After returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Li Xiu found the tablet of the God of Death and placed it properly on the table.
"Old Killer, I want to ask you something. Tell me honestly, is the mysterious man who massacred the City of Love from the Sea of Sky?" Li Xiu asked, sitting on a stool and staring at the tablet of the God of Killer.
Seeing that the tablet of the God of Death had not responded, Li Xiu continued, "I will be going to the Sea of Heaven in a while. It is hard to say whether I will be able to come back alive. If you don't tell me now, I don't know if I will have the chance to tell you in the future."
"Are you going to the Sea of Sky?" The tablet of the God of Death finally responded.
"Yes."
"when?"
"It's only been one or two months."
The tablet of the God of Death was quiet for a while before words appeared on it again: "Don't go, or you will surely die."
"Why? Is it because that mysterious man came from the Sea of Heaven?" Li Xiu asked.
There was another silence. Li Xiu was almost losing his patience. Just as he was about to say something else, he saw words appearing on the tablet of the God of Death again.
Seeing his name clearly on the tablet, Li Xiu had the urge to curse. If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. What is going on?
But Li Xiu didn't even have time to curse, as the tablet had already pulled him into a strange vortex.
Bang!
Li Xiu landed steadily and appeared at the intersection next to the City of Love Square.
Just like before, he looked down and saw Xiao Bu'er.
"Uncle, why are you standing here in a daze?" Xiao Bu'er looked at Li Xiu with confusion.
"Do you know me?" Li Xiu asked Xiao Bu'er.
"Are you famous? Why should I know you?" Xiao Bu'er said with a pout.
"It's good not to know him." Li Xiu nodded. Having no memory is not necessarily a bad thing. At least Xiao Bu'er now does not have such painful memories.
"Uncle, where are you from?" Xiao Bu'er looked at Li Xiu curiously and asked.
"I come from the City of Light." Li Xiu replied.
"City of Light, what is that place? Is it far away?" Xiaobuer tilted his head and asked thoughtfully.
"Very far." Li Xiu said with a smile.
"How did you get here? Did you come across the Aegean Sea? Why can't I see any boat?" Xiaobuer asked.
"There's no boat, I swam here." Li Xiu said casually.
"Swimmed here? Stop lying. Father Wu said that there are countless terrifying demons in the Sea of Love. No one can cross the Sea of Love unless they take a sky ship." Xiao Bu'er looked at Li Xiu as if he was looking at a big liar.
"Maybe I'm lucky and didn't encounter those scary evil spirits." Li Xiu said with a smile.
Xiao Buer looked Li Xiu up and down, as if trying to figure out whether what he said was true or false.
"If you want to go to the City of Light, I can try to take you back with me." This time Li Xiu changed his strategy.
Since we can't persuade the people here to leave, we can only find a way to take Xiaobu away.
Xiao Bu'er seems to have some incomprehensible relationship with this City of Love. As long as Xiao Bu'er does not die, Li Xiu cannot leave the City of Love and return to the real world.
Li Xiu wanted to try what would happen if he took Xiao Bu'er out of the City of Love.
"Not interested." Xiao Buer turned around and walked away, no longer paying attention to Li Xiu, as if he was not interested in Li Xiu's proposal at all.
This surprised Li Xiu. Xiao Bu'er obviously wanted to leave the City of Love. At least she should want to go to the Sea of Sky to find her father.
But she refused so firmly at this time, as if she really didn't want to leave the City of Love, which was a little beyond Li Xiu's expectations.
Watching Xiao Bu'er leave, Li Xiu did not follow her, because Li Xiu knew that even if he followed her it would be useless. Once it was night and that mysterious man broke into the City of Love, the result would be the same.
Even though the Forbidden Spear has been promoted to the divine level, Li Xiu is still not sure he can fight against the mysterious man.
Li Xiu walked around the city, trying to learn as much as possible about things he had not discovered before.
The tablet of the God of Death pulled him into the City of Love again, perhaps to tell him that the answer he wanted was actually in the City of Love.
The residents of the City of Love are still as warm and kind as before. As long as Li Xiu doesn't do anything stupid, those residents are still quite lovely.
