Chapter 54 : Chapter 54
Chapter 54: A Demon Nest Appears
When the people on the forum saw that message, they had never imagined that the human heart could be so sinister.
That was the Asura Saber they were talking about!
And he was even the kind of person who never let a grudge go.
If you mouthed off about someone else, at most they might trade a few insults with you online. But if you mouthed off about this lord, he might really follow the internet cable straight to your door.
Fortunately, Xiao Yunchen was not stupid either. From everyone else’s tone, he could tell that the Asura Saber was definitely not someone easy to provoke.
So he hurriedly searched for him on the forum.
The search results made cold sweat pour down his back, and he could not help cursing on the spot.
@【Showing Chicken Feet】: “Holy sh****, you actually wanted me to provoke that god of slaughter? I curse you to have a son who ***”
...
What followed was another long string of colorful abuse, leaving the people on the forum laughing their heads off.
Just as the two of them were trading insults—
a forum notification suddenly popped up. He thought it was from 【Showing Chicken Feet】.
But when he opened it, he froze.
Huh? Wasn’t this the thread he had posted half a year ago? At a time like this, the one leaving a comment should probably be some newcomer, right?
He was just about to swipe the notification away.
Then suddenly, he noticed that the other person’s nickname seemed a little familiar.
Wait!
【Repay Every Grudge】
Wasn’t that the Asura Saber’s nickname? He had just followed that account.
Holy crap!!!
The Asura Saber came to my thread?
No, I need to screenshot this and show it off.
@【Showing Chicken Feet】: “Brother, why don’t you act fierce again?”
【Showing Chicken Feet】: “Holy crap, brother, I was just joking. You actually went and did it for real?”
Right after that, a huge crowd of people started shouting in shock.
“Holy crap!!”
“Come out, everyone, and pay your respects to the big shot!”
“+1”
“+1”
...
A whole crowd ran over to Xiao Yunchen’s thread.
That left Shang Yun very dissatisfied.
He had originally wanted to use this first-hand scoop to attract some attention, but instead...
“Hmph, what’s so great about that? It’s just a comment. I even shook hands with the Asura Saber today.”
...
Meanwhile, Lu Zhan had just put down his phone.
Then a series of message notifications began chiming non-stop.
When he opened his phone, he found that the thread below was filled with all kinds of animated images of worship.
“Big shot, I heard you also went official today. Congratulations, congratulations. May I ask how effective the absorption of your Marrow Cleansing Pill was?”
Lu Zhan saw one of the messages and casually replied with two words.
“Ten-tenths.”
The entire forum instantly fell silent.
“Did the big shot mistype that? Could it actually be four-tenths?”
“Impossible. A figure like the big shot opened his apertures in a single day. There’s no way his absorption rate could be four-tenths. Forget a man like him—even my absorption efficiency reached five-tenths.”
“But that’s impossible. No one has ever achieved ten-tenths absorption from a Marrow Cleansing Pill.”
The comments gradually descended into argument.
Naturally, Lu Zhan paid them no mind.
What he did not know was that this entire night, the Demon Extermination Bureau forum was on the verge of exploding.
Everywhere, there were titles packed so densely they filled the page, all saying things like “Shocking! The Asura Saber makes another move...” and the like.
For a time, the Asura Saber shot onto the trending list.
...
By the next day, the matter involving Lu Zhan had already been reported the night before.
At that moment, Li Cunguang was reading the report in his hand.
“Hahahaha, what Lu Zhan did this time was so damned satisfying.”
“Bai Yaozu, Sima Zheng... oh, and the Xu brothers too. Wait... this is...”
A sharp light flashed through Li Cunguang’s eyes.
“This brat really knows how to find work for an old man...”
Still, he only smiled casually and did not take it too seriously.
Yesterday, he had already told Lu Zhan to go ahead and act freely. He could hardly start shirking responsibility now that something had happened today.
After all, he was a Yuan Gang Realm cultivator. In Linhai City, that still counted as being one of the local powerhouses. If he said something, it had to count for something.
Suddenly, his phone rang.
“Little white rabbit, white and white...”
Li Cunguang answered, and Zhao Jun’s voice sounded from the other end.
“Have you seen the report Lu Zhan submitted?”
