Chapter 91 Ninety-One Cuts "Xie Changming, have you had enough?"...
Even with Luo Mingshu's rich imagination, she couldn't fathom that Xie Changming would utter that second sentence.
At this moment, Luo Ming, who was still hiding under the covers and grinding his teeth, was unaware that Xie Changming's words had stunned the cultivators watching outside the Yu Ling Sect.
"What online dating?!"
"Eighty million spirit stones? When did the Demon Realm become so rich?"
"However, this is Xie Changming, the genuine Demon Lord of the Demon Realm, who killed two Celestial Lords. Could he really be scammed in an online romance?"
"I heard that the newly appointed Western Realm Immortal Lord in the Heavenly Realm is Feng Du, the sect leader who ascended from the Yu Ling Sect. No way, is the Heavenly Realm going to lose another Western Realm Immortal Lord? It turns out the rumors that being a Western Realm Immortal Lord is a high-risk profession are not false."
While the cultivators here were discussing the matter, Xie Changming had already begun verifying the details of being scammed in an online romance with the cultivators from the Yuling Sect.
"Yes, that's right. She said she was short of money, so she asked me for 80 million spirit stones. After taking the money, she deleted me..." Xie Changming said confidently.
"Ah, it's like this, Demon Lord. Are you planning to kill her, or are you planning to get back the 80 million spirit stones?" The cultivator from the Spirit Control Sect asked, suppressing a laugh.
“Neither…” Xie Changming frowned slightly. After thinking for a moment, he said, “It’s like this, continuing an online relationship isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”
Upon hearing this, the keen-nosed reporter from the Water Mirror Sect immediately recorded the scene.
[A handsome demon lord is scammed out of 80 million spirit stones in an online romance. After being deleted, he becomes a keyboard warrior on the spirit website, all to get her attention?! What can he do to win her back? This 300-year-old beauty with a water spirit root is incredibly gullible. Click to see the domineering demon lord's pursuit of love.]
The news was quickly posted on the Four Directions Water Mirror by the professional reporters of the Water Mirror Sect—they had already started a special feature on the offline challenge between the "300-year-old beautiful woman with water spiritual root who is very easy to fool" and the "anonymous cultivator (192 cm tall)".
In order to be the first to follow up on this once-in-a-century duel, they even invited a famous combat master. Unexpectedly, the style of the duel has suddenly changed, and pink bubbles have started to appear. This prompted the reporters of the Water Mirror Sect to quickly contact a romance expert.
When Xie Changming said this, the cultivators of the Yuling Sect were completely baffled. They never expected that Xie Changming would be so deeply in love with Luo Mingshu.
"Ah...you...you've been swindled out of 80 million spirit stones, Demon Lord...you're truly touching." The junior cultivator from the Spirit Control Sect wiped away his tears of emotion, turned around, and said, "I'll go and call Senior Sister Luo for you right away."
At this moment, Luo Mingshu was hiding under the covers scrolling through the news on the Four Directions Water Mirror. If Xie Changming came, she would pretend to be dead and not go out. After all, she was going to pretend to have amnesia, so how could she let Xie Changming see her so easily?
However, she never expected Xie Changming to pull this stunt.
She came across this message on the phantom network—
[A handsome demon lord is scammed out of 80 million spirit stones in an online romance. After being deleted, he becomes a keyboard warrior on the spirit website, all to get her attention?! What can he do to win her back? This 300-year-old beauty with a water spirit root is incredibly gullible. Click to see the domineering demon lord's pursuit of love.]
Luo Mingshu: "..." I'm fucking speechless.
It must be said that although the news content seems outrageous, it is actually true that she did swindle Xie Changming out of 80 million spirit stones, and Xie Changming did indeed start arguing with her on the spirit network in order to get her attention.
But... Xie Changming, you cunning little wolf from the Demon Realm, now most of the cultivation world knows about their relationship.
Luo Mingshu was so angry that she clicked randomly on the Spirit Network interface. At this moment, Afa rushed in and said to her, "Senior sister, you really cheated people out of 80 million spirit stones. You're so amazing."
