Nanxiao's gaze, looked at him, and gave him a meaningful smile.
"Oh no, this is it," Ye Nanxiao thought calmly.
Laughing at the world: I was absolutely terrified!
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