I Have a Golden Crow

No, Du Yu, you don’t want to take the gamble.

I know you, you’re not that kind of person, you…”

Before the words were finished, Du Yu suddenly interrupted, ”Why do you pledge fealty to a traitor?!”

Shaojin was stunned for a moment, not realizing what Du Yu was saying.

He was still savoring the feeling of having the upper hand, enjoying the triumph of a meticulously laid plan finally coming to fruition.

Maybe there was something twisted deep in his heart,

Shaojin enjoyed most of all watching weak little lives struggling to survive, helpless right before his eyes.

But Du Yu’s out-of-the-blue remark made his heart jolt.

More precisely, his left chest quivered slightly!

Du Yu shouted, ”I’m talking to you, bracelet!

There are tens of thousands of Great Xia Demon Tamers—you’re bound to find one that fits you. Why must you side with these violent, homicidal scoundrels?”

Finally, Shaojin’s expression changed.

His eyes opened slightly wider, and right after that, a deep purple outline actually began to emerge from his body?

A figure shrouded in purple mist, head capped with a purple crown, decked out in purple armor, a long flowing purple battle robe behind him.

Even though the man’s face was expressionless, there was still a commanding, authoritative air about him.

He exuded a mighty, awe-inspiring presence!

”Hmph.” Du Yu let out a chilly laugh.

Villains, they just love to run their f**king mouths!

Have to chat, and chat, and chat some more.

And see what that chat just got you~

This king’s got a plan: The art of war is to win hearts first!

Du Yu looked the figure up and down: ”Yo, so you’re a general, huh?

Since you’re a general, shouldn’t you have some honor, some faith?

Why are you pledging fealty to a traitor?”

Shaojin abruptly spoke: ”Shut up!”

Just those two words, and everyone heard the oddity.

Because now, the Great Xia Language was a lot smoother, the tone no longer so awkward.

It was clear—the Artifact Spirit was the one speaking.

”Also, your taste sucks! If you’re going to pick a host, at least get someone taller and more badass, right? With your current... look, your new host can’t even live up to you!” Du Yu’s face was all mockery, ”Why didn’t you just pick a 175...

He turned to Lin Shiwei beside him, and continued: ”Uh, a 176?”

Custom made, huh?

Lin Shiwei was completely taut, already prepared to risk her life.

But after that sentence, her heart skipped a little.

So Du Yu had already decided—he was going to help her win back the bracelet.

”Stop pledging loyalty to traitors!” Du Yu threw one arm around Lin Shiwei’s shoulder, talking to the purple-clad man, ”If you really gotta recognize someone, can’t help your tastes...

Come on, let me introduce you to a mother.”

Purple-robed man: ???

Lin Shiwei: ”...”

Qi Tian looked odd, and exchanged glances with Professor Hu Yihua.

Here they were, life and death on the line, the fight tense as hell, but after just a few words from Du Yu, things suddenly went off the rails?

”Don’t insult me!” The purple-crowned, purple-armored, purple-robed man’s eyes bulged with fury, yelling in anger.

Even though the voice was still Shaojin’s, the words were now smooth and fluent in Great Xia Language.

Du Yu: ”She ticks every box for your host requirements.

Most importantly, she’s a Great Xia person.

A righteous warrior, not some notorious criminal.”

”Heh…” Shaojin suddenly sucked in a cold breath, gave his head a hard shake, and the purple outline faded back into his body.

Seeing things turning bad, Du Yu shouted harshly: ”Traitor! Scoundrel! Treacherous bastard!”

Shaojin’s body stiffened, and the purple outline on him flickered in and out of sight.

It looked like a battle was going on between man and Spiritual Artifact, fighting for control of the body!

Scenes like this could make you think of ”Fu Jianzhou—West Xia’s Flute” during the earliest contract days.

Du Yu started cursing wildly: ”You betray your own for profit! You bite the hand that feeds you! You pledge fealty to traitors!”

”Aaaah! Ahhhh!” The purple outline on Shaojin flashed furiously.

Du Yu yelled in rage, ”Shameless! Disgrace of a son! Turncoat dog!

Dare you face me head on!”

”Whoom!”

The purple-robed general appeared in an instant!

Everyone was stunned!

Three invocations in a second?

”Wow!” Little Fen Yang couldn’t help letting out a gasp of amazement.

Never did he know that his silly Du Yu could be this eloquent.

What the heck was he even saying?

Turning into an idiom king, huh~

But for Du Yu…

Who cares if the meaning’s right or not, as long as you keep cursing, it works!

Sure enough, the bracelet’s psyche broke!

The purple-crowned, purple-armored man completely seized control and bellowed, ”Why the hell wouldn’t I dare?!”

He exploded off the ground and shot straight out!

”Alright! Bring it on!” Du Yu grabbed Lin Shiwei and Li Mengnan with one hand each, and dashed forward too.

”Whoosh~”

”Whoosh~” Countless mud hands split into two groups.

One group reached out to grab the purple-crowned man, clearly not wanting Shaojin to engage the enemy head-on.

Or maybe it was Shaojin using the contract to command the Mud Po Goddess Sculpture to stop his own body.

The other mud hand group lunged at Du Yu’s trio, seeming to want to tear them apart.

The Yan Organization was further away from Shaojin, and before either side could directly clash, the mud hands would definitely get in the way!

Du Yu gritted his teeth, chanting madly in his mind:

Closer, get closer—Mountain and Sea Bell’s max expansion range is...

”Whoosh~”

Eye of Burning Sun·Hunting Moment!

The flow of time plunged inside Du Yu’s world.

He watched mud hands attacking from all directions, swiftly calming his mind and calculating the distance for both sides.

”Dong!” As time returned to normal speed, Du Yu stomped the ground, spun his body, and shot up at a steep angle.

Lin Shiwei’s face froze.

Li Mengnan cried out in alarm, ”Yah!”

Spinning forward, Du Yu clutched the two girls, forming a slanted trio.

The next second, the three of them actually slipped right through the gap between the Mud Po’s thumb and middle finger?!

Absolutely incredible!

”Get in here!” Du Yu steeled himself, and a silhouette of a woodcutter flickered over his body.

Mountain and Sea Bell—sudden expansion!

The bell swelled to its limit, and just as the bell wall enveloped the purple-crowned man, it snapped shut with a bang.

”Whoosh~”

Hu Yihua stared in shock at the café.

He really couldn’t figure out how Du Yu managed to shoot through the Demon General Mud Po’s fingers with those two...

In the café,

The Mud Po—still those same Mud Pos.

But Shaojin and Du Yu’s trio had vanished.

Hu Yihua snapped back to his senses: ”Attack! All out!”

”Attack!” Flames on Qi Tian’s body suddenly extinguished.

Because a giant Furious Fire Ape burst out from within Qi Tian.

Its hulking body could never fit inside a two-story café, and it smashed through ceiling and floor in an instant.

Clearly, to keep Shaojin from pulling an Earth Escape retreat, and to maintain the battlefield, Qi Tian had been holding back hard.

The giant Furious Fire Ape, on its debut, flipped the entire ceiling!

General-level·Mud Po Goddess Sculpture?

Without the Purple Gold Dragon Pattern Bracelet, what the hell are you even worth?