Ah Fa called to her, "Senior sister, why don't you go out and take a look? That Demon Lord looks so wronged. People on the Spirit Network are saying he's stupid for not upholding male virtues and that's why he got deceived."
The image of a homeless puppy immediately came to Luo Mingshu's mind.
However, since they had already come to her door, and it was she herself who suggested that he come and chop her up, Luo Mingshu had no choice but to throw off her blanket and jump out of bed.
"I'll go take a look." Luo Mingshu scratched her hair.
When she appeared at the gate of the Yuling Sect, some of the onlookers were still sympathizing with Xie Changming, but as soon as they saw her, many of them began to switch sides.
"It's not the Demon Lord's fault. Luo Mingshu is so beautiful, it's worth it even if she's been deceived."
"How can the Demon Lord be so ungrateful? It's already a blessing that a beautiful woman is willing to date him. So what if he's been deceived? It won't matter."
"You're all so protective of her, but have you forgotten that she's just a 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root who's incredibly easy to fool?"
As a result, many cultivators who had been deceived by Luo Mingshu's appearance began to have mixed feelings. She was indeed very beautiful, but she was a well-known argumentative person on the Spirit Network.
Finally, they came to the conclusion that Xie Changming and Luo Mingshu were a match made in heaven, and the two biggest contrarians on the Spirit Network would lock them up today, swallowing the key directly.
Luo Mingshu stood at the gate of the Yuling Sect, looked at Xie Changming, and began to play dumb: "Anonymous cultivator, if you want to challenge me to a duel, then so be it. Do you have any evidence that I cheated you out of 80 million spirit stones?"
"I don't know you at all, how can you say we had an online relationship?" Luo Mingshu said.
Xie Changming looked at her, his tone calm: "It's okay, we can start now."
Upon hearing this, many of the onlookers were stunned.
Luo Mingshu stepped forward and said to him, "Let me make this clear first, I don't know you. I've long forgotten about you."
"I just need to remember you." The most amazing thing about Xie Changming is that no matter what Luo Mingshu says, he can quickly respond.
"You're such a strange person," Luo Mingshu muttered, feigning ignorance.
Xie Changming looked down at her and asked, "So, can we add it back now?"
Luo Mingshu thought to herself, "You've already found an offline connection, so I'll add you back no matter what."
She opened her Spirit Network interface and finally accepted Xie Changming's friend request.
When the two were adding each other as friends, some onlookers stirred things up, saying, "Wait, are you two still fighting?"
"Go ahead and hit me." Luo Mingshu stood on tiptoe and slapped Xie Changming on the head. "I've already hit you, so you'd better bounce it back, anonymous cultivator."
Xie Changming grabbed her wrist without saying a word; he knew it was best not to utter a single word right now.
As long as he maintains this pitiful appearance, Luo Mingshu will definitely not be able to bear to drive him away.
Luo Mingshu was surprised that he didn't fight back, so she waved her hand and said to the onlookers, "Alright, alright, disperse. Those of you who haven't paid your tickets yet, remember to go to the Yuling Sect to pay them."
While taking advantage of the large crowds today, she hadn't forgotten her money-making business: "By the way, in a while, the Little Heavenly Realm immersive experience project, which is the same as Yingtian Palace, will also open. The new experience project incorporates content from many classic stories, so remember to make a reservation then."
The reporter from the Water Mirror Sect, who had been broadcasting the scene to the cultivators on the Water Mirror Online platform, hadn't even had time to move the camera away when Luo Mingshu seized the opportunity to give it a free advertisement.
"Advertising fee! Ask her for the advertising fee!" The reporter from the Water Mirror Sect began to fly into a rage of impotence after being taken advantage of.
But Luo Mingshu had already brought Xie Changming back to the Yuling Sect, because she didn't dare let a demon embarrass himself outside.
Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming walked side by side toward her stream. Because of Luo Mingshu's special status in the sect, the junior disciples who passed by greeted her one after another: "Greetings, Senior Sister Luo."