Unfortunately, Li Xiu took a look around the city but didn't find anything new.
He was familiar with the residents here. Old Man Wu and the blind tailor were no different from before. Everyone else was also normal and he found nothing unusual.
Li Xiu waited until dark, and for some unknown reason, those people actually held a dinner in the square again.
Li Xiu is now very suspicious that the City of Love may not be a real place at all, and may just be a piece of time and space memory intercepted by the tablet of the God of Death.
Perhaps what happened in the City of Love was actually something that had happened at a certain time period a long time ago, so no matter how many times Li Xiu came in, he could only repeat what had happened.
The dinner party will be held no matter what, the mysterious man will definitely appear, and Xiao Buer will definitely die, because those are facts that have already happened and no one can change them.
"If it's just as I guessed, and these things can't be changed, why did the Death God Tablet drag me in here? It knows that the City of Love cannot be killed, so there's no point in pulling me in again and again." Li Xiu looked at the bustling square. The proprietress was drinking with Old Man Wu, and everyone else was cheering on the side. Xiao Bu, holding a glass of milk, was also joining in the fun happily.
Li Xiu calculated the time and knew that the mysterious man would be here in about ten minutes.
"It will probably be difficult to find the answer from Xiao Bu'er and the others. Could it be that the answer that the God of Death tablet wants me to know is from that mysterious man? It's a pity that I may not be his opponent now." Li Xiu said to himself.
"Brother Li, why don't you go have a drink?" Old Man Wu, whose face was red from drinking, came over and said with his arm around his shoulder.
During the day, Li Xiu had already become familiar with them.
Li Xiu looked at Father Wu, who was almost drunk, and said in a low voice: "Father Wu, do you know a woman named Jiang Linglan?"
"Jiang Linglan... Concubine Lan... How do you know her?" Old Man Wu seemed to sober up instantly. He stared at Li Xiu with burning eyes, and his big hands pressed on Li Xiu's shoulders tightly, like iron handcuffs.
Li Xiu was both surprised and happy. The president had originally told him that Jiang Linglan's real name was not Jiang Linglan, nor did he tell him what Jiang Linglan's real name was.
It was just a pseudonym. Li Xiu originally thought that even if he told it, Old Man Wu and the others wouldn’t know it, so he didn’t mention it before.
Unexpectedly, Old Man Wu actually knew Jiang Linglan, which made Li Xiu somewhat suspicious whether the president was lying to him.
"Father Wu, to be honest with you, I came here because Jiang Linglan asked me to bring you something." Li Xiu said hurriedly.
"Concubine Lan asked you to bring me something? Why would she ask you to bring me something? Don't talk nonsense." Old Man Wu's eyes were sharp, as if he didn't believe that Jiang Linglan would bring him anything.
“Unless you are not the Fifth Heavenly King Wu Xinglie, then that’s correct.” Li Xiu said quickly.
Old Man Wu was slightly stunned. It had been a long time since anyone had called him by this title and name.
"What did she ask you to bring me?" Old Man Wu still looked a little suspicious.
Li Xiu quickly took out the piece of jade that Jiang Linglan had given him and handed it to Old Man Wu.
Old Man Wu took the jade and didn't care much at first. But after seeing the words on the jade clearly, he seemed a little absent-minded, and even the strength of his hand pressing on Li Xiu's shoulder weakened a lot.
Old Man Wu looked at it for a while, then released his hand that was pressing on Li Xiu's shoulder. While stroking the words on the jadeite, he asked, "Besides this jadeite, did she say anything else?"
"There is one more thing. She said that matter had nothing to do with her." Li Xiu said while observing Old Man Wu's expression.
“Hmph, it has nothing to do with her? No one would believe that. If it weren’t for her, how could the Demonic Kingdom…” Old Man Wu stopped talking before he finished.
"Father Wu, could it be that Jiang Linglan is the princess of the Demon Kingdom?" Li Xiu asked hurriedly.
"Hmph, what imperial concubine? She's just a demon concubine. If she hadn't disrupted the government and deceived the king, how could she..." Father Wu seemed to realize that he had said too much. He glared at Li Xiu and said, "Where is Jiang Linglan now?"
