The Qilin was the number one auspicious beast in Huaxia, the king of all beasts.
However, the Fire Qilin was special. It seemed to be born with a mission or restriction.
It had the same ability as the Fire Demon, but its flames were more powerful and it seemed to be able to fly.
It kicked the air with its four hooves and flew into the air. Then, a bolt of lightning struck his head.
"Boom!"
The thunderbolt smashed onto his huge horns. It was very powerful, and Lan Mu immediately staggered.
"Ouch! Ouch! "Lan Mu looked up in shock. He saw the dark clouds in the sky and could faintly see the brewing lightning.
"Why did it strike me?"
Lan Mu never thought that he would be struck by lightning after turning into a Qilin.
When the second bolt of lightning struck, he wanted to dodge, but the lightning was too fast and its trajectory was unpredictable. It refracted in midair and struck his head.
"It's coming for me!"
Lan Mu took two bolts of lightning head-on and realized that his head was really hard. His lightning resistance was extremely high.
The two bolts of lightning were each more powerful than the last. He only felt pain, but it was nothing serious.
"Damn it, why does it feel like a tribulation? Why would I go through a tribulation when I have nothing better to do? "
"It's still the same feeling as before. Do I have to go back to Huaxia?"
Lan Mu could still feel the pressure of heaven and earth, forcing him to go back to where he was supposed to go.
"You two wait for me here. I'll be back in six days at the latest!"
Lan Mu took the third bolt of lightning. His head was numb and the pain was unbearable.
He hurriedly told Luo Yan and Song Yixue, then took to the air and flew northeast.
The connection between his heart and the land was never broken. This direction, this distance, wasn't it in Huaxia?
The Fire Qilin's flying speed was extremely slow. It was about the same as Sha Shengmaru's speed. It seemed to be slower than his running speed.
Therefore, Lan Mu jumped back to the ground and ran with his hooves. For a moment, he seemed to have turned into a raging flame. Every time he jumped, he could cross hundreds of meters.
"Boom!"
Another bolt of lightning struck. Lan Mu, who was running, tilted his head and almost fell.
"It's not over yet!"
At this time, Lan Mu had already run back to Tibet. Following his gallop, he involuntarily left behind flaming footprints.
He restrained his flames and did not let them burn the prairie.
If the thunderclouds in the sky were forcing him to return to China, why would they still strike him when he was already in Tibet?
"I'm still a distance away from the land I've established a connection with. Does that mean I can't even stay in Tibet?"
Lan Mu already had a guess. He felt that he would only be able to escape the fate of being struck by lightning after entering the Sichuan Province.
"First of all, I wasn't struck by lightning because I was too strong … This lightning didn't do much damage to me. At most, it gave me a headache."
"Besides, what's so strong about transforming for 12 days? I don't have any restrictions when I become an angel. "
"The only explanation is that as a Fire Qilin, you can't leave your homeland in ancient Huaxia. This seems to be a contract that is deeply imprinted in your genes. It's a mission that you have to abide by forever."
…
The humans had already discovered traces of the Fire Qilin.
A Fire Qilin was running wildly on the ground. Its mystical appearance attracted everyone's attention and made them dumbfounded.
Even more surprising was the thunderclouds in the sky that were chasing after the Fire Qilin. Each thundercloud was thicker than the previous one, but the Fire Qilin ignored it and ran all the way to the east.
The commotion was so great that it was impossible for the humans not to notice it. Lan Mu couldn't hide it either.
He thought that since he was an angel, it wouldn't matter if a Fire Qilin appeared.
Thus, the Fire Qilin was struck by lightning all the way. It was as if they had returned to ancient times.
"Is that a Fire Qilin?"
"A Fire Qilin?"
"Isn't a Fire Qilin an auspicious beast? Why is it being struck by lightning? "
"This lightning is too strange. It's chasing after the Fire Qilin …"
Many people saw the Fire Qilin with their own eyes, but they couldn't catch up. They only caught a glimpse.
Qianlong and the Chinese government soon discovered the anomaly in Tibet. A group of fighter jets flew in from an unknown military airport and followed the Fire Qilin from afar.
There was also a group of cars on the ground that didn't dare to get close or lose track of the Fire Qilin. This was Qianlong's secret service team.
There were people chasing after him in the sky and on the ground. Lan Mu had noticed it long ago, but he couldn't do anything about it. The thunderclouds were too annoying.
It didn't feel good to be chased and struck without being able to fight back. His top priority was to get rid of the thunderclouds.
"Almost there!"
It took Lan Mu less than an hour to cross half of Tibet. He was struck by 30 thunderbolts along the way, and his huge horns were almost smashed.
When he crossed the border of Sichuan, the thunderclouds finally dissipated.
Sichuan had many mountains. Lan Mu stood on a big rock halfway up a small mountain and looked at the thunderclouds in the sky that dissipated with the wind. His heart was full of doubts.
"This lightning is too strange. It only appeared to chase me back to the country. Now that I've entered the ancient Huaxia homeland, it's gone. Will it appear again when I go out?"
Lan Mu frowned. Such a regular thundercloud, not only did it have a triggering and dissipating mechanism, but it also chased after him. It was definitely a supernatural phenomenon.
Since it was a supernatural phenomenon, Lan Mu's first thought was that it was an anomaly.
"That's not right! Why would an anomaly target me? Why would it target the Fire Qilin? "
"It's like it's monitoring the Fire Qilin's existence. It's specifically keeping me in the ancient Huaxia homeland. What did I do to provoke it?"
"Could it be that the heavens are actually an anomaly?"
