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Did he think that the streets of his city were actually empty during the Mid Autumn Festival?

A Moderator would have laughed at that.

It was a special day. 

While there were no humans present as Han Jing was reassured as he ran with freedom and without a care—there were far more individuals and creatures that also celebrated the day. 

A day that took note and commemorated bountiful harvests and worshipped the moon.Even if they lived in narrow alleyways of the city and were far from their natural habitats, it did not mean that there was no time for them to honor such a grand day.

To think that he'd be free from such influences was inherently naive.

The Moderator Peach wasn't one to try to watch too much of the individuals as she was expected to be impartial, robotic and completely logical like her fellow Moderators from various servers… but she was bound to think that this Human was interesting.

Numerous factors ebbed in and out.

Charts and scales rose in level and it couldn't be stopped at all.

Perhaps if Han Jing had decided to remove both Odele and Jilanya from the picture then it might have worked.  His desire to be separate from the big fishes and just stay in the small pond forever could have worked.

But he kept in contact with too many races.

The Wood Elf might have actually proved to be the most cautious out of all of them—despite his aggravating presence.

Faeranduil ensured that he would stay undetected and was able to sojourn and relax on Earth for more than two weeks without alerting the world of his presence. Neither did he make the World worry that his arrival would change things.

It was contrary to both the Mermaid and the Demon Lord.

The Mermaid compared to the other two more primordial entities was a resident of earth as much as Han Jing. Her code was a lot more closer to his than of the other two at exactly ROEUOA027 which stood for Undine Ocean Atlantis and the twenty-seventh in her immediate area to have been summoned as a representative.

Odele didn't think that walking to dry land would change things, many of her people have blended in without much notice. Actually, she was aware of a certain Mermaid that was actually a beloved idol through her voice and compared to that, what did Odele do?

Even if she tried to free every single fish in the aquarium at the water park… that wouldn't have been a problem, right? Surely, compared to a Mermaid that used her voice to gain fans—freeing the fishes was small stuff, right?

Well, she turned out to be wrong.

In the scope of World Threat Meters—she was at least a rank D that needed much attention from the world to see if she'd do anything drastic that could change how the world functioned. 

Regular humans didn't think it was okay to have an individual declare that water parks were wrong and then carry all of the sea creatures through controlling the waters.

Thankfully, Han Jing stopped that from happening.

Still, even if it did… then the chances of damage control was still possible.

Maybe if it had just been Odele and Han Jing on their little amusement park date then even if things changed for Han Jing… it wouldn't have been drastic. The World would have categorized him under a Rank D maybe.

Someone who might change the world but without any changes that could cause alarm. The local cultivator groups in his city would care about the upcoming Han Jing—but the world would have continued on without any trouble. 

However, it was Jilanya's presence that rubbed off the most on him.

An actual Demon Lord who didn't even bother to hide her presence from the World and also traveled to at least eight different locations worldwide before finally finding Han Jing and the rest.

Her visit alone killed about thirty individuals that tried to bring her down.

A small number compared to other Overlords that dared to bring destruction—except they were monumental individuals. Similar to other Demon Lords, Kings and others of her ranking… She was a Hero Killer.

And her aura practically rubbed off on Han Jing.

The Moderator Peach could have replied to the human when he first started chatting with her, but she wanted to see how much he actually listened to her advice. The results?

Hardly anything at all.

[ Han Jing's World Presence ]

[ ROEHSC001 Aura Wavelength Levels ]

[ Human Representative Sixty-Nine ]

The individual is still at a weak point in terms of his potential existence, but his connections with great individuals has given him a specific imprint in the world's view. A small mark of Demon Lord/her power and name has been involuntarily given to him. 

Groups and individuals harmed by the Demon Lord Jilanya will find her lingering presence on him and will consider him as an enemy. Ordinary spirits and creatures in his surroundings can tell that he has met up with a powerful demon and will usually cower from him.

[ Current World Threat Ranks: C ( Potential To Cause A Cross-Nation-Wide Disaster and Conflict: Very High ) ]

The Moderator Peach shook her head and turned away from the screen.

"If by some luck… his luck actually works out and he gets home in one piece, then I'd salute him." 

