Summit of the Old Gods

New Year's Eve passed, everyone enjoyed themselves.

Lu Ran initially planned to set off on the first or second day of Lunar New Year, however, one sentence from Mad Xian'er Protector delayed him for several days.

She's about to advance!

From the River Realm Second Rank advancing to Third Rank.

Although it's an advancement within a small rank, the magical fog drawn during the breakthrough is undoubtedly a great blessing for all beings.

Lu Ran continued to stay at the cliff and lent the Blazing Phoenix to Mad Xian'er Protector.

On the sixth day of the New Year, the Cloud Sea Cliff indeed filled with thick white fog!

Lu Ran sincerely felt happy for Sister Xian'er.

Clearly, her cultivation speed is also very fast!

On one hand, her realm rank is relatively low, on the other hand, it's the continuous advancement of the Fake God Stone Sculpture deepening her integration with the sculpture.

This significantly raised her talent ceiling, enhancing her cultivation talent.

Lu Ran safeguarded Sister Xian'er while swallowing large mouthfuls of divine power fed to him, receiving the blessings of the heavens.

Until the eighth day of the New Year, at sunset, the fog gradually dissipated.

[Succeeded?] Lu Ran sat by the sea cliff, watching the rapidly dispersing white fog, feeling quite reluctant.

It's only been two and a half days!

It was so hard to have this chance, you could have stayed a bit longer...

I haven't had enough to eat yet.

[Mm-hmm.] The voice of Sister Xian'er came into his mind, extremely happy, [I advanced, haha!]

Lu Ran was infected with this joy, smiled and transmitted, [Don't slack off, keep consolidating your realm.]

[I won't!] Unexpectedly, Si Xianxian defied the order, [I'm going to your home to find you right now.]

[Ah?] Lu Ran was a bit stunned.

After a brief thought, he knew what the girl was worried about.

Lu Ran, feeling both amused and helpless, transmitted, [I promised you before, I will take you to journey through the Holy Spirit Mountain together, I'm not lying to you.]

[I don't care, I'm going to your house now.] Si Xianxian said as she ran out of the tunnel entrance.

Seeing many people coming to congratulate, Si Xianxian had to slow down her pace and exchanged pleasantries with everyone.

Previously, the big girl Lie Tian wouldn't have had such patience.

But now it's different.

She is one of the four Great Protectors of the Ran Sect, leading the largest division within the sect, being a core leader of the sect.

And Ran Sect, is Lu Ran's blood and sweat.

Si Xianxian naturally couldn't neglect the god generals who came to congratulate.

When Si Xianxian, holding the Fiery Phoenix Patterned Gourd, hurriedly ran to the Cloud Sea Residence, she only glimpsed the figure of Jiang Ruyi through the study's wooden window.

"Where is the young master?" Si Xianxian stepped forward, stopping at the study window.

"Hmm?" Jiang Ruyi, kneeling behind the desk, curiously looked at the woman outside the window.

Sister Xian'er isn't here to find me?

"Oh." Si Xianxian knocked on her forehead, secretly chiding herself for being slow to react.

With the lady here, the young master inevitably can't run away!

Besides, the little Blazing Phoenix is still in my hand, what am I afraid of?

Hmm... it's that annoying guy's fault!

With a full history of offenses, it leaves no sense of security!

Si Xianxian thought resentfully, then showed a sweet smile: "Lady, may I come in?"

"Hmm." Jiang Ruyi smiled playfully and nodded gently.

Si Xianxian's face blushed, turned around, and walked towards the door of the house.

Passing through the hall and arriving at the study on the east side, Si Xianxian placed the Treasure Gourd on the desk.

Unlike others, she did not sit opposite the desk, but knelt down beside Jiang Ruyi.

Snuggling closer.

This reminded Jiang Ruyi of a little tabby cat.

"Whew..." Si Xianxian hugged Jiang Ruyi's arm, finally relieved and took a deep breath.

Jiang Ruyi couldn't help but smile.

