He wore a crisp black suit, his long white hair meticulously tied behind him, fine knots gathering it into several layers.
He held a Bloody Mary in his hand, giving him an indescribable air of mystery.
"Your tastes are still so picky," Lu Ling said softly.
"But you'd better not set your sights on that one. She's already my prey."
The blood-red cocktail swayed gently in his hand, as though telling everyone that the young man was in rather high spirits.
"Who are you?!" The middle-aged man widened his eyes, his voice growing slightly anxious.
He hadn't sensed the white-haired man's presence at all just now! It felt as though he had suddenly appeared out of thin air, right in front of him!
"Who am I? Don't you already have an answer in your heart?" Lu Ling smiled and gently set his glass down on the table Ling Ling had just used.
At the same time, the dark aura around him began to spread. Eerie darkness tinged with blood-red made the young man's white hair look gray.
A vampire?
Another vampire?
Confusion appeared on the middle-aged man's face. The aura the other man revealed held the blood energy and darkness of a vampire, but when he examined it closely, it felt somewhat different from his own.
"What did you come here for?" The middle-aged man remained wary. He still didn't know whether this man was friend or foe.
Among vampires, different families could also be enemies.
"To drink, sir. Can't you tell?"
"Cut the crap."
At the same time, the entire bar seemed to enter its highest state of combat readiness.
Several people focused their attention in this direction.
Even the bartender who had been juggling behind the counter stopped working and looked expressionlessly at the white-haired young man.
The black mist covering their faces vanished completely. Their eyes gradually turned blood-red, their flickering red glow seeming to warn the white-haired young man.
Lu Ling sighed softly, helplessness plain on his face.
"Honestly, why is everyone so hostile toward me? I'm actually here to find someone."
"Who are you looking for?"
The young man raised his head, smiled, and softly spoke a name.
"Nie Dong."
An elegant man in a crisp suit inside the bar suddenly froze for a moment, then quickly recovered and pretended to drink as though nothing had happened.
"There's no one named Nie Dong here."
"No Nie Dong? Then you'll do."
The middle-aged man was puzzled, but he sensed no threat from the person before him, so he remained standing, motionless.
The white-haired young man looked at the middle-aged man with regret written all over his face, before his expression gradually became blank. His utterly emotionless eyes seemed to say:
I gave you a chance. You just didn't treasure it...
"Sorry for the trouble, Long Zhanye."
"Hmph. Disturbing my sleep."
A sudden upheaval erupted!
"Wha...!"
A moon-white Dimensional Gate opened directly behind the middle-aged man!
Accompanied by a dragon's roar that cowed everything, an enormous foot stomped the middle-aged man hard beneath it!
Before the dragon's body had fully appeared, its attack had already landed. White scales shimmered in a haze, and the Heavenly Star White Dragon's light attribute had already inflicted some damage on the middle-aged vampire.
The moon-white Dimensional Gate kept expanding, expanding!
The Heavenly Star White Dragon's body emerged completely, razing the entire club to the ground and utterly destroying the underground wine cellar. All kinds of treasured wines shattered against the ground as though they cost nothing.
A human body was tiny before Long Zhanye. Towering dozens of meters tall, she looked down upon the surrounding vampires from above.
"Aaaaaah!"
Her enormous body was so conspicuous in the tiny club. Once the ordinary people outside noticed the upheaval here, they scattered in all directions, screaming in terror!
Meanwhile, outside the North Country Club.
Ling Ling and the group of guards she had called over stared in shock at the towering dragon that had risen from the ground.
"This is Lu Ling's Summoned Beast?"
A little pet that could fly... just with a bad temper...
This counted as a little pet?
No wonder he had asked her to evacuate the crowd... with a Summoned Beast this enormous, panic was inevitable.
It wasn't over yet. Lu Ling knew vampires' abilities well. How could he possibly give him an easy chance to escape?
"Holy Light, Gleam."
"Zhu Nan, Enhancement."
Splitting his attention between two tasks, Lu Ling directly unleashed an enhanced third-tier Holy Light. With his powerful control over magic, the Holy Light that should have scattered instead formed beams, stabbing precisely toward the other vampires' eyes.
The radiance bearing a holy attribute directly scorched thick vapor from the middle-aged vampire, who was closest and pinned beneath the Heavenly Star White Dragon's foot!
"AAAAAAAAH!!!!"
He let out a shrill scream of agony.
Pain, struggling, curling up-none of it helped.
Though Long Zhanye's dragon body was enormous, her movements were not sluggish in the slightest.
Before the other vampires could react, she struck with her claws several times in succession, directly battering several Warrior Level vampires half to death.
Instant kills!
Even a dragon at merely the Advanced Stage of the Warrior Level could crush others of the same level. Moreover, the middle-aged vampire was the highest-level one here, and even he had yet to reach Commander Level.
Lu Ling's Holy Light had already shrouded all the surrounding darkness. The vampires had no way to use their Shadow Element abilities!
Suddenly, an enormous surge of blood energy erupted, so powerful that even Long Zhanye, at the Advanced Stage of the Warrior Level, could not suppress it.
"Die!"
At some unknown cost, the middle-aged vampire forcibly unleashed his power and broke free of the white dragon's suppression.
He had completely lost his earlier distinguished appearance. His elegant suit was in tatters from the scorching Holy Light, and his carefully waxed, slicked-back hair had fallen loose. Now he was nothing but a rat scurrying across the street.
He felt unbearably stifled by his opponent's underhanded suppression, and was even more furious at this unknown white-haired young man!
He couldn't hide anymore, and he couldn't escape at all! This young man seemed to know him very well! So the middle-aged vampire abandoned the thought of fleeing and launched an attack!
"Blood Demon Sickle!"
Dense blood energy gathered before him, forming a blood-red sickle that swept toward Lu Ling at tremendous speed in a straight line. It moved so fast it seemed about to tear the air apart!
Lu Ling's gaze sharpened, deep silver flowing through his eyes.
"An opening!" The vampires Long Zhanye had taken down with single strikes earlier all stood back up, erupting with incredibly dense blood mist. Lu Ling thought they were about to gang up on him, but instead, they all turned into streaks of blood-red light and scattered.
"You dare flee for your lives at a time like this?! Get back here and kill him!" The middle-aged vampire seemed to have anticipated this and roared furiously.
Those words seemed to possess some magic, forcing the vampires to turn back unconditionally and unleash their strongest attacks on Lu Ling.
"So you really are this family's elder." Lu Ling wore an expression of complete confirmation.
The space Star Map had long since been completed. He murmured softly, as though delivering a divine decree.
"Stasis!"