"This is..." Li Xiu looked at the box on the table and for a moment didn't understand what Li Qingyi meant.

Li Qingyi opened the box and saw a pear-shaped diamond inside, which looked to be about four or five carats.

The color is transparent, with a slight hint of blue, and looks extremely clear.

As soon as he saw the diamond for the first time, Li Xiu immediately felt hungry. It was obviously a magic gem.

"What is this diamond?" Li Xiu asked as he looked at the diamond.

"Have you ever heard of the Cullinan Diamond?" Li Qingyi said slowly.

"You mean the Star of Africa?" Li Xiu looked at the diamond again with some surprise.

Some people may not have heard of the Cullinan Diamond, but when it comes to the Star of Africa, there should be very few people who have not heard of it.

Inlaid on the royal scepter of an ancient country is the world's second largest diamond, the "Star of Africa", which is known as the "King of Diamonds". It weighs more than 500 carats and is an extremely rare giant diamond.

In fact, the Star of Africa is one of the diamonds cut from the Cullinan diamond. The original Cullinan diamond weighed more than 3,000 carats, and was cut into nine large diamonds and ninety-six small diamonds, with a total weight of more than 1,000 carats. The finished product is only about one-third of the original stone, and the consumption is very large.

The Star of Africa, also known as Cullinan I, is the largest and most famous of the nine diamonds and is set on the scepter.

The smallest of the nine large diamonds weighs more than four carats and is pear-shaped, which is very consistent with the diamond that Li Qingyi brought.

"Yes, this is the smallest of the nine large diamonds cut by Cullinan." Li Qingyi nodded.

"Even if it's the Cullinan Diamond, it's no different from an ordinary diamond. It weighs a little over four carats and is not worth much," Li Xiu probed.

"What if it is a shining magic gem?" Li Qingyi said.

"Are you sure it's the Glorious Demonic Gem?" Li Xiu was a little surprised.

“Although I’m not 100% sure, it’s almost there. I’ve seen Cullinan No. 1, No. 3, and No. 4, and they all bred Radiant Spirits. The smallest No. 9 hasn’t been contracted by anyone yet, but as a Cullinan, it has a very high chance of bred Radiant Spirits. You can choose to take a chance. Of course, you can also choose not to gamble and just pretend that I never took it out.” Li Qingyi said with a smile.

"It sounds tempting. Where did you get this diamond? How do I know if it is the real Cullinan IX?" Li Xiu pondered.

"This is a birthday gift my mother gave me. She wouldn't lie to me," said Li Qingyi.

Li Xiu secretly clicked his tongue, thinking, to give such a thing as a birthday present, how rich must Li Qingyi's family be? It's probably not worse than Chu Jun's.

"What do you want?" Li Xiu was actually thinking of taking a gamble. At least he already knew that this was definitely a magic gem. Even if it wasn't Cullinan, or if there was no Radiant Magic Gem, he wouldn't lose anything.

"Exchange it for a cup of wine with the three attributes of wind, fire and thunder, and redeem my three-year bet." Li Qingyi said.

"I can't mix the wine now. You have to wait for a while." Li Xiu groaned.

"How long?" Li Qingyi stared at Li Xiu and asked.

"One year at the latest." Li Xiu was still somewhat confident, because some clues could be seen in the cocktail recipes. One of the recipes was suspected to have properties such as wind, fire, and thunder, but it needed to be verified first, so Li Xiu did not dare to agree directly.

"A year is too long, how about half a year?" Li Qingyi frowned.

"Okay, but you have to continue to fulfill your spokesperson bet." Li Xiu said with a smile.

Seeing that Li Qingyi wanted to say something, Li Xiu said immediately before she opened her mouth: "You don't have to show your face. This is my bottom line. Otherwise, you can take the diamond back."

"Okay, deal." Li Qingyi's bottom line is to help Bai Ying get back the three-attribute wine. If that doesn't work, he will have to accept the identity of spokesperson.

Since Li Xiu took a step back and allowed her to not show her face, Li Qingyi was quite satisfied with the result.

