Chapter 1103 The Return of Di Chen

Xuan Mu saw Luo Li coming over, smiled lightly and raised his glass, "Hey, City Lord Luo is here."

Luo Li was helpless, "Stop teasing me."

Wen Xingyan also chuckled and said, "This is not a tease. You succeeding as the Lord of Buli City is a great thing."

Luo Li raised her eyebrows, "Why is it a good thing?"

"Hmm..." Xie Shiyuan tapped her chin with her index finger and smiled sweetly, "From now on, if I stay in the city, I can eat and drink for free with peace of mind."

Luo Li laughed and shook her head, then raised her wine glass. "Have a drink?"

Lan Xiaoxiao and the others put away their joking expressions, raised their glasses and clinked them with Luo Li's, congratulating her sincerely.

Luo Li looked gentle as she raised her glass and drank it all.

Ye Yichen couldn't drink much, and he didn't use his spiritual power to make wine today, so he was a little drunk at the moment.

His tongue was a little big, "Ari, I think... you are becoming more and more humane now."

Luo Li raised an eyebrow, "I was not humane before?"

Ye Yichen waved his hands drunkenly, "That's not what I meant..."

He burped, "In the past, especially when we were in Tianyuan Continent, Yue Hanchuan used to say that he always felt that you were like the moon hanging in the sky, clearly there, so close, yet he could never touch you.

Yue Hanchuan covered his mouth with his hand and coughed lightly: "He is drunk and talking nonsense..."

Luo Li, however, rubbed the rim of the wine glass thoughtfully.

The moonlight shone through the glass window, casting tiny spots of light on her fingertips, and she suddenly remembered the past days.

"Actually, he's right." Luo Li raised her head and drank the wine in the glass, with a spicy feeling in her throat. "When I was in Tianyuan Continent, I did..."

Her words stopped abruptly, and her eyes suddenly fixed on the corner of the banquet hall.

Everyone followed her gaze and saw a slender figure appear in the shadows that should have been empty.

The man was wearing a jet-black robe, his silver hair casually tied up with a dead branch, and he was leaning lazily against a pillar drinking.

"Di Chen?!" Lan Xiaoxiao exclaimed, "When did he come out? Does his sister know?"

Di Chen seemed to notice everyone's gaze and looked up.

Those amber eyes appeared a strange golden color in the light, exactly the same as in Luo Li's memory.

"Strange, how did he get in?" Bei Mingyu's hand was already on the hilt of the sword, "The barrier of the City Lord's Mansion is actually..."

"I let him in," Shi Heng appeared behind them at some point, his dark sleeves still emitting lingering spiritual energy. "I just sensed the sign at the Tianxu Secret Realm exit had been triggered, so I went to assist him."

Lan Xiaoxiao was shocked. "Teacher Shi Heng, you're too fast. Weren't you just drinking here?"

Shi Heng chuckled, "Have you forgotten? I set up a teleportation array at the ruins of the Imperial City?"

"That's right."

Di Chen walked over slowly, with blood still staining the hem of his robe.

He stopped in front of Luo Li and saluted: "Congratulations, City Lord Luo."

Luo Li stared at the dark pattern on the torn cuffs of Di Chen's sleeves. It was a cloud pattern that only the direct descendants of the Di family could wear. "Your sister is recuperating in the Biwu Courtyard."

"I know," Di Chen straightened up, "I've already checked it out."

He suddenly leaned close to Luo Li's ear and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I saw something in the secret realm...about your prophecy."

Luo Li's pupils suddenly shrank.

She suddenly grabbed Di Chen's wrist, but it was icy cold to the touch - this was not the body temperature of a living person.

"you......"

Di Chen chuckled and suddenly started coughing violently.

Dark red blood seeped out from between his fingers and dripped onto Luo Li's snow-white clothes, leaving shocking marks.

"Achen!" Di Shiwei's voice came from the corridor.

She rushed over with a pale face to support her staggering brother, the glimmer of the Law of Light illuminating her fingertips. "Didn't we agree to heal your wounds first? Why did you run out without a word?"

Di Chen waved his hand, took out a black crystal from his arms and stuffed it into Luo Li's pocket: "The Demon God Temple is looking for this..."

Before he could finish his words, he fainted on Di Shiwei's shoulder.

The banquet hall was instantly in chaos.

Someone else recognized Di Chen's identity, "Isn't this the young master of the Di family, Di Chen?"

"Yes, he's still alive!"

Song Wanbai rushed forward to examine Di Chen's injuries, his brow furrowing ever tighter. "His spiritual veins were shattered, his tendons destroyed... It's a miracle he was able to walk out of the secret realm alive."

Luo Li gripped the crystal tightly, and the cold touch spread from her palm to her limbs and bones.

Extremely pure demonic energy...

She was shocked, this was clearly a magic crystal condensed from the original power of the Great Wilderness Demon God!

Di Chen was carried away by the alchemist of the Luo family. Luo Li and the others also came to the side hall. Luo Xiao and the others stayed in the main hall to comfort the guests, while Di Shiwei followed the alchemist to take care of Di Chen.

In the side hall——

Wen Xingyan looked at the black crystal in Luo Li's hand and frowned. "Such pure demonic energy! The demons we've seen before aren't even one ten-thousandth as powerful as this. What on earth is this?"

Lan Xiaoxiao and the others also folded their arms and came over to take a look. After a moment, they shook their heads and said, "I haven't seen it."

Luo Li tightened her fingertips slightly, and a strange dark light appeared on the surface of the magic crystal.

She raised her eyes and looked at everyone, her voice a little heavy: "This is the original power condensed from the Demon God in his lifetime."

She lowered her eyes, "It seems that Di Chen got it from the people in the Demon God Temple."

"What?!" Everyone was shocked. "If this thing is lost, won't the Demon God Temple be searching like crazy?"

Luo Li nodded, "Indeed, so the most important thing now is to wait for Di Chen to wake up and ask him if anyone discovered his identity when he got the magic crystal. If not, then we can spend the day peacefully. If they do, we might have to fight a tough battle in advance."

Luo Li's words made the atmosphere in the side hall suddenly solemn.

Lan Xiaoxiao subconsciously touched the whip at her waist and whispered, "No wonder the Demon God Temple has been so active recently..."

Xie Shiyuan suddenly remembered something and said solemnly, "Should we set up a barrier first? What if this thing leaks its aura..."

"No need," Luo Li raised her hand to stop him, brushing her sleeve over the magic crystal, "I have already isolated it with the laws of space."

Bei Mingyu stared at the black crystal, his brows furrowed. "Do you feel like this thing is... breathing?"

Everyone looked carefully and found that there was a dark light flickering rhythmically inside the crystal, expanding and contracting like a living thing.

Wen Xingyan suddenly raised his hand and cast a soundproof barrier, saying in a deep voice, "Something's wrong! This magic crystal is absorbing the spiritual energy around it!"

Everyone's expressions changed when they heard this, and they found that the spiritual energy in the side hall was becoming thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye.