"No..."
Lou Ming couldn't understand why the future saintess she had been optimistic about just monts ago now wanted to kill her?
This gave her an unreal feeling—was she dreaming?
Or had she been caught in so dream-related demon magic?
But the increasingly approaching sense of dread that made her heart race wildly, pupils contract, and every hair stand on end indicated this wasn't a dream.
This was reality!
"Who are you?!"
Lou Ming's expression was as ugly as if she had just swallowed two pounds of bitter lon mixed with cinnamon, star anise, and Sichuan pepper—a true mix of complex flavors.
"I'm the saintess you selected."
Mu Qinglan still wore that soft smile.
Previously, Lou Ming had thought this little girl's smile was truly beautiful, more fox-like than actual fox spirits, but now she felt this person's ancestral bloodline might be snake demon, just wearing fox demon skin.
Their fox clan didn't have ones like this!
Lou Ming retreated two steps, glancing fearfully at the fox phantom above that was continuously accumulating power.
The power of a second-rank demon saint couldn't be completely sealed in that small token, so releasing this power completely required a very brief preparation ti.
Of course, this power would also actively protect the user, preventing injury.
Mu Qinglan carefully sensed the terrifying demon power surging around her, thinking that if she wanted to kill Lou Guanyue, she'd have to deal with this thing first.
But at least she now knew of one trump card.
"Sister Ming won't attack now?"
Mu Qinglan tilted her head like an innocent, romantic little girl: "When the token just starts accumulating power, the defense should be weakest, right?"
Lou Ming's eyes turned red:
"Aside from the instant of activating the token, how could I possibly break through this demon power barrier!"
Mu Qinglan nodded: "Then thank you."
She wondered why her father hadn't given her such a good thing, but then rembered her adoptive father's profession—warrior. Then never mind, he definitely wouldn't know such high-end operations.
Warriors were strong but had fewer tricks.
Ice Mountain Shen and little Bai were the sa—in terms of ability versatility, they were far inferior to her good friend miss.
"You...!"
Lou Ming's throat sweetened, her vision darkening.
"Sister Ming's eye for talent is really good, spotting , this undercover agent from Western Mountain Province, at first glance." Mu Qinglan continued to provoke her anger.
Western Mountain Province was one of Great Xia's five major provinces, the highest administrative division.
It also directly bordered fox clan territory.
Her father was the leader of Western Mountain Province's army, Great Xia's General Pacifying the West.
So saying she was an undercover agent wasn't wrong.
"You're a Great Xia undercover agent?!!"
Lou Ming felt her vision darkening further, almost unable to see clearly. No, you're clearly a proper ancestral reversion super demon clan—why would you be a human undercover agent??
"Yes indeed~" Mu Qinglan looked pleased, skillfully using provocation techniques.
Warning, warning, warning—
Lou Ming was getting angry.
"Originally I planned to continue infiltrating for a while, but hearing Sister Ming was coming to inspect, my superiors told Sister Ming was soone without much brains, so I really wouldn't have revealed myself now otherwise." Mu Qinglan smiled.
Lou Ming suddenly beca alert:
"Then why are you exposing your identity now? Isn't this ruining everything?"
"Who says it's ruined?" Mu Qinglan didn't look at her, casually playing with her slender fingers. "Heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know—as long as I send you to death, nothing will be ruined."
"Without Lord Qingge personally coming, you can't kill ." Lou Ming tried to stay calm.
"General Mu arranged people for ."
"How could humans so easily infiltrate demon clan heartland?"
Lou Ming sneered. Undercover agents raised from childhood were one thing, but human experts entering demon clan core territories would definitely be discovered, and vice versa.
"Not even Sister Ji?"
Lou Ming's expression froze: "Who?"
"Ji Xinchan, Sister Ji." Mu Qinglan smiled like a life-claiming black and white impermanence spirit.
"Killing requires deploying a third-rank grandmaster skilled in infiltration?" Lou Ming panicked briefly before noticing the problem.
Ji Xinchan was Prince Qi's mansion's secret guard commander, third rank, skilled in stealth.
"Sister Ji definitely can't kill a weakling like you, but her subordinates can. Anyway, you'll at least be severely injured soon, so killing won't be difficult. But I'm kind-hearted and will leave Sister Ming a good reputation—how about 'died together with human assassins targeting the saintess'?"
Mu Qinglan continued smiling.
She seed very confident... Facing danger, Lou Ming quickly analyzed in her mind.
This undercover agent with terrifying talent who could even rise to saintess position—she didn't doubt Prince Qi was providing strong support behind the scenes.
Calling in a fourth-rank assassin would be no problem at all.
Could she survive?
Lou Ming thought repeatedly for several seconds and reluctantly confird—no.
From the mont she handed over Demon Saint Qingge's remote strike, she had fallen into a death trap.
For Lou Ming, death wasn't scary—what was scary was aningless death, wrongful death, desperate death. Her heart imdiately made a firm decision: even in death, she had to take down her opponent!
