"Mwaaa I am so sleepy, why is that brat taking so long to give instructions, why haven't those sect servants arrived yet." The tiny black slime was annoyed because he had been waiting in the water for a very long time, and he was starting to get cold.
Meanwhile, Zhou Ren was still looking at the sect servants and Anran in front of him. "Why are all of you here, what are you doing?" Zhou Ren asked them all, with a tone of astonishment.
"What do you mean young master Mu Yan, weren't you the one who ordered me to bring them here?" Anran asked Zhou Ren in confusion.
"Really? I don't remember that. But it seems I can use this to my advantage, ending them here is not a bad idea, but Anran is still useful to me. What is actually happening, how could I suddenly be in this backyard pool, earlier I just had to lure them out and then.... Wait a minute. Everything that is happening right now is exactly the same as what I was just planning to do." Zhou Ren muttered and looked confused. However, his plan was still going according to his will, even strangely before he had time to think about it.
Zhou Ren felt a different aura inside the pool, he glanced briefly at the pool, and realized that it was actually the aura of his own Hun, the small black slime.
"Come here all of you." Zhou Ren smiled faintly and ordered the sect servants to come closer to him.
"Master, thank you for your attention to us, thank you for your kindness." The sect servants paid their respects and thanked Zhou Ren.
"Fools, even though I haven't given them anything yet, what exactly are they expecting from me?" Zhou Ren pretended to take something out of his pocket.
The sect servants started to get closer, slowly towards the pool. The small black slime began to sense their auras and got ready to swim to the surface of the pool.
"Come closer and take your reward." Zhou Ren smiled sweetly at all of them, which made the sect servants approach slowly without realizing that their feet were already close to the pool water.
"Wait! All of you get away from him quickly!" Mo Yunzi arrived, filled with anger because he realized that the masked special guest was no ordinary person, but one of the players.
"Oh, Mo Yunzi is here?.... perfect. Now my plan failed but... hehehe, I never bet on just one dice number. If one number cannot give victory, then the game will continue until the desired number is obtained. Profit does not come from just one direction, if you know how to use it." Zhou Ren muttered while planning something that could make Mo Yunzi one of his dice.
"I must thank you, Mo Yunzi!" Zhou Ren shouted at Mo Yunzi.
"What do you mean, intruder!" Mo Yunzi shouted back at Zhou Ren.
"I am relieved you came, as a special guest in your sect, and what did you say earlier? Player? I really do not understand what you are talking about." Zhou Ren pretended not to know what Mo Yunzi was accusing him of, and slowly signaled his small black slime with his finger to wait a little longer. The tiny black slime felt annoyed and Mo Yunzi was confused.
"You don't have to pretend, just admit that you are indeed one of the players, I will finish you right now." Mo Yunzi further strengthened his argument that Zhou Ren was indeed one of the players.
"It is up to you whether you want to believe me or not, but you should see that the Liang sect elder has been tortured by those gamblers," Zhou Ren said to Mo Yunzi.
"This is my reason for beating Liang in the gambling arena so that, if this old man comes, I can use those gamblers as an alibi, and when the right momentum arrives, I just need to smash this old man's head from behind, hehehe, second plan, second bet." Liang muttered in his heart.
"Why does the young master seem to know Elder Mo Yunzi?" Anran muttered and asked herself, her face looked confused and she kept staring at Zhou Ren.
"Damn it!" Mo Yunzi frowned and clenched his fists so hard that his veins popped out. He heard the voices of the gamblers in the front yard, who were laughing and cursing at the helpless Liang.
Zhou Ren smiled slyly, and snapped his fingers.... Snap!
Splashhhhhh!
The small black slime leaped into the air and came out of the pool. Its body was tiny, yet its mouth had a size that kept expanding, filled with sharp teeth ready to tear the sect servants' skin.
Anran wanted to run but Zhou Ren held her back, and pulled Anran's body closer into his embrace, pretending to protect Anran in front of Mo Yunzi whose emotions were getting more ignited.
"Mwaa Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!" The small black slime began to enjoy its food, devouring the bodies of the sect servants one by one. The screams of the sect servants, the fake intimacy of Zhou Ren with his personal maid Anran, and the laughter of the gamblers made Mo Yunzi's eyes turn even redder.
Zhou Ren brought his lips closer to Anran's lips. "Young master, what are you doing?...." Anran blushed as if she forgot the screams of the sect servants below her.
