Chapter 201: Chapter 200: Porcelain Doll (18)_1
“So, you were after it from the beginning?”
Seeing Miyamoto fall silent as if stricken by a chill, Delin, who had been watching the drama unfold for quite some time, couldn’t help but speak up.
Rationally he knew he shouldn’t ask, but after the successive shocks, he really couldn’t control his emotions.
“Of course, otherwise how would I have left bloodstains on it?”
Mr. Luo showed his hand.
“At that time…”
Delin suddenly realized something.
“Did you intentionally injure yourself?”
“Yes, after all, I wasn’t very certain at the time, and confirming it in front of a crowd would be somewhat troublesome.”
So it turns out that his palm injury was intentional, just to get his blood on the Porcelain Doll to facilitate tracking it later.
He had planned to take advantage of the chaos to come in!
A sigh of indescribable frustration rose in Delin’s heart.
From start to finish, they were all just being used.
Just like he said, utterly clueless!
“You are not the first team.”
As if seeing into Delin’s thoughts, Mr. Luo let out a low chuckle.
“Bait for monsters often isn’t as effective as humans, especially Transcendents.”
“So every time I come to harvest, there’s a team hired for a large sum following along. You can ask him, how many times their people have come.”
“Of course, those people never returned, and neither will you…”
Heh heh!
Upon hearing this, Delin gave a wry smile.
Although he had a premonition, having it laid out so plainly still made him feel an unstoppable sense of despair.
His two teammates’ faces were also ashen to the extreme.
“So what exactly is it?”
After the last shred of hope had vanished, Delin went ahead and asked, satisfying his curiosity.
“That’s a somewhat meaningful question.
To some extent, you could consider these Porcelain Dolls to be a kind of high-tier Transcendent beings.
As for this one in my hand, just know it is very special, the perfect form of them.”
Mr. Luo generously answered his question.
“All right, idle chat stops here.
I still have a lot to do, now it’s time to send you on your way.”
As he finished speaking, several green flame spears formed around the Frenzied Spirit Mr. Luo held, looking even more formidable than the original ones.
The next moment, they each locked on a target and shot out simultaneously.
No one expected Mr. Luo to act as soon as he said he would.
Facing this terrifying strike, everyone frantically tried to dodge.
Flames erupted all around.
The Priest, hindered by his limited ability to move, could only muster up a shield to bear the brunt.
Barely blocking the green flame spears, the Porcelain Doll accumulates several more cracks on its surface.
…
The show was about over.
Observing the fight break out, Fu Qian lightly leaped into action.
“Bullying an elder isn’t very nice.”
Amidst a sea of astonished gazes, Fu Qian said leisurely.
“Finally willing to show yourself?”
Mr. Luo was the only one not surprised.
“Sadly, that elder is vicious. You may have never seen him flay and debone a person.”
“I’m not talking about him… though I’m not surprised by what you’ve described.”
Fu Qian shook his head and pointed in a direction.
“There’s another elder.”
What? There’s no one where you’re pointing?
The next moment, as everyone’s gaze converged, a tree, charred on one side, moved just in time, letting out a pained groan, and a foul stench filled the air.
Yes, the battlefield everyone had chosen was right beside Old Master Ailei.
As an entity that couldn’t walk, it seemed he’d been trying to keep a low profile, avoiding notice, but he had still been inadvertently caught in the crossfire.
Oh?
Mr. Luo glanced at Fu Qian with curiosity, seemingly not expecting him to care about this.
“Actually, I’d been wondering when you’d turn up.”
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“Your strength is far greater than you’re showing, which has made it difficult for me to understand why you would join such a team. I can’t help but be on my guard.
Even when I discovered you had suddenly left, I had to move up the plan…
Of course, that’s all irrelevant now.”
Mr. Luo raised the doll in his hand.
“Thanks for standing by all this while, I’ve already achieved about seventy to eighty percent synchronization with it, which is sufficient.”
“Do you really think I like to babble?”
Mr. Luo snorted.
“Now… if you don’t want to get in my way, step aside a bit.”
“It’s not so much about getting in your way, I just have a small request.”
“What request?”
Mr. Luo looked at Fu Qian with suspicion.
The latter blinked and pointed at the Frenzied Spirit in his hand.
“May I touch this perfect High Tier creature?”
…
Not only Mr. Luo but everyone else had a look of ‘are you kidding me.’
However, what they didn’t know was that Fu Qian was serious.
His current task was still to “find the perfect Porcelain Doll.”
At this point, even though the color was a bit off, the Frenzied Spirit still seemed to be the closest to what the task required.
Unfortunately, when he had fought with it before, his task had not updated.
This made Fu Qian suspect that it only counted if he held it like Mr. Luo did.
He had intended to verify this right after coming out, but this guy had beaten him to it.
Hehe!
Even Mr. Luo couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“Alright then, come here.”
“Thanks for understanding, here I come.”
Seemingly not picking up on the sour tone in Mr. Luo’s voice, Fu Qian walked straight up, heading for the doll in his hand.
Is he really going to touch it?
The audience, whose lives hung by a thread, were stunned.
“Why are you even here?”
Delin couldn’t help but ask.
“That’s a long story, but let’s just say I’m also very busy.”
…
Delin was left speechless for a moment, but Mr. Luo clearly had some wariness of this mysterious subordinate, igniting a glimmer of hope in Delin, who had been feeling desperate.
“Be careful he doesn’t catch you off guard!”
Seeing Fu Qian’s unhesitating steps, he couldn’t help but shout out loud.
“Thanks for the warning, but it’s fine.”
Fu Qian replied casually, but the next moment his steps came to a halt, standing a few paces in front of Mr. Luo.
It was not that he was worried about being ambushed, but at that moment, the task in his mind had changed.
“Task completed, current task has been updated.”
“Destroy the perfect Porcelain Doll.”
What’s going on?
New task content did not surprise Fu Qian, but he was puzzled by the timing of this task shift.
When he had whipped the Frenzied Spirit before, he had been even closer than this.
Could it be that back then it wasn’t full, hence not perfect enough?
“What’s wrong? Afraid I’ll attack you stealthily?”
Seeing Fu Qian stop, Mr. Luo sneered mockingly.
“That’s not it.”
Hmph!
Mr. Luo could not discern any clues from Fu Qian’s expression and finally let out a cold snort.
“Nonsense. I have a lot to do and no time to waste with you!”
While speaking, Mr. Luo turned around to look towards the direction of the small island.
“Evil Demon! I will never allow you to get near the Sacred Tree!”
The reaction of the Priest who witnessed this scene was extremely agitated, leaping up as if to take action.
Unfortunately, before the grey curtain could even form, Mr. Luo swatted it away with a casual flick of his hand.
“Strange, I didn’t know I had planted a Sacred Tree.”