Luo Mingshu did not respond, because she was still immersed in the turmoil that was taking place outside the Yuling Sect.
The younger disciples, however, glanced at Luo Mingshu and then at Xie Changming, and actually greeted Xie Changming directly as, "Hello, Senior Brother-in-law."
Xie Changming lowered his eyes and replied directly, "Mm."
Luo Mingshu paused for a moment, then came to her senses and asked, "What did you mean?"
Adding her main account on the Spirit Network doesn't mean you're her Daoist partner, Xie Changming. You're dreaming.
"Go back to the Demon Realm," Luo Mingshu said to Xie Changming.
“You’ve come all this way, it’s not easy. Didn’t you have amnesia? I came to help you remember,” Xie Changming said to her.
"I'll forget you, definitely because you're an insignificant person," Luo Ming stubbornly insisted.
When Xie Changming was facing Luo Mingshu, he was a master of conversation: "You remember everyone else but have forgotten me, which means I am special."
Luo Mingshu: "?" I've already said everything, how am I supposed to respond?
She took two steps forward, stomping heavily on the grass beneath her feet. She stopped pretending and laid her cards on the table: "Xie Changming, you bullied me on the Spirit Network."
Xie Changming considered many possibilities for why Luo Mingshu was angry with him, but he never thought it was this reason: he... was bullying her online?
"After we came out of the Misty Star Sea, you deleted my profile picture, 'Beautiful 300-year-old woman with water spirit root, so easy to fool!'" Luo Mingshu shouted at him. "Xie Changming, how dare you?"
"So you later created the Spirit Network account 【Shushu Chaomei Ya】 to add me?" Xie Changming came to his senses.
"I was thinking about getting revenge back then. Xie Changming, if you dare to delete me, I'll cheat you out of 80 million spirit stones," Luo Mingshu said angrily.
Xie Changming grabbed her wrist: "I didn't know that was you. I thought your account belonged to a cultivator from the human realm. I added you because I wanted to learn about the human realm in order to find you."
"Including the peach blossom dew recipe and the Mingyan stone that I bought from you before, they were originally prepared for you." Xie Changming told Luo Mingshu his true thoughts.
From the beginning, he planned to find her and be with her, but the Demon Realm was poor and lacked the beautiful scenery of the Heavenly Realm, so he thought he should improve the environment of the Demon Realm first.
“You…” Luo Mingshu thought back to when they were in Fengsha Ferry, Xie Changming was actually willing to be her henchman in order to earn five million spirit stones from her. It must have been very difficult for Xie Changming to earn spirit stones, but he still bought a formula worth several million spirit stones without hesitation.
She paused for a moment, unable to speak; she was always the type to respond better to gentle persuasion than force.
Xie Changming didn't say anything more, but just watched her quietly.
Luo Mingshu started pretending to be dead, but when she returned to the stream, Afa, who was passing by, called Xie Changming "brother-in-law," and she finally broke down completely.
"Xie Changming... I don't care, you've argued with me so many times on the Spirit Network, I can't forgive you." Luo Mingshu sat on the stone table in the Shuixijian courtyard, stuffing pastries into her mouth until her cheeks were bulging, and said angrily.
"Then what should we do?" Xie Changming lowered his eyes and casually opened his Spirit Network interface. He didn't expect that Luo Mingshu could forgive him so easily for what happened in the Heavenly Realm, but she still remembered the matter of arguing with him on the Spirit Network.
"I don't know," Luo Mingshu said, clenching her fists. "Anyway, the title of the number one argumentative person on the Spirit Network no longer belongs to me."
Xie Changming thought for a moment, then made some changes to his Spirit Network name on the Spirit Network interface.
"Does this name for the Spirit Network sound nice?" Xie Changming asked Luo Mingshu to come and take a look.
Luo Mingshu glanced at the lit-up Spirit Network interface in front of him, and the brand-new Spirit Network name in the center dazzled her.
【A handsome 300-year-old man with no spiritual roots is super easy to fool】—This is Xie Changming's newly changed name for the spiritual network.
