Chapter 50 : Chapter 50
Chapter 50: Cornered and Still Resisting, Killed with Great Reluctance
【Ding! Detected that the host has slain a seventh-layer Aperture Opening Realm Martial Artist above his level. Reward: 3720 Slaughter Points, plus Talent Fragments +3, Aperture Opening Pill +1】
The Ice Arrow Talisman from earlier had indeed been powerful.
If he had taken it head-on, Lu Zhan would have been injured to some extent. After all, his realm was only the fifth layer of the Aperture Opening Realm.
However...
Lu Zhan glanced at the system panel. After all, he had just obtained a brand-new talent.
Talent Name: Eyes of the Candle Dragon
Talent Grade: Elite (Mythic)
Growth Status: Reached Limit, Temporarily Sealed
Duration: Permanent
Status: Fixed
【Effect 1: Deadly Weakness】
After using Deadly Weakness to gaze at a target, you can mark its “fatal weak point.” Attacks on that part deal an additional 50% damage.
【Effect 2: Trajectory Tracking】
Consume Spiritual Power to predict a target’s movement trajectory for 1 to 3 seconds. The stronger your Spiritual Power, the longer the prediction time. The stronger the target, the more Spiritual Power is consumed, and the shorter the prediction time.
【Effect 3: See Through Falsehood, Shatter Illusions】
You are immune to illusions cast by beings up to one major realm above the host. For illusions cast by beings more than one major realm above the host, hallucination effects are reduced by 30%.
【Effect 4: Evernight Vision】
You are the sovereign of the night. In darkness, you can construct a 360° 【Panoramic Perception】 with a range of 500 meters. When a living being enters your perception range in the dark, it will suffer suppression from 【Shadow Weight】, reducing its speed by 30%. If you gaze at a target for more than 3 seconds, it will generate a 【Fear Aura】, reducing the target’s damage by 20%.
Just now, Lu Zhan had relied precisely on the second effect to dodge every bit of damage.
No matter how strong the Ice Arrow Talisman was, it had to hit someone before it could do any damage.
It had to be said, this talent was rather heaven-defying.
The only pity was that its current talent grade was only Elite.
“System, what does ‘Growth Status: Reached Limit, Temporarily Sealed’ mean?”
【The host’s soul cannot bear a Mythic talent, so it can only be temporarily sealed at the Elite grade. Once the host’s realm rises, the seal will automatically be lifted.】
Lu Zhan understood at once.
In other words, he would not need to spend Talent Fragments or Slaughter Points to upgrade this talent himself.
That undoubtedly saved him a large amount of resources.
Lu Zhan took out his phone and called the dedicated line for the Demon Extermination Bureau’s logistics department. As soon as the call connected, a young woman with a sweet voice answered.
It was pleasant to listen to.
Lu Zhan briefly explained what had happened here.
His meaning was quite simple. He just wanted to see whether the Public Security Bureau could send a few people over to handle the cleanup.
Of course, Lu Zhan could have done this work himself.
But he had already been working overtime for the Demon Extermination Bureau until now, and he had not even had a bite to eat yet. So he left all these trivial matters to the Public Security Bureau.
After all, as the saying went, professional work should be left to professionals.
Lu Zhan felt that made perfect sense.
Not long afterward, Lu Zhan saw a team from the Criminal Investigation Division arrive.
There was even a familiar face among them.
“Officer He, I’ll leave this place to you. The battlefield is split into several areas. There’s another one up ahead too. Gather the bodies and do not let them frighten the ordinary people.”
“But be careful when cleaning this section. There are still some residual toxins here.”
Lu Zhan pointed behind him and gave a brief warning.
He Rong pointed at a short-haired woman and said, “Rest assured, Lord Lu. The Demon Extermination Bureau assigned our team a consultant who knows this line of work.”
The short-haired woman sized Lu Zhan up curiously and extended her hand.
“So you are Lu Zhan, the Asura Saber? A pleasure. My name is Shang Yin.”
“The Asura Saber? Since when did I get such an awful epithet?”
Lu Zhan shook her hand, then raised his eyes slightly to size the girl up.
She was very beautiful.
Then again, after martial artists had absorbed Spiritual Energy for long enough, very few of them looked ugly.
Fei Lingyu had been beautiful enough too, yet Lu Zhan had still stabbed her to death all the same.
In Lu Zhan’s eyes, what mattered more was a person’s capability.
If someone had no real ability, he could not even be bothered with them.
