Chapter 9

Before Chen Hao could react, Gu Yue had already rushed out.

She arrived at the place where the cry for help came from.

Only to find a bald man pinning a woman down, intending to do something improper.

“You’re courting death!”

Gu Yue delivered a whip kick directly, striking the bald man’s body.

“Ah!”

The bald man was kicked and rolled to the side.

He was quite unlucky; his head struck a large tree nearby, and he died on impact.

“Murder... murder!”

That woman looked as if she had seen a monster, turned around, and fled.

Looking at the dead bald man, Gu Yue stood frozen in place.

“I... I didn’t mean to.”

“I really only kicked him lightly.”

Gu Yue had practiced martial arts since she was a child; she was currently a trainee coach in Jeet Kune Do.

She was an ability user who had just awakened a B-grade [Jeet Kune Do] ability.

She hadn’t expected the other party to be so fragile; one whip kick and he was gone.

Jeet Kune Do was a path of killing.

Every move was a killing technique!

This was Gu Yue’s first time killing someone, so she felt particularly distressed.

She looked completely at a loss.

Chen Hao walked to Gu Yue’s side, patted her shoulder, and said, “Calm down, it’s okay.”

Gu Yue had awakened her ability this year.

Through cultivation, her strength had reached the third tier of the Soldier Realm.

Chen Hao walked to the bald man’s side, picked him up, and walked toward the depths of the park.

This park was different from a normal park.

It was more of a wild park, the kind with no management.

So few people came here.

Chen Hao carried the bald man into the depths of the park.

His right hand quickly condensed a fireball and blasted it toward the ground.

The ground immediately exploded into a large pit.

Chen Hao threw the bald man’s corpse into the pit, then threw another fireball to burn the body.

Then he covered it with dirt.

“Ding-dong!”

“Congratulations to the host, corpse processing successful!”

“Obtained E-grade ability—[Super Brain]!”

“E+ grade [Super Brain] abilities stacked, ability upgraded to D-grade.”

“This works too?”

After Chen Hao’s [Super Brain] ability upgraded to D-grade, he found his brain was processing even faster.

He began to quickly clean up the traces at the scene.

Soon, Chen Hao had made the scene look completely chaotic.

Even the strongest detective wouldn’t be able to solve it.

Chen Hao came to Gu Yue’s side.

He found Gu Yue squatting on the ground crying; she looked like a little girl who had been wronged.

Not everyone was like Chen Hao, who had seen so much death and was indifferent to it.

This was Gu Yue’s first time killing someone; it was normal for her to be like this.

Even veteran soldiers, when recalling their first time killing an enemy in their old age, would have very painful expressions.

Because in the days after killing, they would have nightmares, forming a trauma.

“Stop crying, let’s go home.”

Chen Hao extended his hand to Gu Yue.

Hearing Chen Hao’s voice, Gu Yue stood up immediately.

She threw herself into Chen Hao’s arms.

Chen Hao knew this place was not somewhere to stay for long.

So he picked up Gu Yue and left.

Fortunately, there was no surveillance in the wild park, so Chen Hao didn’t need to deal with that.

However, he had to find a way to avoid the surveillance on the main road.

Chen Hao found a small path without surveillance and returned to Gu Yue’s home.

By this time, Gu Yue had fallen asleep.

There were tear stains on the corners of her eyes.

“Hmm?”

Gu Juji hadn’t expected Chen Hao to actually carry Gu Yue back.

“What happened to Xiao Yue?”

“Oh, she was tired, so I carried her back.”

Gu Juji was a bit shocked.

He hadn’t expected Chen Hao to move so fast.

“You must treat Xiao Yue well in the future, or else see how I deal with you.”

Chen Hao: ???

Gu Juji must have misunderstood something.

Chen Hao placed Gu Yue on her bed, tucked her in, and left.

He hailed a taxi and returned to his own home.

After returning home, Chen Hao didn’t go to sleep.

He was a bit excited at this moment.

He had planted flowers intentionally, but they didn’t bloom; he had planted a willow unintentionally, and it had grown into shade.

He hadn’t expected his [Super Brain] ability to actually upgrade to D-grade.

He was analyzing what had just happened.

The bald man had awakened an E-grade [Super Brain] ability; although he possessed an ability, it was only a supportive one.

It didn’t add much to his strength.

