Your Holiness, This Is Bad! Yan Is Going to Challenge the Second Worship!

But rather than saying it was different, it would be more accurate to say it had simply become more exaggerated.

She Long assumed a sword-drawing stance. It was impossible to tell whether he had failed to draw his sword or drawn it so quickly that it surpassed what anyone's naked eye could see.

In the next instant, a dense cluster of sword shadows suddenly appeared in front of him!

The sword shadows covered an enormous area. In the game, they occupied only a small patch in front of Kamisato Ayaka, but here, they practically dominated a vast area ahead of her.

The crowd directly in front cried out in alarm and quickly retreated, terrified of being caught in the fearsome sword shadows.

She Long grew increasingly brazen, unleashing charged attacks in different directions. Just seeing the shocked faces of the onlookers ahead filled him with a sense of accomplishment.

He was absolutely in love with Kamisato Ayaka!

He declared that, from this moment on, Kamisato Ayaka was the one he held dear!

"Hehe, another charged attack!"

She Long drew his sword in another direction, only to take a sudden punch to his right cheek that sent him sprawling.

Ling Yuan lowered her fist. "I fucking can't stand it anymore. You just pulled a genuine five-star, so what are you showing off for..."

Chrysanthemum Douluo frowned too. "Exactly. I still have my hard pity guarantee. My genuine five-star will be coming out soon; I'm just not pulling for now."

She Long rubbed his cheek and got to his feet, his excitement undiminished.

He hurriedly asked Shen Luo, "Lord God, what's Kamisato Ayaka's status? How is she so powerful?"

Shen Luo said, "She's a young lady of noble status, I suppose. Quite a lot of people like her. Some have even called themselves Kamisato Ayaka's dog."

Ling Yuan frowned. "Huh? A limber dog in the mountains?"

Shen Luo nearly burst out laughing.

This meme really could crop up anywhere!

Fortunately, Shen Luo managed to keep his expression under control, though it came out a little stiff. "Yes... Kamisato Ayaka's dog."

Ghost Douluo was stunned. "Her fans are that obsessed?"

"Isn't that obvious?!"

She Long shouted excitedly, as though he had found kindred spirits, and his impression of the young lady of the Kamisato family immediately improved.

After all, an idol with lots of fans had to be a good idol!

She Long laughed. "From today on, I'm Kamisato Ayaka's dog too."

Ling Yuan rolled her eyes at him in contempt.

Disgusting otaku!

Chrysanthemum Douluo said, "Come on, bark for me."

"Screw you!"

She Long cursed, but then grew despondent.

"But the young lady's level-twenty ascension materials really are a bit of a problem."

At that, Chrysanthemum Douluo suddenly remembered. "What was yours from the Far North again?"

She Long said, "One of the ascension materials is a strand of the Snow Empress's hair from the Far North."

"Who is this Snow Empress?"

"I think she's a Ferocious Beast rumored to live in the Far North? The stories about her are the stuff of legend."

"Damn it!"

She Long nearly fell apart, but he quickly looked at Chrysanthemum Douluo and hurried over to link arms with him.

"Old Ju! Old Ju! Doesn't your Qiqi need a drop of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's venom for her ascension? That's in the Far North too, right? Let's go together when the time comes."

Chrysanthemum Douluo had been about to push She Long away in disgust, but then he remembered that with a support five-star, he really would have trouble challenging a Ferocious Beast in the Far North.

She Long might be irritating, but there was no denying how powerful Kamisato Ayaka was.

Chrysanthemum Douluo shot him a sidelong glance. "All right. I'll help you get the hair, and you help me get the venom. It's a deal."

Just then, Ghost Douluo seemed to remember something and hurriedly said to She Long, "Hey, don't you fucking forget to get my material before you go to the Far North!"

He needed a Six-Winged Angel's feather.

Hearing that, She Long lowered his voice. "I remember. We'll get it tonight! Actually, why don't we go now? It'll take time to get there!"

