Two hours later, the Demon Market had been reduced to a desolate wasteland.
The vast and sultry Nirvana Divine Fla had incinerated nearly all of the structures, transforming the area into a sea of molten lava, leaving only the central Phoenix Tree unhard.
Lord Huang Wuhuan had returned to the top of the Phoenix Tree, her face devoid of emotion, yet the Nirvana Divine Fla raged on, a wave higher than the last, scorching the ground around the Phoenix Tree into magma.
The despondent Lord He, filled with grief and frustration, was kneeling beside her, his tears seemingly lost in the ruins around him.
There was also Liudao Venerable Zhu Mingyue, standing behind Lord Huang Wuhuan with a helpless expression, one hand on her shoulder to aid in suppressing the fiery turmoil within her.
At the sa ti, Zhu Mingyue’s gaze towards Li Xuan was complex, filled with both admiration and headache.
If he had co any later, the entire Demon Market would have been wiped out, and the after-effects of the battle could have spread outside, engulfing a large part of Capital City.
Nevertheless, the man had a knack for getting powerful won to fight for him, a feat that was truly remarkable.
The tragic state of the Demon Market even made Luo Yan feel a pang of guilt and regret.
Fortunately, the compensation didn’t have to co from her; most of the destruction was caused by Lord Huang herself.
The won, in mutual silence, had withdrawn one by one from the Demon Market.
Then Li Xuan found himself the object of scrutiny. Including Yue Qianqian, several girls were giving him aningful looks.
Luo Yan was the first to confront him, her arms crossed and gaze icy.
"If you didn’t want to watch the fireworks with us, you could have just said so! Why did you have to orchestrate such an elaborate sche to cancel them?"
She laughed bitterly at herself: "Poor Qianqian and I. We rushed back to the Demon Market to investigate the mont we heard that ’Fire Tree Silver Flower Nightless Sky’ was cancelled, thinking we could shoulder more burden for you."
Li Xuan wanted to say he didn’t cancel the firework display, his only intention was to manage his ti more precisely. But with Xue Yunrou and Yu Yuhuang watching, he was left speechless.
Then in the next mont, Luo Yan stomped her foot savagely on his foot.
Despite having the Henglian Golden Body, his Armored Taotie, and his Dayan Divine Shield, Li Xuan didn’t feel the blow. Nevertheless, he acted as if he was in great pain, grimacing and gritting his teeth.
"Ouch! It hurts, it hurts~ Ah!"
The scream ca from Li Xuan when Luo Yan went on the offensive using her ’Goddess Guanyin’s Thirty-Three thod Bodies’, directing her half-heavenly level strength directly onto his foot, causing it to crack. To add insult to injury, she then ground her heel forcefully into the fracture.
It took Li Xuan a mont to recover as he held back his tears. "Yan, you really have a heart of stone."
"Huh!"
Seeing his pitiful state, Luo Yan couldn’t help but feel a stab of guilt. She snorted and then walked off, heading in the direction of Earl Jingan’s mansion.
Next was Xue Yunrou, her gaze was dark and stormy: "So Xuan, you planned to watch the fireworks with them first, then co to see ? No wonder the afternoon passed so quickly. You really have so tricks up your sleeve."
Being an exceptionally intelligent girl, she was able to put the pieces together to figure out the truth about what had happened that day.
The next mont, her foot also drove heavily onto Li Xuan’s foot, it grinding in for the sa asure of punishnt.
"It hurts, it hurts, Yunrou, listen to , don’t exert so much force, my leg is about to break."
Li Xuan wore a grim expression, his face slightly twisted. In truth, the pain wasn’t as bad as he had previously endured in few of his battles. But this was the love of his life stepping on him.
Xue Yunrou didn’t want to hear his explanations. She only stopped when she herself started to feel the pain, and then wordlessly flew off into the distance.
Tonight had been a disaster. She needed to calm herself down.
Lastly, there was Yu Hongshang. She hesitated for a mont. After all, compared to Xue Yunrou and Luo Yan, she at least had spent a very happy afternoon with Li Xuan.
But, when she thought about how Li Xuan had frantically escaped from the Emperor’s pursuit, just so he could leave the palace and be with these girls, even going so far as to have the palace gates locked early, she was overco by a wave of resentnt.
