The Path of Evolution

"Putting aside the benefits, I am grateful to God that Mr. Zhuang can clear Qin Sheng and the others. To be honest, even if you give me the ancient city, I don't know how to manage it and I don't know how to operate it. It will be useless to hold it." Zhao Hao looked at his sister-in-law suspiciously: "You can actually say these things in front of everyone and let them understand the situation. Why did you call me here alone?"

"It's better for you to get some benefits." Xue Qing's eyes dimmed and she said quietly: "Qin Sheng was here just now. I was afraid that he couldn't stand the excitement and ran back in anger, so I came to talk to you alone."

Zhao Hao was surprised: "What do you mean by this?"

"Last year, your dad and Qin Sheng's dad partnered in business, and it didn't seem to be going well..." Xue Qing hesitated, "I checked, and Qin Sheng's family has declared bankruptcy. I don't know the situation of your family yet. Maybe it’s not good either…”

"What?" Zhao Haoru was struck by lightning: "Are my parents okay?"

"I really don't know. Time is limited. I don't have time to ask about many things. You can go back and take a look."

"Then I'll go back now."

"Wait a minute." Xue Qing grabbed him and said, "You're dressed like this? I forgot to tell you a joke. Many people who went back wearing combat uniforms ended up running around naked. The combat uniforms would be considered useless on Earth. Sealed.”

As she spoke, she took out a plastic bag containing a set of casual clothes and sneakers.

Zhao Hao was surprised again: "Did you take the wrong medicine to treat me so well?"

"You're so slutty, didn't you see me coming in with my big and small bags? This time I bought more than a dozen sets of clothes and brought them with me for Annie and the others." Xue Qing said, counting fifty sheets for Grandpa Mao. Zhao Hao: "My salary is not high, and I am too embarrassed to ask my family. You can use these five thousand yuan to charge phone bills or something, and remember to pay me back later."

"No need, my home is not far from the Colorful Light Pillar. I'll be home in a few steps." Zhao Hao felt his sister-in-law's thoughtfulness, which was very similar to Weiwei's. He understood that Xue Qing might be worried that his family would also go bankrupt. First, I took 5,000 yuan of private money to give him an emergency. Because of this, Zhao Hao refused to accept it.

"Stop!" The rejected sister-in-law was very angry, her temper suddenly rose, and she gritted her teeth and said: "Idiot, if I were you, I wouldn't run back immediately. Chris said that the more impulsive you are, the easier it is. Attack. You'd better calm down first and make sure Ren Wuji doesn't cause trouble before you consider going home."

"Okay, I'll go outside the city to relax first."

Zhao Hao unfolded the wings of the Black Eagle King returned by Qin Sheng and flew towards the outside of the ancient desert city.

Flying to a hidden place in the oasis, he shouted into the air: "Senior sister, are you there?"

A woman in white clothes walked towards her from the wind. Just her back looked unrivaled.

It's hard to guess what Sister Lu is thinking. She has always refused to enter the ancient desert city. She recently met Zhao Hao ten miles away from the ancient city.

"Senior sister, I have to go home. Could you please help me take a look at the ancient city these days?" Zhao Hao got straight to the point.

"I'm sorry, I can't interfere in your human affairs." There was a hint of farewell in Bai Lu's eyes: "You came just in time, I planned to say goodbye to you today."

Zhao Hao was surprised: "Didn't you agree to wait until I conquer my inner demons?"

"Junior brother, you have found a way to restrain the demons in your heart. You don't need me to help you suppress it. It's up to you to realize the demons in your heart. Senior sister can't help." Bailu Quyi was very determined.

Zhao Hao felt lost and suddenly started gossiping: "Senior sister, a month ago, I sensed a vast aura rising into the sky from the desert. I would like to ask, did you break through to the realm of the Demon King that day?"

"Junior brother, you have discovered your great ability." Bai Lu smiled sweetly: "I should thank you and your inner demon. His way of continuously breaking through himself has inspired me a lot."

Zhao Hao's heart skipped a beat as he verified a conjecture.

In fact, he had known for a long time that Sister Lu had reached the realm of the Demon King. At that time, he was curious about why Bailu didn't build a city, and then happily cooperate with him to develop together.

It wasn't until he obtained the City Protector Crown that Zhao Hao understood that humans could only obtain the key to the teleportation array by killing the guardian of the Demon King's ancient city. In other words, if he wants to get Sister Lu's Demon King City, Zhao Hao must either kill Bai Lu or kill Bai Lu's successor.

This is something Zhao Hao doesn't want to do, and it's also something Bai Lu doesn't want to face.

Zhao Hao even thought that the reason why Sister Lu brought him to the desert to fight against his inner demons was not just because the desert environment restrained Ren Wuji. The ancient desert city appeared near him. It seemed unreasonable to say that this was purely a coincidence.

Following this angle, Sister Lu has a suspicion that she has deceived her fellow demon clan members.

Zhao Hao didn't understand why Sister Lu did this, and he didn't ask.

After going through ups and downs all the way, he understood a truth: some things should be seen through but not revealed.

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After calming down, Zhao Hao found a lighter topic: "Senior Sister, what are your plans for the future?"

"You go home, and I will go home too." Bai Lu looked up at the blue sky and murmured: "I still have a wish, to go back to my hometown and see my people. When I fulfill my wish, I will have no worries anymore. It’s time to ascend.”

"If you ascend so quickly, will we never see each other again?" Zhao Hao felt reluctant.

"Junior brother, you will ascend sooner or later. If we are destined, we will meet again." Bai Lu sighed softly.