She couldn't let such a terrifyingly scheming person remain in the world.
Otherwise, the fox clan would never have peace!
Lou Ming made her decision but showed no expression while looking at Mu Qinglan.
She knew that while the phantom was accumulating power, she couldn't possibly break through the energy barrier to severely injure or even kill Mu Qinglan who was protected by the token.
But after the phantom released that strike, there would be no more barrier.
So her only chance was to release an attack toward the completely unprotected Mu Qinglan at the instant the phantom attacked her!
Even if she was seventh rank, or even sixth rank, she absolutely couldn't withstand this fourth-rank master's furious strike!
Lou Ming stared at her with splitting eyes.
Mu Qinglan didn't care much—this was just a virtual character from the Human Gate anyway. She was willing to treat her politely but didn't mind offending anyone.
After leaving, who would recognize her?
She'd just be another good wheelchair girl.
Whoosh—
The wind grew stronger, making the entire city lord's mansion flee in terror with no one daring to stay and see what was happening.
Lou Ming gathered her demon power, the violently burning demon power rushing through her blood vessels as if about to ignite.
Boom!!
The gray fox phantom swept its tail.
A gray-black light wave rippled out, annihilating everything like a calm sea surface that was quietly rising—no one knew how many people were buried within.
Swoosh—
A drop of black dew flew extrely fast toward Mu Qinglan.
Being Qingge's subordinate and skilled in similar techniques, this strike that would be nearly fatal to ordinary fourth ranks could only severely injure Lou Ming.
Hum!
Gray radiance spread out.
The mont she was caught in the gray light, Lou Ming's vision went black as if thunder had exploded. The next instant, her demon power boiled, ridians snapped, and she vomited blood profusely.
She was pressed deep into the ground, sinking over a ter!
Blue bricks exploded, stone fragnts flying.
'This is... second rank.'
But while vomiting blood, Lou Ming's eyes held a trace of excitent.
'Is she dead?' She instinctively looked over there.
Hm?
What was that?
After forcing herself to see the situation clearly, Lou Ming's pupils contracted—she only saw a pitch-black sphere standing there, making it impossible to see what was happening inside.
After a long while, the sphere dispersed.
"How are you!!"
Lou Ming's eyes flashed with fear.
"How am I?" Mu Qinglan was in a good mood: "Sister Ming wants to ask how I survived that attack?"
Lou Ming lay on the ground, eyes wide with unwillingness: "Trading life for life, why..."
"Why? Because Sister Ming, you're not worthy."
After confirming Lou Ming's life was ending, Mu Qinglan smiled: "I already said Sister Ming's brain isn't good. Just provoking you a few tis made you want to die together with , but soone who's lived this long—how could I not guard against this?"
"If you had tried to run, I really couldn't have done anything to you, since this is just an ability projection. Oh right, let tell Sister Ming another secret—I didn't actually invite anyone over."
"You..."
Lou Ming swallowed bloody saliva.
"Sister Ming wants to know why I wasn't hurt? Telling you doesn't matter." Mu Qinglan smiled: "Divine artifact—ever heard of one?"
"!"
Lou Ming's eyes widened in disbelief, and at that instant, a black light silently drilled into the back of her head, instantly shredding her consciousness before her breath completely faded!
In the dust filling the sky, Mu Qinglan exhaled.
"Ah Qi, thanks to you."
This successful kill of the inspector was the result of multiple coincidences overlapping. Normally speaking, achieving such a feat in the Human Gate would be pure fantasy.
First, the ceremony participant's strength had to far exceed ninth rank.
This alone eliminated almost one hundred percent of people, since everyone ca to take the Human Gate assessnt—how many had strength far exceeding their level?
Second, they needed a divine artifact they could activate.
Though divine artifacts were strong, activating them often ca with many costs. Like the imperial Great Vajra Destruction Pestle, it not only required extrely high physical conditioning but consud enormous spiritual power with each swing.
The Boundary Shadow Pearl was among the few—its absolutely singular defensive ability lowered its usage requirents.
But even so, divine artifact contract requirents were extrely harsh.
The devil clan had only activated it before, not completely controlled it.
Only through Ah Qi contracting it could Mu Qinglan successfully bring this divine artifact into the Human Gate—
Ordinary equipnt couldn't be brought in, but divine artifacts, with that divine character, were naturally different from ordinary equipnt.
A bit like the Fire Qilin from CrossFire.
Lots of effects.
Mu Qinglan leaned back in her chair, petting Ah Qi who was also exhausted today, feeling sowhat excited. This had to deserve an invincible evaluation, right?
Thinking this, the girl's form gradually faded.
Disappearing without a trace.
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Soon, urgent shouts ca.
"Over here! Quick! The inspector and saintess are both here!"
"They're both... hm? Isn't that the inspector lying on the ground? Who did this? Where's the saintess?"
The fox clan officials who had fled earlier returned here, looking at each other.
At this ti, all of Canghai City slowly shattered like a mirror surface, then dissolved into flowing light.