"The Emerald Palace." Li Xiu answered truthfully.
“Humph, she actually occupied the Emerald Imperial Court. If it had nothing to do with her, how could she not have died and still occupy the Emerald Imperial Court?” Old Man Wu’s face became increasingly gloomy.
"Father Wu, what is going on?" Li Xiu calculated that time was running out. If he didn't ask now, the God of Death would be here soon.
"It has nothing to do with you." Father Wu said coldly: "Didn't she tell you why she gave me the list?"
"No." Li Xiu shook his head.
There were thirteen names engraved on the jade, which Li Xiu had already seen. Among them were the names of Old Man Wu and the Blind Tailor. Li Xiu didn't know who the other eleven people were.
Li Xiu was probably also from the City of Love, but the people in the City of Love all used some strange names, and Li Xiu couldn't match them with those names.
If Jiang Linglan hadn't told him the real names of Old Man Wu and the Blind Tailor, Li Xiu wouldn't have known that their names were also on the list.
"Father Wu, who are these thirteen names written on it?" If it were any other time, Li Xiu would never ask so directly, but now there was no time.
Old Man Wu's face turned cold, and he stared at Li Xiu and wanted to say something, but suddenly he heard a loud noise coming from the city gate and couldn't help but turn his head to look.
Li Xiu secretly groaned in his heart, knowing that the mysterious man had come again.
Sure enough, the city gate was opened, and a mysterious man walked in carrying a stone tablet, and started killing without saying a word.
Old Man Wu and the others rushed forward. Li Xiu gritted his teeth and let the red and blue dual spirits possess his body, and summoned the forbidden spear at the same time.
In just a moment, the forbidden spear turned into a forbidden cannon and aimed at the mysterious man. When the mysterious man killed a resident who rushed forward, the horrific forbidden cannon was fired.
The orange beam of light actually penetrated the entire street and reached the mysterious man.
Old Man Wu, the blind tailor, the proprietress and others who were originally rushing towards the mysterious figure were stunned and stopped.
Bang!
The mysterious man placed the stone tablet in front of him to block the orange beam of light fired from the forbidden cannon.
No one knew what the stone tablet was made of, but it actually blocked the orange beam of light.
Boom!
Like a hydrogen bomb explosion, an orange ball of light exploded with the stone tablet as the center, and everything around it was destroyed.
What was strange was that the houses on both sides of the street, which did not look very solid, were not damaged by the terrifying light explosion.
Wu Laodi and his group, who were closest to the light explosion, were simply pushed back a long distance by the shock wave but were not injured.
When Li Xiu saw this scene, he became even more suspicious. He had fought with Old Man Wu and the blind tailor before.
It seemed that they were all only at the Soul Forging Level. It was obviously unscientific that they were not injured at all when hit by a God-level attack at such a close distance.
Li Xiu didn't have time to think about it. After the light explosion dissipated, neither the mysterious man nor the stone tablet was damaged at all, and there was not even a trace left on the stone tablet.
The down-and-out violinist stood on the roof near the mysterious man at some point and started playing the violin.
The sound of the piano actually turned into tangible threads of light that wrapped around the mysterious man. Judging from his methods, he was actually a master at the soul-casting level.
Countless threads of sound entangled with the mysterious man, but the mysterious man simply reached out and grabbed the threads in his hand like ordinary silk threads, and then pulled them hard.
The violinist's body suddenly flew towards the mysterious man, who grabbed the violinist's neck and crushed it with just a casual squeeze.
Seeing this, Old Man Wu, the blind tailor, the lady boss and others all looked very unhappy. Old Man Wu directly stuffed the jade in his hand to Li Xiu and pushed Xiao Bu to Li Xiu: "Take the things and Xiao Bu and leave quickly. Don't let it fall into his hands."
After saying that, light burst out from Old Man Wu's body, and he turned around and rushed towards the mysterious man, and the others also rushed forward.
Unfortunately, just like last time, they were like puppets in front of the mysterious man. No one could withstand the mysterious man's attack, and many people were killed in the blink of an eye.