After being struck on the head dozens of times, Lan Mu felt like his brain was about to explode. The more he thought about it, the more confused he became.
"I can't just treat everything as an anomaly. The characteristics of an anomaly are different from a supernatural one. Many of my transformations have supernatural abilities. The life sphere is an anomaly, but isn't the target of my transformation an anomaly? According to the rules, a supernatural entity created by an anomaly is called a 'derivative' "
"But it's obvious that there's a problem with the way CANC categorizes things. At least, many of my transformations aren't as simple as' derivative ', because I can also create more supernatural entities, such as an army of the dead, an army of fire elementals, an army of ghosts, an army of vampires, and so on … should they be called' derivative 'of' derivative '?"
While Lan Mu was thinking, the sound of a helicopter could be heard from the sky. There was a military base in Chuan province that immediately rushed to the Fire Qilin's location after receiving orders from above.
When the pilot saw the Fire Qilin with his own eyes, he was completely stunned. They weren't Qianlong's agents, so they didn't have much contact with supernatural entities. Furthermore, the Fire Qilin's image was so deeply ingrained in people's minds that even the government didn't know what to do with him.
Lan Mu glanced at the helicopter, then ignored it and entered the mountain range.
The helicopter hurriedly followed him, but only observed from afar, not daring to do anything.
In a short period of time, the government had established over a hundred outposts around this mountain range, completely surrounding the area. As soon as the Fire Qilin left, it would be discovered.
Qianlong's agents quickly arrived. Even if it was a Fire Qilin, they still had to take in anomalies.
However, just as Qianlong was about to take action, the government suddenly stopped their plans.
This was because the Fire Qilin was simply too conspicuous as it swaggered into Chuan province.
Along the way from the hinterland of Tibet, many people had witnessed the Fire Qilin's heroic appearance.
Even if some locals didn't recognize it, they still saw the constant flashes of lightning in the sky. Such a miraculous sight had never been heard of in the past thousand years. With the two phenomena combined, the news quickly spread throughout the country through tourists.
Various videos were circulating on the internet. Because Lan Mu's running was simply too conspicuous, thousands of people had taken pictures of him along the way. There was no doubt that the videos were authentic.
The Fire Qilin's name was simply too well-known, especially in China, where it was like thunder.
Who had seen a Fire Qilin before? This was a divine beast, the world's number one auspicious sign, bar none!
Moreover, it was a Fire Qilin! If it was just a beast that looked like a Fire Qilin, some people might have questioned it, saying that it was a mutated monster or a man-made animal.
However, the flames couldn't be faked, right? The flames were full of spirituality, burning the grass clean. However, as the Fire Qilin ran, it was retracted, obviously to prevent a prairie fire.
With such spirituality and supernatural abilities, who could say that it wasn't a divine beast?
"The Fire Qilin is born!"
"A Fire Qilin wrapped in flames!"
"It's more than three meters tall, and its horns are incomparably mystical. So cool!"
"Why was it struck by lightning? Did it do something wrong? "
"Are you an idiot? You don't even know about the tribulation? Can't you see that the Fire Qilin isn't afraid of lightning? It's completely fine! "
"Are you a Fire Qilin? If you're not a Fire Qilin, how do you know that it doesn't need to undergo tribulation? "
"The Fire Qilin has completed its tribulation. It's now in Chuan province. I'm going to find it!"
"I'm already here … Please follow me. I'm going to broadcast the phenomenon!"
Some people nearby heard the news and rushed to the mountains where the Fire Qilin was hiding.
The mountains were complicated, but everyone knew where the Fire Qilin was.
This was because it was too conspicuous. In broad daylight, there were clouds of fire in the sky, and a rainbow floated above the Fire Qilin's head. It was difficult not to notice it!
Such a phenomenon could be seen from afar, and it was immediately spread, arousing the excitement of the people.
They finally understood why the Fire Qilin was said to be an auspicious sign. Wherever it went, it would bring about a phenomenon. Coupled with its incomparably mystical appearance, people didn't fear it at all. Instead, they wanted to get close to it and interact with it!
"The rise of a country is bound to bring about auspicious signs."
The government was helpless in the face of the sudden emergence of public opinion.
There was still freedom of speech, and there was no reason to ban it. There were too many people who saw the Fire Qilin, and there was no way to stop it.
At this time, the Cathayan government finally understood the helplessness of more than a hundred countries not long ago. The Fire Qilin was born with the advantage of public opinion, so how could the government dare to openly confront such an existence?
Would you fight it or not? Even if it was an anomaly, would you dare to touch it?
The governments of the various countries still wanted to play it safe. This kind of 'dirty work', 'tiring work', and 'thankless work' was all left to the CANC.
After the War of the Angels, the various countries threw the blame to the CANC. After all, the people needed an explanation. Why did the Fire Qilin attack the Fire Qilin when it appeared?
Only the CANC could take the blame for this, and only they dared to take the blame! Of course, the CANC chose to create a peripheral organization, a terrorist organization that specialized in taking the blame. On the surface, they were wanted by the world.
But the Cathayan government was different, they had no one to blame! The Fire Qilin directly appeared in their hinterland, and whether it was an auspicious sign or a disaster, it was all on the Cathayan government.
Qianlong's internal department requested to take in the Fire Qilin, but they still couldn't come up with a reliable plan.
They were different from the CANC. They weren't independent, but they belonged to the government. So until there was a better solution, the government would rather maintain the current situation and let the Fire Qilin stay in the mountains. After all, it hadn't caused any disasters yet.
At the very least, public opinion was in favor of the country. As long as it was beneficial, what did principles matter? They weren't a principled organization like the CANC.
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