In the dark world, the great formation flickered once.
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In the darkness, Mu Qinglan slowly opened her eyes.
Wearing a sowhat cloying smile on her face.
Like a white-haired, proud big cat that had caught seven mice for fun, she sat alone in her wheelchair, utterly charming.
'This ti they can't possibly give an ordinary evaluation, right? Co on, so SSR.'
Logically speaking, the tasks she had completed could definitely be called perfect without any issues.
Every task perfectly completed, surviving to the end, and almost wiping out all human spies in Canghai City—undoubtedly worthy of triple purple evaluation.
Top evaluation, couldn't be higher.
But people always needed dreams—above the best, they could pursue even better.
Maybe there would be a surprise?
After all, this ti she had sched to kill a fourth rank—killing a fourth-rank expert in the Human Gate was absolutely unprecedented and unrepeatable. Mu Qinglan wasn't worried about others replicating it.
There was also so subtle luck involved.
Even doing it again, Mu Qinglan couldn't guarantee absolute success.
'Fourth rank... without the Boundary Shadow Pearl, I couldn't have taken her life-trading strike…'
Supporting her chin with one hand, Mu Qinglan reflected on her reckless actions.
If the Boundary Shadow Pearl hadn't been charging for several days with enough energy to operate, even if she could activate the divine artifact with her seventh-rank spiritual power, she couldn't have blocked a fourth-rank demon master's desperate strike.
Divine artifacts were strong but not invincible.
Her current sa-rank strength was nearly invincible, and with multiple destiny trait bonuses, even cross-rank challenges weren't impossible.
But she couldn't be arrogant...
'Need to be more careful. I was too bold before. Must be careful, must hide…'
'Must quietly push forward and deliver fatal strikes at key monts…'
Mu Qinglan muttered a few words and looked up.
At this ti, the Human Gate evaluation also gathered into countless light points, like gold characters on black paper, slowly unfolding before her.
[Main task completed, your faction contribution enormous, ranked first]
[Human Gate opened]
[Secondary tasks being searched]
[You successfully survived to the end in the Human Gate ceremony, task one completed]
[You killed seventeen humans far stronger than you, task two perfectly completed]
[Your reputation is unmatched, task three perfectly completed]
[You left the demon clan inspector with unforgettable mories until death, task four perfectly completed]
[You beca demon clan saintess, task five completed]
[You killed two Human Gate ceremony participants, score increased]
[Hidden task completed (Fox Clan's Sorrow): You killed fourth-rank demon master Lou Ming, evaluation massively increased]
[All tasks completed, total evaluation ranked first]
[Your score exceeds the limit]
The gold characters in the black world slowly faded without even giving a MVP designation.
"Tsk..."
Mu Qinglan pouted.
Really, for players who broke records, couldn't they give so record-breaker reward?
Thinking of how hard she had worked yet could still only get triple purple evaluation, Mu Qinglan felt heartache, her lying-flat heart beating restlessly.
Huff... huff...
After sighing for a long ti, Mu Qinglan finally recovered and looked at the three purple halos slowly appearing before her.
The halos were mysterious and grand, but unfortunately Miss Mu had developed refined tastes.
Naturally she found them less attractive.
Of course, she still had to take what she should take. She couldn't refuse due to disdain—at most she'd go back and curse the dog company and dog planners, wishing them early ascension.
My turn, draw cards!
Mu Qinglan's finger swept through the void, tapping three tis.
Instantly.
Three purple lights filled her vision, then gradually dimd, revealing three jade tablets with purple light around their edges.
The tablets opened one by one.
[Flow State (Purple): Your mind is extrely focused. Spell consumption moderately reduced, spell frequency slightly increased]
Reduced cooldown, increased mana—Mu Qinglan made a simple evaluation. Pretty good.
Another tablet.
[Spider Mistress (Purple): You manipulate hearts like a spider queen plucking her web. Moderate improvent in charm and ntal aspects, slight improvent in abnormal status resistance]
Average.
The bad woman wasn't worried about lacking charm.
"Co on, sothing good, dog company!" Mu Qinglan complained dissatisfiedly. These two destiny traits were indeed good but not the most suitable for her—she was always greedy.
At this mont, as if hearing her call.
Before the third purple tablet opened, a golden thunderbolt crashed down, striking directly into the jade tablet. Mu Qinglan watched all this and couldn't help being confused for a mont.
The tablet's purple color slowly faded.
Golden light continuously seeped from inside the tablet, illuminating the jade warm yellow and transparent, extraordinarily noble.
"This is..."
Mu Qinglan said in a tone mixing confusion and certainty: "Gold-plated?"
You thick-browed, big-eyed dog company, playing this trick on ?
Playing with her?
But despite her emotional ups and downs, for a golden destiny trait, she felt she could hold so expectant psychology to see this thing's specific effects.
The golden light scattered.
The tablet's effect finally shone forth.
[chanist's Unity (Gold): You are alone, we live in groups]
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