"Senior sister, you have done so much for me, and I haven't figured out how to repay you yet. Why don't you leave after a while, and I'll go back and bring some local products from my hometown, as well as clothing and cosmetics for us human women. I think senior sister will like it." Zhao Hao became more and more reluctant to give up. It would be a pity to lose such a powerful helper.

"Junior brother, don't worry about the things that are outside your body." Sister Lu is so free and easy, she can actually refuse the clothes and cosmetics that earth girls can't resist. She laughed at herself and said: "Senior sister, I can also be called a monster alien. There are no monsters in the world." The king's position has neither a title nor a land. If junior brother is interested, how about giving me a title?"

"Senior sister, don't you have a name?" Zhao Hao was dumbfounded.

"Our demon tribe is born and raised by nature. Only the demon king who sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven has a title. The other demon tribes have no names."

Junior Brother Zhao couldn't help but feel sorry for Sister Lu for a few seconds. She had lived for hundreds of years without even having a name. She was really pitiful. Human beings who are born as humans are given the form and name that the monster race has to work hard for hundreds of thousands of years to acquire at birth. In comparison, the human race is really a bit ignorant of blessings.

This time Zhao Hao thought carefully and thought of a name: "Surname is Bai, name is Lu. What do you think, senior sister?"

"Bai Lu, what does it mean?" Sister Lu was very curious, like a little girl.

Zhao Hao made an unprecedented literary achievement: "The grass is green, and the white dew is like frost. The so-called beauty is on the side of the water. If you follow it back, the road is long and blocked. If you follow it back, you will be in the middle of the water..."

"The so-called beauty is on the side of the water... Well, junior brother is talented and knowledgeable. From now on, I will be called Bai Lu." Sister Lu is very satisfied with her name, exuding the aura of a demon-artistic young woman: "Junior brother gave me the name, I would also like to send a message to my junior brother - in the far east of the desert, old friends meet again."

"I wonder which old friend it is?" Zhao Hao hated his own literary skills. He would have been more straightforward if he had known about it. Now that Sister Lu is also so literary and artistic, it makes him embarrassed to say, "Sister, can't you just say it?"

"You'll know when you're here, junior brother." Sister Lu didn't mean to speak directly at all, and suddenly looked at him with stern eyes: "Junior brother, the song from last time, 'If love lasts for a long time, how can we stay together day and night'? Is it really your friend who wrote this to me?"

"Yes, although my friend appears to be a bohemian, he is actually a dedicated person. Senior sister, you might as well consider it." In order to retain Sister Lu, Zhao Hao resorted to a beauty trick and boasted with his eyes open: "I have a dream. One day The human race and the demon race are no longer hostile, just like my senior sister and I. I still have a dream, that the human race and the demon race will intermarry, communicate with each other, and create a better future together."

"Junior brother, I think you misunderstood me." Sister Lu's tone was cold, and she suddenly exuded a terrifying aura: "If that letter was written by your friend, I will kill him now!"

Zhao Hao couldn't resist the momentum and fell to the ground, regretting that he should have handed Qin Sheng a love letter.

In this second, time seems to have returned to a long, long time ago. By the spring pool, the young man with the big black dog was suppressed by the white deer and was out of breath.

Bailu's murderous aura condensed into substance and he walked towards the ancient desert city, not joking at all.

Zhao Hao was so regretful that his intestines were blue. He had never seen Sister Lu joke before, so he could do whatever he said.

How can the Demon King be desecrated by humans?

Zhao Ritian finally had the consciousness to see things through without telling them, but he did something stupid on a whim. This is called losing a thousand years of Taoism in one day, or losing everything in one misstep. It took a lot of effort to establish a revolutionary friendship with Sister Lu, but today the boat of friendship can easily overturn.

"Sister, please stay!"

Under the suppression of that terrifying aura, Zhao Hao found it difficult to speak, struggling to spit out a few words.

"If you stop me, you are my enemy."

Bai Lu turned around and looked down at Zhao Hao, who was lying on the ground, with murderous secrets in his eyes.

"No... Senior sister, please listen to me..." Zhao Hao hesitated: "Actually... that letter was written by me. I... I admired Senior Sister in my heart, and was too embarrassed to speak out, letting my friend take the blame... If you want to kill me, senior sister, just kill me."

"Are you serious?" Bai Lu's murderous aura weakened slightly.

"It's absolutely true." Zhao Hao said bravely.

"You have already fallen in love with someone, why do you fall in love with me?" Sister Lu asked seriously.

"This...how do you say this...I'm a little embarrassed..." Zhao Hao squirmed, thinking hard in his mind, and blew out the most awesome thing in his life: "The person I love has fallen long ago. According to the ancient rules of our mankind, According to legend, when a younger brother loses his wife, he becomes a widower. When a senior sister loses her husband, she becomes a widow... There is a legend in my hometown: A widower who marries a widow must be very happy..."

"A widower and a widow must be very happy?" Sister Lu looked at Junior Brother Zhao in shock: "In the world you live in, there are such bizarre sayings?"

"Yes, there are all kinds of strange opinions in our world, which is known as the contention of a hundred schools of thought in history." Zhao Hao made nonsense and said to the donkey under the slope: "Senior sister, I know I was wrong. I am not worthy of my senior sister. I will never dare to think that way again. Please. Please let me go, senior sister, and please show mercy and let my friend go."

"How do you know you are not good enough for me?" Sister Lu said something shocking. Her words scared Zhao Hao to the ground: "Since you wrote the love poem, I will spare you. A widower and a widow must be very happy... ...It seems to make sense. I have not known what happiness is for five hundred years, and it is time to start over. Junior brother, I will give you ten years, and I will wait for you in the second-order heaven."