Who the Hell Are You Calling the Conqueror?!

Because of the previous battle with the Spirit Summoning Society, more than half of the flesh-covered land spreading from the Demon’s Nest had been destroyed.

Along the Shanghai City coast, Lu Su stared gravely at a Space Rift flickering in and out of view beside the entrance to the Demon’s Nest.

"When was it discovered?"

"This morning. A citizen found it while out for a morning run."

Hearing the Association staff member beside him, Lu Su frowned slightly and turned around. "Wasn’t this whole area under lockdown?"

"How could an ordinary person still get through?"

He was not trying to blame the young Card Master before him. He was worried that this newly appeared Secret Realm had been deliberately brought here.

Lu Su had not forgotten that Jin Ping’s goal was to bring a Secret Realm to Shanghai City. This Secret Realm appearing beside the Demon’s Nest was undeniably suspicious.

Yet clearly, the people below had misunderstood what he meant.

The young man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, swallowed, and stammered, "An… an old man living nearby snuck in."

For a moment, Lu Su did not know what to say.

He felt helpless both about his subordinate’s reaction and about those stubborn old geezers.

But when he thought of the old ladies doing square dances before his transmigration, along with those elderly power-walking groups who never listened no matter what anyone said, he let it go.

Lu Su sighed and casually waved a hand. "Where is he? Bring him over for me to see."

"Yes!"

Watching the young man hurry away, Lu Su turned his attention back to the still-forming Secret Realm Entrance in the distance.

He muttered unconsciously, "I hope it isn’t one of those Master Grade Demons under the Four Calamity Gods."

Before long, the old man who had first discovered the anomaly was brought before Lu Su.

Lu Su swept him with Spiritual Power and found that he truly was an ordinary person, without any trace of Jin Ping’s contract.

Then again, if the old man had actively brought the Secret Realm here, he would have had no reason to alert the Association.

With that thought, Lu Su immediately felt relieved. "So it was a coincidence?"

At that moment, the old man broke free from the Association Card Master’s hold and began shouting, "What are you Gangboning bastards trying to do?"

Ignoring the large number of Card Masters caught in the crossfire around him, Lu Su patiently asked, "Sir, could you tell me again what happened this morning?"

He spoke in Tianlong Language.

Sure enough, after hearing Lu Su’s words, the old man stopped struggling. He looked the young man up and down, then began muttering about what had happened that morning.

Speak human language to humans, ghost language to ghosts.

If the old man had been from Qilu, Lu Su might have said that if he refused to cooperate, it would affect his grandchild’s chances of joining the Association in the future.

The matter was simple, and the old man did not take long to explain what had happened that morning.

He had merely sneaked in for his morning run and then noticed something strange.

Worth mentioning was that he had been doing this for many days already.

"Thank you for your cooperation."

Lu Su nodded, then signaled his people to take the old man away.

Watching the old man leave, he quietly instructed the Association staff beside him, "Have someone observe him in secret for a while. Remove the surveillance once he’s cleared of suspicion. Also, check the surveillance footage from nearby over the past few days."

"Yes."

After handling the witness, Lu Su thoughtfully looked at the forming Secret Realm Entrance. "Come to think of it, couldn’t Little Spider try destroying it?"

He remembered Zeng Bo saying in Donglai that a Secret Realm could be disrupted with spatial methods before its entrance had fully formed.

Spider-girl happened to excel in that area.

But because she had previously been a card under his Spirit Summoning Society Identity, Lu Su had never gotten a chance to try it.

With that in mind, the young man immediately summoned Spider-girl. The massive Half-human Half-spider Demon instantly appeared at his side.

At the sight, the surrounding Association Card Masters were startled before immediately raising their guard.

They thought a demon had appeared, which was why the Vice President had summoned his card.

"Don’t panic."

Lu Su casually reassured them, then had Little Spider step forward and give it a try.

Yet the expected obstruction never came. The Demon’s Nest remained silent, as though the Space Rift not far away did not exist.

"Was it frightened by Ye Diantang?" Such a thought flashed through Lu Su’s mind. "Or could it be…"

Before he could think further, a somewhat familiar presence suddenly appeared beside him.

It was Yan Wenlai.

Lu Su withdrew his thoughts and casually greeted him. "Uncle Yan."

Seeing the young man, Yan Wenlai was taken aback. "Xiao Luo, didn’t you go back to your old school today?"

