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Chapter 677 - Chapter 677 Chapter 63 Water Lords Clash

Chapter 677: Chapter 63: Water Lords Clash Chapter 677: Chapter 63: Water Lords Clash Come with me,” said Yu Shiqie, calling out to Se Kong before turning to enter the revolving stairway door.

Se Kong hopped merrily onto the steps, but Wenle, who was holding the umbrella behind him, didn’t move an inch.

Raindrops fell steadily, blooming wet marks on Se Kong’s shoulders.

“Hey!” the little nun called out impatiently.

“You go ahead, I have some personal matters to deal with, I’ll come find you in a bit,” Wenle took two steps forward and cheerfully pushed the umbrella into Se Kong’s hands.

Se Kong looked up, “Then you better be quick.”

Wenle turned and waved his hand before walking into the rain.

Se Kong and Yu Shiqie rode the elevator to the top floor, walking all the way to a side hall. Zhao Jianzhong stood with his hands behind his back, and on the red wooden table sat an opened leather case containing Mahjong tiles made of cow bone.

Se Kong sat down carelessly, picked up a Mahjong tile and played with it, “I have another helper coming in a bit.”

Boom~

Dark clouds pressed against each other, emitting piercing thunder.

Wenle pulled open the terrace’s iron fence, making a tearing, crisp sound.

“I remember Mr. Braided once said that if two Water Lords meet and harbor murderous intentions, their restless hearts could trigger thunderclouds. Turns out it’s true.”

He walked up to Li Yan.

“Weren’t you saying that Muni was supposed to come with Se Kong?”

Li Yan frowned and retorted.

“Se Kong changed his mind at the last moment, I couldn’t do anything about it.”

Wenle spread his hands.

“What are you doing here then?”

“Muni and Qian Wu went to Da’ao Village; I think Qian Wu won’t genuinely help us. You guys should have a chance then,” Wenle said, meeting Li Yan’s gaze and sitting beside him, counting on his fingers, “I really thought Yu Shiqie would deliver a fatal blow to Muni at the critical moment. What was your original plan? Let’s discuss it together.”

“Aren’t you supposed to be waiting for Se Kong?” Li Yan asked, his brow furrowed.

The thunder grew heavier.

Wenle’s smile faded, “I just want to get one sentence from Zhao Jianzhong. He will let Muni die on this fruit. As long as you tell me Zhao Jianzhong has said this to you, I’ll leave without another word. Otherwise, I won’t join the game.”

Li Yan was silent, just staring at Wenle from the corner of his eye.

Wenle shrugged, “Not talking? Then we’ll just wait and see who has more patience.”

“I don’t have time for you.”

After saying that, Li Yan looked up and fell backwards, plummeting from the edge of the terrace!

The inverted night scene flashed by Li Yan’s eyes rapidly, but Wenle’s face suddenly appeared from below, filling Li Yan’s entire field of vision, their noses almost touching, less than two centimeters apart.

“Driving the Nine States doesn’t always work.”

Wenle said coldly.

In an instant, Li Yan disappeared without a trace, and Wenle also burst into a spray of water with a pop.

A taxi driver parked and reading the racing paper suddenly saw two figures falling from the sky. He honked the horn in fright, but the anticipated bloody fall didn’t occur. He stuck his head out of the car, looked around, and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

“Am I seeing things?”

Li Yan was falling rapidly through the dark clouds. He looked up to find Wenle also plummeting quickly, face down, grinning maliciously as he pointed at Li Yan’s shoulder.

Li Yan looked in the direction of the pointing finger, only to discover a dim yellow droplet clinging to his clothes. He had been completely unaware of the waterdrops amid the earlier sound of the rain.

Boom~

Li Yan disappeared again, leaving only the dispersed cloud qi in the sky, and Wenle closely followed, bursting and vanishing like a bubble.

Rumble~

Dark clouds gathered and thunder roared where the two had passed through the sky.

“Shall we continue?”

Li Yan and Wenle faced off on top of an abandoned building.

Wenle’s face still wore a morbid smile, “You’ll need to conserve your strength to deal with Muni, to avenge Xiaodao, won’t you?”

Li Yan took a deep breath to adjust his breathing, and then spoke, “Zhao Jianzhong wants to capture Muni alive; there’s one among us named Ren Ni who you should know, yes? He can temporarily open a Root Stem Channel. We’ve set a trap for Muni just waiting for him to fall into it. My next landing in Driving the Nine States will be right next to Ren Ni. We’ve agreed that Ren Ni will open the channel at that time, letting Ghost Master Su Ling in to capture Muni alive. If you dare, keep following.”

Wenle’s smile froze for a moment.

Bang!

Li Yan vanished from sight.

“Son of a turtle~”

Wenle clenched his fists.

Once Li Yan reopened his eyes, he was standing over a patch of grass and nimbly landed, creating a pit over two meters wide.

Suddenly, Li Yan frowned, a blurry shadow appearing before his eyes. Wenle, wrapped in a nine-colored bubble, looked around nervously, only relaxing when he realized no one else was there.

He burst the bubble and made a showy gesture to Li Yan, “Didn’t you say Su Ling was lying in ambush? Where is he?”

“Next time will be it, why don’t you follow again and see?”

Li Yan responded nonchalantly.

“I am sincerely interested in cooperating with Yan Zhao Club!”

Wenle’s expression turned stern.

“I can see that you can hardly wait for Muni to die, but I can also tell that you’re even more eager to see both Yan Zhao Club and Muni’s band wiped out together. You said that Se Kong would bring Muni, but she brought you instead. With zero sincerity from you, how can I trust you?”

“Fine then.”

Wenle raised his hands, “I’ll give you two more pieces of information. First, Muni is afraid of dogs. Before he could shape-shift, he was tormented daily by vicious dogs, but that was two years ago, it’s hard to say now. Second, that Zhang Meng’ao from your Yan Zhao Club, he’s already defected, a mole planted by Se Kong.”

Li Yan’s mood soured as Wenle suddenly revealed that Zhang Meng’ao was a traitor, a revelation riddled with ill intent regardless of its truth.

“You’re really a fucking pest.”

Li Yan cursed.

Wenle, unfazed, “That’s all the sincerity I have. If you really refuse to tell me, I’ll have to keep chasing you till one of us dies. But this chasing game is too tiring, how about we switch to something else?”

He extended his hand, and suddenly, a water bubble appeared in his palm with a black Scale fish inside.

“Among the Water Lords, there’s a form of entertainment called ‘dueling breeds,’ where each person puts out a stake and sends out their proudest breed to battle. We’ve still got time, how about trying it out? I’m rather fond of your Pig Dragon.”

Li Yan sighed, “Mr. Zhao said that Muni must be killed. Can you just go away?”

No sooner had he spoken than the scales on the fish inside the bubble turned from black to white.

Wenle snapped his fingers, standing up, “This kind of fish is called Yandu; it turns white when it hears the truth and black when it hears lies. Oh, I forgot you have Earth Endurance on you, right? How convenient.”

He then abruptly changed the subject, “We both aim to reach the Chu Land Divine Court; the next time we meet, it’ll be a fight to the death.”

Li Yan remained unmoved.

The Yandu fish in his hand turned from white to black again.

Seeing the change in the Yandu fish’s scales, Wenle couldn’t help but laugh, then he vanished just like a bursting bubble.