"An'er, you don't deserve to be with that old man, you are only mine." Zhou Ren glanced slyly at Mo Yunzi while pretending to want to kiss Anran, with the position of their lips already very close.
"Young master, you are still wearing your mask...." Before Anran could finish speaking, Zhou Ren placed his index finger on Anran's mouth.
"Shhhh, I don't like it when you are noisy. If you want, just take off my mask." Zhou Ren's gentle words to Anran made Mo Yunzi's emotions increasingly uncontrollable, plus Anran actually kissed Zhou Ren's index finger while smiling with her cheeks blushing.
"Stop, I will finish all of you! Anran, you stupid woman! You should only serve me!" Mo Yunzi clenched his fists and prepared to lunge at the two of them.
[PASSIVE SKILL ACTIVATED: CRESCENT MOON FIST]
"Come here you...." But when Mo Yunzi was about to attack, he heard the gamblers laughing at the pride of his sect, Liang. Mo Yunzi's steps halted, and Zhou Ren smiled at him slyly. Zhou Ren used this momentum to attack Mo Yunzi.
[PASSIVE SKILL ACTIVATED MASTER: FLAME TOUCH]
Immediately, Zhou Ren set his stance and dashed toward Mo Yunzi, then threw a fist right at his face.
BAM! HIT +10%
Mo Yunzi was knocked back a little, and prepared to counterattack Zhou Ren.
"Damn you! Fine, if you really want to die, come here!" Mo Yunzi dashed toward Zhou Ren with crazy speed, and Zhou Ren immediately pulled Anran's hand to escape towards the main courtyard, together with the small black slime who was now full and sleeping again on his shoulder.
"Mwaaa! Zzz zzz" The small black slime smiled cutely and fell asleep.
"Coward! Do you think you can escape and take that woman away from here!" Mo Yunzi immediately chased the two of them to the front yard, exactly where Liang and the gamblers were.
Arriving at the front yard of the sect, Zhou Ren immediately pretended to be intimate again with Anran. "Master.. Young Master Mu Yan, you..." Anran hadn't finished speaking, but in front of the gamblers, Zhou Ren lifted Anran's thigh and laid her down on the gambling table while pretending to kiss Anran.
"Master in the red robe, what are you doing?" The gamblers were surprised by the arrival of Zhou Ren carrying Anran. The atmosphere became livelier because the gamblers were hyped by Zhou Ren's actions.
"You barbaric creatures, what are you doing in front of my gamblers!" Mo Yunzi arrived with a sense of shame over his sect's increasingly ruined reputation, and anger that was already out of control.
"I have never seen Anran that happy, why? Is it because I am old? Damn you! How dare a Rank 1 player humiliate me!" Mo Yunzi muttered while clenching his fists and holding back the mockery and curses from the gamblers towards him.
"Look at this old Mo Hahahaha! Your lover is too young for an old man who is about to die.... like you!" The gamblers laughed and felt very satisfied, seeing the condition of Elder Mo Yunzi and Liang whose pride was being trampled on.
"An'er, show your charm to me." Zhou Ren smiled slyly and this time, Anran covered Zhou Ren's mouth with her finger.
Zhou Ren felt something strange, he felt that Anran was not just an ordinary sect woman, but she had a different aura. Zhou Ren felt his meeting with Anran was not a coincidence, but something that had happened before.
"What is this, why does her body scent feel familiar..." Zhou Ren hadn't finished muttering, but Anran had already climbed onto Zhou Ren's stomach, and sat in a position that deliberately made her thighs clearly visible to Zhou Ren, making Mo Yunzi increasingly unable to hold back his anger anymore.
"Damn all of you! I will burn you alive!" Mo Yunzi shouted, and made all the gamblers turn towards him, except Anran and Zhou Ren who didn't care about him at all.
[ACTIVE SKILL ACTIVATED: CRESCENT MOON SWORD!]
Mo Yunzi swung his hand and threw the hot energy of the crescent moon sword toward the gambling arena. Instantly the energy hit the gambling arena building, which made its wooden pillars destroyed and caught on fire. Slowly the fire spread throughout the entire building. Some of the gamblers ran away but were stopped and had their heads exploded by Mo Yunzi.
Zhou Ren, who had been waiting for this momentum to happen, his reaction was only a faint smile. "Finally I can rob the treasures and immortal coins of those gamblers safely now, hehee." But when he was about to get up, Anran pushed Zhou Ren's body down again, as if not letting him go. For the first time, Zhou Ren felt something toward a woman and he was confused about what it was.
