A person stood in mid-air, watching Fang Huairan about to fall into the water, and burst into laughter.
Liu Sandao understood. This person was an immortal, but with the black aura surrounding him, he was likely no benevolent being.
At this moment, Liu Sandao could not afford to ponder these details.
He lunged forward, preparing to save Fang Huairan.
When the young man saw Fang Huairan falling into the water, his mind went blank.
He didn't know what he had done.
Had the girl fallen, or had he pushed her, or had she fallen on her own?
With no time to consider, he merely noticed that the area he was in was dimly lit, likely unseen by anyone, and he thought of escaping the place quickly.
So, as Fang Huairan's entire body slipped past the railing, he turned and ran.
"This is not real," was the thought that echoed repeatedly in his mind.
Liu Sandao's immediate intention was to save Fang Huairan, but just as he was about to act, "Hong Hong Wo" intervened.
"Hey, hey, hey, do you have any sense of order?"
As "Hong Hong Wo" spoke, he cast a spell, blocking Liu Sandao's path.
But as Liu Sandao flew, he had already sent out a surge of his power to support Fang Huairan's body, preventing her from falling into the water.
"Who are you? Hurry and save that girl!"
Liu Sandao said, pointing at Fang Huairan.
"Hong Hong Wo!"
Hong Hong Wo, without beating around the bush, spoke, but did not move to save Fang Huairan.
Judging by Liu Sandao's movements, he knew that Liu Sandao was also an immortal.
Liu Sandao, however, was puzzled. He was a sturdy, burly man, so why insist on being "coaxed"?
Could he be...?
Such things only existed in the mortal realm, and had only recently been widely accepted.
Had it also spread from the mortal realm to the heavens?
"Alas, it's truly a long and complicated story!"
Liu Sandao muttered inwardly to himself.
"Hey, you're this old, and you still need someone to coax you? How will you show your face if this gets out?"
Liu Sandao, using a method he wasn't quite good at, teased.
"What do you mean, 'Hong Hong Wo!'"
The fierce god spoke with his mouth habitually wide open, just like a child speaking, utterly uncouth.
Liu Sandao's skin crawled.
"Coax your head! You're such a grown person, looking like you're in your seventies or eighties, and you still want to be coaxed? Aren't you ashamed!"
Liu Sandao, unconsciously using earthly curses, blurted out.
"Listen to me clearly, my name is 'Hong Hong Wo!', understand?"
The fierce god revealed his nickname, a name he had painstakingly come up with.
It was for the sake of completing missions and to conceal his strength.
Liu Sandao understood and no longer argued with him.
His current task was to rescue Fang Huairan, not just to help Bai Suxiang.
As for why he didn't use a fortunate fruit, it was because the Book of Fortune had not shown any movement, indicating that no fortunate fruit was needed.
Moreover, from his understanding, Fang Huairan had few fortunate fruits remaining, and to bestow one now would harm her body and deplete her blessings.
Seeing Liu Sandao fall silent, the fierce god quickly changed the subject and said:
"Fellow immortal, I beg you to lend a hand! Let her fall!"
"Why?" Liu Sandao asked, confused.
"What? You don't know?"
"Know what?" Liu Sandao did not understand his meaning and repeated himself.
"All immortals know this, and you don't? It's that fortunate fruit system, the system that issues missions!"
The fierce god said, glancing at Liu Sandao from the corner of his eye.
"I know, but the fortunate fruit system is for saving people. You could have helped just now, so why didn't you act?"
Liu Sandao said, then inquired again about what he had seen from "Hong Hong Wo."
"My mission is for her to drown. Why should I act?"
"What?"
Liu Sandao was greatly surprised. "When did the fortunate fruit system become like this?"
"It's always been like this!"
"Hong Hong Wo" said calmly.
He had been doing this for a while and had accumulated twenty to thirty fortunate fruits so far.
"Let me see your mission list!"
At this moment, Liu Sandao, through the secret technique of the "Ruoshui Fu," used water vapor to support Fang Huairan.
Fang Huairan was now pale with fright, her mind a complete blank.
"Hong Hong Wo" was amenable and directly produced his mission list, which indeed stated:
Fang Huairan drowns, ten fortunate fruits.
"This..."
Now it was Liu Sandao's turn to be bewildered. What on earth was going on?
"Hong Hong Wo" had no patience. While Liu Sandao was momentarily distracted, he unleashed eighty percent of his true energy and struck at Fang Huairan.
Liu Sandao was caught off guard.
But fortunately, he was an ancient immortal. The magical power of "Hong Hong Wo" was ultimately too weak.
How could "Hong Hong Wo" give up so easily?
This was ten fortunate fruits, a full ten of them.
Once this task was completed, he would have achieved a certain level of success, making him a high-ranking minor immortal on the mission board of Sandong City.
However, this mysterious opponent opposite him also possessed some skill.
But his Celestial Silkworm Umbrella was not to be trifled with.
This Celestial Silkworm Umbrella was made from the celestial silkworm silk from the immortal realm.
It was woven by the great Weaver Girl before she descended to the mortal realm, taking forty-nine days and resulting in a single drop of the exquisite Celestial Silkworm Tear.
The Celestial Silkworm Umbrella, when unfurled, spanned a hundred miles.
It was pure white and emitted a dazzling white light when opened.
Anyone struck by this white light would immediately be blinded. Immortals would experience temporary blindness.
In that fleeting moment of blindness, it would seize the enemy invisibly.
Woven from soft celestial silkworm threads, it could change its form to match the shape of shifting immortals.
Once the Celestial Silkworm Umbrella was deployed, even the Great Heavenly King would have to evade it.
"I told you to let her fall, and you didn't listen. Don't blame me for being impolite!"
"Hong Hong Wo" said, and then produced his Celestial Silkworm Umbrella. A white light shot rapidly towards Liu Sandao.
Liu Sandao, caught off guard, was blinded by the white light, his vision instantly turning a milky white.
He instinctively covered his eyes, but in doing so, he lost his grip and could no longer support Fang Huairan's body.
"Plop!"
After a loud splash, Fang Huairan fell into the water.
Because she was so tense, she had no time to scream.
When she regained consciousness, she only felt difficulty breathing and involuntarily gasped water.
But the more she drank, the more suffocated she felt.
Her hands flailed wildly, and her feet kicked frantically.
At this point under the bridge of Guazi River, the water was deep, and it was night, so no splashes could be seen.
The moment the Celestial Silkworm Umbrella was activated, Fu Ruhai was in a taxi.
He felt a huge beam of light shooting from the sky towards the Guazi River.
It was only for an instant, but he inadvertently saw someone fall into the water.
His intuition told him that it was Fang Huairan.