Scapegoat

With a wave of his hand, Lu Li conjured up a dark substance, and a cage appeared out of thin air, trapping a Demonspawn. He then took out a white, rhomboid crystal, held it in his palm, activated his magic, and the crystal grew continuously until it finally transformed into a crystal sword.

During the period of inter-realm trade, Lu Li crafted a large number of magical items. Although Lu Li sold most of them, he still kept some interesting items with him.

For example, this crystal sword was made from a crystal cluster brought by a king. The king used this to exchange for a hundred sets of sharp swords. The crystal cluster had a peculiar property: any creature pierced by it would temporarily turn into crystal and continue to move freely, as if it had become a crystal life form.

A crow flew over, Lu Li, holding the crystal sword, thrust it out, piercing the crow through. The next moment, the crow began to crystallize, transforming into a creature made of black crystal.

Then, all the crows flying in the sky transformed into crystal versions of themselves. What were once merely harassing actions became swift and powerful. The crows crashed into the Demonspawn, their crystal beaks and claws easily piercing Demonspawn bodies.

Then, Lu Li took out a small bead and threw it into the beak of the crystal crow beside him. Immediately, a ghostly blue flame emerged from the crow's crystal body, and the entire crystal crow was instantly engulfed in the ghostly blue flame.

The prototype of the small bead is a burning flower. Anyone who swallows this flower will be engulfed in eerie blue flames and burned alive. It is known as the beautiful flower of the underworld.

After obtaining these Netherworld Flowers, Lu Li Extraction their properties and refined them into a bead, turning the disposable Netherworld Flowers into reusable ones, and transforming the flowers that burned inside the body into something that only appeared on the surface.

After the crows crystallized, they were no longer burned by the flames, which worked perfectly for them. With the help of countless crows burning with ghostly blue flames, a large number of Demonspawn were killed.

Lu Li was also calculating his own magic consumption. Apart from the one beside him, the other crows were all Dreamlands objects created by Lu Li's sorcery. Each one consumed very little magic, on the contrary, it was unusually little. However, there were so many of them, and Lu Li also had to cover up the two characteristics brought by the items.

So after doing all this, Lu Li's magic power was almost depleted, and he was slowly drawing magic power from the umbrella in his hand to replenish himself.

Of course, the heroes of the city arrived the next moment. Three small black dots appeared on the horizon. The first one was a burly man with a black arm armor on his right hand. His angry and cold voice rang out. "You Demonspawn beasts, how dare you cause trouble in Wind Sky City!"

"Die!" The burly man threw a punch, and the mechanical arm armor on his right hand spun, unleashing countless shockwaves that transformed into shooting stars that flew downwards.

Countless shockwaves and meteors struck the Demonspawn directly, piercing them through. It was as if the entire world was filled with white mist. With just one punch, most of the Demonspawn were killed or injured. Moreover, the force was controlled with great precision, and none of the civilians mixed among the Demonspawn were accidentally injured by the shockwaves and meteors.

However, it's worth mentioning that Lu Li's crows were accidentally injured quite a few times. Considering his previous words, "Demonspawn beasts," it's not wrong to interpret them as Demonspawn being beasts. But considering the scattered feather fragments, Lu Li felt that the other party might have included him in their calculations.

"Is this the treacherous struggle within the entertainment industry?" Lu Li chuckled inwardly, continuing to control the crows to hunt down the remaining Demonspawn. Then, all the oval-shaped black holes in the sky disappeared, and the remaining Demonspawn were abandoned and subsequently captured and killed one by one.

After all the Demonspawn were killed, the burly man landed on the ground, knelt on one knee, and said with bloodshot eyes, "Fellow citizens of Wind Sky City, I, Zeng Yunge, am late, and I have caused you suffering."

"Big brother, we were just going to attend the council meeting, it's not your fault!" A handsome young man with flowing long hair who was following Zeng Yunge hurriedly ran forward and said, his voice not quiet enough for many people to hear. They immediately felt that it was understandable that the hero had arrived late.

"Compared to the council, what are the lives of the citizens more important? We're late, that's all. There's no excuse. If you want to blame someone, blame me!" Zeng Yunge said with a pained expression, her face full of remorse and regret.

The citizens who remained for a moment were deeply moved and said, "Hero Yun Ge, we will not blame you."

"The fact that Yun Ge Heroes has placed us above the council shows that they care about us. How can such a heroic figure be blamed?"

"That's right! Anyone who dares to criticize Yun Ge, the hero, is going against us!"

Then, with her eyes red and tears streaming down her face, Zeng Yunge repeatedly expressed her gratitude before standing up and approaching Lu Li and Shimada Ikka. She respectfully said, "Thank you both for your kind assistance. Zeng Yunge am deeply grateful."

"Alright, this way, all the attention will go to him, and the effect of my original move will be greatly reduced." Lu Li thought to himself, but didn't show it, and chatted with Zeng Yunge with a smile.

"In my haste to save people, Yun Ge inevitably lost her temper and accidentally injured your pets. Please feel free to make any requests; consider it my compensation."

"No need for that. Those are just phantom clones. Even if they die or get injured, it won't harm me at all," Lu Li said nonchalantly, but he knew in his heart that the other party was trying to shut him up. So even if he brought this up in the future, it wouldn't do any good, and he might even be accused of being petty.

Afterwards Zeng Yunge chatted with Lu Li and the others for a while, then said that they should visit Gale Society when they had time, and then left with her people.

"What a formidable character," Lu Li exclaimed. In the blink of an eye, he had completely reversed the disadvantage of being late, and instead gained more goodwill by taking advantage of the situation, winning over a group of fans, and incidentally making Lu Li and the others look down on him.

"Indeed, when I improve my swordsmanship further, I will definitely challenge him," Shimada Ikka said, referring to their strength.

Then, some of the citizens who had survived came to Lu Li with gratitude, expressing their thanks. At the same time, another opinion was also heard in the crowd: this whole thing was the fault of Theseus Company. If it weren't for Theseus, why would they be marching?

Some conspiracy theories even suggest that the Theseus Company caused this Demon Calamity, completely ignoring the fact that the initial rescue efforts were all initiated by the Theseus Company, thus placing the blame on them once again.

"You did a good job, but..." Jiang Chuan Chun approached the two men, pausing slightly in his speech.

"It's just that I did an exceptionally good job, right?" Lu Li said nonchalantly.

"Big brother, that kid almost stole the limelight this time," the handsome man with flowing long hair said resentfully in the Gale Society office.

"Investigate, bring over all the information on those two people, see if we can recruit them into the Gale Society." Zeng Yunge commanded coldly, without a trace of her previous arrogance, her fingers tapping repeatedly on the table in front of her.