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The streets of the city were not empty at all when Han Jing stepped and ran through them—he tried to ignore them, but unlike the time when he first arrived and found it completely empty… there were things just beyond his glimpse.

One moment he was looking at an empty street but then there was something else in his vision. A shadow that quickly disappeared when he tried to look at it.

There were silhouettes and sounds.

Something that sounded like people also enjoying the festival—but he was pretty damn sure that they weren't human at all. The shapes were clearly not human.

Han Jing's expression froze and he pretended like the grin on his face was right there and wouldn't leave at all.

Pretend like he was an idiot—he was good at that!

It wasn't difficult to be something that he was. And yet the longer he ran, the more they started appearing in his vision. At first they cowered and seemed to immediately disappear whenever he glanced at them, but the more he traversed through the streets… they stayed firmly in place and seemed to not be bothered by his presence at all.

What exactly was happening?

A blast of fireworks made Han Jing shot up into the air as he tightened his grasp on the mooncake boxes. He didn't expect that those things would be available in this place too.

Some laughter echoed within the halls.

Han Jing finally caught who they were—they were spirits that lived in the city. That was supposed to be a huge duh… that should have been obvious right from the start, but it was only now that he saw them.

Their shapes and forms were as varied as anything that he could see. Some looked tall, pink and fleshy with long necks that stretched past the streetlights. Its eyes—or eye in this case was looking at the light show displayed in the sky.

It was accompanied by a smaller buddy with a yellow round body wearing ancient traditional robes. This spirit—creature had an extremely large mouth, several of its teeth protruding. The two of its eyes—quickly glanced at Han Jing.

"What are you looking for, ya punk?!"

The voice that came out was distinctively human despite their appearances. Han Jing quickly turned away and averted his gaze. What the heck was he doing? He tried to move forward but then was blocked by several multi-colored fur balls that rolled past him, children's laughter sounding in his ears.

Han Jing had never seen such odd things before and it made his head spin slightly.

The voice of the spirit from earlier still kept shouting and yet he couldn't even understand it now. How did he understand it awhile ago? Han Jing thought he had seen strangeness when he first encountered the Chut, but that thing was humanoid.

When he was with Faeranduil in the park and had seen creatures and spirits… those that didn't have human shapes still looked like animals. He had seen a turtle that was ascending via cultivation—so what were these things?

Were they people like him?

How come he had never seen them before at all? 

Han Jing found himself a little dizzy for some reason—their presence bothered him more than anything. He nearly dropped the box of mooncakes but tried to quickly navigate to find his way back to his apartment.

And yet these creatures, spirits or whatever they were kept appearing. 

Each one of them looked more unnatural  than the next and he practically tried to sprint past them. He collided with something that was extremely large and may or may not have looked like an oversized ogre—Han Jing pushed past the guy.

"Watch where you're going!" The gruff voice snarled at him. "Damn humans."

The wind blew right past his face and he could hear radio static overcome his ears. More and more they started popping up in his field of vision and they started to overrun the streets that Han Jing soon realized he was in a sea of them.

They didn't exist when he was here before—so what were they? Spirits? Probably, but never something that he encountered before… something caught his eye in the crowd.

Or maybe he forced himself to find something to latch onto.

It was the shape of a cat.

He didn't know if he was imagining it, but it was the exact cat-creature that he first saw when  he arrived. Han Jing remembered that it was all black, shadowy and inky like some sort of ink blot before. 

A creature of shadows as he once deemed it before.

Now it was so full of colors—it nearly blinded him. Before it had only hissed at him and was so cut off away from him, now it had a glimmer of intelligence in its eyes that beckoned him to follow it past the sea of spirits. 

Han Jing once again entered and had finally seen a full view of the world that coexisted with his. 

The several layers of the earth.

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Author's Note: It may have been a little too long since you last read it so the details may be forgotten, but check Chapter 200 for Han Jing's first visit into this realm and where he encounters the cat that reappears here. As for the danger levels of Jilanya, you can reread Chapter 237 where she meets Han Ji-Woo and other heroic individuals living on Earth. (That may have actually died based on Moderator Peach's words) Last but not the least, Chapter 250 for the cultivating turtle.