Even though Sister Xian'er is one year older, in their interactions, Jiang Ruyi is always the one spoiling the other.

"You heartless little thing, laughing at me!" Si Xianxian grumbled dissatisfiedly, "You're from the Sea Realm, such a strong sense of oppression!

Do you know how much I overcame, and how much courage I gathered to dare to be so close to you?"

Jiang Ruyi: "..."

Indeed, this seemingly simple move actually had many obstacles.

"Oh~" A hateful voice suddenly came.

The two women both looked towards the wooden window.

Lu Ran stood in the yard, elbow propped on the window, looking at them with a smile: "Just returned home, and I hear the maid scolding the lady."

Jiang Ruyi glanced at Lu Ran with a smile.

Si Xianxian's face turned even redder, at this moment, her shame and annoyance overcame her fear: "We sisters are talking, why are you interrupting?"

"Goodness~" Lu Ran was a bit overwhelmed.

The unruly maid, not only scolds the sect leader's lady?

The sect leader too, if need be, she admonishes just the same!

Jiang Ruyi tried to make her tone more gentle: "Sister Xian'er just advanced, yet came running to find him, is there something up?"

Si Xianxian muttered quietly: "Afraid you all would leave me behind and sneak away again."

Last time, Lu Ran and others left for a month and a half.

This time, if not traveling together, who knows when the next meeting will be.

Jiang Ruyi's gaze softened a bit: "No, we promised you."

"Mm-hmm." Si Xianxian hugged Jiang Ruyi's arm tighter, "Lady, how about I sleep with you tonight?"

Jiang Ruyi said softly: "Can you rest well with me by your side?"

Si Xianxian: "..."

It's hard.

Jiang Ruyi: "Sister Xian'er, don't make things difficult for yourself, go back, we'll set off tomorrow morning, we'll definitely take you."

Si Xianxian reluctantly said: "Let me hug more."

Yet Jiang Ruyi gently withdrew her arm, tidied Si Xianxian's messy hair, and repeated:

"Don't make things difficult for yourself."

"Hmm..." Si Xianxian pondered for a moment, stood up, and said, "Then I'll go back to consolidate my realm first, you two enjoy your sweet time."

Lu Ran couldn't help but pout.

Someone's legs are soft, but her mouth is hard.

Si Xianxian regained some dignity for herself and quickly walked out of Cloud Sea Residence.

Lu Ran slightly turned, leaning against the windowsill, watching her gradually fade away.

[Once I advance to the peak of the River Realm, I can lend the Moonlight Tassel Sachet to the Mad Immortal Protector.] The voice of Yan Shuangzi echoed in his mind.

[Alright.] Lu Ran smiled.

The atmosphere in the Ran Sect was entirely different from other power organizations.

Everyone was closely united around Lu Ran, striving for the same goal, without much infighting or scheming, and they took good care of each other.

"Only after advancing to the Sea Realm did I realize how great Xun Luo and his partner are." Behind him, came the cold voice of Fairy Jiang.

Lu Ran agreed quite with her.

The Xun Luo couple are mighty figures of the Sea Realm!

Their children are just ordinary, very young, and their resilience is imaginable! In such circumstances, their son and daughter did not live in fear.

Lu Ran still remembers the first and only time he saw the children.

The little boy and girl, in facing their father returning from fishing, showed no fear at all, ran happily over, and hugged their dad's leg.

"So, can parental love conquer rules?" Lu Ran murmured.

"It seems to be so," Jiang Ruyi pondered.

In the worldview of gods and demons,

Parental love seems to be more advanced than love between men and women.

At least when Lu Ran advanced to the Sea Realm and Jiang Ruyi was still in the River Realm, she had been enduring Lu Ran's pressure.

"Why don't you try treating Sister Xian'er as a daughter?"

Lu Ran slightly turned his head. Through the carved wooden window, he looked at the cool and beautiful fairy inside the room.

"Go!" Jiang Ruyi lightly scolded.

Children are the continuation of one's own bloodline.

