Chapter 62 : Chapter 62
Chapter 62: The Jade Rakshasa Might Not Be a True Rakshasa, but the Asura Saber Is a True Asura!
Tap. Tap. Tap.
The footsteps drew closer from far away, slow and heavy, yet carrying an odd calmness.
At last, that figure broke through the darkness and stepped into the yellow halo of light. Everyone’s eyes gathered on him at once.
It was an extremely young and handsome face, sharply defined. But at this moment, his whole body was drenched in blood. Standing within the glow, he looked like an asura that had crawled out of a pool of blood.
So this was Lu Zhan?
Everyone’s hearts tightened.
Wang Feng thought to himself that it was true after all. In this world, a person’s name might be mistaken, but never their nickname.
“Cough, cough, cough!”
Ji Qing’s heavy gasping shattered the stagnant silence.
Lightning burst beneath Lu Zhan’s feet, and in an instant he appeared before Ji Qing. He crooked a finger at the girl lying on the ground.
“Get up. Weren’t you going to teach me how to behave? Come on, I’d like to see just where the limit of your Jade Rakshasa lies.”
“Don’t tell me you’re done after one move. Jade Rakshasa? That is all? What a worthless piece of trash living on an empty reputation.”
Ji Qing’s lips trembled. Those words were painfully familiar.
As for her limit?
Blocking that one strike just now had already been her limit.
But why?
Why?
She had lasted ten exchanges against a Divine Sea Realm expert, so why could she not even withstand one casual blow from Lu Zhan?
Shame!
Resentment!
I have to resist!
Her furious gaze slowly rose to meet a pair of dark, unfathomable eyes. In the depths of those pupils, lingering killing intent and cold starlight had yet to fade.
At once, she did not dare move.
She had a feeling that Lu Zhan was waiting for her to resist so that he would have a perfectly legitimate reason to kill her.
The thought sent a chill crawling down her spine.
Besides, even if he did not kill her, he would make her wish she were dead. This was clearly not a man who would show mercy just because she was a woman.
She was not fighting back?
Lu Zhan frowned. She was really good at enduring.
“Trash. If you dare run that filthy mouth again, I’ll rip your tongue out myself.”
“Sister Qing!!!”
The permed-haired youth had long been infatuated with Ji Qing. He cried out in alarm and, without caring how strong Lu Zhan was, drew his saber and charged straight at him.
“Lu Zhan, what kind of man bullies a girl? If you have the ability, come at me instead!”
The moment Wang Feng saw this, he roared, “Keji, stop!”
But he was still too late.
Lu Zhan merely stood there and watched the man draw his saber, rush forward, and deliver a slash.
Lu Zhan simply turned sideways and lifted one foot.
Bang!
The permed-haired youth was kicked flying straight back, ultimately gouging a long trench into the ground.
“Come at you? What exactly are you? I suppose while I was busy beating her, I forgot to deal with you too?”
“A fame-chasing fraud like you should not imitate others and play the hero saving the beauty when you do not have the strength for it.”
Silence!
A deathly silence.
Everyone had thought there was more than a little exaggeration in the name Asura Saber.
After all, among people like them, as long as you had been in the circle for a couple of years, who did not have some resounding title?
Take Ji Qing, for example. People called her the Jade Rakshasa, but compared with Lu Zhan, she fell far short.
The Jade Rakshasa might not be a true rakshasa, but the Asura Saber was a true asura!
Wang Feng cursed Ji Qing bloody in his heart.
He had told her to shut up earlier, but she would not listen. Loose-tongued and reckless. Now look what happened. She had been caught red-handed speaking ill of someone.
It would have been one thing if she had the strength to back it up. Instead, she had been knocked flat with a single strike.
An utter idiot.
“Lu Zhan, we truly were in the wrong in this matter. How about this? We won’t take a single Contribution Point from this mission. We’ll treat it all as compensation.”
Then his gaze fell on the heavily injured Ji Qing and Keji.
“As for the two of them... you’ve already vented your anger, so why not spare them this once? Rest assured, we won’t report this matter. We’ll simply say they were injured by Demon Beasts during the battle.”
Truthfully, he did not want to deal with this mess either.
But the seven of them had completed many missions together. They had been through life and death together.
He could not just stand by and do nothing.
And Lu Zhan was clearly not someone who could be fooled, so he raised the offer straight to the highest level.
