Chapter 76 : Chapter 76
Chapter 76: This Venerable One Will Definitely Devour Lu Zhan!
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In the aisle, after Li Chang easily defused the conflict between Wang Qihua and Zhang Xiaolian, the two of them each let out a cold snort and sat back down, and the carriage returned to a surface calm.
Suddenly, Lu Zhan sensed that hostility again.
Lu Zhan smiled. His instincts had indeed been right.
At this point, he was almost certain that this malice was connected to Wang Qihua, but it was not coming from Wang Qihua himself.
He had seen that man’s eyes before. Fear. Extreme fear of him.
Still, it had to have a great deal to do with Wang Qihua.
Lu Zhan merely watched coldly, in no hurry to act.
He was waiting. Sooner or later, the other party would fail to hold back and reveal an opening.
A moment later, Wang Qihua turned and went to the restroom.
Splash, splash, splash!
The sound of running water rang out, along with a low, suppressed interrogation.
It sounded as though he were furious.
“Why do you insist on getting close to Lu Zhan?”
Wang Qihua spoke to the empty air, but there was added wariness and fear in his eyes.
“I already warned you. He is the Asura Saber, not someone we can afford to provoke. No one who offends him ever meets a good end.”
“That goes for humans, it goes for demons, and even... Specters are no exception.”
The Asura Saber. There was no one in Shanzhu County who had not heard that name.
He was infamous for his ruthlessness and brutality.
In the next instant, a strand of black smoke appeared in the restroom. Seen through the mirror, it took the form of a burly middle-aged man.
The sight was extremely bizarre.
Wang Qihua was clearly standing there, but the figure reflected in the mirror was someone else entirely.
If Lu Zhan had been here, he would have recognized the man at once. He was the Specter wanted by the Demon Extermination Bureau— Night Shadow, and also Li Shanhong, the one who had been directing killing intent at him.
Li Shanhong’s icy voice rang directly in Wang Qihua’s mind.
“Silence!”
“When this Venerable One acts, since when is it your place, insect, to point fingers?”
In his eyes, he had already devoured a squadron leader from the Demon Extermination Bureau. A mere Jurisdiction Head meant nothing to him.
Asura Saber? The name certainly sounded impressive enough.
Although he did not want trouble at a time like this, the power of qi and blood in that youth’s body smelled far too irresistible.
He simply could not hold himself back.
“Insect?”
“If it were not for this insect, your soul would have been blasted to pieces by the Demon Extermination Bureau long ago, would it not?”
Wang Qihua replied coldly, clearly deeply dissatisfied.
He had witnessed last night’s events with his own eyes.
Although Li Shanhong had killed Hu Guangming, he had also nearly been beaten until his soul scattered.
It had been Wang Qihua’s rotten luck to pass by there. Otherwise, Li Shanhong would already have died completely.
“I advise you not to get any crooked ideas. We’re tied to the same rope now. Without my cover, the Demon Extermination Bureau will find you sooner or later.”
A moment ago, he had been sitting perfectly well in regular class, but Li Shanhong had insisted that he switch to business class.
At the time, he had not thought much of it. But the moment he changed carriages, well then—he had switched right into the Asura Saber’s face.
He had already wanted to avoid that young man. And now, after Li Shanhong’s little stunt, he had hidden himself right under the other party’s nose.
Only then did he realize what Li Shanhong was really after.
He had set his sights on that young man.
That thought was dangerous. He had to stop him.
After Wang Qihua said all this, the air in the restroom seemed to freeze.
One man and one Specter stood in silent confrontation, while the only sound was the rushing water from the faucet.
Although the Specter’s pressure on Wang Qihua was immense, the last shred of reason left in him told him one thing: he absolutely could not make an enemy of Lu Zhan.
He feared both of them, but his fear of Lu Zhan clearly surpassed his fear of the Specter.
“Hmph. Cover for me? If this Venerable One did not need that shell of yours to conceal my aura for the time being and recover my strength, do you think you would have lived until now?”
“So now you mean to resist this Venerable One, insect?”
Wang Qihua’s face turned deathly pale. He could clearly feel Li Shanhong’s greed for Lu Zhan’s flesh and blood.
But...The moment he recalled Lu Zhan’s past deeds, he shuddered violently.
“Madman!!! You’re a fucking madman!!!”
“There are so many Blood Meals in this world, so why do you have to provoke him?!!”
“You’ll die!!! If you provoke him, you will definitely die!!!”
