Setting a Trap for Nalan Yanran!

Yang Shan truly never stopped until he had said something shocking.

All the Players present were dumbfounded!

Even Chao Bafang was somewhat at a loss:

"Could it be that Great God really isn't interested in women?"

Who was Nalan Yanran?

The eldest daughter of the Nalan Family, one of the three great families of the Jia Ma Empire!

The personal disciple of Yun Yun, the current Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect!

Her grandfather was a Dou Wang, and her master was a Dou Huang!

Never mind when the Central Plains would be opened.

Within the Jia Ma Empire alone, Nalan Yanran's current status was in no way inferior to that of a princess of the Gama Royal Family!

Among her peers, there was basically no one with a higher status than hers! Even setting all that aside.

Nalan Yanran was still an exceptionally beautiful woman.

For a Player—if he was male and had relatively normal sexual preferences and standards of beauty—

Facing such a gorgeous female NPC, beautiful enough that any casual snapshot could be used as wallpaper, Wouldn't he desperately grind favorability? Who started off by giving her the cold shoulder? Yet Yang Shan did exactly that!

Although Yang Shan, due to the timing of his rebirth, could not devise a perfectly comprehensive plan for the game's development, Joining the Misty Cloud Sect had absolutely never been part of his plans.

Besides, even if he wanted to join the Misty Cloud Sect, Nalan Yanran was hardly the only route.

Wouldn't it be better to seek out Yun Yun and become a Traitor to the Master? Yun Yun's personality was far better than Nalan Yanran's! Precisely because Yang Shan had no plans to join the Misty Cloud Sect, He dared to risk offending Nalan Yanran and forcefully kill the Fire Cloud Leopard.

The second-tier beast flame, Fire Cloud Leopard Flame, was far too important to Yang Shan at this stage.

As long as he later obtained the "Gathering Yuan Pill Recipe" in Alchemist Qin Wu's secret realm, then used the Cloud Leopard Flame to mass-produce pills, Yang Shan was confident that he could earn over a million before the current version ended! Even Nalan Yanran could not block his path to making money! Yang Shan had no intention of handling this matter peacefully with Nalan Yanran.

Because Nalan Yanran, who was only sixteen, was far too spoiled and arrogant.

The moment she appeared, she had come to hold him accountable, even directly dropping Yang Shan's favorability by 10 points.

Moreover, from Nalan Yanran's perspective, She was heaven's favored daughter, while Yang Shan was merely an ordinary man with no notable background.

In the original novel, Nalan Yanran had dared to bring Ge Ye to the Xiao Family, use her power to oppress them, and forcibly break off the engagement without regard for the Xiao Family's dignity.

Why would she care about an ordinary person's feelings? Although most NPCs were relatively friendly toward Players during the early server phase, Nalan Yanran was definitely not among them! This was the privilege of original-novel NPCs! Yang Shan's attitude was now very straightforward.

I killed the Fire Cloud Leopard. So what are you going to do about it?

Of course, there was another reason Yang Shan spoke so aggressively!

Every NPC had their own underlying behavioral logic.

Through different interactions, NPCs would also give different responses later on.

Just like now.

Yang Shan had indeed killed the Fire Cloud Leopard, but his reasoning held up!

The Fire Cloud Leopard was not Nalan Yanran's pet.

Why couldn't he touch it? Nalan Yanran was truly left speechless by Yang Shan's two retorts.

It was Ge Ye beside her who helped defuse the situation: "Young man, don't be so hot-tempered. You knew beforehand that our young lady's trial target was the Fire Cloud Leopard, yet it died at your hands. Can this old man take that to mean you deliberately targeted our young lady?"

For Ge Ye to be assigned to accompany Nalan Yanran, he was naturally a seasoned old hand who had spent many years navigating this world.

The moment he opened his mouth, he directly pinned a conspiracy theory onto Yang Shan!

