I Really Want to Stay at Your House

  The bzing fmes engulfed the body, and rapidly proliferating cells released a violent shockwave.

  "Ugh—!"

  The muscles across his entire body spasmed from the burning, tightening, rexing, and then tightening again, pulling and snapping back like a rubber band stretched to its limits. At the same time, every inch of his skin was torn and twisted, turning into sparks that scattered into the air. The heat, like an invisible wave, tinuously pressed against his flesh, scorg and shriveling it. Could there be any pain more severe than this?

  "So this is what it feels like to be burned by fire—"

  Of course, there is pain worse than burning.

  Covered in fmes, Li Aozi's body swiftly charged toward the grand duke ohrone.

  "Are you fug kidding me?!"

  Eagle Crest sneered as it raised its wrist, and the red radio reappeared in front of it. Its mouth opened and closed, spewing words that cut to the heart:

  "Look at your body. Does it still bear any traces of humanity?"

  Cp, cp, cp!

  Li Aozi's footsteps echoed on the arble floor.

  "Your thoughts are meaningless. You're nothing but a hypocrite, killing indiscriminately and itting heinous sins while deluding yourself into thinking you be redeemed."

  Li Aozi raised his hand, the fiips ed by fmes, swirling with a crimson aura.

  "Give it a rest, you two-faced idiot. Look at who has killed you—here they e again."

  Eagle Crest unleashed three spirit monsters. They shrieked as they shot toward Li Aozi, following a familiar trajectory.

  The spirit mohat had oaken this life reappeared before him. Li Aozi's pupils instinctively tracted, his body trembling slightly—this was the memory of death from his former self, rekindled by fag the spirit monsters once more.

  It seems... ‘Li Aozi’ has never fotten the fear of being killed by spirit monsters.

  Wheegrated into this world, the beliefs and unfulfilled dreams he carried were ied as well.

  Eagle Crest taunted:

  "Past, present, future—you 't proteyone!"

  Li Aozi opened his mouth, his fingers ched into a fist, and he swung a punch at the approag spirit monster.

  "You think you hit a spirit with your fist? Hahaha, that's fug ridiculous!"

  Eagle Crest sat ohrone, ughiily.

  "—Is it?"

  Boom————————

  A burning stream of fmes erupted from the fiery fist, instantly illuminating the ied triangur head of the spirit monster.

  Without the sound of physical tact, the punch, enveloped in fmes, passed through the spirit monster's body, its intangible form torn and shattered by the scorg fire.

  Silence.

  Li Aozi spread his arms and instantly swept past the remaining two spirit monsters. Before they could face the fmes, the three faces reflected in their dark pupils began to melt and disie, colpsing into oblivion.

  The residual fmes brushed past Alexia, melting the ice. She was able to lift her head, her frost-covered eyeshes slowly thawing as she gazed at the close figure of Li Aozi.

  Shining, warm.

  "...The sun."

  "What the hell?! That's impossible!"

  Eagle Crest cried out in horror:

  "These aren't ordinary fmes. They burn spirits, killing spirit monsters with one blow—who the hell are you?!"

  "—Security."

  Li Aozi said, stepping heavily forward.

  Eagle Crest could no longer maintain its posure. It couldn't help but rise, but at that moment, its spirit body suddenly detached from the grand duke's body, fully exposed before Li Aozi.

  Duke Gamos slowly lifted his eyes, a greenish light swirling within them.

  "Gamos! Emerald! You two have been scheming—"

  Eagle Crest demanded.

  "One of the spirits had to be removed eventually, so why shouldn't it be you?"

  The Emerald Wolf Spirit sneered:

  "No matter how weak a Gamma-tier 【Shaman】 is, you, a mere spirit, 't usurp him. Take a good look at yourself, Eagle Crest—look back."

  Eagle Crest instinctively turned around, only to see Li Aozi, like a phoenix, spreading his arms wide, surging with fmes as he crashed toward it.

  Boom——————

  The violent explosion instantly filled the Fme King's Hall with fire. The portraits of the past governors turo ash in the fmes, all the luxurious items were shattered by the bst, and all the dots, proofs, and symbols left by the Frost-Pted ists met their end in the inferno.

  "Aozi!"

  Alexia was thrown by the explosion, crashing into the wall. She didn't have time to check her injuries; she immediately called out to the ter of the explosion:

  "No! Aozi, e back—"

  The rack that had caught her coat suddenly colpsed, causing Alexia to lose her band fall toward the ground.

  Thud—

  The remnants of the explosion floated down like snowfkes.

  Gravity, like a gentle o, cradled Alexia's body, slowly and steadily l her into an embrace that was no longer hot, only warm.

  "Ao..."

  "People of the old era are really stubborn."

  The severely burned body rapidly healed, the charred skin peeling away to reveal Li Aozi's pale skin, and his face, filled with helplessness and mischief:

  "Not even married yet, and already a widow—people will ugh at me."

  The charred remnants drifted in the air, and uhe fmes' cover, the radio fell heavily to the ground, bed and broken, crag with a few sparks before exploding.

  "Aozi..." Alexia raised her hand, c her mouth.

  "Oh? Elly, why are your eyes wet?"

  "The snowfkes on my eyeshes melted, that's all."

  "Good, I thought the proudest girl of the old era was g in front of me."

  Li Aozi smirked a Elly down on the ground:

  "I know, you stand on your own. You're a real woman, holding up half the sky."

  ——That's why I'm willing to be yroom.