And looking at that guy’s appearance, he hadn’t cultivated much.

Facing Gu Yue with her B-grade [Jeet Kune Do] ability, he wasn’t even a match for one move.

It was mainly because Gu Yue had used a sneak attack tactic.

“It seems I should be careful in the future!”

Chen Hao stopped thinking about this problem, reopened 《Corpse Cultivation》, and began reading again.

With the help of his D-grade [Super Brain], Chen Hao finally comprehended the cultivation method of 《Corpse Cultivation》.

However, Chen Hao was a bit unhappy.

That was because this was an evil cultivation technique.

《Corpse Cultivation》 was a technique that absorbed the death energy from corpses to improve one’s own cultivation.

Chen Hao was a bit worried, terrified that after cultivating it, he would turn into a monster that was neither human nor ghost.

After a brief consideration.

Chen Hao made his decision immediately.

“Cultivate!”

So what if it’s evil cultivation?

Perhaps because he had seen too much death, Chen Hao feared death more than anyone else.

Especially the moment he saw Zhao Ritian being dragged away by the man in black.

He felt that if that were him, he wouldn’t be able to escape such a fate either.

Chen Hao hated this feeling of having his throat gripped by others.

My fate is determined by me, not by heaven!

One’s own destiny must be held in one’s own hands.

Chen Hao began to cultivate.

The next day.

Haa!

Chen Hao exhaled a breath of turbid air.

“I’ve broken through; my strength has reached the fourth tier of the Soldier Realm.”

“Sure enough, with a better technique, cultivation progress is twice as fast with half the effort.”

Moreover, last night’s events also gave Chen Hao a new discovery.

If he killed someone who possessed an ability and burned them, he could obtain their ability.

“This is quite good; it’s really convenient and fast!”

“Otherwise, processing them one by one is really too troublesome.”

In the following days, Chen Hao continued to cultivate.

If he wanted corpse energy, there was no better place than a funeral home.

However, Chen Hao also discovered a big problem: the corpses from which he absorbed death energy would quickly shrivel up and turn into dried corpses.

This led him to not dare absorb too much after finishing his makeup work.

“If only there were a place where I could absorb it to my heart’s content.”

...This day.

Chen Hao finished his cultivation and walked out of the room.

Seeing this, Chen Qiang frowned and couldn’t help but say to Chen Hao, “Xiao Hao!”

“Are you sick? Your face is so pale.”

“I’ve told you, young people need to be moderate.”

“By the way, how is things with Xiao Yue? I haven’t seen you contact her lately.”

Hearing this, Chen Hao finally remembered that he hadn’t contacted Gu Yue since that time he returned.

The other party hadn’t taken the initiative to contact him either.

“How can you be like this?”

As he spoke, Chen Qiang picked up his phone and dialed a number.

The voice of Gu Juji came from the other end of the phone.

Chen Qiang chatted quickly on the phone and hung up after a while.

Then he said to Chen Hao, “Xiao Hao, Xiao Yue is at the Heaven Orphanage now.”

“Go directly to the Heaven Orphanage to find her.”

Hearing this, Chen Hao wanted to refuse.

But Chen Qiang glared at him.

Chen Hao couldn’t win against Chen Qiang and had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to the Heaven Orphanage.

After Chen Hao arrived at the Heaven Orphanage.

He saw Gu Yue wearing a white dress.

Gu Yue looked quite beautiful today, surrounded by many children.

It made her look even more beautiful.

Chen Hao walked in.

Seeing Chen Hao, Gu Yue was slightly stunned, then smiled and said, “Why are you here?”

“I came to see you.”

“Come, children, I’ll treat you to some fruit.”

Before coming, Chen Hao had bought two large bags of fruit.

“Wow, fruit to eat.”

A group of children swarmed toward Chen Hao.

“Come, don’t grab, everyone gets some.”

Chen Hao distributed the fruit to the children one by one.

Soon, he had finished distributing them.

Chen Hao looked at Gu Yue and noticed a trace of sorrow in her eyes.

It was clear she still hadn’t moved on from that incident.

Chen Hao walked over and patted Gu Yue’s shoulder.

He whispered to her, “That incident wasn’t your fault; that guy deserved to die!”

Hearing this, Gu Yue actually burst into tears.

She had thought that coming to the orphanage would bring her salvation.