"I had a friendly exchange with Senior Devouring Demon Willow, and we fully exchanged our opinions. In the end, we reached a consensus on the solutions for various aspects..."
In the cabin’s living room, Qin Ran activated the isolation formation and briefly told a few people about what happened between him and the Devouring Demon Willow.
...As for the fact that the Devouring Demon Willow was still alive, it was their own deduction and had nothing to do with Qin Ran. Qin Ran did not violate the Soul Contract.
“So…” Tu Shan stood by the window, hugging her chest, and asked Qin Ran, “You have colluded with the Devouring Demon Willow?”
"What collusion? That's so ugly!" Qin Ran sat on the long wooden chair in the living room, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, and said, "We reached a peace agreement and carried out friendly cooperation. It paves the way for the future development of him and Danfeng."
"Who is the Devouring Demon Willow? How dare you cooperate with him?" Tu Shanyouyou sneered when he heard this and said, "You are not afraid of death."
"Senior is a level nine demon beast. It is my great honor to cooperate with him. Why not?" Qin Ran replied.
Long Qiqi sat cross-legged on the ground, lying on the coffee table. She looked at Qin Ran and always felt that Qin Ran was a little strange today. The tone of his speech was fake and empty, and there was no substantial content in what he said.
She suspected that Qin Ran had been possessed or controlled by the Devouring Demon Willow. After all, the Devouring Demon Willow was a demon beast and could not speak human language.
She quickly signaled with her eyes to Tushan Youyou who was standing by the window, "This may not be Qin Ran."
Tu Shan You You received Long Qi Qi's gaze, so he asked, "Are you Qin Ran?"
"Ah!" Long Qiqi slapped her head helplessly. Why did she ask directly? She shouldn't have confidence in the monster in terms of intrigue, even if it was a fox spirit.
"Of course." Qin Ran said.
"How do you prove it?"
"The wind chaser can prove it."
Tushan looked at Zhuifeng leisurely, and Zhuifeng nodded and said, "It is indeed Dad."
In fact, Tu Shan You You also felt that there was something wrong with Qin Ran. She looked at Qin Ran for a few more times, thought about it, and asked, "So what kind of deal did you make?"
“It’s unspeakable.” Qin Ran shook his head.
Tu Shanyouyou thought to herself that she really shouldn't ask about the matters concerning the ninth-level monster.
However, Long Qiqi's eyes narrowed, and she found something wrong. She couldn't say it, because she was forced to say it. She no longer believed Tu Shan You You, and asked herself: "How much strength does the Devouring Demon Willow have left?"
“I don’t know.”
Long Qiqi used her own sinister thoughts to figure out Qin Ran and the Devouring Demon Willow, and got some ideas. She then asked, "If Sister Youyou wants to challenge the Devouring Demon Willow, what are her chances of winning?"
Qin Ran looked at Long Qiqi with appreciation, knowing that this little girl had figured out a way out of the impasse.
He replied: "Youyou's strength is indeed strong, but it does not pose a life threat to Senior Devouring Demon Willow."
Long Qiqi immediately understood that she could beat him, but she couldn't kill him. She asked again, "Where's the stupid tiger?"
“It’s unspeakable.” Qin Ran shook his head repeatedly.
...Zhuifeng has the ability to threaten the life of the Devouring Demon Willow.
Long Qiqi asked Qin Ran some details in a roundabout way, and Qin Ran tried his best to answer Long Qiqi without triggering the soul contract.
The two of them said a bunch of incomprehensible words, and the other three looked at each other, not knowing what they were talking about.
After a while, Qin Ran stood up and went out, saying, "I'm going to go see Senior Devouring Demon Willow."
The four of them sat down in the living room. Li Shiyin looked at Long Qiqi and asked hurriedly, "Qiqi, what's going on?"
“Qin Ran made some deals with the Devouring Devil Willow and reached some agreements. Among these agreements, at least one is that the true situation of the Devouring Devil Willow cannot be revealed. Once it is revealed, Qin Ran is likely to suffer some kind of harm.”