Li Xiu picked up Xiao Bu'er and turned to run, ignoring Xiao Bu'er's crying and struggling. However, he had only run a few steps when he saw a mysterious man appear in front of him like a ghost, and the stone tablet fell directly on him.
Li Xiu's eyes glowed white, and the white pupil between his eyebrows opened vertically, causing the mysterious man to pause for a moment.
boom!
The forbidden cannon hit the mysterious man directly. The horrific orange light energy blasted out, forcing the mysterious man back. The orange light exploded again.
But in the next second, Li Xiu felt a chill in his heart. The forbidden cannon exploded directly at the mysterious man's body when he was completely unprepared, but it didn't even tear his clothes apart, and even the corners of his clothes were not damaged at all.
The mysterious man stared at Li Xiu coldly with his ghostly eyes and stuck the stone tablet in the ground.
With the stone tablet as the center, the terrifying light energy instantly turned the entire City of Love into ruins. All the houses were shattered, and the fragments rose into the sky.
Li Xiu only felt an extremely terrifying force that made him fly into the air involuntarily. The flower armor on his body was directly shattered by that force, and the terrifying force continued to rush towards his body.
But before his body was torn apart, Xiaobu'er, who was being pulled by him, could no longer withstand the force and was torn apart.
Li Xiu only felt a black screen before his eyes, and he was back in the room in the City of Light.
"Puff!" Li Xiu opened his mouth and blood spurted out.
"What is going on?" Li Xiu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his face gloomy.
He originally thought that everything in the City of Love should be a memory segment of a certain time and space, and did not really exist.
But if that were true, he, a person who did not belong to that period of time and space, should not have been injured there. However, the injuries on his body were real and not imaginary.
"Father Wu and the others are important figures in the Demon Kingdom. Jiang Linglan should be the concubine of the Demon Kingdom's Emperor. It is very likely that because of Jiang Linglan, the Demon Kingdom disappeared in the long river of history..." Li Xiu sorted out the information he knew in his mind, hoping to make some sense of it.
Li Xiu kept reassembling the various clues he knew, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
"Jiang Linglan is the princess of the Demon Kingdom, but she is having an affair with the president and has a son. If she is not cheating or remarrying, is there a possibility that the president is the Emperor of the Demon Kingdom?" Li Xiu himself was shocked by this thought.
If the president is really the Emperor of the Demonic Kingdom, then what Guan Jinghao said seems to make sense.
The Emperor of the Demon Kingdom is a demon, and is somewhat different from the people on Earth. It makes sense for Guan Jinghao to say that he is not a human.
"Is it possible that the Emperor of the Demonic Kingdom ran to Earth and became the president of Changshengtian?" Li Xiu still felt that this speculation was a bit absurd.
The Emperor of the Demon Kingdom was an existence that once dominated the world in the Demon Kingdom. How powerful was he? If the president was really the Emperor of the Demon Kingdom and had come to Earth thousands of years ago, he might have been able to sweep the world with just one finger. Why did he have to endure on Earth for so many years?
The more Li Xiu thought about it, the more suspicious he felt. In addition, Old Man Wu said that the Demonic Kingdom would perish because of Jiang Linglan.
From what Li Xiu saw, although the president was lustful, he was definitely not someone who would sacrifice everything for beauty.
He is not the kind of tyrant who would lead his country to decline for the sake of a woman.
Also, why are Wu Laodi and his men in the City of Love, and who is Xiao Buer? Jiang Linglan doesn't know about Xiao Buer's existence, so what is the relationship between Xiao Buer and the Demon Kingdom, and why do Wu Laodi and his men risk their lives to protect Xiao Buer?
From what Li Xiu saw, it seemed that Old Man Wu and the others stayed in the City of Love just for Xiao Bu'er, but Jiang Linglan didn't know Xiao Bu'er.
"What is going on?" Li Xiu thought about it over and over again but still couldn't figure it out. He knew he was still missing some key information.
But now Li Xiu can be sure that the City of Love is definitely not a normal space.
His god-level power could not harm the houses and people there, which meant that there must be some special power affecting the area.
"Old Killer, what is the situation in the City of Love? If you don't tell me, I will throw you into the cesspool." Li Xiu stared at the tablet of the God of Killer on the table and asked viciously.