"I've accepted the diamonds. I'll notify you when I can make cocktails. Since you're already here, let's take a promotional photo first." Li Xiu picked up the box containing Cullinan IX with a smile and put it directly into the drawer.

"You haven't paid anything, but you've taken all the benefits. Isn't this a bit unreasonable? We should exchange money for goods." Bai Ying said dissatisfiedly.

"If you don't trust me, the deal can be aborted." Li Xiu took out the box and pushed it directly in front of them.

"I believe you, but according to the agreement, I only need to shoot three sets of promotional photos and three sets of videos in these three years. The time needs to be communicated separately." Li Qingyi did not take back the box, but pushed it back in front of Li Xiu.

"Okay, is it convenient for us to take the first set of promotional photos today?" Li Xiu took the box and said with a smile.

"It's convenient. Remember what you said. You can't let me show my face. If you violate the agreement, you will have to bear the consequences yourself." Li Qingyi said.

"Don't worry, I'll have someone make a hairstyle that covers your face." Li Xiu picked up the phone, called Chu Jun over, and asked him to take Li Qingyi to take promotional photos.

Chu Jun is already familiar with this matter. He has always been in charge of the publicity work for the Magic Spirit Competition and has also taken the promotional photos.

Chu Jun was very happy to see that Li Xiu actually signed Li Qingyi as his spokesperson.

He didn't have any thoughts about Li Qingyi, but he felt that with Fubuki as the spokesperson, the Magic Spirit Competition and the City of Light would become more famous.

After Chu Jun and Li Qingyi left, Li Xiu took out the Cullinan 9 again, held it in his hand and examined it carefully.

This diamond does look very much like Cullinan 9. Although Li Xiu has never seen the real thing, he has seen photos of it.

He had also seen Cullinan II, which was inlaid on the crown of the ancient country, and that crown should be in the space city now.

When Li Xiu was in the Space City before, he had seen the crown and the Cullinan II on the crown. It seemed that the color and other aspects of this diamond were very similar to the Cullinan II on the crown.

"Li Qingyi said that Cullinan 1, 3, and 4 all contain radiant spirits. Now 9 is also containing a spirit. The other Cullinan diamonds should also contain spirits. I wonder where the other Cullinan diamonds are. If I have a chance to find them, I can bring them back for some experiments to see if there is any connection between the spirits of these Cullinan diamonds."

Li Xiu looked at Cullinan 9 and thought to himself, "Theoretically, if gemstones can give birth to magic spirits, it must be the result of being seeded with spirits. It has nothing to do with whether they come from the same raw stone. Unless they have been seeded with spirits before they are cut, it is possible that all Cullinan diamonds have magic spirits in them."

“But if the Magic Spirit Gemstone is cut, will the Magic Spirit also be cut? If the Magic Spirit cannot be cut, then there should only be one Cullinan with the Magic Spirit. Now there are Magic Spirits in so many Cullinan diamonds, which is a bit problematic.”

"Did the demon spirit get split, or was there more than one spirit planted into the Cullinan diamond when the spirit was planted?"

Li Xiu couldn't guess it, and unless he got other Cullinan diamonds, he would be able to solve this mystery.

Li Xiu cut his finger and spilled blood on number nine in the warehouse.

Fortunately, Diamond No. 9 in the vault did not reject Li Xiu's blood like the ruby. After the dazzling diamond absorbed Li Xiu's blood, it immediately glowed and finally turned into a stream of light and flew towards Li Xiu's fingers.

A moment later, a diamond magic ring appeared on Li Xiu's finger. Li Xiu looked at his hands full of gem rings and felt the pleasure of a nouveau riche.

"Having too many magic spirits is a problem. I can hardly wear all of them." Li Xiu didn't know what would happen to those magic spirit rings if he really couldn't wear them anymore.

Sealed Devil: Can evolve into a demon spirit.

Grade: E.

Quality: Brilliant (incomplete).

"What does 'incomplete' mean? Could it be that there is indeed a connection between the nine Cullinan diamonds?" Li Xiu was a little surprised and summoned out the sealed devil.

"What's going on?" After seeing the appearance of the evil spirit clearly, Li Xiu couldn't help but be stunned.

