First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

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Over here, Lu Ding led his people toward White Sun Palace.

Ready to launch a bloody battle.

On the other side.

Ji Continent.

Inside the Two Straight Towers' Supreme Room.

Lu Xiu tossed out a sheet of information written with Lu Ding's details.

"Find a good hand, kill him, then take your own life."

The woman twisted her body, showcasing her perfect curves while raising her hand to catch the document and scan it.

Her eyes locked onto the key point, landing on the surname Lu.

She spoke, "Fifth Young Master, that Lu surname... it's not something you can just casually order a kill on."

Lu Xiu smiled as he looked at her, his tone becoming respectful in that moment.

"Aunt Rou, you wouldn't want those things between you and my father to reach my eldest aunt and my mother's ears, would you?"

The woman's face instantly turned icy cold.

"Are you threatening me!?"

Lu Xiu shook his head: "How could this be called a threat? It's just a reminder."

"My eldest aunt could tolerate my mother only because my father threatened to kill himself, leaving her no choice, and the rice was already cooked. But this kind of tactic only works once. For this, my father paid a heavy price at the Shui family and with the ancestor, enduring unimaginable punishment."

"If the matter between you and my father were to be exposed again, let alone what would happen to my father..."

"Just you, and these Two Straight Towers, wouldn't end well."

"For these Two Straight Towers to operate as they do today, my father has put in a lot of effort behind the scenes. You've also doted on me since I was young. Consider this me begging you, help me, how about it?"

The woman took a deep breath: "Help you? Fine, but I have to go ask your father first, just who this Lu Ding really is."

Lu Xiu raised his hand: "No need to ask, Aunt Rou. I'll tell you directly: he's my older brother, my biological older brother, from the same father and mother. He's just been lost outside, but he's extraordinarily talented. Though I don't want to admit it, the truth is, he's more talented than me."

"If he comes back, I'll forever be overshadowed by him."

"My parents' guilt, combined with his own talent—in the future, there will be no room for me to rise in the Lu Family."

"I don't want, after finally having a chance to surpass my sister, to have to deal with another terrifying monster of an older brother."

The woman called Aunt Rou sneered: "Does he know?"

Lu Xiu nodded: "Father naturally knows."

Aunt Rou instantly exploded: "He knows and you still want me to go kill this person? Are you trying to get me killed!?"

"Or are you overestimating the relationship between me and your father!?"

"Do you think that even if I kill one of his sons, I'll walk away unscathed!"

"It's not pleasant to say, but there are no outsiders here, and you know the real situation, so I'll be blunt—I'm just your father's mistress. Your father is devoted, but he's also promiscuous. In his early years, he was downright dissolute! I'm not the only mistress he has!!"

"Moreover, I love him! How could I do something that hurts him!"

Lu Xiu's expression turned serious: "What if I said that once I take the position of the Lu Family's young master, I will spare no effort to drag Aunt Rou out of the shadows and make you my father's legitimate concubine!?"

Any benefit, when weighed against Lu Teng's issues, seemed utterly insignificant to her.

Except this identity.

For a woman, it held an irresistible allure.

When she was young, her family was poor, living at the bottom of countless people, yet she met that one dazzling youth who overshadowed everyone.

Back then, the woman thought, he might be her entire life.

It was Lu Teng who rescued her from dire straits, Lu Teng who led her onto the path of cultivation, Lu Teng who gave her an unimaginable identity.

In her life up to now, although she held a noble status...

If she had a choice, she could give up everything just to stay by Lu Teng's side, as a concubine, or even a maidservant.

For Lu Teng, she could do anything without regard for the cost.

For the status of being by his side, she could do the same.

The woman's cold eyes turned icy, as if she had made up her mind: "Is that really true!?"

Lu Xiu stood up: "Not a single false word. I can swear to the heavens: if Aunt Rou can help me eliminate Lu Ding, after it's done, when I, Lu Xiu, fight to become the Lu Family's young master, I will do everything in my power to lift Aunt Rou out of the shadows and make you my father's legitimate concubine!"

"If I break this oath, may I die under a thousand blades, chopped into pieces!"

After hearing this, the woman stood up and took the document: "Then I'll take this job. You go back first. Two Straight Towers has its own rules—scheme before acting!"

Lu Xiu bowed respectfully: "Thank you, Aunt Rou. I knew Aunt Rou loved me the most."

After Lu Xiu left.

The woman stared at the document in her hand, lost in thought.

"Lu Ding... Lu Ding..."

The more she murmured this name, the more familiar it felt.

As if she had heard it somewhere before.

But for a moment, she couldn't recall.

As the leader of an assassin organization.

She wouldn't make the mistake of putting aside what she couldn't figure out first.

Anything that left an impression on her couldn't be ordinary, nor could it be just casual hearsay.

Not to mention, Great Han was still a great distance from Ji Continent.

Even on Ji Continent, she had heard of it...

Then this person...

Gongyang Qingrou's mind rapidly searched through every possible detail related to Lu Ding.

Suddenly!!!!

She came to an abrupt halt.

In her mind, a scene froze.

Demon Continent.

Lü Mountain.

The Demon Lord's True Inheritance Stele, the last column: Lu Ding!!!!!!

In an instant.

Gongyang Qingrou's back broke out in a cold sweat!

Compared to Ji Continent, the terror of Demon Continent was beyond words.

To put it simply: the people of Demon Continent rarely ventured out. If even one walked out, even an ordinary person, they would be a rare genius and perfect uncut jade that the outside world would fight over.

Because this place was just too sinister. With the word 'demon' at its head, demonic humans ruled the way.

And within it, Lü Mountain was a hegemon-level existence.

To describe Lü Mountain in one sentence: If one does not become a demon through humanity, how can one use humanity to suppress demons?

At Lü Mountain, everyone is a demon, but in essence, they are all human. They are fiercer than demons, more terrifying than demons. Clinging to the essence of humanity, they suppress the demons of a continent into submission, while spirits, monsters, and ghosts are nothing more than materials to be raised.

Thus, Lü Mountain on Demon Continent also had another name: The Demon Lord's True Palace.

And Lü Mountain also had an incredibly terrifying event called the Centennial Demon Feeding.

It sounded heinous, but in reality, it was a reversal of heaven's order.

The Centennial Demon Feeding here fed the Demon Lord's True Palace of Lü Mountain.

Because Demon Continent's geographical location was special, bordering the first circle of life-and-death, demons spontaneously generated. So every hundred years, Lü Mountain would cleanse Demon Continent, killing demons, refining demons, eating demons...

Named the Centennial Demon Feeding, in truth, it was feeding humans with demons. Humans were more ferocious than demons, so to demons, Lü Mountain itself was the true demon, hence the term Centennial Demon Feeding.

As for why Gongyang Qingrou knew that Lu Ding's name was on the Demon Lord's True Inheritance Stele—it was because before, Two Straight Towers had taken in a young prodigy with a symbiotic ancient demon from Demon Continent.

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Dear readers, I get one day off per month, so I'm taking a half-day today to sort my health out, get my last IV drip, and that should be about it. I'll have time to properly plan the upcoming plot, and the Crooked-Mouth Old Man and Lü Mountain should be making their appearance soon.