But how could Ge Ye have known that Yang Shan was even more experienced than him! The game had been operating for three years, but fifteen years had passed within the game! A mere Da Dou Shi like Ge Ye wanted to compare experience and insight with a Four Star Dou Huang?

Not to mention that—with all the online debaters raised by the great internet age, picking out any one of them would be enough to argue Ge Ye until he bled from all seven orifices!

"Deliberately targeting her?"

Yang Shan glanced at Nalan Yanran. "Who exactly is your young lady that I would deliberately target her?"

"You!"

Ge Ye raised his head. "Young man, you have seen too little of the world. Have you heard of the Misty Cloud Sect? Do you know the Nalan Family?"

Yang Shan said, "I do."

Fire flashed in Ge Ye's eyes:

"Our young lady is the personal disciple of the Misty Cloud Sect's Sect Master! The eldest daughter of the Nalan Family!"

"If you admit now that you deliberately targeted us and stole our young lady's prey, then properly apologize and perhaps—"

Before Ge Ye could finish, Yang Shan cut him off. "Stole? The Fire Cloud Leopard was an ownerless magical beast. If you want to call it stealing, then only if your young lady had already made her move and I intervened afterward would it count as stealing!"

Ge Ye immediately prepared to attack.

"You!"

"Uncle Ge, forget it."

Nalan Yanran took the initiative to dissuade him.

"Indeed, the Fire Cloud Leopard isn't my, Nalan Yanran's, personal pet. If someone else killed it, I can only blame myself for acting too late."

Nalan Yanran stared directly at Yang Shan.

"But you did see with your own eyes that I was pursuing the Fire Cloud Leopard. If you truly want to put this matter behind us, then duel me in a wager!"

Yang Shan thought to himself:

Finally, you said it!

Yang Shan actually had other reasons he could have used to get out of this.

But he had chosen to keep trading barbs with Nalan Yanran specifically to provoke her into making a move! Since she could not find a reason to act over the Fire Cloud Leopard, she had to change the reason.

A wager duel was undoubtedly a reasonable excuse.

But it still was not enough!

Nalan Yanran was no ordinary NPC.

As an important supporting character in the early and middle stages of the original story, the Nalan Yanran in the game fully lived up to her status as a heaven-blessed daughter.

Though she was only a five-star Dou Master, Nalan Yanran had been able to chase down the Fire Cloud Leopard and hack at it.

Nalan Yanran's attribute panel was no worse than that of a King of Beasts of the same rank!

And she had all sorts of high-level Dou Techniques as well.

Yang Shan only had "Thunder Cleaving Slash" right now. It would be a miracle if he could beat her!

So Yang Shan said openly:

"You think I'm an idiot? You're the personal disciple of the Misty Cloud Sect's Sect Master, with all sorts of profound Dou Techniques at your disposal. What am I supposed to use to fight you?"

Nalan Yanran took several deep breaths in succession.

Though she was only sixteen, the rise and fall of her chest with those deep breaths was already quite spectacular! Yang Shan even took the chance to secretly snap a few more screenshots.

That old pervert really had some nerve!

"Fine, three moves! As long as you can withstand three of my moves, you win the wager duel!"

Nalan Yanran was already fired up. She took out a football-sized lump of metal from her Storage Ring and tossed it onto the ground. "Third-tier forging material, Lightning-Attracting Steel. I'll wager it against the Fire Cloud Leopard's magic core!"

Third-tier forging materials were enough to craft Hundred Refinements Grade equipment! And this one was related to the lightning attribute.

In terms of value, it might not compare to the Fire Cloud Leopard's magic core, but it would be difficult for Yang Shan to make Nalan Yanran raise the stakes any further.

After all, Nalan Yanran had said she would only use three moves.

He should quit while he was ahead.

Yang Shan nodded.

"Then please enlighten me, Miss Nalan!"

This time, Yang Shan truly had made a fortune through his understanding of NPC interactions!

On the condition that he won the wager duel!