Chapter 116 - You're Overstepping Your Bounds

Thump!

The door opened, and Mokui was thrown into the living room like a piece of trash.

“Aiya…”

Mokui let out a soft cry. She sat with her legs crossed and turned to look at Lin Fan with a pitiful expression.

“Lord Demon Sovereign, I'm a cute girl. How can you be so rough with me…”

The moment she spoke, Lin Fan's size 42 foot came down on her head, pinning her to the wall as he stared down at her coldly:

“This One should have just let Meizhi 'deal with' you on the spot.”

“…Lord Demon Sovereign, I was wrong…”

Mokui's cheek was pressed against the wall as she pouted and admitted her mistake.

Hearing this, Lin Fan finally removed his foot.

Mokui got up, straightened her clothes a little, and looked at Long Yue, who was sitting in the living room. Her eyes narrowed slightly.

“Lord Demon Sovereign, if I'm not mistaken, this should be Her Majesty the Empress of the Jishang Heavenly Palace, right~?”

“Why is she here? Is she a guest in our home?”

“The Empress is This One's person now. She is no longer an enemy. None of you are to be rude to her from now on.”

Lin Fan explained, taking the opportunity while all four of them were present to emphasize it again with great seriousness.

“Yes, Lord Demon Sovereign!”

Meizhi and the others bowed to accept the command. Mokui, on the other hand, let her small mouth fall open in surprise, a meaningful, teasing smile in her eyes as she looked at Long Yue.

“Ooh~ The Empress has become Lord Demon Sovereign's woman! What a rare and curious thing~!”

“It seems that while I was away, a lot of interesting things happened between Lord Demon Sovereign and the Empress~”

As she spoke, Mokui sidled up to Lin Fan, nudged his arm lightly with her elbow, and gave him a comical smile.

“Lord Demon Sovereign, do tell. How did you conquer this proud Empress?”

“Do you have a kid already~?”

Lin Fan: “…”

Long Yue: “…”

“I already said, This Empress was not conquered…!”

Long Yue's pretty face flushed red as she once again retorted listlessly in a low voice.

Every time they meet, every single one of them defaults to the assumption that she was conquered by the Demon Sovereign. It's so infuriating!

She was almost too tired to explain anymore.

“You're being a bit too nosy.”

Lin Fan gripped Mokui's head with one hand and applied a little pressure with his fingertips, causing her to immediately cry out for mercy in a delicate voice:

“Ow, ow, ow! Lord Demon Sovereign, I was just concerned about your love life!”

“My h-head, it's really going to crack…!”

Lin Fan let go. Mokui clutched her head in pain and squatted on the floor, her small face full of a reproachful look.

Honestly, Lord Demon Sovereign. If you don't want me to ask, then just say so. Did you have to be so rough with me…

“Alright. Now that everyone is here, This One has something to ask you.”

Lin Fan sat down on the sofa and looked at the four of them—Meizhi, Longye, Yingnü, and Mokui—standing before him and asked with a serious expression:

“With the spiritual energy you each have remaining, what percentage of your original cultivation would you say you have left?”

Meizhi closed his eyes and carefully sensed the spiritual energy remaining within him.

“Hmm… less than twenty percent.”

The remaining members, Longye and the others, also nodded.

“I'm about the same. At most, twenty percent of my spiritual energy is left.”

“Yingnü too.”

“Me too. I don't know what's going on with this world, but the spiritual energy in my body keeps draining away.”

Mokui looked at her palm, feeling the spiritual energy slowly draining from her body, and complained with great dissatisfaction.

“All have less than twenty percent left…”

After hearing the reports from Meizhi and the others, Lin Fan's brow furrowed slightly as he fell into deep thought.

The power required to shatter the void and open a tunnel to the Immortal-Demon Continent was immense.

He and Long Yue had only been able to shatter the void by combining their power at their peak. Now, he had at most thirty percent of his cultivation remaining, while the Empress didn't even have ten percent left.

Even at their peak, the four of them couldn't compare to the Empress, let alone now when they each had less than twenty percent of their cultivation left.

Thus, even if he joined forces with the four of them, they would be unable to shatter the void. Instead, they would likely just waste the little spiritual energy they had left.

Meizhi knew what Lin Fan was considering. With a wave of his arm, a large pile of small jade vials appeared on the table.

“Lord Demon Sovereign, this subordinate is carrying some spirit fluids. If I drink them all, it's enough to restore my cultivation to about fifty percent.”

“I have some spirit fluids on me as well.”

“I also have a way to temporarily raise my cultivation.”

Longye and the others added.

If needed, they could all restore nearly half of their cultivation at a moment's notice.

Lin Fan looked at the spirit fluids before him and slowly shook his head.

“No rush. The matter of how to return needs to be considered carefully. Let's save these spirit fluids for now. Don't use them lightly.”

In the current situation, even if Meizhi and the others restored their cultivation by half, it would likely still be difficult for them to shatter the void, even with his help.

The real key to recovering enough cultivation and spiritual energy to return didn't lie with the four of them, but with Long Yue.

If her cultivation and spiritual energy couldn't be restored, it would be of no use even if Meizhi and the others recovered to their peak. It would just be a waste of the few precious spirit fluids they had.

The problem was that the spirit fluids they carried were all demonic spirits condensed from demonic energy, not ordinary spirit fluids or immortal spirits. Long Yue couldn't consume them.

Otherwise, he would have taken out the spirit fluids from his own storage ring for her to use long ago and wouldn't have waited until now.

Besides, to take a step back, even if they really did manage to tear open a small rift in the void, without the Heaven-Surveying Instrument, they would have no way to locate the Immortal-Demon Continent.

Once inside the chaotic void tunnels, no one knows where they would end up.

No matter what, now was not the time to rashly attempt to shatter the void.

“Yes, we will respectfully obey your decree, Lord Demon Sovereign.”

Meizhi waved his hand and put away the spirit fluids on the table, while Longye asked with confusion:

“Then what are we to do next, Lord Demon Sovereign.”

As soon as he spoke, Meizhi and the others also focused their gazes on Lin Fan.

Their mission when they came was a single one: to find Lord Demon Sovereign.

Now that Lord Demon Sovereign was found, they couldn't go back, and for a moment, they were all without a sense of direction.

“How about… free time~?”

Mokui raised her hand and suggested, her sparkling eyes full of anticipation.

Lin Fan stood up, silently walked in front of her, and brought a fist down on her head.

He knew at a glance that she was definitely thinking of running off to the internet cafe to play games again!

“Owww…”

Mokui clutched her head and crouched down in pain.

Lin Fan turned his head to look at the remaining Meizhi and the others and instructed:

“For the time being, you will all stay here. If you need anything, tell This One. Do not go out casually, so as not to attract unwanted attention.”

Already, urban legends were beginning to spread through the Magic Capital about a 'peerlessly handsome man who appeared out of thin air,' a 'man who suddenly vanished from a rooftop,' and a 'mysterious man who couldn't be killed in a late-night highway collision.'

He was genuinely afraid that Meizhi and the others would cause some other big news story outside. There were already enough urban legends; there couldn't be any more…

Any more, and people might actually start to believe in supernatural events…

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