"I beg you, at least spare his life."

Hearing the little princess's trembling yet resolute voice, Lu Cai was momentarily unsure how to respond. She truly only wanted to establish a base, at most, establish herself as king, then find the final boss of this quest and safely exit the dungeon.

But, proclaiming himself king is also considered a rebellion, right?

As for the emperor...as long as he is not parasitized by the scorpion monster, Lu Cai will not fight him to the death.

The two people beside her were silent. Lu Cai glanced around and found that they were both looking at her, as if they had nothing to do with the matter and let her speak...

Come on, it's her fault for making this hole.

"Don't worry, as long as he is not parasitized by the scorpion monster, I will not make things difficult for him." Lu Cai spoke in a calm tone, and was very satisfied with his words.

But when she looked up, she saw that Showa's face had turned pale.

Zhaohe looked at Lu Cai in the room. This was the first time she had seen him, and he wasn't what she had imagined. He wasn't as stunningly beautiful as Princess An Ning, nor was he as soft and lovable as Yue Xiaoyan.

Lu Cai is a thin and neat man. Her eyebrows and eyes are cold, but not icy. Her skin is sickly pale, but not skinny. Her face is a little tired, but it does not affect the sharpness in her eyes.

Staring blankly at Lu Cai, Zhaohe finally lowered his head, nodded silently, and turned to walk towards the room.

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?" Lu Cai was completely confused.

Zhao Yan's heart was no more sensitive than Lu Cai's, and he didn't understand what was wrong with the little princess.

Only Shi Rukui, who was standing at the side, was dumbfounded. "The tone of your voice was as if you were telling her that you would throw the emperor into the scorpion monsters, wait for him to be infected, and then kill him with a single blow."

Lu Cai was shocked: "How could you have such a terrible idea?"

Shi Rukui: ...

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The next day, Dacheng took a few people to collect resin, Ercheng led the rest of the people to guard several courtyards, and Lu Cai led the three players to the training ground prepared for them by General Qi to adapt.

The awakening of superpowers cannot be learned, and they were not worried about others learning their abilities, so when General Qi and a group of soldiers were waiting in the distance, they did not say much.

What's more, according to the roles assigned to them by General Qi, the four of them were instructors. They had to let the soldiers see their instructor skills before they would willingly listen to their teachings.

The training method was proposed by Shi Rukui. The four of them can fight against each other in pairs and use their superpowers as much as possible, with the aim of mastering the skills of operating superpowers.

Zhao Yan was the first to step forward, saying he wanted to team up with Lu Cai, but was stopped by Shi Rukui. According to Shi Rukui, the four of them taking turns to team up would be more conducive to improving their combat effectiveness.

Anyway, in the end it became a competition between Zhao Yan and Yue Xiaoyan, and a battle between Lu Cai and Shi Rukui.

Zhao Yan and Yue Xiaoyan went on stage first. Judge Lu marked out a competition area on the training ground and set up barriers on all four sides to enclose the two of them to prevent them from fighting each other and accidentally injuring the soldiers nearby.

Shi Rukui, who was standing aside, held a card that looked like a playing card and placed it on the ground not far in front of him.

It was a quiet, windless day with just the right amount of sunshine.

Zhao Yan stood still on the stage and nodded to Yue Xiaoyan, who was facing him. The soil at his feet broke. Four lush green vines, like venomous snakes, stretched out their tips, eager to attack Yue Xiaoyan. In the dazzling sunlight, the thorns on the vines' surfaces reflected the light, leaving only a dark outline.

General Qi was beside Lu Cai, originally paying attention to the four translucent red barriers, until the vines broke through the ground, and then he exclaimed in surprise.

"The prince consort actually has such ability—" he sighed in a low voice.

Lu Cai's eyes fell on the ground where the vines came out: "I'll have to trouble General Qi to find someone to repair the training ground later..." Zhao Yan's special ability is good in every way, except that it consumes a lot of floor space.

As soon as the words were spoken, the vines on the other side flew out. The little Taoist nun opposite stood with her back straight and her face calm. Her fair, round face really had a bit of an immortal air.

The vines came closer, and a circular magic circle appeared on the ground in front of Yue Xiaoyan. The patterns in the circle started to move, and a light green fluorescent whip was swung out from the circle and hit the vines.

Yue Xiaoyan held a whisk in one hand and made a gesture with the other. A line of runes appeared at the four corners of the red barrier of the competition arena, and the green words seemed to be carved on the ground.

Thick fog suddenly rose up in the barrier.

Tsk tsk——

Lu Cai sighed silently in his heart. A man should be treated with new eyes after three days of absence. No wonder Yue Xiaoyan's demeanor made the common people regard her as a living deity. Not to mention that the common people in ancient times were superstitious and easily deceived, if her demeanor were to happen in modern times, people would kneel down and kowtow.

The barrier was covered in thick fog, and occasionally one could see the shadows of vines thrown to the outside, and also a thunderous green light in the fog.

After a while, the thick fog dissipated, and a dozen roses with white centers and red edges bloomed on the ground.

The little girl in a Taoist robe held a frizzy whisk in her hand and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve: "You are trying too hard--"

Zhao Yan also took a breath. "How dare you scold me? Who took advantage of the situation and whipped me with the formation?" He raised his hand and rubbed his arm. Looking closely, one could see a long tear on his sleeve, the mark of the whip.

Lu Cai raised his hand to remove the barrier, and the two of them walked out leisurely.