“When? Wasn’t it yesterday, when you wiped out the Five Poisons Sect’s nest? Tsk, tsk, you probably have no idea what the workers’ expressions looked like when we sent the bodies to the Cremation Grounds.”
“That young fellow will probably have nightmares for two days.”
Shang Yin spoke in a half-joking tone.
“I could not help it. The people from Blackwater Hall resisted a little too fiercely, so I went a little heavy on them.”
Shang Yin only smiled.
Forget He Rong, a veteran criminal investigator—even Ma Yuan, who was interning at He Rong’s side, did not believe that.
They had already gone to inspect the scene.
Judging from the traces left there, aside from the battlefield where Fei Lingyu had fought, all the other damage had been caused solely by Lu Zhan’s attacks.
That had absolutely been a one-sided slaughter.
“What happened tonight?”
Shang Yin looked at the corpses scattered across the ground as she asked.
“I do not know where they heard that I had something good on me, so they came to rob me.”
The moment he said that, everyone sucked in a cold breath.
How dared these people? It was already a blessing that Lu Zhan had not robbed them instead, and yet they had actually dared come rob him.
“They really were looking for death.”
“It seems Lu the Asura has added another achievement to his record tonight. From now on, any petty thieves thinking of causing trouble in your jurisdiction will have to think carefully about the consequences.”
Shang Yin smiled as she spoke.
Lu Zhan did not care in the least. Whether people came to make trouble or not made no difference to him. If they came, he would simply deal with them.
Just like these ones lying on the ground.
Now every last one of them had become honest and well-behaved.
As though she had just remembered something, Shang Yin asked one more question, “By the way, their resistance was not that fierce this time, was it?”
She phrased it very tactfully.
“This batch was just as stubborn and unrepentant as ever!”
The entire criminal investigation team’s expressions fell at once.
So be it. Another all-night job.
“All right, I’ll leave this place to you. Thank you for your hard work!”
As they watched Lu Zhan’s departing figure, Shang Yin murmured, “The Asura Saber is not as hard to get along with as people say. He even thanked us for our hard work. He is actually quite considerate.”
In the distance.
Dozens of dark figures exchanged glances in the night, each one seeing deep fear in the others’ eyes.
They had watched the entire battle from beginning to end.
The ruthless ferocity on Lu Zhan’s body had left their scalps numb.
Naturally, they knew that Lu Zhan was most likely setting a trap, but they had confidence in their own strength. They believed they could escape from him.
No matter how strong a Martial Artist at the fifth layer of the Aperture Opening Realm was, how strong could he really be?
If they all rushed in together, they might have had a chance to fish something out of the chaos.
But...
Thinking back on the miserable end of those people just now, all of them shuddered.
He really was savage beyond words.
They all silently rejoiced.
Fortunately! Fortunately the Xu brothers had tested the waters for them first.
If not for those two brothers, then by now they all would have gone down to fight for the Marrow Cleansing Pill as well.
Duckweed Road.
Inside a residential building.
Han Qi’s clothes were soaked through.
“Remind the brothers in the future to keep an eye out and avoid going into Peach Blossom Alley whenever possible. If they really have to go, then tell them to behave themselves. The people he wants to kill are not people I can save.”
Changyu’s palms were drenched with sweat as well.
From the moment Lu Zhan made his move and dealt with Xu Er, Changyu had not even dared breathe too loudly.
“Then... what about the matter of him killing the two Xu brothers? Should we report it?”
After all, those had been two Jurisdiction Heads. Lu Zhan had killed them just like that. Was he truly not afraid of causing himself trouble?
“Do you remember how, after Zhang Ziliang came out, Lu Zhan stared in our direction for three whole minutes?”
Just recalling that scene made Han Qi feel his legs go weak.
“He wanted to kill us? That cannot be it, can it? Did he want to silence witnesses?”
Changyu thought about it for a moment, but came up with no answer.
The Demon Extermination Bureau would certainly find out that Lu Zhan had killed two Jurisdiction Heads. Even if they did not report it, the Bureau would still learn of it.
There was no stopping that.
“He was warning us not to meddle in other people’s business.”
Han Qi spoke in a deep voice.
The psychological pressure Lu Zhan gave him was immense, even greater than that of many Divine Sea Realm experts.
Not in terms of strength, but in terms of spirit.
“Then how should this report be written?”
The battlefield from just now had been located at the boundary between Peach Blossom Alley and Duckweed Road.
They could not very well claim they knew nothing about it.
“Just write that the enemy resisted stubbornly and refused to surrender, so Lu Zhan had no choice but to kill them with great reluctance.”