Prodigal System in the Flourishing City

Chapter 1688: Chapter 1690: Going Home Soon

The Blood Emperor was dead!

Dead in a way that made people sigh.

He even made Li Bai, who’d always complained he was born in the wrong era, suddenly feel a kind of kinship.

This was what you really called ”born at the wrong time”!

After all, even Bai Qi had said it: if Lu Xiaobu hadn’t shown up, or had shown up just a bit later, he might have completed the Blood Emperor’s path!

But there’s no ”if” in this world. Like Bai Qi said, no one did anything wrong. If you have to put it into words, then it’s: my road just happens to need you as paving stones.

Bai Qi is, the Blood Emperor is, they all are!

But none of that matters anymore!

What matters is—they can go home now!

Lu Xiaobu stared at that seed, his eyes shining!

And the blood people around them, after losing the Blood Emperor’s command, once again fell into chaos!

Slaughter. Mutual slaughter!

Right now they were no longer like before, only attacking normal people. They’d reverted to their original nature, that instinct that knew nothing but killing!

”Here!” Bai Qi, a little worked up, handed the seed to Lu Xiaobu.

”I just fuse with it right now?” Lu Xiaobu was excited too.

Not just the two of them—the other five remaining were all fired up!

So close you could touch it!

This was what you called truly within reach!

”Yes. But the fusion still takes some time.” Bai Qi said aloud.

He hadn’t expected it—he’d waited several thousand years, and now, at this very moment, he actually felt impatient about the fusion time!

”How long?” Lu Xiaobu asked.

”About half a month.” Bai Qi thought, then said, ”But it’s not fixed. Could be earlier, could be later!”

”Alright.” Hearing he still had to wait half a month, Lu Xiaobu was a bit helpless.

Half a month more, huh!

”Actually, there’s still a major problem we need to solve.” Bai Qi frowned.

”The blood people? We can slowly clean them up!”

Lu Xiaobu frowned too. These blood people really were a pain—no reason at all. If he really brought people here, wouldn’t they just be slaughtered to the last man?

And there was another issue: this blood Qi was trouble as well. If people from the Heavenly Dynasty came and got infected and turned into blood people, that would be a real disaster!

”The blood people are a problem, but not an unsolvable one. We can just find a place to lock up those who’ve lost all reason. In a critical moment they can even be a combat force!” Bai Qi shook his head.

”Then what’s the problem?” Lu Xiaobu froze. There was something bigger than this?

”The Blood Emperor’s existence was an accident, but it’s precisely because of his suppression that this stable Secret Realm space could form. Now the seed’s been taken, his physical body is destroyed, and I’m afraid it won’t be long before the Secret Realm shatters!” Bai Qi said, brows tightly knit.

”The Secret Realm shatters?! Then what happens? Will this island break apart?” Lu Xiaobu asked nervously.

He was counting on this island to house the people from the Heavenly Dynasty later.

”It won’t go that far. It’s just that this island will descend back into the outside world again!” Bai Qi said. ”And once an island descends again, you should be able to guess what’ll happen!”

Hearing that, Lu Xiaobu’s brows scrunched up as well.

An island descends?

Of course he knew what that meant!

Countless people would come to conquer it, obviously!

By then, them monopolizing this island—whether they were from the Demon Realm or not—they’d be public enemy number one!

”How long?” Lu Xiaobu asked, brows locked.

”Three to five years.” Bai Qi glanced at his already broken-down body and said, ”That’s the limit!”

”Phew, that’s a relief.” Lu Xiaobu exhaled in one long breath. There was still buffer time. That was good!

The scariest thing would be dropping without any preparation. That would be the real problem!

...

The days that followed were basically a waiting period.

But it wasn’t just sitting there doing nothing; they all sat and discussed the Dao!

Lu Xiaobu introduced them to modern life, all kinds of strange and wonderful machines.

And Bai Qi and the others passed all sorts of combat techniques on to Lu Xiaobu!

Lu Xiaobu, lazy by nature, didn’t want to learn at first. Then he got utterly abused by this lot and in the end had no choice but to learn!

Bai Qi and the others were speechless!

Other people begged to learn and they wouldn’t teach; how come this kid was so unwilling?

You have to keep fighting and conquering for the people in our little world, you know. How can you be too weak?!

Things on their side were quite harmonious, but as for everyone else—they were screwed!

The reason was simple: the Blood Emperor vanished, the blood people lost their leader and reverted to their nature, and rioted!

Slaughter everywhere. People killing people, blood people killing people, people killing blood people—this kind of thing was happening in every corner of this island!

As for that Exploration Team—at this moment, wiped out!

The captain, the strongest among them but seriously injured, stared unwillingly, with his dying breath, at the butcher who had slaughtered them—the stupid second-gen.

Right now, that guy was already a bona fide blood person!

All those protective items his dad had given him were now weapons he used to massacre the Exploration Team!

The captain gave a mocking smile—this was really funny. He’d been so stupid, so cowardly before, and after being eroded by blood Qi, he turned out to be this bloodthirsty. Truly hilarious!

...

Yun Hai was sprinting!

Always the refined gentleman, he now looked like a vengeful ghost. He grabbed a teammate beside him and directly hurled him backwards!

”Bang!”

With a thunderous boom, that teammate he’d used as a human dart exploded!

Yun Hai was about to cry himself blind!

Why—why the hell—weren’t the blood people always super quiet? Why was everything so chaotic now!?

He was just Golden Core Stage, just Golden Core Stage—so why the hell was there an Out-of-Body Stage blood person chasing him?!

Thinking that, he ran even harder with all he had!

They didn’t dare to fly; flying would just draw attention and get them killed faster!

Right then, he suddenly spotted a figure up ahead!

Someone he knew—Fan Wenlong!

Fan Wenlong had lost all his proud Heaven’s Chosen airs as well, and was also in full-on sprint!

The two brushed past each other, exchanged a glance, then continued bolting in their own directions!

At the same time, the same thought popped up in both their heads—this guy’s an idiot, isn’t he? There are blood people chasing from behind and he still runs straight into them!

”Da-da-da-da-da-da!”

The rapid footsteps quickly faded away!

Then!

”Da-da-da-da!”

The rapid footsteps came rushing back toward them again!

The two met once more and spoke in unison: ”You’re getting chased too, you fucker!”

”If I wasn’t getting chased, why the fuck would I be running?”

The two of them, again, in perfect sync!

”Run!”

Still perfectly in sync!

And then—da-da-da-da-da-da—the direction they were trying to flee toward also echoed with footsteps.

”You’re getting chased too?” they both asked bitterly as they saw Black Rider running toward them.

”I’m being chased by an Out-of-Body Stage.” Yun Hai decided to say it out loud. With three top-tier people here, maybe they had a shot at living!

”Mine’s Out-of-Body Stage too! Blood people don’t have Spiritual Wisdom; if the three of us work together, we might be able to break through one side!” Fan Wenlong snapped back to his senses and spoke up.

However!

Black Rider, who was sprinting, didn’t even look at them and just dashed straight past the two!

”Black Rider?!” The two of them froze!

”Team up my ass! I ran into a Transcendance Tribulation Stage!” Black Rider cried as he ran. ”What the hell did I ever do to deserve this?!”

The dignified Assassin Black Rider had been driven to the point of tears!

Truly—running in tears!