The love for one's biological children should be human nature, and such nature is hard to take effect on others, right?

Thinking of children, Lu Ran had many thoughts.

If they were in the Human World of Da Xia, he and Jiang Ruyi should have been married long ago and under the pressure of gods and various others, reproduced the next generation.

Actually, Da Xia isn't that bad, the law states marriage is allowed only at eighteen.

In many countries, the legal marriage age is even earlier.

Some are comparable to ancient Da Xia...

After all, it is because all gods need endless believers to enjoy the Power of Faith of the Human Clan.

Speaking of the current situation.

In this Holy Spirit Mountain Realm, Lu Ran and Jiang Ruyi couldn't provide their children with a stable and happy growth environment.

They are constantly risking their lives on the road of resistance, and even more uncertain about their future outcome.

The matter of offspring is definitely not something to consider at this moment.

"You had your birthday yesterday," Jiang Ruyi suddenly said.

"Oh, right!" Lu Ran reacted, "Yesterday was the seventh."

He was already 20 years old!

No longer that young lad with a "1" at the start of his age.

From today, am I a thirty-year-old person?

It sounds mature and stable...

Thinking like this, Lu Ran teased, "Sister Xian'er indeed has deep sins, her advancement date perfectly covers from the sixth to the eighth!"

Actually...it's quite good too.

In this spooky place, what kind of birthday could be celebrated?

It's good to just celebrate New Year, have some fun together, and dispel the gloom.

Jiang Ruyi smiled gently, "I prepared a birthday gift for you."

"Oh?" Lu Ran seemed quite surprised, "There's even a gift?"

"Yes, want to come in and see?"

Lu Ran was filled with anticipation and flashed directly, only to see Jiang Ruyi walking out of the study.

The two successively crossed the hall and entered the bedroom. Under Jiang Ruyi's lead, Lu Ran walked to the wardrobe.

"Am I getting a new skin?" Lu Ran blinked.

Jiang Ruyi's face looked somewhat amused, gesturing towards the wardrobe, "See if you like it."

Lu Ran couldn't wait to open the "blind box".

Inside the large wardrobe, all-white clothes hanging on both sides.

And in the middle of the wardrobe, hung a large robe with black and gold color scheme.

This...?

Lu Ran blinked.

This style looks so much like the Black Gold Emperor Robe of the Evil Technique by the Evil Spear Emperor?

Lu Ran seemed quite delighted, "Did you make it?"

Jiang Ruyi's voice softened a little, "I... I don't know how to make it.

Luoshen has been guiding me all the time, helped me a lot, the fabric is limited..."

"Then it's made by you!" Lu Ran took down the black gold robe and observed it repeatedly, "It's already good enough!"

Jiang Ruyi's smile blossomed, "As long as you like it."

"Of course I like it!" Lu Ran immediately took off his white robe and put on the black gold robe, "I said, why have you been visiting Aunt Luo so much after the new year and not staying home much."

Jiang Ruyi ignored Lu Ran's rambling; she took a step back, her beautiful eyes sparkling as she looked up and down.

The twenty-year-old Sect Leader of the Sea Realm,

Originaly upright and full of spirit.

Standing there in a wide black and gold robe, he looked even more majestic!

"Tsk, tsk~" Lu Ran spread his arms, looking down at himself.

Holy Spirit Mountain Chapter · Ran Shen's third limited skin?

From the time he first arrived, the green rain cloak and hat style that helped him conceal.

To when he gained a foothold, the white battle robe like a young general he wore leading the rise of the Ran Sect.

To now, the black gold Emperor Robe intended to tread the Holy Spirit Mountain and conquer all...

"I really like it!"

Lu Ran wrapped his arm around the slender waist of Fairy Jiang, pulling her into his embrace, and pressed a firm kiss on her thin lips.

Jiang Ruyi closed her eyes, her fingers gently pinching his sleeve.

Hum~

I worked hard for several days, busy from morning till night...

You dare not like it!

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