The demon he summoned still looked like Cullinan IX, but now Cullinan IX could actually float in the air by itself, and inside the diamond, there was a red light that appeared and disappeared from time to time, like a blood-red devil's eye opening and closing.

After testing it for a while, I found that this thing seemed to be useless. Apart from being able to fly and flash, it had no actual combat capabilities and no innate skills.

"It seems that I have to find an opportunity to ask Li Qingyi what the demons No. 1, 3 and 4 in the warehouse are." Li Xiu had no choice but to summon back the sealed demons.

The next morning, Chu Jun showed Li Xiu the promotional photos he had taken, and the results were unexpectedly good.

Li Qingyi was wearing a green gauze dress, like a fairy in ancient oriental mythology, with a veil on her face. Behind her was Fubuki-hime, who was as aloof as an ice goddess of war.

This set of photos is basically in this style, with just some differences in the background and actions.

"People have temperament and monsters are beautiful too. Every picture is a masterpiece. Choose one as the main picture." Chu Jun said with a smile.

"Let's take this one." Li Xiu chose a photo with a full moon and a starry sky as the background. He just randomly pointed to it based on his feeling. Anyway, all the photos in this set were very good and every one was beautiful.

"Li Qingyi herself is most satisfied with this photo. Your aesthetics are quite consistent, which reduces a lot of communication troubles." Chu Jun said with a smile: "She also asked me to remind you not to forget the agreement between you two. Tell me honestly, what is the agreement between you two? Have you betrayed our single noble organization?"

Li Xiu said unhappily, "I do want to be single, but there are so many things going on in the city right now that I don't have the time or opportunity to betray. Also, when did I join any single noble organization?"

"That's true. I didn't feel anything when Sha Chu was here. Now that she's gone, we're all so busy that we have no time to improve ourselves. This is not a solution. When will Sha Chu come back?" Chu Jun sighed.

"It's only been two days since he left. How could he come back so soon, unless..." Li Xiu was suddenly stunned: "Yes, Li Qingyi's status in the Changsheng Society must be very high. Can we ask her to help bring Sha Chu back?"

Li Xiu regretted that he did not think about this issue when negotiating the terms yesterday, otherwise he could have raised it as a condition.

But then he thought again, if he went to Li Qingyi to ask for the person, it would be equivalent to telling the Changsheng Society that there was something special between him and Sha Chu, which would have both advantages and disadvantages.

After considering for a long time, Li Xiu decided not to mention Sha Chu and wait for her to come back on her own.

As soon as the promotional photos of Lee Chung-yi and Fubukihime were released, they became a hot topic.

Topics such as the most beautiful trial-taker and the world's number one demon spirit have always dominated the hot search list.

Several cities that were originally hosting the Magic Spirit Competition and bought hot search topics had all been suppressed, making those cities that spent a lot of money on publicity very depressed.

Chu Jun wanted to strike while the iron is hot and continue to hold the Magic Spirit Competition next month, but was rejected by Li Xiu.

"The Magic Spirit Competition in our City of Light is only held once a year," said Li Xiu.

"Isn't once a year too little? If we continue like this, we will soon be replaced by other cities. We should have at least twice a year, or we can set up a Magic League, so that we can keep the popularity..." Chu Jun didn't quite understand why we didn't take advantage of the current hot situation to hold a few more Magic Competitions to consolidate the status of the City of Light Magic Competition.

"With our current environment and strength, it's unrealistic to organize a league. There aren't that many high-level monsters who will participate in our league. If we just fill in the numbers and randomly find some monsters to organize a league, compared with the monster competitions of those big forces, the image of the Monster City that we have worked so hard to establish will probably collapse soon. Instead of fighting them to the death, it's better to jump out directly and stand on their heads to make money." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Chu Jun didn't quite understand what Li Xiu meant.

"We already had a monster ranking list, so just set it up for me. The more authoritative it is, the better. There's no need to include only our own monsters, but also those from other monster competitions. Try to make the ranking fair and just, but there's one thing you need to note, the first few must be our own monsters, especially the top three." Li Xiu said.

