I Can See Experience Points

The second form of the Iron Sand Palm—Iron Palm Splits Gold!

A chop from the palm’s edge, sharper than any steel blade.

+3 Sharpness, +3 Evil Ward, +15 Scorch.

’If this can’t even kill a Mirror Spirit, I might as well strip naked, wash up, bend over in front of a mirror, and just wait for it to gouge my eyes out!’

GULP!

To be fair, Liu Rui was a wealthy man.

And while he had recruited three powerful extraordinary individuals, he had never actually seen a ghost.

But now, right before his eyes, He Xiaotian had brutally split the Mirror Spirit in two with a single knife-hand strike.

The sheer impact of the sight was staggering—truly unprecedented.

Even for a tycoon like him!

Huang Tao and Li Zheng weren’t faring much better.

Granted, it wasn’t the first time either of them had seen a ghost.

But the run-of-the-mill ghosts they were used to paled in comparison to a glamorous creature like the Mirror Spirit.

Just look at its getup: the red dress, the bloody tears, the hollow, empty eye sockets.

If you saw that in a mirror in the middle of the night, pissing your pants would be getting off easy.

Meanwhile, Lei Yang and two other squad captains had already arrived at Villa A01 in the Royal Garden estate.

But the moment the sinister energy dissipated and the small red dot on their instruments vanished, they froze.

’We went full-throttle, racing here at top speed.’

’We ran several red lights, and we’ll have to deal with the traffic police docking points from our licenses. We risked getting chewed out by the Vice-Minister for breaking protocol... all for this result?’

"Captain Lei, the lead’s gone cold again,"

the other two said, their faces long.

"We’re going in. I need to ask Zheng Peng what the hell he did."

Lei Yang said through gritted teeth. Thanks to the Z County incident, Zheng Peng had been fast-tracked for promotion.

He went from a field agent who roamed the country putting out fires to a squad captain in the Cleaners’ Operations Division.

His power level wasn’t impressively high, but he wasn’t weak, either.

He was stuck in that awkward, in-between tier.

However, his ability to control ice was a significant point in his favor.

Most common evil spirits were truly no match for him.

But against evil spirits like the Mirror Spirit and the Dream Eye, there was no way he and his two team members could have held their ground.

At best, they might have managed a brief stalemate, but if the Dream Eye had decided to attack first...

...forget it. They wouldn’t have been able to hold out at all.

The three of them would have had their souls devoured and their eyes gouged out by the Mirror Spirit in an instant.

’So was it Liu Rui’s bodyguards?’

’No, if this tycoon’s bodyguards were that powerful, why would he indirectly call for help under the guise of "donating" to the Shanghai police?’

The three captain-level extraordinary individuals immediately entered the villa.

They stared, completely dumbfounded, at a man in a suit standing rigidly in the living room, looking weak and on the verge of collapse.

’What the hell is this?’

But they had no time to worry about him now. The trio moved past the punished sales manager and quickly headed upstairs.

There, they saw an even more baffling scene.

Zheng Peng and Zhao Lei were hugging an elderly British man.

Standing by the door were Liu Rui, Zhou Yun, and two bodyguards in sharp suits.

There were also two young men with dyed hair who looked like a couple of street punks.

Of course, all of this was ultimately overshadowed by a two-meter-tall mountain of a man whose muscles looked like they were about to burst out of his clothes.

Behind him lay a pile of ash.

?!

Lei Yang’s heart leaped in shock the moment he saw He Xiaotian.

’Isn’t that the mysterious X, the one who obliterated the giant crocodile at the bottom of the Pujiang River with a single hammer blow?’

Back then, every single person present had watched, wide-eyed, as He Xiaotian stole the kill, delivering the fatal blow to the crocodile.

Every single one of them had been so frustrated they could have coughed up blood.

’So we worked our asses off to get the BOSS’s health down to critical, just to set things up for you?!’

The captain next to him fiddled with his device, then said with a hint of dejection, "The position we detected at the entrance to the villa complex... it’s a perfect match for the location of this ash pile. In other words, this guy is the one who took out the evil spirit."

"What are you all staring at me for?"

He Xiaotian was completely baffled. ’How did I suddenly become the center of attention?’

’I just casually crushed a couple of evil spirits. Is it really such a big deal?’

’I haven’t even brought out my two giant iron hammers yet!’

"Manager?!"

A startled cry came from downstairs.

Everyone finally snapped back to reality.

And so, the hugging trio finally released each other.

The only worrying thing was the shy blush on the old face of Liu Rui’s British butler.

The Shanghai tycoon’s eyelid began to twitch uncontrollably.

’No wonder Anderson doesn’t have a wife and kids.’

’So he’s into men.’

At that moment, Liu Rui felt a surge of anger.

He felt like he had been deceived.

’Personally, I don’t discriminate against gay people.’

’Isn’t there that saying on the internet?’

’Heterosexual relationships are for procreation; homosexual relationships are for true love!!’

’But why did you have to hide it from me?’

’Don’t you realize this changes how I’ll see you from now on?’

’Wait a minute... my wife has been dead for years, and I haven’t remarried either.’

’Could it be... that I actually like men too?’

The blood in Liu Rui’s veins turned to ice.

’What a horrifying discovery!’

’It was several times more terrifying than watching He Xiaotian cleave the Mirror Spirit in two.’

The whole crowd trooped downstairs, only to find the living room already full of people.

The men were dressed in matching security uniforms, but they carried themselves with an air that no ordinary person could muster.

"Manager, what’s...?"

the captain of the security team asked, looking puzzled.

They hadn’t seen the man in the suit for the past two days and had been wondering about him, assuming he had a family emergency and hadn’t had a chance to inform the company.

But now they’d found their manager inside a villa from which the power of an extraordinary individual had just erupted.

"I-I’m... fine... You... you all... just... carry... on..."

the man in the suit said, his voice extremely weak. A price had to be paid for what happened to Liu Rui’s daughter.

’It doesn’t matter if I suffer a little. As long as it appeases the tycoon’s anger, it’s all worth it.’

"Mr. Liu, what’s going on here...?"

"It’s nothing. Just take your manager and leave," Liu Rui said, interrupting the security captain with an irritated wave of his hand. Tonight was already chaotic enough. One thing after another had left him overwhelmed and frazzled.

"Understood."

’He’s the client, after all. Whatever’s going on behind the scenes, it’s not my place to know.’

’All I need to do is my job.’

The security captain and his men helped the man in the suit away.

Having gone two days and two nights without food or water, the man had been running purely on willpower.

For that, Liu Rui had to admire him.

’He’s been punished. The priority now is to find my daughter’s lost soul.’

’I can’t keep dwelling on the villa’s poor security.’

"Alright, all the irrelevant people have left. Now, you three, could you introduce yourselves?"

Liu Rui asked, settling onto the sofa and lighting a cigar as he addressed Lei Yang’s group.

"We’re the task force assigned to the Mirror Spirit case," Lei Yang replied. "Were you just attacked?"

As Lei Yang asked the question, everyone’s gaze once again fell on He Xiaotian.

"???"

’If you all keep looking at me like that, don’t blame me for pulling out my hammers to teach you some manners.’