"You finished that quickly?"

Hearing that, the young man smiled.

After cutting out all the cumbersome procedures, simply sharing his experiences with a group of high school students had not taken much time at all.

Yan Wenlai did not intend to press the matter. He shook his head and asked about the situation on site.

After hearing his question, Lu Su gave him a simple explanation.

Just as the young man finished speaking, Spider-girl returned to his side using Space Magic.

"It won’t work, Lu Su. Even after Little Spider gave it everything, I still couldn’t overcome that Space Rift."

A dejected wail sounded in Lu Su’s mind.

He looked at Little Spider’s expressionless humanoid form and could not help feeling a slight sense of dissonance.

At that moment, Yan Wenlai noticed the strange look on Lu Su’s face and raised a brow. "What is it?"

"Did something happen?"

Lu Su briefly organized his words, then told the middle-aged man that Little Spider had been unable to destroy the Space Rift.

Yan Wenlai’s expression immediately turned serious. "It seems this Secret Realm won’t be low-grade."

Seeing Lu Su’s confusion, he explained, "Generally speaking, the higher the grade of a Secret Realm, the harder it is to destroy while its entrance is forming."

Lu Su froze. It was the first time he had learned that. "I see."

Boom—!

The sudden deafening sound interrupted the young man.

He turned toward the Space Rift in the distance and saw that the faint crack had completely transformed into a vortex-shaped Secret Realm Entrance.

At the same time, a terrifying aura was trying to squeeze out from the newly appeared Secret Realm.

"Lock down the area!"

Lu Su hurriedly gave the order to the surrounding Association Card Masters, then summoned his own cards.

Feeling that aura, the young man could not help muttering inwardly, Diamond Grade?

He relaxed slightly. If it was only Diamond Grade, it would not cause much damage to the current Shanghai City.

If it was a weaker Diamond Grade opponent, Lu Su alone would be enough to wipe out the Secret Realm.

But it was not long before he realized how horribly wrong he was.

"Awooo!"

A shriek that was almost agonized resounded through the heavens, followed by monstrous demon flames that struck terror into people’s souls.

Seeing this, Lu Su’s expression immediately darkened. "Master Grade…"

It was a Master Grade Demon, and one he had never seen before.

But soon, the young man realized which Master Grade Demon had arrived.

The Nation-Destroying Fox Demon. It was a demon that had appeared on Blue Star when the Secret Realms first descended, and it had wiped out a small nation shortly after appearing.

But if Lu Su remembered correctly, the records stated that this demon was only Diamond Grade. It had also remained hidden within that destroyed country, rarely interacting with the outside world.

Whether Card Masters or demons.

"It actually advanced to Master Grade…" Yan Wenlai’s expression was extremely grim.

Because the Demon Fox had basically stayed within its own little territory, Great Ming had received no news of it advancing to Master Grade.

And judging from its current posture, it had clearly come with ill intent. It could not possibly have come all the way to Great Ming just to invite them to dinner.

With such a huge commotion, Shanghai City naturally could not fail to notice.

Only a few breaths after the Demon Fox appeared, Bai Yueming had already arrived beside Lu Su.

Seeing his teacher, Lu Su inwardly breathed a sigh of relief. "Teacher."

Hearing his young disciple call out, Bai Yueming nodded and turned his gaze toward the distance. "Flesh King, Nation-Destroying Fox Demon."

"How did they end up together?"

Lu Su was also deeply puzzled by his teacher’s question.

In his memories, those two factions had virtually no contact with each other.

Just as all the Card Masters in Shanghai City stood ready for battle, a figure finally walked out of the newly appeared Secret Realm.

It was a male Diamond Grade Demon.

Under normal circumstances, he might have been intimidating. But with two Master Grade Demons present, the newly appeared demon could only be reduced to a stray dog by the roadside.

"Screech!!"

At that moment, another piercing howl rang out. Nine enormous tails that reached from heaven to earth appeared before Lu Su, and then a sea of flames capable of engulfing all Shanghai City descended from the sky.

The scene left everyone in Shanghai City standing frozen in place.

Bai Yueming immediately summoned King Yama to meet the attack head-on.

Pitch-black ink surged upward to meet the flames. The instant they made contact, an intense sizzling sound filled the air.

But this could not continue. After all, the demons on the sea could attack Shanghai City without restraint, while Lu Su and the others could not simply ignore the attacks directed at them.

