This isn't too much, right?

"You want to wear a mask for the livestream?"

After hearing Zhao Xing'er's idea, Yue Wen's first reaction was a bit of a pity. After all, her looks should have been quite appealing.

But since she said she had run away from home and was worried about being discovered by her family, Yue Wen didn't have much to say. He only said, "Then you can communicate with the media company. If there are no problems with signing under these conditions, then continue with the project."

"Okay." Zhao Xing'er nodded. "It's the only way."

Yue Wen tentatively asked, "May I ask, what exactly happened between you and your family? Did it get so bad? If it's not a big deal, wouldn't it be better to talk it out properly? After all, you're family."

"Boss, you don't have family, you wouldn't understand." Zhao Xing'er shook her head with a deep tone.

"I'm being too nosy." Yue Wen rolled his eyes, thinking, Why are they still chasing her?

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"My relationship with my father is completely beyond reconciliation." Zhao Xing'er said, "How should I put it? It's almost a father-slaying enmity."

"What happened?" Yue Wen asked. "Did your dad make you so angry you wanted to kill yourself?"

"Huh?" Zhao Xing'er blinked. "How did you know?"

Yue Wen shook his head. "If I were your dad, I'd probably have that thought a few times a day too."

"You don't know how excessive he is." Zhao Xing'er's expression turned indignant again as she brought it up.

"Back then, I was on a graduation trip with some girlfriends, happily rowing a boat on the lake. Suddenly, a snake demon crawled out of the water and startled them. I caught the snake demon with my bare hands and pulled out its tendons. That's not excessive, is it?"

"Hmm..." Yue Wen judged cautiously. "Although the scene sounds a bit gory, killing an Evil Spirit doesn't seem wrong..."

"Later, we found out that snake demon was released by some cultivators on the next boat. They were from a few small families nearby. They deliberately released a demonic beast to scare us and then come over to chat us up. I killed that snake demon, and they actually came over to pester me for compensation, threatening not to let us leave otherwise." Zhao Xing'er continued, "I broke three of them, eight of their legs. That's not excessive, is it?"

Yue Wen counted on his fingers, a hint of fear appearing. "Although the methods were a bit cruel, it can be considered punishing evil and promoting good."

"Their families found my family, and my dad actually told me to go apologize. I refused, and he even scolded me!" Zhao Xing'er's eyebrows shot up. "In a fit of anger, I smashed the bed. That's not excessive, is it?"

"Haha." Yue Wen laughed. "Based on what you did before, just smashing a bed is certainly nothing. Even smashing the entire bedroom wouldn't be excessive."

"Uh, it wasn't the bed in my bedroom." Zhao Xing'er said. "It was the bed in the hospital room of those people."

"?" Yue Wen was silent for a moment and then slowly asked, "You didn't smash the bed with the people in it, did you?"

"It was a coincidence." Zhao Xing'er shrugged.

"How surprising. People with all their legs broken lying in hospital beds. What a coincidence." Yue Wen covered his forehead. "Even gang wars don't easily lead to people being chased to the hospital to be hacked, do they?"

"For such a small matter, my dad actually wanted to confine me!" Zhao Xing'er said angrily again.

"Now that's excessive." Yue Wen said. "Doesn't the Supervision Bureau have prisons?"

Zhao Xing'er said, "I had no choice but to create a little chaos to escape."

"It was probably detonating a Demon-Slaying Talisman Bomb from our family's arsenal, which collapsed half a mountain... then taking advantage of the chaos to 'borrow' a few weapons; then blowing open the barrier of the demonic beast park so they'd focus their main efforts on catching demonic beasts; then setting fires in various places in the residential area, hiding a few young children in the cellar and telling them to come out at night, leaving a ransom note to divert their attention... then getting my third uncle drunk with spiritual wine and using his phone to call his mistresses and my third aunt for a meeting... switching the virgin boy's urine my uncle used for alchemy with my fourth grandfather's ginseng wine... kicking my third uncle in the face when I went back... chewing and eating a few of the Spiritual Plants my second aunt raised... slapping my third uncle a few times when I went back..."

"Wait a minute." Yue Wen raised a hand. "You did all the other things to create chaos, but was the treatment of your third uncle pure hatred?"

Zhao Xing'er recalled her actions before leaving home and spoke for nearly half an hour before finishing. "That seems to be all. After I was done, the entire household was in chaos. It was probably a few days later that someone noticed I had run away from home."

Finally, she looked up at Yue Wen. "This isn't excessive, is it?"

"It's extremely excessive." Yue Wen nodded. "You're right. We can never go home in this lifetime. Even if our family cries on TV looking for you, they definitely want to lure you back to be tortured to death."

Good heavens.

Just two days ago, Yue Wen was wondering what the Demon Race was like. Now, he felt like he had a concrete image. Even if the Demon King were to descend, it wouldn't be any more than this.

However, while Zhao Xing'er was talking, he remembered something. He had seen a post on the Cultivation Chat forum where the head of the Zhao family apologized to his runaway daughter, hoping she would come home soon.

Looking at it now, Zhao Xing'er was highly suspect.

