"Yingying?"
Inside an auto repair shop, a middle-aged man stepped out of the break room and looked toward his daughter standing by the shop door.
Calling it a "break room" was generous. It was really just several rooms partitioned off with wooden boards.
Close the wooden door, and you could rest and live. Step outside, and you got straight to work.
"Yeah, Dad." Chang Ying answered casually.
She leaned sideways against the window, twirling a wrench in her hand as she watched several figures at the intersection.
"Your mom's calling for you. It's late, hurry back inside." Chang's father urged.
"There's a god in the shop. What's there to be afraid of?" Chang Ying still did not turn around.
"Come lead us in worshipping the god. Your mom and I don't understand any of this." Chang's father spoke helplessly. He had long since lost the ability to manage his daughter.
Speaking of which, as ordinary people, the Chang couple could remain at home on the Night of the Fifteenth thanks to this capable daughter of theirs.
"Stay farther from the door." Chang's father rambled as he stepped forward. "What are you looking at so intently?"
Chang's father came to the window and followed his daughter's gaze, also seeing several scattered figures at the intersection.
Three men in black raincoats, and a man and woman in yellow raincoats.
"Isn't that one of your classmates? What was his name again?"
Chang's father slapped his forehead but still failed to remember. "Didn't he come to visit our home a few days ago?"
"Lu Ran." Chang Ying said softly. "Today, he passed by the shop door several times too."
"That young fellow is really impressive." Chang's father sighed. "He can already carry out missions with a Moon Watcher."
"Yeah~" Chang Ying pouted.
"My daughter can definitely do it too." Chang's father noticed her mood and immediately encouraged her.
"When they first formed teams, I wanted to go with him too!" Chang Ying weighed the wrench in her hand. "That damn Deng Yutang."
Chang's father said, "Should we prepare a few bottles of water? When they come over here, you can give them some?"
"Sure." Chang Ying did not refuse, though she grumbled inwardly, Who would be thirsty in this heavy rain?
Just open your mouth and drink!
"Come on, get inside. We can see it on the surveillance cameras too." Chang's father urged again.
"Got it, got it." Chang Ying tucked the wrench at her waist, pulled out her phone, and opened the camera.
"Kacha~"
Then, Chang Ying sent the picture to the grade group.
The group immediately exploded!
In the photo, dim yellow streetlights illuminated the rain clearly, layer upon layer like curtains of rain.
And the young man in the yellow raincoat stood in the rain with a long Black Ice Saber in hand, his head slightly raised and his eyes tightly shut.
As though he were listening intently to something?
"Whoa! Isn't that my Ran Ge?"
"He really went to the additional test? He really became a Moon Watcher?"
"Awesome! A real man! He even dared to take the extra test on July 15th—he really wants points more than his life."
"This little streetlamp, this little rain, this atmosphere. Damn, it's perfect!"
"More, Chang Da Fu! Take a couple more!"
"Why does Lu Ran have his eyes closed?"
Qian Hao from Class 4, Grade 2: "You don't get it, do you? This is the world's greatest divine art—Love Who Who!"
"Huh?"
"What the hell is that?"
Qian Hao from Class 4, Grade 2: "Can't you see my Ran Ge sitting steady as Mount Tai, calm and collected? He doesn't take the evil demons seriously at all!
This is the legendary move: close both eyes, love whoever the fuck you want!"
Li Yanzhu: "@Qian Hao, report to my office when school starts."
The lively grade group suddenly fell silent.
"Clang!"
Inside the auto repair shop, Chang Ying laughed until she doubled over, and even the wrench tucked at her waist fell to the floor.
She had wanted to be a frontline reporter, but when she looked back out the window, the smile on her face instantly froze.
About twenty meters outside the window, violent energy surged as a towering figure rapidly took shape!
"Split Soul Devil!"
Chang Ying's heart jolted, and she instinctively stepped back.
"Hiss—"
"Ah?" As she stepped back, she happened to step on the wrench that had just fallen to the floor, instantly doing a full split.
Unfortunately, the auto repair shop did not have floor-to-ceiling windows.
The Split Soul Devil, newly descended into the world, did not get to witness the girl's fine human world performance.
"Moo!!"
A distinctly characteristic roar came from outside the window.
The Split Soul Devil was pitch-black all over. Though it walked upright, it had a savage, ugly ox head.
Its body was incomparably burly, every muscle knotted and bulging, with several black mist balls circling around it.
Since the Split Soul Devil had only just descended and had yet to slaughter any humans, those black mist balls were not yet terrifying.