Lu Su’s expression sank as his cards instantly rushed forward.

This was clearly no time to hold back. The Shinigami-type Cards led by Kurosaki Ichigo immediately underwent their fullest release, and Lu Su also poured every soul Soul’s Sanctuary had accumulated over the past days into Kurosaki Ichigo.

Boom—!

An enormous Pitch-Black Spiritual Pressure erupted from the ground in an instant. At this moment, the blond youth’s aura was even stronger than during his previous battle against the Spirit Summoning Society.

Watching this, Yan Wenlai stood beside Lu Su in silent shock.

Because he had been maintaining order in the city last time, he had only seen Kurosaki Ichigo’s final Mugetsu from afar and did not know much about the specific process.

But now, looking at Kurosaki Ichigo’s face that showed neither sorrow nor joy, he finally understood that ordinary Diamond Grade opponents would likely lose in a single exchange.

And moreover…

"So you made another new Diamond Grade card."

The middle-aged man noticed a Straw Hat Boy.

To be fair, the Straw Hat Boy’s art style was completely out of place beside the blond youth and the others. Yan Wenlai could tell at a glance that they did not belong to the same series.

After realizing that, he could not help feeling disappointed.

As a veteran Diamond Grade Card Master, he naturally understood why the blond youth had displayed such outrageous strength. It was entirely because Lu Su’s deck of cards had already been nearly completed.

With layer upon layer of Traits stacked together, it could achieve such strength by using one foot to step on the other.

The Straw Hat Boy clearly could not do that.

With that thought, Yan Wenlai let out a long breath before summoning his own cards.

At that moment, white mist had begun gradually spreading into Shanghai City, while vague silhouettes of demons started appearing across the sea.

When the latest Diamond Grade Demon saw the cards Lu Su and the others had summoned, his heart skipped a beat. Thank goodness Flesh contacted me in advance. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"This world…"

"No wonder that one desires it so desperately."

Thinking that, he glanced at the massive fleet that had appeared behind him.

"I can’t contact Will and the others either. It seems they’re already dead."

Just as he considered whether to promote several subordinates to fill the vacancies, his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a Straw Hat Boy.

"That is…?"

Though it was their first meeting, the demon felt strangely familiar with the youth’s aura. More importantly, he inexplicably resisted fighting him.

"Interesting."

Elsewhere.

Little Spider had already identified the information of the latest Diamond Grade Demon.

It was then that Lu Su roughly guessed the other party’s identity.

Name: Bullet

Title: Conqueror

Level: Diamond grade

Possible Material Drop: Lord of Heaven

He muttered, "The overlord from the Seven Seas Secret Realm?"

Very quickly, the young man made his decision.

He would have Luffy deal with Bullet. They were practically a perfect matchup, and this would keep Bullet from interfering with Kurosaki Ichigo and the others.

Glancing at the Shinigami-type Cards barely holding back the Demon Fox, Lu Su could not help frowning.

"If only Aizen and Old Man Yamamoto had both been made already."

The young man did not even hope to gather all three Diamond Grade Field Cards. As long as he had those two creature cards and either Las Noches or Seireitei advanced to Diamond Grade, he would have the confidence to confront and hold back a Master Grade Demon head-on.

As for killing one…

That would still depend on compatibility. If it were a ghost-type Master Grade Demon, there would be a strong chance.

While Lu Su’s thoughts wandered, the distance between Luffy and Bullet had already become extremely short.

Bullet grinned, his white teeth gleaming with a chilling light beneath the sun. "Kid, tell me your name!"

"Luffy." Luffy took off his straw hat and hung it behind his back. "Monkey D. Luffy."

After saying that, the youth took a deep breath, then began pounding his chest.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The dull heartbeat drew everyone’s attention.

"Hehehehe."

The little bursts of laughter constantly spilling from Luffy’s mouth made Bullet furrow his brow. "Kid, what’s so funny?"

Before he could finish speaking, his eyes suddenly widened.

Boom—!

Several bolts of black-red lightning burst from around Luffy’s body. In an instant, they grazed Bullet’s body and sank the massive warship behind him.

And this was only the beginning.

At that moment, the boy’s entire body was dyed white, the color of the sun and freedom. Covering his eyes with his right hand, he laughed wildly.

"HAHAHAHAHA!"