So he asked, "You're not the runaway eldest daughter of the Tianfu Zhao Family, are you?"

"Aiya!" Zhao Xing'er suddenly covered her face, stepping back and stomping her feet. "Why would you say that, hammer! I'm not some Zhao family eldest daughter!"

You big silly star!

Your accent even changed, you know!

Zhao Xing'er fled downstairs as if she were flying.

She was actually that noble family's eldest daughter. This was somewhat unexpected for Yue Wen.

His little rundown agency had actually attracted someone who could become a trending topic on Cultivation Chat. It felt quite magical. Although the Zhao family was only a second-tier force in the entire cultivation world, compared to Immortal Sects and aristocratic families in Jiang City, they were still a pure behemoth.

However, after hearing her recount those events, Yue Wen felt that her future relationship with the Zhao family might not be closer than his own relationship with the Zhao family—although he was an insignificant stranger to the Zhao family, she was an irreconcilable enemy.

From this perspective, it was indeed right for her not to show her face.

After a slight smile, Yue Wen turned back, closed the door, and continued to study his newly acquired Visualization Diagram.

Shadow Movement Talisman Art.

After sitting cross-legged, he flipped his hand and produced three Shadow Talismans, each about half a palm long. They were heavy, their edges chillingly sharp, and they flowed with a dangerous luster all over.

Compared to the images in the demonstration video, holding them in reality allowed him to feel that sharp aura even more. The destructive power of these Shadow Talismans might be even greater than he imagined.

Holding a Shadow Talisman, Yue Wen's mind conjured the Visualization Diagram and he instantly immersed himself in it.

Boom--

It was a grand hall formed from black and purple runes, suspended high in the sky. Yue Wen found himself within this hall, holding the three Shadow Talismans.

High in the sky outside the hall, countless black-armored monsters, clad in segmented armor like ancient soldiers, with wings on their backs and holding halberds, were ferociously charging towards him!

Although he had studied Visualization Diagrams several times before, this was the first time he had ever witnessed such a scene. Everything felt incredibly real. For a moment, he felt that if he were pierced by a halberd from these black-armored monsters, his soul would truly perish here!

He wanted to use Sword Control Art to fight back, but found that he had no Flying Swords to deploy, as if the connection to them had vanished from the world.

In desperation, Yue Wen flipped his hand and sent a Shadow Talisman spinning out, Chii--

The Shadow Talisman was sharp, instantly slicing through the black-armored monster that flew at him. Then, with a bang, the black armor exploded into a mass of black sand that fell through the air.

But that was only one. Ten or so black-armored monsters attacked from all sides simultaneously. Yue Wen could only throw out the remaining two Shadow Talismans, killing the first two. The black-armored monsters swarmed forward. In this moment of life and death, Yue Wen felt three spiritual energies resonating with him from afar.

It was those three Shadow Talismans!

He instantly activated one of them. His body flickered, and in an instant, he appeared in mid-air, at the location of the Shadow Talisman.

So this was how spatial translocation worked.

But the Shadow Talisman, after being thrown, was descending from high in the sky and had not yet landed. Yue Wen wanted to rise into the air and ride the wind, but found that he couldn't even perform the simplest act of suspending himself with true qi.

It seemed only this one move, the Shadow Talisman, could be used in this world.

Wait...

He flailed his arms, trying to grasp something, but unfortunately, all three Shadow Talismans were falling from the sky. He had no way to save himself.

Bang!

His last consciousness in this world was a dull explosion he heard, seemingly the sound of his own body exploding.

"Ah," Yue Wen opened his eyes in his room, looking around with lingering fear.

That feeling of falling from a height of ten thousand meters and dying just now was too real. He almost thought he was going to die there for real.

The Visualization Diagram for the Shadow Movement Talisman Art seemed a bit different. It didn't have as many complex daoist principles; instead, it felt like it was guiding him to master the use of Shadow Talismans through constant trials.

Or perhaps...

This Supernatural Power was built upon the mystery of the Shadow Talismans themselves and wasn't profound in its own right.

Yue Wen rubbed the heavy Shadow Talisman, feeling the divine charm contained within it was like the extreme ice of the Northern Sea, deep and profound. The method of drawing these talismans was completely different from the talismans bought on the market.

The Pills and Talismans he could buy from Big Dragon were all like this; their refining methods and effects were vastly different from the current era, yielding many unexpected results. If you wanted ordinary Pills and Talismans, he wouldn't have them. Otherwise, Yue Wen wouldn't have had to go online to buy Blazing Flame Powder.

Yue Wen sometimes even suspected that the Dragon's true form was a mysterious shop connected to another world, or perhaps a system for exchanging rewards by killing Evil Spirits... only manifesting in this cool form to meet him.

After all, history books stated that within the Four Seas Dragon Palace, there were only a few Dragon Blood People left from the ancient era when the two races interbred. They were the purest True Dragon bloodlines alive today.

There were no True Dragons alive in the human world.

If it really was a manifestation, maybe next time he could negotiate for it to change its appearance to a 1.7-meter-tall mature woman with curves, a hip skirt, black stockings, and long hair.

That wasn't too much to ask, right?