"Xuan, you scoundrel!"
She also tramped heavily on Li Xuan’s foot, producing a ’crackling’ sound.
This ti, Li Xuan couldn’t even speak. He cradled his leg, his facial muscles twitching with pain.
He thought to himself, true to her character, Hongshang is ruthless and not a woman of many words. That kick surely shattered his foot into at least seventy to eighty pieces.
When Yu Hongshang left in a burst of light, Ao Shuying turned her head and said with a complex expression, "I’m going back too, Li Xuan. Take care of your injuries."
She was feeling a bit guilty. She could mostly guess that Li Xuan’s predicant today was likely due to her.
Yue Qianqian, on the other hand, didn’t utter a word. She took out a bottle of pills and placed it in Li Xuan’s hand, then ran off in the direction Luo Yan had left.
However, Li Xuan could see that his human-shaped search engine Qianqian was also very angry, with her cheeks puffed up all the ti.
After the girls left, a green light swirled around Li Xuan’s badly injured right foot.
Li Xuan hurriedly stopped it: "No need to fully recover. Just help fix the bones a bit so that I won’t limp in the future."
"Why?" The little girl with the green sword hovering above Li Xuan’s head looked at him with a slightly bewildered expression. "If you don’t recover properly, your walking and teleportation will be affected."
Li Xuan looked doubtfully at Lv Qiluo, suspecting that he might have been tricked by the little girl with the green sword. His two void shifts had ended in disaster - too much of a coincidence and yet, he had no proof.
In the end, Li Xuan could only shake his head: "I need them to see this and blow off so steam."
If his injury healed too quickly, it would be tough to make them feel guilty and regretful and harder to win their hearts back.
Lv Qiluo thought for a mont, then said, "Li Xuan, you are indeed a scoundrel."
She then beca still as a wooden statue, ignoring Li Xuan.
Li Xuan sighed and limped towards Earl Jingan’s mansion. To add to his sorrow, it started raining. He wondered how he’d sunk so low.
Just as Li Xuan was feeling morose, he saw a familiar figure walking over from the opposite street.
She held a paper umbrella, wore a silver-white Liudao Fumo Armor, had a face of exquisite beauty. Despite wearing armor, her aura was enchanting and seductive. She looked like a sprite walking in the rain.
"Hanyun?" Li Xuan was surprised to see Jiang Hanyun. "What are you doing here?"
Jiang Hanyun looked up at him, a tiny Spirit Fox peeked from her bosom, its eyes wet and questioning as it looked at Li Xuan.
"Li Xuan?" Jiang Hanyun looked surprised at first, then she smiled warmly. "Finally, I get to see you. My mother and I arrived in the capital yesterday evening, but we couldn’t find you."
As she spoke, she lifted her basket of vegetables, "My mother asked to buy so vegetables from the Demon Market to cook for the New Year’s dinner. Li Xuan, would you like to co?"
A warm feeling welled up in Li Xuan’s heart, and then he laughed bitterly. "No need to go there. The Demon Market’s been set on fire."
"Burnt? Who’s so audacious?"
Only then did Jiang Hanyun notice sothing wrong with Li Xuan’s leg. She knitted her eyebrows, a murderous aura flashed in her eyes. "What happened to your leg? Who hurt you?"
Li Xuan thought, can he say that he was trampled by Luo Yan and Xue Yunrou? There is a good chance that Hanyun would beat him up again. So he just shook his head, "Let’s not talk about it. I brought it upon myself."
He limped forward, but Jiang Hanyun’s delicate hand supported him, "Why are you putting on a tough front? Let carry you."
Without giving Li Xuan a chance to refuse, she hoisted him onto her back. "Co to our clinic tonight. My mother wants to invite you to celebrate the New Year at our house. She said it’s pitiful for you to be alone in the capital."
Li Xuan struggled symbolically before acquiescing and laying on Jiang Hanyun’s back. The sll of her carried tranquility and Li Xuan, finding peace in her fragrance, thought today wasn’t as terrible a day after all.
At this mont, the little girl with the green sword, who was behind Li Xuan, opened one eye and contemptuously watched Li Xuan, thinking to herself - so this was why Li Xuan didn’t want to recover from his leg injury? Truly the scoundrel among scoundrels.
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