“I don’t want to die!!! Let me go, and I’ll pretend none of this ever happened!”
Wang Qihua’s emotions were clearly on the verge of collapse.
Li Shanhong prided himself on having seen all kinds of people, but this was the first time he had ever seen someone fear another person to this degree.
Should he give up on that youth?
No!!!
He had a feeling that if he devoured that youth, he might be able to break through to the Fierce Specter Realm.
That was the fourth realm of Specter cultivation!
With his aptitude, the Sixth Level of the Malicious Specter Realm was already his limit.
No matter how much flesh and blood he devoured, it would not be enough to push him into the Fierce Specter Realm. Only flesh like Lu Zhan’s—flesh backed by a powerful body and overflowing qi and blood—could help him shatter that bottleneck.
In his eyes, Lu Zhan’s tempered physique was a supreme great medicine.
“No! This Venerable One will never give up! This Venerable One will definitely devour him! This Venerable One will definitely devour Lu Zhan!”
Li Shanhong’s tone was utterly resolute.
“Then get the hell out of my body!”
Wang Qihua smashed his fist into the sink and let out a low, hoarse roar.
At the mere thought of facing the legendary Asura Saber, his calves began to tremble.
If he fell into a Specter’s hands, then at worst he would die.
But if he fell into the Asura Saber’s hands, death would be the best possible outcome. If he truly enraged him, he would be cut apart piece by piece.
Many people believed that the blade in Asura Saber referred to the Longevity Saber.
They thought Lu Zhan was quite gentle as long as he did not draw his blade, and that his cruelty only emerged because he was influenced by the Longevity Saber.
That was why they thought the saber itself was sinister, and thus gave him the title Asura Saber.
But Wang Qihua had heard another explanation.
A more fitting explanation.
A more reasonable explanation.
The blade in Asura Saber was the blade of carving a man into a thousand pieces.
So in Wang Qihua’s eyes, this Specter was plainly courting death.
“Insect, you seek death!!!”
Li Shanhong had only just begun threatening him when Wang Qihua suddenly became agitated.
“Then do it! Kill me if you can!!”
“The moment I die, I guarantee that young man will see through your trick!”
Silence.
At that moment, both of them fell silent.
Li Shanhong’s eyes were visibly filled with more anger. He had never expected a mere insect to dare resist him.
Still, he drew in a deep breath and suppressed the fury in his heart before beginning to tempt Wang Qihua instead.
“How about this? If you help this Venerable One devour that youth, then afterward I will help you break through to the Divine Sea Realm. You should know it yourself—given your aptitude, the Aperture Opening Realm is the end of the road for you in this life.”
“No! I don’t want that! I don’t dare!”
Wang Qihua shook his head frantically.
Li Shanhong finally exploded. “You truly are useless. In that case, what use do I have for you?”
A cold glint flashed in his eyes. He reached out with one large hand and clamped it around Wang Qihua’s throat.
“No, Li Shanhong, you’re going back on your word!”
“You said that if I helped you escape the Demon Extermination Bureau’s pursuit, you would let me go. You lied... you’ll regret this...”
“Insect, and you think you deserve to bargain with this Venerable One?” Li Shanhong said coldly, mockery written across his face. “Regret? This Venerable One has never regretted anything in his life!!!”
As he spoke, a scalp-numbing sound of chewing rose from the restroom.
Not long afterward— Bang, bang, bang!
A series of not especially loud knocks came from the restroom door, followed by an impatient voice.
“What’s the person inside doing? Taking a dump shouldn’t take this long, should it?”
With a creak, Wang Qihua opened the restroom door with his right hand.
Lu Zhan stared at that hand for a brief moment, slightly startled, but his expression quickly returned to normal.
“My stomach’s acting up. Terribly sorry, terribly sorry!”
Wang Qihua smiled.
The two brushed past each other.
The smile on Lu Zhan’s face slowly disappeared.
He had used the Eyes of the Candle Dragon on Wang Qihua twice.
Once when Wang Qihua entered business class, and once just now.
Yet what he saw those two times were two completely different figures.
Lu Zhan immediately understood what was going on.
Still, he had to admit it.
This Specter was fucking interesting.
He had told it not to go causing trouble in his jurisdiction, and it had actually taken that to heart.
Then the bastard turned right around and came straight for him instead.
Good.
Very good!
Excellent!
Bang!
Lu Zhan shut the restroom door behind him.
“Hello, this is Lu Zhan of the Demon Extermination Bureau. I have a special situation to report...”