"It sounds good, doesn't it?" Xie Changming said.
Luo Mingshu: "?" You do things just like Fan Qing.
However, she is the number one hypocrite in the world; Fan Qing cannot have the same standards, but Xie Changming can.
She glanced at the news on the Spirit Network, where most cultivators were discussing the fight... oops... blind date that had taken place outside the Spirit Control Sect that day.
The cultivators discussed Xie Changming's online romance scam and ridiculed him, which calmed Luo Mingshu down.
The key point is that an article discussing this matter resonated with her. The central idea of the article was something like, "So what if we argue with each other online? This anonymous cultivator has ultimately fallen for the charms of a beautiful 300-year-old woman with a water-elemental root who is so easy to fool. This is a great victory for Luo Mingshu, my family."
Luo Mingshu was engrossed in reading the article, while Xie Changming quickly transferred money to Xu Qian: "It's very well written. You can write again next time."
In short, the matter was settled, but a mysterious organization appeared on the Four Directions Water Mirror, claiming to be the "Anonymous Cultivator (crossed out) Handsome 300-year-old man with no spiritual root is super easy to fool and Beautiful 300-year-old woman with water spiritual root is super easy to fool sugar-eating group". They found Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming's past statements on the Spirit Network and squeezed sugar from the cracks.
[Idle Cultivator #1: I knew why that anonymous cultivator went crazy criticizing that "200-year-old beautiful woman with a fire elemental root and lots of money"—it turns out it was because she imitated the super-easy-to-fool spirit network name of a 300-year-old beautiful woman with a water elemental root.]
[Idle Cultivator #2: So that's how it is! I'm hooked!]
Although their guesses differed from the facts, they were not far off.
After ignoring Xie Changming, Luo Mingshu began using her newfound popularity to promote the small celestial realm scene she encountered during her second exploration of the Misty Star Sea.
This Lesser Heavenly Realm is even more fun than Yingtian Palace. However, although she and Xie Changming occupy most of the land in the Lesser Heavenly Realm, a small portion is still in the hands of other cultivators who explored it together at the time.
Luo Mingshu's large body was pulled back to the Misty Star Sea Exploration Team by Xie Changming.
[A beautiful 300-year-old woman with a water-elemental root is easily fooled and joins the Misty Star Sea Exploration Group.]
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Luo Mingshu: "?" I saw it all.
But she could only pretend she didn't see it.
She announced her upcoming development of the Small Heavenly Realm in the group, and even Shui Qingnian was willing to join—because she had spent too many spirit stones in Yingtian Palace.
They all offered to come and help (make trouble) with the construction, and Luo Mingshu, thinking that free labor was no excuse not to use it, agreed.
However, Lu Yaoyao said to Luo Mingshu hesitantly, "Senior Sister, the Heavenly Realm has helped the system's primordial spirit recover its memories. I need to go pick it up. I'll come back in a few days."
In the celestial realm, the damage caused by the original Western Realm Immortal Lord has been repaired, and even Wei Qing has awakened.
So, everything was almost back on track, except that Xie Changming was still lingering in the stream.
Because Liu Hongying became the sect leader, and Afa still needed to study Taoism and cultivate, she moved into the sect leader's hall with Liu Hongying.
Luo Mingshu hadn't even enjoyed a few days of her blissful life enjoying the stream all to herself when Xie Changming squeezed in.
Today, Luo Mingshu finally couldn't take it anymore, because Xie Changming, that cunning scoundrel, would revert to his original form every morning and then squat at her door wagging his tail, waiting for her to get up.
If Luo Mingshu forgets to close the door, he will squeeze into the room, put his two front paws on the edge of Luo Mingshu's bed, and lick her cheeks to wake her up.
When she woke up that day, she grabbed Xie Changming by the neck and hugged him tightly. She wanted to drive Xie Changming out of the stream and send him back to his demon realm.
"Thank you, Changming!" Luo Mingshu said loudly.
"Hmm?" Xie Changming licked her ear, his voice low.
"Have you had enough?" Luo Mingshu asked through gritted teeth.
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