"What kind of feeling is this, how can I let this stupid woman keep sitting on my stomach, I don't need love. All this time I have only been using them for my own benefit, but why is this Anran different, who is she?" Amidst the confusion, Zhou Ren felt a pain in his head, which then disappeared slowly again.
"Have you really forgotten me in this life, Zhou Yan? Are you really not aware that this is me?" Anran cried and her tears dripped onto Zhou Ren's cheek.
"Quickly move aside before I kill you, I don't know you!" Zhou Ren ordered Anran to get off his stomach, because Zhou Ren felt there was nothing more important than surviving and gaining more profit.
"I have waited a long time, Zhou Yan. I am willing to spend my time in this sect just to meet you....."
Zhou Ren choked Anran's neck, until Anran had difficulty breathing. "I told you to get out of my sight."
The fire continued to spread and burned down little by little, the properties inside the gambling arena.
"Even if you kill me again this time.... I will meet you again in the next life. I really, really love you, Zhou Yan, no matter how bad you are in the eyes of the world," Anran said while crying, surrendering her life to Zhou Ren.
"If you really love me, die once more by my hands." Zhou Ren's cruel words broke Anran's heart. Anran got up from her sitting position, and fell to the arena floor.
"I did indeed love you before, but not at this moment. If even when I was still in love with you, I could kill you if you got in my way, what makes you think everything will be different now?" Zhou Ren asked Anran, who was crying on the floor.
"Indeed everything is just the same, but I am very happy, Zhou Yan, in this life you finally called me An'er again." Anran said it with a trembling tone, and tears that never dried in her eyes.
Zhou Ren just left Anran like that, and as he was about to step out, Anran stopped him and held Zhou Ren's hand. "If I cannot be your lover, let me become a demon just like you."
"I cannot let any obstacles stand in my way, An'er, and you are one of those obstacles." Zhou Ren released Anran's grip, leaving her alone and walking out of the gambling arena building, which was almost leveled to the ground by the raging flames.
Anran laughed crazily, and repeatedly hit the floor with her hands. "Tens of thousands of years, I waited for this moment only to be destroyed again, to die again as a part of your plan, Mu Yan Zhou Ren. It seems I am not the woman you want, I was just too foolish, believing in my love." When Anran was about to stab a dagger into her stomach, the small black slime suddenly jumped toward Anran, and stopped the dagger, as if the small black slime actually knew who Anran was in the past.
"Mwaa, do not hurt yourself again, Princess Anran." The small black slime kept holding the dagger with its mouth, then threw it into the roaring flames.
Zhou Ren suddenly re-entered the burning arena to retrieve his Hun, but the small black slime looked angry at him.
"Master, you suck! Until when does Princess Anran have to prove it again?" The small black slime shouted at Zhou Ren.
"What did you say?...." Zhou Ren suddenly experienced an excruciating headache. Anran quickly caught Zhou Ren.
The small black slime looked happy seeing the two of them, as if reminiscing about moments that happened in the past.
"Zhou Yan, open your eyes, Zhou Yan!" Anran shouted at Zhou Ren and slapped his cheeks to try to wake him up.
Mo Yunzi entered the gambling arena, and he saw Zhou Ren resting on Anran's lap, making his emotions erupt even more.
"Both of you go to hell together!" Mo Yunzi swung a sword slash towards them, the sword aura dashed towards them and.....
SLASHHHH!!!
Zhou Ren woke up and slashed the sword aura.
[NEW PASSIVE SKILL ACTIVATED MASTER: FLAME TOUCH -> FLAME SLASH!]
Zhou Ren stood up and dashed towards Mo Yunzi, preparing to deliver a punch to his chest. Mo Yunzi tilted his body, and let Zhou Ren's fist miss and tear the wind, but Zhou Ren did not stop. He jumped and spun his body in the air while landing a kick right at the skull of Mo Yunzi's head.
BAM! Critical Hit +12%
Mo Yunzi was thrown back but his robe was pulled by Zhou Ren, then he landed another punch right in Mo Yunzi's face.
BAM! Critical Hit +14%
Mo Yunzi was thrown back into the debris of the burning sect building, but he went even crazier. Mo Yunzi used his sword aura attack again towards Zhou Ren, his hands slashing with insane speed, tearing the air.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Zhou Ren dodged it by hiding behind a wooden pillar, then he dashed again and tilted his body, the sword aura attack missed again.