"I understand. As long as we make this happen, no matter how powerful the monsters in other monster competitions are, as long as they haven't defeated our monsters, they will never be recognized as the world's top..." Chu Jun immediately understood Li Xiu's intention.

"Remember to put Fubukiji in the first place. If it really doesn't work, we can give up the rankings of other monsters, but Fubukiji must be in the first place." Li Xiu thought for a while and said again.

"I see. You want to use Fubuki-hime as a target. Isn't that a bit unfair to the girl? Can she handle it?" Chu Jun said with some reluctance.

"She can't carry it, are you going to carry it? I won't carry it anyway." Li Xiu said, spreading his hands.

"Then let her carry it. I can't carry it." Chu Jun said quickly.

"Why don't you go and do it quickly? The success of our Magic Spirit Competition next year depends on this ranking. You should pay more attention to it." After driving Chu Jun away, Li Xiu planned to find time to go to the Golden Gate and brush more magic cores there, so as to improve the quality of his own embryos and raise the levels of the Jedi Knight and the demigod Setsuna.

The next Magic Spirit Competition will not be at the same level as now. At least S-level magic spirits will be needed to control the venue.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Xiu is reluctant to hold the second Magic Spirit Competition so soon. He needs time to let his magic spirit grow.

Li Xiu stood up and was about to go out, but suddenly he felt a chill and instantly summoned a Jedi Knight to stand in front of him.

The moment the Jedi Knight came out, his whole body was burning with red flames. He held the sword in both hands and slashed towards the door. The flames on his body gathered towards the samurai sword.

He actually activated the Desperate Situation and Peerless National Skills at the first possible moment.

Snap!

A golden arrow broke through the air and hit the Jedi Knight's samurai sword, actually breaking the blade directly. The golden arrow did not stop, and pierced through the Jedi Knight's shoulder and armor, and still shot towards Li Xiu behind him like golden lightning.

Li Xiu had already tried his best to move backwards, but the golden arrow seemed to have eyes and stopped in front of Li Xiu's chest at an incredible speed.

Li Xiu broke out in a cold sweat. If the other party had not really intended to kill him, this arrow would have pierced his heart.

Li Xiu stood there without moving, ignoring the golden arrow in front of his chest, and looked outside the gate.

I saw a figure walking out from the sky, his whole body covered in golden light, walking in the air like a god. It didn't seem like he was walking fast, but in just a few steps, he had already reached the door.

"Super Spirit Trialist, who are you?" Li Xiu stared at the man, but the golden light on the man was too dazzling, and he could not see his face and appearance at all. He could only feel that the man had a very strong and tall figure, and in his hand he held a longbow that also glowed with golden divine light.

"You are not qualified to know who I am. You only need to know that all your reliance is nothing but inferior stuff in front of me. It is as easy as killing an ant for me to kill you." The man said contemptuously: "From now on, you will do whatever Qing Yi tells you to do. If you dare to disobey me again, the next time, the arrow will pierce your chest directly."

"You can try and see if it can penetrate my chest." Li Xiu raised his hand to stop Ye Xiyuan, Qin Shi and others who were rushing out of the door in magic costumes, signaling them not to come in.

This is a super spiritual trialist, they are no match for him.

The man stared at Li Xiu, and the golden arrow suddenly moved forward another point, piercing Li Xiu's coat, but it finally stopped and did not pierce his chest.

Li Xiu just looked at him coldly without moving at all.

The man stretched out his hand and grabbed the golden arrow, which flew back and landed in his palm. He casually put it back into the quiver on his back.

"Remember my words, if it happens again, even God cannot keep you alive." After saying that, the man turned and left, like a flash of golden lightning across the sky, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Lord City Lord, are you okay?" The Ye siblings, Qin Shi, Chu Jun, A Fei and others rushed in.

"It's okay, you guys go back and do your work, and don't let this matter spread out." After Li Xiu asked them to leave, he used the Immortal Bullet to heal the injured Jedi Knight, and found that the Immortal Bullet could even repair a broken samurai sword.

After doing all this, he took the Jedi Knight back and took off his torn coat. He saw that the tablet of the God of Death was actually stuck to his chest, and he didn't know how it got in there.