Ghost Douluo thought it over. To be honest, he still wanted to make a few more pulls at Shen Luo's place today. Even if he didn't get her signature weapon, he wanted to get Klee some four-star weapons at least.

But the ascension material was most important. Shen Luo was here for now and couldn't run away anyway; at worst, Ghost Douluo could come back and pull again tomorrow.

She Long gave a strange smile. "I've got a fast way to get there. When I dodge, jump on me!"

"What?"

[Kamisato Ayaka - Dodge]

She Long disappeared underground and moved across the ground in the form of frost. His voice immediately came from the ground. "Jump on me. I'll take you there underground!"

Ghost Douluo's mouth twitched violently. Could he really do that?

Still, She Long did move quickly after going underground, so Ghost Douluo didn't think much of it and immediately stepped onto the patch of frost She Long had become.

In that instant, Ghost Douluo turned into an ice sculpture.

Under everyone's astonished gazes, Ghost Douluo, an ice sculpture standing on the frost, sped off in one direction as though he were riding a lightning-fast skateboard!

Shen Luo was fucking dumbstruck.

That works too? What a genius!

Ling Yuan murmured, "That works nicely. By the time the ice melts, he'll be there."

Chrysanthemum Douluo said, "But if people see him along the way, won't he scare quite a few of them to death?"

"A moving ice sculpture! Hahaha!"

The two who had lost their fifty-fifties seemed to think of something and sighed at the same time.

They looked at Shen Luo on the stage, hesitant expressions on their faces.

Ling Yuan only needed another ninety pulls to guarantee a genuine five-star Hu Tao.

Chrysanthemum Douluo only needed another seventy pulls to guarantee a genuine five-star Nahida.

But if luck permitted, they certainly didn't want to need all ninety or seventy pulls to get their genuine five-stars. They hoped their genuine five-stars would obediently come out in the next ten-pull!

But clearly, their luck wasn't good today.

Ling Yuan said, "Where's Yan?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo said, "I'd guess he found somewhere to secretly practice with his elemental team. He's challenging the Second Worship tonight, after all. He seems to have four characters now, just like Old Ghost."

Shen Luo watched Ling Yuan and Yue Guan from the stage, only to hear Furina say beside him, "Those two don't seem inclined to keep pulling."

Shen Luo said quietly, "It's fine. Look at everyone else here. They're all itching to try."

Furina looked down. To be honest, she hadn't paid attention until now, and only then did she notice that hundreds upon thousands of people had gathered to watch.

"How incredible. Shen Luo, it looks like we've played our parts as gods very successfully."

"Of course. It's all thanks to the idea you came up with."

"Hehe."

Furina raised her fair chin, looking very pleased with herself. The sight made Shen Luo want to pinch it.

He addressed the crowd then. "I believe everyone here has seen enough to understand the rules at my place. Anyone who wants to pull characters from me can start now, but please line up and wait your turn."

"It's finally our turn!!!"

"Yay!!"

"I'll pay one level of Soul Power!"

"Two for me!"

"Nine for me!!"

The crowd surged forward like a tide, squeezing Ling Yuan and Yue Guan, who had been standing in the middle of the square, out to the edges.

"Damn, they're this crazy? So they've all been waiting for this moment!"

"Even a fool can see which option is more cost-effective now. Besides, most of them only have a few levels of Soul Power; it's no use to them anyway."

Ling Yuan slowly shook her head. Looking at the crowd packed beneath the stage, she couldn't help saying:

"Old Ghost, it's probably just as you said. After today, I'm afraid the Douluo Continent really will see an unprecedented upheaval."

Night fell.

Bibi Dong sat idly on the throne. She had intended to wait for the elders to return, but she had fallen asleep waiting.

When she woke, she discovered that not a single one of them had returned to report to her.

Where the hell had they all gone?

Bibi Dong was about to go out and take a look when a voice suddenly came from outside. "Your Holiness, this is bad!"

"Yan is going to publicly challenge the Second Worship!!!"

P.S. The fourth update will still be after dinner.