Long Qiqi shared his analysis with them, "But through the series of exchanges just now, I still got some useful information."
"Agreement..." Tu Shan said slowly, "It should be a soul contract."
"Soul Contract?" Due to his cultivation level and knowledge, Long Qiqi had never heard of this thing.
Tu Shanyouyou then explained to her what a soul contract was, and finally said, “Given the strength of the Devouring Demon Willow, wouldn’t it be a big disadvantage for Qin Ran to sign a soul contract with him?”
She didn't know that the Devouring Demon Willow was stronger than the Spirit Distortion, otherwise she would have been even more worried.
“Kiran is not someone who would suffer such a loss.” Long Qiqi shook his head. It was unclear whether he was praising Kiran or not.
"Through the communication just now, I have gained some information," she continued.
“First, Qin Ran cannot expose the Extreme Devouring Devil Willow. Second, Qin Ran cannot deal with the Extreme Devouring Devil Willow. Third, Qin Ran also gained some benefits from the Extreme Devouring Devil Willow, which is probably the content of their deal. Fourth, the Extreme Devouring Devil Willow was seriously injured and is now very weak. Sister Youyou can easily defeat it. Fifth, the Extreme Devouring Devil Willow has a backup plan and is difficult to kill. Sixth, Zhuifeng can deal with the Extreme Devouring Devil Willow. I guess it is probably because the Extreme Devouring Devil Willow only has a strong soul now…”
She was just as treacherous as Qin Ran, Qin Ran’s actual successor. After a thorough analysis, she concluded that it was pretty much the same.
"Qin Ran is not in danger for now, but that may not be the case in the future. Qin Ran cannot attack the Devouring Devil Willow, but he did not say whether we can do so. According to my analysis, Qin Ran is hinting that we should take action to eliminate the Devouring Devil Willow."
"It was just that little willow branch..." Li Shiyin was puzzled. "Zhuifeng killed it with one swipe of his paw. What's so great about it?"
"That's a level nine demon beast, equivalent to a Hedao cultivator! How terrifying are Hedao cultivators?" Long Qiqi looked at Li Shiyin and scolded, "He may have countless tricks up his sleeve, how could he be killed so easily? Lingnan Immortal Sect has been planning for many years, but has not been able to completely eliminate him.
"We still need to think about this matter carefully!"
Qin Ran came out alone, came to the side of the Devouring Devil Willow, took out his own Dao Fruit, spread it in front of the Devouring Devil Willow, and asked with a smile: "Senior Liu, the Dao Fruit is here, how do you want to take it?"
The willow branches in front of him began to move, the tips of the willows bent and lightly tapped on the Dao Fruit. Then the Dao Fruit turned into liquid, flew up with the branches, and finally merged into the branches.
This fruit originally belonged to the Devouring Demonic Willow, so it was natural for it to be absorbed.
After absorbing the Dao Fruit, the willows by the lake grew taller and bigger, visibly. In the blink of an eye, they grew from Qin Ran's waist height to taller than Qin Ran. Their trunks were as thick as a baby's fist, and yellow buds grew on the branches, turning into tender yellow leaves.
"Congratulations, senior!" Qin Ran said.
The willow trees also look cheerful as they gently sway their branches.
That night, with the lights on in the study, Qin Ran copied down the first level of the Nine-Point Soul Devouring Demon Art and studied it word by word on paper.
He listed the various meanings, multiple interpretations, different origins, and so on of each word in detail on paper, as if he was treating this magic skill as a classic with profound meanings for academic research.
Completely different from what Liu Daoji had expected, Qin Ran was not in a hurry to practice this spiritual practice. Instead, he studied it slowly and even planned not to practice it at all.
How cautious is Qin Ran? How could he just casually practice someone else's martial arts? It is known that he did not even dare to lick the bag after killing someone, because he was afraid that practicing someone else's martial arts would be known.
He had no intention of practicing this technique, only of studying it...
As for him, a martial arts junker with many years of experience in picking up bargains, studying martial arts is a serious professional match!
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