"Whoever of you two is in the same group with him tomorrow will be beaten to death!" Yue Xiaoyan walked over, raised the twisted whisk in her hand, and said angrily.

Shi Rukui pulled up Zhao Yan's arm and treated his injury. A ball of light golden in color flowed into the wound on his arm.

"Humph, how do you know I'll definitely get beaten by them?" Zhao Yan looked at Yue Xiaoyan with a hint of dissatisfaction in his eyes. Just as he was about to continue speaking, he felt a sharp pain in his injured arm, "hiss—"

Shi Rukui let go of his arm and said, "Then I'll ask for your advice tomorrow, Your Majesty." After saying that, he squatted down and picked up the playing cards that he had thrown on the ground.

Yue Xiaoyan hurried over and said, "Photo cards! These are so valuable! Aren't you in debt? Why did you buy such an expensive item?"

"Maybe it's because I bought these extremely expensive props that I got into debt..." Shi Rukui joked half-seriously.

He handed the photo card to Yue Xiaoyan, asking her to take some time to study her strategy and reflect on it. As he kept mumbling, Yue Xiaoyan's eyes gradually became confused.

Cai Lu was listening on the side and also looked at the photo card. Judging from their conversation, it was probably a video prop.

Seeing Yue Xiaoyan's attention wandering, Shi Rukui stopped talking and took out a photo card and threw it on the ground. He turned and gestured to Lu Cai, and the two of them walked towards the competition area.

As you enter the competition area, a barrier rises.

Lu Cai looked at Shi Rukui opposite him and thought that his special ability was healing, so wouldn’t that mean he would be injured?

Shi Rukui waved his hand, and a long stick appeared in his hand. Not far from his heels was the ground where the vines had just broken through.

Taking out the dagger, Lu Cai moved his right foot slightly back to stabilize his lower body, and his eyes looked out from under the edge of his cloak.

Everything around them was still for a moment. Then, in an instant, red and gray figures suddenly rushed towards each other. The sound of weapons clashing mixed with golden balls of light and red threads that flashed fleetingly in mid-air.

Lu Cai held the dagger in a reverse grip, the tip pointing backward. With a flick of her wrist, the cold blade swiftly struck. Her moves were all random, untrained and unprofessional. She simply adapted to her opponent's attack.

If this were a martial arts world, then Lu Cai would definitely be a low-class person despised by everyone in the martial arts world. He doesn't follow the rules or the ethics of martial arts, and he would even use his hair to do anything if it helped.

When she was trying to survive, she would even take the opponent's attack head-on. If it weren't for her special ability's defensive effect, she would probably hurt the enemy a thousand times and hurt herself eight hundred times.

For example, at this moment, Shi Rukui swept his long stick across, and Lu Cai didn't even dodge, but raised his right arm to block it.

The long stick landed on her thin arm, shaking it. Shi Rukui's fingers, which were tightly gripping the stick, also picked up the trembling of the stick. This slight tremor spread up his arm and directly to his heart, making him panic.

Is it necessary to work so hard in competition training?

His stick is not a fatal blow, it can be avoided with just a slight dodge.

Before Shi Rukui could recover from his trembling panic, a red shadow had already passed before his eyes, followed by a flash of cold light. His eyelids twitched, and he stepped back, a burning pain in his shoulder.

From his chest to his left shoulder, the fabric of his clothes was cut inside out, revealing a bloody gash. If Lu Cai had moved his blade a little higher, it would have killed him.

Shi Rukui frowned, and the golden balls of light floating around him instantly multiplied. The balls of light merged into the wound, and the flesh and blood slowly healed.

But Lu Cai did not stop. He swung the dagger, turned the tip of the knife forward, and stabbed it straight into Shi Rukui's chest.

Zhao Yan, who was watching the fight from afar, gasped. Judging from Lu Cai's attitude, she looked even more like a madman. If she fought Shi Rukui tomorrow, it would be considered a bargain.

Yue Xiaoyan, who was standing to one side, seemed much calmer. "Shi Rukui's ability is healing. Lu Cai injured him to stimulate his healing speed. If the injury was more serious, perhaps it would stimulate the effectiveness of his healing power!"

As if to respond to her words, on the competition field, the gray shadow was punched out by the red cloak, flew directly up, and finally hit the red barrier and slowly slid down.

Zhao Yan tutted, his gaze towards Yue Xiaoyan becoming strange. Are all women so cruel? It was just training, why did she act like she'd been robbed of a million or eight hundred thousand?

General Qi was more rational. He was instructing the soldiers watching the battle: "You see, Instructor Lu's fighting moves are all wrong demonstrations! Unless you have the absolute strength to crush your opponent, you are absolutely not allowed to use such dangerous moves!"

As he was talking, he went to watch the competition on the training ground, and saw Lu Cai grab the long stick that Shi Rukui was swinging, and slashed it hard with his right hand holding the dagger.

"See? If you don't have the confidence to control the opponent's weapon, you will only get internal injuries if you try to catch it with your bare hands!" General Qi explained to the soldiers without changing his expression.

On the other side, Shi Rukui dodged the dagger and felt Lu Cai kicking him, so he took out his shield to block it.

When she stepped forward to put down the shield, her hand that was tightly gripping the long stick loosened.

Shi Rukui was kicked back by her and collided with the barrier again. A bloody taste rose in his throat. He looked up at Lu Cai, who was standing calmly not far away, and felt that this was outrageous!