But once the Split Soul Devil slaughtered humans—
Human faces would appear within the black mist balls!
Faces in pain, twisted faces, even faces that had been torn apart!
From time to time, the faces would be accompanied by piercing screams, making for an utterly horrifying scene!
That was where the words "Split Soul" came from.
No one wanted to encounter such a terrifying evil demon.
To put it bluntly, being killed by other evil demons could at least count as being done with it once and for all.
But if the Split Soul Devil caught you, then you would truly be better off dead than alive!
Over the past several decades, the Split Soul Devil had proven to the world that the death of the flesh was far from the end of suffering!
"Yingying!"
"Chang Ying!" Her parents' anxious voices came from behind her, Chang Ying's father's voice drawing closer and closer.
"Don't come over! Get back inside!"
Chang Ying shouted sharply as she hurried backward.
There was Lord Spirit Sign's Small God Statue in the auto repair shop. The Split Soul Devil definitely would not dare come in... huh?
Chang Ying's pupils contracted slightly!
The enormous Split Soul Devil actually lowered its head and charged toward the auto repair shop?
As it moved, the heavy sound of ox hooves striking the ground could be heard, as though the earth itself were trembling.
"Thud! Thud! Thud!"
"Back, Dad, get back!" Chang Ying was completely panicked now, her left hand already pulling out an old divination tube.
"Rattle, rattle, rattle~"
She shook the divination tube frantically, chanting under her breath, "Spirit Sign, bless me! Spirit Sign, bless me!"
Divine art · Five Treasures Oracle!
There were five oracle slips in the divination tube, each representing a divine art.
They were the Output Oracle, Defense Oracle, Control Oracle, Support Oracle, and Summon Oracle—
Only five slips, yet they encompassed so many types of divine arts. That really was rather impressive.
The only drawback was that what you drew depended entirely on luck!
Control, defense, or summon me some Divine Soldiers and Generals to lure the evil demon away! Chang Ying prayed madly in her heart.
"Whoosh~!"
A phantom spirit sign flew high from the divination tube, slowly spinning above Chang Ying's head.
Chang Ying's eyes were filled with anticipation. As she backed away, she stared at the spirit sign.
But in the next instant, she went completely blank.
Strands of mist drifted down, chasing after Chang Ying as they tried to merge into her body.
Support Oracle · Divine Power Oracle!
For as long as this spirit sign existed, it could continuously help the caster recover divine power.
Chang Ying: ???
I fucking need you to restore my divine power?
The Split Soul Devil was about to smash through the shop door and charge in to kill them!
And you gave me this thing?
You really want me dead.
"Gala!"
"Gala gala!" Several Crimson Chains suddenly appeared out of thin air, tightly binding the ugly ox head and halting its burly body.
Immediately afterward, spike after spike grew from the Crimson Chains, sharp beyond compare as they pierced deeply into the evil demon's body.
Divine art · Imprisoned Devil Chain!
Divine art · Blood Chain Spike!
"Moo!!"
The Split Soul Devil let out a furious roar, enraged to the extreme.
It stretched its limbs with all its might, every muscle bulging as though its body were about to explode.
"Kacha!!"
The Crimson Chains shattered with a thunderous crash, the sound of their breaking enough to make one's heart tremble.
The Split Soul Devil was covered in blood holes, blood spraying everywhere, yet it had no concept of settling scores with the one responsible.
Its brute strength had risen, and those vicious ox eyes remained fixed on the shop before it as it charged forward once more.
The Crimson Chains rose again, instantly weaving into a net of chains and becoming a Guardian Barrier.
Divine art · Blood Chain Barrier!
"Thud!"
The Split Soul Devil charged wildly, its brute force astonishing as it pushed the chain net outward.
The chain net, which looked exceptionally sturdy, seemed as though it could shatter at any moment!
"Hurry! Hurry, hurry, hurry..." Chang Ying's eyes widened.
She shoved and pushed, forcing her father into the wooden-board room.
"Moo!!"
The savage wild ox was simply a mad ox.
It seemed to have fixed its sights on this shop, determined to charge in, slaughter everyone inside, and crush all living things within.
"Baa~~~"
At the critical moment, a faint bleating sound suddenly drifted over.
The Split Soul Devil's charging momentum abruptly slowed.
The scene was exceedingly strange!
That pitch-black, savage ox head suddenly turned backward:
"Moo!!"
Its eyes flew wide open, killing intent boiling over!
Lu Ran pinched the brim of his yellow raincoat hood with one hand and lifted it slightly as he looked at the enormous, brutal evil demon.
"Baa."
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