"Zhou Yan, catch this!" Anran threw a dagger at Zhou Ren, and Zhou Ren caught it. Then he jumped into the air, spun his body to the side, and threw the dagger right at Mo Yunzi's head. The dagger stuck, blood splattered everywhere and the dagger pierced through Mo Yunzi's head.
[FINISHING MOVE: CRITICAL DAMAGE + 20%!!!]
With Mo Yunzi sprawled out, and the Velvet Shadow sect assassins arriving late, they could only gape at what had happened to their sect elder.
Zhou Ren walked towards Mo Yunzi's corpse and seized Mo Yunzi's Hun. "Tch, his Hun is a living scroll? Small black slime, eat this Hun!"
"Yes, Master!" The small black slime immediately jumped and devoured the Moonlight scroll Hun, which had already lost its power because its master was dead.
"Hey little thing, why are you taking so long to eat," Zhou Ren scolded the small black slime for eating the Moonlight scroll Hun for a very long time.
"Shut up Master, how could a demon like you understand how to enjoy beautiful moments!" The small black slime mocked Zhou Ren, while busy eating the Moonlight Scroll.
"Try saying that again, little creature. Are you trying to judge me?" Zhou Ren bent his body down and argued with his tiny black slime.
Anran was seen chuckling looking at the interaction between the two of them. She shed tears of joy, because at least she could be by Zhou Ren's side a little longer.
Ding!
[NOTIFICATION]
[FIRST MISSION COMPLETED, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SUCCESS IN THIS FIRST MISSION MASTER!]
[HUN OF WRATH: FED, READY TO RANK UP!]
[TOTAL HUN POINTS FROM DEVOURING THE HUN OF MOONLIGHT SCROLL IS: 30 HUN POINTS]
ARE YOU READY TO RANK UP, TO A RANK 2 HUN USER?
[YES/NO]
"Yes, of course! Come on, give me power again," Zhou Ren shouted at the System. Instantly, his body was enveloped by the aura of the Fire of Wrath that surrounded his body, and fire element accents were engraved on his red robe.
[WELCOME: RANK 2 HUN USER, THE WRATH WANDERER!]
[CURRENT PASSIVE SKILL: FLAME TOUCH -> LEVEL UP: FLAME SLASH]
[CONGRATULATIONS NEW WEAPON: FIRE MOONLIGHT DAGGER!]
[LUNACY METER: +17.8%]
[ATTACK SPEED: +5%]
[NEW ACTIVE SKILL: EXTRACT FROM THE SCROLL OF MOONLIGHT -> BLAZE MOONLIGHT STRIKE!]
CRITICAL DAMAGE POTENTIAL: 18%
CURRENT ITEMS:
Blue Ocean Pearl
250 Immortal Coins
"Great, finally Rank 2! Heheh, time to loot all their treasures, but before that, I have to get rid of these mosquitoes first. These assassins will definitely not accept it just like that." Zhou Ren muttered while looking towards the system which seemed to have another gift for him.
[SPECIAL GIFT: ANRAN THE JADE BEAUTY]
"What?? Hey you useless creature, what did you say?" Zhou Ren was surprised by that final gift, and didn't understand what it meant.
Whoooosh
The system just left like that.
And the small black slime on his shoulder was seen smiling broadly and happily.
"The long journey has just begun, Master." The small black slime then fell asleep again.
"Tch, nonsense. In that case, I better just ask Anran where this Velvet Shadow sect stores their treasures. Yeah, that way the profits will multiply again. Right now, robbing their treasures is better than fighting them." Zhou Ren squeezed Anran's cheeks and cornered her against the wall.
"Tell me, where do they hide the sect's treasures?" Zhou Ren asked with a cold tone and a flat expression. However, Anran held Zhou Ren's hand and placed Zhou Ren's index finger on her lips, then Anran bit it gently.
"You! What are you doing?" Zhou Ren tried to release his hand from Anran, but Anran did not let him, and kept holding Zhou Ren there. With droopy eyes, while kissing Zhou Ren's index finger, she said.
"Call me An'er," Anran said gently to Zhou Ren.
"Do you think your charm can make me melt, Anran?" Zhou Ren reaffirmed his words, that he would not fall for seduction, instead, he controlled it, by grabbing Anran's thigh, causing Anran's cheeks to turn red, and she fell silent.
"If you don't want to tell me, no problem. I will destroy this place and find out myself." Zhou Ren stepped out of the arena debris, and Anran tried to convince Zhou Ren that she could be useful, and knew something.
"Wait, I will tell you."
Zhou Ren merely glanced briefly backward.