  Alexia avoided his direct gaze, releasing her hand from relying on Li Aozi, fidently saying:

  "Of course."

  Alexia wiped away the melting snow from the ers of her eyes, propping herself up on the floor, standing again alongside Li Aozi.

  They turheir heads, looking at the throne engulfed in fmes.

  Thud—

  Emerald cws tore through the fmes, and before Duke Gamos stood multiple figures stepping out from the void—f a snail with four human arms, a faceless woman in white, a figure covered in umbilical cords with a pta for a head, and a majestiatural beast spirit.

  Cp, cp, cp!

  The Emerald Wolf Spirit cpped, sneeringly mog:

  "Did you really think a Gamma-tier Shaman only had two spirit panions? Spirit Wife, someone looks down on you."

  "Greedy Eagle Crest, how detestable, 't tell the important from the trivial." The Spirit Wife, a ghostly woman in white, spoke with a sinister yet seductive voice, emanating a pu st e.

  "Enough." The Natural Beast Spirit snorted coldly, its body crag with purple thunder: "Gamos, your body is about to colpse, don't fet your tract."

  Duke Gamos slowly lifted his head, raising his sluggish hand to remove the respirator from his face, revealing an old, grotesque visage:

  "I know, you all want my soul. I'm old; on this p, I'll die sooner or ter."

  He then repced the oxygen mask, inhaling a suffit amount of air, and his eyes gradually lit up with a pale blue light:

  "Hah—but for now, I'm still your master."

  The Emerald Wolf Spirit bared its teeth, pg one hand on its waist: "Then stop wasting time. This ma seem right. The two of them might really be able to hurt you."

  "Emerald, Snail Man, Spirit Wife, Fetus Ghost, Thunder Spirit."

  Duke Gamos took a deep breath of pure oxygen, raising his blood oxygen level to y pert. Only then did he have a foundatiourned his head, staring at Li Aozi and Alexia, and whispered:

  "Summon."

  【Summoning of Evil】

  The five spirits let out a sharp cry, their bodies infused with the grand duke's spiritual power, covered in a pitch-bck shell, their eyes glowing with a ghostly green light.

  "My suggestion is—stay at home," Emerald mogly raised its sharp cws, "that way, you might not piss your pants."

  "Fuother. I suggest you restart your simuted life. With some effort, you might even bee human. It'll definitely be better than now, at least you'll be a eaining people at the circus."

  Li Aozi's aggressive words almost made Emerald burst with anger.

  "ing on strong, huh?"

  Li Aozi looked ahead and suddenly, for no reason, said to Alexia:

  "I have a b in Triaown, surrounded by industrial produ lines and potions, but there's a couple of sofas inside, and on Sundays, the cafeteria serves potato stew with beef."

  "Cool! I'd love to see what it's like there."

  The metal covered Alexia's arms, and she nodded slightly:

  "But I'd rather stay at your pd talk about these things..."

  "My house? Hmm, strictly speaking, it's in space."

  He raised his fist, and Alexia, as if they had a mutual uanding, lifted her fist and bumped it against his.

  "Then it's a date."

  Li Aozi grihe red and b his eyes expanding, his facial muscles splitting and flipping, the red and bck crystals c the edges, cleverly cealing them.

  Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble——

  "What's going on? Ahquake?!" Emerald almost lost its banearly falling to the ground. The other evil spirits were also momentarily distracted, fog on maintaining their bance.

  Gamos, seated ohrone, growled: "Hurry and attaow!"

  Emerald retorted mogly:

  "You make it sound so easy! Why don't you try standing up?!"

  The marble and the underlying mudstone instantly cracked and shifted, like mountains rising from the ground, c his body.

  【Domination Form Activated】

  【dominateall (Dominate Everything)】

  Beh the yers of rock, red and bck crystalline spikes broke through the granite g, rapidly spreading and growing. Exoskeletal armor extended across his body, skin splitting open to reveal scarlet fissures, with syic fmmables seeping out. In an instant, Li Aozi's body ignited in raging fmes, turning the surrounding soil and roto a heated, charred mass.

  【Dominion?Purifying Fmes】

  At the same time, the metal maximally covered Alexia's arms and legs, golden thorns emerging, shining brilliantly.

  Beside her, the rock-covered Li Aozi raised his hand with a roar, shattering the useless yers of rock from his body, molten va f into armor.

  【Dominioh Armor】

  Li Aozi's body rapidly grew taller, swelling to two meters and forty timeters. The force of gravity allowed the fiery blood vessels to form intricate patterns.

  【Dominion?Immortal Physique】

  endrils shot out from his palms, coiling around his arms like serpents, the tips of his fingers covered with red and bck crystals.

  【Dominion?Vitality Tubes】

  He drew his pin long sword, his right hand immediately transf into a cw, the nails retrag inward, the hand shape instantly adapting to the hilt. Red and bck crystals ed around the bde of the pin sword, f a specialized, elongated crystal katana. The malicious spirits of the sin maed behind him, causing the evil spirits before him to gnce sideways.

  "That murderous aura is overwhelming... Hoeople has he killed to feed that demon sword?"

  【Dominion?Battle Demon Bde】

  His face was no loerrifying; obsidian clustered around his facepte, c it with a yer of dignified armor. The golden rings in his eyes expanded, glowing brightly beh the crystal lenses.

  【Dominion?Gravity Field】

  Boom——

  Li Aozi raised his left arm, the fmes fanning out like a peacock's tail feathers, sweeping the ground into a fiery skirt.

  "From here on, we're going to space together."

  FAL