Lu Zhan’s gaze settled on Wang Feng.
Wang Feng’s heart tightened at once. He suddenly felt as though that gaze were as heavy as a mountain.
“Hm. Not all of you are fools. There are some clever ones. But still not clever enough. If you were truly clever, you would know what sort of people can befriend and what sort of people cannot.”
That was simply the rule of the road.
If you provoked someone else, then all was well if you won. But if you lost, then you had better be sensible and apologize properly yourself.
Otherwise, the matter was not over.
Wang Feng smiled bitterly.
He regretted it too. Back then, he had thought that the Jade Rakshasa was fairly strong and reasonably sharp-minded...Who could have guessed she would lose her mind today?
“That’s enough. Go clean up the Demon Beast corpses here.”
Wang Feng’s attitude had been sincere, and so had the price he offered. He had not tried to play any tricks, so Lu Zhan had no intention of pursuing the matter any further.
Then lightning flashed beneath his feet, and he vanished directly from everyone’s sight.
“That was...”Seeing the lightning under his feet, someone cried out in surprise.
“Stop staring. That was Nine Flash Steps of Thunder Shadow. And I counted just now. He flashed eight times in a single breath, which means he has already cultivated it to Major Mastery.”
Wang Feng clicked his tongue as he watched Lu Zhan’s retreating back.
This martial art was very famous within the Linhai City Demon Extermination Bureau. One reason was that it was difficult to cultivate and placed extremely high demands on the cultivator’s meridians.
The other was that the movement technique itself was powerful. Among the Bureau’s many movement arts, it was one of the finest.
“How long has that man even been in the Demon Extermination Bureau? Damn it, how can the gap between people be this huge?”
The speaker sounded thoroughly dejected.
“Enough. Let’s start clearing away the Demon Beasts first.”
Wang Feng let out a sigh.
Then he looked at Ji Qing and Keji, his expression complicated. “In the future, go find other people to team up with. For the sake of what friendship we still have, I’ll give you one piece of advice.”
“...Keep your mouths shut.”
Ji Qing opened her mouth, but in the end only two words came out: “Thank you.”
Wang Feng was astonished to discover that after being beaten once, her foul-mouth problem had been cured, and she had become far more polite as well.
The other four had no objections to Wang Feng’s decision.
If Wang Feng had not stepped in to resolve the grudge between them and Lu Zhan just now, there was no telling what would have happened afterward.
The reason they had not stopped Wang Feng was because they too still valued old ties.
But today, Ji Qing and Keji had nearly dragged all of them to their deaths, and that was something they found hard to tolerate.
“Xiao Ai, take the two of them out.”
As he spoke, Wang Feng crushed two Rejuvenation Talismans to treat their injuries.
After that, the remaining four headed deeper into the Demon Nest.
But gradually, they discovered something horrifying.
There was not a single living Demon Beast left anywhere along the way.
Severed limbs and shattered remains were everywhere, the ground carpeted in pulp and flesh.
There was not a single intact corpse in sight.
“Holy shit, Brother Wang, we really picked up our lives and came back with them, didn’t we?”
A youth in a dress shirt looked deathly pale.
“How is this a Demon Nest? This is clearly an asura hell!”
“Asura Saber!”
“He really is an asura!”
At that moment, they happened to arrive at that peach grove.
Looking at the battlefield, the area within a hundred meters looked as though it had been plowed over.
Even the hilltop had been shaved flat, leaving only a deep pit where it once stood.
Terrifying!!!
Utterly terrifying!!!
“Just how strong is he? Could it be that he has already broken through to the Divine Sea Realm?”
Wang Feng carefully sensed the traces left behind here.
“If I’m not mistaken, the demonic aura left here should belong to the Demon Guard Realm. If that is the case, then Lu Zhan must have already reached the Divine Sea Realm.”
At that moment, everyone fell silent.
Suddenly, the high-ponytailed girl seemed to think of something amusing and asked, “What do you think this year’s Internal Bureau Competition will look like?”
Before anyone could answer, she continued excitedly, “Do you think Lu Zhan might have already broken through to the Yuan Gang Realm by then, and then hook his finger at the judges and say, ‘Old men, come, let’s have a few exchanges!’”
Everyone could already picture the scene in their minds.
“Damn!”
“Then what the hell would be left to compete for?!”