He had spent the previous day cultivating a martial art, so he had gotten up rather late, and only now had he seen Lu Zhan’s report.
Li Cunguang nodded.
“I’ve seen it. About the Xu brothers, I already sent people to Peach Blossom Alley to ask around. The report is true.”
“I really didn’t expect someone in the Demon Extermination Bureau to be this bold. After killing someone in the street, he showed no remorse at all. He even tried to threaten other people into keeping their mouths shut. That’s audacity to the extreme.”
“If I’d been there, I would’ve flayed him alive on the spot.”
“And this is the kind of thing our Demon Extermination Bureau has been raising.”
Zhao Jun was much calmer. The Xu brothers’ case was easy enough to deal with.
“What about that boy Gao He?”
“I checked the Criminal Investigation Division’s report. It matches up, more or less. Gao He disguised himself, ran onto someone else’s turf to rob him, and ended up getting killed instead.”
“I said back then that Gao Yiqiang’s whole family was no good—short-sighted, arrogant, and conceited. Today proved it.”
When Zhao Jun heard that, he did not respond immediately. He seemed to let out a quiet sigh of relief.
“So the people he killed were all killed legally?”
He was not afraid that Lu Zhan had killed people. What he feared was Lu Zhan going down the wrong path.
This was a good seedling. Otherwise, Zhao Jun would never have bent a few of the Demon Extermination Bureau’s rules to quietly open a back door for him.
They truly thought highly of Lu Zhan.
If he strayed onto the wrong road, it would be a tremendous loss for the Demon Extermination Bureau.
Still, Zhao Jun could also guess that some of the procedures involved had probably not been fully compliant, so just now he had only asked whether the killings were legal.
As long as they were legal, there was no need to get hung up on procedural issues.
They were old, not rigid.
“That’s right.”
Li Cunguang nodded and gave a clear answer.
“So what do you want to do?”
Zhao Jun sounded a little curious.
“How about we cover our faces and kill all the people backing them? What do you think?”
Zhao Jun: ...
“Xu Ji’s side is easy enough to handle. We can warn him and then send someone to keep an eye on him. It’s Gao Yiqiang’s side that’s trickier... after all, he is a Yuan Gang Realm cultivator.”
Zhao Jun fell silent for a moment before saying, “I’ll go have a talk with him. He’s lost a son, so he must be heartbroken. I’ll go persuade him. He can just have another one.”
Li Cunguang immediately understood what Zhao Jun meant.
He called it talking, but in truth, it meant seeing what kind of attitude the other side had. If the attitude was good, then it might be possible to reach an agreement. If not, then there were ways to deal with a failed negotiation too.
“Can you handle it?”
Hearing the questioning tone from the other end, Zhao Jun gave a disdainful laugh.
“Back when I was pinning you to the ground and beating you, Gao Yiqiang hadn’t even entered the Demon Extermination Bureau yet.”
“Old Zhao, a real man doesn’t boast about past glories. Come on, come on—if you’ve got the guts, come over to the Storeroom, and let’s have a proper spar...”
A string of beeping sounds came from the phone. Over by the Storeroom, Li Cunguang’s face had turned black with anger.
After that, he sent Lu Zhan a message.
“Handled!”
Lu Zhan saw that message as soon as he woke up.
Just as expected.
Those two Commandants really were quite reliable.
And so, several days passed.
Lu Zhan threw himself into bitter cultivation.
【Ding, detected that the host has devoured one Pattern-Scaled Fish. Physical body limit slightly increased, physical body strength slightly increased.】
【Ding, detected that the host has devoured one Ironspirit Hawk. Physical body limit slightly increased, physical body strength slightly increased.】
【Ding...】
...
Only after the last piece of Demon Beast flesh had gone into his stomach—
【Ding! Congratulations, host. Physical body strength has been raised to the level of a Spirit Rank, Middle Grade Spirit Weapon.】
The corners of Lu Zhan’s mouth lifted slightly.
“My physical body has finally broken through. It’s time to find a few Demon Beasts to kill.”
Just as he was thinking that, he suddenly received a call from Wang Botao.
“This is bad, Brother Lu. A small Demon Nest has appeared over here in the Western District...”
At those words, a sharp light flashed through Lu Zhan’s eyes.
“All right. Hold on. I’m coming right away.”